LALITHA  NAVEEN

Temple University

Email: lnaveen@temple.edu

Fox School of Business         

Phone:  (215) 204-6435

316 Speakman Hall    

1810 N. 13th Street  

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Temple University: Assistant Professor (2007-)
Purdue University: Visiting Assistant Professor (2005 - 2007)
Georgia State University: Assistant Professor (2001-2005)

Ph.D., Finance:  Arizona State University, 1996-2001
M.B.A., Finance: Bharathidasan Institute of Management, India, 1990-1992
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering: Anna University, India, 1986-1990

Do firms manage earnings to meet dividend thresholds?, with Naveen Daniel and Dave Denis
  Journal of Accounting and Economics, forthcoming

Does the use of peer groups contribute to higher pay and less efficient compensation?, with John Bizjak and Mike Lemmon 
      Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Boards: Does one size fit all?, with Jeff Coles and Naveen Daniel
      Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Managerial incentives and risk-taking, with Jeff Coles and Naveen Daniel                        
      Journal of Financial Economics (2006), Volume  79,  p. 431-468

Organizational complexity and succession planning
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2006), Volume 41,  p. 661-684

Organizational complexity and CEO labor markets: Evidence from diversified firms, with Tammy Berry, John Bizjak and Mike Lemmon   
      Journal of Corporate Finance (2006), Volume 12,  p. 797-817

Co-opted boards: Causes and consequences, with Jeff Coles and Naveen Daniel
    Revise and resubmit, Review of Financial Studies
    2008 AFA conference

Dividends, investment, and financial flexibility, with  Naveen Daniel and Dave Denis

Agency costs and organization form: Evidence from large private and public firms, with Jeff Coles and Mike Lemmon

Option repricing and incentive realignment, with Jeff Coles and  Naveen Daniel 

Financial market consequences of equity-based pay, with Naveen Daniel and Spencer Martin

BSI Gamma Grant  for the project “Boards: Does one size fit all?”, 2003

University-wide Research Initiation Grant for “Boards: Does one size fit all?”, 2003

Summer Research Grant, Georgia State University, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Best Paper Award at the Northern Finance Conference (2002) for “Organizational complexity and CEO labor markets: Evidence from diversified firms”

Jack D. Furst Dissertation Fellowship, Arizona State University: 1999-2001

IBM Outstanding Minority Graduate Student, Arizona State University: 2000-2001

Regent's Graduate Academic Scholarship, Arizona State University: 1996-2000

Merit Scholarship for standing third overall in the 1992 graduating MBA class

Merit Scholarship from Bharat Petroleum Corporation, India: 1986-1990

Referee

Journal of Finance
Review of Financial Studies
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Academy of Management Journal
Financial Management
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal of Financial Intermediation
Financial Review
Journal of Financial Research
Journal of Economics and Business
Journal of Applied Finance

Academic Conferences

Discussant at the Financial Economics and Accounting Conference (2007)
Discussant at the Western Finance Association (2007)
Discussant at the Financial Management Association (2000, 2002, 2003, 2006,2007)
Discussant at the International Finance Conference at Georgia Tech (2002)
Best paper award committee for Eastern Finance Association, 2002
Program Committee for Financial Management Association 2002, 2004, 2006,2007
Program Committee for Southern Finance Association 2005
Program Committee for Financial Management Association European 2006, 2007

PhD Dissertations

Ph.D. Dissertation committee
Yuan Wen
Qian Li
Rong Guo

PhD Corporate Finance Seminar

Taught at Purdue University and Georgia State University,  Teaching Evaluation: 4.7*

Corporate Finance (MBA core course)       

Taught at Georgia State University, Teaching Evaluation: 4.5*  

Managerial Finance (undergraduate core for finance majors)

Taught at Purdue University, Teaching Evaluation: 4.6*

Corporate Finance (undergraduate elective for finance majors)

Taught at Arizona State University, Teaching Evaluation: 4.9*

* Average evaluations:  Scale: 1=Very Poor, 5=Very Good

ICICI, India, a leading financial institution, 1994-1996       

Assistant Manager, worked in the project advisory services division and in the equity research division of ICICI Securities (a joint venture between ICICI and JP Morgan)

Capital Market, India, an investment publication, 1993-94

Equity Analyst, analyzing and reporting on equity investments

First Leasing Company of India, a financial services company, 1992-93

Financial Analyst, evaluating leasing projects for the firm

Business Week
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal  Europe
USA Today
Chicago Sun-Times
LA Times
Gwinett Daily Post
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Nashville Business Journal
The Statesman
The Financial Times (Singapore)
The Hindu

Dividends, investment, and financial flexibility

Drexel University (2007)*, University of Alabama (2007)*

Co-opted Boards: Causes and consequences

Purdue University (2007), AFA meetings (2008)

Do firms manage earnings to meet dividend thresholds?

Georgia State Univ. (2006), Purdue Univ. (2006)*, University of Delaware (2006), Temple University (2006), Texas Tech University (2006), University of Michigan (2006)*, Southern Methodist University (2007)*, FMA meetings (2007), AFA meetings (2008)

Boards: Does one size fit all?

Purdue Univ. PhD Workshop (2005)*, Vanderbilt Univ. (2005)*, FMA (2004)*, BSI Gamma Corporate Governance Conference  (2004)*, Univ. of Georgia (2004)*, Univ. of Alabama  (2003), Atlanta Finance Workshop (2003)

Managerial incentives and risk-taking

ASSA meetings (2004), FDIC/JFSR Risk Transfer and Governance Conference (2004)*, FMA (2003)*, European Finance Association (2003)*, Federal Reserve of Atlanta (2002), Atlanta Finance Workshop (2002), Georgia State Univ. (2002), Univ. of Tennessee (2002)

Organizational complexity and succession planning

Columbia Univ. (2001), New York Univ. (2001), Virginia Tech (2001), Georgia State Univ. (2001), Babson College (2001), Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (2000), Miami Univ. (2000), FMA (2000), FMA Doctoral Student Consortium (2000), Arizona State Univ. (2000)

Does the use of peer groups lead to higher pay and less efficient compensation?

First International Finance Conference, National Univ. of Singapore (2007), Corporate Governance Symposium at Univ. of Delaware (2003), Arizona State Univ. (2001), FMA (2001), All-Georgia Finance Conference (2001)

Organizational complexity and CEO labor markets: Evidence from diversified firms

Duke Univ. (2002)*, Univ. of Oregon (2002)*, Texas A&M Univ. (2002)*, Univ. of Washington*, FMA (2002)*, Northern Finance Association (2002) *

Agency costs and organization form: Evidence from large private and public firms

Corporate Governance Conference at Washington Univ. (2004), FMA (2001), Arizona State Univ. (2001)

Option repricing and incentive realignment

FMA (2004)*, Atlanta Finance Workshop (2003)*     

Financial market consequences of equity-based pay

Arizona State Univ. (2005)*, FMA (2004)*, Tulane Univ. (2003)*, All-Georgia Finance Forum (2003)