May 8, 2025

Doctorates awarded to 11 Berkeley Haas grads

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Kim Girard

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Eleven Berkeley Haas PhD students received their doctorates during a joyful hooding ceremony held Monday, May 5, at Berkeley Haas.

“For the rest of your lives you will be known as doctor of professor,” Interim Dean Jenny Chatman told the group. “The title never gets old. It reflects your incredible years of work that you’ve put in here at Berkeley Haas. Congratulations!”

(Photos: Anastasiia Sapon)

Haas offers PhD programs in eight fields of study. Here are the 2025 graduates, along with their dissertation titles and academic groups at Haas:

Konhee Chang, “Renting in the U.S.A,” Real Estate

Saqib Choudhary, “Essays on Science Communication and Innovation,”  MORS/Macro

Morgan Foy, “Essays on Labor Economics in the Public Sector,” Business and Public Policy

Yunhao Huang, “Attribution and Compensation Design in Online Advertising Quantitative,” Marketing

Jaeyeon Lee, “Asymmetric Pass-Through of Interest Rates to Rental Market,” Real Estate

Yunbo Liu, “Essays on Mortgage Refinance,” Real Estate

Nick Otis, “Essays on AI and Entrepreneurship,”  MORS/Macro

William Ryan, “People are (Shockingly) Bad at Valuing Hedges,” Marketing

Summer Zhao, “Shareholder Votes and Executive Strategic Disclosures: Evidence from Say-on-Pay,” Accounting

Pavel Bacherikov, “Essays in Historical Political Economy of Development,” Business and Public Policy

Daria Bakhareva, “Essays on Charitable Giving,” Business and Public Policy