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Birnberg Receives Lifetime Contribution to Management Accounting Award
Jacob G. Birnberg, Robert W. Murphy Jr. Professor of Management Control Systems Emeritus, has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Contribution to Management Accounting Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to management accounting education, research and/or practice over a sustained period of time through scholarly endeavors, teaching excellence, educational innovation and/or service to the Management Accounting Section. Birnberg will formally receive the award at the 2009 MAS mid-year meeting, to be held from January 7- 10, 2009 in St Petersburg, FL.
Geylani Honored as 2009 Young Scholar
Congratulations to 2009 Young Scholar, Tansev Geylani, Assistant Professor of Business Administration. The bi-annual Young Scholar award from the Marketing Science Institute singles out scholars likely to be leaders in the next generation of marketing academics.
The Changing Landscape of Acquisitions and Divestment
Ravi Madhavan teaches Acquisitions and Divestment at Katz, but his lessons aren't confined to the classroom. Madhavan's blog covers the strategy and general management views of acquisitions and divestment - commentary, resources, events and more. Check out Madhavan's blog and find out more.
Wealth Destruction on a Massive Scale
According to the Institute for Scientific Information, Sara B. Moeller and Frederik P. Schlingemann are blazing new ground in the study of Finance. Both are associate professors at Katz, and their paper "Wealth Destruction on a Massive Scale? A Study of Acquiring-Firm Returns in the Recent Merger Wave" is the second most cited paper in the Journal of Finance, a leading journal in the field. Find out more about Sclingemann and Moeller's work.
Strategy as Wicked Problem
Problems, like poverty and terrorism, that cannot be definitively resolved have been labeled "wicked." A wicked problem has innumerable causes, morphs constantly, and has no correct answer. It can be tamed, however, with the right approach. An article written by John C. Camillus, the Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management at Katz, appearing in Harvard Business Review (May 1, 2008) explains how executives can tell if they are dealing with a wicked problem and a social process for remedying them. Read the full description of the Camillus' article.
Ray Jones: One of BusinessWeek’s “Favorite Profs”
A BusinessWeek survey reveals that Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management Ray Jones can make a business lesson out of just about any experience—that’s just one reason his undergraduate students voted Jones their “favorite prof.”
Read more about Ray Jones and BusinessWeek’s other “favorite profs”
Finance Professors Study SOX
A study conducted by Katz finance faculty members Leonce Bargeron and Chad Zutter, both assistant professors, and Ken Lehn, the Samuel A. McCullough Professor of Finance, was mentioned in a July 26 article in The Economist. Their study looked at the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on publicly traded American companies.
Read the full text of The Economist article (PDF).
CNBC Gets Brad Agle’s Insight about Executive Bonuses
Wall Street bonuses: Fair or frivolous? That was the question at the heart of Professor Brad Agle’s Dec. 13 interview on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” with Sue Herera. Agle, director of Pitt’s David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership, and Steven Hall, managing director of executive consulting firm Steven Hall Partners, participated in the interview.
Read a summary of the segment or watch a video clip.
New York Times Reports Findings of Jeff Inman’s Mood-Food Study
“Unhappy people seek the reward of tasty, yet unhealthy snacks, such as buttered popcorn or M&M candies,” found Jeff Inman, Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing, and former Katz PhD student Nitika Garg. Their research paper was published in the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Marketing and was the subject of a Jan. 8 New York Times article.
Read more about how mood influences an individual’s consumption.
Hot Stuff
IEE Executive Director and Pitt Business Assistant Dean Ann Dugan knows hot stuff when she sees it, particularly when a family business is concerned. Dugan was quoted in the March 30 New York Times regarding the McIlhenny Company, a fifth-generation family business and maker of Tabasco.
Public vs. Private
According to Pitt Business faculty members Leonce Bargeron, Frederik Schlingemann, and Chad Zutter. if a company you own stock in is ripe for a takeover, you should hope that the company acquiring it is not a private equity firm.
Read more about their research recently featured in two New York Times articles.
