PhD in Business Administration

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Our current PhD students

At UBC Sauder, our PhD students come from a variety of different educational backgrounds such as:

Accounting, Finance, Business Economics, Engineering, Human Resources, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Mathematics & Statistics, Operations & Logistics, Physics, Psychology, Real Estate

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Students nearing completion of our PhD program are recognized as strong, independent scholars who are ready to take on the challenges of a tenure-track position.

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PhD Alumni

Since graduating its first student in 1972, the UBC Sauder School of Business PhD Program has seen over 300 students proceed to academic, government, and industry positions around the world.

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Accounting

Mengyang Guo

BS (Sichuan), MS (Boston College), PhD Student

Research Interests: Banking and Financial Disclosure; Corporate Finance

Changhao (Justin) Jia

BEcon (Hunan), MAE (Duke)

Research Interests: Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Regulation

Minjia Li

BEcon (Wuhan), MFin (MIT) PhD Student

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Xin (Cyndia) Wang

PhD Student

Yiqin (Pauline) Wu

BBA (Lingnan), MBA (Oxford) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: International Accounting Standards; Auditing; Voluntary Disclosure;Corporate Governance

Hsiang-Chieh Yang

BA, MSc (National Chengchi), MSc (Temple) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Voluntary Disclosures; Cost Management; Institutional Investors; Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) model; Accounting for banks

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Yuxiang Zheng

BS (Wuhan), MS (LSE) PhD Student

Research Interests: Financial Accounting; Financial Analyst's Behaviour; Corporate Governance

Finance

Percy (Xuhui) Chen

BA (Southwest University)

Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance

Khalil Esmkhani

BSc, MSc (Sharif University of Technology), MSc (Arizona State) PhD Candidate

Xuejing Guan

BCom, MA (Toronto) PhD Candidate

Research Interests:Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance

Fang C. Hu

BA (McGill), MA (Toronto) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Asset Pricing; Behavioural Finance; Macro Finance

Xiyue Li

BS, BMgt (Nankai), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Corporate Finance

Yingxiang Li

BS (SWUFE), MS (Peking University) PhD Candidate

Xing Liu

BA (Renmin), MFin (Tsinghua) PhD Student

Research Interests: Corporate Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Corporate Governance

Dongliang Lu

BS (Shanghai Jiaotong), MS (Columbia) PhD Student

Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation

Juan Martin Rinaldi

BA (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba), MSc (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)

Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Marco Finance

Valentina Rutigliano

BSc (Bocconi), PhD Candidate

Julian Vahl

BSc (Tuebingen), MSc (Vienna University of Economics and Business) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Asset Pricing

Jin (Iris) Wang

BCom (British Columbia), MSc (Queen's) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Corporate Finance; Shareholder Activism; Institutional Investors; Executive Compensation

Zhanbing Xiao

BA (Xi'an Jiaotong), MPhil (Chinese U. of Hong Kong) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Banking; Financial Intermediation; Institutional Investors

Chunxue Yang

BEcon (Peking), MS (UIUC) PhD Student

Shiqi Zhang

BEcon (Central University of Finance and Economics), MS (Peking), PhD Student

Research Interests: Asset Pricing

Keling Zheng

BEng (Nanjing), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Student

Research Interests: Asset Pricing

Management Information Systems

Naomi Berenfeld Ben Yossef

LLB, MBA (Tel Aviv), PhD Student

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence in IS; Security; Smart Cities

Nazli Ozum Kafaee

BA Hons (Bogazici), MDS (British Columbia) PhD Student

Myunghwan Lee

BA, MS (Yonsei) PhD Student

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Big Data Analysis, Topic Modelling, Organizational Behaviour, Network Analysis

Jaecheol Park

BA (Yonsei), BA (Yonsei), MS (Yonsei), PhD Student

Research interests: Economics of Information Systems, Platforms and User Behaviour, Data Analytics

Ruijing Zhao

BMang, MSc (Renmin University of China) PhD Student

Management Science

Yifeng Cao

BA (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), PhD Student

Jiangze Han

BA (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) PhD Student

Yiwen Jin

PhD Student

Meichun Lin

PhD Candidate

Hossein Piri

BSc (Amirkabir), MASc (British Columbia) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Health Care Management; Optimization Simulation

Shanshan Luo

BS (Xi’an Jiaotong), MA (Pennsylvania), PhD Student

Forough Pourhossein

BSc (Sharif University of Technology), MASc (Waterloo) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Revenue Management; Optimization; Supply Chain Management

Xinyuan Zhang

PhD Student

Marketing and Behavioural Science

Guanzhong Du

BA (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), MA (Columbia), Master’s (VU Amsterdam)

Research Interests: Consumer Behaviour

Julie Hommik

BASc (Toronto), MBA (British Columbia), PhD Student

Research interests: Consumer Behaviour

Xixi Hu

BMath (Waterloo), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Student

Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing

Tianyujun Lu

BS (Boston College), PhD Student

Research Interests: Emotions; Identity and Its Impact on Consumer Judgment and Behaviour

Ekin Ok

BA, MA (Sabanci), MM (British Columbia) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Consumer Behaviour; Social Influences in Consumer Judgment and Decision-making; Goal-pursuit and Self-regulation; Hedonic Consumption and Affective Forecasting

Siddhanth Mookerjee

BCom (British Columbia) PhD Student

Research Interests: Sensory Marketing, Social Influences in the Marketplace, Hedonic Consumption

Brendan Strejcek

BA (Chicago), MSc (Northwestern) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Authenticity; Morality

Wade Wade

BSc (Brigham Young) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Brand Loyalty; Consumer-brand Relationships; Prosocial Consumer Behaviour

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Zining Wang

BEcon (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Master's (Erasmus) PhD Student

Research Interests: Digital Marketing; Cause Marketing; Econometric Models and Machine Learning

Fan Yang

BSc (Sun Yat-Sen), MPhil (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) PhD Student

Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing

Shangwen Yi

BS (Beijing Normal University) PhD Student

Research Interests: Consumer Behaviour, Social Influence, Product Attribute Framing, Well-being, Sensation

Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources

Barnini Bhattacharyya

BA Hons (Delhi), MA, MPhil (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Race and Gender Relations at the Workplace; Prejudice and Discrimination; Power and Status; Work and Family; Identity

Pascale Fricke

BSc (Arizona), MSc (Utrecht and Karl-Franzens University of Graz) PhD Student

Research Interests: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Cultural Values; Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility; Innovation; Organizational Learning; Multinational Corporations

Hsuan-Che (Brad) Huang

PhD Student

Research Interests: Workplace Forgiveness; Dark Sides of Organizational Behavior (e.g., hypocrisy, deception, bullsh*t); Conflict and Negotiation; Counterfactual Thinking; Cultural Psychology

Jiawei Li

PhD Student

Research Interests: Strategic Human Resource Management; Employee Turnover; Job Satisfaction; Diversity

Dennis Ma

BCom (British Columbia) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Organization Theory; Social Networks; Family Business; Immigrants; Incivility and Discrimination; Life Course Research; Organizational Ecology

Gabrielle Voiseux

BS, MS (Erasmus), PhD Student

Research Interests: Machine Learning Applications in HRM and AI-Augmented HRM; Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Perception; Responsible AI

Rui Zhong

BMang (Tianjin) PhD Student

Research Interests: Workplace Deviance; Abusive Supervision; Workplace Gossip; Followership

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Ryan Tao Zhou

BSc (Nottingham-Ningbo), MSc (Chinese University of Hong Kong), PhD Student

Research Interests: Non-Work Related Activity; Cognitive Process; Apprenticeship; Impression Management

Strategy and Business Economics

Zining Liu

BSc (HKUST), MA (Texas, Austin) PhD Student

Research Interests: Industrial Organization, International Trade

Saattvic

BA (Hons) (St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University), MPhil (Oxford), PhD Student

Research interests: Industrial Organization, Digital Economics, Media Economics, Competition & Antitrust

Navid Siami

BSc (Sharif University of Technology), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Industrial Organization; Environmental Economics; Urban Economics; Applied Econometrics; Identity

Nan Wang

BA (Beijing Institute of Technology), MS (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Research Interests: Industrial Organization; Innovation

Siying Wang

BA, MA (Central University of Finance and Economics) PhD Student

Research Interests: International Trade

Transportation & Logistics

Yilin Zhang

BEcon (Harbin Institute of Technology), MEcon (University of International Business and Economics), PhD Student

Research interests: Transport Economics, International Economics, Policy Analysis

Urban Land Economics

Daryl Larsen

BS (Brigham Young)

Research Interests: Urban Economics; Housing; Real Estate; Migration

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