Coffee Chat with Professors
Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 4:30pm-5:30pm
Room 36-153

NSUW members enjoyed coffee and desserts while chatting with professors and fellow NSUW members. The event offered the opportunity to learn from professors' industry experiences and discover what other women have been involved in on campus this term. attendees were able to informally share interests, discuss future academic and career plans, and converse about opportunities for women in business. The event was in conjunction with MIT Women's Week.

Attending Guests included:

Professor Sharmila Chatterjee, 15.883 Business to Business Marketing

Sharmila Chaterjee earned her Ph.D. in Marketing from the Wharton School. Her teaching interests include business to business marketing, marketing channels, sales force management, marketing research, and marketing strategy. Her research interests include relationship marketing, business to business marketing, integrated direct marketing, direct distribution channels, and sales force management.

Professor Jane Dunphy, Director, English Language Studies Program; 15.279 Management Communication

Jane Dunphy is engaged in the Teaching & Learning Lab (TLL), the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA), and several academic and social communities at MIT. Dunphy has developed and taught tailored programs in different aspects of professional communication for hi-tech companies and a variety of academic institutions. Her research interests focus on "best practices" in professional communication protocols across cultures and include work with Diamler-Chrysler.

Kathleen Haggerty, MIT Careers Office

Kathleen Haggerty is a Career Development Counselor at the MIT Careers Office. Her responsibilities include serving the undergraduate students in the fields of Engineering and Management, presenting programs and workshops, and helping to coordinate the Career Assistants program.

Professor Ryan LaFond, Accounting Group; 15.501 Corporate Financial Accounting

Ryan LaFond's research interests span issues related to corporate governance inlcuding accounting standards choice, the role of auditing, and earnings management as well as equity valuation and asset pricing. In particular, much of LaFond's research investigates how accounting information and corporate governance is valued by external capital providers. LaFond examines how accounting information responds to the informational demands of stakeholders in non-U.S. capital markets and the implications of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act on both U.S. and international capital markets.

Professor Barak Libai, Marketing Group; 15.812 Marketing Management

Barak Libai is interested in growth of markets for new products, agent based models and their application for market analysis, modeling social interactions among customers and their effects on the firm's profits, customer relationship management and customer valuation in particular.

Professor James Orlin, Operations Research; 15.053 Optimization Methods in Management Science

James Orlin has developed improved solution methodologies for problems in airline scheduling, railroad scheduling, logistics, network design, telecommunications, inventory control, marketing, and computational biology. He is especially interested in developing techniques that obtain high-quality solutions in a short amount of computation time.

Professor Roberta Pittore, Behavioral and Policy Sciences (BPS); 15.279 Management Communication