Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Jasmijn Bol received the 2015 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award for her paper “The determinants and performance effects of managers’ performance evaluation biases,” which was published in 2011 in The Accounting Review. The Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association presents the award each year to recognize outstanding contributions to the management accounting literature.

Michael Burke and Sheri Tice were honored with the inaugural Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence. Presented each year at the discretion of the dean, the award recognizes professors who have exhibited sustained, exceptional performance in teaching, research and service. Burke, the Lawrence Martin Chair in Business and professor of management, joined the Freeman School in 1991 and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. One of the nation’s leading experts on worker safety training, Burke has chaired 34 dissertation committees and served as a member on an additional 51 committees at the Freeman School, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and in the Department of Psychology. Tice, the A. B. Freeman Chair of Business and professor of finance, joined the Freeman School in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2010. In addition to publishing research on corporate finance in leading journals, Tice supervises and teaches the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund course, an honors seminar in which students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels read current scholarly research on value investing and manage three portfolios totaling over $3.8 million in Freeman School endowment funds.

Robert Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance, presented his paper “Can analysts pick stocks for the long-run?” at Florida State University in February as part of its finance seminar series. The presentation was attended by FSU’s finance faculty and PhD candidates. In November 2014, Hansen served as a discussant for the Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference at the Wharton School in Philadelphia. The annual conference showcases selected research in financial accounting under consideration for publication in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Kris Hoang, assistant professor of accounting, received the Freeman School’s 2014 Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award for Undergraduate Education. The award recognizes faculty members who are outstanding instructors and whose teaching aligns with the strategic objectives of the school. An assistant professor of accounting, Hoang joined the Freeman School in 2012 after earning her PhD from the University of Alberta.

Adrienna Huffman, assistant professor of accounting, received the Best Paper Award at the Western Region Meeting of the American Accounting Association. Her paper, “Competing reporting objectives and financial reporting quality,” was co-authored with Melissa Lewis-Western.

Lei Lai, assistant professor of management, was honored with the 2015 Most Influential Article Award from the Conflict Management Division at the Academy of Management Conference. Lai and co-authors Hannah Bowles and Linda Babcock received the award for their article “Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask.” Originally published in 2007 in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the paper investigates differential treatment of men and women when they attempt to negotiate.

Daniel Mochon, assistant professor of marketing, received the Society for Consumer Psychology’s 2015 C.W. Park Outstanding Contribution to the Field Award for his paper “The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love.” The award was presented at the society’s winter 2015 conference in Phoenix. The paper, co-authored with Michael Norton and Dan Ariely, suggests that individuals attach greater value to products they create themselves than those products might objectively deserve. It originally appeared in Journal of Consumer Psychology in 2012.

Greg Oldham was named one of the nation’s most influential living I/O psychologists by HR education website Human Resources MBA. Oldham is the J. F. Jr. and Jesse Lee Seinsheimer Chair of Business and professor of management.

Geoffrey Parker received the Freeman School’s 2014 Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Education. The award recognizes faculty members who are outstanding instructors and whose teaching aligns with the strategic objectives of the school. Parker, the Norman Mayer Professor of Business and professor of management science, joined the Freeman School in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2011.

Peter Ricchiuti received the Freeman School’s 2014 Dean’s Excellence in Intellectual Contribution Award. Established in 2012, the award honors professors of practice and lecturers who have produced outstanding scholarly contributions. Ricchiuti, the William B. Burkenroad Jr. Professor of Practice in Finance, is founder and director of Burkenroad Reports, the Freeman School’s acclaimed student equities research program.

Christine Smith, professor of practice in accounting, received Tulane University’s 2015 John H. Stibbs Award for Best Undergraduate Teacher. The award is presented each year by Tulane’s Associated Student Government to recognize the university’s top undergraduate professor. Smith also received the Freeman School’s 2015 Howard W. Wissner Award for Undergraduate Education. Selected by a vote of the BSM class, the award recognizes an outstanding professor who displays excellence in teaching as well as interest in students and their activities.

Ira Solomon, dean and Debra and Rick Rees Professor of Business, was appointed to a two-year term
on the board of directors of AACSB International. The appointment will run through 2016. Solomon has served as dean of the Freeman School since 2011.