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Bolstering Fuqua's Management Studies
 The Fuqua School of Business brought in four new faculty members this year. Two of them are bringing new voices to the school's long-time strength in management studies.
Associate Professor Yuval Rottenstreich was recruited from the University of Chicago and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Fuqua's faculty reputation, the school's philosophy and the chance to join a growing institution were all factors in his decision to come here, he said.
In teaching managerial effectiveness and negotiations courses, Rottenstreich's research focus will enable him to bring a dual approach to the classroom. "To be an effective manager one needs to understand the technical and analytical elements having to do with information and incentive structures that people face-economic questions," he said. "But one also needs to know how people perceive, consider and react to those structures-psychological questions."
When not teaching at Fuqua, Rottenstreich enjoys travel, art, cooking and sports. And since he grew up in Los Angeles, he's a Lakers, Raiders and Dodgers fan.
 Assistant Professor Margaret Kyle, who earned her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spent two years on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon prior to coming to Fuqua. The opportunity to work with some leading scholars at Fuqua and Duke in her area of research attracted her to the school.
She will teach a course on the management of technology. In researching innovation and R&D productivity, she sees some challenging business issues in her coursework.
"One challenge is the management of intellectual property rights, especially in global businesses that work under different legal regimes. Another, in pharmaceuticals and health care particularly, is pricing strategies in the face of powerful buyers (such as governments) and the need to recoup R&D investments," Kyle said.
Since she grew up in Virginia, she feels loyalty to the University of Virginia and finds it easy to cheer for any school that can beat UNC-Chapel Hill. "And it's impossible to have lived in Boston without loving the Sox," she adds.
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