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Jongwoon (Willie) Choi
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Accounting
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260 Mervis Hall
Phone:
412-648-1671
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Degrees
PhD, Emory University
MAcc, The Ohio State University
BSBA, Washington University in St. Louis
Profile
Jongwoon (Willie) Choi joined the accounting area as an assistant professor of business administration in 2011, after completing his PhD from Emory University. His research explores the use of accounting information in managerial decision-making, with an emphasis on strategic performance measurement systems as well as performance evaluation and reward systems.
Recent Publications
"Lost in translation: The effects of incentive compensation on strategy surrogation" (with G. Hecht and W. Tayler), The Accounting Review, July 2012.
"Strategy selection, surrogation, and strategic performance measurement systems" (with G. Hecht and W. Tayler), Journal of Accounting Research, March 2013.
Recent Working Papers
"When are signing bonuses more than just 'pay to play'? An experimental investigation."
"A marathon, a series of sprints, or both? An analysis of tourament horizon in multi-period settings." (With A. Newman and I. Tafkov)
"Monkey see, monkey do? Vicarious learning under implicit contracts." (With G. Hecht, I. Tafkov, and K. Towry)
Awards and Honors
Katz Excellence in Teaching Award (CBA), 2011-2012
Outstanding Emerging Scholar Award, ABO Research Conference, 2011
Best Paper Award, MAS Mid-Year Meeting, 2010
Goizueta Fellowship, 2010
AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2009
Sheth Fellowship, 2008
Personal Interests
Sports, music theory and composition, and movies.
Under News - Faculty and Research
MIS and project management research by Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Business Administration Laurie Kirsch is featured in the magazine International Innovation. Her work addresses group dynamics and conflict prevention.
Two Katz chaired professors, along with an alumnus, were credited as among the most influential researchers in project management in a paper published in the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business.
Accounting professor Elise Boyas is the first faculty member to win three College of Business Administration and one Part-Time MBA teaching awards in the same year. Boyas strives to make accounting something that every student can understand - and maybe even appreciate.
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