SAUDER FACULTY INSIDER INFORMATION
Sauder-based think tank releases report ranking efficiency of world’s airports The Sauder-based Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) has released its 12th annual Global Airport Benchmarking Report at the 2012 ATRS World Conference in Tainan, Taiwan on June 28. Led by Sauder Professor and ATRS President Tae Oum, the team of leading international aviation academics Tae Oum found that airports in Atlanta, Seoul, Copenhagen and Sydney are the most efficient on their respective continents among international airports serving more than 15 million passengers a year. Among Canadian airports, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) ranked highest in efficiency, coming in at fourth in North America. The ATRS is the world’s leading academic society in the field of air transport. The annual report measures and compares the operating and managerial efficiency and cost competitiveness of 183 airports and 25 airport groups in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. ■
Report on research ranks Sauder as Canada’s strongest business school A new report, released by the Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA), placed UBC’s Sauder School of Business as the strongest business school in Canada for publication research. The report, “Making Research Count: Analyzing Canadian Academic Publishing Cultures,” compares research output and impact of 71 Canadian universities. Sauder ranked first in accounting, finance and management, making the School the strongest in three out of the six disciplines assessed in ranking. The survey used a complete roster of academic staff for each school. Each faculty name was fed into the program, which used Google Scholar to derive an H-index—a bibliometric indicator that combines productivity and impact data to generate statistics for analysis. The ranking considers the full breadth of academic disciplines. Overall, the University of British Columbia ranked a strong first in social sciences, including economics, psychology and social work, as well as in other areas such as biology, math, statistics and horticulture. ■
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FALL/WINTER 2012 VIEWPOINTS
New full-time faculty Sauder welcomes 13 new full-time faculty members for the 2012/13 academic year. Perry Atwal, Full-time Lecturer in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division. Atwal holds a Bachelor of Science with honours from Aston University and an MBA from the Sauder School of Business. He has taught courses on service management, employment relationships, strategy and leadership within the Sauder Perry Atwal School of Business. Yichuan (Daniel) Ding, Assistant Professor in the Operations and Logistics Division. Ding recently received his PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation is entitled “A Scoring-Based Ranking System and its Application in Cadaver Kidney Allocation.” His research focuses on healthcare management, including kidney allocation, appointment scheduling and patient flow optimization. Ding’s work has been published in Mathematics of Operations Research and Operations Research. Tracey Gurton, Full-time Lecturer in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division. Gurton has been teaching at Sauder for 10 years in our undergraduate, graduate, executive and international programs. Subjects include organizational behaviour, building and managing teams, managing change, managing diversity, organizational culture, communication, organizational change, motivation and performance management and human resources. Gurton holds a BA in Communication from Simon Fraser University, with professional certificates in French and Kinesiology. She has also studied Applied Ethics at the graduate level here at UBC. Lai Jiang, Assistant Professor in the Marketing Division. Jiang recently received her PhD in Economics from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Her job market paper is entitled “The Welfare Effects of ‘Bill Shock’ Regulation in Mobile Telecommunication Markets.” Her research interests include industrial Lai Jiang organization, applied econometrics and pricing strategy. Howard Kung, Assistant Professor in the Finance Division. Kung recently received his PhD in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. His doctoral dissertation is entitled “Essays in Financial Economics.” Kung’s research interests include asset pricing and macroeconomics. He has a paper forthcoming in The Review of Howard Kung Financial Studies.