Professor Conway focuses on enhancing corporate outreach and the School’s visibility, two activities that are key toward further improving the Simon School School. Her research interests include statistics, real estate, health care management, finance, law and labor markets.
Conway is a tenured faculty member at the University of Southern California (U.S.C.) Marshall School of Business and the director of the Casden Real Estate Forecast at the Lusk Center for Real Estate. She is widely respected for her research on the commercial and residential real estate markets in Southern California and her reports are widely cited. She is frequently interviewed by the national news media for her viewpoints and within the last year has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Investors Business Daily, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has appeared on CNN, the CBS Evening News, and CNBC. Recently, Real Estate Southern CA Magazine listed her as one of the “50 Women of Influence in Real Estate” in California.
She is a distinguished faculty fellow at the U.S.C. Center for Excellence in Teaching. While teaching statistics in the M.B.A. Core, she received U.S.C.’s highest teaching honor, the University Associates Award for Teaching Excellence, which is awarded each year to only two of the university’s faculty.
Prior to joining U.S.C., Conway served on the Graduate School of Business faculty at the University of Chicago. She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and a former chair of the Business and Economics Statistics Section. She has also served on the editorial boards of major academic journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Conway earned two undergraduate degrees in mathematics, statistics and computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Stanford University.
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