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Student News…
Sarah Chabinak from SSB Student Services reports that nine OSU students attended the Phi Beta Lambda National Conference in Chicago in June and that Mary Oliver (ACCT/MGMT) was elected national treasurer.
Results from student competition are as follows:
Emilee Lehenbauer (INBU)—2nd place International Business
Emilee Lehenbauer (INBU) & Mitchell Norton (MIS/MKTG)—4th place Management Concepts (team event)
Mitchell Norton (MIS/MKTG)—1st place Marketing Concepts
Mary Oliver (ACCT/MGMT)—8th place Accounting for Professionals & 3rd place Accounting Analysis & Decision Making
Jessica Reid (HRAD/MKTG)—8th place Marketing Analysis & Decision Making & 5th place Hospitality Management
OSU—8th place Local Chapter Annual Bus Report
Also, we would like to give special thanks to the MIS, Accounting, MKTG/INBU, and Hotel & Restaurant Administration departments for assisting students with conference costs.
Welcome…
The SSB welcomes Caleb Camp to the Career Services office as its newest coordinator. Camp was working on the OSU HIRE team in the central Career Services office and will be bringing that experience in direct interaction with company recruiters when he teams up with Lindsay Vallaster beginning July 23. Career Services and Academic Services will be teaming up to bring a more tightly integrated plan for students as they move from being prospective SSB students to involved alumni with successful careers.
Research News…
Dr. Mark Gavin, associate professor of management and the Carson Professor of Business Administration, was recently invited to join the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. In addition to this board, he currently serves on the boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Research Methods.
Dr. Joseph M. Jadlow, professor of economics, authored the July 7 guest editorial "Competition Wins With Ruling" for The Daily Oklahoman concerning the U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark antitrust decision Leegin v. PSKS on resale price maintenance. Jadlow was also interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch concerning the economic implications of the Court's decision and quoted in the newspaper's July 15 article "Supreme Court Ruling Won't Hurt Retail Competition."
Ph.D. students (management) Jason Ridge and Aaron Hill and Dr. Matt Vassar (OSU’s Department of Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics), recently had their paper “Inducing Score Reliability form Previous Reports: An Examination of Life Satisfaction Studies” accepted for publication in Social Indicators Research.
“Is Informal Planning the Key to the Success of the Inc. 500?” Dr. Goutam Chakraborty, professor of marketing, was accepted for publication in the Journal of Small Business Strategy. It was co-authored with Anthony Allred and H. Lon Addams.
Dr. Margaret White, associate professor of management, and S. Behr (2007) are the authors of “Becoming a chameleon group: Making capabilities dynamic in a changing environment” in Business Strategy Series, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 293-302. They also author Chapter 16 “The Theory and Reality of Strategy: How Practitioners and Academics can Form Meaningful Partnerships” in Advanced Strategic Management: A Multi-Perspective Approach. Edited by Mark Jenkins and Veronique Ambrosini with Nardine Collier and published by Palgrave MacMillan.
White also presented “To the Chemical Dependency Ministry School—Tools to Take Home—Strategic Management” on June 27 for the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Dr. Marie Dasborough, assistant professor of management, recently presented "New directions in leadership research" at the 7th Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference (IOP) /1st Asia Pacific Congress on Work & Organisational Psychology (APCWOP), Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Dasborough was invited as the keynote speaker at the 9th Annual Research Colloquium, University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The topic of her address was "Life after the Ph.D.”
Dasborough presented "An experimental study of followers’ cognitive and affective reactions to self- versus organization-focused leaders" at the International Society for Research on the Emotions (ISRE) Conference, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Dr. Ramesh Sharda, ConocoPhillips Chair and Regents Professor of MSIS and director of IRIS, reported the following news items:
SSB alumnus Dr. Ozgur Turetken and Sharda have a paper “Visualization Of Web Spaces: State Of The Art And Future Directions” forthcoming in the next issue of ACM Database.
Sharda and recent SSB graduate Dr. Ashish Gupta presented a paper “Modeling Opportunities in Email Management Issues” at the International INFORMS Meeting, July 2007
Sharda has received a grant from Onenet to analyze their telecommunications service pricing models and develop a new model. As part of the grant, Sharda and his team are studying the pricing policies in place nationwide with state telecommunications networks.
Dr. Betty Simkins, associate professor of finance, was a panelist at the 2007 Doctoral Student Seminar at the Financial Management Association European Conference held in Barcelona. Spain on May 30. She spoke about corporate risk management. At the same meeting, she presented “Valuing Options When Stockholders Face Bankruptcy Risk, ” which was co-authored by Dr. Antonio Camara, the Watson Family Chair and associate professor of finance.
Simkins was invited to chair and moderate a special session roundtable on energy finance at the INFINITI Conference held in Dublin, Ireland in June.
Simkins was quoted in the July 2007 issue of Pacific Fishing Magazine about fuel hedging from an article she co-auther, “Think Beyond the Credit Card with New Fuel Strategies.”
Dr. Gary Simpson, Oklahoma Bankers Association Chair of Commercial Bank Management and professor of finance, presented “The Gender and Ethnic Diversity of Corporate Board Committees and Financial Performance” at the INFINITI Conference. The paper was co-authored by the following: Simkins, Dr. Dave Carter, associate professor of finance and MBA director, and graduate assistant Frank D’Souza.
The following articles were recently accepted for publication. Co-authors include management professors Dr. Tim DeGroot and Debra L. Nelson and SSB alums Laura Little, J. Gooty, D.L. Kluemper and B.L. Simmons.
Kleumper, D., Little, L.M., & DeGroot, T.: "State or trait: Effects of state optimism on job-related outcomes" in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Simmons, B.L., Gooty, J., Nelson, D.L., & Little, L.M.: "Attachment theory, trust and performance" in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
EVENTS…
Aug. 30: Leadership Seminar to Help Managers Find More Time to Lead Employees, Organizations
Dr. Ken Eastman, associate professor of management, will present the seminar “Managing to Lead Organizations” to Oklahoma business and government leaders from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Aug. 30. Eastman, Oklahoma State University management department head and associate professor, will share insights about how to create more time for leadership activities by shifting management responsibilities to employees. An OSU-CREC LeadershipSource collaboration, this seminar is the second offering in a six-part leadership series running through March 2008. The seminar will be presented at the Central Rural Electric Cooperative Training Center in Stillwater and transmitted via video conference to attract leaders across the state. The seminar is open to the public. The $85 registration fee includes all seminar materials. For more information, call the OSU Center for Executive and Professional Development at 744-5208 or visit http://www.leadershipsource.coop.
ALUMNI NEWS…
Indiana University named Bradley C. Wheeler vice president for information technology. Wheeler is IU acting chief information officer and dean of information technology for IU Bloomington and a professor of information systems in the Kelley School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the IU Kelley School of Business in 1993. A native of Hinton, Okla., he received both his bachelor's and MBA degrees from OSU.
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