Research & Conference Travel Awards for Faculty

One of CIBER’s objectives is to encourage research and conference presentations by Smith faculty on “international” topics related to their own disciplines that will further the international competitiveness of United States business. This has become increasingly important given the globalization of business and our own growing international presence. An “international” research project can be a comparative study (e.g., competition policy in the U.S. vs. E.U.) or a cross-national study (e.g., a company’s international joint ventures, global business teams, etc.). Projects which are merely “foreign” (e.g., human resource management practices in Mexico) are ineligible for an award.

For 2008-09, CIBER awarded $4,000 for the following three research projects.
Congratulations to the authors!

  • Will there be a Phoenix Miracle? Firm-level evidence from financial crises
    (Vojislav Maksimovic, Finance)
  • Global Brand Portfolios (Yogesh Joshi, Marketing)
  • Agency Contract Intelligence for Global Supply Chain Eco-Sustainability (Wedad Elmaghraby, DO&IT)

During 2007-08, CIBER issued awards jointly with the Business in International Education (BIE) project. The Awards Committee consisted of: Wilbur Chung, Vinod Jain, and P.K. Kannan. The CIBER/BIE Research Awards Committee made the following awards this year.

Congratulations to each of the following faculty members who received a $4,000 CIBER Research Award:

  1. Vojislav Maksimovic
  2. Russell R. Wermers
  3. Brent Goldfarb and David Kirsch (jointly)
  4. Subramanian Raghavan

Congratulations to the following faculty members received Conference Travel Awards (up $2,000 each):

  1. Brent Goldfarb
  2. Bruce Golden