Sundar Bharadwaj, the Coca-Cola Company Chair of Marketing, received the Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award by editors of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing for his co-authored paper “New product introductions for low-income consumers in emerging markets.” He also co-authored the article “Is Your Marketing Organization Ready for What’s Next?” in the December 2020 edition of Harvard Business Review. The editorial lays the framework that companies should meld brand reputation with marketing plans to compete in the 21st century.
Radina Blagoeva, assistant professor of management, received the 2020 Dissertation Award from the Erasmus Research Institute of Management. The award recognizes Blagoeva’s dissertation, “The Hard Power of Soft Power: A behavioral strategy perspective on how power, reputation, and status affect firms,” published in the Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.
Tina Carpenter, associate professor of accounting and EY Faculty Fellow, received UGA’s Creative Teaching Award. The honor recognizes faculty for excellence in developing and implementing creative teaching methods to improve student learning. Carpenter was honored for her long-running forensic accounting course, where students use what they learn in class to lead a multi-week investigation into a simulated case of fraud. Carpenter also secured a $25,000 Learning Technologies Grant from the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning to develop an online game to accompany her popular forensic accounting course.
Anindita Chakravarty, associate professor of marketing, was selected by the Marketing Science Institute to the 2020 class of MSI Scholars. The program recognizes excellence in marketing scholarship, develops a cohort across marketing disciplines, and strengthens ties between scholars and MSI.
Dave Chatterjee, associate professor of management information systems, published “Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach.” The book serves as a guide for managers to think of cybersecurity issues as a business-wide concern and offers systemic best practices for maintaining a company’s informational integrity. It was published in March by SAGE Publishing.
Candice Hollenbeck, a senior lecturer in marketing, received UGA’s Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award. The honor recognizes excellence in developing, implementing and sustaining academic service-learning opportunities. Hollenbeck’s course in Integrated Marketing and Brand Communication has connected hundreds of students with nonprofits to help them develop marketing strategies and campaigns.
Elena Karahanna, the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Distinguished Chair of Business Administration and UGA Distinguished Research Professor, received the LEO Award for exceptional global contributions in the field of information systems from the Association of Information Systems. The award recognizes individuals whose sustained contributions throughout their careers had a far-reaching global impact on information systems and beyond. Fewer than 50 MIS scholars have received the LEO Award since it was established in 1999.
Henry Munneke, associate dean for undergraduate programs and Roy Adams Dorsey Distinguished Chair in Real Estate, and doctoral student Lu Fang received the 2020 Edwin S. Mills Real Estate Economics Best Paper Award for “Gender Equity in Mortgage Lending,” presented by the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
Annette Poulsen, the Augustus H. “Billy” Sterne Chair of Banking and Finance and Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, joins the 2021 cohort of the UGA Special Collections Libraries Faculty Fellows Program. The fellowship provides professional and financial support to faculty developing research programs that tap into the library’s immense archives.
Jessica Rodell, the William Harry Willson Distinguished Chair in the management department, authored the article “Volunteer Programs That Employees Can Get Excited About,” which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. The piece distills her research into workplace community service efforts for managers and executives and lays out a set of best practices for motivating and engaging employees.
Ian Schmutte, associate professor of economics, was named to the editorial board of The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, an interdisciplinary journal focusing on sharing research in the areas of privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure limitation. Schmutte, who studies labor economics and data privacy, also was named review board chair for the Atlanta Research Data Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Julio Sevilla, associate professor of marketing, was selected for the Advertising Research Foundation’s 2021 class of MSI Young Scholars. This group of marketing academics convenes every other year to discuss their research, encourage future collaboration, and foster their interest in solving real-world marketing problems. Sevilla is ranked 30th in the world for research productivity in top American Marketing Association journals between 2011 and 2020.
Ruchi Singh, assistant professor of real estate, was awarded a $127,840 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grant aims to develop new methods for calculating fair market rental rates in areas with rental shortages or rapidly rising rents. The project is a collaboration with faculty at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Assistant professor of marketing Rosanna Smith, associate professor of marketing Julio Sevilla and marketing doctoral student Nicole Davis received UGA’s Diversity Research and Scholarship Grant. Their project “Interracial Relationship Representations in Marketing: Effects on Societal and Consumer Outcomes” was one of 12 selected from across the university.
Rick Watson, Regents Professor and J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy, published the first guidebook on applying informatics techniques to the global shipping industry. The volume, Maritime Informatics, discusses how modern information systems could decrease the amount of energy and emissions generated by shipping.