Shaun Parkinson's journey to WSU’s Carson College of Business didn’t happen in one fluid motion. After earning his bachelor's degree in exercise science at Brigham Young University, Parkinson initially saw himself working in the medical field. However, a job at a plasma donation center unexpectedly opened his eyes to a different path.
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Doctoral student Cathy Jun's decision to enter the world of accounting and academia is shaped by her multicultural upbringing and deep-seated desire to make a meaningful impact in the business world.
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At the Carson College of Business, there's an engaged community of doctoral students who pride themselves on serving others through their work. One of the program’s shining stars is Pingping Tang, a PhD student in operations management whose professional accounting experience has led her to make a profound impact on her fellow international students and the wider community.
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As a young boy growing up in Iran, Amirhossein Moadab experienced the devastation of earthquakes and observed suffering after resources failed to reach people in need. Today, as a doctoral candidate studying operations and management science, he aims to improve drone technology in response and recovery efforts following natural disasters.
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Shirin Shahsavand was thinking about getting an MBA when one of her professors pushed her to aim higher. “Dr. Chuck Munson kept talking to me about a PhD. I owe him a debt of gratitude,” says Shahsavand, who is studying operations management with plans of becoming a university professor.
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Reducing the pay gap between top male and female managers could be as straightforward as adding more women to a company’s board of directors, according to research by Gurdeep Singh Raina, a Carson College doctoral student.
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Yafang Li’s research on how to keep people using fitness trackers placed first in the Carson College’s Three-Minute Thesis event. The competition requires doctoral students to explain the significance of their research in three minutes or less.
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Demi Deng was managing restaurants and bars in New Zealand when she started following the Carson College of Business’s hospitality research. It eventually led Deng to WSU, where she will graduate with a doctorate in 2023.
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Doctoral Student Mycah Harrold looked at how identifying as feminist influenced women’s purchases of beauty-related products. The findings were surprising: Women who identified as feminists placed more value—and spent more—on items such as makeup, grooming products, and other accessories than their non-feminist peers.
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Oscar Chi (’21 HBM), a newly minted assistant professor in tourism, hospitality, and event management at the University of Florida, has his sights set on advancing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the hospitality industry.
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