Baker School of Business: awards and publications
When they weren’t busy writing papers this semester, faculty in the Baker school of business were earning awards and publishing their research. Here’s a snapshot of their work:
Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship Russell Sobel (opens in a new tab) received the 2024 Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
Susan Wright (opens in a new tab), associate professor of accounting and dean of assessment, and Todd Drew (opens in a new tab), director of graduate and college transfer programs, were part of the group honored with the 2024 Provost’s Team of the Year Award.
Assistant Professor of Management Arpit Sharma (opens in a new tab), Associate Professor Susan Wright and Hipp Chair Stacey Nutt (opens in a new tab) published An Immersive Learning Experience Utilizing Essential Technology in Accounting Education in The Journal of Business Cases and Applications. This case aims to create an immersive experience in Excel. Students use Excel cell referencing to complete the steps of the accounting cycle and create the main financial statements.
Assistant Professor of Finance Hussein Abdoh (opens in a new tab) and Assistant Professor of Finance Michael Chitavi (opens in a new tab) co-authored the article The Impact of Deviations from Soybean Product Crushing Estimates on Return and Risk (opens in a new tab), which was recently published by Agricultural Economics. The research shows that USDA estimates of soybean crushing impact the soybean derivative markets, underscoring their importance in risk management.
Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship Antonina Bauman (opens in a new tab) co-authored the book Group and Team Work (opens in a new tab), which was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in the Teaching Methods in Business series.
Associate Professor Susan Wright co-authored the article, A Data Analytics Case Study Analyzing IRS SOI Migration Data Using No-Code, Low-Code Technologies (opens in a new tab), which was published in The Journal of Accounting Education.
Professor of Economics Richard Ebeling (opens in a new tab) published an opinion piece entitled Interventionism, not Capitalism, has Caused our Economic Problems in The Orange County Register, one of the leading California newspapers with a national online readership.
The International Journal of Leadership in Education accepted a paper co-written by Benjamin Dean (opens in a new tab), department head and associate professor of management, Tracey Sigler (opens in a new tab), department head and associate professor of leadership studies and Assistant Professor Arpit Sharma (opens in a new tab). The article is entitled Initiating and Leading a Grassroots Process of Organizational Change to Advance a University Mission (opens in a new tab).
Provost and Dean of the College Sally Selden (opens in a new tab); Michael R. Weeks (opens in a new tab), dean and Robert A. Jolley chair of business administration; Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship James Bezjian (opens in a new tab); Associate Professor Benjamin Dean; Associate Professor of Health and Human Performance Sarah Imam, M.D. (opens in a new tab); Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management Sergey Ponomarov (opens in a new tab); and Bob Riggle, department head and associate professor of marketing, co-authored the article Higher Education Response to Institutional Upheaval: Outcomes of Industry Collaborations During the COVID-19 Pandemic (opens in a new tab), which was published in the Journal of Industry and Higher Education.
The CASE Journal published a teaching case with an instructional manual written by Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship David Desplaces (opens in a new tab) and Todd Drew, director of graduate and college transfer programs. The case is entitled Space Tourism: an Industry with a Future? (opens in a new tab) and is designed for students to demonstrate their mastery of industry-level analysis in the emerging space tourism industry.