SPRING 2006
VOL. 7 NO. 2

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Faculty Awards and Honors
Gurdip Bakshi, Dean’s Professor of Finance, was appointed Associate Editor for the journal Review of Derivatives Research.

Michael Ball, Orkand Professor of Management Science, and Michael Fu, professor of management science, have received a $630,000 grant from NSF under the special initiative on “Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems.”  The title of their proposal is “Dynamic Real-Time Order Promising and Fulfillment for Global Make-to-Order Supply Chains.” Ball has been named Area Editor for Transportation in the flagship journal Operations Research.

Robert Baum, associate professor of management and organization, has been invited to join the editorial board of Journal of Business Venturing, the premier journal devoted exclusively to the domain of entrepreneurship.

Chris Bingham, assistant professor of management and organization, won the Best Paper Award at the 2005 Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference for his paper on "Opening the Black Box of Capability Creation: The Internationalization of Entrepreneurial Firms."

Hugh Courtney, Tyser Teaching Fellow, has been elected to the Board of Directors of D&E Communications, a NASDAQ-traded communications company that offers telecom, data, and video services in central and eastern Pennsylvania.

Bruce Golden, France-Merrick Chair in Management Science, will be the first Conoco-Phillips Distinguished Lecture at Oklahoma State University in October 2005.  He will also presented two lectures as Distinguished Speaker at the 31st Lunteren Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research in Lunteren, The Netherlands.

Larry Gordon, Ernst&Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting, has been appointed as the International Representative for Accounting for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in the U.K.   The RAE is the process which determines the research ranking, and in turn research funding, for the various departments (across all disciplines) at U.K. universities for several years starting in 2008. 

Anil Gupta won the Best Paper (Runner Up) Award at the 2005 annual meeting of the Academy of International Business for his paper on "The strategic embeddedness of global business teams." The paper was co-authored with PhD student Qing Cao.

Rebecca Hamilton, assistant professor of marketing, was named to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Consumer Research

David Kirsch, assistant professor of management and organization, has received additional funding for his "Dot Com Archives" project. The Library of Congress has extended its funding agreement under the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) for an additional two years, through 2007, committing an additional $813,000, bringing total direct support to $1,056,000.  Counting additional contributions from project partners, the project has received $2,209,000 in funding.

Stephen Loeb, Ernst&Young Alumni Professor of Accounting and Business Ethics, chaired the AAA 10th Ethics Research Symposium in San Francisco.

Dilip Madan, professor of finance, is winner of a 2006 Humboldt Award. He has been appointed editor of the journal Mathematical Finance.

James Peters, assistant professor of accounting and information assurance, was awarded an Outstanding Faculty Service Award by the University’s Student Honor Council.

Raghu Raghavan, assistant professor of management science, and
G. Anandalingam
, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science, co-edited a book entitled Telecommunications Planning: Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management, published in November 2005.

Violina Rindova, associate professor of management and organization, has been appointed to serve as Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review July 2005- July 2008.

 Debra Shapiro, professor of management and organization, is senior editor of Managing Multinational Teams: Global Perspectives, published by Elsevier/JAI Press in July 2005. Shapiro is co-editor of the 2005 issue of The Academy of Management Journal, “The Role of Management Scholarship In the Public Sector: Using the AMJ Forum to Move Forward.”

Ken G. Smith was the program chair for the 2006 annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Hawaii. He moves into the vice-president's role 2006, assuming the presidency in 2007. 

Susan White, Tyser Teaching Fellow, is a CTE-Lilly Fellow for the 2005-2006 under a program sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) for promoting undergraduate education.

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