New faculty

Amar Cheema, Ph.D., joins the John M. Olin School of Business as assistant professor of marketing. Cheema previously worked as an instructor and research assistant at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. Prior to his academic career, he held an executive position in the sales and marketing department at Asian Paints Ltd. in India. Cheema’s research and teaching interests include consumer behavior in auctions, consumer spending decisions, pricing, product strategy, marketing management, e-commerce and marketing research. Cheema earned a doctorate in business administration in 2003 from the University of Colorado, a master of business administration degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, in 1996, and a bachelor of engineering degree from Delhi University in 1994.

Amanda Friedenberg, Ph.D., joins the John M. Olin School of Business as assistant professor of economics. Friedenberg worked as a teaching assistant at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (2000) and as a teaching fellow at Harvard Business School (2001-02). Friedenberg’s areas of expertise are business policy and strategy, business and government, microeconomics, and industrial organization economics. Her research and teaching interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and political economy. She earned a doctorate in political economy and government from Harvard University in 2003, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and politics with honors from New York University in 1998.

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ph.D., joins the John M. Olin School of Business as assistant professor of economics. His research interests include industrial organization, health economics, and applied economics. Gowrisankaran served as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota from 1995-2002, and as a visiting assistant professor at Yale University in 2003, at Harvard University in 2002, and at the University of Michigan from 1997-98. He also acted as a consultant with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2002-03 and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1998-2001. Gowrisankaran earned a doctorate in economics in 1995, a master’s degree in philosophy in 1993, and a master’s degree in economics in 1992, all from Yale University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College in 1991.


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