Nobel Laureate to Join the Rady School of Management

Rady School Announces Key Faculty Hires for 2006

Media Contact: Keri Peckham, 858-534-0855 or kpeckham@ucsd.edu

June 27, 2006

The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego today announced its key faculty hires for the 2006 academic year. Among the six outstanding new faculty is Dr. Harry Markowitz, the 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. Dr. Markowitz is best known for his pioneering work in investments and portfolio theory. In addition to Dr. Markowitz, the scholars joining the Rady School include recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award, as well as others receiving numerous teaching and research honors.

The new faculty at the Rady School have been recruited from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the College of Management at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.

"UC San Diego is home to several Nobel Laureates, allowing our students access to some of the best and brightest minds in economics, chemistry and medicine," said Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. "Dr. Markowitz will be a great addition to the Rady School, especially teaching the very subject for which he won the Nobel Prize."

"The Rady School of Management is committed to recruiting only the best and brightest faculty," said Rady School Dean Robert S. Sullivan. "Our faculty will define the school and help us to achieve excellence in all that we do."

In addition to Professor Harry Markowitz, the new faculty joining the Rady School include:

Uri Gneezy, professor of management/strategy
Education: Ph.D. in economics from Tilburg University
Prior position: Associate professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Research interests: Behavioral economics approach to studying incentives, decision making, discrimination, negotiation and gender differences

Kevin Zhu, associate professor of operations
Education: Ph.D. in management science and engineering from Stanford University
Prior position: Assistant professor at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine
Research interests: IT and operations management

Sanjiv Erat, assistant professor of operations
Education: Ph.D. in operations management from Georgia Institute of Technology
Prior position: Operations management instructor at Georgia Tech; software design engineer for Microsoft and Texas Instruments
Research interests: New product development and technology management

Ayelet Gneezy, assistant professor of marketing (will join Rady in July 2007)
Education: Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Chicago (expected January 2007)
Prior position: Marketing executive
Research interests: Consumers’ suspicion, social judgments, ulterior motives and (un)fairness

Established as part of the University of California, San Diego, the Rady School of Management is on the forefront of educating leaders for innovation-driven organizations. Situated within one of the top institutions in the U.S. for higher education and research in the fields of science and technology, the Rady School offers a full-time MBA program, a FlexMBA program for working professionals and executive education programs. The Rady School faculty draw upon their research and passion for innovation to educate the next generation of leaders who will shape the practice of business globally.