Dean's Projects

1. Conference on “Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability.” Dean Siegel organized a conference on “Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability,” which took place on September 25-26, 2009 at UAlbany. With the intent to publish a special issue of Business & Society (see here), the leading academic journal in the field of social responsibility, the conference convened academics from Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Duke, Rice, Penn State, Oxford, Arizona State, ETH Zurich, UCLA, and UNC-Chapel Hill. Our keynote speaker was Professor James Walsh, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Management at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (see here). Jim is the incoming President of the Academy of Management, the premier association of management scholars, with over 19,000 members from 108 nations.  The event was somewhat of a homecoming for Jim, since he is a proud alumnus of UAlbany. Click here to see the program (pdf).


2. Congratulations to Professor Janet Marler, who published “Making Human Resources Strategic By Going To the Net: Reality or Myth?" in the International Journal of Human Resource Management.  Professor Marler was recently named to the Editorial Board of Human Resource Management, published by Wiley/Blackwell and housed at the University of Michigan (see here). 


3. Congratulations to Professor Sanjay Goel, who recently received three major grants or fellowships.  The first grant was from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ($142K) for a study entitled “Self-Organized Transport Systems.”   He also received a $2.3 Million award from Palantir Technologies for equipment to be used in his research on digital security.  He was recently featured on the front-page of the Times Union (see here) and on the university web site(see here).   Professor Goel was also recently awarded a prestigious AT&T Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship for his proposed study on “Investigating Complex Systems: Can Communicating Light Signals Reduce Congestion and Emissions?”


4. National Recognition for HR/IS Concentration-The Human Resource/Information Systems Concentration in our MBA program has been recognized by the Society for Human Resource Management, the premier human resource association, as one of four MBA programs in the country meeting their criteria for a comprehensive education in human resource management.  It is the only MBA program in the nation to incorporate information technology into a human resource curriculum.


5. 2nd Top 15 National Ranking for MBA Program-Our MBA Program was recently ranked twice in the top 15 nationally by Princeton Review.  As I mentioned in a previous email,  The School of Business was ranked #9 in the USA for providing the “Greatest Opportunity for Women” (see here) We have also been ranked #14  in the General Management category (see here). The University at Albany was the only SUNY research university to appear on any of Princeton Review’s top fifteen lists along nine categories.


6. MBA Student Team Wins Top Prize-A team of MBA students, Andrew Cuthbert, Mark Adams, and James McGaughan, won a top prize in the Price Chopper Innovation Challenge with an idea to help customers build their grocery lists online. The UAlbany team was among the top award winners from among 40 entries, earning $4,000 for the students and $1,000 for the School. School of Business Vice Dean for Administration Linda Krzykowski served as faculty adviser to the team. 


7. Capital Campaign On-Track-The School of Business $9.75 million campaign had a goal of $3 million by June 30, 2009.  We have achieved this goal, raising over $3 Million in gifts and donations since July 1, 2008, in the midst of a severe economic downturn. 


8. Shameless Self-Promotion-I recently had three articles accepted for publication: “Assessing the Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Firm Performance, Plant Productivity, and Workers: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data,”(co-authored with Ken Simons) in the Strategic Management Journal, “New Developments in Technology Management Education: Background Issues, Program Initiatives, and a Research Agenda” (co-authored with Phil Phan and Mike Wright) in Academy of Management Learning and Education, and “Green Management Matters Only If It Yields More Green: An Economic/Strategic Perspective,” in Academy of Management Perspectives.   In March, Iserved as a Carlton Whitehead Distinguished Lecturer at the  Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, delivering several presentations to faculty, doctoral students, and MBA students on university technology transfer and corporate social responsibility.  I was also named by Governor David A. Paterson to serve on the New York Small Business Task Force.  This blue ribbon commission will provide guidance to policymakers on how to promote the growth and development of small business enterprises in New York (see here).
   
   
9. New Faculty - We welcome two new tenure-track faculty members, Dr. Dennis Caplan and Dr. Na Dai. Professor Caplan joins us from Oregon State, where he served as an assistant professor of accounting. Professor Caplan received his Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley and was a tenure-track professor at Columbia University and Iowa State. His expertise is in management accounting, auditing, fraud detection, and accounting for entrepreneurial firms. Professor Dai joins us from the University of New Mexico, where she was an assistant professor of finance. Professor Dai is an expert on entrepreneurial finance, including private equity and venture capital.
   
   
10. Professor Sanjay Goel has organized the International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C), which will take place on September 30rd-October 2nd, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Albany on Wolf Road (see http://www.d-forensics.org/). This event is being sponsored by the School of Business, in collaboration with the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering and Create-Net, as well as the New York State Police and the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). Professor Ingrid Fisher, Chair of our Department of Accounting and Law, is a Conference Co-Chair of this event.
    
    
11. Congratulations to Professor David Smith, whose co-authored paper, entitled “Performance and Characteristics of Actively Managed Institutional Equity Mutual Funds,” was published in the Journal of Investing. David also published three sole-authored book chapters: “The Economics of Mutual Funds” and “Mutual Fund Fees and Expenses,” which will appear in the Blackwell Companion to Mutual Funds, and “Residual Dividend Policy,” which is forthcoming in the Blackwell. Companion to Dividends and Dividend Policy.
    
    
12. Congratulations to Professor Kinsun Tam, whose co-authored papers, entitled “Ranking Accounting Journals: A Research Note Using Dissertation Citations” and “Transplanting Social Capital to the Online World -- Insights From Two Experimental Studies,” were accepted for publication in Accounting, Organizations, and Society (2008 Social Science Citation Index “Impact Factor” of 1.803) and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, respectively. Professor Tam also published a sole-authored paper, entitled “Developing Accounting Course Materials as Dynamic Content,” in the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting.
    
    
13. Congratulations to Professor Guy Fernando, whose co-authored paper, entitled “The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Perceived Earnings Quality and Cost of Capital” was accepted for publication in the Review of Accounting and Finance.
    
    
14. Congratulations to Professor Guy Fernando, whose co-authored paper, entitled “The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Perceived Earnings Quality and Cost of Capital” was accepted for publication in the Review of Accounting and Finance.
    
    
15. Congratulations to Professor Seokjoo (Andrew) Chang, whose co-authored papers, entitled “Overlapping Liquidation Auctions: Empirical Characterization of Bidder Strategies and Auction Prices,” and “An Analytical Approach to Bundling in the Presence of Customer Transition Effects” were accepted for publication in MIS Quarterly (2008 Social Science Citation Index “Impact Factor” of 5.183) and Decision Support Systems, respectively. His paper in Decision Support Systems was co-authored with Professor Giri Kumar Tayi.
    
    
16. Congratulations to Professor Hany Shawky, whose co-authored article entitled “Quantitative vs. Fundamental Analysis in Institutional Money Management: Where's the Beef?,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Investing.
    
    
17. Congratulations to Professor Eliot Rich, whose co-authored papers, entitled “Security in Large-Scale Internet Elections: A Retrospective Analysis of Elections in Estonia, The Netherlands, and Switzerland” and “Emergent Vulnerabilities in Integrated Operations: A Proactive Simulation Study of Economic Risk” were accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, respectively. Professor Rich also recently received funding from the European Commission for his participation in the SEMPOC project to develop crisis management plans in the event of cross-border power grid failures. This two year activity, based in Spain and with more than twenty planned participants from across the European Union, examines service resilience and crisis response in the case of a multi-faceted attack or failure. He is the only non-EU participant in the project.
    
    
18. Congratulations to Professors Paul Miesing and Ray Van Ness, whose article entitled “Governance and Corporate Boards: Is Theory A Problem?,” was accepted for publication in the European Journal of Management. The article was co-authored with Jaeyoung Kang, one of our doctoral students.
    
    
19. Congratulations to Professors Richard Johnson, Cecilia Falbe, and Hal Gueutal, whose co-authored article entitled, “Technology, Trainees, Metacognitive Activity and E-Learning Effectiveness,” was published in the Journal of Managerial Psychology. Professor Johnson is serving as program co-chair for the Eighth Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, which will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (see http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci/icis09_wksp/index.htm) He will be I'll be the program co-chair for the next two years as well.
    
    
20. Congratulations to Professor Sanjay Putrevu, whose co-authored articles entitled “A Proposed Model of Online Consumer Behavior: Assessing the Role of Gender” and “Informational and Transformational Responses to Celebrity Endorsements,” will be published in the Journal of Business Research and the Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, respectively. Professor Putrevu’s sole-authored article, entitled “Consumer Responses toward Sexual and Nonsexual Appeals: The Influence of Involvement, Need for Cognition, and Gender,” which appeared in the Journal of Advertising, was recently featured in the “What’s in the Journals” section of the Economist (see http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/management/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12286688).
    
    

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• Conference for Corporate Governance: An International Review on "Private Equity, LBOs, and Corporate Governance: International Evidence"
• UAlbany School of Business Conference on "Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability" Sept. 25-26
• 2009 Technology Transfer Society Conference