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Six New Faculty Arrive

August 2006

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Six newcomers to the faculty this year include three in organizational behavior, and one each in accounting, leadership, and international business.

The four tenure-track faculty are Anne Beyer, Francis Flynn, Elizabeth Mullen, and Jesper Sørensen. New lecturers are Laurence C. Franklin, JD/MBA '75, and Evelyn Williams.

Anne Beyer, assistant professor of accounting, completed her doctorate at Northwestern University in June. With academic interests in financial reporting and disclosure, incentives and contracting, and financial analysts' earnings forecasts, she will teach Financial Accounting.

Francis Flynn, associate professor of organizational behavior, was previously an associate professor at the Columbia Business School. His research focuses on two related areas of inquiry: how people can derive social influence from episodes of cooperation, and how individual differences can serve as sources of social influence. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he will teach the MBA core course in organizational behavior.

Elizabeth Mullen, assistant professor of organizational behavior, was a visiting assistant professor and fellow at Northwestern's Dispute Resolution Research Center in the Kellogg School of Management. Her research interests are distributive and procedural justice; resource allocation; affect and cognition; and negotiation and conflict resolution. She holds a doctoral degree in social psychology from the University of Chicago and will teach Conflict Management Negotiation.

Jøsper Sørensen, associate professor of organizational behavior, was most recently an associate professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. His research at the intersection of labor market processes and macro-organizational theory looks at the role of individuals in organizations: addressing how individual characteristics impact organizational behavior, and how organizational characteristics influence organizational behavior and thus individual labor market outcomes. He holds a doctorate from Stanford's sociology department and will teach Strategic Management and a doctoral course.

Laurence Franklin, lecturer in international business, has extensive teaching experience in law and MBA programs. His interests are investments, venture capital, investment banking, China, and business law. He will teach two courses, one each for the Business and Law schools.

Evelyn Williams, lecturer in management, is also director of the Business School's Leadership Development Platform for MBA students and associate director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research. She was the faculty chair responsible for the University of Chicago's LEAD program and a clinical associate professor. Her work focuses on executive leadership education, training design, group process, team dynamics, and organizational behavior.