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Faculty Leaders

The driving force behind any great business school is the intellectual leadership of its faculty in terms of teaching, research, and outreach.

Our faculty is noted for the caliber of their teaching. Student satisfaction surveys of our MBA students consistently reflect the high quality of education they provide.

Faculty play an important role in expanding knowledge in their fields by conducting groundbreaking research, publishing in top academic journals, and serving in leadership positions in the U.S. and around the world.

Textbooks by Wisconsin School of Business faculty are used in business classes around the world. Their expertise is highly sought-after by industry and policy makers. They bring expertise, developed through their high-level, real-world involvement, into the classroom to inform their teaching.

• Hollis Skaife, through her research on capital markets regulation, is playing an important role in the ongoing debate on competitiveness of U.S. capital markets.
• Jan Heide is one of the most highly regarded and prolific researchers in his field of marketing and is ranked the third most influential individual in the nation in terms of citations for marketing research, according to an American Marketing Association study.
• Morris Davis, a former Federal Reserve economist, has won national attention for his work on housing prices, including his testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.
• Tom O’Guinn’s research on brand community is among the most cited papers in economics and business, according to a survey by Thomson Scientific.
• Toni Whited is co-author of two papers on corporate finance that have been honored with the prestigious Brattle Prize for best articles published in the Journal of Finance.
• François Ortalo-Magné conducts a high-profile survey of global real estate investors on behalf of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate.