ACCOUNTANCY
Lawrence D. Brown, J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Accountancy, served as a member of the Executive Committee and chaired two sessions of the 21st annual meeting of the International Symposium on Forecasting, held in June and attended by 350 people from around the world. He presented a paper in July at the inaugural London Business School Accounting Symposium.
Ernest R. Larkins, professor, completed a three-week research fellowship with the Australian Tax Studies Program (ATAX) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Tad D. Ransopher, assistant professor, co-authored "Experiences with the Model Tax Curriculum," published in the Tax Advisor in May. He spoke to the Texas Enrolled Agents Society in September, and this fall his course on taking the tax court examination appears in its sixth edition.
Ram S. Sriram, professor, published "An Examination of the Effect of IT Investments on Firm Value" and "Operational and Strategic Benefits of Electronic Record Preservation and Controls," both in the Journal of Information Systems, and "Artificial Neural Networks help Auditors Evaluate Client Financial Viability" in Decision Sciences.
COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Richard Baskerville, chair, taught a doctoral seminar at Minho University in Portugal this summer.
Jens O. Liegle, professor, co-authored "Development and Evaluation of a Framework for Creating Web-based Learning Modules," published in the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks in June.
Mark Keil, professor, organized the Organizational Communication and Information Systems/Technology and Innovation Management Junior Faculty Consortium at the Academy of Management Meeting in Washington, D.C. in August, presenting two papers at the meeting. He also co-authored "Identifying Software Project Risks: An International Delphi Study," published in the Journal of Management Information Systems this spring, and "Blowing the Whistle on Troubled Software Projects," in Communications of the ACM.
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Libby Crawley, associate director, is this year's president of the Doctoral Programs Network, GMAC's organization of doctoral program directors.
FINANCE
Alfred Mettler, assistant professor, taught in the Advanced Executive Program at the Swiss Banking School of Zurich this summer.
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
James P. Cooney, professor, co-authored "Rough Passages for Long-term Care: The Churning Effect" with Glenn M. Landers, health policies research associate, MBA, MHA 1998, current student Julianna M. Williams and Dr. Jeff Etchason from the Kerr L. White Institute for Health Services Research, which was published in Long-term Care Interface. Cooney and Landers presented preliminary results from their nursing home quality improvement study at the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy at its annual meeting in Atlanta in June.
John Newman, associate professor, served as co-chair of the Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee for the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, held in June in Atlanta. His recent publications include "CEO Performance Appraisal: Review and Recommendations," published in the Journal of Healthcare Management, and "Managed Care and Ethical Conflicts," published in the autumn 2000 issue of Managed Care Quarterly.
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Karen Loch, associate professor and director of the Institute of International Business, received the Organizational Service Award from the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) in May for her contributions to IRMA's international relations activities and the World Representative Program.
MANAGEMENT
Lucy McClurg, assistant professor, presented "Using Professional Associations in the Classroom" at the International Business and Education Technology Conference in Cancun in March. She also published "Team-based Pay: How Far Have We Come?" in the Human Resource Management Journal.
Ben Oviatt, associate professor, taught international entrepreneurship at the University of Regensburg in Germany in June.
Shaker A. Zahra, professor, recently won two prestigious honors as author: the Best Paper published in 2000 in the Journal of Management for Entreprenuership in medium-sized companies as well as the Best Paper published in 2000 in the Academy of Management Journal, where he wrote on international expansion by venture firms. Additionally, his student Dan O'Brien won the Center for Corporate Citizenship's Best Student MBA Paper Contest for 2001.
