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Boston University School of Management

Spring 2007

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BU School of Management launches ITEC

A NEW MODEL FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND COMMERCIALIZATION

Boston University School of Management announces the creation of the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC).

ITEC fuses the strengths of Boston University School of Management—including its world-class faculty, its top-ranked IS department, and its nationally-recognized entrepreneurship program—with the rich resources of the University’s:

Medical School
School of Public Health
Law School, College of Arts and Sciences
College of Engineering (including biomedical engineering, photonics, and physics).

Quick Takes

Fighting the Ethics Pandemic

Jim Post, Professor of Strategy & Policy, on Ethics & Business Education

A World-Wide Pandemic?
No business scholar or practitioner can deny that contemporary management is awash, perhaps drowning, in ethical issues. Today, the business of ethics is simply too important to be left to the ethicists.
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Books

Accounting

Finance & Economics

Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, & Alan Marcus: Investments. 7th Edition. McGraw Hill (2007).

Information Systems

Marketing

Operations & Technology Management

Organizational Behavior

William Kahn & Terry Bookman: “This House We Build: Lessons for Synagogues and Those Who Dwell There.” The Alban Institute (2007).

Strategy & Policy

Susan Samuelson & Jeffrey Beatty: Business Law and the Legal Environment. Standard Edition. 4th Edition. Thomson/West (2006).

Articles/Chapters

Finance & Economics

Jerome Detemple & M. Rindisbacher: “Monte Carlo Methods for Derivatives of Options with Discontinuous Payoffs." Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (April 2007).

David Weil & Amanda Pyles: "Exploring the Gap Between Complaints and Compliance Under Workplace Regulations." Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

Donald Smith: Negative Duration: The Odd Case of GMAC's Floating-Rate Note." Journal of Applied Finance (Spring 2007).

Rui Albuquerque: "Optimal Currency Hedging." Global Finance Journal (2007) - download (pdf).

Rui Albuquerque, Gregory Bauer and Martin Schneider: "International Equity Flows and Returns: A Quantitative Equilibrium Approach."
Review of Economic Studies (Spring 2007) - download (pdf).

Rui Albuquerque and Neng Wang: "Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing." Journal of Finance (2007) - download (pdf).

Yrjo Koskinen, Timo Korkeamäki, & Tuomas Takalo: "Phoenix Rising: Legal Reforms and Changes in Valuations in Finland during the Economic Crisis." Journal of Financial Stability (forthcoming 2007).

Information Systems

Marshall Van Alstyne, "Curing Spam: Rights, Signals & Screens." The Economists' Voice. (2007) - download

Stephanie Watts: "Evaluative feedback: Perspectives on media effects." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (January 2007) - download

Marshall Van Alstyne: "Curing Spam: Rights, Signals & Screens." Economists' Voice (2007).

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan & Adir Even: “Utility-Driven Assessment of Data Quality.” The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems (ACM-SIGMIS) (forthcoming).

Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, Adir Even, & Paul Berger: “Economics Driven Design for Data Management: An Application to the Design of Tabular Datasets.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (forthcoming).

Kathleen Curley, Tsipi Heart, & Nava Pliskin: " Application Hosting as a Means for Aligning Business and IT: The case of Africa Isreal Hotels." Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (summer 2006).

Kathleen Curley, Tsipi Heart, & Nava Pliskin: "Remote Application Services as Means for Aligning Business and IT." International Journal of Electronic Business (spring 2007).

Marketing

Frederic Brunel and Anat Toder-Alon: "Dynamics of Community Engagement: The Role of Interpersonal Communicative Genres in Online Community Evolutions." In Consumer Culture Theory. Research in Consumer Behavior Series. Edited by Russ Belk and John Sherry . Vol. 11. Elsevier Ltd (2007).

Daniel Korschun, Terrence Gargiulo, & Angelo Ioffreda: “Bringing Corporate Social Responsibility to Life Through Storytelling.” In Putting Stories to Work Toolkit: Tactical Tools for Today’s Communication Professional. International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) (forthcoming).

Scott Swain, Paul D. Berger, Richard C. Hanna, & Bruce D. Weinberg: “The Great Potential Benefits of Vertical Cooperative Advertising.” Advertising Express (February 2007).

Scott Swain, Danny Weathers, & Jay P. Carlson: “Partitioned Prices and Whole Number Dominance.” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (forthcoming).

Scott Swain: “Consumer Responses to Product Mass.” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (forthcoming).

Scott Swain, J. Daniel Wadden, & B. Andrew Cudmore: “Compensation and Consumer Guilt.” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (forthcoming).

Patrick Kaufmann, Naveen Donthu, & Charles Brooks: “An Illustrative Application of Multi-Unit Franchise Expansion in a Local Retail Market.” Journal of Marketing Channels (forthcoming).

Jennifer Howard-Grenville, A. Hoffman, & C.B. Bhattacharya: “Who can act on sustainability issues? Corporate capital and the configuration of organizational fields as enablers.” In Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions. Edited by Sharma, Starik, & Husted. Edward Elgar (2007).

C.B. Bhattacharya, Shuili Du, & Sankar Sen: “Reaping Relational Rewards from Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Competitive Positioning.” International Journal of Research in Marketing (2007).

Operations & Technology Management

Stephen Rosenthal and Mark Capper: "Ethnographies in the Front End: Designing for Enhanced Customer Experience." Journal of Product Innovation Management (May 2006).

Organizational Behavior

William Kahn, J. E. Dutton, & B. R. Ragins: “Positive relationships in groups and communities." In Exploring Positive Relationships at Work. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Inc. (2007).

William Kahn, J. E. Dutton, & B. R. Ragins: “Meaningful connections: Positive relationships and attachments at work.  In Exploring Positive Relationships at Work. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Inc. (2007).

Jennifer Howard-Grenville, A. Hoffman, & C.B. Bhattacharya: “Who can act on sustainability issues? Corporate capital and the configuration of organizational fields as enablers.” In Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions. Edited by Sharma, Starik, & Husted. Edward Elgar (2007).

Jennifer Howard-Grenville: “Developing Issue Selling Effectiveness Over Time: Issue Selling as Resourcing.” Organization Science (forthcoming July 2007).

Jennifer Howard-Grenville: Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice: Managing Change at a High-Tech Manufacturer.   Edward Elgar (2007).

Strategy & Policy

Isin Guler: "Throwing Good Money After Bad? A Multi-Level Study of Sequential Decision Making in the Venture Capital Industry." Administrative Science Quarterly (2007).

Isin Guler & Mauro Guillen: "Home-Country Networks, Intangible Assets, and Foreign Expansion." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2007).

Samina Karim: “Modularity in organizational structure: The reconfiguration of internally developed and acquired business units.” Strategic Management Journal (September 2006).

Working Papers

Finance & Economics

Rui Albuquerque & Jianjun Miao: "CEO Power, Compensation, and Governance" (2007) - download

Marketing

Frederic Brunel, Ruth Mugge, & Jan Schoormans: "Psychological and Behavioral Consumer Responses to the Mass Customization of Product Aesthetics" (2007) - download

Operations & Technology Management

Nitin Joglekar & Moren Levesque: "Marketing, R&D and Valuation of Startup Firms" (2007) - contact author for copy

Nitin Joglekar & Paulo Figueiredo: "Dynamics of Project Screening in a Product Development Pipeline" (2007) - contact author for copy

Strategy & Policy

Isin Guler: "Pulling the Plug: The Capability to Manage Unsuccessful Investments and Firm Performance" (2007) - contact author for copy

Isin Guler & Anita M. McGahan: "Syndication in International Venture Investing" (2007) - contact author for copy

Isin Guler & Mauro Guillen: "Transnational Connections and Strategic Choice: Venture Capital Firms' Entry into Foreign Markets" (2007) - contact author for copy

Isin Guler & Mauro Guillen: "Institutions, Networks, and Organizational Growth: A Weberian Perspective " (2007) - contact author for copy

Isin Guler & Mauro Guillen: "Home-Country Networks, Intangible Assets, and Foreign Expansion" (2007) - contact author for copy

Samina Karim: “Reconfiguration and Innovation: How Firms Learn in the Presence of Structural Change” (2007) – contact author for copy

Samina Karim: “Back to the Basics: The Origin and Organization of Resources and Business Units” (2007) – contact author for copy

Nicholas Argyres & Todd Zenger: “Are Capabilities-Based Theories of Firm Boundaries Really Distinct from Transaction Cost Theory?” (2007) - download

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Events @ SMG

Clean Energy Tech Conference- Pathways to Adoption: 4/27

BU 7th Annual $30K Biz Plan Competition: 4/11

BU School of Management/Motorola $47,500 Intn'l Tech Case Competition: 3/29-31

Public & Nonprofit Management Program's Link Day: 3/2

Faculty in News

Retirement advice from the ivory tower? Ask BU’s Z. Bodie, says Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg seeks input from BU’s Jim Post on HP’s new CEO (Chief Ethics Officer)

AP Press asks Prof. Jack Aber about fixing the subprime mortgage mess

Prof. D. Weil speaks to Washington Post Radio about transparency, disclosure, and consumer information

BU’s J. Ren wins Production & Operations Management Society’s Early-Career award

Prof. Jim Post, ethics expert, discusses the “Imus Implosion” on CNBC’s Power Lunch

Prof. D. Weil writes for Boston Globe on regulation, restaurants, and “Fixing the misinformation age”

AP Press & Reuters talk to BU’s A. Michel about Kerkorian's bid for Chrysler

Bloomberg asks Mark Williams about Intercontinental’s $9.1 billion bid for CBOT

AP Press & Newsday ask BU’s Jim Post about Fuji v. Livedoor, Japan’s most costly corporate ethics case

NY Times spotlights M. Van Alstyne’s work on email, multitasking, and productivity

Prof. K. Curley’s new IT research wins “Best Theoretical Paper Award”

LA Times, Washington Post, & AP Press ask BU’s Jim Post about latest in HP ethics scandal

AP Press asks A. Michel about Boston Scientific’s post-buyout blues

Jim Post featured on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” about Home Depot 1st investor & analyst meeting under new CEO

Computerworld highlights M. Van Alstyne’s award-winning IT research

Frédéric Brunel named "Outstanding Reviewer" by the Journal of Advertising, an award to be presented at the 2007 meeting of the American Academy of Advertising

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