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IBM gives Broad School hardware, software for joint research

The Broad School and IBM recently created “The Center for On-Demand Supply Chain Research,” a laboratory that will serve as an environment for the teaching and research of supply chain management using state-of-the-art information technologies. Broad School students and faculty will use the laboratory to study, simulate, and demonstrate effective decision making in an end-to-end supply chain. The lab, made possible through a Shared University Research (SUR) award, provides the information technology hardware and software to help students and faculty to understand the dynamic flow of information, product and resources, and the resulting interdependencies among them. Their work is expected to help IBM and other companies design more effective supply chains that can sense and rapidly respond to changing customer demands and market conditions.

IBM will link the lab, via an advanced computing grid, with other leading partner universities specializing in supply chain management. When operational, the interconnected laboratories will allow these universities to collaborate and conduct joint applied research and teaching.

MSU research team receives national 21st Century Achievement Award

For more than 10 years, Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems Cheri Speier has been working with a team of cross-disciplinary faculty experts to develop a content management and assessment system that assists instructors in all aspects of teaching courses. The team and the resulting LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach (LON-CAPA) were recently awarded the 2003 21st Century Achievement Award by the Computerworld Honors Program.

Backed by grants from the Sloan Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation, the LON-CAPA project has become a distributed Learning Content Management and Assessment System serving a total of 12,000 students per semester at MSU and well over 23,000 students system-wide.

Speier’s work has appeared in Decision Sciences, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Marketing, among others. She earned a PhD in Management Information Systems at Indiana University.

Broad School study links undergrads’ early professional practice with work opportunities

According to a study just completed by the Broad School’s Lear Corporation Career Services Center, ‘professional development’ experiences such as mock interviews, corporatesponsored events, and career-related seminars influenced whether a student ultimately lands an internship in his or her major. Past research has demonstrated the important link between internship experience and receiving offers of employment prior to graduation.

The report on the link between professional experience and education was based on a survey of nearly 1300 juniors and seniors at MSU’s Broad School over the last year. Tasha McCarter, now Long-Term Forecasting Analyst for General Motors, conducted the survey while she was a Broad School MBA student, under the guidance of Frederick P. Morgeson, assistant professor of Management, who assisted in survey development and data analysis. Nearly 40 percent of the Broad School students surveyed had internship/co-op experiences and 31 percent had positions directly related to their majors.

Anderson recognized for excellence in diversity

According to his peers and his students, Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems Matthew J. Anderson has been “exemplary in the recruitment of high-achieving students from diverse backgrounds.” Because of his efforts, he recently received an award for Sustained Effort Toward Excellence in Diversity at the All-University Excellence in Diversity 2003 Recognition and Awards Convocation. Under his directorship, the Broad School’s doctoral program in accounting has recruited more women and minority candidates than any other program in the college or across the Big Ten.

Cavusgil receives research award from American Marketing Association

S. Tamer Cavusgil, the John William Byington Endowed Chair in Global Marketing and his former PhD student, Shaoming Zou, now an associate professor of International Marketing at the University of Missouri-Columbia, have been given the American Marketing Association’s 2003 Excellence in Research Award. The award recognizes the author(s) of an outstanding article published within the last 10 years that significantly influenced the direction of research and practice in international marketing.

Cavusgil and Zou received the award for their 1994 article titled “Marketing Strategy - Performance Relationship: An Investigation of the Empirical Link in Export Market Ventures,” published in the Journal of Marketing. The article, which appeared in the Volume 58, Number 1 (January 1994) issue of this leading journal, provided insights into successful export marketing by U.S. firms and formulated new research directions.

Cavusgil is director of the Broad School’s PhD Program in Marketing and executive director of the Michigan State University Center for International Business Education and Research (MSU-CIBER), one of 30 similar, university-based centers throughout the country funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Zou serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of International Marketing, and Advances in International Marketing.

Closs appointed John H. McConnell Chair in Business Administration

Marketing and Supply Chain Management Professor David Closs was recently appointed to the John H. McConnell Chair in Business Administration. The endowment was given by business school alumnus John McConnell, Worthington Industries, Inc. chairman emeritus and founder.

Closs is a principal researcher in the college’s ongoing investigation of world-class supply chain capabilities and has authored over 100 articles and co-authored seven books. Early in his career, he was the manager of system development for Systems Research Inc. and president and CEO of Dialog Systems, Inc. He has also consulted with over 100 of the world’s Fortune 500 corporations regarding logistics strategy and systems. He received his B.A., MBA and PhD from Michigan State University.

Cichy receives first Chairman’s Award from Michigan hospitality industry

The Michigan Hotel, Motel & Resort Association (MHM&RA) honored Director and Professor of The School of Hospitality Business (The School) at Michigan State University, Ron Cichy, PhD, CHA, CHE, with its first Chairman’s Exemplary Service Award. Cichy was recognized for his commitment to furthering the educational needs of the members of the MHM&RA and the industry in which they serve.

Cichy, who has been the director and professor of The School since 1988, earned his undergraduate and MBA degrees from the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management at MSU and his PhD from MSU in food science and human nutrition. He is recognized as a pioneer researcher on leadership qualities, keys and secrets of hospitality leaders, both in the United States and Japan.

The MHM&RA played a significant role in the founding of The School of Hospitality Business. In 1927, the members of the Michigan Hotel Association and its educational committee proposed establishing the Hotel Training Course, which developed into The School. The School is now an independent, industry-specific school within the Broad School.

Fluck named Davidson Institute Research Fellow

Associate Professor of Finance Zsuzsanna Fluck was recently invited to be a William Davidson Institute Research Fellow, one of a group of over 150 renowned senior and promising young researchers who are dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on transition and emerging market economies. Housed at the University of Michigan Business School, the Davidson Institute has invited Fluck to participate for a three-year term that began in June 2003.

Fluck received her M.A. and PhD in Economics from Princeton University and her M.A. in Economics and her PhD in Operations Research from the Budapest School of Economics. Before attending Princeton, she was the chief economist for the National Development Bank in Budapest, Hungary.

Hadlock, Schroder named to new endowed Finance professorships

The Broad School appointed Charles J. Hadlock and Mark Schroder to receive new endowed professorships established by the late Philip J. May. Both Hadlock and Schroder are associate professors in the Finance Department and have been with the Broad School since 1998.

Hadlock, who received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has published in several leading journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, the Review of Financial Studies, the Rand Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Law and Economics. His research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, managerial labor markets, capital structure, and financial intermediation.

Schroder, who received his PhD in Finance from Northwestern University, is associate editor for the Review of Financial Studies and has published in leading journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Finance, and the Annals of Applied Probability. His research focuses on asset pricing, and optimal portfolio and consumption choice.

Ilgen awarded 2002 Herbert Heneman Jr. Award for career achievement

Daniel R. Ilgen, the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management, was recently awarded the 2002 Herbert Heneman Jr. Award for Career Achievement by the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management at its annual meeting. The award is given annually to people who have “distinguished themselves throughout their careers in the field of human resource management.” Specifically, Ilgen was recognized for his clear record of research excellence; for research that has impacted the science, teaching and practice of human resource management; and for his stature in the field.

Professor Ilgen received his M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the faculty in 1983, he taught at Purdue University and was a visiting professor at the University of Washington and the University of Western Australia.

McKnight named Lilly Fellow for 2003-04 academic year

Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Systems D. Harrison McKnight was recently selected as a Lilly Teaching Fellow for the 2003-04 academic year. With this fellowship, McKnight plans to improve his two primary courses, ITM 311 (System Analysis & Design) and ACC 822 (Analysis & Design of Enterprise Systems) by integrating a teambased problem solving approach to learning.

During the fellowship year, each fellow works with a senior faculty mentor on a project designed to enhance the fellow's teaching skills and explore new teaching methods. McKnight’s mentor is PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting Alvin Arens.

McKnight obtained his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1997. From 1982 to 1992, he held financial analysis and management roles at American Airlines’ SABRE Computer Services Division. His work has appeared in several top journals including Information Systems Research, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce and the Academy of Management Review.