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SSB Accomplishments for September 2007 |
Events:
- The first reunion of OSU MSTM graduates will be held Oct. 26-28, 2007. The MS in Telecommunications Management Program, which was launched 12 years ago, will host the reunion along with the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS) and the Institute for Research in Information Systems (IRIS). For more information, please visit the MSTM web site at: http://www.mstm.okstate.edu.
- MSIS and IRIS are hosting the Knowledge and Project Management Symposium at OSU-Tulsa on Oct. 3-4, 2007. This event is organized by the Tulsa Chapter of Project Management Institute in collaboration with OSU, University of Oklahoma, University of Tulsa and Northeastern State University. For more information, visit http://kpmsymposium.org.
Recent appointments and title changes:
- Dr. Lanny G. Chasteen, accounting professor, appointed to Wilton T. Anderson Professorship
- Donald R. Hermann, from associate professor to associate professor and Arthur Anderson Professor, accounting
- Charlotte J. Wright, accounting professor, appointed to the Lanny Chasteen Chair of Accounting
- Marilyn G. Kletke, from professor and director of MIS program to professor, management science and information systems
In the News:
Dr. Mark Snead, director of the Center for Applied Economic Research, released an updated economic forecast for Oklahoma that was picked up by various news outlets. Below are links to some of those news stories.
MSIS News from the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, Colo., 2007:
- Stephen Barnes, David Biros, Mark Weiser and Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. presented the paper “Incorporating Information Assurance in Systems Analysis and Design Curricula.”
- Drs. Ramesh Sharda and Dursun Delen with SSB MIS major Michael Henry presented a paper “Forecasting Box Office Success of Movies: 2007 Update Using Neural Networks” at the AMCIS 2007 conference. Henry’s research is being supported through National Science Foundation and the LS-OKAMP Program.
- OSU will co-host AMCIS 2009 in San Francisco and several MSIS faculty will play leading roles in its organization, including Sharda (general co-chair) Delen (marketing chair) Romano (workshops co-chair) and Biros (exhibits co-chair).
Poole Research/Outreach Excellence Award:
- The Richard W. Poole Research Excellence award is presented to faculty members who have been identified among the best in their fields by having their research accepted and published in top-tier research journals. The Outreach Excellence is for outstanding commitment and achievement in areas of business outreach. Recipients for 2006-07 are as follows:
- Matt Bowler: “Emotional Exhaustion and Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Motivation,” Journal of Applied Psychology
- Xiang Fang: “An Examination of Different Explanations for the Mere Exposure Effect,” Journal of Consumer Research
- Don Hansen: “Ecoefficiency: Defining a Role for Environmental Cost Management,” Accounting, Organization, and Society Journal
- Tip McCubbins: “As False Claim Penalties Mount, Defendants Scramble for Answers,” The Business Lawyer
- Rathin Sarathy: “Disclosure Risk Problems with Confidentiality via Camouflage,” Operations Research
- Craig Wallace: “Safety Climate as a Mediator between Foundation Climates and Occupational Accidents: A Group-Level Investigation,” American Psychological Association Reports
- Andrew Urich, associate professor of legal studies, received the Poole Award for Outreach Excellence
Research Excellence:
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Dr. Laurie A. Lucas, assistant professor of legal studies, recently presented the paper, "The Consumer Credit Protection Act: Rethinking the Least-Sophisticated Consumer Standard," at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business's International Conference in Indianapolis, Ind.
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Dr. Betty Simkins, William Professor of Finance, has been invited to serve on the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences. This journal's focus is to promote the infusion of the functional and behavioral areas of business with the concepts and methodologies of the decision sciences and information systems.
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Dr. Mark Gavin, associate professor of management and Carson Professor of Business Administration, was recently elected to a five-year cycle that culminates with the presidency of the Southern Management Association (SMA). He will take office and begin this cycle at the annual meeting in early November. SMA has more than 1,000 members and is one of the most active of the regional affiliates of the national Academy of Management, also serving as the home for the Journal of Management.
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Ph.D. student (Management) Bob Duesing presented “The Anticipated Performance Effects of Substitution-Based Outsourcing Agreements” that was co-authored with K. Matthew Gilley (St. Mary's University), Bradley Benson (Louisiana Tech University) and Wallace Davidson III (Southern Illinois University) at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Penn.
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Dr. Debra L. Nelson, SSB Associate Professor of Management, and James C. Quick (The University of Texas at Arlington) were invited to serve as guest editors for a special issue of Consulting Psychology Journal that will focused on leadership.
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"Exploration of Feature Selection and Advanced Classification Models for High-Stakes Deception Detection" by Christie Fuller (Ph.D. MSIS), Drs. David Biros and Dursun Delen, has been accepted to the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
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Dr. Dave Carter, associate professor of finance, was recognized as “2007 Professor of the Year” by the Consortium Institute of Management and Business Analysis (CIMBA), Asolo, Italy.
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Dr. Ramesh Rao, professor and Paul C. Wise Chair in Finance, was invited by the Indian School of Business to present a paper at its workshop seminar series held Aug. 7. “Earnings Management and the Cost of Debt” was co-authored with Andy Prevost (Ohio University) and Chris Skousen (Utah State University and an OSU accounting Ph.D. graduate). In July, Rao was invited by Multimedia University, Malaysia (Ceberjaya and Melaka campuses) to review its undergraduate and graduate finance programs and present a research paper.
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Fernando Jimenez (Ph.D.) presented “Emotional Attachment to Objects: Proposed Antecedents” at the American Marketing Association’s Summer Educator’s Conference in Washington, D.C. The paper was co-authored with Dr. Kevin Voss, associate professor of marketing.
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Over the summer, Dr. Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. was elected as the Region 1 Representative (the Americas), on the Association for Information Systems Council, Term 2007-2009. He is also the co-author the “State of Corporate Website Accessibility” in the forthcoming Communications of the ACM (CACM) and the "Privacy and Security in the Age of Electronic Customer Relationship Management in the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy.
News from the School of Accounting
- The following articles were co-authored by SSB alumni and the head of the School of Accounting Dr. Don Hansen.
- Liming Guam (University of Hawaii), Don R. Hansen, Shannon Leikham Charles (BYU), and Jay Shaw (University of Mississippi) co-authored “Stable Betas, Size, Earnings to Price, Book to Market, and Validity of the Capital Asset Pricing Model" for the Managerial Finance (Vol. 33, Issue 8, 2007).
- Royce Burnett (University of Miami), Don R. Hansen, and Olga Quintana co-authored “Eco-efficiency: Achieving Productivity Improvements through Environmental Cost Management” for the Accounting and Public Interest (Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2007).
- Royce Burnett (University of Miami) and Don R. Hansen co-authored “Eco-efficiency: Defining a Role for Environmental Cost Management” for a forthcoming issue of Accounting, Organizations, and Society.
- Shannon Leikham Charles (BYU) and Don R. Hansen co-authored “An Evaluation of Activity-Based Costing and Functional Based Costing: A Game-Theoretic Approach” for a forthcoming issue of International Journal of Production Economics.
- Last April, CPAFocus reported that the State of Oklahoma had two gold and two silver medal winners at 2007 CPA Exam, with two of the four being OSU graduates.
- Gold Medal Winner (Earned the highest score within Window 4 of 2006)
Christy D. Schellenberg (B.S. and M.S. in accounting from Oklahoma State, 2006)
- Silver Medal Winner (Earned the highest score for four parts taken in Window 4 of 2006 and Window 1 of 2007)
Batbayar Delger (B.S. and M.S. in accounting from Oklahoma State, 2004)
- An article by accounting professors Lanny Chasteen and Charles Ransom was mention in the Actuarial Review, November 2007. The following are the first two paragraphs:
"A Review of 'Including Credit Standing in Measuring the Fair Value of Liabilities — Let’s Pass This One to the Shareholders,' Lanny G. Chasteen and Charles R. Ransom, Accounting Horizons, Vol. 21 No. 2, June 2007 by Philip E. Heckman, Heckman Actuarial Consultants, Ltd.
"The captioned article, which has appeared recently in an academic accounting journal and addresses very general accounting problems, should be, in my judgment, of considerable interest to casualty actuaries and to the actuarial community at large. The authors, both professors of accounting at Oklahoma State University, have proposed a solution to the credit standing dilemma which may potentially satisfy most parties with a stake in the issue...."
News from CEPD:
OSU Dallas/Ft. Worth Alumni School of Accounting Event
- Drs. Carol Johnson and Bud Lacy, OSU associate professors of accounting, will present sessions on the topics of fraud in the workplace, tax ethics, and intermediate sanctions and excessive compensation at the OSU Dallas/Fort Worth Alumni September CPE Kickoff to be held Sept. 26 in Dallas from 1 to 5 p.m. Presented by the OSU School of Accounting Spears School of Business, the seminar is an outreach to the Dallas/Fort Worth alumni and qualifies for four hours of CPE credit, including three hours of ethics. For more information, see the web site at www.cepd.okstate.edu or call 405-744-5208.
Managing to Lead Organizations
- Over 50 people attended the two-hour seminar held in Stillwater at Central Rural Electric Cooperative, featuring “Managing to Lead Organizations” with Dr. Ken Eastman, associate professor of management. This seminar is part of the Leadership Source University offered by CREC with participation from Stillwater-area companies as well as others across the state. The next seminar is “Developing Your Professional Network,” scheduled Oct. 11 with Dr. Matt Bowler, assistant professor of management. For more information, see the web site at www.cepd.okstate.edu or call 405-744-5208.
One-Day Professional Development Seminars open to the public
- "Influence Skills: Authority is Out, Influence is In" offered Sept. 5 in OKC presented by Dr. Andrew Urich
- "Developing Your Professional Image" offered Sept. 12 in OKC and Sept. 19 in Tulsa presented by Dr. Andrew Urich
- For more information, see the web site at www.cepd.okstate.edu or call 1-866-678-3933 or 405-744-5208
Peace through Business: Panel of Women Entrepreneurs from Afghanistan
- A panel of five women entrepreneurs from Afghanistan will address an expected audience of over 200 people in the Wes Watkins Center on Wednesday, Sept. 5 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Wes Watkins Center auditorium. This program is presented by the OSU Spears School of Business, the OSU School of International Studies and the Women Impacting Public Policy Institute. The panel presentation is open to the public and a reception will be following the presentation. For more information, call the OSU Center for Executive and Professional Development at (405) 744-5208 or the School of International Studies at (405) 744-6606.
2007-08 Tulsa Business Forums and Executive Management Briefings
- The Spears School of Business is pleased to announce the OSU Speaker series in Tulsa and Oklahoma City this year. A limited number of sponsorships are still available. For more information, visit the web site at www.cepd.okstate.edu or call the Center for Executive and Professional Development at 1-866-678-3933 or (405) 744-5208.
Tulsa Business Forums
- Wally Uihlein, chairman and CEO, Acushnet Company (Titleist, FootJoy & Cobra) on Oct. 18 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Tulsa, 12 noon-1:30 p.m.
- Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, 2000-2006, Feb. 5, 2008, Mabee Center, 4-5:30 p.m.
- Marcus Buckingham, author of First Break all the Rules and Go Put Your Strengths to Work, March 25, 2008, Renaissance Tulsa Hotel, 2:30-5 p.m.
Executive Management Briefings—20th anniversary
- Juan Enriquez, chairman and CEO, Biotechonomy, Dec. 4, 2007, at the Cox Business Center from 12 noon-1:30 p.m.
- Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, Feb. 5, 2008, OKC Civic Center, 10-11:30 a.m.
- Marcus Buckingham, author of First Break all the Rules and Go Put your Strengths to Work, March 25, 2008, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 9-11:30 a.m.
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