Karin Bonding • Karin Bonding taught Investment Management and Strategy at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, China, during the summer of 2002. Bonding has taught at the school for three summers. To read more about her experiences in China, click here.

Whit Broome • Whit Broome is a Visiting Professor at the A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, for the fall 2002 semester. While there, he is evaluating the Freeman School’s undergraduate and graduate accounting programs and making recommendations for improvements. He is also engaged in research and writing on financial reporting topics and participating in professional development activities.

Broome also serves on the Finance Committee of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Community Foundation. The foundation manages its own unrestricted endowment, as well as private endowments, agency endowments, and donor-advised funds established to benefit the community. Grants are made from these endowments and funds for the public good. The areas benefited by the foundation include Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Greene, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Buckingham, and Nelson. The Finance Committee sets investment goals, guidelines, and procedures for the foundation and evaluates the performance of investment managers.

Rob Cross • Rob Cross is the proud father of a baby boy. Connor Lee, born July 11, 2002, weighed in at 7 pounds, 10 ounces.

Also, a paper Cross submitted to the Academy of Management Meetings, “The Strength of Weak Ties You Can Trust: The Mediating Role of Trust in Effective Knowledge Transfer,” was published in the proceedings and won the Lawrence Erlbaum Best Paper Award for 2002.

Cross had another paper published in Harvard Business Review titled “The People that Make Organizations Stop—Or Go.”
Finally, Cross had another paper accepted for publication (forthcoming 2004)—“Sources of Fidelity in Purposive Organisational Change: Lessons from a Reengineering Case,” in Journal of Management Studies.

Tom Fitch • Tom Fitch was recently promoted to Assistant Dean for Commerce Career Services. He was previously Director of Commerce Career Services. In addition, Commerce Career Services and Fitch now report directly to Associate Dean for External Affairs Diana Mahle.

Stefano Grazioli • Stefano Grazioli joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Commerce in the Information Technology area. Grazioli’s areas of expertise include information management and design and management of information systems, and his current research focuses on information security and information quality. Grazioli has taught in the United States and Europe. In particular, he created and taught “Managing Information,” the required specialization course for the Information Management MBA program at The University of Texas at Austin. At McIntire, Grazioli teaches information management and information security in the M.S. in the Management of Information Technology Program.

Grazioli also has a research contract with the Internal Revenue Service via the McIntire Foundation. The purpose of this continuing investigation is to support the decision-making process at the IRS as it considers the opportunity to expand its Internet-based customer services beyond its current level of implementation.

Mary Jo Hatch • An article by Mary Jo Hatch and M.S. Schultz, “The Dynamics of Organizational Identity,” appeared in the August issue of Human Relations.

In addition Hatch gave a keynote presentation on her corporate branding work to the Brandworks University July 23, 2002, attended by 280 practitioners in the fields of marketing, branding, new product development, and communication.

Bill Kehoe • Bill Kehoe has been appointed to the Virginia Aviation Board (VAB). Members of the VAB are appointed by the governor of Virginia to represent defined geographic areas of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The board provides a means of citizen access to the Virginia Department of Aviation. Functions of the board include publicizing and monitoring policies and programs of the Virginia Department of Aviation, promulgating regulations necessary to promote and develop safe aviation practices, and allocating funds to localities for aviation development. The mission of the Virginia Department of Aviation is progressively to develop and maintain a safe, technologically advanced, market-driven air transportation system that provides the citizens of Virginia with convenient and efficient access to the expanding world community. Before being appointed to the VAB, Kehoe served from 1991 to 2000 on the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Authority Board and chaired that board for six years. On the VAB, one of Kehoe’s board responsibilities is the airports in Region 5, including the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport and Lynchburg Regional Airport, among several others. A particular planning focus of the VAB and the Virginia Department of Aviation over the coming months is the 100th anniversary of powered flight, to be celebrated at the Aviation World’s Fair 2003, April 7-27, 2003, at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.

Jack Lindgren • Jack Lindgren and Bill Kehoe recently returned from San Diego, where they served as Conference Co-Chairs for the 2002 American Marketing Association Conference. The conference had a record number of papers in 17 conference tracks. Information about the conference is available at the conference Web site. Kehoe and Lindgren are the editors of the conference proceedings, “Enhancing Knowledge Development in Marketing,” published by the American Marketing Association.

David Mick • David Mick has a forthcoming paper in the March 2003 issue of Journal of Consumer Research titled “Visual and Verbal Rhetorical Figures under Directed Processing versus Incidental Exposure to Advertising.” Mick is the current editor of the journal, and his forthcoming paper was processed and accepted by former journal editor Robert Burnkrant. During the summer, Mick was also an invited faculty participant at the American Marketing Association’s Doctoral Student Consortium, held at Emory University.

Ryan Nelson • Ryan Nelson made a presentation recently to the GAO and the National Research Council in Washington, D.C., on the topic of “Leading Practices in IT Workforce Training.”

Marcia Pentz-Harris • Marcia Pentz-Harris joined the McIntire faculty as a Lecturer teaching management communication. Pentz-Harris has particular interests in strategies of written communication for diverse audiences, motivation of reluctant writers, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to communication, teaching the management of others’ writing, and the impact of technology on corporate communication. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in English/American Literature at the University.

David Schein • David Schein is teaching “Business Ethics” as part of an internship with the Curry School of Education. An adjunct faculty member of several universities, he is also an attorney, mediator, and arbitrator. Schein earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, his M.B.A. at the University of Virginia, and his J.D. at the University of Houston. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Higher Education through Curry.

Bill Shenkir • Bill Shenkir has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Center for Continuous Auditing at the Mays College of Business at Texas A&M University.

Also, Paul Walker and Shenkir made two presentations—one in May and one in June. They spoke to The Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants Industry Conference in Williamsburg, Va., May 21, 2002, on “Enterprise Risk Management: Lessons from Dynamic Companies.” Shenkir and Walker spoke to The Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants Educators’ Symposium, in Richmond, Va., June 4, 2002, on “Teaching an Enterprise Risk Management Course.”

In June 2002, Shenkir appeared in both a Bloomberg News Service article, “Legg Mason’s Miller Says Options Should Be Eliminated,” and a follow-up Bloomberg TV interview. The interview was conducted at the Division of Continuing Education Zehmer Hall studio and beamed to New York City.

Finally, Enterprise Risk Management: Pulling It All Together, a book co-authored by Shenkir, Walker, and Tom Barton (McIntire ’71), is reviewed online by The Institute of Internal Auditors.

William (Bill) J. Wilhelm Jr. • William (Bill) J. Wilhelm Jr. joined the Finance area as a Professor of Commerce. An investment banking specialist, Wilhelm has taught a range of courses, including investments, derivatives, financial institutions, and investment banking. His research on the technology and organization of the investment banking industry is summarized in a recent book titled Information Markets (Harvard Business School Press, 2001). Wilhelm earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Wichita State University and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. He began his academic career in 1988 at Boston College and has taught at the University of Oxford since 1998, where he holds a joint appointment as the American Standard Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School.

Patrick J. Wilkie • Patrick J. Wilkie, currently on leave from George Mason University, is a Visiting Professor of Commerce in the Accounting area. He specializes in the interplay between financial accounting and taxation and how changes in the disclosure and tax environments affect economic decision making. Wilkie is currently investigating whether the tax-related information contained in corporate financial reports can be used to improve the estimates obtained from firm valuation models. At George Mason University, Wilkie is an Associate Professor and Accounting Area Coordinator.

Carl Zeithaml • Carl Zeithaml was reappointed to a second five-year term as Dean of the McIntire School during the spring 2002 meeting of the Board of Visitors.