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Future (RFF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research on environmental, energy, natural resource and environmental health issues. In May, Smith organized and moderated a live panel discussion and webcast at RFF on the topic “Speculators and Oil Prices: What Do We Know and What Should We Do?” The video can be viewed at rff.org/ Events/Pages/Speculators-and-Oil-Prices. aspx. K. Shelette Stewart, associate director of business development for Cox Executive Education, is the author of a new book, Revelations in Business: Connecting Your Business Plan with God’s Purpose and Plan for Your Life. Stewart combines her core Christian beliefs with her extensive academic and professional experience with Fortune 500 companies, including The Coca-Cola Co., Hostess Brands and BellSouth Corp., to guide readers through an eight-step “Divine Business Planning” approach that she believes will position readers to maximize their personal fulfillment and professional success. Jacquelyn Thomas, associate professor of marketing, was a featured speaker at Dell in Austin on the topic of customer relationship management. Thomas’s presentation focused on direct marketers and how they incorporate search engine marketing into their marketing programs. She also presented a paper at the Yale School of Management 2012 Conference on Customer Insights, “An Empirical Investigation Comparing the Impact of Catalogs versus Search Engine Advertisting on Customer-Firm Exchanges.” Read more on page 22. Thomas’s expert commentary on a case titled “When to Drop an Unprofitable cox.smu.edu
Customer,” was published in the April issue of the Harvard Business Review. Don Vandewalle, chair of the Management and Organizations department and Fisher Research Fellow, had the following manuscript accepted for publication: “A Growth and Fixed Mindset Exposition of the Value of Conceptual Clarity.” The article is forthcoming in the journal Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. Vandewalle was also one of three University faculty members honored with SMU’s annual Distinguished University Citizen Award at the Faculty Breakfast, held before the May 2012 all-University Commencement Ceremony. The award, given by the SMU Provost’s Office, honors three faculty members each year for service and leadership that benefit students and the University’s academic mission. Kumar Venkataraman, Finance Department chair and Fabacher Endowed Professor of Alternative Asset Management, presented his coauthored paper, titled “Predatory vs. Sunshine Trading: Evidence from Crude Oil ETF Rolls,” at HEC-Paris, the Tinbergen Research Institute in Amsterdam and Erasmus University in Rotterdam in April. He also presented the study at the second CNMV International Conference on Securities Markets in Madrid in September. The study is based on his consulting work for the national regulator Commodity Futures Trading Commission on whether the trading activities of speculators distort commodity futures prices. Read more on page 22.
Dimitris Vrettos, assistant professor of accounting, received the American Accounting Association’s Management Accounting Section’s “Best Dissertation Award” for 2012. A plaque and monetary award were presented to Vrettos in August at the American Accounting Association’s annual meeting. The Institute of Management Accountants sponsored the award. Gordon Walker, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department chair and David B. Miller Professor of Business, presented a paper titled “Ownership and Product Innovation in Chinese Manufacturing, 1998 - 2007.” Walker co-authored the paper with Frank Xia of Peking University and presented it at the Strategic Management Society Special Conference in Singapore in June. Also in June, Walker presented a paper co-authored with Oliver Gottschalg and Bo Kyung Kim, assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, at the DRUID Conference in Copenhagen. The paper is titled “The Dynamics of Venture Capital Firm Network Position and Performance in the United States, 1980-2001.” Bernard “Bud” Weinstein, associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute and adjunct professor of business economics, was an invited speaker at an energy conference in Doha (Qatar) this spring. Weinstein was one of only two Americans on the program. He spoke about the potential for nuclear and renewable energy in the Persian Gulf Region. In addition to speaking at the “Tax Policies for 4% Growth” Summit, Weinstein was appointed as a Fellow with the Bush Institute.
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