Albert Cannella, Earl P. and Ethel B. Koerner Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, published the following articles over the last two years: With John-Hoon Park and Ho-uk Lee, “Top Management Team Diversity and Firm Performance: Examining the Roles of External and Internal Context,” Academy of Management Journal, 51(4): 768-784; with Yangmin Kim, “Social Capital Among Corporate Upper Echelons and its Impacts on Executive Promotion in Korea,” Corporate Governance, an International Review, 16(4): 282-293 and Journal of World Business, 43(1): 85-96; with Matthew Semadeni, Donald R. Fraser and D. Scott Lee, “Fight or Flight: Managing Stigma in Executive Careers,” Strategic Management Journal, 29(5): 557-567; with Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller and Richard H. Lester, “Are Family Firms Really Superior Performers,” Journal of Corporate Finance, 13(5): 829-858; with Cynthia Devers, Gregory P. Reilly and Michele E. Yoder, “Executive Compensation: A Multidisciplinary Review of Recent Developments,” Journal of Management, 33(6):1016-1072; with Amy J. Hillman and Christine Shropshire, “Organizational Predictors of Women in Top Management Teams and Corporate Boardrooms,” Academy of Management Journal, 50(4):941-952; and with Tieying Yu, “Interactions Between Multinational Enterprises in Host Countries: An Event-History Approach,” Academy of Management Journal, 50(3): 663-684.
Victor J. Cook, Freeman Professor of Doctoral Studies and Research and Senior Fellow at the Goldring Institute for International Business, contributed an opinion piece to BusinessWeek in February 2009. The article, titled “What GM Can Learn From IBM,” suggested that GM can learn much from the example of IBM, which transformed itself from a product-driven company to a services-driven company under the visionary leadership of Louis Gerstner. To read more of Cook’s articles on marketing and finance, visit his blog at www.customersandcapital.com.
John Elstrott, clinical professor of business and executive director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, delivered two recent presentations on conscious capitalism. Elstrott presented “Conscious Capitalism and the Purpose-Driven Business” on March 5 to the French Quarter Business Association in New Orleans and “Conscious Capitalism and Social Entrepreneurship in New Orleans” on March 23 to kick off the IDEAcorps Challenge ’09.
Rob Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business, Finance and Economics, presented “On the Value of Analyst Recommendation Revisions,” a paper co-authored with Oya Altinkilic dealing with analyst research over the past decade at the major investment banks, at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In addition, Hansen presented “Underpricing to Buy Holding,” a paper co-authored with Suman Banerjee and Emir Hrnjic-Emir dealing with investment bank pricing of initial public offerings in the U.S. and around the world, at the Fourth Biannual Financial Intermediation Research Society Finance Conference in Prague, May 27–29, 2009. Hansen also presented “Evidence That Analysts Are Not Information Agents,” a paper co-authored with Oya Alvtinkilic and Vadim Balashov which also deals with research by major investment banks over the past decade, at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., on April 16 and as part of the European School of Management and Technology’s Faculty Research Seminar series in Berlin on June 2.
Tom Noe, A. B. Freeman Chair in Finance, delivered the presentation “Executive Compensation and the Equity Investor,” for the Research Channel’s Freeman Faculty Lecture Series. In the video lecture, Noe discusses current research regarding executive compensation at public companies and the effects of compensation reform on equity investors. Noe’s video lecture is available on demand at www.ResearchChannel.org.
