Faculty Accolades.

May 18th, 2011

From research awards to board appointments, the management faculty enjoyed a busy year.

The Broderick Awards are annually given to four School of Management faculty at the end of the year. In 2011, the prize for Excellence in Research Scholarship went to Rui Albuquerque, associate professor of finance. For Service to Undergradute  Program Office, Jeffrey Allen, assistant professor of management information systems; for Service to Graduate Programs, Jack Aber, chair, professor of finance, and for teaching, Robert James, lecturer of finance.

Mark Allan (MBA ’93) faculty director of the Health Sector Management MBA Program, has been invited to the Board of Directors of AUPHA and Standards Council of CAHME.

Lloyd Baird professor and chair, Sandi Deacon, senior lecturer, and Jack McCarthy, associate professor, from the organizational behavior department, received a Boston University RULE (Redesigning the Undergrad Learning Experience) grant award for  for their work on OB221, “Dynamics of Leading Organizations.” The School offers 23 sections of OB221 every year.

The Journal of Investment Management, accepted an article by co-authors Zvi Bodie, Norman and Adele Barron professor of management, Everett W. Lord distinguished faculty scholar Jerome Detemple, professor, and Marcel Rindisbacher, associate professor, all from the finance department, entitled “Lifecycle Consumption-Investment Policies and Pension Plans: a Dynamic Analysis.”

This fall, Alan Cohen, professor of health policy and management and executive director of the Boston University Health Policy Institute, was a William Evans visiting fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The fellowship was co-sponsored by Otago’s schools of business and medicine.

An article by Y. Bakos and Chris Dellarocas, associate professor of information systems, titled “Reputation Mechanisms as Substitutes and Complements of Litigation and Dispute Resolution in Online Markets,” was accepted at Management Science. Also, Dellarocas’s appointment as a senior editor of the journal Information Systems Research was renewed for an additional three years.

Susan Fournier, associate professor of marketing and Dean’s research fellow, teamed with Jill Avery on two recent journal articles. “Putting the Relationship Back in CRM,” appeared in Sloan Management Review, and “The Uninvited Brand” was in Business Horizons, Special Issue on Web 2.0, Consumer-Generated Content, and Social Media. Fournier was also appointed to the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Marketing.

Jeff Furman, associate professor of strategy & innovation, was recently named a Research Associate (RA) at the National Bureau of Economic Research, after having been a Faculty Research Fellow (FRF). [Ed. Note: Contrary to conventions about the term, RA is a senior designation, while FRF is a junior designation.]

Yrjo Koskinen, assistant professor of finance, was awarded a research award for his paper “Euro and Corporate Valuations” by the Finnish Securities Market Foundation.

Krish Menon, professor of accounting and Dean’s research fellow, has been awarded the 2011 Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award by the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association for his 2004 Accounting Review paper about former audit partners and abnormal accruals. According to the American Accounting Association, the award recognizes “research works of exceptional merit that make a direct contribution to auditing or assurance education, practice, or research.”

Shuba Srinivasan, associate professor of marketing and Dean’s research fellow, along with Marc Vanheule and Koen Pauwels, won the Syntec Management Consulting Best Academic Paper Award in the Marketing/Decision Sciences Category from Syntec, the French Professional Consultants Association. The Journal of Management Research published “Mindset Metrics in Market Response Models: An Integrative Approach.” In addition, Srinivasan was appointed to the editorial board of Marketing Science and continues to serve on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing Research and International Journal of Research in Marketing.

Ashley J. Stevens, lecturer of strategy & innovation, completed his term as president of the Association of University Technology Managers. He also co-authored an article accepted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “The Role of Public-Sector Research in the Discovery of Drugs and Vaccine,” along with Jonathan J. Jensen, Katrine Wyller, Patrick C. Kilgore, Sabarni Chatterjee, and Mark L. Rohrbaugh.

Scott Stewart, research associate professor of finance and faculty director of the MSIM program, won first place in the 2010 paper competition of the Financial Education Association with the paper “Do Student Evaluations Match Alumni Expectations?” (Co-author was Carla Guevara.) Stewart was also elected to the board of directors of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

A paper by Remi Trudel, assistant professor of marketing, with Theodore Noseworthy, titled “Looks Interesting, But What Does It Do? Evaluation of Incongruent Product Form Depends on Positioning,” has been accepted by the Journal of Marketing Research.