Olin PhD and DBA Placements


See where our PhD and DBA students went after graduating with their doctoral degrees.

2025

Yukai Huang - (Supply Chain, Operations, & Technology)
Sawyer Business School
Suffolk University

Jiaen Li - (Finance)
College of Business
Florida State University

Nicholas Clyde - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
College of Business
Florida State University

Guangying Chen - (Marketing)
Marshall School of Business
USC

Chong Bo (Zack) Wang - (Marketing)
HKU Business School

Luoyexin (Annie) Shi - (Marketing)
Warrington College of Business
University of Florida

2024

Aditi Vashist - (Organizational Behavior)
The David Eccles School of Business
The University of Utah

Jung Hyun (Julie) Lee - (Organizational Behavior)
College of Public Health
University of Iowa

Hyunjoo Oh - (Strategy & Entreneurship)
NeuroFusion Inc.

Chengyao Sun - (Marketing)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Yale School of Management

Tatenda Pasipanodya - (Strategy & Entreneurship)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Boston University

Xin (Sheryl) Zhang - (Accounting)
ESSEC Business School

Avantika Pal - (Finance)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vasudha Nukala - (Finance)
Indian School of Business

Byung Uk (Charlie) An - (Business Economics/Strategy & Entreneurship)
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Donggwan Kim - (Marketing)
Carroll School of Management
Boston College

Ye Liu - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
Martin J. Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University

Initial placements of Olin Business School PhD/DBA graduates


  • 2023
    • Bing Bai - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
      Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

    • Yakshup Chopra - (Finance)
      Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami

    • John Dooley - (Finance)
      Analysis Group

    • Alexander Park - (Marketing)
      Kelley School of Business, Indiana University-Indianapolis

    • Yunzhe Qiu - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
      Peking University, China

    • Sahika Sahan - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
      McCoy College of Business, Texas State University

    • Xiao Tan - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
      East China University of Science and Technology

    • Xiaoli (Shirley) Tang - (Strategy & Entrepreneurship)
      Bocconi University, Italy

    • Ming zhu Wang - (Strategy & Entrepreneurship)
      Foster School of Business, University of Washington

    • Xiaoyu Wang - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
      The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    • Nan Zhao - (Marketing)
      Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business

  • 2022
    • John Dooley - (Finance)
      Analysis Group

    • Puping Jiang - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
      Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

    • Chan Hyung Park - (Organizational Behavior)
      Postdoctorate (senior) researcher, ETH Zurich

    • Kingsley Wabara - (Finance)
      Kelley School of Business, Indiana University-Indianapolis

    • Yunsi Yang - (Supply Chain, Operations & Technology)
      Decide Technologies Inc.

    • Tianjiao (April) Yu - (Marketing)
      Xiamen University, China

    • Haoyu (Jack) Zhang - (Organizational Behavior)
      Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • 2021
    • Swaminathan Balasubramaniam - (Finance)
      NEOMA Business School

    • Parasuram Balasubramanian - (Strategy)
      Aalborg University Business School, Aalborg University, Denmark

    • Yijun Chen - (Marketing)
      Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London

    • Lina Han - (Finance)
      University of Massacusetts-Amherst

    • Manish Jha - (Finance)
      Georgia State University

    • Yanrong Jia - (Accounting)
      The City University of New York-Baruch College

    • Rodrigo Moser - (Finance)
      Amazon

    • Landon Ross - (Finance)
      Securities and Exchange Commission

    • Aadhaar Verma - (Finance)
      Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario

    • Hyesung Yoo - (Marketing)
      University of Toronto

  • 2020
    • Jonathan Lee - (Organizational Behavior)
      Labovitz School of Business Economics, University of Minnesota-Duluth

    • Juan Pablo Espinosa - (Finance)
      Clearent

    • Danielle McPherson - (Finance)
      Mercy Health

    • Yifang Xie - (Accounting)
      UBC Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia

  • 2019
    • Muna Alsheikh - (Finance)
      Orb Jet Consulting

    • Chuan Chen - (Business Economics)
      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin Madison

    • Trey Cummings - (Strategy)
      A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

    • Rachel Gershon - (Marketing)
      Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego

    • Jasmine Huang - (Organizational Behavior)
      Paradigm Strategy

    • Zhenling Jiang - (Marketing)
      The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

    • Chase Potter - (Accounting)
      Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

    • Jorge Sabat - (Finance)
      Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile

    • David Sovich - (Finance)
      Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky

    • Patrizia Vecchi - (Organizational Behavior)
      Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

    • Fasheng Xu - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University

    • Yingnan Yi - (Finance)
      China Institute of Finance and Capital Markets

    • Tianxin Zou - (Marketing)
      Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

  • 2018
    • Seong Jin Ahn - (Accounting)
      Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

    • Chitsun Chen - (Finance)
      John Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University

    • Xingxing Chen - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      Robins School of Business, University of Richmond

    • Yadav Gopalan - (Accounting)
      Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

    • Ankit Kalda - (Finance)
      Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

    • Leonardo Kluppel - (Strategy)
      Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University

    • Kai Lu - (Finance)
      School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China

    • Elizabeth Luckman - (Organizational Behavior)
      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Senior Researcher in Leadership and Executive Development, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    • Luca Pezzo - (Finance)
      College of Business Administration, University of New Orleans

    • Duo Shi - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzen

    • Brittney Stephenson - (Marketing)
      College of Business, Pacific University

    • Xiaoxiao Tang - (Finance)
      Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas

  • 2017
    • Yong Kyu (Kevin) Gam - (Finance)
      Institute of Financial Studies, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

    • Steven Gray - (Organizational Behavior)
      McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin

    • Peter Haslag - (Finance)
      Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

    • Seung Hwan Jung - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      College of Business Administration, Texas A & M University, Kingsville

    • Ravi S. Kudesia - (Organizational Behavior)
      Fox School of Business, Temple University

    • Diego Vega San Martin - (Finance)
      Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University

    • Kandarp Srinivasan - (Finance)
      D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

    • Gabriela Tonietto - (Marketing)
      Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University

    • Bicheng Yang - (Marketing)
      Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

    • Xiaming Zeng - (Business Economics)
      Barclays

  • 2016
    • Ryan Cooper - (Business Economics/Strategy)
      Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

    • John Donovan - (Accounting)
      Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

    • Karoline Evans - (Organizational Behavior)
      Manning Business School, University of Massachusetts Lowell

    • Xiaomeng Guo - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    • Daisung Jang - (Organizational Behavior)
      Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    • Jimmie Lenz - (Finance)
      Wells Fargo Wealth and Investment Management

    • Francisco Marcet - (Finance)
      Universidad de Chile

    • Hojun Seo - (Accounting)
      National University of Singapore Business School

    • Guang Xiao - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    • Renyu Zhang - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      New York University, Shanghai

    • Karen Xinye Zhang Liu - (Finance)
      Baruch College, The City University of New York

  • 2015
    • Taylor Bentley - (Marketing)
      McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin

    • Timothy Gubler - (Strategy)
      School of Business Administration, University of California, Riverside

    • Fang Liu - (Finance)
      School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University

    • Suying Liu - (Finance)
      J.P. Morgan

    • Johan Maharjan - (Finance)
      Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    • Bret Sanner - (Organizational Behavior)
      School of Business, Shenandoah University

    • Sudeep Sharma - (Organizational Behavior)
      College of Business, University of Illinois, Springfield

    • Fan Zhang - (Marketing)
      Amazon

  • 2014
    • Fernando Lopez Gutierrez - (Finance)
      School of Economics and Business, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

    • Bryan Graden - (Accounting)
      College of Business, Illinois State University

    • Joshua Lee - (Accounting)
      College of Business, Florida State University

    • Mike Mingcheng Wei - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

    • Yixuan Xiao - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      College of Business, City University of Hong Kong

    • Chieh-Chung Yen - (Strategy)
      HSBC Business School, Peking University

    • Yueshan Yu - (Operations & Manufacturing Management)
      Amazon