My primary area of teaching is hospitality financial management and cost control. Secondary area of teaching is purchasing, hospitality marketing and menu planning.
Majority of my students are juniors and seniors.

I try to work on two or three research papers every year. This year signaling financial game paper related to dividend initiation was published.

My primary area of teaching is hospitality financial management and cost control. Secondary area of teaching is purchasing, hospitality marketing and menu planning. <br/>Majority of my students are juniors and seniors. <br/> <br/>I try to work on two or three research papers every year. This year signaling financial game paper related to dividend initiation was published. <br/> <br/>

From the childhood, I have been interested in both food and finance. One of my hobby was reading a cookbook. In addition, finance was another entertainment.

I majored in both food science & nutrition and hotel & restaurant management (concentration on finance). I have done the financial analysis for both hotel and restaurant industries. Topics such as M&A, institutional holdings, compensation and social responsibility has been researched. Currently I pursue on the research in the restaurant economics. Restaurant economics are a new area and have not been investigated by other hospitality scholars. My finance research is institutional investors' investment in the restaurant M&A market.

My future study continues on the topic of restaurant economics and restaurant M&A market.

From the childhood, I have been interested in both food and finance. One of my hobby was reading a cookbook. In addition, finance was another entertainment. I majored in both food science & nutrition and hotel & restaurant management (concentration on finance). I have done the financial analysis for both hotel and restaurant industries. Topics such as M&A, institutional holdings, compensation and social responsibility has been researched. Currently I pursue on the research in the restaurant economics. Restaurant economics are a new area and have not been investigated by other hospitality scholars. My finance research is institutional investors' investment in the restaurant M&A market. My future study continues on the topic of restaurant economics and restaurant M&A market.

PhD	Pennsylvania State University	2004
MS	New York University	1996
BS	Seoul National University	1992

1.	Oak, S. , & Nan, H. , & Dalbor, M. (2012). Why do restaurant firms initiate dividend?. Journal of Hospitality Financial Management.
2.	Oak, S. , & Dalbor, M. (2011). Social responsibility and institutional holdings in the hospitality industry. Advances in hospitaity and leisure, 209-225.
3.	Oak, S. , & Dalbor, M. , & Rowe, T. (2010). How closely is CEO compensation tied to performance? An examination of the U.S. restaurant industry. Journal of Hospitality Financial Management, 18.
4.	Oak, S. , & Upneja, A. (2009). Institutional investors and international diversification in U.S. restaurant industry. Journal of Hospitality Financial Management, 17.
5.	Oak, S. , & Dalbor, M. (2008). Institutional investor preference for lodging stocks. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 3-11.