Faculty & Staff Highlights

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  Forthcoming at the Journal of Corporate Finance

  Joe Farizo's research, "(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management," has been accepted in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Corporate Finance. The assistant professor of finance proposes a novel identification strategy to examine whether “passive” index funds participate in monitoring.

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  New model helps to identify when users are likely to upgrade software products

  Aslan Lotfi, assistant professor of analytics and operations, together with fellow researchers, compiled research findings into the paper "Predicting Time to Upgrade under Successive Product Generations: A Survival Model with Exponential-Decay Baseline Function,” for a forthcoming issue of Production and Operations Management. The researchers wanted to understand certain consumers are more willing to adopt new upgrades while others tend to wait a longer time.

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  Management Faculty Publishes Article in Journal of Business Venturing

  Olivia Aronson, assistant professor of management, published "Entrepreneur-investor rivalry over new venture control: The battle for Balcones Distilling" in the Journal of Business Venturing. The paper conceptualizes why entrepreneur-investor rivalry over venture control can occur, how it can unfold, and how it can conclude.

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  Sara Hanson promoted, earns tenure

  Congratulations to Sara Hanson, associate professor of marketing, for her hard work to earn tenure in the Robins School of Business!

   

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  Jonathan Whitaker promoted to full professor

  Congratulations to Jonathan Whitaker, professor of analytics and operation, for his hard work to earn full professorship in the Robins School of Business!
• Robins School of Business awarded $50,000 grant for Innovation Hub

  The Robins School has been awarded $50,000 from the Joan and Morgan Massey Foundation for The Innovation Hub Classroom, a unique space and technology that will provide an innovation-based classroom experience. The hub will be part of the new MS in Management program, offering a one-year master's in Management with an emphasis on data-driven innovation.

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  Accounting Professor Receives Research Grant

  Marshall Geiger, professor of accounting, received funding from The Foundation for Auditing Research in the Netherlands for his project "Auditors' Going Concern Decisions: Insights from Practice." The project interviews audit partners and senior managers regarding the difficult decision to render financially stressed companies a "Going Concern" modified audit opinion and the internal processes leading to their decisions.

• Economics Department Recognized for Notable Research

  The Economics Department received high recognition on the REPEC (REsearch Papers in EConomics) research ranking--#4 in top-10-authors and #6 in the overall list. The faculty continuously exemplify the teacher-scholar model. 
• Cross-Departmental Research Receives Recognition

  The paper "Do Firms Time Changes in Accounting Estimates to Manage Earnings?" by Marshall Geiger, professor of accounting, Daniel Paik, associate professor of accounting, and Collin Rabe, assistant professor of economics, has received wide recognition from academics and practitioners, including acceptance from the prestigious journal Contemporary Accounting Research.

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  Management professor submits statement to U.S. Committee on Agriculture

  Deniz Besik, assistant professor of management, recently submitted a statement to the U.S. Committee on Agriculture regarding the food supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Hunger and food insecurity are crucial societal problems that need to be addressed all over the world. Food is essential to our well-being, and we need food to survive. This past year has helped us to identify weaknesses within our food system or food supply chains. COVID-19 crisis elevated the already existing inequalities regarding healthcare and food insecurity status of vulnerable communities, including low-income people, children, older adults, and immigrants living in the United States."