In 2025, MIT Sloan welcomed five new faculty members to the school. As experts in their respective fields, they exemplify the excellence and innovation that MIT Sloan strives to embody through their research and exploration. Read more to learn what these faculty members specialize in, and what excites them most about working at MIT Sloan.
Alessandro Acquisti, Professor of Information Technology
Alessandro Acquisti, Professor of Information Technology
Acquisti joins MIT Sloan from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, where he was a professor of information technology and public policy and founding faculty director of the CMU Digital Transformation and Innovation Center. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and master’s degrees from UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Trinity College Dublin.
Acquisti’s research has spearheaded the application of economics and behavioral economics to the study of privacy and personal data and prompted the investigation of privacy and disclosure behavior in social media. He is a contributing author to The Economics of Privacy, a 2024 book that examines the mechanics of privacy in the digital age. Other recent work by Acquisti explores the use of the protection motivation theory to encourage users to change breached passwords.
Juan Antolin-Diaz, Assistant Professor of Finance
Antolin-Diaz started his career at the European Central Bank and founded the Quantitative Research group at Fulcrum Asset Management before joining MIT Sloan. He holds a PhD in economics from London Business School, where he received the AQR Asset Management Institute Fellowship Award for his work on the evolving role of government bonds as safe assets.
Antolin-Diaz’s research focuses on macroeconomics, asset pricing, and Bayesian econometrics. His work has been published in journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.
Richard M. Locke, PhD ’89, John C Head III Dean of MIT Sloan
Richard M. Locke, PhD ’89, John C Head III Dean of MIT Sloan and Professor of Global Economics and Management
Dean Locke was previously the dean of Apple University, which focuses on internal leadership and management education for Apple Inc. Before that, he served as Brown University’s provost for seven years. He received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1981, an MA in education from the University of Chicago in 1990, and a PhD in political science from MIT in 1989.
In his new role leading MIT Sloan, Dean Locke plans to focus on how new technologies will impact education, industry, and the workplace, with an emphasis on climate change, generative artificial intelligence, the future of work, advanced manufacturing, and health care innovation. He is the author of the 2013 book The Promise and Limits of Private Power and has published research on supply chains and working conditions during the pandemic and labor standards in the global electronics industry.
Joseph David Moran, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Moran joins MIT Sloan from PwC, where he served as an auditor for midsize and large private equity and family-owned businesses. Moran holds a PhD in accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame.
Moran studies the interplay between information, incentives, and decision-making, both inside and outside firms. His recent work includes a field experiment on the motivational effects of “management by walking around” and a study on whether the availability of highly detailed performance information translates into improved decision-making by front-line managers.
Jimin Nam, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Jimin Nam, Assistant Professor of Marketing
Before joining the MIT faculty, Nam was a faculty member at Ohio State University in the marketing and logistics department. She also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Nam received her PhD from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in economics and BA in mathematics from Arizona State University.
Nam investigates what captures, directs, and exploits consumer attention. Based on a combination of experimental and computational methods, her work sheds light on how attention guides consumer decision-making in real-world settings. Recent papers she has co-authored look at how consumer behavior is influenced by the disclosure of workforce diversity data and firm response times to sociopolitical events.
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