Hunt Business Awards Five Ph.D. Degrees in Spring 2026
The Big Picture
Five doctoral candidates at the Woody L. Hunt College of Business are completing their Ph.D. in Business Administration, closing out years of research, teaching, and faculty collaboration across core business disciplines.
Why It Matters
The Hunt College doctoral program develops future faculty — researchers who will shape classrooms, inform policy, and push forward how business is studied and practiced.
The Graduates and Their Research
- Tanushree Chatterjee
Connecting Work and Family Life: The Effects of Family‐Related Moderators on Idiosyncratic Deals of Employees and Work Outcomes
Chair: Prajya Vidyarthi, Ph.D.
Committee: Fernanda Garcia, Ph.D.; Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D.
- Sebastian Jimenez
Heterogeneous Consequences of Labor Market Regulation: Essays on E-Verify and Corporate Finance
Chairs: Erik Devos, Ph.D.; Spencer Barnes, Ph.D.
Committee: Hyo Jin Yoon, Ph.D.; Yun Ke, Ph.D.
- Obed Buadi
Essays on Firm-Level Political Risk, Addback Statutes, and Corporate Decisions
Chair: Faith Xie
Committee: John Gibson, Ph.D.; Hyo Jin Yoon, Ph.D.
- Mansura Nusrat
Three Essays on Workplace Ethics and AI: Conceptualizing, Scale Development of Self-Value Actualization, and AI-Enabled High-Performance Work Systems
Chair: Richard Posthuma
Committee: Prajya Vidyarthi, Ph.D.; Eric D. Smith, Ph.D. (91国产app Engineering)
- Zakieh “Fatima” Kaveh
Three Essays on Consumers' Financial Decision-Making
Chair: Fernando Jimenez, Ph.D.
Committee: John Hadjimarcou, Ph.D.; Cynthia Halliday, Ph.D.; Frank Cabano, Ph.D. (Kansas State); Nandini Nim, Ph.D. (Colorado State)
Between the Lines
This cohort’s work spans labor markets, corporate finance, political risk, AI and workplace ethics, and consumer decision-making — reflecting where business research is actively moving.
What’s Next
Graduates move into academic and research roles, continuing Hunt Business’s pipeline of faculty trained in rigorous, applied scholarship.
Last Updated on May 15, 2026 at 2:30 PM | Originally published May 15, 2026
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