Rajesh Aggarwal • Rajesh Aggarwal is an Associate Professor in the Finance Area who writes and publishes extensively in the fields of corporate finance and the economics of organizations. He received the Teacher of the Year award at Said Business School, Oxford University, and was nominated for the Teacher of the Year award at the University of Michigan Business School.

Sheri Aggarwal • Sheri Aggarwal teaches quantitative analysis in the Integrated Core Experience (ICE) Program. She has expertise in applied microeconomic theory, with specialization in game theory and industrial organization.

Susan Broniarczyk • Susan Broniarczyk, on leave from The University of Texas at Austin and teaching in the Marketing Area, is the Frank Talbott Jr. Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia. The chair, managed by the Provost of the University and funded by the Alumni Board of Trustees, rotates among the schools within the University to support bringing a distinguished scholar to the school as a visiting professor. Broniarczyk was chosen as the Talbott Visiting Professor on the basis of her strong research record, including her work that won the 2003 O’Dell Award (the American Marketing Association recently awarded her the award for her research on retail assortment published in Journal of Marketing Research). She specializes in consumer behavior and decision making.

Whit Broome • Virginia Gov. Mark Warner appointed Whit Broome for a four-year term to the Board of Accountancy for the Commonwealth of Virginia, effective July 1, 2003. This board regulates certified public accountants and the practice of accountancy in Virginia.

Rob Cross • Rob Cross had the following accepted for publication:

• Levin D, Cross R. (in press). “The Strength of Weak Ties You Can Trust: The Mediating Role of Trust in Effective Knowledge Transfer,” in Management Science

• Kahn W, Cross R, Parker A. (in press). “Layers of Diagnosis for Planned Relational Change in Organizations,” in Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

• Cross R, Cummings J. (2003). “Relational and Structural Network Correlates of Individual Performance in Knowledge Intensive Work,” in AOM Proceedings (Seattle Conference)

He also had the following published:

• Cross R, Baker W, Parker A. (2003). “What Creates Energy in Organizations?” in Sloan Management Review

• Cross R, Parker A, Sasson L. (eds.) (2003). Networks in a Knowledge Economy. Oxford University Press

• Cross R, Prusak L. (2003). The Political Economy of Knowledge Markets in Organizations. In: Lyles M, Easterby-Smith M (eds.) The Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. Blackwell Publishing

• Baker W, Cross R, Wooten M. (2003). Positive Organizational Network Analysis and Energizing Relationships. In: Cameron K, Dutton J, Quinn R (eds.) Positive Organizational Scholarship. Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Patrick Dennis • An article by Patrick Dennis, “Stock Splits and Liquidity: The Case of the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock,” was published in the August 2003 issue of The Financial Review. (Read the abstract.)

Cynthia Fraser Gasman • Cynthia Fraser Gasman, who specializes in marketing strategy, modeling, quantitative analysis, applied economics, and international business, joined McIntire as an Adjunct Assistant Professor. She teaches quantitative analysis in the ICE Program. 

Stefano Grazioli • Stefano Grazioli published three papers on Internet security. Much of his research focuses on deceptive practices found on the Internet. Examples of these practices include misleading advertisement, page-jacking, and identity theft. The first paper, “Deceived—Under Target on Line” (with S. Jarvenpaa, forthcoming, Communications of the ACM), collected and analyzed more than 200 cases of Internet fraud published in the press or litigated in court. The study found seven “deception tactics,” the basic building blocks used by deceivers to victimize consumers and businesses over the Internet.

An example of Internet deception that has received considerable press coverage is “page-jacking,” which consists of mimicking the look and feel of a familiar Web site to obtain secrets (passwords, bank account numbers) from Internet surfers. The second paper by Grazioli (“Where Did They Go Wrong? An Analysis of the Failure of IT-Knowledgeable Internet Consumers to Detect Deception over the Internet,” forthcoming, Group Decision and Negotiation) examined why even expert IT professionals often fail to detect page-jacking. The paper anticipated the instances of page-jacking that affected the Bank of America site and Google.

The third paper, “Consumer and Business Deception on the Internet: Content Analysis of Documentary Evidence” (with S. Jarvenpaa, 2003, International Journal of Electronic Commerce), described a journey into the criminal mind by examining what drives the modus operandi of the Internet deceivers. The paper found that the type of the victim and the identity of perpetrator affect the type of deception selected by the perpetrator.

Also, Grazioli is the coordinator of the first module of the MS MIT graduate program, delivered last summer. Taught during a two-week period of full residency on the Grounds, the module is a brief but intense technology boot camp that exposes graduate students to the “McIntire way” of looking at information technology, which is based on the philosophy of designing IT systems that make sense from a business perspective. In addition to several McIntire faculty members, the module includes lectures and presentations by guest speakers, including Mike Higgins, Tekmark Global Solutions; Gerry Miller, Microsoft; Joseph Williams, Sun Microsystems; and Art Akerman and Jeff Tyree, Capital One.

Lynn Hamilton • Lynn Hamilton, Marcia Pentz-Harris, and Janette Martin attended the Association for Business Communication annual conference, which focused on ethics, in Albuquerque, N.M., in October 2003. Hamilton presented “Heard on the Street: Communication, Ethics, and Investor Relations”; Pentz-Harris presented “Peer Evaluation and Poetry.” Information about the conference is available at http://www.businesscommunication.org/.

Ira Harris • Ira Harris joined McIntire as an Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching strategy in the ICE Program and a fourth-year elective on critical thinking. Before joining the McIntire School, Harris taught for five years at the University of Notre Dame and was voted the 2001 Mendoza College of Business M.B.A. Outstanding Professor of the Year. He also taught at Texas A&M University.

Mary Jo Hatch • Mary Jo Hatch presented two competitive papers and one symposia paper at this year’s Academy of Management meetings in Seattle. One of the three papers, “Planning on Spontaneity: Lessons from Jazz on a Democratic Theory of Change,” co-authored with Frank Barrett, Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, won this year’s Best Competitive Paper Award for the Organization Development and Change Division. The second competitive paper, “The Hermeneutics of Branding,” was co-authored with James Rubin of the Darden School. The symposia paper “Aesthetics and Organization Theory” was written with Professors David Barry of Copenhagen Business School and David Boje of the University of New Mexico.

Hatch’s research partner from Denmark, Majken Schultz, and Hatch had the paper “The Cycles of Corporate Branding” accepted for the next issue of California Management Review.

Another paper by Hatch and Schultz, “Bringing the Corporation into Corporate Branding,” appeared recently in European Journal of Marketing.

Hatch also presented the seminar “Should Organizing Be More Like Jazz?” to the University of Michigan Cross-Disciplinary ICOS Group. 

Carrie Heilman • Carrie Heilman, who joined the Marketing Area as an Assistant Professor, teaches marketing in ICE and an elective on product and brand management. Her interests include modeling consumer choice and loyalty in frequently purchased goods categories and the impact of consumer promotions, especially in-store promotions, on choice behavior. 

Adelaide Wilcox King • Adelaide Wilcox King presented “The Role of Ambiguity in Understanding the Pace of Acquisition Integration” (with A. Ranft, of Wake Forest University) at the Strategic Management Society’s 23rd Annual International Conference in Baltimore Nov. 9-12, 2003. 

Larry Kochard • WHTJ Charlottesville PBS elected Larry Kochard to the board of directors of its parent company, Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Kochard is Managing Director of Public Equities for the Virginia Retirement System and is a Lecturer at the McIntire School. Before joining the investment staff of the Virginia Retirement System, Kochard was a full-time faculty member at the University of Virginia.

David LaRue • David LaRue recently presented a paper and a case. The paper (co-authored with Mark White), “The Effect of Implicit Taxes on Exchange Values in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions: Part III—Acquisitions of Foreign Corporations,” was presented at the annual meeting of the Financial Management Association in Denver in October 2003.

The case, “Corporate Tax Shelters: The Electron Industries Case,” was presented at the World Applied Case Research Association annual meeting in Bordeaux, France, July 2, 2003. Co-authored with White, it was based on three real-life cases that LaRue has worked on as an expert for the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department. This case will be published in the 2003 edition of WACRA Selected Papers.

LaRue also had the paper “Eluding the LIFO Recapture Provisions of Subchapter S after the Eleventh Circuit’s Decision in Coggin Automotive” published in Business Entities, Part 1-July/August edition, Part 2-September/October edition. He was the Treasury Department’s expert witness in this case.

Clayton Looney • Clayton Looney joined McIntire as an Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Area. Looney teaches courses in systems analysis and design, electronic business, emerging technologies, and application program development. His research focuses on the impact of Web-based and wireless technologies on individual psychology and behavior.

Janette Martin • Janette Martin, an Adjunct Assistant Professor joined McIntire this fall, teaching business communication, including managerial writing. She has special interest in communication and ethics, intercultural communication, and international communication. Her current research involves persuasive writing and audience. 

Roger Martin • Roger Martin joined the Accounting Area as an Assistant Professor and is teaching intermediate accounting. Martin has expertise in auditing and financial reporting; his research focuses on the impact of auditing, assurance services, and other corporate governance mechanisms on the quality of information provided to external users of financial statements. Two of Martin’s articles have been published recently in top accounting academic journals: “Earnings Surprise ‘Materiality’ as Measured by Stock Returns” (with W.R. Kinney Jr. and D. Burgstahler), in Journal of Accounting Research, and “Evaluating Financial Reporting Quality: The Effects of Financial Expertise versus Financial Literacy” (with L. McDaniel and L.A. Maines), in The Accounting Review.

David Mick • David Mick had two articles accepted for publication. One, “The Times of Their Lives: A Phenomenological Inquiry on the Nature and Role of Consumers’ Timestyles,” will appear in Journal of Consumer Research (2004; with J. Cotte [University of Western Ontario] and S. Ratneshwar [University of Missouri]). The second will appear in Semiotica (2004), titled “Pursuing the Meaning of Meaning in the Commercial World: An International Review of Marketing and Consumer Research Founded on Semiotics.” It is co-authored with James Burroughs, Patrick Hetzel (Université Panthéon-Assas in Paris), and Mary Yoko Brannen (San Jose State University).

Mick also was elected President of the Association for Consumer Research. 

Mick’s work is cited extensively in an interesting piece appearing in MarketingProfs.com. The item also includes a link to professor Mick’s research paper “Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language.”

In addition, in November 2003, Mick was an invited speaker at the University of Notre Dame Research Forum on Ethics. Mick also was invited to present some of his current research and a Ph.D. seminar on consumer behavior at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, in December 2003.

Mike Morris • Mike Morris had two papers published in the September 2003 MIS Quarterly: “The Influence of Query Interface Design on Decision Making Performance” (with C. Speier [Michigan State University]) and “User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward a Unified View” (with V. Venkatesh [University of Maryland College-Park]), F. Davis [University of Arkansas], and G. Davis [University of Minnesota]). Abstracts of the papers are available online.

Bill Shenkir • The August 2003 issue of Internal Auditor contained an article by Paul Walker, Bill Shenkir, and Tom Barton (McIntire ’71) titled “ERM in Practice.”

Also, in June 2003, Masayuki Fujita and Professor Takeaki Kariya, from the Mitsubishi Research Institute and Kyoto University, respectively, visited the McIntire School to meet with Shenkir, Walker, and Barton to discuss teaching an enterprise risk management course. The two visitors are translating into Japanese the two books written by Shenkir, Walker, and Barton: Making Enterprise Risk Management Pay Off and Enterprise Risk Management: Pulling It All Together.

Shenkir also was recently quoted in two articles that appeared in Bloomberg: (1) in an August 2003 article published in Brussels about the work of the International Accounting Standards Board and (2) in a Nov. 4, 2003, article published in Brussels, “Ahold Buying Spree Led to $260 Million in Accounting Errors.” He was interviewed Oct. 31, 2003, on AM 700 KSEV, in Houston, about the University of Virginia, McIntire’s program, and other aspects about business education today.

Finally, on Nov. 14, 2003, Shenkir made a presentation on enterprise risk management at the Sixth Continuous Auditing and Reporting Symposium at Texas A&M University. The presentation was based on the research that Paul Walker, Barton, and Shenkir have done.

Paul Walker • Paul Walker and Bill Shenkir spoke at the 2003 Enterprise Risk Management Conference Oct. 22, 2003, in New York, on the topic of the value of enterprise risk management. Walker and Shenkir were the only two academics invited to speak; their presentation was based on research in their two books on enterprise risk management. All attendees were from industry. Says Shenkir, “A number of people told us how helpful our research had been to them in implementing enterprise risk management.” Walker and Shenkir will speak again at the Chicago version of this conference in November 2003.