vol. XVII no. 3

				An article by George Moschis, Alfred Bernhardt Research Professor of Marketing, titled "Global Aging of the Marketplace: Opportunities for International Business," was published in Executive Journal (Bangkok University). Naveen Donthu, Katherine Bernhardt Research Professor of Marketing, coauthored "The Influence of Purchase Situation on Buying Center Structures and Involvement: A Selected Meta-Anaylsis of Organizational Buying Behavior Research," which has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Business Research. Lawrence D. Brown, Robinson Distinguished Professor of Accounting, presented papers at the First Annual NYU/Penn Law and Finance Conference and at Southern Methodist University. In addition, his papers "The Importance of Circulating and Presenting Manuscripts: Evidence from the Accounting Literature" and "A Temporal Analysis of Quarterly Earnings Thresholds: Tendencies and Valuation Consequences" (coauthored by Robinson PhD student Marcus Caylor) were accepted for publication by the Accounting Review. Lynn Hannan, assistant professor of accounting, has been selected to be a "resident faculty" for the American Accounting Association's Doctoral Consortium. Galen Sevcik, associate professor of accounting, is the coauthor of "A Reexamination of Behavior in Experimental Audit Markets: The Effects of Moral Reasoning and Economic Incentive on Auditor Reporting and Fees." The paper has been accepted for publication by Contemporary Accounting Research. Upkar Varshney's paper "Location Management for Mobile Commerce Applications in Wireless Internet Environment" was listed among the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) top 10 downloaded papers for 2004. Varshney, assistant professor in Robinson's Computer Information Systems (CIS) Department, had the fifth-ranked paper for the year. Robinson's CIS Department is partnering with the MIT Enterprise Forum to cosponsor the annual Distinguished Entrepreneur Award Ceremony to be held at Atlanta's High Tech High School on March 23. This year's winner is Glen P. Robinson Jr., founder of Scientific-Atlanta. Naveen Daniel, visiting assistant professor, and Vikas Agarwal, assistant professor of finance, have been awarded a $10,000 research grant by the BSI Gamma Foundation (Global Asset Management Methods and Applications) for their research project on hedge funds titled "Why Is Santa Claus So Kind to Hedge Funds? The December Bonanza Puzzle." In addition, Agarwal will present his research at the London School of Economics. Top

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