Brad Brown • Brad Brown is a member of the faculty advisory board of the new Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of Virginia. The institute grew out of an informal working group that has been meeting for several years to promote interdisciplinary discussions of ethical issues, collaborative research, and team-teaching. It will reach out across the University to support the creation of new programs in practical ethics and explore ways in which the study of ethics can be integrated into the existing curricula for undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies.

Judy Cash • Judy Cash attended in January 2001 the AACSB Development Conference in Miami, where she presented two sessions on "Planned Giving Development Strategies for Your Business School."

Lynn Hamilton • Ontario Review, called one of the most significant literary journals now published (Wilson Library Bulletin), has accepted Lynn Hamilton's short story, "What about Saving the Earth," for publication in its fall 2001 issue. Co-edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond J. Smith and now headquartered in Princeton, N.J., Ontario Review has featured the likes of Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and John Updike.

Mary Jo Hatch • An article by Mary Jo Hatch titled "Are the Strategic Stars Aligned for Your Corporate Brand?" appeared in the February 2001 issue of Harvard Business Review. The article offers advice to managers who are interested in integrating their organizational cultures with their strategic vision and corporate images. It was co-authored with Hatch's research partner Majken Schultz, of the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and features examples from LEGO, British Airways, Nike, and Lucent Technologies. The article offers a corporate branding tool kit comprising a set of questions designed to expose gaps between a company's vision, culture, and images.

Sally Jones • Sally Jones is the recipient of the American Taxation Association's 1999-2000 Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award. The award was created in 1993 to recognize, honor, and reward outstanding contributions by a faculty member teaching taxation at a recognized academic institution. It is named after Professor Sommerfeld, the first recipient of the award, who earned a reputation as a pioneer of tax education and provided a lifetime of service to students, colleagues, and the profession of taxation.

The award includes a $5,000 grant, funded by Ernst & Young, for the school selected by the winner. Jones selected the McIntire School to receive the grant.

Bill Kehoe • Bill Kehoe recently was elected President of the Society for Marketing Advances Foundation for a three-year term. The foundation supports the society financially, particularly by providing fellowships for the Society for Marketing Advances doctoral consortium.

Adelaide Wilcox King • Adelaide Wilcox King has had two papers accepted for publication. "Competencies, Middle Managers, and Competitive Advantage," co-authored with Sally Fowler, at the University of Victoria, and Carl Zeithaml, will be published this year in Academy of Management Executive. "Capturing Knowledge and Knowing through Improvisation: What Managers Can Learn from the Thoracic Board Certification Process," co-authored with Annette Ranft, at Wake Forest, has been accepted for publication this year in Journal of Management.

Mac Lathan • Mac Lathan's article "The Effect of the 150-Hour Requirement on New Accountants' Professional Commitment, Ethical Orientation, and Professionalism," co-authored with Paul M. Clikeman and Bill N. Schwartz, has been accepted for publication in Critical Perspectives on Accounting. The paper was also presented at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association in August 2000.

In addition, Lathan was the opening speaker at a seminar on investment banking held in Amman, Jordan, in November 2000. The Jordan Securities Commission and USAID's Access to Microfinance and Implementation of Policy Reform (AMIR) sponsored the seminar. He spoke on "U.S. Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Ethics in the Marketplace."

Also in November 2000, Lathan was a speaker at the 30th Annual Virginia Accounting and Auditing Conference, sponsored by the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. He spoke on the topic of "Risk-Based Auditing."

Becca Leonard • Becca Leonard is teaching a university seminar on "Utilizing Diversity for Competitive Advantage."

Ryan Nelson • Ryan Nelson garnered media coverage in the Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2000. In an article titled "Study: Career Tracks Important to IT Workers," Nelson recommends that employers consider two distinct career paths for IT workers—management and technical expert paths—to help maintain job satisfaction in the IT field and thus retain IT employees.

Bill Shenkir • Making Enterprise Risk Management Pay Off, a book by Bill Shenkir, Paul Walker, and Tom Barton (McIntire '71), will be published in February 2001 by the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF). The research for this book was supported by a $115,000 grant awarded to the researchers by FERF in response to a proposal submitted in June 1999. The book draws on interviews the researchers conducted with executives at Chase Manhattan Corp. (now J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.), E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Microsoft, United Grain Growers, and Unocal. This is the second book that FERF has published by Shenkir and Barton. In 1998, FERF published their book Open-Book Management: Creating an Ownership Culture, co-authored with Thomas Tyson. The research for that book was also funded by a grant from FERF.

The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation recently awarded Shenkir, Walker, and Barton a $98,300 research grant to study how internal auditing interacts with management and governance boards in the integration of risk management processes. To receive this grant, the researchers submitted a proposal in response to the foundation's request for proposals. This research project will identify tools and techniques used by internal auditing to assure management and governance boards that the enterprise's risk management processes are effective and will provide examples of reporting techniques and methods used by internal auditors to communicate their analysis and assessment of enterprise risks.

Paul Walker • Advances in Accounting Education, in its 2000 edition, recently published an article by Paul Walker and Bill Shenkir titled "Teaching a Risk Assessment Course." The research for the development of the course was funded by a $50,000 grant awarded to Walker and Shenkir in 1996 by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Carl Zeithaml • Carl Zeithaml recently commented in USA TODAY (www.usatoday.com) on the rush of colleges offering e-commerce degrees and programs. In the Jan. 16, 2001, article titled "Degrees in E-Commerce Seem Less Dazzling," Zeithaml warns of the dangers of chasing trends and emphasizes the importance of giving business students a broader variety of skills.