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New Research @
Boston University School of Management

Fall 2005

Focus On:

Michael Salinger, Professor of Finance and Economics

Trusting Antitrust Policy to New Hands: Prof. Michael Salinger's appointment as FTC’s Director of Bureau of Economics

An interview with Michael Salinger, Professor, Department of Economics

Q:  You’ve got an exciting new position as Director of the Bureau of Economics for the FTC.  What does the job entail?

A: There are a lot of different aspects to the job.  The most important part is to make sure that the economic analysis done by the bureau is correct and presented in a way that the commissioners and the FTC’s lawyers can understand.  I am the primary economic adviser to the Chairman as well as to the other commissioners. There is also a public side of the position, involving giving speeches, going to conferences, etc.

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New Faculty @ SMG

  • Ana Albuquerque, Assistant Professor of Accounting

    Research interests: executive incentives and compensation, financial analysts as information intermediaries, and earnings management

    Featured working paper: Who Are Your Peers: A Study of Relative Performance Evaluation, 2004

    Licenciatura in Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal); M.S., MBA, University of Rochester; Ph.D. (pending), University of Rochester

  • Wenli Huang, Assistant Professor of Accounting

    Research interests: accrual accounting and managerial compensation

    Featured working paper: Executive Stock Options and Risk Taking, 2005

    B.A., Peking University (People’s Republic of China); M.A., University of Kansas; Ph.D. (pending), University of California, Berkeley

  • Eng Wu, Assistant Professor of Accounting

    Research interests: international and managerial accounting

    Featured publication: "Accounting and Measurement Probems of Join-Ventures: The Case of China," Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, 4, 2000

    B.S., University of Hertfordshire (United Kingdom); MBA, DBA, Boston University

  • Mark Allan, Lecturer in Finance and Economics; Faculty Director of Health Care Management Program

    B.A., Columbia University; M.S.W., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MBA, Boston University
  • Rui Albuquerque, Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics

    Research interests: international finance and economics and capital market imperfections

    Featured article: “World Market Integration Through the Lens of Foreign Direct Investors,” (with N. Loayza & L. Serven), Journal of International Economics, 66 (2): 267-295, August 2005

    Licenciatura in Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal); M.S., Ph.D., University of Rochester


Select New Faculty Publications

Books

Organizational Behavior

Kristen McCormack with S. Eisinger: Profiting from Purpose: Profiles of Success and Challenge in Eight Social Purpose Businesses, Seedco, 2005 Order hardcopy or download pdf

Jennifer Howard-Grenville with T.E. Graedel: Greening the Industrial Facility: Perspectives, Approaches, and Tools , Springer Press, 2005

Strategy & Policy

Sushil Vachani (editor): Transformations in Global Governance: Implications for Multinationals and other Stakeholders , Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming 2006)

Articles/Chapters

Finance & Economics

David Weil with A. Fung, M. Graham, & E. Fagotto: "Regulation by Transparency: The Effectiveness of Government Mandated Disclosure Policies," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25 (1), (forthcoming January 2006)                                                                                              

David Weil: “The Contemporary Industrial Relations System in Construction: Analysis, Observations, and Speculations,” Labor History (forthcoming 2006)                                                                               

Michael Salinger with D.S. Evans: "Why Do Firms Bundle and Tie? Evidence from Competitive Markets and Implications for Tying Law," Yale Journal on Regulation, 22 (1), Winter 2005: 38–89

Jacob Oded: "Why Do Firms Announce Open-Market Repurchase Programs?," The Review of Financial Studies 18 (1), Spring 2005: 271-300

Zvi Bodie with R.C. Merton:  "The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure," Journal of Investment Management, 3 (1), January 2005: 1-20

Rui Albuquerque with N. Loayza and L. Servén: "World Market Integration Through the Lens of Foreign Direct Investors," Journal of International Economics, 66 (2), 2005: 267-295

Information Systems

Marshall Van Alstyne: "Creating Colleagues, not Competitors," Harvard Business Review, September 2005

Marshall Van Alstyne with N. Bulkley: "An Empirical Analysis of Strategies and Efficiencies in Social Networks,"  Academy of Management Conference, August 2005

Fernando Suarez with R. Oliva: "Institutional Change and Organizational Transformation," Industrial and Corporate Change, 2005                                

Fernando Suarez with G. Lanzolla:"The Half-Truth of First Mover Advantages," Harvard Business Review, May 2005                                           

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan: "Towards Implementing Total Data Quality Management in a Data Warehouse", Journal of Information Technology Management, 16 (1), 2005: 21-30 (print version forthcoming; download online version)                                                                                                         

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan with P. Berger & A. Even: "Profit Maximization for Data Management Systems," Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2005), (forthcoming December 2005)                                                                                                       

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan with A. Even: " "Managing Metadata in Decision Environments", In Processing and Managing Complex Data for Decision Support, Edited by J. Darmont and O. Boussaid, IDEA Group,(forthcoming fall 2005)                                                                                                                                                                

Paul Carlile: "Artifacts and Knowledge Negotiation across Domains" In Artifacts and Organizations, Edited by Anat Rafaeli and Michael Pratt Mahway, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005

Marketing

Scott Swain with  Lisa Abendroth & R.C. Hanna Scott: "How Time Restrictions Work: The Roles Of Urgency, Anticipated Regret, and Deal Evaluations," Advances in Consumer Research (forthcoming  2005)

Sucharita Chandran with V.G. Morwitz: "The Price of Free-dom: Consumer Sensitivity to Promotions with Negative Contexual Influences," Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming 2006)

Organizational Behavior

Bin Zhu with H. Chen: "Information Visualization," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 39, 2005

Bin Zhu with H. Chen: "Using 3D Interfaces to Deliver Knowledge from a Multimedia Knowledge Repository," Decision Suppport Systems, 40 (2), August 2005: 167-182

Bin Zhu with T.-H. Ong, H. Chen, and W.-K. Sung: "NewsMap: A Knowledge Map for Online News," Decision Support Systems, 39 (4), June 2005

Jennifer Howard-Grenville: "The Persistence of Flexible Organizational Routines: The Role of Agency and Organizational Context," Organization Science,  2005

Elizabeth Craig  with  Douglas T. Hall : "Bringing careers back in: The changing landscape of careers in American corporations today," In Work in America, Revisited: A Thirty-Year Update on Work in America, Edited by Edward E. Lawler & James O'Toole, Society for Human Resource Management/John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Working Papers

Accounting

Ana Albuquerque: "Who Are Your Peers? A Study of Relative Performance Evaluation."    contact author for copy

Finance & Economics

David Weil with F. Abernathy & A. Volpe: The Apparel and Textile Industries After 2005: Prospects and Choices  download

Zvi Bodie with L. Jin and R. C. Merton: Do a Firm’s Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan?  contact author for copy

Rui Albuquerque: The Forward Premium Puzzle in a Model of Imperfect Information: Theory and Evidence   contact author for copy

Rui Albuquerque with N. Wang: "Corporate Governance and Asset Prices in a Two-Country Model"    contact author for copy

Information Systems

Stephanie Watts with Kathy Curley: Controlling Adaptation at the Edges: Dual-process Learning Capability    contact author for copy

Lihui Lin with  N. Kulatilaka: Strategic Investment and Licensing of Technology Innovations   contact author for copy

Marketing

Vincent Onyemah with M. Rivera: The Impact of Market Characteristics on Salespeople’s Performance and Intention-to-Leave   contact author for copy

Organizational Behavior

Jennifer Howard-Grenville with  C. B. Bhattacharya and A. J. Hoffman:  Spreading Sustainability: How Corporate Actions Can Reshape the “Rules of the Game” in Organizational Fields    contact author for copy

Strategy & Policy

Kenneth Hatten with James, Fink & Edlemen: Pricing in the Customer's Eyes  contact author for copy

Kenneth Hatten with Keeler: Explorations the Interdependence of Profitability and Control in US Banking   contact author for copy

Jeffrey Furman with M MacGarvie:  Early Academic Science and the Birth of Industrial Research Laboratories in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry contact author for copy

Nicholas Argyres with L. Bigelow: The Impact of Transaction Costs on Make-or-Buy Decisions: A Population-Wide Test   contact author for copy

Nicholas Argyres with J. Bercovitz and K. J. Mayer: Complementarity and Evolution of Contractual Provisions: An Empirical Study of IT Services Contracts    contact author for copy

 

Teaching Cases

Strategy & Policy

Tomas Kohn with N.L. Nelson: Note on Writing Executive Summaries

Tomas Kohn: M&E Furniture (D) & (E)

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