Owen Signs Top Faculty

Several top economic and business experts will join Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management as faculty members this fall. They include:

Robert Whaley, a world-renowned expert on derivative securities, who will leave Duke's Fuqua School of Business to return to Owen, his alma mater. Whaley will teach a course on fixed income markets at Owen.

R. Lawrence Van Horn, an expert on healthcare management, will leave his current position as director of the healthcare MBA program at Rochester's Simon School to join Owen as an associate professor. He will teach healthcare management and microeconomics at Owen and will serve as faculty director of Owen's Health Care MBA Program.

Steve Hoeffler, a consumer marketing expert now at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School, will join Owen as an associate professor. He will teach core courses in marketing.

Corporate accounting expert and market analyst Richard Willis will leave Tulane University to join Owen as an associate professor of management.

Source: "Vanderbilt Scoops Faculty," by Della Bradshaw - the Financial Times, July 3, 2006