Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Jasmijn Bol, above right, gave a keynote address at the XIV Congresso USP de Controladoria e Contabilidade, XI Congresso USP de Iniciação Científica em Contabilidade at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil. Bol’s talk was titled “Innovative Research: Examples from Management Accounting.” The conference attracted 1,200 participants and was broadcast on Brazilian TV.

Ashley Nelson, professor of practice in management communication, was recently appointed a Social Entrepreneur Faculty Fellow by the Office of Academic Affairs and Provost. The provost’s office created the new role to strengthen social entrepreneur work. Nelson also delivered a presentation at the Association for Business Communication’s 78th Annual International Convention, which took place in New Orleans in October 2013. In the presentation, “Social Service Learning: Leveraging Service for Future Employment,” Nelson discussed her Social Media course, which puts students to work on social media projects for non-profit partners. Nelson said students have been able to use that experience in job interviews, resulting in more internships and full-time job offers for her students. Nelson also participated in a panel discussion on teaching. Her presentation was later
featured in the article “A Gumbo of Favorite Assignments: Global, Communicating Complex Information, Short Message Packaging,” which was published in the June 2014 issue of Business & Professional Communication Quarterly.

Kris Hoang, assistant professor of accounting, was selected as the recipient of the 2014 Freeman Student Government (FSG) Teaching Award. The award, formerly known as the BSM Wissner Award, is selected by the FSG Executive Board from a list of finalists chosen by a vote of the undergraduate student body.

C. Edward Fee, professor of finance, received the 2014 Review of Financial Studies Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award, sponsored by Research Affiliates, for his paper “Managers with and without Style: Evidence Using Exogenous Variation.” The paper was co-authored with Charles J. Hadlock, professor of finance at Michigan State University, and Joshua R. Pierce, assistant professor of finance at the University of South Carolina. The award was presented on May 19 at the Society for Financial Studies (SFS) Finance Cavalcade Conference in Washington D.C.

Frank Jaster, professor of practice in management and corporate communication, gave a presentation entitled “Perception Is Not Reality: Debunking the Myth of MBA Illiteracy” at the Academic Forum International Conference in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, in October, 2013.

Jasmijn Bol, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellow in Accounting and associate professor of accounting, presented the paper “Helping Others to Enhance Your Status: The Evolutionary Psychology of Agent-Agent Information Sharing,” co-authored with Justin Leiby, at Maastricht University, Auckland University, Monash University and University of Melbourne in May and June 2014. Bol also presented the paper “Making a Difference: How Control System Design Affects Centrality Bias,” co-authored with Stephan Kramer, Victor Maas and Sandra Richtermeyer, at the 2014 Global Management Accounting Research Symposium, which took place in June 2014 in Sydney.

Geoffrey Parker, professor of management science, co-chaired second annual MIT Platform Strategy Summit, which took place on July 25, 2014, in Cambridge, Mass., at MIT’s Media Lab. The conference was organized to educate business leaders on the way that platform markets impact the economics and management of corporate strategy in today’s rapidly changing, digital-centric world and featured presentations by business luminaries whose pioneering strategies and tactics have transformed — and disrupted — industry sectors including education, energy, publishing, staffing and human resources, and data management.

Sherif A. Ebrahim, lecturer in strategy and innovation, spoke about innovation at two recent events. In March, he delivered the presentation “Resilient Growth Strategies in an Uncertain Economy” at the Interise Annual Meeting in Atlanta, and in April, he delivered the presentation “Innovation for Long Term Growth” at a seminar organized by Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Ebrahim was also appointed to the boards of East Jefferson General Hospital and the Jefferson Parish Hospital Service District and served on the research advisory committee of “The Resilient Small Employer Firm: Considering the Factors Critical for Success during Turbulent Times,” a white paper on innovation written for the Federal Reserve to help guide economic policy with respect to the impacts on small businesses