Decision 2020

Jawad Addoum is an Assistant Professor of Finance and the Robert R. Dyson Sesquicentennial Fellow at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Professor Addoum’s research focuses on portfolio choice, empirical asset pricing, and behavioral finance, and examines the effects of investor behavior on stock returns. His research also contributes to the emerging field of climate finance and has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Management Science.

Simone Tang is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the School of Hotel Administration in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Her research interests include moral judgments of leaders and organizations and the influence of ideology on important decision-making contexts, including presidential elections. Professor Tang’s research has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Current projects explore motivations behind insulting political leaders’ family members and empathy triggers for struggling small businesses.

Dr. Theomary Karamanis is a multiple-award-winning communication professor and consultant with 25 years of global experience. She is a full-time Senior Lecturer of Management Communication at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and regularly delivers executive education programs in leadership communication, crisis communication, and strategic communication. Dr. Karamanis has held several professional leadership positions, including Chair of the Global Communication Certification Council, Chair of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Academy, and Chair of the IABC Awards Committee.

Dr. Karamanis’s academic background includes a Ph.D. in Communication Studies, a Master of Arts in Mass Communication, and a post-graduate certificate in telecommunications, all from Northwestern University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business. She also holds professional certifications as a Strategic Communication Management Professional (SCMP), online facilitator, and executive program instructor.

Dr. Karamanis has been actively engaged in various industries (private, nonprofit, and government) and fields of expertise, including corporate communication, media and PR, higher education administration and teaching, and consulting. She has lived and worked in Canada, Greece, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.

Dr. Karamanis is the recipient of 40 professional communication awards, including 12 Platinum MarCom awards, seven Gold Quill awards, four Silver Quill awards, and a Comm Prix award. In 2020, she received the Award for Excellence in Communication Consulting by the Association of Professional Communication Consultants and the Association for Business Communication. Dr. Karamanis is the author of several books and academic papers on communication and regularly delivers presentations at international conferences and other business forums.

William Schmidt is an Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research examines firms’ operational decisions and their effects on firm value and information sharing between a firm and its constituents.  A current working paper is titled “Real-Time Prediction of Online False Information Purveyors and Their Characteristics.”