▶▶ Donna Davis, who is part of the Marketing Department, received a $10,174 grant from the Florida
Department of Transportation to evaluate logistics-led economic development. Additionally, Davis received a $30,000 grant from the University of Tennessee Demand-Supply Integration Forum to study closed-loop supply chain management in response to natural resource scarcity.
▶▶ Center for Entrepreneurship Director Michael Fountain secured a $40,000 grant from Hillsborough County to help foster entrepreneurship in the region. The two-year competitive grant supports entrepreneurship in the high technology sectors, particularly in the life sciences field, and supports student innovation through the USF Student Innovation Incubator, a shared workspace and a collaborative business environment for students of all disciplines. Additionally, Fountain is co-PI for the NSF I-Corps site grant, a competitive three-year grant providing $300,000 to provide training and support for translation of USF technologies into the marketplace.
▶▶ Lisa Gaynor, a faculty member in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, received a grant from
PricewaterhouseCoopers INQuires to investigate whether CFOs are more likely to engage in earnings management resulting in lower financial reporting/earnings quality when there are social or professional ties between the CEO and members of the audit committee. The study also examined whether social ties are more detrimental to earnings quality than professional ties.
▶▶ The Naval Postgraduate School named Information Systems Decision Sciences Professor Grandon Gill principal investigator for a $58,000 project to study the effectiveness of Joint Inter-Agency Field Exploration exercises as informing systems.
▶▶ Grandon Gill and Manish Agrawal, both part of the ISDS Department, received a $299,468 National Science Foundation grant to develop open authentic case studies for a MS in Cybersecurity capstone course. The case studies to be developed will all focus on decision making related to cybersecurity and will be published as an open-access textbook.
▶▶ Sport & Entertainment Management MBA faculty member Michelle Harrolle received a $15,000 grant from Valspar to conduct an economic impact study of the Valspar Golf Championship. ▶▶ Information Systems Decision Sciences faculty member Alan Hevner received a $50,000 grant from the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center for Business and Society, Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. He is co-investigator on a study to develop methods for innovation across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. ▶▶ Sport & Entertainment Management faculty members Michelle Harrolle, Janelle
BALAJI PADMANABHAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ISDS ▶▶ Professor and Information Systems Decision Sciences Chair Balaji Padmanabhan coauthored “The ‘Most Popular News’ Recommender: Count Amplification and Manipulation Resistance” with then-doctoral student Shankar Prawesh. Their paper examined manipulation-resistant news recommender systems, focusing on a common method used on the front page by many media sites of recommending popular news sites such as the New York Times, BBC, CNN, and Wall Street Journal. Their work was published in Information Systems Research.