Dr. Denise Smart, Dean of McCoy College of Business Administration, recently announced Dr. Ha-Chin Yi as the Tom & Jo Roddy Excellence Professor in Finance and Ms. Vicki West as the Dean Paul R. Gowens Excellence Professor in Business Administration. Both of these professorships are being filled for the first time and will be held for a three-year term.
Dr. Yi’s research is
primarily in the field of corporate finance, specifically bank loan
financing. His articles have been published in Journal of Banking and
Finance, Journal of Economics and Finance, and Journal of Financial
Research, among others. His research is expanding into the area of
investments with a focus on behavioral finance and retirement planning.
Dr. Yi’s work has been recognized with several awards and invitations to speak
at national and international conferences. Dr. Yi serves as a reviewer
for several journals and currently is a member of the editorial review board of
Global Business and Finance Review. He has taught a variety of
graduate and undergraduate finance courses including corporate finance and
investments.
Ms. West, a member of the
Department of Marketing, serves as
director of the Center for Professional
Sales. She has received the Presidential Award for Excellence in
Teaching. Along with teaching in the sales area, she also teaches Studies
in Free Enterprise, and is known for the competitiveness of the students and
teams she oversees as faculty advisor. Last year her Enactus/SIFE team
won the U.S.A. national championship going on to international competition in
Beijing. Ms. West shares her insights through research published in
journals such as Journal of Marketing Education and Journal of
Business and Entrepreneurship, among others, and through serving on the
national SIFE advisory board, mentoring and consulting.
