FACULTY HONORS / NEW FACULTY
Widely recognized for excellence in teaching and research, faculty continue to raise the business school’s profile through their professional activities and honors. In recent months: Seletha Butler, assistant professor of law and ethics, received two fellowships at Harvard University for the 2014-2015 academic year: In the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard’s Kennedy School and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Cheol Eun, professor of finance and the Thomas R. Williams chair, published the seventh edition of his textbook, International Financial Management (McGraw Hill), now translated into Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian, and Korean, and had a paper, “Culture and R-Square,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. Jennifer Carson Marr, assistant professor of organizational behavior, joined the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and had two papers published in the Academy of Management Journal. Jeffrey Hales, associate professor of accounting, is associate editor for Accounting Horizons. Ajay Kohli, professor of marketing and the Gary T. and Elizabeth R. Jones chair, is an executive committee member of the European Marketing Academy for 2014-2015, and received an honorary doctorate from the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. David Ku, Regents’ professor and the Lawrence P. Huang chair of engineering entrepreneurship, who holds a joint appointment in Scheller College, is Michael Lowe joined the College as assistant professor of marketing. Lowe earned a Ph.D. from Texas A&M in May 2015. His research interests are social influence in self-control, social consequences of consumption behaviors, sensory marketing, and the impact of music and sound and consumer well-being.
principal investigator of the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium ($3.5 million award from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration) through 2018. Marius Niculescu, assistant professor of IT management, has a paper forthcoming in the journal Information Systems Research. Eric Overby, associate professor of IT management, received the class of 1940 course survey teaching effectiveness award at Georgia Tech, and has two papers forthcoming in Management Science, and one in the Journal of Management Information Systems. Henry Sauermann, associate professor of strategic management, is an advisory editor of the journal Research Policy and received the best paper award at the DRUID Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Seletha Butler
Eric Overby
Arnold Schneider, professor of accounting, co-authored the book, Accounting for Healthcare Professionals (Bridgepoint Education), and serves on the editorial boards of Research in Accounting Regulation and Advances in Accounting. Lizhen Xu, assistant professor of IT management, co-authored “Path to Purchase: A Mutually Exciting Point Process Model for Online Advertising and Conversion” in the journal Management Science.
Jennifer Carson Marr
David Ku
Eunhee Sohn
Michael Lowe
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