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PROFESSORS LARSON AND SIHLER RETIRE
Faculty Awards & Accolades University of Virginia All-University Teaching Award: Professor Yael GrushkaCockayne Graduation Faculty Marshals: Professors Mary Margaret Frank and Bidhan L. Parmar
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rofessors Andrea Larson (left), and William W. Sihler (right), retired from Darden this school year. Darden has benefited significantly from the expertise and research of both professors throughout their tenures at Darden. Andrea Larson, associate professor emeritus of business administration, was a member of the Darden faculty for more than 25 years. As one of the first women on the faculty, Larson helped address some of the early diversity issues facing the School and worked with female students to create the first women’s student organization. Students in the School’s MBA and Executive Education programs have benefited from Larson’s courses in the areas of entrepreneurial innovation and sustainable business. She has also taught at Stanford and Columbia on these topics. As a researcher, Larson is committed to education on leadership at the intersection of entrepreneurial innovation and sustainability. Larson created the original executive program on innovation and sustainability at Darden and was first to teach the topics to First Year MBA students when electives were introduced. As an professor emeritus, Larson is continuing her work developing innovative new knowledge about competitive, leadingedge ideas that drive business as a positive
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THE DARDEN REPORT
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Honorary Graduation Faculty Marshals: Professors Andrea Larson and William W. Sihler
force for raising the quality of people’s lives in global society. William W. Sihler, Ronald Edward Trzcinski Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, joined Darden’s Finance area in 1967. Sihler, who earned his bachelor’s degree, his MBA and his DBA from Harvard University, began his career as an assistant professor at Harvard Business School before coming to Darden. A consummate educator for students and mentor for new faculty members, Sihler has written more than 175 cases, and numerous books and articles. His publications include Building Value With Capital-Structure Strategies, which he cowrote with Henry Davis, Cases in Applied Financial Management and Financial Service Organizations: Cases in Strategic Management. Sihler has taught courses on commercial banking and financial management of small enterprises to students in the residential MBA and MBA for Executives formats as well as numerous Executive Education courses. In 1982, Sihler was awarded the Darden Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award. In his retirement, Sihler looks forward to spending time on his wide-ranging interests, including the Jaguar car owners’ club, stamp collecting and wine.
The Society of the Purple Shadows Gordon F. Rainey Jr. Award for Vigilance to the Student Experience: Professor John L. Colley Jr. The Case Centre 2015 Outstanding Case Teacher Award: Professor Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. (MBA ’98) Journal of Advertising Research Best Academic Paper: Professor Paul W. Farris for “How Corporate Cultures Drive Advertising and Promotion Budgets: Best Practices Combine Heuristics and Algorithmic Tools” Gregory Chow Best Paper Award: Professor Dennis T. Yang, at the 2015 Chinese Economist Society North America conference Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award: Professor Mary Margaret Frank, for her innovative work at the intersection of the public and private sectors in real-world problem-solving and value creation
Wells Fargo Awards for Outstanding Research Publications Significant Publication in Book Form Professor Edward D. Hess Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization, published by Columbia Business School Publishing Significant Publication in a PeerReviewed, Discipline-Based Journal Professor Pedro Matos “Are U.S. CEOs Paid More? New International Evidence,” published in The Review of Financial Studies Professor Kristin J. Behfar “The Directness and Oppositional Intensity of Conflict Expression,” published in the Academy of Management Review