Dr. Hazel Nguyen received her Ph.D in Finance from University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, her dual MBA - MS in Information Systems from Boston University and her BS in Electrical Engineering from Hochiminh City University of Technology in Vietnam. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a software engineer for a chip design company in Vietnam.

Dr. Nguyen’s research focuses on corporate finance - factors that influence firms’ financing and investing decisions. Specifically, she studies how CEO characteristics such as gender and communication styles affect firm decisions. She has published works in peer-reviewed finance and management journals including Journal of Economics and Business, Accounting and Finance Research, Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, Accounting and Finance and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 

• Flores, G., Garcia, F., H. Nguyen, M. Triana and C. Choirat, 2025, “The only daughters effect: examining the relationship between child gender and a CEO’s hiring decisions”, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, Vol. 44 No. 5 pp. 704–728, https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-03-2023-0086
• Vo, L., H. Nguyen, and H. Le, 2021, “Do female CEOs make a difference? Evidence in Vietnam”, Accounting and Finance 61, 1489-1516, https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12634
• Liu, P., H. Nguyen, 2020, “CEO characteristics and tone at the top inconsistency”, Journal of Economics and Business 108, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2019.105887
• Nguyen, H., 2018, “Reward culture and banks’ performance during the 2008 financial crisis”, Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, 6(1), 1-25.
• Nguyen, H., 2017, “Stock market liquidity: Financially constrained firms and share repurchase”, Accounting and Finance Research, 6(4), 130-154.
• Acrey, J., W. McCumber, and H. Nguyen, 2011, “CEO incentives and bank risk”, Journal of Economics and Business 63, 456–471.