Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Michael Burke, Lawrence Martin Chair of Business, presented two papers at recent academic conferences. In April 2013, he presented “Qualitative investigation of context: Staff rides for research and practice,” a master tutorial, at the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in Houston, and in May 2013, he presented “Extending the staff ride for qualitative research in organizational psychology” at the 16th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology in Munster, Germany.

John Elstrott, professor of practice and emeritus executive director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, was honored at the 2013 Tulane Council of Entrepreneurs Awards Gala. Elstrott received both the Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Tulane Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, marking the first time in the history of the event that one person received both awards. The gala took place on April 19 at the Audubon Tea Room in New Orleans.

Geoffrey Parker, professor of management science, led two workshops on platform strategy this summer. The workshops, one aimed at scholars and the other at executives, gave participants the opportunity to interact with academics at the forefront of platform strategy research and with executives facing the strategic challenges of launching, growing and defending businesses in a network world.

Eric Smith, professor of practice and associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, recently wrote a short opinion piece for a blog run by Joel Kotkin, professor of urban development and writer on trends in urban and suburban America. The article, titled “The Janus Effect,” used the example of Germany to demonstrate the real economic problems associated with government mandated changes in energy supply when those governments ignore technical limitations.

Myke Yest, professor of practice in finance, and Kelly Grant, professor of practice in management communication, presented their paper “Persuading investors: emphasizing communication in a finance simulation” at the 2013 Academic and Business Research Institute (AABRI) International Conference, which took place in New Orleans in March 2013. The paper was subsequently published in the May 2013 issue of Journal of Instructional Pedagogies.

Lingling Wang and Zhi Li, assistant professors of finance, presented their paper “Executive Compensation Incentives Contingent on Long-term Accounting Performance” at two recent conferences. In July, they presented the paper at the 2013 China International Conference in Finance in Shanghai, and in August, they presented it at the 40th annual meeting of the European Finance Association in Cambridge, England.