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Managerial Studies Professors' Work Featured

  Managerial Studies Professor Jenny Hoobler, PhD
Research by managerial studies professors Jenny Hoobler and Sandy Wayne, along with graduate student Grace Lemmon, was published in the Academy of Management Journal. Their study was recently highlighted in a Reuters News report that ran on ABC News.com as well as being featured in a U.S. News and World Report article.

British Non-profit Awards Grant

Hsiu-Lang Chen, associate professor of finance, was recently awarded a grant of £10,000 from INQUIRE-UK, a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering research and understanding in the field of quantitative investment methodologies for his single-author research proposal “Gradual Diffusion of Upstream and Downstream Earnings News­ Implications for Stock Prices.”

The Great Depression and the current recession

John Binder, associate professor of finance, was quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times article about the Great Depression and the current recession.

Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award Goes To.....

Al Page, professor and head of managerial studies, along with his former PhD student, Gary Schirr, who is now an assistant professor at Radford University, won the Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award for the Outstanding Professional Contribution in the Journal of Product Innovation Management in 2008. The award for their article titled “Growth and Development of a Body of Knowledge: 16 Years of New Product Development Research 1989-2004.”, was announced Saturday night at the Product Development & Management Association’s Annual Research Conference at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA.

Liautaud Professor Elected

Tom Murtha, professor of management, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Industry Studies Association. The ISA is a multidisciplinary academic association established with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation development grant to provide a research forum and promote faculty career development in industry-based theoretical and empirical studies.

Jim Liautaud Featured in Wall Street Journal

 
Jim Liautaud, benefactor of UIC’s Liautaud Graduate School of Business was featured in a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Profiles in Retirement”.

Liautaud Graduates Win Young Innovators Award

MBA graduates Dr. Amir Bastawrous, Michael McCoy and Matthew Norris were awarded the 2009 Young Innovator Award at the Chicago Innovation Awards for their start-up medical device company, Heartsounds, which they started in Liautaud’s Tech Ventures Program. Read more about their win here.

Valuable words from a Liautaud Professor

Tom Bothen, associate director of the Center for Urban Real Estate, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal story about property tax assessments during a recession.

Hoobler Recipient of Best Paper Award

Jenny Hoobler, assistant professor of managerial studies, with her coauthor Dr. James Burton at NIU, received the Best Paper Award at the Southern Management Association annual meeting in Asheville, NC, for her paper “Aggressive Reactions to Abusive Supervision: The Role of Interactional Justice and Fragile Self-Esteem.” For more information on Professor Hoobler, visit her faculty profile.

Liautaud Alumna named one of 50 Most Powerful Women in NYC

MBA alumna Vikki Pryor was recently named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York City by Crain’s New York.

Congratulations Vikki!!