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The Isenberg Advantage: World Class Faculty; Cutting Edge Research Expanding Influence for Isenberg School’s Alternative Investments Center Members of the CISDM brain trust. CISDM, the Isenberg School’s research and education center that focuses on alternative investments, has raised its international profile through participation in conferences in South Korea and London. In September 2007, CISDM director Tom Schneeweis and codirector Hossein Kazemi were featured speakers in Seoul at a three-day conference on alternative investments. The conference was sponsored by Korea’s largest financial newspaper and attended by a Who’s Who of Korea’s investment community. Earlier in the month CISDM held its own annual conference in Amherst that attracted 60 leaders from industry and academe. During the year, CISDM’s faculty and research associates contributed 11 studies to refereed journals and books, including influential CISDM articles on hedge fund incubation and options collar-investment strategies. The center’s own refereed publication, The Journal of Alternative Investments, celebrated its 10th year as the leading journal in alternative investments research. And CISDM raised $300,000 from private donors, including a new scholarship fund from the Zais Group. The fund will provide full support for an undergraduate and a Ph.D. student. Isenberg School Professor Receives Prestigious FASB Appointment In July 2008, Ray Pfeiffer, a full professor in the Isenberg School’s accounting department, began a year-long position as Research Fellow with the Financial Ray Pfeiffer Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Norwalk, Connecticut. During the appointment, which is awarded to one senior financial accounting faculty member nationally each year, Pfeiffer plans to participate in a variety of FASB research projects. He expects to join a research project team with a focus on a topic of interest to him and to assist other research teams on an “as-needed” basis. In addition, Pfeiffer will review and evaluate existing research from academic, industry, and regulatory sources for consumption by the FASB. He will also facilitate researchrelated communication within the FASB and between the FASB and accounting researchers beyond the board. Pfeiffer’s longstanding interest in accounting regulations and public policy goes back at least as far as his Ph.D. dissertation, which investigated whether FASB disclosure requirements for mortgage banks gave investigators fair and sufficient information about investing in those banks. “On the front end, policy research in accounting isn’t about producing a correct outcome. It’s about examining evidence that helps determine which stakeholders gain and which stakeholders lose from specific policy rules and regulations,” observes Pfeiffer, whose work has appeared in The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and other top accounting journals. Professor Nagurney Excels as Fulbright Senior Specialist In March, John F. Smith Memorial Professor Anna Nagurney was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Business Administration at the University of Catania, Italy. Nagurney lectured and conducted workshops exploring the theme, Complex Networks and Vulnerability Analysis: From Innovations in Theory to Education and Practice. During her residency, Nagurney and her host, Professor Patrizia Daniele of the University of Catania’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, conducted a workshop, Complex Networks: Equilibrium and Vulnerability Analysis with Applications, which attracted speakers and participants from the University of Catania and other Italian universities. The workshop explored the importance and analysis of networks, ranging from congested urban transportation systems to supply chains and the Internet. Nagurney began the workshop with a lecture, Vulnerability Analysis on Complex Networks from Transportation Networks to the Internet and Electric Power Supply Chains. “The three-day workshop exceeded our expectations—we had excellent presentations and lively discussions from faculty participants from half a dozen universities, and presentations by undergraduates and doctoral students as well,” Nagurney emphasized. “The audience was grateful to us for bringing different disciplines together to learn from one another. Representation by female educators was also outstanding.” Professor Nagurney’s appointment at the University of Catania was her second Fulbright award in six years. She has also held a Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Economics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Professor Nagurney is director of the Isenberg School’s Virtual Center for Supernetworks, which devises mathematical models that improve the interaction of transportation, communication, electricity, supply chain, financial, and other complex networks. 14
New Head Appointed for Hospitality and Tourism Management Program Haemoon Oh In January 2009 Haemoon Oh will join the Isenberg School as head of its Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Recruited in a national search, Dr. Oh succeeds Rodney Warnick, who has served in that position since the spring of 2007. Dr. Oh comes to the Isenberg School from Iowa State University’s Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management Program, where he has been an associate professor and director of graduate education since 2002. Dr. Oh teaches hospitality and services marketing and hospitality law courses. His research focuses on hospitality-related customer satisfaction, service quality, consumer perceptions of price and value, brand perceptions, utility judgments of consumers, and other topics. Dr. Oh’s degrees include a Ph.D. in hospitality marketing from The Pennsylvania State University (1997), an M.S. in Hotel Administration from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a B.A. from Hanyang University in South Korea (1989). New Faculty Members Confer Research and Teaching Strengths Three successful faculty searches during the year yielded impressive new faculty members in the Isenberg School’s operations management Ahmed Ghoniem and accounting programs. Both faculty members in operations management will teach undergraduates and doctoral students. Dr. Ahmed Ghoniem will teach courses in mathematical modeling, discrete mathematical programming, and supply chain optimization. A postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Tech and a 2007 Ph.D. graduate of that university’s program in industrial and systems engineering, he has conducted operations management and management science studies with Volvo Logistics North America and Harley Davidson. At Virginia Tech, he was president of that university’s student chapter of INFORMS. Dr. Senay Solak joins the Isenberg School from Southern Polytechnic State University in Georgia, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Senay Solak Georgia Tech in 2007. His teaching focus includes quantitative methods for analysis of supply chain operations, stochastic programming, and simulation. Dr. Solak’s research in air transport modeling and analysis, and his expertise in stochastic optimization and simulation will enhance the operations management program’s growing emphasis on supply chains and logistics. His research into the optimization of technology development will also complement department strengths. Dr. Christopher Agoglia joins the Isenberg School as a tenured associate professor of accounting. A leading researcher in the area of behavioral accounting, he will teach cost accounting to undergraduates, managerial accounting to graduate students, and directed study to doctoral students. Since Chris Agoglia earning his Ph.D. degree in accounting from UMass Amherst in 1999, Dr. Agoglia has been a faculty member at Drexel University, where he wrote articles that have appeared in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and other refereed publications. Dr. Agoglia’s research employs behavioral decision theory in examining decision making by accountants and auditors. Virtues in Business and Other Organizations Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership Charles C. Manz, fellow Isenberg School professor Robert Marx, Karen Manz, and Kim Cameron are editors of the new book, The Virtuous Organization: Insights from Some of the World’s Leading Management Thinkers (World Scientific Publishers). Based on a recent Academy of Management conference organized by the editors (the conference also spawned a special issue of the Academy of Management Journal), the book examines the influence on organizations of compassion, forgiveness, courage, integrity, and other “virtues.” The volume collects original articles from luminaries in the field, including Peter Drucker’s final two interviews. Center for Spectator Sport Research Generates Industry Ties, Student and Faculty Research Since opening its doors in January 2007, the Isenberg School’s newest research center—its Center for Spectator Sport Research— has given sport management students Tracy Schoenadel unprecedented handson industry training in marketing research. Teaming up with sport management faculty members and drawing on her extensive industry contacts and experience, the center’s director, Tracy Schoenadel, has attracted industry partners for projects that have engaged undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. students in proposal writing, survey development and programming, statistical modeling, on-site execution, data analysis, 15
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