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The Big Picture 

The Woody L. Hunt College of Business honored nearly 100 graduating students from its MBA, MAcc, MSE and Ph.D. programs during the Spring 2026 Hooding and Certificate Ceremony on May 15, 2026. 

The ceremony recognized graduate students completing advanced degrees in business administration, accountancy and economics – marking an important milestone in their academic and professional journeys. 

Why It Matters 

The Hooding and Certificate Ceremony is one of Hunt College’s defining graduate student traditions. 

It celebrates the commitment, discipline and resilience required to complete an advanced degree while recognizing the faculty, staff, mentors and families who supported students along the way. 

Inside the Ceremony 

The program included remarks from John Hadjimarcou, Ph.D., Rick and Ginger Francis Dean of the Woody L. Hunt College of Business, and John Wiebe, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. 

Graduates were recognized across four programs: 

• Ph.D. in Business Administration 

• Master of Science in Economics 

• Master of Accountancy 

• Master of Business Administration (Online and Professional) 

Ph.D. in Business Administration Dissertations   

• Tanushree Chatterjee  
  Connecting Work and Family Life: The Effects of Family‐Related Moderators on Idiosyncratic Deals of Employees and Work Outcomes  
  Chair: Prajya Vidyarthi, Ph.D.  
  Committee: Fernanda Garcia, Ph.D.;  Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D.   

• Sebastian Jimenez  
  Heterogeneous Consequences of Labor Market Regulation: Essays on E-Verify and Corporate Finance  
  Chairs: Erik Devos, Ph.D.; Spencer Barnes, Ph.D.  
  Committee: Hyo Jin Yoon, Ph.D.;  Yun Ke, Ph.D.   

• Obed Buadi  
  Essays on Firm-Level Political Risk, Addback Statutes, and Corporate Decisions  
  Chair: Faith Xie  
  Committee: John Gibson, Ph.D.; Hyo Jin Yoon, Ph.D.   

• Mansura Nusrat  
  Three Essays on Workplace Ethics and AI: Conceptualizing, Scale Development of Self-Value Actualization, and AI-Enabled High-Performance Work Systems  
  Chair: Richard Posthuma  
  Committee: Prajya Vidyarthi, Ph.D.; Eric D. Smith, Ph.D. (UTEP Loya Engineering)   

• Zakieh “Fatima” Kaveh  
  Three Essays on Consumers' Financial Decision-Making  
  Chair: Fernando Jimenez, Ph.D.  
  Committee: John Hadjimarcou, Ph.D.; Cynthia Halliday, Ph.D.; Frank Cabano, Ph.D. (Kansas State); Nandini Nim, Ph.D. (Colorado State)   

Last Updated on May 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM | Originally published May 16, 2026
Posted by Hunt Creative