Ph.D. Students

Ventsi Stamenov is a PhD student in accounting. He is interested in accounting information and asset prices, accounting information and macroeconomy, and debt contracting. He earned his Masters in International Business at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria and Master in Business Administration at the University of Arkansas. Prior to entering the PhD program, Ventsi worked as a portfolio manager for a family wealth management office and University Endowment.

Isamar is a PhD student in Marketing, specializing in quantitative research. Before joining the program, she worked as a research assistant for the Consumer Analytics Group (University of Chile, Santiago de Chile).

Mindy is a Ph.D. student at the USC Marshall School of Business studying organizational behavior. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 2014 with a B.S. in Psychology. Her research interests include social class, intergroup relations, and self and identity. More specifically, she is interested in how people’s backgrounds, beliefs, and identities influence their organizational experiences and outcomes.