FUQUA PROFESSORS WIN NATIONAL HONORS

Staelin Wins Marketing Award
Rick Staelin, the Edward and Rose Donnell Professor of Business Administration at Fuqua, has been selected to receive the prestigious Paul D. Converse Award of the American Marketing Association, granted to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the theory or science of marketing.

The awards are given for major contributions, and no contribution is considered until five years after publication; the awards are selected by a national jury of scholars once every five to 10 years. Staelin's award is for his work on distribution systems with Tim McGuire, "An Industry Equilibrium Analysis of Downstream Vertical Integration," published in Marketing Science in spring 1983.

Staelin also was selected as the first winner of the distinguished Ph.D. alumni award from the University of Michigan's business school.

The awards received by Staelin and Bettman (see earlier story) further illustrate the strong showing Fuqua's marketing faculty has made among peer organizations. The marketing group was ranked No. 4 in its field in U.S. News & World Report's special 2001 edition on the best graduate schools. The survey highlighted the programs ranked best by deans and MBA program heads.

Lind Receives Top Law and Society Honor
E. Allan Lind, the Thomas A. Finch Professor of Business Administration in Management at Fuqua, has been awarded the Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize for "paradigm shifting scholarship in the study of law and society" for his body of work on procedural justice. Lind shared the award with Northwestern colleague Tom Tyler.

The Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize is awarded annually by the Law and Society Association for "empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society." It is not a book prize, but is given in recognition of a body of scholarly work. Although it is not a career achievement award, at least some portion of the work for which the award is given should have been completed within the past few years.

Graham Awarded Sloan Fellowship
John R. Graham, associate professor of finance at Fuqua, was awarded one of only eight Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships given nationally in the field of economics in 2000. The prestigious award carries with it a grant of $40,000, which can be used in a largely unrestricted manner to support the winner's research over a two-year period.

The selection procedures for Sloan Research Fellowships are "designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge." The awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. This year, 104 grants were awarded in six fields: chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics.

Graham intends to use the Sloan Research Fellowship grant to pursue his current research on the tax benefits to debt and also to investigate whether it is optimal for companies to operate as conglomerates.

Professors, Students Win First-Place in Worldwide MBA Challenge
A Fuqua team won first prize in a $5,000 MBA challenge sponsored by eRaider.com Inc., the first corporate takeover mutual fund on the Internet.

Student team members were: Holly Dice (captain), Thomas Cowhey, Ruta Coffin and Dillon Bowles. Michael Bradley, the F.M. Kirby Professor of Investment Banking and professor of law, and William Boulding, professor of marketing, served as faculty advisers to the team.

Teams from MBA schools from all over the world submitted proposals to improve Employee Solutions, eRaider's first takeover target. The Fuqua team winners will be interviewed on CNN at a date and time yet to be determined.

Regenwetter Wins 1999 New Investigator Award
Michel Regenwetter, assistant professor of decision sciences, won the 1999 new investigator award from the Society for Mathematical Psychology. The award is given annually to one junior mathematical psychologist world wide for outstanding research achievement. Regenwetter is an expert in decision sciences and random utility theory.

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