Fred Kiesner, professor of management and Conrad Hilton Chair in Entrepreneurship, was named the winner of the John E. Hughes Award for Entrepreneurial Advocacy at the annual conference of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, held in San Antonio in January. The annual honor is given to an organization or a person, from business or academia, who consistently contributes “encouragement; support; physical, intellectual, and/or spiritual resources; time; talent and/or skills; development; and/or financial contribution to further the cause of entrepreneurship.”
“I’m very pleased because the winner is nominated by his peers,” Kiesner said.
Kiesner also was named one of 27 recipients of the Acton Foundation’s national Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Award in January. The Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence, located in Austin, Texas, trains master teachers and features a case-based entrepreneurship curriculum.
“Fred Kiesner is an outstanding teacher who inspires students to go out and become successful entrepreneurs,” said Dennis Draper, dean of the College of Business Administration. “He has helped develop future business leaders and taught them the importance of values and ethics.”
The College of Business Administration was named as among the best in the nation for its undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The undergraduate program was rated 10th best, and the graduate program was rated 11th.
John Wholihan completes his two year term as President of the International Honor Society, Beta Gamma Sigma June 30th, 2008. BGS is the business honor society for AACSB accredited schools. In its 95 year history over 600,000 students have been inducted. Chapters of the honor society are now found on five continents, 17 countries, and inductees globally for 2008 will be approximately 22,000.
President Wholihan has been instrumental in the global development of the honor society having helped set up chapters in both Spain and Taiwan. He has been active in developing Alumni Chapters outside the U.S. The first one being in Hong Kong and the next one likely to be in Europe.
During his Presidency Beta Gamma Sigma launched the Ethical Business Leadership initiative. The purpose of this initiative is to interview and record business leaders who have built and maintain ethical standards into the very fabric of their organizations. These interviews will be made available to faculty to be used in classes to enhance the focus on both ethics and leadership practices.
Dr. Wholihan will address the inductees at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois on May 4th.
Dr. Wholihan has served on the BGS board for 12 years and will complete his assignments on the board in 2010.
Yongsun Paik, Professor of International Business and Management, edited the Journal of World Business 2008 January special issue Vol. 43 (1) “The Rapidly Changing Face of Korean Companies,” to shed a new light on Korean companies that have increasingly become more competitive in the global market. This special issue was prepared to reflect upon the effectiveness of the strategies and management practices of Korean companies that helped them gain and sustain competitive advantage in the challenging global marketplace and to see how Korean companies successfully survived environmental difficulties including the recent Asian economic crisis.
Drawn from the expertise of scholars from the U.S., Japan, Switzerland, and Korea, this special issue provides multiple perspectives on evaluating the past performance and future potential of Korean companies. Using theories from international business, strategic management, organizational culture, social capital, and expatriate management, these papers as a group provide a comprehensive analysis of critical issues facing Korean companies such as corporate strategy and governance, top management promotion, human resource management, and organizational cultural change.
In this special issue, Paik has published his own paper “The Value of Real Options Investments under Abnormal Uncertainty: The Case of the Korean Economic Crisis,” co-authored with Seung-Hyun Lee and Mona Makhija. To support the publication of this special issue, he also organized and chaired the symposium “The Rapidly Changing Face of Korean Companies: From Corporate Strategy to Organizational Culture,” at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, August 3 – 8, 2007.
Professor of Strategic Management, Peter Smith Ring (Ph.D. U.C. Irvine) will be having a busy summer. He will be visiting in Bologna Italy in mid-June, writing and doing some data collection with colleagues Gianni Lorenzoni of the University of Bologna and Antonio Capaldo of Catholic University of Milan. While in Italy he will attend the annual meeting of the Academy of International Business in Milan (June 30 – July 3) where he will present a paper dealing with the role of government in facilitating economic exchanges. From Milan he will travel to Köln, Germany (July 6-9) to meet with colleagues Chris Huxham (Strathclyde Business School, Scotland), Steve Crooper (Keele University, England) and Mark Ebers (Köln University, Germany) on a paper dealing with inter-organizational relations based on their book “The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations” (Oxford University Press) due out this summer. Professor Ring will travel from Köln to Amsterdam for the annual meeting of the European Group on Organizational Studies (July 10 -13) where he and his colleagues Lorenzoni and Capaldo will present a paper on relational capabilities in inter-firm networks and he will keynote the wrap-up session of the EGOS Sub-Theme: Organizational Network Research: Where is the Network Society Heading? Back home in the US, he will finish up the summer with a presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Anaheim (August 8 -13th) co-authored with Professor Africa Ariño of IESE (Barcelona, Spain) on the role of fairness in negotiating international joint ventures. Professor Ring will also present at paper at the annual meeting of the Strategic Management Society in October, back in Köln Germany.
Lawrence Kalbers, R. Chad Dreier Chair in Accounting, has published research on topics that include audit committees and corporate governance, professionalism, auditor burnout, auditor organizational commitment, accounting education, and accounting history. His most recent article, co-authored with William Cenker of John Carroll University, is titled, “The Impact of Exercised Responsibility, Experience, Autonomy, and Role Ambiguity on Job Performance in Public Accounting,” and will be published in the Journal of Managerial Issues in fall of 2008. Their 2007 article, “Organizational Commitment and Auditors in Public Accounting,” published in the Managerial Auditing Journal, was chosen as an Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008. In August, he will present a paper titled, “Fraudulent Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance, and Ethics: 1987-2007,” at the annual national meeting of the American Accounting Association.
Kalbers is also the director of the College of Business Administration’s Center for Accounting Ethics, Governance, and the Public Interest. In addition to other activities, the center brings prominent individuals to campus in the Distinguished Speaker Series. Kalbers is often invited to speak about accounting and business ethics at professional conferences and meetings. In 2008, he has addressed the Los Angeles chapters of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Institute of Management Accountants.
“Talent Management” is given a fresh new look by Charles Vance, professor of management in the College of Business Administration, and co-editor of Smart Talent Management: Building Knowledge Assets for Competitive Advantage, due to be released in summer 2008 (Edward Elgar Publishing).
Vance asserts, “Managers and their organizations today would greatly benefit if they considered their employees consistent with the entertainment industry metaphor of ‘talent’—skilled actors and performers who can really make or break a major production, and who therefore merit investment in clear communications and feedback, clear role design, training, and individualized attention.”
Vance’s book provides a valuable fusion of two important areas of emphasis for current research and practice in human resource management: talent management and knowledge management. According to Vance, “The significance of knowledge management to organizational success in our rapidly changing global knowledge-based economy is immense. But people or human talent within an organization embody this knowledge, and human resource practices have great potential in contributing to effective knowledge management and organizational effectiveness.”
Alan Hogenauer, professor of Travel, was listed as one of the "20 Most Notable Travelers of the World."
Christopher Manning, professor of finance, was interviewed by VideoJug as an expert on foreclosures.
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