Faculty Authors and Accolades.

May 26th, 2010

Profs Address Hot Topics.

New Faculty Books

The health care bill has been signed, but Stephen M. Davidson, Professor, Business Policy & Law, and faculty director of the School’s Health Care Management Research Center, indicates we’ve only begun. His new book , just released, is based on more than 30 years of study in the field. Still Broken: Understanding the US Health Care System (Stanford University Press) provides a deep analysis of the forces that have produced the monumental problems that we face in health care today.

Davidson makes his case for overhauling our system, offering six elements that should be included in any plan for change, including insurance for every American. Whatever decisions are made, he argues, and whatever compromises are accepted, the underlying goal of reform must be to change incentives for all players who participate in the system. 

Douglas T. Hall, Morton H. and Charlotte Friedman Professor in Management, Organizational Behavior Department; and Kathy Kram, Shipley Professor in Management, Faculty Director, MBA Portfolio Program, and Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Fellow, paired with Kerry Bunker, PhD, CCL Senior Enterprise Associate, to co-edit Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development (Jossey-Boss, CCL). The team gathered articles from 23 experts addressing issues such as relational learning as a core process in leadership development, strategies for balancing reflective work with action, and the experience of vulnerability as a source of leadership learning, and produced this compendium of innovative approaches to leadership development that may serve as both a business school text as well as a desk reference for any CEO (or aspiring CEO/senior executive).

Scott T. Stewart, research associate professor, director of the MS in Investment Management program, teamed with two former School of Management professors, Christopher D. Piros and Jeffrey C. Heisler, to produce Running Money; Professional Portfolio Management (McGraw-Hill). Scott says, “We intend it to be the first comprehensive textbook for advanced courses in portfolio management. This work is written by experienced money managers who, for 10 years, have been teaching at Boston University the very course that inspired the book. We combined our professional backgrounds managing multi-billion-dollar mandates, working with demanding clients, and solving real investment problems to develop this text.”  

Mark Williams, executive-in-residence and master lecturer, finance department, adds his views on the recent financial meltdown in Uncontrolled Risk: The Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System (McGraw-Hill). “The financial markets will continue to evolve and present significant challenges. How we prepare and respond to the recent crisis will determine the strength and stability of our economy,” he writes.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior Tom Anastasi, has a new book just out, The Successful Entrepreneur: American Dream Done Right (Glenbridge Publishing).”This is a guide for the would-be entrepreneur, outlining what to do, and not do, on the road to getting a startup off the ground,” he says. 

Faculty Honors

Chrysanthos Dellarocas, associate professor of information systems, received a Google Marketing Research Award in the amount of $80,000 for a proposal titled “Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: An Analytical and Empirical Examination of the Future of Content.” He also became an extramural fellow of the European Banking Center, housed at Tilburg University.

Shuba Srinivasan, Dean’s Research Fellow, associate professor, Marketing, had three papers that were finalists for best paper awards this past year: “Marketing & Firm Value” in the Journal of Marketing Research. “Do mindset metrics matter in predicting brand sales?” is a finalist for the Robert D. Buzzell MSI Best Paper Award in 2009, “Market Share Response and Competitive Interaction: The Impact of Temporary, Evolving and Structural Changes in Prices,” in the International Journal of Research in Marketing (2000) was one of the 2009 finalists for the J.B. Steenkamp Award for the paper with the best long-term impact.

Ashley J. Stevens, Senior Research Associate, ITEC, became president of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) last week. AUTM is the organization that represents academic technology transfer managers worldwide.

Stephanie Watts, Associate Professor of Information Systems, was selected to be a faculty fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future.

Natascha F. Saunders, Lecturer, Organizational Behavior, Assistant Director, Feld Career Center, received the Harvard University WECAN Woman of the Year Award.

Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor, Information Systems, had a productive fall. He won a $700,000 NSF award “Platform Driven Innovation within and across Firms,” and a patent (No. 7,503,070) for methods and systems for enabling analysis of communication content while preserving privacy.

Evgeny Lyandres, Assistant Professor, Finance Department, won the Best Discussant Award at the Academic Annual Conference of The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Center for Capital Markets and Risk Management for his discussion of a paper by Turan G. Bali, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College; Nusret Cakici, School of Business, Fordham University; and Robert F. Whitelaw, Stern School of Business, New York University. The paper is Maxing Out: Stocks as Lotteries and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns.