Research

Selected Faculty Awards and Honors

Christine Smith - Fall/Winter 2023 -

Christine Smith, senior professor of practice in accounting, received the 2023 Dean’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award is the Freeman School’s highest honor for undergraduate instruction.

Read the full article →

Beneath the noise, a simple tale of what corporate strategy should not be

- Fall 2022 -

What does an executive who leads a company that manufactures electric vehicles — and who is still struggling to address the challenges of that industry — know about managing a largely unprofitable social media company? Even in the best of circumstances, it would have been a questionable decision.

Read the full article →

How do you follow a flameout?

- Fall 2022 -

Airbnb, Uber and SiriusXM are each examples of what business scholars call beacons, companies that shine a light on a particular market space and confer legitimacy upon those that follow. But what happens to those followers when a beacon fails?

Read the full article →

Selected Faculty Presentations and Honors

- Fall 2022 -

Gans Narayanamoorthy, professor of accounting, was selected as a 2022–23 Duren Professor by Newcomb-Tulane College. Narayanamoorthy was selected for his new undergraduate Risk Analytics course.

Read the full article →

Selected Faculty Publications

- Fall 2022 -

Cameron Verhaal’s paper “Authenticity-Based Connections as Organizational Constraints and the Paradox of Authenticity in the Market for Cuban Cigars,” co-authored with Oliver Hahl and Kevin Fandl, was accepted for publication in Organization Science. Verhaal is an assistant professor of management.

Read the full article →

Researcher says investors respond to voluntary CEO pay ratio disclosures

- Fall 2022 -

For a forthcoming paper, Assistant Professor of Accounting Lisa LaViers studied the voluntary CEO pay ratio disclosures of every firm in the S&P 1500, documenting and categorizing each example and analyzing its effect on share prices.

Read the full article →

The pandemic didn’t change how people work, it just accelerated the change

- Winter 2022 -

Like a sudden splash of cold water, the COVID-19 pandemic was a rude awakening for many organizations. The global surge in uncertainty intensified the need for operational responsiveness and digitalization, fundamentally changing the way employees view and approach work.

Read the full article →

Is Uber killing public transportation?

- Winter 2022 -

In a forthcoming paper, Yang Pan, assistant professor of management science, uses counterfactual analysis to get a clearer picture of Uber’s effect on public transportation.

Read the full article →

Selected faculty presentations and honors

- Winter 2022 -

Mike Burke, professor of management, virtually presented his paper “Applied Psychological Contributions to Occupational Safety: Industrial Revolution to Post-Cold War” at the 32nd International Congress of Psychology.

Read the full article →

Selected faculty publications

- Winter 2022 -

Robert Prilmeier’s paper “Why Do Firms Borrow Directly from Nonbanks?,” co-authored with Isil Erel and Sergey Chernenko, has been accepted for publication in Review of Financial Studies.

Read the full article →

Study shows politically connected firms enjoy preferential treatment from EPA

- Spring 2021 -

In a forthcoming paper, Amanda Heitz, assistant professor of finance, investigates the relationship between campaign contributions and firm value from a new angle.

Read the full article →

Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Awards, etc.

- Spring 2021 -

Sherif Ebrahim, professor of practice in management, and Ashley Nelson, professor of practice in management communication, were named co-recipients of the 2021 Dean’s Excellence in Intellectual Contribution Award, which honors professors of practice and lecturers who have produced outstanding scholarly contributions.

Read the full article →

Selected Faculty Publications

- Spring 2021 -

Rakesh Mallipeddi’s paper “A Framework for Analyzing Influencer Marketing in Social Networks: Selection and Scheduling of Influencers,” co-authored with Subodha Kumar, Chelliah Sriskandarajah and Yunxia Zhu, has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

Read the full article →

Creating competitive advantage through customer experience

- Fall 2020 -

When Associate Dean John Clarke told me that Freeman had identified hospitality entrepreneurship as an emerging opportunity area for the school, I got very excited. I distinctly remember his pitch — “creating competitive advantage through customer experience” — and while that tidy summation is still accurate, the more practical question for me was, “What does a specialization in Entrepreneurial Hospitality actually look like?”

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →