Faculty Accolades.

December 9th, 2010

Faculty Also Shine Outside the Classroom

By Tracy Slater

This fall’s roster of faculty accolades includes recognition for outstanding scholarship, leadership across industry and academia, and even lifetime achievement.

LIFETIME ACHIEVERS
Kathy E. Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management, has received the 2010 Everett Hughes Award for Outstanding Career Research, established to “honor scholars whose research connects the career literature to other organizational research areas”, from the National Academy of Management. With Rajashi Ghosh, Drexel University, and Raymond Hayes, University of Indiana, she also received the Best Paper Award for Research on Management Education at the National Academy of Management 2010. The paper is titled “Developmental Networks as Holding Environments for Growing Leaders: An Adult Development Perspective.” Read her article on Mentoring 2.0.		James E. Post, the John F. Smith, Jr. Professor in Management, has been honored with The Aspen Institute’s 2010 Faculty Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement (dubbed the “Oscars of the business school world” by the Financial Times), celebrating teachers who have demonstrated leadership and risk-taking in integrating social, ethical, and environmental issues into the MBA curriculum.

Tenure Granted.

Paul Carlile, Associate Professor of Information Systems, and Jeffrey Furman, Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation, are now tenured at the School of Management.

Fulbright Awardee.

Bradford Hudson, a lecturer in marketing at the School, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Canada. He has also been appointed as the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph. His specialty is brand heritage, which involves the use of historical references in current marketing by older companies. Hudson is also assistant professor of marketing in BU’s School of Hospitality Administration.

Pardee Fellow.

Stephanie Watts, Associate Professor of Information Systems, was named Faculty Fellow at the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, appointed by Director Adil Najam, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (with Al Gore). She is researching IT transparency and corporate accountability for her paper there. The provost also named her to the Program Development Committee for the new University Honors College.

Distinguished Paper Citings.

Iain M. Cockburn, an Everett V. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar, won the 2010 Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize from the Strategic Management Journal for his paper “Measuring Competence: Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research,” co-authored with Rebecca M. Henderson, Harvard University.

Colin M. Fisher, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, won the Academy of Management’s 2010 William H. Newman Award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, for his work “Better Lagged Than Never: The Lagged Effects of Process Interventions on Group Decisions.”

Stine Grodal, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, won the European Group of Organizational Studies Best Paper Award, given annually for a paper delivered at the previous year’s conference, for her article “Hedging Your Bets: Explaining Executives’ Labeling Strategies in Nanotechnology.”

Siobahn O’Mahoney, Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation, won the Outstanding Author Contribution Award at the 2010 Literati Network Awards for Excellence for her chapter “Differentiating Organizational Boundaries,” published in Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Scott Stewart, Research Associate Professor of Finance and Faculty Director, MSIM Program, won first place in the Educational Research Category at the 2010 Financial Education Association annual meeting for his paper “Do Student Evaluations Match Alumni Expectations: A Study of a Specialized Masters in Finance Program,” co-authored with Carla Guevara, Boston University School of Education. His paper “Absence of Value: An Analysis of Investment Decisions by Institutional Plan Sponsors” won the 2010 Financial Analysts Journal Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence.

Major Grants.

Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Associate Professor of Information Systems, has been honored with a 2010 Google and WPP Marketing Research Award and grant for his work “Media, Aggregators, and the Link Economy: An Analytical and Empirical Examination of the Future of Content,” with co-author William Rand, University of Maryland. He also received a 2010 summer research grant from the Networks, Electronic Commerce, and Telecommunications Institute, along with co-authors Zsolt Katona, University of California, Berkeley; and William Rand for their work “Media, Aggregators, and Strategic Hyperlinking in Content Networks.”

Stine Grodal, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, and Fernando Suarez, Assistant Professor and Chair of Strategy & Innovation, were awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant for the project ”Dominant Categories, Industry Life Cycles, and Entry Timing Advantages.”

Shuba Srinivasan, Associate Professor of Marketing, won a 2010 Google and WPP Marketing Research Award and grant for her study “Are Audience-Based Online Metrics Leading Indicators of Brand Performance?” co-authored by Koen Pauwels, Dartmouth College; Oliver Rutz, Yale University; and Randolph Bucklin, University of California, Los Angeles.

Board Leaders and Committee Luminaries.

Jack Aber, Professor and Chair of Finance, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Aston Funds, a Chicago mutual fund complex, as well as to the Board’s Audit Committee.

Samina Karim, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, was elected to the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management BPS Division for the term 2010-2012.

Robert Marquez, Associate Professor of Finance, has recently been named an associate editor in the finance department at the journal Management Science.