Q3.  When you were an undergraduate student, what was your favorite extracurricular activity or hobby?
A.  Reading and travel.

Q4.  Do you have a current favorite hobby to share?
A.  Reading and travel.

Q5.  What has been the biggest surprise or unexpected thing you have learned, discovered about Columbus, the state of Ohio or Ohio State?
A.  Ohio is a lot greener than I expected. I like it!

About Xiaoli Tian

Xiaoli Tian is assistant professor of accounting. She earned her Ph.D. in business administration-accounting from the University of Iowa. She also holds a master in accounting degree and bachelor degree in accounting from University of Minnesota. Tian has taught introductory financial accounting and intermediate financial accounting reviews to undergraduate students. Her primary research interests are in the areas of corporate disclosure, particularly strategic disclosure by management, financial research in taxation and research methodology.

Q3.  When you were an undergraduate student, what was your favorite extracurricular activity or hobby?
A.  In the summer, I enjoy the mountains, camping, hiking, biking, climbing. I camp in the winter, as well as ski. A group of friends and I would go camping every Thursday night. Many nights we were snowed on, rained on, even faced some nearby avalanches but we camped every week. Good camping was only a 20 minute drive from school.

Q4.  Do you have a current favorite hobby to share?
A.  Running.

Q5.  What has been the biggest surprise or unexpected thing you have learned, discovered about Columbus, the state of Ohio or Ohio State?
A.  Everyone is so nice and friendly. Not in a weird "canned" sort of way but genuinely nice and neighborly.

About James Oldroyd

James Oldroyd is an assistant professor of Management and Human Resources. He received his PhD from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Oldroyd has taught courses on the global environment of business, negotiations, and innovation at the MBA and EMBA level.

His research explores how social capital both enables and impedes knowledge flows in the multinational enterprise. He has published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Harvard Business Review. He has been involved in numerous corporate education and advisory projects at companies such as Samsung, SK Group, and Doosan. Several of these projects have focused on developing an international response for firms that are under pressure from the environment, competitors or the need for rapid sales. He has been the recipient of the BK21 (Korean Governmental Initiative for the Future of Global Business) grant (2009, 2010, 2011) and a case development grant for the development of international case material focused on the repatriation of knowledge, international negotiations, and knowledge spills.

Q3.  When you were an undergraduate student, what was your favorite extracurricular activity or hobby?
A.  Tennis.

Q4.  Do you have a current favorite hobby to share?
A.  Yoga, art and travel.

Q5.  What has been the biggest surprise or unexpected thing you have learned, discovered about Columbus, the state of Ohio or Ohio State?
A.  Being a faculty member doesn't ensure you get good tickets to football games.

About Tanya Menon

An award-winning faculty member at Chicago's Booth School of Business, Tanya Menon studies how national culture affects people's everyday assumptions and their patterns of decision making. She also studies how organizational cultures affect learning. This research examines how managers respond to new ideas, and particularly why they sometimes value knowledge from insiders, competitors, and consultants differently. Her articles have appeared in Organization Science, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Harvard Business Review, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes.

Menon earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Harvard University in 1995. Her research earned her the Thomas Templeton Hoopes Prize as one of the best senior theses at Harvard. Menon earned a PhD in organizational behavior in 2000 from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She was also the recipient of an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a Kauffman Foundation Grant for research on Entrepreneurship, and a Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship.

Q3.  When you were an undergraduate student, what was your favorite extracurricular activity or hobby?
A.  Another tie! Training and showing horses; and going to OSU football games.

Q4.  Do you have a current favorite hobby to share?
A.  Dressage (a competitive equestrian sport that tests horse athleticism and training) and film (going to movies, talking about movies, following the industry).

Q5.  What has been the biggest surprise or unexpected thing you have learned, discovered about Columbus, the state of Ohio or Ohio State?
A.  The contrast between the old Hagerty Hall, where I spent lots of time as an undergrad business major, and our wonderful Fisher complex today!

About Deborah Mitchell

Deborah Mitchell has a unique background that combines academic and industry expertise. She received her PhD in Marketing and Behavioral Science from the University of Chicago and began her academic career as a faculty member at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has held faculty positions at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology and Journal of Advertising.

Deborah is an award-winning teacher, having been recognized for excellence in teaching at Wharton and named "Teacher of the Year" by full-time MBA students two years in a row at the University of Wisconsin. As an associate dean from 2006 through 2009 she created and led the Wisconsin Enterprise MBA platform consisting of the Evening and Executive MBA programs. In 2007 she created an extension of the Executive MBA, called the Manager's Program, in collaboration with corporate partner Kohl's, Inc.

In addition to her academic career, Deborah is an internationally known speaker and consultant with expertise in creating market-focused organizations. As president of Cypress Consulting, Ltd, Deborah has worked closely with industry leaders. Clients have included Time-Warner, CNN, Bristol Meyers Squibb, TIAA-CREF, General Motors and Syngenta. Much of her consulting work is focused on building and managing brand-based change initiatives.

Q3.  When you were an undergraduate student, what was your favorite extracurricular activity or hobby?
A.  While I was an undergrad at Boise State University I worked full time and but when I wasn't working I played softball and flag football, studied taekwondo, and enjoyed going to football games.

Q4.  Do you have a current favorite hobby to share?
A.  I have always loved to travel and explore the world. I'm fascinated by different cultures and understanding the history that they offer. Besides traveling, reading, and playing poker, I also love to play tennis.

Q5.  What has been the biggest surprise or unexpected thing you have learned, discovered about Columbus, the state of Ohio or Ohio State?
A.  I've been very pleasantly surprised with the number of great restaurants here in Columbus. I've enjoyed trying several different places in Short North and Grandview such as Sushi Rock and Third and Hollywood.

About Blair Kidwell

Blair Kidwell received his PhD in marketing from Virginia Tech in May 2004 and holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Boise State University. He joined the faculty at The Ohio State University in June 2012. Dr. Kidwell's research focuses on the area of consumer decision making, with an emphasis on emotion and emotional intelligence, knowledge calibration, dual-processing models, political ideology, perceptions of control, and the role of emotional ability in marketing exchanges. He has explored these and other topics in the realms of food, health and financial decisions, and consumer disposal practices. Kidwell's research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.