Kellogg Faculty Research and Honors

In April, Clinical Professor of Marketing Walter Herbst spoke in Geneva about product design on behalf of the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization. Herbst's design firm, Herbst LaZar Bell, was honored with a 2007 I.D. Magazine Annual Design Award. The firm received a Silver Medal in Appliance Design Magazine's 2007 Excellence in Design Competition.

Andrea Eisfeldt, assistant professor of finance, published "Smoothing With Liquid and Illiquid Assets" in the September issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Jeanne Brett
Alberto Salvo Photo © Evanston Photographic Studios
Mitchell Petersen Photo © Evanston Photographic Studios
Leigh Thompson

Philip Kotler, the SC Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, spoke at the Leaders in Dubai Business Conference on Nov. 18. Other speakers included former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus.

Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice by Jan Van Mieghem, the Harold L. Stuart Distinguished Professor of Managerial Economics, has been published by Dynamic Ideas LLC.

Associate Professor of Marketing Alex Chernev has published the second edition of Strategic Marketing Analysis, which offers a comprehensive framework for strategic marketing planning and outlines a structured approach to identifying and solving marketing problems.

Leigh Thompson, the J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolutions and Organizations, co-authored Conflict in Organizational Groups this year with Kristen Behfar. Three more of her books are slated for publication in 2008.

Associate Professor of Accounting Beverly Walther has co-authored "When Security Analysts Talk, Who Listens?" published in The Accounting Review's October edition. "Investor Reaction to Celebrity Analysts: The Case of Earnings Forecast Revisions," appeared in the June Journal of Accounting Research.

Jeanne Brett, the DeWitt W. Buchanan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations, is the author of Negotiating Globally: How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultures. The textbook's second edition was published in September with new content and contains a CD of global negotiation cases. Brett also was recognized by the International Association for Conflict Management for her co-authorship of "The Negotiation Dance: Time, Culture, and Behavioral Sequences in Negotiation." The organization named the paper, published in Organizational Science in 2005, best journal article of that year.

Alberto Salvo, associate professor of management and strategy, received a "Young Economists Essay Award" at the 2007 Conference of the European Association for "Cut-Throat Fringe Competition in an Emerging Country Market."

In August, Assistant Professor of Marketing Yi Qian published "Do National Patent Laws Stimulate Domestic Innovation in a Global Patenting Environment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Pharmaceutical Patent Protection, 1978–2002" in the Review of Economics and Statistics.

In June, Martin Lariviere, professor of managerial economics and decision sciences, assumed the presidency of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS. Lariviere and colleague Jan Van Mieghem won a best paper prize from Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Robert Wolcott co-authored a paper in the autumn edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review. "The Four Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship" is based on a three-year study of approximately 30 companies.

Steven Rogers, the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, has been voted Professor of the Year for the third time by the Kellogg/Schulich Executive MBA Program.

Mitchell Petersen, the Glen Vasel Professor of Finance, and Michael Faulkender, visiting assistant professor, co-authored, "Does the Source of Capital Affect Capital Structure?" The paper appeared in the Review of Financial Studies in 2006 and was named runner-up for the Barclays Global Investors Michael Brennan Best Paper Award.

Assistant Marketing Professor Derek Rucker co-authored "Addressing Moderated Mediation Hypotheses: Theory, Methods, and Prescriptions," in Multivariate Behavioral Research, Vol. 42. The paper examines how to construe and conduct analyses of conditional indirect effects, commonly known as moderated mediation effects.

This year, Adjunct Associate Professor Helen Teplitskaia was named recipient of the Changing Worlds Immigrant and Refugee Contributions award. Teplitskaia was also featured in the Russian magazine Medved, which named her "the most influential Russian woman in America."