SPRING 2008 VOL. 9 NO. 1

SMITH BUSINESS:  HOME  Site Index  Previous Issue  Archives  Download PDF

Subscribe to the print version. It's free!

Larry Bodin, professor emeritus of management science, and Michael Fu, professor of management science, were both elected as INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Fellows.

Lawrence Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting,  was invited to appear  before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security to give written and oral testimony concerning his joint research with Martin Loeb, professor of accounting and information assurance, Deloitte & Touche LLP Faculty Fellow and chair of the accounting and information assurance department.

Rebecca Hamilton, associate professor of marketing, and Roland Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Service, and chair of the Smith’s marketing department, were awarded the 2007 Don Lehmann Award for the Best Dissertation-Based Research Article in the Journal of Marketing or Journal of Marketing Research. Their article, written with co-author Debora Thompson, PhD ’07 , is titled “Feature Fatigue: When Product Capabilities Become Too Much of a Good Thing.”

P. K. Kannan, Harvey Sanders associate professor of marketing and director of the Center of Excellence in Service, won the 2007 INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize competition for the paper, “Pricing Digital Products: A Model and Application for National Academy Press” with co-authors Barbara Kline Pope and Sanjay Jain.

Peter Morici, professor of logistics, business and public policy, won the MarketWatch Forecaster of the Month award in Sept. 2007 with his accurate predictions of 10 of the most closely watched economic indicators.

Roland Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing and chair of the marketing department, won the Best Article Award from the Journal of Service Research for his article “The Path to Customer Centricity,” with co-authors Denish Shah, A. Parasuraman, George Day, and Richard Staelin.

Subra Tangirala, assistant professor of management and organization, was recently selected as the winner of SIOP’s 2008 S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award, given to the person who completes the best doctoral dissertation research within the field of I-O psychology.

Sue White, Distinguished Tyser Teaching Fellow in finance, has been inducted into the Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland.

Editorial Appointments

Gilad Chen, associate professor of management and organization, is associate editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Rebecca Ratner, associate professor of marketing, was appointed to the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Marketing Research.

Jie Zhang, assistant professor of marketing, was appointed to the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Marketing.

  SMITH BUSINESS Magazine

Copyright 2008 Robert H. Smith School of Business