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Faculty Awards and Honors
Doron Avramov, associate professor of
finance, received a Q-group award for his paper, “Credit
Ratings and the Cross Section of Stock Returns.”
Hui Lao, associate professor of
management and organization, received the 2009 Distinguished
Early Career Contributions Award from the Society of
Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in
recognition of her research.
“The Transformation Age,” a book authored by
Henry Lucas, Smith Professor of Information
Systems, and turned into a PBS documentary, received the
Golden Eagle Trophy from CINE recognizing excellence in
broadcasting.
Dilip Madan, professor of finance, gave
the keynote address at the Third Annual Hedge Fund
Conference at Imperial College in London.
A recent paper in the Journal of Finance by
Vojislav Maksimovic, Dean’s Chair Professor
of Finance, and Gordon Phillips, Bank of
America Professor, “The Industry Life-Cycle, Acquisitions
and Investment: Does Firm Organization Matter?” is a
finalist for the Brattle Best Paper prize.
Louiqa Raschid, professor of information
systems, has been named a Distinguished Scientist by the ACM
(the Association for Computing Machinery) in recognition of
her individual contributions to both the practical and
theoretical aspects of computing and information technology.
The new ACM Distinguished Members include computer
scientists and engineers from some of the world’s leading
corporations, research labs, and universities.
Michel Wedel, Pepsico Professor of
Consumer Science, received the Werner Pommerehne Prize for
best paper in the Journal of Cultural Economics,
2004-2005.
Russell Wermers, associate professor of
finance, received the Banque Privee Espirito Santo and Swiss
Finance Institute Award, awarded at the Swiss Finance
Institute annual meeting in Geneva.
Editorial Appointments
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, associate
professor of information systems, is senior editor of
Information Systems Research.
Wolfgang Jank, associate professor of
management science and statistics, joined the editorial
boards of Management Science and the Journal of
the American Statistical Association. He was elected
program chair for the marketing section of the joint
statistical meetings 2010.
Rachelle Sampson, assistant professor of
business, logistics and public policy, was appointed to the
editorial board of Organization Science.
Conferences
The Center for Complexity in Business
(CCB) will hold its inaugural conference on April 24, 2009.
Speakers include Josh Epstein, director of the Center on
Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institute;
Kathleen Eisenhardt, Stanford University; Doyne Farmer,
Santa Fe Institute; Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University;
Smith School faculty Bill Rand, the center’s research
director and assistant professor of marketing; and Roland
Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, Distinguished
University Professor, and executive director of the center.
The CCB was launched in 2008 to focus on the application
of complex systems research to business problems. The
center’s focus includes applications of complex systems
methods, such as agent-based simulation, to analyze and
solve problems that arise when a large number of
entities—consumers, employees, traders, firms, etc.—interact
in ways that stretch the limits of traditional management
tools like game theory, operations research, statistical
analysis, controlled experiments, qualitative methods, and
the like. The center is interdisciplinary and draws on the
expertise of faculty from across the Smith School and the
University of Maryland, including decision, operations and
information technologies; marketing; and computer science.
The center’s leadership team includes director
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, associate professor of decision,
operations and information technologies; executive director
Roland Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing,
Distinguished University Professor, and executive director
of the Center for Excellence in Service; and research
director and assistant professor of marketing William Rand.
For more information, contact
ccb@rhsmith.umd.edu.
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