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Summer 2007

Focus On: Clean Energy—Building New Solutions

An interview with Nalin Kulatilaka, Boston University School of Management Wing Tat Lee Family Professor in Management, Finance and Economics Department

Your research on clean energy focuses on the “built environment.” Why approach it from this angle?

Climate change and energy security have not only brought energy policy to the forefront of national debate, but have also catalyzed a steady flow of private sector capital to alternative energy investments. Yet most of the attention and resources are being directed either towards large-scale energy generation technologies (such as biomass, nuclear, wind and solar, and geothermal) or the transportation sector.

Boston University School of Management’s 4th Annual Conference on Curricular Innovations in Management Education:

The Role of Technology in the 21st Century Business School

October 15, 2007

A one-day conference exploring how business schools can better manage tech infrastructure, foster technological innovation, and use technology in pedagogy, branding, and community-building.

The event will bring together industry experts and speakers from the Boston University School of Management, the Wharton School, and Fuqua School of Business. In addition, industry vendors will showcase their latest products and innovations in technological applications for business pedagogy and institutions of higher learning.

CIO Pocket MBA Goes to London

Boston University School of Management and CIODevelopment.com have partnered to take the School’s latest executive education innovation to London: we’ve created the European CIO Pocket MBA, addressing a crucial gap in many IT executives’ training and experience.

Instead of needing to take a year out to do an MBA, European CIOs can now take three short-course modules designed to address the specifics of business insight and impact future performance. Key areas covered are leading transformation, building a strategy for getting things done, creating new organizational models, and strategic alignment in the 21st century.

Related news:

BU's Exec EdCustom Programs are ranked 12th in US, 20th in world by Financial Times, receiving recognition forofferingssuch as the CIO Pocket MBA.

Prof. N. Venkatraman writes for Silicon.com about the future role of the IT department and the CIO,then blogson "IT Strategy:Balancing Innovation and Implementation."

Select New Faculty Publications

Books

Organizational Behavior

Kathy Kram & Belle Rose Ragins: Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory, Research and Practice. Sage Publications (2007).

Articles

Finance & Economics

Zvi Bodie & Jonathan Treussard:"Making Investment Choices as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler." Financial Analysts Journal ( May/June 2007).

David Weil & Archon Fung: "Fixing the Misinformation Age.” Boston Globe. (April 10, 2007) - see article

Jonathan Treussard & Doriana Ruffino: “Financial Frictions and Risky Corporate Debt.” Economic Notes: Review of Banking, Finance and Monetary Economics (2007).

Jonathan Treussard: “The Non-Monotonicity of Value-at-Risk and the Validity of Risk Measures over Different Horizons.” ICFAI Journal of Financial Risk Management (March 2007).

Information Systems

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 2007).

Marketing

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

Scott Swain & Ronald W. Niedrich: “A Dual-Process Model of Memory-Based Pioneering Effects.” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (forthcoming 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).

Scott Swain & Weimin Dong: “Maximizing Customer Equity when Acquisition and Retention Rate are Negatively Related.” Marketing Advances in Pedagogy, Process, and Philosophy (forthcoming 2007).

Scott Swain & Frédéric F. Brunel: “Perceptual Models of Product Aesthetic Evaluations.” European Advances in Consumer Research (forthcoming 2007).

Scott Swain: “Playing the Cards.” Builders and Leaders (Spring 2007).

Scott Swain, Weimin Dong, & Paul D. Berger: “The Role of Channel Quality in Optimal Allocation of Acquisition and Retention Spending.” Journal of Business Research (forthcoming 2007).

Organizational Behavior

Fred Foulkes, Sushil Vachani, Jennifer Zaslow: "Global Sourcing of Talent: Implications for the U.S. Workforce." In The New American Workplace. Eds James O’Toole & Edward Lawler. Palgrave Macmillan (2006).

Kathy Kram, Monica Higgins, & Dawn Chandler: “Developmental Initiation and Developmental Networks.” In Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory Research and Practice. Eds Belle Ragins & Kathy Kram. Sage Publications (2007).

Kathy Kram & Belle Ragins: "The Landscape of Mentoring in the 21st Century.” In Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory Research and Practice. Eds Belle Ragins & Kathy Kram. Sage Publications (2007).

Kathy Kram & Belle Rose Ragins: "The Roots and Meaning of Mentoring." In Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory Research and Practice. Eds Belle Ragins & Kathy Kram. Sage Publications (2007).

Kathy Kram & Sharon Ting: "Coaching for Emotional Competence.” In CCL Handbook of Coaching. Ed Sharon Ting. Jossey-Bass (2007).