Finance
Vikas Agarwal, assistant professor, has had a paper titled, "Risks and Portfolio Decisions Involving Hedge Funds," co-authored with Narayan Naik (London Business School), accepted by the prestigious finance journal Review of Financial Studies.
For the second year in a row, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has invited David Nachman, professor, to nominate for the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the Nobel prize in economics.
Management
Lynn Shore, professor, is involved in a number of editorial activities. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology, a premier scholarly journal in the field of management. She is co-editing a book titled, The Employment Relationship: Examining Psychological and Contextual Perspectives, to be published by Oxford University Press. She is also editing a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior on the employment relationship.
Barbara Reilly, assistant professor, participated in an ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) panel discussion this past fall entitled, "Successful Strategies in Executive Leadership Development." The panel discussed strategies currently being applied to develop executive talent.
Pamela Barr, associate professor, is serving as division chair-elect and Professional Development Workshop (PDW) chair for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management. In this role, she is responsible for developing the PDW program for the 2003 meetings of the academy in Seattle.
Marketing
Naveen Donthu, Katherine S. Bernhardt Professor, and Connie Porter, doctoral student, have completed a major research study on the "digital divide," or the unequal level of Internet usage in the United States.
Dan Bello, Marketing RoundTable Professor, has been selected editor of the Journal of International Marketing, published by the American Marketing Association. Bello has also been appointed to the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing.
Pam S. Ellen, associate professor, has been elected to the position of communications officer for the Marketing & Society Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association. As a member of the executive committee, Ellen will help build and coordinate communication links with members and other constituent groups. She also served as co-chair for the Marketing & Society track for the summer AMA conference.
During the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) annual conference in Florida, Dan Bello presented a paper that was a Best in Track winner; Jim Boles, associate professor, and doctoral students Edd Hershberger and Andy Wood presented papers; Danny Bellenger, professor and chair, was a panel member for a doctoral consortium discussion; Wes Johnston, CBIM RoundTable Professor of Marketing, was a member of the Meet the Editors panel; and Andy Wood was a discussion leader.
George Moschis, director of the Center for Mature Consumer Studies and Alfred Bernhardt Research Professor, was keynote speaker at the Sixth Global Conference on Aging in Perth, Australia. He was also keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Retirement Village Association of Western Australia and at the annual 2002 conference of the Department of Sport and Recreation of the government of Western Australia. In addition, Moschis had an article, "Retirement and Retirees: An Emerging Business Opportunity," published in the summer 2002 issue of Generations.
Real Estate
Terry V. Grissom, associate professor, is attending the Homer Hoyt Institute and Warner School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics, the top research think tank concerned with real estate academic and professional issues. He is also a fellow of the Institute and Warner School. In November 2002, Grissom gave a presentation to the Appraisal Institute in New York on the valuation of World Trade Center short- and long-term damages as they affect IRS and insurance issues.
Risk Management & Insurance
Harold D. Skipper Jr., professor and chair of the RMI Department and holder of the C.V. Starr Chair of International Insurance, was a panelist at a symposium on terrorism insurance sponsored by the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C. and a panelist on "Shaping the New Global Playing Field" at the Global Financial Leadership Forum in New York.
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