Faculty Research News

• Michael A. Pagano, interim dean of the CBA, recently participated in a Financial Innovation Lab at Milken Institute titled, “Opportunities for Restructuring in State and Municipal Finance.” Pagano participated in the segment Scope of the Problem and presented “The City Fiscal Backdrop.”


• Maija Renko assistant professor of managerial studies, has just received a $10,000 grant from the Kauffman Foundation in support of her research: "Why does women's participation in entrepreneurship still lag that of men? An empirical study of recent business school graduates."


• Maija Renko, assistant professor of managerial studies, was awarded a Chancellor's Discovery Grant for her joint project with Sarah Parker, assistant professor of disability and human development, "Participation through Innovation: Social entrepreneurship as a pathway to employment for people with disabilities." The award is for $40,000. The Chancellor's Discovery Fund for Multidisciplinary Pilot Research is a program that supports new multidisciplinary collaborations led by emerging researchers at UIC. The goal is to foster academic inquiry that draws upon the expertise of varied disciplines, to nurture the research career trajectories of promising early-stage investigators, and to help awardees leverage extramural funding.


• Jenny Hoobler, assistant professor of managerial studies, was awarded a $19,890 grant from the UIC Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Education and Research Center, funded by the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety. The funded research is a study of workplace bullying and stress in nurses, and unit-level hospital outcomes. Dr. Kathy Rospenda, UIC Department of Psychiatry, is the research mentor on the project, and Carolyn Dickens, U of I Medical Center at Chicago and entering PhD Student, UIC College of Nursing, will be a collaborator.


• Grace Lemmon and Smriti Anand, doctoral candidates in human resource management, have both been selected to receive one of the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation Dissertation grant awards. This is a highly competitive award, which is based on the quality of the dissertation research and its potential to make a significant impact on the field of human resource management. The honor includes a $5,000 award.


• Jasmine (Jia) Hu, PhD candidate in human resource management, was selected as a 2010 Greenleaf Scholar by the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Her proposal is titled "A Team-Level Social Exchange Model of Servant Leadership and Team Effectiveness". Her application was submitted under the guidance of Professor Bob Liden. The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership is a national institution offering resources and support to promote the understanding of servant leadership by individuals and organizations. The Greenleaf Scholars Program was established to advance research on servant leadership.


• Nordia Thomas, PhD candidate in business statistics, was accepted into the 2010 Institute on Computational Economics at the University of Chicago. ICE serves as a focal point for promoting and disseminating cutting-edge methods in computational science useful in the solution and empirical estimation of economic models.


• Anthony M. Pagano, associate professor of management, was the featured speaker at a conference entitled "The Competitiveness of Human Resources in the Development of International Trade." The conference was held in Colon, Panama, which is at the terminal of the Panama Canal at the Caribbean side on April 21. His presentation was entitled "Human Resource Issues in Logistics and Transportation: The US Perspective."


• On April 14, Dale Rosenthal , assistant professor of finance, presented his paper "Performance Metrics for Algorithmic Traders" at the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Spring Conference in Las Vegas. On April 16, he presented his paper "A Network Model of Counterparty Risk" at the NYU Stern Volatility Institute's conference on Volatility and Systemic Risk.


• Chris Westland, professor of information and decision sciences, spoke about China's Internet, and the rise of global networking to the students of the newly formed Chicago Academy for Advanced Technology (CAAT) on Thursday April 8th, 2010. Over the past year, he has been active with the Chicago mayor's office in setting up the curriculum at CAAT.


• Al Page, professor of managerial studies, was cited in a recent article in the Journal of Product Innovation Management as "among the most influential scholars in research on new product innovation and [is] among JPIM's most cited authors."


• Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, associate professor of information and decision sciences, has recently returned from five months in Bangalore, India where she was a 2009 U.S. Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Management. She led a research team to study global collaboration in software development and information technology service provisioning teams. While in India, she gave the keynote address at a Cross Cultural Management Conference at Holy Cross College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu. She also participated in a Global Panel Discussion with other academics and executives at an annual Industry-Institute event sponsored by the Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. In addition, she was selected to serve on the India National Selection Committee for the 2010-2011 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowships. The  committee included senior academics and policy makers from across India as well as officials from the U.S. Embassy.


• Sid Bhattacharyya, associate professor of information and decision sciences, recently had the following papers accepted for publication: Sid Bhattacharyya and Stellan Ohlsson, "Social Creativity as a Function of Agent Cognition and Network Properties: A Computer Model" in Social Networks; Sid Bhattacharyya, Sanjeev Jha, Kurian Tharakunnel and Chris Westland, "Data Mining for Credit Card Fraud: A Comparative Study" in Decision Support Systems, issue on Quantitative Methods for Detection of Financial Fraud; Yifeng Zhang and Sid Bhattacharyya, "Information Sharing Strategies in Business-to-Business E-Hubs: An Agent-Based Study" in International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies. Professor Bhattacharyya also joined the editorial board of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.


• On March 12, Benet DeBerry-Spence, assistant professor of managerial studies, presented and participated as a panelist at the Fulbright Enrichment Seminar. The topic was "Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Fostering Change through Social Entrepreneurship."


• Dale Rosenthal, assistant professor of finance, gave an invited talk on his paper "Performance Metrics for Algorithmic Traders" on March 17 at the CREATES Market Microstructure Symposium hosted by Aarhus University in Denmark.


• Bob Chirinko, professor of finance, received a grant from the Upjohn Institute to support his research (joint with Dan Wilson of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) on "Employment Tax Credits: Evidence from the States."


• Jelena Spanjol, assistant professor of managerial studies, was mentioned in an article from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in regard to her research paper "How Many and What Kind? The Role of Strategic Orientation in New Product Ideation", which will appear in the Journal of Product Innovation Management.


• Benet DeBerry-Spence, assistant professor of managerial studies, presented at the African Business Conference: Emerging Africa, Value Creation in the Next Frontier. Her talk addressed small and microenterprise opportunities in African consumer markets and was part of the panel titled, the Aspiring African Consumer Marketplace--Capturing the Opportunity. The conference was held at Northwestern University and hosted by the Kellogg School of Management.


• Managerial studies professor Abby McWilliams presented "Encouraging Corporate Social Responsibility" at the 2010 Cultural Impact Conference, hosted by the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. The central theme of the conference was "Empowering Neighborhoods" and sessions explored the composition and evolution of neighborhoods and those who live in them. In her session, McWilliams shared findings on the ways in which community groups can become relevant stakeholders for firms in their neighborhoods.


• Bob Chirinko, professor of finance, presented "Equity Misvaluation and Capital Misallocation: A Revealed Preference Approach" and "Adjustment Costs, The Marginal Product of Capital, And The Lucas Paradox" at the 2010 Allied Social Sciences Association meetings held in Atlanta.