L YASHASWY (YASH) AKELLA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: yash.akella@tuck.dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-8971
Personal Website: linkedin.com
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Yash Akella is affiliated with the Marketing Research Group at Tuck. His research focuses on retailing strategies, consumer journeys, network theory, top management teams, and Internet advertising, and he utilizes econometrics and machine learning in his methodology. Akella has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Business Research. He is also the co-winner of Sethuraman NASMEI Research Grant Award 2022, and is a member of both the American Marketing Association and the Production and Operations Management Society. He is an ad-hoc reviewer at Research Policy and the Journal of Business Research. Akella earned his PhD at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where he was the 2023 winner of the Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Award for Best Thesis, and his BE (Hons.) in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani.
Sebastian Fleer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: sebastian.fleer@tuck.dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-8825
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Sebastian Fleer uses analytical modeling in his research on accounting, managerial incentives, and costly information processing. His research explores the implications of technological advances in information processing for strategic decision-making in capital markets and at the firm level. Another research line examines the impact of current accounting regulations on financial intermediation. Current issues are the delayed implementation of bank-specific accounting standards by the CARES Act, too-little-too-late loan loss provisioning in the last financial crisis, and the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. His research aims to guide academics, practitioners, and policymakers in enhancing social welfare. In 2023, Sebastian was awarded the Walther-Rathenau Prize for Best Conference Paper for “Disclosing to Rationally Inattentive Traders.” He received his PhD in 2021 and his MSc in 2016 from the University of Basel, and his BSc at the Universität Siegen in 2014. Sebastian was most recently employed as a postdoctoral researcher for the chair in managerial accounting at the University of Basel. He has taught cost accounting at the undergraduate level and a financial accounting seminar to graduate students.
Swanand Kulkarni
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: swanand.kulkarni@tuck.dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-8825
Personal Website: www.swanandkulkarni.com
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Swanand Kulkarni studies how human decision-making influences operational outcomes. His research methodologies include analytical modeling and laboratory experiments. His research examines how on-demand service platforms (e.g., ridesharing, food/grocery/courier delivery platforms) can be designed considering workers’ behavior to improve operational outcomes and workers’ welfare. Swanand taught at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech, where he was named Graduate Student Instructor of the Year 2021–22. Swanand was also the recipient of the Ashford Watson Stalnaker Memorial Award for PhD Student Excellence in 2023 and an honorable mention in the POMS CBOM Junior Scholar Paper Competition in 2022. He is a member of several academic societies, including INFORMS and POMS. He has served as a reviewer on multiple occasions, and as a session chair at the POMS and INFORMS annual meetings. Swanand earned his PhD in Operations Management, MS in Statistics, and MS in Economics, all three at Georgia Tech. He holds a B.Tech from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.