Ourso Faculty
Faculty at the Forefront
The E. J. Ourso College of Business faculty are at the forefront — propelling progress and positive change.
Ourso College faculty cultivate future leaders and entrepreneurs who are innovative problem-solvers that seek to have a positive impact on society. We develop cutting-edge, high-quality research and leverage human capital to address the most pressing economic and societal challenges facing the state, national, and global economies.
We are committed to pursuing the highest and best version of ourselves, knowing that our excellence can empower transformation in the world.
79
Tenured or Tenure-track Faculty
- AY 2020-2021
194
Articles Published in Top Tier Journals (A&B)
- in the last three years
$7.5M
Total Research Expenditures for 2020-2021
Meet the Ourso College Faculty
Ourso faculty reside in the college’s eight academic units that are devoted to developing the business leaders and scholars of the future and creating and disseminating knowledge through transformational research.
- Department of Accounting Faculty
- Department of Economics Faculty
- Department of Finance Faculty
- Department of Marketing Faculty
- Department of Public Administration Faculty
- Rucks Department of Management Faculty
- Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems Faculty
- Flores MBA Program Faculty
Faculty Areas of Expertise
Work with our faculty to solve a business challenge or engage with our scholars on complex, industry-specific research. Our faculty are world-class researchers who combine current theories and methods with hands-on learning and real-world projects in their courses. They publish articles in top academic journals, write textbooks, and are entrepreneurs, resulting in a well-rounded education from theoretical and real-world perspectives. Contact experienceourso@lsu.edu to be connected with a subject-matter expert.
- Business and politics
- Financial reporting
- Financial fraud
- Taxation
- Applied Economics
- Bayesian Econometrics
- Development Economics
- Econometrics
- Economic Education
- Economic Growth
- Economic History
- Economics & Economic Impact
- Economics of Crime
- Economics of Policing
- Energy Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Economics
- Forecasting
- Health Economics
- Indian Economy
- Industrial Organization
- Inequality
- International Finance
- International Trade & Finance
- Labor Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Measuring Discrimination
- Monetary & Fiscal Policy
- Political Economy
- Public Economics
- Regional Growth
- Trade & Productivity
- Urban Economics
- Behavioral Theory of the Firm
- Configurations & Equifinality
- Creativity & Innovation
- Crowdfunding
- Disaster Management & Planning
- Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
- Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Entrepreneurial Networks & Social Capital
- Family Business
- Innovation Strategy
- Interfirm Collaboration
- Organizational Virtue & Ethics
- Real Options in Technology
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Entrepreneurship
- Venture Capital
- Allocation of corporate capital and financial engineering
- Analyst Forecasts
- Application of Machine Learning
- Asset Allocation
- Asset Management
- Asset Pricing
- Asset Protection Strategies
- Banking
- Bankruptcy
- Behavioral Finance & Risk Psychology
- Blockchain
- Business Law
- Commercial Banking
- Commercial Real Estate
- Corporate Finance
- Cryptocurrency
- Decentralized Finance
- DeFi
- Distressed Investing
- Dividends
- Economic Loss Estimates
- Empirical Asset Pricing
- Estate Planning
- Exchange-Traded Funds
- Financial Analytics
- Financial Data Science
- Financial Debt Behavior
- Financial Derivatives
- Financial Econometrics
- Financial Intermediation & Institutions
- FinTech
- Fixed Income
- Indexing
- Investing
- Mutual Funds
- Option Pricing
- Overlay Strategies
- Payout Policy
- Portfolio Management
- Private Equity
- Probability & Statistics
- Product Market Competition
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Quantitative Investing
- Risk Management
- Sports Analytics
- Stock Markets
- Stock Repurchases
- Successions
- Supply Chain
- Taxation
- Venture Capital
- Acceptance of New Technology
- Agile Development & Project Management
- Analytics Methods
- Automobile Crash Statistics
- Bayesian Analysis
- Behavioral & Organizational Information Security
- Business Intelligence
- Classification Analysis
- Commercial Vehicle Crash Analysis
- Cybersecurity & Cyber Risk
- Data Analytics
- Data Mining
- Data Warehousing
- Decision Analysis
- Digital Customer Service
- Digital Strategy
- Digitization of the Hospitality & Restaurant Industries
- Diversity & Inclusion Analytics
- Diversity in Entrepreneurship & Supplier Diversity
- E-Commerce
- Emerging Technologies
- Enterprise Systems
- Ethics & Information Technology
- Health Analytics
- Healthcare Informatics
- Highway Safety Analytics
- Information Assurance
- Information Economics
- Inventory Management
- IT Boundary Choice
- IT Governance
- IT-Business Alignment
- Management of Information Systems
- Optimization Models
- Organizational Impacts of Information Technology
- Outsourcing
- Performance analysis
- Philosophical Issues of Research
- Probabilistic Models
- Product Quality
- Research Methods
- Serious Games in Business
- Statistics
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainable Consumption
- Tech Acceptance
- Virtual Healthcare
- Web Analytics
- Collective Constructs
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Disability (ADA) Law
- Discrimination Law
- Employee Recruitment
- Employee Vacation-Taking
- Ethics
- Executive Succession
- Firm Entry
- FLSA (Minimum Wage & Overtime Law)
- FMLA
- Gender & Diversity
- Gender & Top Management
- Human Resource Management
- Interpersonal Dynamics in the Workplace
- Justice & Ethics
- Leadership Development
- Leadership, Personality, & Individual Differences
- Motivation
- Nonstandard Work Arrangements
- Obesity
- Organizational Climate & Culture
- Performance Pressure & Stress
- Private & Public Sector Labor Relations
- Regulation of Employment Practices
- Research Methods
- Shareholder Value Principles
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Management
- Strategy
- Third-Party Observers
- Workplace Mistreatment
- Branding
- Customer Relationship Marketing
- Digital Marketing
- Food Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- New Media (Video Games, Streaming Services, etc.)
- Nonprofit Marketing
- Relationship Selling
- Retail Strategy
- Sales Coaching
- Sales Team Strategies
- Sales Technology
- Sensory Marketing
- Services Marketing
- Social Impact
- Social Justice Issues in Marketing
- Social Media Strategy
- Virtual Selling
- Accountability
- Economic Development
- Energy & Environmental Policy
- Human Resource Management
- Local & Sustainability Policy
- Local Non-Tax Revenue
- Municipal Bond Market
- Network Analysis
- Organization Theory
- Organizational Justice
- Organizational Networks
- Policy Outcomes
- Political Institutions
- Public & Nonprofit Management
- Public Budgeting & Finance
- Public Policy
- Public Sector Compensation
- Research Methods
- Social Theory
- Stereotyping & Discrimination
- Transportation Policy
- Workplace Diversity
Faculty Highlights - driving innovation & excellence
Faculty News
The LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business is pleased to introduce an array of new faculty members for the 2024-2025 academic year. These new additions bring renowned expertise to the college in a variety of areas, including economics, finance, management, marketing, entrepreneurship and information systems.
Dr. Yingmei Cheng, a renowned scholar in financial economics, will serve as the next Lloyd F. Collette Endowed Chair of Financial Services, the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business announced Monday.
Recent research from the E. J. Ourso College of Business is helping create the gameplan needed to save Louisiana's coastline, starting with the workforce. How do we build the labor force necessary to help save our coast, and what skills do they need to bring to bear?