Exchange Magazine, Fall 2003 - Duke University's Fuqua School of ...

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Two faculty members, Associate Professors Janet Bercovitz and Bob
Clemen, have been awarded research grants funded by National Science
Foundation. Bercovitz’s two-year project concerns a study of evolving
university-industry relationships from the less frequently examined firm’s
perspective. Her research will contribute to an understanding of how university
interaction fits within the firm’s R&D strategy and examine the effects of firm
strategy and organizational structure on the types of technology-transfer
mechanisms employed by the firm and the ultimate relationship the firm
maintains with the university. Clemens research project considers the role
that expert opinions play in the evaluation of technical projects (for example,
anti-terrorism or computer-protection programs). Psychological research
suggests that expert opinions can be biased in systematic ways, and Clemen’s
work looks for ways to correct those biases.
Arie Y. Lewin, professor of business administration and sociology and
IBM research fellow, was selected as the recipient of the 2003 Academy of
Management’s Distinguished Service Award. This is one of the highest honors
bestowed on members of the Academy. The award citation acknowledged
Lewin’s contributions to the field through his editorial positions with
Management Science, his role as editor-in-chief of the Journal of
International Business Studies, and most notably, the founding and
development of Organizational Science, which in a relatively short period
of time has become a premier journal in the field. He was further cited for
his initiation of innovative conferences with those journals and was the first
organizationally focused, full-time program director for Decision, Risk and
Management Science at National Science Foundation.
Professors James Bettman and Richard Staelin in marketing and Wesley
Cohen and Gerardine DeSanctis in management have received the designation
“Highly Cited Researcher” by the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI) and are included in ISIHighlyCited.com. ISI has collected cited references
from many millions of articles in 21 categories in the years 1981–1999,
resulting in almost 5 million unique author names to yield the initial list for
investigation by the editorial staff. For the initial phase of development of
ISIHighlyCited.com, categories of at least 100 researchers from a list of the
top 250 most cited names in that category are being released. Inclusion of
four Fuqua faculty members is a highly prestigious honor.
Janet Bercovitz
Bob Clemen
Arie Y. Lewin
The Fuqua School of Business
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