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Faculty Awards and Honors
A
paper by Sandor Boyson, research professor and co-director of the Supply
Chain Management Center, titled “Unified Communications: Leading Advances in
Global Decision Making & Economic Development,” was published in the World
Economic Forum’s 2008 Global Information Technology report.
Hugh Courtney, Professor of the Practice in
management and organization, was elected chairman of the board, D&E
Communications. Courtney also maintains an active consulting and executive
education practice focused on business strategy formulation in highly uncertain
and competitive markets. Prior to joining the Smith School in 2002, he was a
leader in McKinsey & Company’s Global Strategy practice, where he served clients
on six continents on a wide variety of strategy development and implementation
issues.
“The Quest for Global Dominance,” co-authored by Anil
Gupta, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organization, was re-issued
by Jossey-Bass/Wiley in March 2008. Gupta served as a keynote speaker at the
BusinessWeek CEO Forum in Dubai in April. He is 2008 program chair for the
annual meeting of the Academy of Management’s International Management Division.
Dilip Madan,
professor of finance, received international recognition for his research by
being awarded the Medal of Science from the University of Bologna’s Institute of
Advanced Studies.
Debra Shapiro,
Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization, has had two papers
accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management meeting in August and has
been invited to serve as a faculty-representative on the Junior Faculty
Consortium for the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division.
Ken Smith, Dean’s Chaired Professor of Business
Strategy, is current past president of the Academy of Management and a member of
the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal and Academy of
Management Journal.
Gilvan Souza, associate professor of operations
management, co-authored a paper with Meltem Denizel (Sabanci University, Turkey)
and Mark Ferguson (Georgia Tech), titled “Multi-Period Remanufacturing Planning
with Uncertain Quality of Inputs,” which won the Wickham Skinner Best
Unpublished Paper Award from the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).
Editorial Appointments
Gilad Chen, associate
professor of management and organization, was appointed associate editor of the
Journal of Applied Psychology.
Hugh Courtney, Professor of the Practice in
management and organization, was appointed associate editor of Long Range
Planning.
Martin Loeb, Professor of Accounting and Information
Assurance and a Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow, has been invited to be an
associate editor for a special issue of MIS Quarterly on “Information
Systems Security in a Digital Economy.”
Conferences
The
Smith School’s department of decision, operations and information technologies
hosted the ninth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, April 2-4. Approximately
125 participants from around the world joined the group. The event was chaired
by Bruce Golden, France Merrick Chair in Management Science,
and Raghu Raghavan, associate professor of management science.
Anil Gupta, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and
Organization, and Chris Bingham, assistant professor of management and
organization, co-chaired the fourth annual Smith Entrepreneurship Research
Conference, held April 11-12.
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