Awards and Honors

The Department of Management, largely due to the high productivity of Professor of Management Natarajan Balasubramanian and Associate Professor of Management Cameron Miller, is ranked #31 by University of Texas at Dallas, based on publications in Strategic Management Journal (2015-2024), right below Cornell University and Columbia University.

Whitman School of Management ranked No. 2 globally for Entrepreneurship Research Productivity. This ranking stems from the 2024 TCU Global University Entrepreneurship Research Productivity Rankings, the only global research-focused ranking of entrepreneurship programs.

Susan Albring, professor of accounting, will begin as co-editor of Advances in Accounting on Jan. 1, 2025. 

Karca Aral, associate professor of supply chain management, has been awarded a $5,000 Faculty Creative Activities and Research Grant from Syracuse University’s Office of Research for her project titled “Gender Bias in Performance Evaluations: Operational Moderators”. 

Candace Jens, assistant professor of finance, won the “Best Paper in Finance Award” at the Financial Management & Accounting Research Conference for her paper, titled “Credit Market Driven Acquisitions” (with Gulen, H. and Rossi, S.).  

Suho Han, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 

David Lucas, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has his 2022 Academy of Management Journal article, titled “Remaking capitalism: The strength of weak legislation in mobilizing B Corporation certification” (with Grimes, M. and Gehman, J.), recognized as a finalist for the 2024 Responsible Research in Management Award. Co-sponsored by Fellows of the Academy of Management and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management, this award recognizes high quality research that exemplifies the principles of responsible science/research. 

Milena Petrova, professor of real estate and finance, was appointed co-chair of the 2025 Conference on “Information, Contracts, and Firms, organized by the Journal of Corporate Finance.

Milena Petrova, Susan Albring, Professor of Finance Joseph Warburton, (and Michael Simkovic, University of Southern California), have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Real Estate Research Consortium for a proposal titled “Examining Mid-Size and Large Partnerships’ Contributions to the U.S. Economy”.

Johan Wiklund, Al Berg Chair and professor of entrepreneurship, who has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) since 2017, has learned that his continuous relentless drive to improve ETP and position it as a leading journal among entrepreneurship and management researchers has resulted in ETP reaching the highest standing of 4* rating in the 2024 ABS list (together with Journal of Business Venturing). The ABS list is published by the Chartered Association of Business Schools. Earlier, in 2019, ETP’s Impact Factor jumped from 6.2 to 10.7, placing it as number 2 among 151 business journals according to the publisher, SAGE.

Wiklund also gave the Schumpeter lecture for the EU on Nov. 18, at the 2024 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Assembly.

Guiyang Xiong, associate professor of marketing, has been invited to continue serving on the editorial review board of Journal of Marketing.

Journal Publications

Cristiano Bellavitis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship:

“(De)centralized governance and the value of platform-based new ventures: The moderating role of teams and transparency” (with Martino, P, Vanacker, T. and Filatotchev, I.), forthcoming, Small Business Economics. 

“Strategic Pivoting in Deep Tech: An Investigation of NSF I-Corps Teams” (with Tran, M.H. and Wiklund, J.), Strategic Change.

Erasmo Giambona, Falcone Chair in Real Estate and professor of finance, “Hedging, Contract Enforceability and Competition” (with Kumar, A. and Phillips, G.), forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies.

Rachael Goodwin, assistant professor of management, “Who Handles the Tough Talk? Supervisor Sense of Power and Confronting Difficult Issues” (with Figueroa, A. and Wakslak, C.J.), Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

Candace Jens, assistant professor of finance, “Balancing External vs. Internal Validity: An Application of Causal Forest in Finance” (with Gulen, H. and Page, T.B.), forthcoming, Management Science.

Ye Liu, assistant professor of supply chain management, “An Empirically Grounded Analytical Approach to Hog Farm Finishing Stage Management: Deep Reinforcement Learning as Decision Support and Managerial Learning Tool” (with Kouvelis, P. and Turcic, D.), forthcoming, Journal of Operations Management.

Alexander McKelvie, interim dean and professor of entrepreneurship, “Knocking on Heaven’s Door? Entrepreneurship, Firm Growth and Health Risks” (with Partanen, J., Tenhiälä, A., Kautonen, T., Jokela, M. and Lerner, D.), Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

Hyoryung Nam, assistant professor of marketing, “Liability of Foreignness in Immersive Technologies: Evidence from Extended Reality Innovations” (with Yiling, L., Kannan, P.K. and Choi, J.), forthcoming, Journal of International Business Studies.

Sebastian Tideman-Frappart, assistant professor of accounting, “Women’s Representation in Academic Publishing: Descriptive Trends from Authors to Editors across 33 Years of Management Science” (with Gazdag, B., Emery, C., Gloor, J. and Bajet Mestre, E.), forthcoming, The Leadership Quarterly.

Lynne Vincent, department chair and associate professor of management, “Being Moral When it is Counternormative: The Relationship Between the Creative Identity and Moral Objection” (with Kouchaki, M.), forthcoming, Journal of Management.

Johan Wiklund, Al Berg Chair and professor of entrepreneurship, “Satisfaction with Life as an Entrepreneur: From Early Volition to Eudaimonia” (with Nadav, S. and Manchiraju, S.), forthcoming, Journal of Business Ethics. 

Guiyang Xiong, associate professor of marketing, “Evaluating multimedia advertising campaign effectiveness” (with Wang, P., Sun, W.W. and Yang, J.), forthcoming, Decision Support Systems.

Events

75th Annual Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program

Sponsored by the Salzberg Memorial Lecture and the Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management, the 2024 program was held Oct. 3 with an academic day on Oct. 4. 

The 2024 Corporate Salzberg Award recipient is Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota Motor Corp. has distinguished itself as a global pioneer in manufacturing efficiency and quality. The Toyota Production System, a revolutionary approach to lean manufacturing, has redefined industry standards. By eliminating waste, optimizing processes, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, Toyota has achieved unparalleled operational excellence. Steve Brown, VP at Toyota Motor North America, accepted the award for Toyota Motor Corporation.

The 2024 Academic Salzberg Award Winner is Charles Corbett, the IBM Chair in Management and professor of operations management and sustainability at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Organized by Julie Niederhoff, associate professor of supply chain management, the academic day of the program included presentations by Charles Corbett and three of his former students who are renowned scholars in their own merit, Li Chen (Cornell SC Johnson College of Business), Aydin Alptekinoglu (Penn State University), and Christian Blanco (The Ohio State University), as well as Karca Aral, associate professor of supply chain management.

Ph.D. Student Corner

Xiaoying Feng, marketing doctoral student, “AI-generated advertising campaigns: Impact of disclosure on consumer response” (with Xie, Y., Yang, S., Xiong, G. and Lee, E.), accepted for presentation at the 2025 Winter American Marketing Association Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.

Ghonche Khalaj, finance doctoral student, “Do ESG Mutual Funds Care? A Demand System Approach" (with Cheng, S.), 2024 FMA Annual Meeting, Grapevine, Texas.

Ali Kozehgaran, marketing doctoral student, "Effect of a Paradigm Shift on Traditional Taxi Companies and their Drivers" (with Fay, S.), accepted for presentation at the 2024 MarkTech Conference, Columbia Business School, December 2024.

Ran Quan, management doctoral student, had her paper “Technological Entry and Exit After Innovation Underperformance” presented at the STR division, Academy of Management 2024 annual conference in Chicago in August 2024. Quan also participated in the Academy of Management STR Division Doctoral Consortium in August 2024.

Kelly (Mi) Hoang Tran, entrepreneurship doctoral student, “Strategic Pivoting in Deep Tech: An Investigation of NSF I-Corps Teams” (with Bellavitis, C. and Wiklund, J.), Strategic Change.

Yangguang Wang, supply chain management doctoral student, "FinTech Lending, Open Banking, and Data Manipulation," (with Wu, Z. and Xu, F.) 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Wenxin Zhang, supply chain management doctoral student, “The Interplay between Supplier’s Demand Forecast Sharing and Channel Encroachment” (Wu, Z.),  2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

Ph.D. Alumni News

Devin Stein ’24 Ph.D. in entrepreneurship, is the 2024 winner of the AOM-ONE Division Best Dissertation Award announced at the 2024 Academy of Management meeting.

In the News (selected)

Gary La Point, professor of supply chain practice, was interviewed for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership article “The Quest for Supply Chain Balance” (Aug. 14).

Julie Niederhoff, associate professor of supply chain management, was quoted in the Real Simple story “How to Choose the Fastest Line at the Grocery Store, According to Experts” (Sept. 17).

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice, was interviewed and/or quoted for the WKBW TV story “An in-depth look at grocery store prices,” Manufacturing Divearticle “How a small manufacturer made a 4-day workweek make sense”(June 25), Reuters’ article “US steelmakers brace for tepid quarterly profit, further price declines,” (July 16), Times Union article “Walmart reduces self-checkout use in Glenmont store” (Aug. 20), CBS News story “Company looking to make beanless coffee more popular” (Sept. 4), Modern Retail article “Marketplace Briefing: How Changes to de minimis imports could upend online marketplaces” (Sept. 26), Food Logistics article “45,000 Dockworkers on Strike at 36 Ports. What's Next?” (Sept. 29), The Washington Post article “How the port strike could raise prices and hurt small businesses” (Oct. 2), and EWTN News Nightly story “East Coast Ports Reopen As Dockworkers Strike Suspended After 3-Day Standoff” (Oct. 16).

Milena Petrova, professor of finance, was interviewed for the The New York Times article “When Your Building Super is an A.I. Bot” (July 3).

Lynne Vincent, chair and associate professor of management, was quoted in the ABC News story “Republicans at the RNC signaled support for unions. Here's why experts are skeptical” (July 7) and the Marketplace article “Why pensions are part of labor discussions again” (Oct. 9). 

Seminars

Joshua Khavis, from University of Buffalo, SUNY, presented an accounting seminar, “Nudging Towards Better Earnings Forecasts,” on Sept. 6.

Devin Shanthikumar, from University of California, Irvine, presented an accounting seminar, "Artificial Intelligence and Analyst Productivity," on Sept. 13.

Deepak Somaya, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, presented a management seminar, “Data Privacy, Scaling, and Firm Scope: Evidence from the GDPR,” on Sept. 20.

Rong Li, associate professor of supply chain management, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “AI innovations and prognostics,” on Sept. 27. 

Justin Webb, from the Belk College of Business (UNC Charlotte), presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Keep it under control? A theoretical framework of entrepreneurial organizing,” on Oct. 4.

Frank Heflin, from University of Georgia, presented an accounting seminar, "Information Asymmetry at Earnings Releases," on Oct. 11.

David Tan, from Johns Hopkins University, presented a management seminar, “Did secrecy shield prescription opioid firms from litigation?” on Oct. 11.

Onur Boyabatli, from Singapore Management University, presented a supply chain management seminar (The Brethen Seminar Series), “Flexible vs Dedicated Technology Choice in the Presence of Multiproduct Subscription Programs,” on Oct. 16.

Tristan Botelho, from Yale School of Management, presented an entrepreneurship seminar, “Customers in Charge: Racial Inequality and Work Precarity in On-Demand Labor Platforms,” on Oct. 18.

Julia Bear, from Stony Brook University, presented a management seminar, “Work-life faultlines: Understanding the mediating roles of unfairness and social exclusion and the moderating role of gender,” on Oct. 25.

Yan Leng, from University of Texas at Austin, presented a supply chain management seminar (The Brethen Seminar Series), “Do LLM Agents Exhibit Social Behavior?” on Nov. 15.

Joel Carnevale, associate professor of management, presented a behavioral lab seminar, “Reputation for Creativity: A Research Program of the Pressures, Leadership Responses, and Team Dynamics Facing Today's Creatives,” on Nov. 15.

Ole-Kristian Hope, from University of Toronto, presented an accounting seminar, “The Dual Roles of Analysts in Shaping Green Investment Strategies,” on Nov. 22.