Moore Business Spring 2005
Faculty News
Dr. William T. (Ted) Moore, Berlinberg Professor of Finance, was appointed Associate Provost for Budget and Operation at the University of South Carolina, effective October 2004. This is a three-quarter-time appointment, with the remaining one-quarter taken up by regular faculty duties at the Moore School. Moore has also been elected to the University’s Board of Visitors for a two-year term.
A special issue of the journal Economics of Education Review was published in 2004 in honor of Dr. Billy F. Kiker, professor of economics. The journal, founded in 1979, is edited by Dr. Elchanan Cohn, also a professor of economics at the Moore School. In a preface to the special issue, Cohn wrote that he decided to honor Kiker to recognize him for “his contributions to the field in general and to this journal in particular.” Cohn said that Kiker’s “seminal essays on the roots of the concept of human capital are required reading in many colleges and universities. His contribution to the field involved major improvements in the analysis of wage determination and the role of education therein…. Moreover, as a frequent referee, author, and member of the editorial board, Bill provided valuable input over the past 25 years.”
Dr. Timothy S. Doupnik, chairman and professor in the School of Accounting, became Associate Editor last fall of the Journal of International Accounting Research, published by the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.
Dr. Janice Boucher Breuer, associate professor of economics, presented a paper entitled “Currency Crises and Institutions” in March at the Foreign Exchange Markets Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The conference was sponsored by the Journal of International Money and Finance and the Trans-Atlantic Finance Institute.
Dr. Kristin Diehl, assistant professor of marketing, received an Honorable Mention for the Robert Ferber Award, an annual competition for the best interdisciplinary dissertation published in the Journal of Consumer Research. Her paper, co-authored with two professors at Duke University, was titled “Smart Agents: When Lower Search Costs for Quality Information Increase Price Sensitivity,” published in JCR in June 2003.
Dr. Diehl and Dr. Stacy L. Wood, associate professor of marketing, received special invitations to attend the Marketing Science Institute’s Young Scholars Program in January in Park City, Utah. They were among 30 attendees. USC, along with Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, NYU, and the University of North Carolina, were the only schools that had two young scholars who were invited. The event “brings together some of the most promising young scholars in the hopes of enhancing their research output and future collaboration, as well as highlighting the latest thinking and research this group is pursuing.”
Dr. Stacy L. Wood, associate professor of marketing, is a winner of the American Marketing Association’s Louis W. Stern Award for a 1997 Journal of Marketing article entitled “Interactive Home Shopping: Consumer, Retailer, and Manufacturer Incentives to Participate in Electronic Marketplaces.” Wood coauthored the article with six University of Florida faculty members.
The Stern Award, established in 1999, honors the best article in an AMA-refereed journal in the area of marketing channels and distribution. Articles are eligible to be nominated between three and eight years after their publication date.
Dr. Hoyt N. Wheeler, professor of management, has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he will be affiliated with the faculty of law for the 2005-2006 academic year.
Dr. Charles S. (Stan) Lomax, distinguished lecturer in management, has been certified as an arbitrator to resolve disputes between securities firms, their employees, and clients. He was certified by NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers) Dispute Resolution, the largest such forum in the world that recently began operations in South Carolina. Lomax, a newly accepted associate member of the South Carolina Bar, will focus on alternative dispute resolution approaches, subjects that he currently teaches to undergraduates and Master of Human Resources students at the Moore School.
Dr. Robert E. Markland, associate dean of administration and professor of management science, in 2004 completed 21 consecutive years of service in an editorial capacity for the academic journal Decision Sciences. From 1984 to 1989, he was editor of that publication; from 1990 to 2004, he was an associate editor.
Dr. Helen I. Doerpinghaus has been promoted to professor of insurance.
Dr. Manoj Malhotra, professor of management science and chairman, has been appointed to the editorial board of the academic journal Decision Sciences as associate editor. He also was named Outstanding Professor of the IMBA-Vienna Program by the graduating class of 2004.
Dr. Mun Y. Yi, associate professor of management science, has been appointed to the editorial board of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies as an associate editor. The monthly scholarly journal publishes articles on a wide range of topics relating to people and computers.
Martha W. Thomas, director of the Moore School’s Center for Business Communication, presented a paper last fall at the annual convention of the Association for Business Communication in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her paper was entitled “Can We Talk? Cyberspace as Contact Zone for Business Communication Educators and Business ‘Content’ Faculty.”
Dr. Brad M. Tuttle, professor in the School of Accounting, became editor on January 1 of the < I <>Journal of Information Systems for 2005-2007. JIS is published by the Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association.
Dr. Scott B. Jackson, assistant professor in the School of Accounting, was named IMBA-Vienna “Professor of the Year” by the 2004 class. And, the following professors were recognized for outstanding teaching by the IMBA Class of 2005: Dr. William T. “Ted” Moore and Dr. Manoj K. Malhotra, tied for Outstanding Core Professor; Dr. Timothy G. Silk, Outstanding Elective Professor, and Dr. Scott B. Jackson, Outstanding Core Professor, Vienna Program.
Four Moore School professors have received 2004-2005 Excellence in Teaching Awards from the USC Mortar Board senior honor society. They are Dr. Martin S. Roth, associate professor of international business; Dr. Melayne M. McInnes, associate professor of economics; Nora Martin, adjunct professor of marketing; and John May, adjunct professor of management. In other news, Dr. Roth is also the co-author of a new edition of the “Country Manager” international marketing simulation game released earlier this year.
James L. “Jimmy” Burkett, lecturer and managing director of the MACC (Master of Accountancy) program, is the recipient of the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for 2004 given by the South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants. Burkett was cited in SCACPA’s The CPA Report for his mentoring of scores of students as they develop their careers, and for his attention to the many details of recruiting, admissions, and advisement for more than 60 students each year. He further supports students through coordination of other activities, including the High School Students Symposium and encouraging accounting students to attend SCACPA’s annual meeting, in addition to his teaching responsibilities. Students laud his teaching, and have made such comments as “best teacher I ever had,” “the most caring professor at USC,” and “had the greatest influence in my accounting career.”
Dr. William O. Bearden, professor of marketing, is the winner of the 2005 Carolina Trustee Professorship Award for the fields of humanities, social sciences, and business. This award is given in demonstration of a record of teaching excellence, as well as a record of outstanding performance in research and public service.