ACCOUNTANCY
Faye Borthick, Carol Springer and Ron Barden were part of an effective learning strategies forum at the national meeting of the American Accounting Association. Their panel was entitled, "Learning to Develop Student Capability for Critical Thinking." It focused on how faculty should shift instruction from "covering material" to developing and assessing critical thinking in students.
Bill Messier was appointed chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' (AICPA) International Auditing Standards Subcommittee.
He also made presentations to the KPMG PhD project on audit research and at the 30th anniversary of the Hoyere Revisor Studium (higher auditing studies) program at the Norwegian School of Business Administration.
FINANCE
Vikas Agarwal and Naveen Daniel, professors, and Narayan Y. Naik, London Business School, were awarded first prize for best paper on hedge funds at the European Finance Association meetings in Glasgow, Scotland.
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
The Georgia Department of Community Health, with additional in-kind support from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, funded a proposal of Professor J.P. Cooney of the Robinson Institute of Health Administration and Center for Health Services Research. The proposal uses a longitudinal and integrated Medicare and Medicaid database developed by the researchers to comparatively assess the cost and care outcomes among Georgia's community and facility-based long-term care programs. Dr. Robert H. Curry, director of the Health Services Research Center and visiting professor, is a member of the study's research team.
HOSPITALITY
Ira Blumenthal, recently named executive-in-residence for the Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality, conducted a leadership summit on Friday, August 22, which was attended by industry executives from lodging, food service, private clubs, association management and allied services. The program, "Extinction or Distinction - The Threshold Hospitality Question," focused on how the hospitality industry can embrace change without compromising quality in challenging economic times.
Debra Cannon, director of the School of Hospitality, was recently elected to the board of directors for the International Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (CHRIE). Cannon will serve as director of chapters for the next two years.
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
David Bruce (IIB), professor, has been appointed by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to the advisory council of Hemisphere Inc. The new nonprofit is composed of business, diplomatic, governmental and academic leaders. The group's main focus is to bring the secretariat of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) to Atlanta.
MARKETING
Ken Bernhardt, Taylor E. Little, Jr., Professor of Marketing and chair of the Marketing Department, and Regents' Professor, was given the American Marketing Association Foundation's Outstanding Leadership Award in July. He served as chair of the board of trustees from 1999-2003. Bernhardt is also one of 10 judges for the AMY Awards, an annual competition by the American Marketing Association's Atlanta chapter recognizing marketing campaigns and executions that demonstrate the effective use of marketing to deliver verifiable returns on marketing investment.
REAL ESTATE
The winner of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute Manuscript Prize for the best study published in the Journal of Real Estate Research (JRER) in 2002 is "Time, Place, Space, Technology and Corporate Real Estate Strategy" written by Karen Gibler and Roy Black, associate professors, and PhD student Kimberly Moon. The JRER is a premier academic real estate journal. American Real Estate Society (ARES) members selected the article from among 31 published in 2002. Gibler accepted the award at the ARES meeting in Monterey, Calif., where she served as a panelist and also presented a paper she and Black wrote titled, "Agency Risks in Outsourcing Corporate Real Estate Functions."
RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE
Public policy and international insurance expert Kevin Cronin, J.D., has joined the RMI faculty as a professor of legal studies. He will teach graduate courses on international risk and insurance law and will be heavily involved in various research activities through the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research. Cronin was president and CEO of the International Insurance Council (IIC) and president of FIDES, the Federation of Latin American Insurance Trade Associations. Before that, he opened the Washington, D.C. office of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), serving as the association's Washington counsel and director of government and international relations.
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