Within days, Desai and co-author Prem C. Jain received calls and letters from prominent and disgruntled Wall Street analysts. We had our research and our numbers, and we knew we were correct, said Desai. An assistant professor of accounting at Cox, Desai has a Ph.D. from Tulane University's Freeman School of Business where he taught for two years and an MBA from the University of New Orleans. David Hoopes Acting and starving are often synonymous.
Young thespians are famous for their hunger for food, work, and money.
So it was natural that David Hoopes, a 1977 theatre graduate from Grinnell College and a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan, would take a job in a health foods store to make ends meet. The unexpected result was that Hoopes' stint selling vitamins was the catalyst for a career in business and academia. After three years in New York, Hoopes joined Whole Foods, the Austin-based natural food grocery store company. From 1983-87, he worked on the corporate communications and new store development teams and saw the company grow from two to seven stores. In 1989 he was awarded a Dean's Doctoral Fellowship at UCLA and began his career as an academic.