Faculty & Research-The Fuqua School of Business

Greg Dees, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management and Faculty Director for Fuqua’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE), was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Aspen Institute and Ashoka. The award was given in recognition of Dees’ many contributions to social entrepreneurship education and practice.

Best Paper Award

Fuqua Assistant Professor of Economics Ahmed Khwaja and Duke Economics professor Frank Sloan, along with Duke Economics alumnus Martin Salm, were awarded the Paul Geroski Best Article prize for the best paper published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization in 2006.

In their paper, “Evidence on Preferences and Subjective Beliefs of Risk-takers: The Case of Cigarettes,” the Duke team analyzed data regarding smokers’ views of the future, tolerance for risk, and other factors. Based on their analysis, Khwaja, Sloan and Salm suggest that regulatory efforts to restrict access to cigarettes are not likely to be successful in reducing smoking behavior. The award-winning paper is part of a larger body of work Sloan and Khwaja have pursued with sponsorship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Young Researcher Award

The Mathematical Programming Society has named Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences Alexandre Belloni the winner of its Young Researcher Competition for his paper “Norm-induced Densities and Testing the Boundedness of a Convex Set,” which is forthcoming in the journal Mathematics of Operations Research.

Best Paper Award

Professor of Management Sim Sitkin and Jeff Barden (PhD ’06) of the University of Washington, along with co-authors from the Australian Graduate School of Management, received the 2006 Academy of Management Review best paper award. Their paper, “Cognitive Underpinnings of Institutional Persistence and Change: A Framing Perspective” was published in the Academy of Management Review.

Strategic Management Society Fellow

Will Mitchell, the J. Rex Fuqua Professor of International Management, has been appointed as a fellow of the Strategic Management Society in recognition of his significant contributions to the theory and practice of strategic management.

The Strategic Management Society is composed of more than 2,000 academics, business practitioners, and consultants, and focuses on the development and dissemination of insights on the strategic management process.

Society for Marketing Science President

Rick Staelin, the Edward and Rose Donnell Professor of Business Administration, began a term as President of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Society for Marketing Science in January 2008. The major purpose of the Society for Marketing Science is to foster the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research, and science and technologies that improve the understanding and practice of marketing.

Bank of American Faculty Award

James Anton, Professor of Economics, was the 2007 recipient of the Bank of America Faculty Award, the school’s highest faculty honor. The award was presented at the fall Board of Visitors meeting. Anton has taught at Fuqua since 1989 and was recognized for his outstanding research, teaching, service, and leadership to the school and the profession. The nomination letter summed up very well Jim's many contributions: "Jim is quite simply a phenomenal colleague and scholar, admired and respected throughout the school." The teaching award is made possible through a $100,000 endowment from Bank of America. (photo)

Weekend Executive Teaching Awards

The Duke MBA--Weekend Executive Class of 2007 presented outstanding teaching awards to Assistant Professor of Strategy David Ridley and Visiting Professor Jeff Reuer during the November 17 graduation ceremony. Reuer was selected for the core teaching award for his Corporate Strategy course, and Ridley received the elective teaching award for the Economics & Strategy of Health Sector Management course.

The Duke MBA--Global Executive Class of 2007 presented its teaching award to Adjunct Professor Nikos Vettas during the November 17 graduation ceremony. Vettas was the instructor for the group’s Global Managerial Economics course.

Fuqua Creates Formal Strategy Area

After many years of developing a strong roster of strategy faculty and course offerings, Fuqua recently designated strategy as one of its eight official faculty areas. With an initial group of sixteen faculty members (many of whom were shifted from Fuqua’s management group), the area serves as the central point for strategy research, the preparation of MBA students for consulting, and as the academic home for PhD students focused on strategy.