Spring 2008 Issue - NIU College of Business - Northern Illinois ...

as the best out of 484 referred paperssubmitted nationally to the conference.John Hansen and Bobby Riggle,both assistant professors in theDepartment of Marketing, won theBest Paper Award at the 2008 NationalConference in Sales Management.Their co-authored paper is entitled“The Role of Ethical Salesperson Behaviorin Relationship Selling.”Debra Hopkins, director of theNIU CPA Reviewprogram, receivedone of the four NIU2007 SupportiveProfessional StaffPresidential Awardsfor Excellence.Gerald Jensen, professor in theDepartment of Finance, co-authoreda research paper,“The PresidentialTerm: Is the ThirdYear the Charm?”,which receivednational mediacoverage in mediaoutlets that includeReuters, InvestmentNews, and Forbes.com, among others (co-authors: RobertJohnson, managing director of theCFA Institute education departmentand Scott Beyer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh).In addition, Jensenco-authored another research paper,“Sector Rotation and Monetary Conditions,”which also received nationalmedia coverage from CNBC, InvestmentNews,Financial Times, and BusinessWeek,among others (co-authors:Robert Johnson, managing director ofthe CFA Institute education department,C. Mitchell Conover, University of Richmond,and Jeffrey Mercer, Texas TechUniversity).Chih-Chen Lee, the Michael andPatricia Strachan professor of accountancyin theDepartment ofAccountancy, wasnamed the recipientof the Michael andPatricia Strachanprofessorship.Chang Liu, associateprofessor in the Departmentof Operations Management andInformation Systems, was rankedamong the top 20 most productiveresearchers worldwidein Information& Management, apublication that is regardedas one of theleading informationsystems journals.Linda Matuszewski, assistantprofessor of accountancy, andPam Smith, KPMG professor ofaccountancy, co-authored a paperthat was awarded the Teaching andCurriculum Section Best ManuscriptAward at the 2008 Midwest RegionalMeeting of the American AccountingAssociation. Their paper describeshow the NIU business college is integratingethics into the business curriculum.Ted Moorman, assistant professorin the Department of Finance, coauthoreda research paper, “A Reexaminationof Corporate Governanceand Equity Prices,” which exploredthe relationship between how a firmgoverns itself and shares performance.The results of Moorman’s coconductedresearch were referencedin the July 2, 2007, Wall Street Journalarticle “Finding the Best Measureof ‘Corporate Citizenship.’” Moorman’sco-authors are Shane Johnson,Texas A&M University, and Sorin Sorescu,Texas A&M University.Rick Ridnour, Enterprise Rent-A-CarCorporation professor of sales inthe Department of Marketing, wasnamed the favorite business professorfor NIU students in BusinessWeek’s2007 evaluation ofbest undergraduatebusiness schools inthe nation; a componentof the BusinessWeekrankingincluded a studentsurvey that askedwho they considered to be the bestprofessors and why. Ridnour toppedthe list for students because of his“interactive and hands-on teachingstyle,” which includes putting studentsthrough several role-play assignmentsthat challenge them to execute eachstep in the sales process.Mark Rosenbaum, assistant professorin the Department of Marketing,received the David W. RaymondGrant. Created by, and named after,one of the first members of the NIUBoard of Trustees, the grant offsetscosts associatedwith introducingnew technologiesinto the classroom.Additionally, Rosenbaum’sscholarlywork on the roleof third places in consumers’ livescontinued to receive national mediacoverage, including stories in TheWashington Times (May 27, 2007),CNBC (March 21, 2007), and NationalPublic Radio-Chicago (March 21,2007). In spring 2008, Rosenbaumwas selected to be a Fulbright Scholarin Cambodia where, during summer2009, he will teach principlesNIU Business 2008 | 31