Doctoral Student News
Accountancy
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Stacy Hawkins has been awarded an AICPA Minority Doctoral Fellowship for the 2008/2009 academic year. This is a very competitive fellowship. Stacy's selection is a wonderful recognition of both her success so far in the program and potential for continued success in her career.
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Marcia Daley, a Decision Sciences Ph.D. student, was awarded a $10,000 grant from the ISM Educational Resources Committee to support her dissertation research. This award is given to outstanding candidates who are conducting research in supply chain management. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) was founded in 1915 and is the largest supply management association in the world, with a membership of more than 40,000. Her dissertation chair is Dr. Subhashish Samaddar.
| Finance
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Sandhya Vallapuzha has been selected by the Financial Management Association to receive an FMA travel grant to attend the annual FMA Meetings, to be held in Grapevine, Texas, on October 8 - 11. |
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Constanza Meneghetti accepted a tenure-track position at West Virginia University. |
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Rocky Ling accepted a tenure-track position at Georgia College and State University. |
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Jaideep Shenoy's first dissertation essay, titled "An Examination of the Efficiency, Foreclosure, and Collusion Rationales for Vertical Takeovers," has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious 2009 AFA Meetings in San Francisco.
He also won a GTA Teaching Excellence Award.
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Lingling Wang has been accepted to participate in the 2008 FMA Doctoral Student Consortium, to be held in Dallas, Texas, in October. Only 80 doctoral students throughout the nation were selected for participation in the consortium.
Wang is the 2008 recipient of the Stephen D. Smith Doctoral Student Research Fellowship. The Stephen D. Smith Doctoral Student Research Fellowship is funded by the Stephen D. Smith Doctoral Student Research Fund, which was established in 2007 to honor late colleague and friend, Steve Smith.
She also has a paper, "International Sourcing and Capital Structure: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Firms," on the program at the prestigious Western Finance Association meetings.
| Marketing
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Andrew Baker presented a paper titled "Drivers of Consumer Ratings in Online Recommender Systems: An Exploratory Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences" (coauthored with Oakland University's Ravi Parameswaran and Balaji Rajagopalan) at the 2008 Summer American Marketing Association Educators' Conference.
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Jennifer Smith has been selected to represent GSU at the 2008 Society for Marketing Advances Doctoral Consortium to be held in St. Petersburg, Florida. Jennifer is currently working toward her dissertation proposal to be chaired by Dr. Daniel Bello.
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Janee Burkhalter has been selected to represent GSU at the 2008 American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium to be held at the University of Missouri. Janee is currently working toward her dissertation proposal to be jointly chaired by Dr. Naveen Donthu and Dr. Corliss Thornton.
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Alex Hamwi will present a paper titled "Perceived Organizational Commitment's Relationship with Salesperson Organizational Commitment" (coauthored with Brian Rutherford and James Boles) at the 2008 Summer American Marketing Association Educators' Conference.
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Belgin Unal will present a paper titled "Identifying Escalation of Commitment in New Product Development" (coauthored with Naveen Donthu) at the 2008 Summer American Marketing Association Educators' Conference.
| Real Estate
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Vivek Sah just published a paper entitled "REIT Performance during Hurricanes" in the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management. |
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Changha Jin published a paper entitled "The Mixed Asset Portfolio for Asia-Pacific Markets" in the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management.
Changha Jin published a paper entitled "A Study on the Mixed Asset Portfolio Considering Currency Volatility: From the Perspective of the Korean Investor" in the Journal of the Korean Association for Housing Policy Studies. |
Recent Graduates and Their Placements
Summer 2008 Graduates
Computer Information Systems
- Ricardo Checchi - University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Sweta Sneha - Kennesaw State University
Computer Information Systems (CEPRIN)
- Mark Lewis - Bentley College
Decision Sciences
- Dong-Gook Kim - Dalton State College
Finance
- Costanza Meneghetti - West Virginia University
- Leng Ling - Georgia College and State University
Marketing
- Jeffrey Foreman - University of North Carolina - Asheville
Spring 2008 Graduates
Risk Management and Insurance
- Hua Chen - Temple University
- Ruilin Tian - North Dakota State University
Fall 2007 Graduates
Computer Information Systems
- Nannette Napier, Gwinnett College
- Chongwoo Park, Gwinnett College
Process Innovation
- Vijay Kasi, Georgia Pacific
Risk Management and Insurance
Summer 2007 Graduates
Computer Information Systems
- Lei Li, Columbus State University
Finance
- Anna Agapova, Florida Atlantic University
- Yee Cheng Loon, SUNY Binghamton
Marketing
- Brian Brown, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Ramana Madupalli, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
- Jill Mosteller, Portland State University
- Amit Poddar, Georgia College and State University
Process Innovation
- Sunyoung Cho, Virginia State University
- Xinlin Tang, Florida State University
Risk Management and Insurance
- Jeung Bo Shim, Illinois Wesleyan University
- Yuan Yuan, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
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