THE NAVEEN JINDAL SCHOOL OF SPRING 2015

VOLUME 18 No. 2 No. VOLUME 18

STUDENTS + FACULTY + PROGRAMS VALUE ADDED MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

his spring we have celebrated several special occasions. In March, we held a luncheon to thank the major Tdonors whose generous gifts helped the Jindal School surpass its Campaign for Tier One goal of $50 million. At the end of the campaign, we had reached the $53.4 million mark. The University also exceeded its campaign goal of $200 million. Thanks to all who gave and who continue to give for your help in making the Jindal School better every day.

Thanks to the campaign, 52 new endowments were created in our school, ensuring critical support for new pro- grams such as commercial real estate and professional sales, and creating new opportunities for student scholar- ships and fellowships. We have created 16 endowments for scholarships and fellowships, 16 opportunity funds, nine support funds for students and miscellaneous needs, and 11 endowments for faculty chairs. Recently, six professors named to endowed posts were formally honored at an investiture ceremony. You can read about the investitures in this issue.

I believe that top faculty members and their research are key components in building a top school. Dr. Shaojie Tang, a new assistant professor on our information systems faculty, earned two best paper awards this academic year at international symposiums devoted to computing, networking and next-generation information technology applications. I am also happy to report that Dr. Özalp Özer, Dr. Daniel Rajatranam and Dr. Mike Peng earned recognitions for papers that have advanced the knowledge base in their fields.

Hasan Pirkul Our faculty members also have been recognized by our students. The UT Dallas chapter of the Golden Key Inter- Dean and Caruth Chair national Honour Society, a collegiate honor society devoted to high scholastic achievement, recently chose to of Management induct John Barden, director of the undergraduate accounting program, and Dr. Sonia Leach, director of the undergraduate program in supply chain management, as honorary chapter members.

In a 2014 article published in Asia Pacific Journal of Management, several faculty members in our Organizations, Strategy and International Management Area were named among the most influential China strategy researchers in the world. Dr. Peng topped the list at No. 1, Eric W.K. Tsang was No. 4, Zhiang (John) Lin was No. 12. Marketing Professor Fang Wu also made the list at No. 31.

Research productivity of our faculty members led our school to climb five places from last year to this year in the UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™. Our faculty published 196 articles in top peer-reviewed academic journals during the most recent five-year period measured, 2010 to 2014, placing our school at No. 11 among North American business schools.

Independently, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the Jindal School faculty No. 5 in the United States in intellectual capital in its 2014 rankings of the nation’s best full-time MBA programs. A standing that reflects the level of research expertise of the faculty, the ranking was calculated by counting all articles pub­ lished by tenured and tenure-track faculty in 20 leading academic business journals from 2009 to 2013.

Our academic programs continue to be recognized nationally and internationally. In U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 graduate school rankings, the Full-Time MBA Program moved up four spots to tie for No. 33 in the nation, and the Professional MBA Program tied for No. 29. Our information systems programs tied for No. 16. Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the school’s Full-Time MBA Program No. 41 overall in the country and No. 19 among U.S. public programs.

Bloomberg Businessweek also rated the school No. 11 overall for return on investment. The publication reported that the typical Jindal School student will recoup nearly 40 percent of costs to attend in the first year after graduation.

Our online programs also turned in strong showings in U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 Best Online Programs rankings. The report ranks the school’s online graduate business programs No. 2 and its online MBA program No. 6.

As always, our students continue to make us proud. This issue includes stories of a JSOM team earning first place — ahead of 27 other universities — in a national ethics case competition, another team winning first — the third Jindal School team to do so in the last four years — in a healthcare case competition, and a trio winning first in the undergraduate division of the annual UT Dallas Business Idea Competition. This year, we started with more than 7,500 total students, 489 of them freshmen. The freshman class grew 64 percent from fall 2013 to fall 2014, and we are busy recruiting another excellent freshman class for next fall.

Undergraduates are highlighted in several spots in this magazine. Their numbers are growing, and we are growing programs for them, including the new BS in Healthcare Management degree curriculum featured in these pages. There is also an article on a new graduate degree program, the MS in Energy Management.

Our ability to create such programs in response to industry needs and our continued improvement are made possible by your belief in the school — and by your support for it. We count on your backing and assistance, and we are very grateful for both.

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PUBLISHER Dr. Hasan Pirkul STUDENTS, FACULTY, PROGRAMS – VALUE ADDED Dean and Caruth Chair of Management EXECUTIVE EDITOR Dr. Diane Seay McNulty Associate Dean for External Affairs and Corporate Development MANAGING EDITOR 2 2 Kristine Imherr ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Advisory Council Connects to ‘The JSOM ThinkHaus Creative, Inc. Experience, From a Student Perspective’ Dorit Suffness Elizabeth Fenimore Council members, seeking more input in order to provide Miler Hung better recommendations for the school’s future, invited Principals four undergraduates to make presentations and participate ILLUSTRATION at their February meeting. Joseph Crabtree Roy Scott PHOTOGRAPHY 6 Randy Anderson Healthcare Management: Bill Crump Randy Eli Grothe The Business Side of Medicine Kristine Imherr A new undergraduate degree program is training the next 26 Brian L. Wiest Djakhangir Zakhidov generation of medical managers. WRITERS Harriet Blake 8 Eric Butterman Jill Glass Grand Opening Formally Welcomes Kristine Imherr New Addition Donna Steph Rian Jeanne Spreier Ribbon cuttings, speeches, food and more festivities gave the Glenda Vosburgh Jindal School’s new wing an official beginning last December 1.

MANAGEMENT Magazine is a publication 10 of the Naveen Jindal School of Management, in the autumn and spring for friends of Conferring Honors…2015 the university. The school retains the right to Six Jindal School professors recently appointed to chairs determine the editorial content and manner of presentation.­ The opinions expressed in and endowed posts were recognized at an April 2 investiture DEPARTMENTS this magazine do not necessarily reflect official ceremony. univer­sity policy. 14 Scholarship Breakfast

© University of Texas at Dallas, 2015 15 Distinguished Alumni Award 16 JSOM Research Ventures UT Dallas is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action university. R. Carter Pate, MS 2003, “has demonstrated exceptional 19 Advisory Council Update leadership in the global business community,” JSOM On the cover: Undergraduates (from left) 21 Faculty News Robin Ahmadi, Victoria Puckett, Justin Wong Dean Hasan Pirkul says. and Kelsey Morrison in the new wing of the Jindal School. Photo by Brian L. Wiest. 26 Program Updates

30 Center and Conference News

32 Student News

38 Alumni News

41 Contributors

VOLUME 18, No. 2 SPRING 2015 Advisory Council Connects to ‘The JSOM Experience, From a Student Perspective‘

FOUR UNDERGRADS BY: ERIC BUTTERMAN IN THE SPOTLIGHT

eetings of the Naveen Jindal School of Management Advisory Council have always offered plenty of opportunities to talk about the state of the school, M and council members are encouraged to make The presentations revealed the Jindal School is firmly on suggestions for improving its future. But the council recently target toward achieving its mission of hands-on training and expressed the need for more input — specifically from stu- a feeling of connectedness between students and faculty. dents — in order to make better-informed recommendations. Marketing major Kelsey Morrison, a junior, opened the pre- Four JSOM undergraduates were invited to attend the sentation. “I love JSOM,” she said. “It’s done so much for me. council’s February 11 meeting, where they each made a present­ It’s developed me professionally, and also professors have a lot ation and they all later participated in roundtable discussions to do with that. If they weren’t so involved and very personal that are a staple at every meeting. for us — they truly care about us as students — I can honestly say I wouldn’t be where I am.”

2 The Naveen Jindal School of Management Advisory Council Chairman Steve Penson (left) referred to the visiting students as “great ambassadors.” Their strong presentation showing did not surprise council member Ted Holden (center). Past council chairman Skip Moore (right) said companies look to the University to make strong connections for the future.

Finance major Robin Ahmadi, a senior concurrently clearly impressed, referring to the students as “great ambassa- pursuing an MS and MBA, credited Professor Randy Guttery dors of the Jindal School of Management.” He then put them for helping him become an assistant analyst at a commercial on the hot seat by asking them why they chose the Naveen valuation and property tax services company. “He’s actually Jindal School of Management over other places. the professor that got me my first — and through it — second Victoria Puckett, a junior majoring in information tech- job,” Ahmadi said. After working part time for a year at Integra nology and systems, recalled a campus visit with her father, Realty Resources in the appraisal industry, Ahmadi transferred unusual because he was the student. “I had actually been to to tax consulting after Integra brought Equus Property Tax classes with my dad,” she said. “I really enjoyed the ambience, Services. Equus has more than 40 clients, Ahmadi said, and he and it has that small liberal arts feel that I was looking for and three colleagues “are actively involved in managing their in a public university.” tax bills for more than $6 billion of property.” Ahmadi said picking The University of Texas at Dallas Ahmadi said he felt JSOM properly recognized his dream for his undergraduate had been an easy choice thanks to the of working in real estate and has been strongly committed city’s burgeoning real estate industry. The decision to stay for to his passion. “Everything I’m learning graduate school wasn’t hard, he said, after he made quick in my financial classes I’m applying, mainly to software,” he said. He even cited the school’s involvement in a real estate competition, an Advisory Council Chairman Steve Penson effort that led to him and invited students (left to several other students re- right) Robin Ahmadi, Victoria Puckett, Kelsey ceiving job offers Morrison and Justin Wong from brokerages. to present their views of After presentations, the Jindal School at the council's February meeting. the meeting switched to questions. Advisory Council Chairman Steve Penson was

UT Dallas | Spring 2015 3 calculations. Estimating a cost to him of $24,000 in tuition and fees, he found those to be a much lower amount than at other universities he had considered. Their tuition and fees were more expensive, he said, but for their locales, median starting salaries for an MBA — $81,000 — were similar to the DFW area. Taking it in, Ted Holden, vice president of Sales and Justin Wong Account Management at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, was — not surprised by the students’ strong presentation showing. “College and the job market are probably more competitive now than ever,” he said. “Students today are fearless A junior majoring in accounting, Wong is and realize they have to be to get ahead. They showed it involved with the Professional Program in at the meeting.” Accounting and the Institute of Internal During roundtable discussions, the four students also Auditors. Wong also currently works at Mont- heard council members be highly complimentary of gradu- gomery Coscia Greilich in Consulting Services ates who came from UT Dallas to work for them. as a part of junior staff. He finds one of the Skip Moore, managing partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP school’s best attributes is the receptiveness and immediate past chairman of the council, commented of professors. “I feel that I can bounce off that he hopes the connection strengthens even further with ideas and get feedback on the goals I have,” the University as an adviser to companies. “When you look he says. “It’s great to know a professor is at the University, the growth part of our business is more the consulting side,” he said. “What we have to understand are interested in my future. You want to know what issues companies are going to face so we can then they care.” develop solutions. We really need a forward look, and we look to the University and the centers and places where we can connect because this is where it’s happening. This is where everything gets brought together and we can learn.” Post-meeting, the students’ comments were extremely positive. Justin Wong, a junior in accounting, appreciated the meeting as a true give and take. “This gives you a chance to MEET THE STUDENTS show the student’s point of view,” he said. “We were able to share what our programs are like and find out a little more from companies about what they want from students.” Ahmadi saw tremendous opportunity, both to present and as a rare chance to take in the wisdom of a roster of business heavyweights. “Just look at the accomplishments of the people here,” he said. “We’re getting a chance to meet them and learn from them. This is a great example of what the school can offer.” ≤

4 The Naveen Jindal School of Management Robin Ahmadi —

Kelsey Morrison Say “real estate” to Ahmadi, and he is all — ears. A senior in finance, concurrently pursuing an MS and MBA on the fast track, Victoria Puckett he entered the commercial real estate evalu- — Morrison, a junior majoring in marketing, is a ation and consulting industry a year ago with member of the UT Dallas volleyball team and Integra Realty Resources. He currently works has taken her competitive style to bolstering as a property tax analyst for more than Puckett, a junior majoring in information her career. A highlight has been working as 40 senior housing clients. He credits Profes- technology and systems, is headed toward a product innovation intern for Southwest sor Randy Guttery, director of JSOM’s real joining her father as a UT Dallas graduate. Airlines. Helping the Product Innovation team estate programs, with the opportunity. “I Currently working as an accounting clerk at launch and analyze the new Self-Tagging was recognized for doing well in my class local medical technology firm Avazzia Inc., Kiosks for luggage as well as provide support and was recommended for this chance (at Puckett mentioned during the presentation for various product decks, she is excited Integra),” he says. “You don’t expect someone that a passion of hers is volunteering. Just by where opportunities can take her. “Every to help you out like that.…It’s meant a lot.” one example is putting her time into the Tzu company has a challenge they want to meet,” Chi Foundation, an organization with a heavy she says. “I want to learn more ways to be focus on disaster relief. helpful in solving problems.

UT Dallas | Spring 2015 5 HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT: THE BUSINESS SIDE OF MEDICINE

New Undergraduate Degree Program Is Training Next Generation of Medical Managers

unior Artie Goldman has not yet J graduated, but already he has helped physicians find jobs and he himself has lined up a summer internship at a specialty pharmaceutical company — thanks to the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s new undergraduate degree program in healthcare management. Soon after a campus event featuring visits from representatives of numerous Dallas healthcare companies last fall, Goldman landed a position in the Dallas office of national physician search and consulting firm Merritt Hawkins & Associates. He worked there full time for three months as a physician placement consultant while he also worked on earning JSOM’s new Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Man- agement (BSHM) degree. Thanks to the BSHM program, Gold- man is about to spend 10 weeks this summer at AmerisourceBergen, learning the logistics involved for delivery and distribution of the company’s “time- and temperature-sensitive, very expensive pharmaceuticals,” he says, and other medical products. From Goldman’s perspective, both positions enhance a résumé he hopes

soon will include a managerial role JOSEPH CRABTREE By Donna Steph Rian in healthcare. What began as a concentration of undergraduate healthcare classes has Healthcare Management: The Business Side of Medicine

evolved into the BSHM degree program — after receiving the go-ahead from the UT System Board of Regents last November. Clinical Professor Britt Berrett, who is director of the program, says it complements the school’s 8-year-old Master of Science in Healthcare Management Program. “This is the only undergraduate degree plan in healthcare management in the UT System that is offered through a business school,” says Berrett, a 2009 UT Dallas PhD graduate, Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a 2011 UT Dallas Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. “We are unique in that we are presenting an opportunity for business-minded students to gain perspective and knowledge and education on the business side of healthcare. We are look- ing for a new generation of healthcare leaders — people who have strong management skills. While clinicians make amazing discoveries, they are going to need business leaders to orchestrate making those discoveries successful.” Precious Osuchukwu, Britt Berrett and Artie Goldman The new BSHM degree is a 120 semester credit-hour program that includes a variety of disciplines relevant to healthcare management, including marketing, supply-side management, information technology, organizational behavior, decision- University Hospital this semester.

making operations, international business and strategic planning. “The new undergraduate program in healthcare management Students also are required to complete an outside internship. at UTD fits a real need in the industry,” Presbyterian Dallas’ Berg This spring, 108 students are participating in the program, says. “It prepares the next generation to become effective leaders many of whom have declared healthcare management as a in the journey to improve healthcare value. Course concentra- major, Berrett says. tion in critical thinking, analysis and data is critical in advancing For sophomore Precious Osuchukwu, the new degree program well-prepared talent.”

“seems like a perfect fit.” Formerly a political science major at For student Artie Goldman, the new degree program has been Southern Methodist University and a nationally ranked debater a real coup.

in high school, Osuchukwu transferred to UT Dallas solely be- “Classes in this program equal years of networking,” he says. cause of the new program. “We hear from people from pharmaceutical companies, medical “I chose to major in healthcare management because the researchers, clinicians, hospital executives and more. It’s a huge world of healthcare is ever-changing,” he says. “I think of and unique learning experience.” ≤ healthcare as my generation’s computer because the field itself yields many opportunities, and innovations are occurring at a rapid rate. I consider myself a problem-solver, and currently in the healthcare sector, there are many questions that need to be This photo appeared addressed and problems that need to be solved. With a degree in on page 5 of the healthcare management from UTD, I feel I will be well-equipped autumn 2014 issue and prepared to address these concerns head-on.” of Management and

Significant benefits of the new degree program are the close incorrectly identified proximity and networking opportunities students have with the man in the local and national leaders in the healthcare industry. Mid- and center speaking with upper-level industry executives visit campus, interact with stu- Dr. John McCracken (left) and Dr. Forney Fleming (right) dents, serve as visiting lecturers and offer mentoring assistance. as Dr. Esteban Lopez. The guest in the photo is JSOM Jim Berg, president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital alumnus Frank E. Martinez, GLEMBA 2007. We regret the Dallas, hosted a JSOM class on the hospital’s campus this error and apologize for any inconvenience. spring. Students also visited the new Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center’s new William P. Clements Jr.

UT Dallas | Spring 2015 7 G RA N D Formally o p e n i n g Welco ­­mes

New Addition (Front row, l to r:) Richardson City Manager Dan Johnson, Collin County Commissioner Chris Hill, UT Dallas Vice President for Public Affairs Amanda Rockow and Richardson Mayor Pro Tem Bob Townsend

Dr. Hobson Wildenthal, UT Dallas executive vice president and provost, By: Jill Glass told the audience that the University has stayed true to its strategy set in 1992, when he joined UT Dallas, in terms of growth and recruiting top- quality students and faculty.

everal hundred Naveen Jindal School of Management supporters gathered last December 1 in the Satrium of the school’s new wing to celebrate the Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul welcomed guests to the new addition and introduced special guests opening of the much-needed new space. The building at the Grand Opening ceremony. was ready when students returned for the fall semester, but it didn’t officially debut until the grand opening. Festivities included a ribbon cutting, speeches, a virtual scavenger hunt for students and servings of “Whooshie Pies,” confections named after the Univer- sity’s signature sign, the Whoosh; and a giant cake decorated with a photo that looked like the new wing. Students, staff, faculty, alumni, government officials and community members attended the event and were able to explore the building on their own or on tours that were offered. Graduate student Michelle Abuda, a A focal point above guests was the glass and steel 2014 Jindal School undergraduate now sculpture, Expressions of Management, by Dallas artist At 108,000 square feet, the new facility is more than working toward her MS in business Jim Bowman. half as large as the original building, which measures analytics, shared her perspectives on completion of the project. 204,000 square feet. 8 o p e n i n g

Award-winning sculptor Brad Oldham and his wife, Artist Jim Bowman (right) talked with Jindal Christy Coltrin, with Oldham’s sculpture, Great School Associate Dean for External Affairs Potential. The three bronze acorns were anchored and Corporate Development Diane McNulty beneath a tree in the courtyard of the school’s new at the event. The Jindal School commissioned Dr. Calvin Jamison (left), vice president for adminis- addition. His second piece, Wise, is a mirrored Bowman to create the glass sculpture that tration, and Dr. Wildenthal, hoisted the scissors for stainless steel owl mounted on a pedestal in the hangs in the atrium and was featured on the another photo before the ribbon was officially cut. courtyard of the main building. cover of the Autumn 2014 issue of Management.

Left: Dr. Wildenthal (left) with Ray Urban, senior associate and project manager for Goody Clancy, the Boston firm that with SHW Group of Plano, Texas, designed the facility Top: Dr. Arthur Selender, director of the JSOM Finance Trading Lab, Jerry Hoag, JSOM’s associate dean for executive education; Dr. David Springate, academic director for the EMBA and GLEMBA programs; Dr. Wildenthal; Dr. Marilyn Kaplan, associate dean for JSOM under­ graduate programs; Caryn Berardi, associate director of JSOM's Davidson Management Honors Program; and Dr. Howard Dover, clinical professor of marketing

UT Dallas | Spring 2015 9 CONFERRING

rofessors appointed to named and endowed positions — the highest academic distinction that HONORS PUT Dallas confers — are recognized in investiture ceremonies. All were feted at an April 2 event in the Jindal School that also paid tribute to the donors whose generosity has established these posts. 2015 Six of the 11 professors honored this spring are Naveen Jindal School of Management faculty members. All six were featured in JSOM Research Ventures in the Autumn 2014 issue of Management. They are:

“I am unabashedly honored to DR. DANIEL COHEN receive the recognition imparted by TITLE: Professor of Accounting this investiture. I am proud to be a CHAIR: Ashbel Smith Professor part of the Naveen Jindal School of

NOTABLE: Cohen’s work, especially Management, and UT Dallas.” his research on the consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley regulation, has — Dr. Daniel Cohen had a significant impact on the account- ing profession. He ranks among the top 300 authors in the Social Science Cohen, who joined UT Dallas in 2010, Research Network’s list of the Top teaches courses in financial accounting 12,000 Business Authors. and financial statement analysis, as well

10 The Naveen Jindal School of Management as PhD seminars. He recently became the is rigorous and fair in achieving its mis- Accounting Area’s PhD coordinator. sion,” he says. “UTD today is such an institution. Hence, this investiture “I am unabashedly honored to receive the is an honor.” recognition imparted by this investiture. I am proud to be a part of the Naveen Jin- dal School of Management, and UT Dallas,” he says, “as they continue to raise the bar in education and research in accounting. I am DR. WILLIAM CREADY fortunate to be in the company of so many TITLE: Professor of Accounting prestigious colleagues who do not hesitate to reward merit, and who possess a degree CHAIR: Adolf Enthoven Distinguished of integrity and candor unknown to others. Professor in Accounting and I look forward to continuing my work here Information Management for the many, many years to come.”

NOTABLE: Cready has primarily researched the relationship between accounting information and investor trading DR. ÖZALP ÖZER decisions. Recently, he has examined how “I cannot imagine working at a accounting information impacts stock TITLE: Professor of prices. He co-authored a paper show- Operations Management better place than an institution ing that aggregate market indices and firm level earnings move in opposite CHAIR: Ashbel Smith Professor that has a mission of producing

NOTABLE: Özer’s research explores how high-quality products, services, trust and trustworthiness affect the management of global businesses and research and graduates, and that decisions, such as pricing. is rigorous and fair in achieving Özer joined the Jindal School of Man- its mission.” — Dr. ÖZALP ÖZER agement in 2009. A global value chain management and innovation expert, he spent his 2013-2014 sabbatical as a visiting professor at MIT Sloan School of contribution to the theory and practice Management. He was recognized with the of management.” Teaching Excellence Award at MIT Sloan Executive Education in 2014. “I cannot imagine working at a better place than an institution that has a mis- In 2014, Özer received the Management sion of producing high-quality products, Science Best Paper Award “for his services, research and graduates, and that

UT Dallas | Spring 2015 11 organization capital, which embodies such ideas as employee morale, brand “I believe that my role is to “I feel privileged that I’ve been and culture to show how they can con- tribute to a company’s productivity. His guide students to learn how to recognized with such an honor.” research in this area garnered extensive media coverage. He was invited as a learn in a changing world.” — Dr. William Cready knowledge expert at the Microsoft CEO Summit and SAP Global Congress. — Dr. Suresh Radhakrishnan

His passion for teaching has earned the directions. That is, favorable firm-level admiration of students who have nomi- earnings news has negative rather than nated him for awards. He won the Naveen positive impacts, which carries implica- Jindal School of Management’s Outstand- tions for market-wide price movements. ing Graduate Teacher of the Year award in 2001 and 2007. He also has received DR. MICHAEL REBELLO Cready serves as the Jindal School’s teaching awards at New York University TITLE: Professor of Finance and Accounting Area coordinator. He is a and Rutgers University. Managerial Economics certified public accountant and manage- ment accountant. “With the master students, the teaching CHAIR: Susan C. and H. Ronald Nash philosophy is to provide simple frame- Distinguished Professor Previously receiving the Ashbel Smith works to guide their critical thinking Professorship and his students’ achieve- skills,” he says. “I believe that my role is NOTABLE: Among Rebello’s research ments are among his career highlights. to guide students to learn how to learn interests are corporate governance, in a changing world.” corporate capital structure, corporate re- “I feel privileged that I’ve been recognized structuring, security analysts and venture with such an honor,” he says. “It’s some- capital financing. His research papers on thing I really never would have expected corporate financing choices, corporate when I started out on this career path.” boards and auctions have been cited in

influential surveys.

“The type of research I do is abstract: DR. SURESH RADHAKRISHNAN modeling corporate finance-related issues,” he says. “And I think what it does is help TITLE: Professor of Accounting and people to recognize the forces at work that Information Management drive corporate decisions on things like CHAIR: Constantine Konstans compensation, the composition of boards Distinguished Professor of directors and corporate restructuring.”

He arrived at UT Dallas in 2007. He serves NOTABLE: Radhakrishnan is known for as the PhD coordinator for the Finance and developing a measure that quantifies Managerial Economics Area.

12 The Naveen Jindal School of Management “I see it as a signal that I’m heading in the right direction. It’s one more example of the tremendous support I’ve felt from the school.” — Dr. Rebecca Files

DR. REBECCA FILES

TITLE: Assistant Professor of Accounting career,” Files say. “I see it as a signal that I’m heading in the right direction. It’s one ENDOWED POST: Sydney Smith Hicks more example of the tremendous support Faculty Fellow “The type of research I do is I’ve felt from the school.” ≤ abstract: modeling corporate NOTABLE: The first Sydney Smith Hicks Faculty Fellow, Files began her finance-related issues. And university teaching career at UT Dallas in 2009. Her research efforts focus on LEARN MORE ABOUT ENDOWED CHAIRS AT I think what it does is help financial misconduct within firms and www.utdallas.edu/chairs/ how decision-making has a significant people to recognize the forces impact on external parties and their at work that drive corporate responses to misconduct. decisions on things like Files teaches introductory and interme- diate accounting in the Naveen Jindal compensation, the composition School of Management. She received a Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award of boards of directors and in 2014 and a President’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2013. corporate restructuring.” “I feel very honored and appreciate — Dr. Michael Rebello that (Dr. Hicks) is willing to acknowl- edge people at our school earlier in their

UT Dallas | Spring 2015 DEPARTMENTS SCHOLARSHIP BREAKFAST

Philanthropist, Author and Emmy Award-Winning Musician to Headline

BY JILL GLASS

ward-winning composer, New York enced his efforts. Times best-seller author and son His appearance, a unique and interactive

of famed financier Warren Buf- event fusing music, video, audience participation PETER BUFFETT fett, Peter Buffett will take and personal anecdotes, is based on his book center stage at this year’s annual Naveen Jindal Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to School of Management Scholarship Breakfast. As Fulfillment (New York: Crown Archetype, 2010), keynote speaker, Buffet will not only share his which has been described by former President Bill $500,000 and funded nearly 260 new scholar- insights on corporate social consciousness, he Clinton as “a wise and inspiring book that should ships. Reservations are available for the next also will sing. be required reading for every young person seek- breakfast and may be made at: jindal.utdallas. The noted philanthropist will present a ing to find his or her place in the world.” edu/scholarship-breakfast. The breakfast was es- thought-provoking, multimedia performance, To bring his book’s message to life, the tablished with two missions: to offer a forum for “Life is What You Make It: A Concert and “Concert and Conversation” event will feature discussing relevant business issues and to sup- Conversation with Peter Buffett.” The perfor- Buffett on piano, accompanied by a cellist, and port the education goals of UT Dallas students mance will take the audience on a journey from it will include video clips from his film, television — the next generation of business leaders. when Buffett first discovered the piano, to and philanthropic work as well as candid stories Buffet began his career as the musical mind writing music for commercials and films, to his about growing up in the Buffett household. behind many of the early MTV bumpers — brief current philanthropic work and how it has influ- In his book and performance, Buffett dis- transition segments — of the 1980s, and the climatic crescendo in the memorable “fire dance” scene in 1990’s Oscar-winning film, Dances with Wolves. Buffett has been praised for his Native American- inspired music, most notably composing the full score for 500 Nations — the Emmy- awarded CBS miniseries

Above: Dr. Randy Guttery cusses the importance of integrity and values, produced by Kevin Costner. He also composed (left), Dean Hasan Pirkul and and that “giving back,” regardless of wealth or the musical production, Spirit: The Seventh Fire, alumna Jefflyn Williamson at the 2013 breakfast background, can shape and define who you are. a Native American-inspired show incorporat- Right: Students (standing) Buffett’s appearance will be the highlight of ing live native dancing, powwow singing and being acknowledged at the the breakfast, the Jindal School’s major fund- IMAX-scale visuals. The production premiered on 2014 event raiser. The breakfast will be held on Wednesday, the National Mall as part of the opening of the Nov. 4, at the Westin Galleria Hotel. Begun Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American in 2009, the event has generated more than Indian in Washington, D.C. ≤

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D istinguishe d A l u m n i A w a r d

Corporate Leader Affected Area Economy

aveen Jindal School of Management alumnus R. Carter Pate, MS 2003, retired as CEO of MV Transportation, one of the largest privately owned passenger transportation contracting firms based in the United States, last September. The news Nrelease announcing that he was stepping down credited him with growing the company’s revenue from $725 million in 2010 to $1 billion in 2013, expanding its operations in the Middle East and adding to its school bus operations, on-demand car service and international transportation logistics. However, the release failed to mention a locally important fact about Pate — that he played an instrumental role in moving MV Transportation’s head- quarters from the San Francisco area to Dallas in 2012. The move brought about 200 jobs to the area, affecting the economic landscape of DFW. That impact and his distinguished career are two reasons Pate was nomi- R. Carter Pate nated for and named one of five 2015 UT Dallas Distinguished Alumni Award winners. Feted April 9 at a gala at the Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel, the award winners were celebrated for their professional and personal achievements, as well as their pride in UT Dallas. “I thought Carter was an excellent choice” for the alumni award, JSOM Dean Hasan Pirkul said. Besides having “dem- onstrated exceptional leadership in the global business community,” Pirkul said, “Pate, like the Jindal School, understands the vitality of our region, and his decision to bring MV Transportation both benefits DFW and adds to its success. And that kind of thinking demonstrates that the Jindal School taught him well.” Today, Pate remains a strategic adviser to MV’s board of directors. He serves on the board of directors of the Dallas Regional Chamber and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Pate earned his BS in accounting from Greensboro College in North Carolina. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Angela. They have three grown sons. ≤

UT Dallas | Spring 2015 15 14 JSOM UNDERGRADS WORK ON FUNDED RESEARCH

by Jeanne Spreier ROY SCOTT ROY

FOURTEEN NAVEEN JINDAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS OFFICE OF RESEARCH (UTDALLAS.EDU/RESEARCH) TO STUDY EVERYTHING FROM SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES IN INDIA TO HOW PERSONALITY TYPES IMPACT PRICE NEGOTIATIONS. THIS FAR EXCEEDS THE TWO JSOM STUDENTS WHO RECEIVED SIMILAR FUNDING FOR THE 2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR. Dr. Shawn Carraher, a JSOM organizations, strategy and in­ ternational management professor, is supervising nine of the 14 JSOM projects. He encourages students in his international busi­ ness class, which requires a research project for a class grade, to submit their topic to the Office of Research to see if it will quali­ fy for the $500 undergraduate research stipend. “I think it is important for undergraduate students to have the opportunity to work with faculty on research projects, no matter what the field or the topic, for several reasons,” says Dr. Bruce Gnade, UT Dallas vice president for research and Distinguished Chair in Microelectronics. “It provides an oppor­ Shawn Carraher Bruce Gnade

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THE FOLLOWING 14 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS FUNDED are being mentored by Jindal School faculty spon- sors as they proceed with studies made possible by UNDERGRADUATE Undergraduate Research Scholar Awards. Each award consists of a cash stipend of $500 paid to the stu- RESEARCHERS dent, as well as an award of $300 transferred to a University account controlled by the faculty sponsor to pay for research-project expenses, such as equipment by Jeanne Spreier or travel, or to pay for related activities.

Rebecca Tjahja, Freshman, Andrew Drais, Junior, tunity for the students to work with a faculty member on a one- Finance Finance to-one basis … (and) hopefully it helps students have more in­ How powerful is Apple Inc.? Differences in marketing to Chinese formation as they decide on their career paths.” Tjahja is researching the relationship vs. American consumers based on between Apple’s product announce- personality and Hofstede’s Model The University’s president, Dr. David E. Daniel, has steered ments and product releases and the Drais is focusing his research on UT Dallas along its trail toward recognition as a Tier One univer­ stock prices of competitor compa- the differences in Chinese and U.S. sity. A critical component of that designation is research. While nies. Tjahja wants to “increase my ex- consumers using Geert Hofstede’s posure to the research side of finance model. Hofstede, a Dutch social psy- exact requirements of a Tier One university are not codified, in in order to jump-start my career.” She chologist, is most noted for his work general, it is recognized that Tier One universities hold an en­ calls herself an “Apple all the way” developing the “cultural dimensions dowment of at least $400 million, confer at least 200 PhDs each consumer. “I figured I would combine theory.” Drais is looking at the differ- academic year and grant at least $45 million in expenditures of one of my favorite companies with my ences in effective marketing cam- field of study,” she says. paigns between the U.S. and China. restricted research funds in each fiscal year. Calling himself “a future expatriate,” “The funds we provide to the students are there to help en­ Drais says he is interested in this able the project in some small way, but I think more importantly because he plans to run businesses they provide a reason for the students to seek out the interac­ on the global stage. tions with the faculty,” Gnade says. Samantha Reeder, a marketing junior whose project is being Jacob Walsh, Junior, overseen by Carraher, presented her research, The Effect Computer Science Strategic value and disclosure of Uncertainty Avoidance Has On pending patents Business Culture, in February Walsh is using data mining to un- Gauri Ravindra Kadu, Junior, at a conference in Florida. “It derstand how information is shared Marketing was exciting to meet so many about pending, unpublished patent Individualism vs. collectivism: applications. “Technically speaking, assessing interpersonal group professionals who are pas­ it gives me a lot of experience in dynamics in Germany and China sionate about the business a variety of things I wouldn’t have Kadu’s research discusses the world,” she says of the expe­ ordinarily had the chance to learn,” origination of business structure rience. “Everyone was so ex­ Walsh says. “I have to take a lot through cultural values held by of initiative and learn many new, China vs. Germany. She says this cited that I was presenting as challenging concepts in order to allows “awareness of optimal indus- an undergraduate student. get the data we need. It’s also an try practices and builds insight in I don’t think many other interesting topic, and as a computer ethics and cultural values between David E. Daniel science student, it helps me to the two countries.” Businesses Continued on page 18 understand how my work can have share similarity in countries, but great applications outside computer Continued on page 18 UT Dallas | Spring 2015 science-related research.” JSOM RESEARCH VENTURES

Continued from page 17 (undergraduates) were there.…And I received news that my students as they present their posters and to hear their stories paper will also be presented at University of Cambridge this July about why they chose the projects they did. For me, it is one of in England.” the highlights of every spring semester.” Carraher says that with This year, more than 100 undergraduates campus-wide more than 400,000 business school students graduating each received the $500 research stipend. After 101 of them presented year, having a funded research project is a résumé booster. “It posters of their work in an April contest, 16 finalists — two can mean the difference between an interview, and possibly a from each UT Dallas school — were selected. Rebecca Tjahja and job, or not,” he says. Dennis Gonzaga were chosen from JSOM, but neither placed in “I think instead of hitting a senior slump, I’ve kind of hit my the top three of the competition. senior stride,” Reeder says. “So many opportunities have pre­ “The spring undergraduate research day is also a great way sented themselves this semester.” She already has received casual to show off our great undergraduate students to local industry inquiries from potential employers. “I’ve elected to hold off on leaders,” Gnade says. “It is always a lot of fun to visit with the committing to anyone until I’m closer to graduation.” ≤

Continued from page 17 not between generations, she says. Marylud Silva, Junior, Orson Chi, Senior, She looks at the relation between Finance Marketing ethical upbringing and each soci- Identifying how cultural values, the Programs to improve user retention ety’s work culture. economy and healthcare systems and engagement affect the obesity level of America Mobile gaming in particular provides Samantha Reeder, Junior, and China a unique challenge to marketers Marketing who rely on consumer loyalty. The Brian Kihneman, Junior, The different effect uncertainty challenge for mobile game develop- Supply Chain Management avoidance has on doing business ers is creating a value proposition Emerging supply chain in Russia and China that keeps players for longer dura- challenges in India Uncertainty avoidance, Reeder tions so that the players might Kihneman says his research notes, is a predictor for how be monetized via advertising or explores supply chain challenges comfortable one is with ambiguity Laura Su, Junior, in-app purchasing. and opportunities in India by syn- or risks. “I think this applies very Marketing With this in mind, Chi’s research thesizing prevailing ideas related well to business situations, (and) How personality types can investigates important factors with to improving current supply chain the comparison is made even more affect price negotiations loyalty mobile games in regard to management and networks. He is interesting when talking about Su’s research looks at whether there the engagement and retention rate looking at supply chain challenges Russia and China,” she says. These is an efficient way to negotiate sell- of the consumer. and opportunities in India because, two emerging economies, in the ing a product depending on the cli- he says, he is interested in devel- news daily, score very differently on ent’s personality type. If so, compa- oping his understanding of complex the Hofstede analysis, she says. “If nies could identify personality types supply chain issues. “I believe it I were to travel to China to open or and then develop pricing strategies can serve a practical purpose as expand my business, how comfort- targeting that personality to increase a comprehensive and informative able will my investors or partners be the probability of a sale. Her experi- survey of key issues concern- with risky business decisions?” she ment will consist of observing the Michael Easton, Senior, ing supply chain management asks rhetorically. “The same ques- selling of a product to a consumer, Information Technology and Systems and networks in India’s emerging tion can be posed to Russia, with a placing the customer in one of four Examining entrepreneurial hospi- economy,” he says. very different answer.” personality categories, and then tality between the U.S. and China describing the price two different Easton’s research examines the en- ways depending on the category. For trepreneurship within the hospitality uncertainty avoidance, example, a price may be described industries of China and the United as with sales tax or without sales States. He says examining cultural is a predictor for how tax. Su wonders if attention to these and ethical studies will give an idea comfortable one is with sorts of details might improve a of how culture influences the indus- company’s performance. try and whether this impacts mana- ambiguity or risks. gerial decisions, in turn leading to success or failure. He is fascinated — Samantha Reeder by entrepreneurship and wanted it as the center of his research, noting that China’s hospitality industry has “How do culture, ethics and human values affect grown exponentially in recent years, with huge increases in the number business process units in different countries?” of businesses and profits. — Dennis Gonzaga

Dennis Gonzaga, Senior, Accounting Outsourcing: Call centers within the U.S. and beyond Nickolas Johnson, Senior, Patrycja Labedz, Senior, Sara Viklund, Senior, Gonzaga’s research focuses on Accounting Information Technology and Systems Psychology and Organizational Behavior globalization, specifically, the A comparison of the U.S. and Asia Measuring effectiveness in Personality types of outsourcing of call centers within U.S. online shopping practices, compensation and recognition destructive leaders and beyond. He asks, “How do cul- dynamics and impacts on global practices of sales professionals Viklund says in her research, ture, ethics and human values affect and domestic economies followed in the tech industry in she will try to find a correlation business process units in different Johnson says his research focuses the U.S., China and Poland between destructive leaders and countries?” Gonzaga looks at call on the “extremely distinct differ- Labedz says her research con­trasts certain kinds of personality traits. centers in the U.S., Mexico, India and ences” in online shopping between various compensation and rec­ She says she is interested in this the Philippines. Gonzaga already has China and western economies, ognition practices in the technical topic because it combines her two a lengthy résumé, having worked as noting that many businesses that sales sector by analyzing data from academic areas of interest — her a supervisor for a janitorial service, do well in North America and Europe tech companies in the United States, major, psychology, and her minor, owned his own businesses doing flounder in China. His research, he China and Poland. “I am interested in organizational behavior. “I want to contract work for clothing retailers says, “focuses on the difference finding out how these practices in- conduct this research especially and dry cleaners and providing back- in our cultures, economies and fluence integrity and performance... because there are many studies office support including financial business practices (and how) that as well as how cultural differences about great leaders, but very few record keeping. He says he is very has caused success or failure at the impact execution of effective com- about destructive leaders, which I interested in publishing this work. global level.” pensation solutions.” am focused on,” she says. ≤

DEPARTMENTS ADVISORY COUNCIL UPDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL WELCOMES THREE NEW MEMBERS

By Eric Butterman

he Naveen Jindal School of Management Advisory Council is always looking to expand its reach and knowledge. Three members who recently joined the council and who are introduced below T add more experience from the industries of finance and healthcare.

GIRISH BACHANI nity strategy for the bank in Collin County. He began his career as an auditor, which ecently appointed Collin County Market Bachani is also managing vice president he found to be a strong building block for R President of Capital One, Girish Bachani and chief financial officer of the Financial success. “In that role, you get to visit mul­ is responsible for the design, development Services Division, which includes the mort­ tiple companies, and you’re also looking at it and implementation of an integrated commu­ gage and auto finance lines of business. from a top-down perspective,” he says. “That

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part gives you a broad view.” Accountants, Cancelmi received the Dallas While previously working in various func­ Business Journal’s 2014 CFO of the Year award. tions at American Airlines, including finan­ He says that “I’m looking forward to cial planning and international planning, using my time on the advisory council to sup­ Bachani saw important lessons in the disci­ port the University’s faculty and students as pline that came with that industry’s margins. they pursue their academic mission.” “The finance department was crucial, and it showed you how to manage the business TED HOLDEN tightly,” he recalls. olden was appointed vice president, At Capital One, which he joined in 2003, H Sales and Account Management, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas last November. In he says an important part of his learn­ Girish Bachani ing stemmed from the financial downturn. this role, he has responsibility for all new “We managed to survive, and now the auto North Texas business and account retention finance business is thriving,” he says. “We for employers with 151 to 10,000 employees. learned to change to a relationship model A part of the health insurance benefit with dealerships….It was more a transaction industry for 25 years, he has found success model in the past.” in that field comes down to offering your Bachani is scheduled to teach a business personal integrity as much as the product. finance course at JSOM in the fall. “In our business, it’s about showing custom­ ers that you are deserving of their trust and DANIEL CANCELMI providing for them,…” he says. “As far as my ancelmi is Tenet Healthcare own company, I call tell you our corporate C Corporation’s chief financial officer culture is about building appropriate rela­ and previously held the title at Hahnemann tionships externally and internally.” University Hospital in Philadelphia. A Holden won the award for top sales ex­ CPA, Cancelmi gained Big Four experience ecutive at the company on multiple occasions Daniel Cancelmi early in his career in various positions and is president of the Southwest Benefits at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A member of Association Board of Directors and Executive the American Institute of Certified Public Committee. ≤

“I’m looking forward to using my time on the advisory council to support the University’s faculty and students as they pursue their academic mission.” – Daniel Cancelmi Ted Holden

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retically and empirically and by competing on the open market,” identifying major gaps and devel­ Bensoussan says. His work for oping new insights. the company will focus on the Peng also earned a Highly Cited development of methodologies Researcher Award late last year to mitigate the risks associated from Thomson Reuters, a multi­ with providing wind and solar en­ national mass media and informa­ ergy due to the uncertainties of Mike Peng David L. Ford Jr. tion company. Thomson Reuters the resource that can affect the Mike Peng, O.P. Jindal runs the Web of Science, a com­ company’s profitability. David L. Ford Jr. gave a Chair of Management, has two prehensive online research plat­ One of the biggest difficul­ series of lectures in January to new honors. form that named Peng one of the ties associated with providing human resource management In June, he will receive the 95 most-cited researchers in the alternative energy, he says, is doctoral students and a class of 2015 Journal of International Busi- field of economics and business. when a commitment is made to MBA students at Narsee Mongee ness Studies Decade Award at the That puts him in the top 1 percent provide electrical power, but the Institute of Management Studies Academy of International Business of researchers in that field. resources, such as the wind and School of Business in Mumbai, annual meeting in Bangalore, India. sun, do not cooperate. India. Ford, an organizations, The honor is in recognition of a “It is important to be able to strategy and international man­ highly cited paper, “Probing Theo­ make the best forecast possible agement professor, was invited retically into Central and Eastern of your power capability in order by NMIMS Vice Chancellor Europe: Transactions, Resources to hedge your risks,” he says. Rajan Saxena. and Institutions,” that he published “We will do research to hopeful­ “The school in Mumbai is with Professor Klaus E. Meyer of ly get some good tools for mod­ trying to strengthen its research the China Europe International eling, and we hope to be able to abilities,” Ford says, “and they Alain Bensoussan Business School in 2005. develop expertise in that.” are inviting people in to lecture Peng joined UT Dallas in Alain Bensoussan, Ashbel Bensoussan, Dominique to help with that.” 2005. He said he is planning to Smith Professor of Operations Guégan and Charles S. Tapiero His lectures focused on topics donate the award’s $1,000 prize Management and director of the are editors of Future Perspec- drawn from his own research, money to the Jindal School be­ International Center for Decision tives in Risk Models and Finance, including career development, cause it is where he has produced and Risk Analysis, has received Volume 211, in the International cross-cultural environments, the majority of his research and a contract from the French Series in Operations Research cross-race managerial behaviors, he is thankful for his “stimulating, renewable energy company EREN and Management Science (Cham, international business develop­ collegiate and productive aca­ Group to conduct a study titled Switzerland: Springer, 2014). The ment, leadership effectiveness demic home.” “Optimization of Wind Farms book offers insight on several models, workforce diversity, The winning paper, Peng said, and Solar Plant Facilities in the approaches to financial model­ workplace collegiality and leader­ was the culmination of more than Context of Competitive Markets.” ing and risk management and ship lectures focused on long- a decade of research, in which The three-year contract is in the considers both theoretical and term studies he has conducted in he and Professor Meyer tried amount of 150,000 euros. practical issues. Central Eurasia and Africa. to push CEE research to new “EREN Group is a new com­ heights by comprehensively pany that invests in alternative reviewing what was done theo­ energies with the objective of

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riod,” Bardhan says. “These disciplined, innovation in the IT Evolution Finance says it patients often are referred to department, including looking at launched the Wallet Hub website in other physicians and hospitals in the kinds of structures to be put February 2012 “as a one-stop desti­ the course of their treatment.” in place to make innovation more nation for all the tools and informa­ The research focused on the likely to happen. tion consumers and small-business extent of duplications of medical owners need to make better finan­ tests and procedures for these cial decisions and save money.” Indranil Bardhan patients and whether having an IT system in place that allows hospitals and doctors to share patient information decreases the level of duplications. “We found a decrease of between Nina Baranchuk 20 percent and 50 percent,” Bardhan says, “and an annual sav­ Assistant Professor of Finance Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng Virginie Lopez-Kidwell ings of $1.2 million on a specific and Managerial Economics Nina A paper by Indranil category of tests alone. The sav­ Baranchuk says she was sur­ Virginie Lopez-Kidwell, Bardhan, professor and Infor­ ings are likely to be higher if all prised to be asked to contribute assistant professor of organiza­ mation Systems Area coordinator, test categories are considered.” to a WalletHub.com article titled tions, strategy and international Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, as­ “2014’s Best and Worst Cities management, is collaborating with sociate professor in information for Singles.” Dr. E. Scott Geller and graduate systems; Kirk Kirksey, UT South­ Baranchuk, who is married, student Shane McCarty and team western; and Sezgin Ayabakan, says she did not know if she had at Virginia Tech University (where University of Baltimore and a anything to contribute. “It was she received her BS in 2001) on a JSOM 2014 PhD alum in Man­ kind of an unusual experience for study that focuses on the effect of agement Science; received the me,” she says. “The focus of the actively caring for others and the runner-up award for best paper at article was how single people can ripple effect of doing good deeds the 35th annual International Con­ Kelly T. Slaughter meet other people.” for others. ference on Information Systems WalletHub ranked the 150 Actively Caring for People is a (ICIS) in Auckland, New Zealand, Kelly T. Slaughter, clinical most-populated U.S. cities across movement born at Virginia Tech in last December. More than 1,220 professor of information systems 25 key metrics, such as the per­ the wake of the April 2007 cam­ papers were submitted to this and director of the Center of centage of singles, restaurant-meal pus shootings. It aims to establish a flagship conference on academic Information Technology and costs and the number of attrac­ “more compassionate, interdepen­ research in information systems. Management, presented research tions per capita in each city. The dent and empathic culture within The paper, “Value of Health on the IT department and inno­ article included advice from ex­ schools, businesses, organizations Information Sharing in Reducing vation to about 30 senior IT perts including Baranchuk aimed and throughout entire communi­ Healthcare Waste: An Analy­ executives from across the United at helping singles find the best ties” by encouraging people to sis of Duplicate Testing Across States at a meeting of the Society cities in which to live and to help “actively care” for others. Partici­ Hospitals,” explores the impact for Information Management in them meet other singles once pants hand out green wristbands of duplicate medical testing and Atlanta in January. they move there. whenever they see someone doing procedures that can happen when SIM, a national network for Her advice was to choose a kindness for another person, and hospitals and physicians do not IT professionals, made a com­ hobbies that are fun to do with a individuals are encouraged to go share patient information. petitive selection that resulted in date and then choose a city where to a website (www.ac4p.org) to “We partnered with UT $5,000 in funding to the center. those hobbies are popular. “For share their stories. Southwestern and the Dallas- A SIM member, Kelly represents example, if one chooses rock “It’s not just about being nice Fort Worth Hospital Council and UT Dallas at the DFW chapter. climbing, it is probably good to to people,” Lopez-Kidwell says. looked at congestive heart-failure Slaughter presented results live in the area with lots of moun­ “It’s about doing something nice patients over a seven-year pe­ of his research on structured, or tains,” she says. for people. There is a bystander

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effect to that, and so it becomes It is the first textbook Thouin The book identifies factors a movement.” has written. that drive innovation and entre­ Another Lopez-Kidwell re­ Thouin also has been selected preneurship in the United States, search project focuses on finding to participate on the MS IS 2016 China and India, and discusses shortcuts to success through inno­ Task Force, which will provide a way to model the economic vative thinking. It will include an master’s-level recommendations impact. “Innovation and entre­ experiment in using floating to for curriculum for information preneurship are important for the help people focus on being happy systems. The task force includes long-term health of a country,” in the here and now, in partner­ four faculty members from each Shah says, and “there are a lot of of management in the School ship with The Float Spot (www.the- of two worldwide organizations, differences in the three countries.” of Business and Economics at floatspot.com), in Frisco, Texas, the Association for Computing Gao contacted Shah in 2011 Indiana University Northwest, where patrons float inside pod-like Machinery and the Association for about working together on the included interviews with both tanks to relax. Information Systems. project. “She was hoping to come outgoing President and CEO Another of Lopez-Kidwell’s “The task force will be getting to UT Dallas on scholarship, so we of the Association to Advance current projects is for her Organi­ input from the community and talked a few times on Skype and Collegiate Schools of Business zational Behavior class. She will use attending several conferences to collaborated via email,” Shah says. International John J. Fernandes a simulation called Virtual Leader obtain feedback, with a goal of “The real work started in February and Jindal School Dean Hasan (www.simulearn.net) to increase publishing information in a broadly 2012 when she arrived here.” Pirkul in their book Servant students’ emotional abilities. accessible manner,” Thouin says. Gao, an associate professor Leadership: Research and Practice with the College of Econom­ (Hershey, Pennsylvania: Business ics and Management, Northeast Science Reference, 2014). Agricultural University in Harbin, The book, Carraher and China, was a visiting scholar at Selladurai wrote, examines “vari­ UT Dallas from 2012 to 2013. ous types of leaders’ and servant Harini Mittal, who taught inno­ leaders’ experiences, beliefs, vation entrepreneurship in India, thoughts and perspectives on ser­ also contacted Shah about work­ vant leadership — its significance, Mark Thouin Rajiv Shah ing together. Mittal was at CEPT value, practice and benefits.” Mark Thouin says he always Rajiv Shah, clinical professor University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat had difficulty finding materials for of innovation and entrepreneur­ in India, prior to coming to the Introduction to Management ship and finance, and director of UT Dallas as a visiting assistant Information Systems class he the Executive Systems Engineer­ professor. She now is on the fac­ teaches, so he wrote a textbook. ing and Management Program, ulty of Bronx Community College, “There was a need,” says worked with Zhijie Gao and the City University of New York. Thouin, clinical associate professor Harini Mittal, to write Innovation,

and director of the MS in Informa­ Entrepreneurship and the Economy Britt Berrett tion Technology and Management in the U.S., China and India – Program. “The class is required Historical Perspectives and Future Britt Berrett, director of for all business students as part Trends (London: Academic Press- the BS in Healthcare Management of their business degree. The dif­ Elsevier, 2014). Program, preaches transforma­ ference with this book is that it’s tional leadership and speaks regu­ written for a wide audience.” larly locally, regionally, nationally Shawn Carraher MIS Case Book (Boston, Pear­ and internationally at such health­ son Learning, 2014), an e-book, Shawn Carraher, clini­ care systems as Dignity Health, presents a series of academic cal professor of organizations, BJC HealthCare and Premier cases and helps students apply strategy and international man­ Health. He also conducts work­ what they learn to the cases agement, and colleague Dr. Raj shops and boot camps. that simulate business situations. Selladurai, an associate professor In March, he spoke to the

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American College of Healthcare the Sheth Foundation Best Paper WalletHub.com, “2014’s Executives’ Congress of Health­ Award for their paper published Best and Worst Cities for First- care Leadership in Chicago. in the Journal of the Academy of Time Home Buyers.” He pro­ Last November, he was the Marketing Science (JAMS). vided tips for how to determine keynote speaker at the Korean The editorial review board se­ when you are financially ready Hospital Association National lected the paper, “The Intellectual to buy your first home, how to

Meeting in Seoul, speaking on Ecology of Mainstream Market­ Randall Guttery choose the right neighborhood – “Leading Change by Changing ing Research: An Inquiry into the and a recommendation on the How You Lead.” Place of Marketing in the Family Randall Guttery, direc­ minimum down payment. In October, he spoke at the of Business Disciplines,” published tor of real estate programs and a International Conference on in May 2014, from 38 papers pub­ member of the finance and mana­ Healthcare Leadership in Houston lished out of 539 papers submit­ gerial economics faculty, served as on the topic, “Stress in Health­ ted to JAMS in 2014. a judge for the Dallas chapter of care? Build a Team!” The event The paper examines the con­ Commercial Real Estate Women’s was sponsored by the American tribution of mainstream marketing “CREW Careers: Building Oppor­ College of Healthcare Executives’ research to business disciplines. tunities” competition in October. southern district. Despite considerable research pro­ The competition included Michele Lockhart Berrett is also doing a lot ductivity and sophisticated method­ teams of high school girls who of work with industry, having ologies, leading marketing scholars were asked to create a plan to Global Women Leaders: Studies recently spoken at CEO summits for more than three decades have re-purpose a 100-year-old vacant in Feminist Political Rhetoric for McKesson, Stericycle and argued that mainstream market­ building across from an El Centro (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington O.C. Tanner. ing research has lost its influence College campus south of down­ Books, 2014) is the second book “We’re entering a dynamic among business disciplines. town Dallas. edited by Michele Lockhart, time in healthcare,” Berrett says. What sets the paper apart, “The girls who participated senior organizations, strategy “There was a time when life was Rajaratnam says, is that it looks at worked for hours,” Guttery says, and international management more ordered. Life now is more an old problem in a new way. It “and even did an off-site tour of lecturer, and Kathleen Mollick of complicated. Transactional leader­ not only summarizes the decades- the building. Some of their ideas Tarleton State University. ship—do as I say and you’ll get old concerns, but it also provides for the building focused on ways “We analyze language women paid—is less effective. But there empirical evidence and concrete to leverage [its proximity to] the use to be effective political lead­ are great leaders out there who recommendations for change and college. One idea was to make ers,” Lockhart says. “Our first are caring. In layman’s terms, influence. The work also shows (the vacant building) a dormitory book [Political Women: Language leaders have to care about the which business disciplines have the and cafeteria, another included a and Leadership] focused on women purpose and the meaning of the greatest influence over research­ food court, and another included in the United States, and this sec­ organization and should care ers and practitioners. a heated swimming pool.” ond book features international about the individual and what is Rajaratnam, who joined the The program is presented by women.” Key figures featured in important to them.” Jindal School in fall 2014, teaches CREW in the Community, the the new book include Elizabeth I undergraduate marketing re­ philanthropic arm of CREW Dal­ and II as well as women leaders search, retailing and distribution, las, says director Kim Hopkins. from African countries and the and graduate marketing manage­ “This is the first year that United Nations. “We are already ment. He and his co-authors will someone from UT Dallas has working on our third book set for receive the award at the annual served as a judge,” Hopkins says. Academy of Marketing Science “Since the girls who participate are Conference in Denver in May. in high school, it was very helpful to have a representative from a Daniel Rajaratnam local university participate.” Daniel Rajaratnam, clini­ Guttery also was recently cal professor of marketing, and featured in the “Ask the Experts” his co-authors were awarded section of an article for

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release in October 2015, which concerns to the Securities and Returning to UT Dallas, she language, as well as programs for will be about Hillary Clinton and Exchange Commission, and testify­ found that her Mandarin skills their parents to learn Mandarin. her political and social discourse.” ing before Congress. and experience abroad directly Lockhart spoke at the Confer­ “I’m worried about our coun­ impacted her position. “During ence on College Composition and try,” he says. ”History tells us the the time my family was in China, Communication at the “Feminist collapse of every civilization starts China came to UTD,” she says. Workshop: Teaching, Service, and with the collapse of ethics, and The MS in Accounting Program the Material Conditions of Labor” we’re accelerating.” and other JSOM master’s pro­ session in March in Tampa, Florida. Bowen is a member of the grams have seen a great increase “Kathleen and I talked about our National Speakers Association in international students from Tom Kim collaboration and the importance and regularly speaks about his mainland China seeking degrees. of having a mentor,” she says. experiences. In March, he spoke Back in the United States, About 50 military veterans in “We want our findings and success about ethical leadership at the Goodrich and her husband wanted the information technology intern­ to help others be successful as col­ UNT College of Business as part to find a school where their ship program at USAA in San An­ laborators in academia.” of its Distinguished Speaker Series children could continue to learn tonio heard Tom Kim speak last Lockhart says she believes that and appeared on Bloomberg TV, Chinese. But in 2010, the main June at an event focused on ways the framework she and Mollick the round-the-clock business net­ opportunities lay in weekend pro­ to transition from the military use to look at women in politics work. He was featured in Cheryl grams or self-study, she says. to the private sector. This was can be shifted to other areas, such Hall’s Feb. 15 column in the busi­ That is why, she says, “I am Kim’s first speaking engagement at as the business world. “That’s ness section of the Dallas Morn- very excited I have had the oppor­ USAA, a financial services compa­ maybe two books away,” she says. ing News. In January, Deutsche tunity to collaborate to bring a full ny for current and former military Welle, an international network Chinese immersion school to the members and their families. headquartered in Bonn, Germany, DFW area.” Kim, assistant dean of the broadcast an interview with him Beginning with kindergarteners Jindal School’s Career Manage­ on its WorldLink program, and in the 2015-2016 academic year, ment Center, served in the U.S. last October he was interviewed the Carrollton (Texas) Christian Navy nine years, so he was able on TruNews Radio. International Leadership Academy, to talk with his audience from the operated by the Carrollton Chris­ position of a fellow veteran who tian Academy (www.ccasaints.org), has successfully made the transi­ Richard Bowen will offer an academic weekday tion to the private sector. Richard Bowen, senior school taught half in English and “It’s a big change for those lecturer in accounting, has started a half in Mandarin Chinese. coming out of the military,” he blog (www.richardmbowen.com/blog) Goodrich points out that “one says. “In the military, you follow where he posts items on topics out of five people in the world orders. In the corporate world, that “interest me and come from speaks Mandarin, ” She sees the you need to be able to think for Mary Beth Goodrich my unique perspective. I started immersion program, which she yourself. For veterans, it’s about the blog last fall, but I’ve been Mary Beth Goodrich, helped found, “as a great oppor­ getting out of their comfort zone.” mulling it for a long time,” he says. senior lecturer in accounting and tunity for people who may have One of the things he spoke to “I’ve never been really savvy with faculty advisor to Ascend, a stu­ originated from Chinese decent to the group about was the impor­ the Internet, but I knew I needed dent group for Asian and Pacific continue learning about their rich tance of networking. “It’s some­ to get into social media.” Island students in business, has heritage and for others to learn the thing that has to be a daily prac­ Bowen, who began teaching at been personally and professionally top language spoken in the world.” tice,” he says. “Every day there the Jindal School in 2008, is a changed by living in China and by No Mandarin skills will be are opportunities everywhere, former Citigroup executive turned teaching Chinese students at the required to start in the new pro­ even in places like grocery stores whistleblower. He says he will Jindal School. gram. Goodrich says the leader­ or Starbucks.” ≤ continue to share his “war story” From the end of 2007 until ship academy will have built-in sup­ about trying to warn Citigroup summer 2010, Goodrich and her port from secondary children at about its risky practices, taking his family were expatriates in Shanghai. CCA who speak Chinese as a first

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Online Programs Place in top Top 10 of Three Rankings he Naveen Jindal School of Man- its online graduate business rankings into 10 agement’s online MBA and online two — one for online MBA programs and graduate business programs are listed one for all other online graduate business among the nation’s top 10 programs programs. In the 2014 rankings, the Jindal three Tby U.S. News & World Report in its 2015 Best School’s combined standing was No. 4. Online Programs rankings. The rankings include Jindal School rankings The MBA program also placed at No. 9 in degree programs provided completely on- the QS Distance Online MBA Ranking’s Global line. The school offers an online MBA and Top 10. online master’s degrees in accounting and U.S. News & World Report ranks the school’s information technology and management. online graduate business programs No. 2 and Although not included in the rankings, the its online MBA program No. 6 in standings school offers other online options in its released in January. Executive Education Area. The rankings highlight the school’s com- The QS Distance Online MBA Ranking, mitment both to students who are seeking a released March 26, describes itself as “the traditional MBA degree as well as those who world’s most comprehensive ranking dedi- seek specialized professional development cated exclusively to accredited online and offered by an MS degree, said Dr. Hasan distance learning MBA programs.” Last year, Pirkul, Jindal School dean and Caruth Chair the Jindal MBA program was ranked No. 15. of Management. The full QS Distance/Online MBA For the first time since it began ranking on- Ranking 2015 can be viewed on www. line business programs in 2012, U.S. News split TopMBA.com/onlineMBA.

NEW MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAM IN by Eric Butterman ENERGY MANAGEMENT STARTS THIS FALL

he MS in Energy Management Program dustry,” Shcherbakova says, “in order to give the highest wind capacity in the country. Con­ Tthat the Jindal School’s Finance students the ability to evaluate economics of ventional sources, renewable sources and the and Managerial Economics Area will begin energy projects, to finance them, to create power industry are top areas for learning.” offering this fall is all about building economic strong strategies for the industry.” The program’s core courses will cover leaders in the oil, gas, wind and geothermal Geography presents both a clear advan­ areas such as energy economics and finance, business, program director Dr. tage and compelling reason for offering law and technology. Anastasia Shcherbakova says. the new degree. “We’re a school “But electives will allow students to The Jindal School has built in Texas, which is the heart of tailor the curriculum to their own needs,” a program “focused on the oil and gas,” Shcherbakova Shcherbakova says. “Examples would be finance and managerial says. “Wind energy, too, will focusing on energy logistics and the sup­ aspects of the energy in­ be a focus because Texas has ply chain, looking at how to deliver energy

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JSOM Advances in no.11 and no.12 UT DALLAS TOP UTD Top 100 Rankings he Jindal School faculty placed at No. 11 among North “I am happy to see our American business schools and No. 12 worldwide very strong position in the 100BUSINESS SCHOOL in the UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research UT Dallas Top 100 rankings,” RESEARCH RANKINGS Rankings™ for 2015. Last year, JSOM occupied the Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Jindal TNo. 16 spot in North American and No. 17 in global rankings. School dean and Caruth The school has climbed from No. 36 in North America when Chair of Management, said. “Our faculty continues to strengthen rankings reporting began in 2005. its output, and our standing reflects the growth and maturity of The rankings are benchmarks that measure faculty research pro- Jindal School faculty members and the extent to which they are ductivity. The school compiles them from a database of research creating knowledge in the business world.” published in 24 leading peer-reviewed journals. The rankings this For a complete listing of the most recent research productivity year are based on articles published from 2010 to 2014. Jindal rankings, visit jindal.utdallas.edu/top100. School researchers produced 196 articles during that period. In 2015, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylva- nia held onto its No. 1 spot among North American and inter- national schools, a position it has held for more than a decade. Harvard Business School retained its hold on No. 2 for the fourth consecutive year. MIT Sloan School of Management jumped five spots to No. 3, previously occupied by the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, bumping the Stern School to No. 4. The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin maintained its No. 5 place.

sources in the most effective manner to the degree to translate into job opportunities. and other price-risk management strategies.” end user, or energy analytics – drawing infer­ Graduates “could potentially work in mana­ Dr. Robert Kieschnick, coordinator of ences from a wealth of data.” gerial roles within energy companies or at the Finance and Managerial Economics Area, Industry advisers in companies ranging banks that trade energy commodities,” she is enthusiastic about the program’s vision. from Merit Energy to the Federal Reserve says. “The program’s curriculum can also lead “This can evolve into something that serves Bank of Dallas helped shape the program. to positions in energy consulting companies.” several sectors and brings people together,” As it goes forward, it will continue to reflect The degree also will be valuable for com­ he says. “At our university, we are a conduit the needs of the industry, Shcherbakova says, panies that are large consumers of energy, for information-sharing in disciplines. In this “which will help students remain competitive Shcherbakova says. “Think about case, it’s the energy industry — and in the job market.” Southwest Airlines, or Wal-Mart, we conceive it as having fairly The program also will benefit from its sci­ and the energy needed to broad opportunities.” ence, technology, engineering and mathemat­ power their airplanes, ware­ ics — STEM — designation, Shcherbakova houses and stores. These believes, and bottom line, she expects the companies look for hedging Robert Kieschnick

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Sales Rookies Learn the Ropes at Event BY DONNA STEPH RIAN Judged by Pros

wice a year, undergraduate stu­ Participants in the morning session dents in Introduction to Sales are invited to lunch with the judges. All have the chance to showcase students attend the evening reception, their selling skills to 100-plus dinner and awards banquet. representatives from more than “This is a great networking oppor­ 50T companies. Designated “Rookie Preview,” tunity to interact with sales executives, the daylong event has become a hot sales managers and recruiters,” Dover says. ticket, paying off for both students and poten­ “Once students realize there are 50 tial employers — often resulting in full-time companies swarming around campus employment or internships for participants. trying to get their attention, we find we “Rookie Preview lets beginning sales stu­ have a greater interest in sales.” dents role-play a 15-minute sales call, as if call­ Dover created Rookie Preview after ing on a customer. The person they are calling “a challenge from Dean (Hasan) Pirkul,” on actually is an industry representative who he says. “Dean Pirkul said he thought it has the potential to hire them,” said Howard was wonderful that I was taking students

Dover, direc­ to national competitions, but said he Top, left to right, back row: Zachary Steinert, tor of JSOM’s wanted to do something like that here Michael Blodgett, Katherine Reagan, Meredith Crawford, Howard Dover. Front row: Abbey professional sales on our campus.” Hagin, Olivia Deffner, Laura Su, Gurleen Sidhu, concentration and Initiated in December 2013, the Sesalie Hurtado, Blanca Arelis Lopez a clinical professor event is highly successful and has grown Middle, left to right: Michael Blodgett, J.D. DeLoach, judge John David Harris from Henry of marketing. every year, Dover says. Schein Dental and Eyad Almasri Role-plays are “Other universities have heard what Bottom: Judges evaluating rookies in a Jindal broadcast from we are doing and are interested in rep­ School classroom Howard Dover the Sales Lab, a licating our program,” he says. “While training facility in lots of universities have events in their the Jindal School’s new addition, to rooms sales area, ours is unique because it throughout the Jindal School, where corporate allows introductory students to have guests watch and rank each student. About this experience, rather than the more 60 students competed last fall; 75 are expected experienced students.” to participate this spring. The day’s top 10 Advanced sales students, many of event to corporate sponsors, Dover says. winners are selected, as well as the top three whom have participated in prior Rookie At press time, he had slated the next in each room. Previews, set up, manage and sell the Rookie Preview on May 1. ≤

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ROOM DEDICATION, SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT HONOR EXECUTIVE EDUCATION VISIONARY

amily, friends, colleagues and former didn’t get the chance to meet him, my students of the late Dr. Stephen E. dad thrived on not just learning but on Guisinger (1941-2001) gathered in the Naveen taking that learning and delivering that Jindal School of Management’s Executive Edu- learning to other people in any possible cation Area in January to remember him at cer- format he could.” emonies where a classroom was dedicated and an “I wanted to say to the Class of 2016,” endowed scholarship was announced in his name. Victoria said, “how thrilled my father Stephen E. Guisinger A visionary who pioneered international studies and online would be with the award.” learning at the Jindal School, Guisinger was a prominent interna- The class’ scheduled trip to France, she added, is “also very ap- tional economist and consultant to the World Bank when he arrived propriate” because he went there on his first overseas trip. at UT Dallas in 1976. He was a proponent of Internet-based educa- Amari remarked that it was “really wonderful” to hear the vari- tion, which in early incarnations was dubbed “distance learning.” In ous tributes made to her father. “I was really young when Dad 1995, he co-founded JSOM’s Master’s in International Management passed away, so this is amazing,” she said. Program. Nicknamed MIMS, that program evolved into the current Paying homage to Guisinger at this time is appropriate, Dr. Global Leadership Executive MBA — GLEMBA —Program. David Springate, academic director of JSOM’s Executive MBA and Since MIMS/GLEMBA’s founding, students from almost 50 coun- GLEMBA programs, remarked, in part because the school’s Executive tries have enrolled in the program. It now is a 70 percent online MBA and GLEMBA programs recently have become “tied together, Executive MBA curriculum designed for working professionals who with one director, one academic director and one staff.” want to enter new geographic markets, operate in diverse locales “Steve saw these two programs not as competitors but as com- and lead globally. plementary….Our timing is right in terms of these two programs Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul announced at the January 23 fitting together.” festivities that this fall a student in international management stud- Prominent among several former Guisinger students in at- ies will be awarded the first scholarship from a $25,000 endowment tendance was Dr. Hossein Shafa. The Jindal School’s first PhD in established in Guisinger’s name. international management studies graduate, Shafa studied under The dean made the announcement in an Executive Education Guisinger’s supervision and earned his degree in 1978. “I am very Area classroom, JSOM 1.502, that was dedicated in Guisinger’s honored to [have been] his PhD student,” Shafa said. He recalled memory at the same event. that his thesis on investment incentives earned the 1977 Academy “It was [Steve’s] leadership that gave us the of International Business Best Doctoral Dis- impetus to create online programs,” the dean sertation Award. said, noting the school now has fully online Shafa went on to develop and chair in- MBA, MS in Accounting and MS in Informa- ternational business programs at Oklahoma tion and Technology Management programs. City University, where he earned the Exem- “And today we are ranked No. 2 among the plary Teacher Award in 1995. He also worked Best Online Graduate Business Programs by on management degree programs in several U.S. News & World Report and our Profes- other universities in the United States, China, sional MBA Program is ranked No. 6.” Argentina and other countries. ≤ Those who gathered for a luncheon and speeches to mark the occasion included Top: Dr. Hossein Shafa, JSOM’s first PhD in in­ Guisinger’s three daughters, Alexandra, Vic- ternational management studies graduate, studied toria and Amari, who joined the group via under Dr. Guisinger’s guidance. Web conferencing. Bottom: Amari Guisinger (on the monitor) and her “I just wanted to say how much I appre- sisters attended the event via Web conferencing. ciate what UTD is doing to remember Dad,” Alexandra said. “For those of you who DEPARTMENTS CENTER AND CONFERENCE NEWS

th Annual Fraud Summit Draws Record Crowd, Top Speakers and Major Scholarship Dollars

MORE THAN 7OO internal auditors, U.S. endorsed by the Institute of Internal Auditors as fraud examiners and information technology profes- a Center for Internal Auditing Excellence, the highest sionals attended the 10th annual Fraud Summit hosted designation of the IIA. by the Naveen Jindal School of Management March 26 Since 2007, the annual summit, which is the major and 27. The 2015 summit, held on The University of source of fundraising for JSOM’s internal auditing Texas at Dallas campus, was the largest in the event’s program, has helped provide $254,500 in student James D. Ratley history. Hot-button topics covered cyber-security assistance. Those funds have been awarded in 144 fraud, an analysis of how fraud is planned, scholarships given to 115 students. executed, covered up and detected, and ethics and Ratley was a Dallas police officer fraud case studies. for more than a decade before join- Keynote speakers were Jindal School alumnus James ing Wells & Associates, a forensic D. Ratley, BS 1985, president and CEO of the Austin, accounting practice, where he was Texas-based Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, in charge of fraud investigations. He who spoke about the mind of a “fraudster,” and was named a Top 100 Most Influential Stephen Minder, CEO of YCN Group, who discussed People in Accounting by Accounting the 1990s price-fixing scandal that inspired the Matt From left: Mark Salamasick, Center Today in 2012, 2013 and 2014 for his work with the for Internal Auditing Excellence Damon movie The Informant! director, with student teaching assist­ Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. ants Jae Park, Esther Bayazitoglu, Linh A scholarship, named in honor of Ratley, was Mai, Alex Michael, Samantha Nguyen, Minder, the former chief audit executive at Archer presented. The Jindal School Center for Internal and Gabe Cook — all scholarship Daniels Midland, provided insight to the lysine recipients, and Chris Linsteadt, senior Auditing Excellence will award the scholarship lecturer in accounting price-fixing scandal that involved ADM officials, and annually to a student pursuing forensic accounting. spoke about the culture that allows large-scale fraud JSOM’s graduate-level internal audit program is to go undetected. by JEANNE SPREIER the largest worldwide and one of only three in the

IECG BOARD DYNAMICS SERIES

The Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance hosted executives and board members from Cactus Feeders, Vermeer, Air Tractor and Car Concepts at a Board Dynamics Series presentation last Nov. 19. Robert J. Kueppers (far right), senior partner for Global Regulatory and Corporate Governance at Deloitte, gave a presentation on how boards succeed. IECG member and board member of all four companies, Jack Pfeffer, arranged the educational session at the Jindal School. Those who attended included (from left) Brad Hastings, CEO, Cactus Feeders; Jim Hirsch, CEO and chair- man, Air Tractor; Whit Perryman, CEO and chairman, Vermeer Equipment; Pfeffer; George Lamberth, chairman, Car Concepts, Inc.; Dennis McCuistion, executive director of IECG; and Kueppers. DEPARTMENTS CENTER AND CONFERENCE NEWS

Corporate Inaugural Governance Marketing Legends Conferees Hear Events Honor From Death of Customer Loyalty Money Author Program Pioneer James Rickards Hal Brierley

uthor James Rickards, attorney, longtime Wall Street he inaugural Marketing Legends Lecture and Awards counselor, investment banker and risk manager, and Banquet honored Hal Brierley, co-founder of Epsilon, A an adviser to the national defense and intelligence T eRewards and Brierley+Partners, and a creator of the communities, predicted international competitive currency groundbreaking American Airlines AAdvantage® frequent flier devaluation in his 2012 best-selling book, Currency Wars: program. Brierley offered his perspectives on “share of The Making of the Next Global Crisis (New York: Portfolio/ attention” vs. “share of wallet;” the building blocks used to Penguin, 2011). make a loyalty program a profit A year ago, in his newest best-seller, The Death of Money: The center; and maintaining “The Dallas-Fort Worth Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System (New York: customer attention and loyalty Portfolio, 2014), Rickards trumpeted “the demise of the dollar.” area has been an incu- during a lecture before the Participants attending JSOM’s Institute for Excellence in bator for marketing and awards ceremony. Corporate Governance 13th annual corporate governance advertising trends that The April 20 event began conference had the opportunity to put his crystal ball to have gone global,” Dean with the lecture by Brierley, the test when Rickards took to the podium as the event’s Pirkul says. “We are Rewards for Engagement keynote speaker. excited to recognize — Winning the “Share of The theme of the April 30 conference was “Money, Regula- these great minds in the Attention” Battle. The lecture, at tions, Greed and Public Service.” industry who have the Jindal School, was followed Board members and C-suite officers today face a litany of practiced their craft here immediately by the awards big-picture, strategic issues. Currency wars, sound money banquet. The banquet in our backyard.” and international risks are of special importance. Regulatory included remarks from JSOM issues that revolve around the Securities and Exchange Com­ Dean Hasan Pirkul, dinner and opportunities to network mission, the Dodd-Frank Act, and how the present Congress with others in the marketing profession as well as with Jindal interacts with President Obama are also critical to under- School faculty. stand. The daylong conference was scheduled to include the “The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been an incubator above as well as give participants the practical side of how to for marketing and advertising trends that have gone global,” get on a board and how nonprofit and government agency Dean Pirkul says. “We are excited to recognize these great boards work. Conferees also heard from Dr. Reatha Clark King, minds in the industry who have practiced their craft here in chair of the National Association of Corporate Directors. our backyard.”

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JSOM ENCOURAGES YOUNG WOMEN TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURS

THE JINDAL SCHOOL WAS THE FIRST UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL IN TEXAS to pair high school girls with local businesswomen in a one-day seminar focused on financial independence and women as entrepreneurs. Sponsored by the Jindal School, the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Opes One Advisors, the April 8 event, Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Conference, guided the young women through a series of events that gave them the opportunity to make decisions that a business owner might face. Mentors shared their own experiences. While Girls Going Places had been held at various campuses across the nation for 15 years, none of those universities had been in Texas. In all, 140 area high school girls signed up to attend the inaugural Texas event for free. Melissa Palmer, IIE program director, organized an April 7 kickoff dinner for the program’s 30 men- tors as well as 100 UT Dallas women students. Keynote speaker Debbie Mrazek, an IIE advisory board member, and founder and president of the Plano, Texas, firm The Sales Company, discussed “Women and Making Money.” According to Entrepreneur magazine, Texas ranks No. 2 (behind Georgia) among U.S. states for the Debbie Mrazek fastest growth in the number of women-owned businesses between 1997 and 2014. In Texas, more than 28 percent of businesses are female-owned.

STUDENT NEWS

Accounting Students Earn Scholarships indal School accounting graduate students them garnered a $2,250 scholarship from Joel Asmussen, Stephen (Garrett) Engel the Dallas CPA Society last fall, and all are Jand Brittany Weber recently each earned scheduled to graduate from the school’s a $2,500 scholarship from the Accounting Professional Program in Accounting in May. Education Foundation of the Texas Society One of PPA’s goals is to prepare students to of CPAs. take and pass the CPA exam. More than 100 students from around the A testimonial from Weber that appears on state applied for the competitive scholarships, the PPA homepage (jindal.utdallas.edu/ which are given annually. A nine-member accounting/ppa) says, in part: “Although the TSCPA scholarship committee reviewed program is academically excellent, it has also the applications and awarded fewer than allowed me to grow personally, professionally Left to right: Garrett Engel, 50 scholarships in January. and intellectually. The professors truly care Brittany Weber and Joel Asmussen All three recipients earned a BS in about their students’ success and strive to Accounting from JSOM last year. Each of help us achieve our goals.”

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As President Barack Obama 1) UT Dallas announced last December that the U.S. students would normalize ties with Cuba after a 53-year break at the University in diplomatic relations, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, the Naveen Jindal 1 of Havana School of Management’s assistant dean of undergraduate pro- in a room grams, was putting finishing touches on the itinerary for a spring Fidel Castro used while break study tour to that Caribbean island republic. organizing Twenty students, both undergradu- the Cuban Revolution ate- and graduate-level, packed their bags of the for the mid-March trip, which was hosted 1950s in Cuba by the National Association of Cuban Economists and Accountants. The association organized and sponsored a variety of business-related lecturers and site visits for the 10-day trip, which UT Dallas offered through the Jindal Tom Henderson School’s International Study Programs. Students visited cooperatives, medical facilities, pharmaceutical and biotech concerns and the University of Havana. Henderson, a fluent Spanish speaker who grew up in South 2 America, said he was thrilled to be leading the 10-day trip for the 3 credit-hour course. “The purpose of the trip was to expose students to the multiple dimensions of Cuba,” Henderson said, “so that they understand the Cuban business environment, including the current climate of foreign direct investment, trade, imports and exports, and, of course, the future business land- scape in light of the changes that have occurred recently.” Henderson also encouraged the students to interact with Cubans in order to get a feel for how they live and what they think. 3 Joining Henderson in leading the students was Dr. Habte Woldu, director of the Jindal School’s MS in International Management Studies Program; Dr. Magaly Spector, professor in practice in the office of UT Dallas President David E. Daniel; and Alex Lyda, communications manager in the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity.

4 2) Havana street scenes, including 1950s cars still in use today 3) Henderson, far left, Dr. Spector, far right, and students with economist Hugo Pons Duarte (center, in white shirt), who gave them a lecture on the reinstatement of U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations and the implications for moving forward 4) A street in Havana (left) and the admin- istration building at the University of Havana 33 DEPARTMENTS STUDENT NEWS

Marketing Junior Earns Morris Hite Scholarship

by Jeanne Spreier

elsey Morrison, a Naveen Jindal School of Management junior majoring in marketing, is used to facing down long odds. But she is not relying Kon luck to secure her future. The adults in her life note that her relentless work, dedication and poise have contributed to her success. Morrison’s achievements (see Advisory Council Connects… on page 2) include being awarded a $1,500 Morris Hite Memorial Scholarship in January. The highly competitive scholarship, open to marketing undergraduate or graduate students who attend a university in the nine-county Dallas-Fort Worth area, is granted by the American Advertising Federation Scholarship Honors of Dallas. Morrison, in her applica- Memory of Ad Man and tion for the scholarship, noted she works especially hard when UT Dallas Advocate something does not come easily. She applied for the scholarship THE LATE MORRIS HITE after completing a summer 2014 (1910-1983) was the Dallas ad Kelsey Morrison anticipating action internship at Southwest Airlines in man for whom the Morris Hite on the volleyball court Dallas. “Southwest Airlines Scholarship is named. Hite started internships are some of the most his own advertising agency by the competitive around, and landing one is a major coup,” says Julie Haworth, director time he was 20 and later rose to of JSOM’s BS in Marketing Program. Morrison also plays volleyball for The University of Texas at Dallas Comets as a the presidency of TracyLocke. defensive specialist and was one of 50 UT Dallas student-athletes honored by the A longtime civic booster American Southwest Conference when it released its Academic All-ASC Teams who helped promote construc- for the league’s fall sports. tion of the Dallas-Fort Worth “Kelsey is tremendously self-motivated and driven to succeed,” says her coach, Inter­national Airport and who Marci Sanders. “She seeks out opportunities to improve herself in all aspects of envisioned the Dallas Arts her life including athletics, academics and future career opportunities.” District, Hite also played an Morrison also weekly mentors active role in the creation of volleyball­ players who are 5 to 10 UT Dallas. years old. In recognition of his efforts, A team of three experienced UT Dallas established the advertising professionals judged Morris Hite Center for Product this year’s Morris Hite Scholarship Development and Marketing applications. The competition was stiff, and in the end, Morrison along Science in 1984. with a junior from SMU shared the Julie Haworth (left) and Kelsey Morrison top spot, with a virtual tie through (center) at the AAF Dallas the 13th decimal. awards luncheon

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Jindal School students Jessie Richardson and Abbey Hagin came home with both a second-place finish in the Sales Management Case Competition portion of the International Collegiate Sales Competition and solid job offers from companies looking for top talent. “The networking was impeccable,” says Hagin, a marketing senior who transferred SALES COMPETITORS to Jindal School because of its sales program. She returned from the competition, hosted by Florida State University last Nov. 7 to Nov. 9, with a fistful of business BRING HOME TROPHIES cards. She and Richardson, also a marketing senior, have active job offers. AND JOB OFFERS With just 18 hours to prepare, the women researched, refined and prepared to defend their plans for a fictional beauty supply company that wanted to spend $1 million to double its sales. Hagin and Richardson developed a 30-, 60- and 120-day plan. Second-round competition required they expand their strategies. The hard work paid off with their runner-up finish — and those job offers. by Jeanne Spreier Dr. Howard Dover, director of the Jindal School’s professional sales concentration (jindal.utdallas.edu/marketing/pro-sales), says students coming out of JSOM sales courses thus far have 100 percent job placement prior to graduation and have an average target earnings of $68,000 their first year. “Everybody sells,” Dover says. “But very few are trained.” He notes that among marketing majors, about 80 percent will be involved in sales of some kind and should take at least one sales class. Companies are looking for professionals with strong sales skills. Technical sales and sales-management positions are among the hardest to fill, according to a 2014 report from Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project. “Why It’s So Hard to Fill Sales Jobs,” a Feb. 6 article in The Wall Street Journal, reported: “Employers spent an average of 41 days trying to fill technical sales jobs, compared with

Jessie Richardson (left), Abbey Hagin and an average of 33 days for all jobs for the 12-month period ending in September 2014, ac- Dr. Howard Dover pat Wise, the owl statue cording to Burning Glass, a labor-market analysis firm that worked with Harvard Business in the Jindal School courtyard, for luck. School on the report.”

r. Mark Thouin, director of the MS feedback on new program initiatives. The in Information Technology and ambassadors are chosen after a rigorous DManagement Program, last summer interview process. founded the Information Technology and “Our existing students wanted to give Management Ambassador Program. The back,” Thouin said. “Ambassadors often program’s primary goal is to provide have had tremendously positive and interested students with opportunities to impactful experiences while in the ITM share their experiences and knowledge with program, and wanted a forum whereby they others. Approximately 30 volunteer student may share their firsthand knowledge with ambassadors work directly with Thouin to others in order to help continue the help answer prospective student queries, tradition of excellence.” engage students via social media, participate in hosting events and provide input and Thouin, in white shirt at center, with ITM student ambassadors

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLASSES PAY DIVIDENDS FOR MANY BUSINESS IDEA COMPETITORS

indal School undergraduates Richard Brevig, an information Brain Sciences. And Lakhotia took the course last semester. J technology and systems senior; Dominic Lakhotia, also an Nicole Mossman, who placed second and earned $3,500, in ITS senior; and Bilal Ayub, a marketing sophomore, took first the graduate division, is a student in the Startup Launch Track, a place in the undergraduate division of the annual UT Dallas selective program within the MS in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition last fall with their idea for a customized Program that helps students launch businesses. search engine. Their company, Rival Seek, developed a search “There is solid correlation,” Pedigo said, “between students en- engine capable of targeting and filtering data for commercial clients rolled in our introductory entrepreneurship courses and our startup seeking insights into the competition in their areas. The trio picked launch courses and success in the business idea competition.” up $5,000 for their software efforts. In all, 65 teams entered the annual contest sponsored by the The winning graduate team members share Erik Jonsson School UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (utdallas. of Computer Science and Engineering ties. Lucas Rodriguez, a PhD edu/iie), which is based in the Jindal School. That number was up candidate in biomedical engineering, teamed with Danieli Rodrigues, from 46 teams in 2013. More than 200 students entered the 2014 an assistant professor of bioengineering in ECS, and Jonathan Chari, competition. Representing all eight UT Dallas schools, the competi- a senior biomedical engineering student, in the company Logan Sur- tors fulfilled an IIE mission to make the challenge a cross-disciplinary gical Solutions - OsteoInk. campus-wide event. The team’s winning idea was for adhesive biomaterials that will integrate into the body in implant and bone surgeries. The team earned $5,000. “In addition to being on the winning graduate team, Jonathan Chari was also on the undergraduate team that came in second and that won the social entrepreneurship award,” Madison Pedigo, director of JSOM’s Innovations and Entrepreneurship Programs, said. The second-place team earned $3,500, and the social entre- preneurship award paid $1,000. The team is developing Songbird, a brand of books and videos that will help children with speech ther- apy and be fun for them and their parents to use. Left: Undergraduate Winning Team Rival Seek members (left to right): Chari and Lucas are enrolled in JSOM’s startup launch course Richard Brevig, Bilal Ayub and Dominic Lakhotia this semester, Pedigo said, as is a Chari’s second-place partner, Right: Graduate Winning Team OsteoInk members Lucas Rodriguez and Jonathan Chari (Danieli Rodrigues not pictured) Kathryn Ratliff, a graduate student in the School of Behavioral and

JSOM PLACES FIRST IN NATIONAL ETHICS COMPETITION

ractice made perfect for Jindal School Carolina – Chapel Hill and The University of gram in Accounting, and Warne, a finance and P of Management seniors Katherine Texas at Austin. managerial economics major, were hungry Huston and Lewis Warne, who came in first Rounding out the top four winning spots for a win after placing in the top 10 in 2013. last October at the 12th annual Collegiate were Indiana University, Stetson University in To help them prepare, she had them pres- Ethics Case Competition at the Eller College Florida and University of Alberta in Canada. ent their case several times to a total of 10 of Management at the University of Arizona. Jindal School accounting faculty member Amy JSOM accounting professors, before travel- The pair placed ahead of teams from 27 Troutman, the team’s advisor, said Huston, ing to Tucson. other universities, including Yale, Emory, North an accounting major in the Professional Pro-

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Third Win in Four Years for a Jindal Team at Healthcare Case Competition

Jindal School team that delivered no-nonsense advice University of North Texas Health Science Center and The to a novice CEO trying to fix a deluge of problems University of Texas at Arlington, and the Texas Transplants, a team A in his struggling healthcare company placed first and of two independent entrants who ACHE grouped together. earned $3,000 in a student case study competition sponsored The challenge centered on a 60-year-old company that had by the North Texas chapter of the American College of Health- pioneered a nonprofit, prepaid health-maintenance-organization care Executives. insurance program. The company’s initial market advantage had The competition took place last Nov. 13 in Irving, Texas, in disappeared over time. Subsequent economic pressures led to advance of the annual meeting of the North Texas ACHE, where “a dire financial situation,” the JSOM team said, as well as

“Our team also took a hard look at the ‘what ifs,’ all the cost, quality and human implications and possible impacts of their advice,” Dr. Forney Fleming, director of the MS in Healthcare Management Program, said.

Left to right: William (Bill) Howard, Fallon Wallace, Keith Herl and Dr. Forney Fleming, MS in Healthcare Management program director

results were announced. In addition to a trophy and the growing dissatisfaction among patients and the medical group. prize money, each team member earned student membership Ultimately, ACHE competitors focused on helping the newly in ACHE and in the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. appointed CEO quickly find workable means to increase revenue It was the third time in four years a Jindal School team won and restore belief in the company’s viability. the annual challenge, which tasks competitors with analyzing “Our team also took a hard look at the ‘what ifs,’ all the cost, and then presenting proposals to remedy hypothetical difficul- quality and human implications and possible impacts of their ties drawn from issues on the business side of medicine. advice,” Dr. Forney Fleming, director of the MS in Healthcare Team members Keith Herl, William (Bill) Howard and Fallon Management Program, said. “I think the judges appreciated that Wallace, all graduate students seeking dual master’s degrees practicality. I believe the students learned to do that in our in business administration and healthcare management, placed classes, and it reflects well on them, the excellence of our faculty ahead of teams from Baylor and Texas A&M universities, the and the quality of the program.”

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The case this year was whether a U.S.-based emphasizing the word ethics. “Last year…some company should “invert” — a topic much of the judges felt we spent too much time on the in the news as American corporations consider financials. This year, we made sure to visit ethical becoming a subsidiary of, or merging with, a for- issues on every slide of our presentation.” eign company, typically to enjoy tax advantages. “The best information we learned from Winners Katherine Huston and Lewis Warne in Arizona last year was to never forget this: It is the Eller Ethics competition,” Huston said,

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ALUMNI NOTES

1980s large and mid-size private and public companies in the a permanent endowment such as these, which are manufacturing, technology and service industries. He created with a gift of at least $10,000, pledged over Connie Perdue, MS 1981, a senior tax manager is a certified public accountant, a certified information the course of five years. at Hagy & Associates, P.C., in technology professional and a chartered accountant. Meade’s gift to the Jindal School coincides with Austin, Texas, is married to An active member of Finance Executives Inter- the 20th anniversary of the EMBA Class of 1995, Brad Perdue, MS 1982, national over the past decade, Mahesh last summer and he hopes that his gift will lead the way for the strategic account manager at was named president of the Dallas Chapter of FEI, other members of his class to make a contribution. Carbon Design Systems. Their the largest chapter in the country, with more than 750 JSOM Dean Hasan Pirkul has agreed to match dona- daughter, Caitlin Perdue, members. He also serves as the vice chair of FEI’s tions designated to the Executive MBA Class of 1995 BS 2010, is the membership National Technology Committee and is chairman-elect Opportunity Fund. The goal of the endowments is to marketing manager at the of the US India Chamber of Commerce (formerly provide long-term stability to the school. Association of Certified Fraud the Greater Dallas Indo-American Chamber of Com- Examiners. For the Perdues, merce). Mahesh earned a BS in accounting and bank- Darla Chapman Ripley, EMBA 1997, an associ- attending the Jindal School is a ing, Osmania University in India. ate at Dave Perry-Miller & Associates Real Estate, family tradition that stands places a lot of importance on maintaining all net- out among many others. Brad works, regardless of industry or location. She has and Connie met while graduate students at JSOM, Daniel A. Parry, BS 1992, MBA 1997, is co-found- owned and operated her own horse-racing and and although almost 30 years separates their time er and CEO of Praxis Finance Corp., an auto finance breeding program, Dreamfield Arabian Racehorses, at UT Dallas from Caitlin’s graduation, all three company formed in January 2014 and based in Inc., a business, she says, that “afforded a global net- agree that their Jindal School experiences helped Grapevine, Texas. In January 2015, Praxis closed on work of colleagues and friends who spurred my advance their careers. Brad has worked in the a $100 million investment to entrance into several independent contractor and technology services industry expand nationwide. Daniel was entrepreneurial opportunities.” for more than 25 years, formerly chief credit officer at In fact, to expand her skill set and Connie serves on the Exeter Finance Corp, a compa- and enhance her perspective senior management team of ny he co-founded in 2006. It for working with global clients, Hagy & Associates. Besides subsequently grew to more she enrolled in the EMBA pro- working, Caitlin is pursuing a than $2 billion in managed gram. More than 15 years later, graduate degree in social receivables with a highly successful asset-backed secu- as her career paths have transi- work. The family recently decided to expand their rities program. Previously Daniel served as senior vice tioned, she says the skills she acquired while at the family tradition by providing a one-time scholarship president of Risk Management at AmeriCredit Corp Jindal School continue to translate across industries award to help support a Jindal School student (now GM Financial). and remain relevant. Besides her role in luxury real in the 2014-2015 academic year. The family hopes estate, she is vice president of digital brand marketing many others will benefit from the same lessons Meade Monger, EMBA 1995, MS 2013, managing for Core Publishing, which produces high-end in-room they learned during their time at JSOM. director and founder of the information management city hotel magazines. She also is executive publisher – services unit of the global business advisory firm Alix- North America of Gallop Magazine, which describes Partners, is teaching Technology for Business Execu- itself as “the first global horse-racing magazine.” 1990s tives, a course he helped develop, in the Executive Mahesh Shetty, EMBA 1990, is a partner, chief MBA Program this spring. Asked to help design a new operating officer and chief financial officer at Encore curriculum in information tech- Enterprises, a diversified commercial real estate firm nology, Meade says, “I didn’t 2000s in Dallas that he joined in 2008. He has management expect to get paid. We talked Susan Kassen, MBA 2000, is an associate at Ebby oversight responsibility for all of Encore’s finance, tax, about the details, and all came Halliday Realtors in Richardson, Texas. After several risk management, human resources, technology and to an agreement about what years spent working in sales and marketing, Susan operations. Mahesh has more the class would be like, but decided to combine her than 25 years of experience as when I found out they were passion for real estate and a senior finance executive, offering me a salary, I thought, ‘This is a great oppor- love of the local community, including more than 11 years tunity to really give back to the school that gave me and pursue a career in real of experience in the hospitality so much.’ ” He has chosen to donate his salary to estate. During this transition, and commercial real estate the EMBA program through the Meade Monger she relied on lessons learned industry. He began his career at EMBA ’95 Opportunity Fund and the Executive MBA while earning an MBA from PricewaterhouseCoopers and has served in executive Class of 1995 Opportunity Fund. Donors may sup- the Jindal School. Now five years later, Kassen finance and operational leadership roles with several port any part of the school through establishment of manages a successful real estate career and balances

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it with time volunteering in the local community and Romacorp in 2012, Kendall has increased the speed of tent. Paul and his wife, Cheryl, live in Plano, Texas, raising her family. internal reporting from two months to two weeks and with their two boys. Paul earned a BS in Finance Susan began her career in advertising at an agency reorganized the accounting and corporate administra- from Florida State University. in Dallas. While she enjoyed the creative, fast-paced tion departments. A CPA, he has more than 30 years’ environment, she wanted to get an MBA. After a tran- experience as a financial professional, including work Dengpan Liu, PhD 2006, was recently award- sition to the “client side” within the marketing depart- with Big Four and Fortune 500 companies. Kendall ed tenure and promoted to associate professor of ment at Nortel Networks, she was able to pursue a previously served as CFO, secretary and treasurer for information systems in the College of Business at graduate degree and went to school in the evenings Block Management, LLC in Dallas for 18 years. He Iowa State University. His primary research interests after work and on the weekends. She serves as vice enjoys competing in triathlons and has completed 15 include e-commerce and software development. His president of the Canyon Creek Homeowners Asso- to date. He is a member of JSOM’s Graduate work has been published in leading academic journals, ciation in Richardson and on the steering committee Accounting Advisory Board including Management Science, Information Systems of the Women in Leadership Committee for the City and a member of the board of Research, Production and Opera- of Richardson Chamber of Commerce. directors and executive com- tions Management, IEEE mittee of Financial Executives Transactions on Knowledge and Kuntesh R. Chokshi, MS 2001, MBA 2004, is sales International-Dallas. He serves Data Engineering, and Journal director for New Business Hospitality at PepsiCo on the Texas Society of CPAs of Management Information FoodService. Responsible for driving new business for Board of Directors and is a Systems, among others. PepsiCo’s hospitality segment in the U.S., he is based in past board member and vice president of the Dallas Dengpan earned his MS in the company’s Plano, Texas, Frito-Lay headquarters. CPA Society. He is active in Toastmasters and serves Computer Science from UT Dallas in 2001 and a BS He joined PepsiCo as a supply chain intern in 2003 and in his local church. He earned a BBA from West Texas in Materials Science and Engineering from the Univer- has worked on growing sales, A&M University in 1981. sity of Science and Technology of China in 1999. developing national sales strategy and Go-To-Market Paul Monroe, EMBA 2004, was hired in Decem- Apoorv Kalra, MBA 2008, is founder of an Indian business models. He serves as ber 2014 as vice president of marketing for Dallas- wedding website, BollywoodShaadis.com, which was business subject-matter expert based Janimation, whose mission is to tell inspira- featured in a recent issue of the India-based magazine on open innovation. Kuntesh tional stories using state-of-the-art technology and Open. In the article, Apoorv notes that “the Indian holds one U.S. patent and is strong visuals for clients that include museums, wedding industry is estimated to be a staggering awaiting his second for work he has done at PepsiCo. sports franchises, educators and corporations. He $38 billion—the economy of a small country—and Kuntesh’s PepsiCo leadership efforts earned him oversees the high-end animation and live-action stu- growing at the explosive rate of 20 to 25 percent a recent recognition in Flex: The New Playbook for Man- dio’s branding and marketing efforts. Upon gradua- year. If there is one thing that’s entirely recession- aging Across Differences by Jane Hyun and Audrey S. tion in 2004, Paul worked for Feld Entertainment, proof, it’s the Indian wedding industry.” Currently Lee (New York: Harper Business, 2014). which produces such shows as Disney on Ice, Ring- BollywoodShaadis.com is India’s biggest wedding Last fall, he was named a Corporate Advocate of ling Bros. and Barnum & website, according to website the Year at the 21st National Annual Asian Entrepre- Bailey, and Monster Jam. In analytic companies Alexa and neur of the Year Awards in Beverly Hills, California. 2005, he joined the Dallas comScore, and receives The honor recognized his service as the national chair Mavericks as vice president of more than 3 million soon-to- of the PepsiCo Asian Network. marketing and communica- be-married visitors per month. Also last year, Kuntesh was recognized for the tions, and his responsibilities Apoorv says he founded the seventh time with PepsiCo’s Global Harvey C. Rus- included oversight of all mar- site in 2012, cashing in on the sell Inclusion Award, an accolade for his efforts to keting and advertising initiatives, handling all corpo- need of the hour. “Indians don’t mind splurging when advance diversity and inclusion in the company. rate sponsor and ticketing programs, game-day pre- it comes to weddings. There was a need of a wedding Known as a Chairman’s Award, it is one of the high- sentation, community relations, public relations, website that will not only keep soon-to-be-marrieds est awards the company confers. broadcast and interactive initiatives. He was an exec- updated with top wedding trends in India but also Kuntesh earned a bachelor’s degree in computer utive producer on a team that won a 2013 Lone Star helps them to find the right vendors for their wedding.” engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth University in Emmy Award for a sports documentary about Mavs Pune, India. He, his wife, Avani, and their two boys star Dirk Nowitzki, and he won two 2013 Telly reside in Plano, Texas. Awards. Since December, he has been an adjunct 2010s professor at SMU. This spring, Paul spoke at JSOM Jonathan Silk, EMBA 2011, a major in the U.S. Kendall Helfenbein, EMBA 2004, MS 2006, CFO on the “Evolution of Sports and Entertainment Mar- Army, teaches a leadership class for seniors at the of Tony Roma’s restaurant chain, Romacorp Inc., was keting.” He discussed his time with the Mavericks, United States Military Academy at West Point. named CFO of the Year in 2014 by the Dallas Business focusing on the transformation of the team’s in-sta- Recently promoted to assistant professor. Jonathan, Journal in the private restaurant category. Since joining dium experience with animation and shareable con- a decorated combat veteran, has been assigned as a

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faculty member since July 2012. He also plays an inte- surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery at Cornell New York City-based agency. He was hired full time gral part in the Leader Challenge program conducted University Medical College. Most recently, he was as a database analyst after graduating with his under- by the Center for the Advancement of Leader Devel- with the Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, graduate degree in marketing and now helps clients opment and Organizational Learning at West Point. where he served as system chairman of the depart- apply their data to their marketing needs. MXM He resides on the West Point campus with his wife, ment of orthopedic surgery and section head of hand develops content-fueled, fast-paced marketing pro- Staci, and their family. Jonathan and upper extremity surgery. President and CEO of grams using data-driven strategies that build customer has fond memories of his BMC Kate Walsh noted that he will be an asset to value and loyalty across multiple channels. experiences in the EMBA Pro- educating “tomorrow’s physicians,” benefiting both gram and says Dr. David Sprin- patients and staff. Known as an international leader in Doug Hermann, BS 2014, handles retail project gate’s Strategic Financial Man- upper extremity trauma, carpal tunnel surgery and leasing, retail tenant representation and general retail agement Valuation course was reconstructive surgery of the wrist, forearm, elbow brokerage in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for The one of his favorite classes. and shoulder, Scott has served as an international vis- Weitzman Group. One of the first undergraduate real Jonathan earned an MA in Learning Technologies iting professor of orthopedic surgery, most recently at estate concentration students at UT Dallas, Doug also from Pepperdine University. the Medical College of Peru in Lima. He is a member served as president of the Real of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Estate Club and led JSOM’s Scott Duncan, EMBA 2013, was appointed chief the American Association for Hand Surgery and the student team to a first-place of orthopedic surgery at Boston Medical Center, a American Association of Orthopaedic Executives, finish at the first regional Inter- not-for-profit 482-bed academic medical center, and among other professional organizations. He earned a national Council of Shopping chair of the department of bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard University Centers competition. Doug orthopedic surgery at Boston and an MD and master’s degree in public health in says he owes a lot to his pro- University School of Medicine epidemiology from the University of Washington fessors, who helped guide his search for employment on January 1. He completed his Schools of Medicine and Public Health. in the vast real estate industry. “I’m just so grateful to residency in orthopedic surgery everyone at UTD,” he said. “Professors [George] at the Campbell Clinic, Univer- Peter De Souza, MS 2014, received a $1,000 DeCourcy, [Randy] Guttery and [Blake] Hedgecock sity of Tennessee, and a fellow- scholarship from Meredith Xcelerated Marketing last just made everything so practical. The things I learned ship in hand and upper extremity surgery and micro- year and soon interned in the Dallas office of the in their classes I use every day in my work.”

IN MEMORIAM

Pamela Dermid McMullen, BS 1980, died depart­­ment at Saputo Foods in Dallas. Her family Feb. 24 after a battle with cancer. Born Oct. 11, 1958, says she was athletic and enjoyed all sports. Her in Morristown, Tenn., Pam graduated from Plano first priority was her family, and she loved traveling (Texas) High School in 1976. Pam and her husband, with Dan to the beaches of Destin, Fla. Holiday decor Dan McMullen, BS in Psychology 1979, resided in was one of her specialties, and friends say anyone Mansfield, Texas. Pam was an active member of the who visited her home would be greeted with the Walnut Ridge Baptist Church, and a memorial service appropriate holiday decorations. The family says she was held there March 2. will best be remembered for her selflessness, always Dan said the couple met at UT Dallas in the fall giving to others. Besides Dan, survivors include son of 1978: “She was sitting with a friend in the UTD Christopher McMullen and his wife, Kalee; daughter student lounge. I come walking by. She then turns to Britanny McMullen; parents, John and Alline Dermid; her friend and proclaims, ‘See that guy over there? brother, Forrest Dermid, and his wife, Cherie; nephew I’m going to marry him.’ And then started the Legend Walter Dermid and niece Mary Dermid. Donations of Pam and Dan. We married in February 1983.” may be made in Pam’s memory to the American Following graduation, Pam worked in the IT Cancer Society.

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2014 CONTRIBUTOR REPORT

— Beneficiaries of these contributions include the Jindal School’s centers of excellence. —

JSOM NAMING PARTNERS Naveen Jindal School of Management Lars Magnus Ericsson Opportunity Fund Kathryn Stecke, PhD Charles and Nancy Davidson Naveen Jindal Student Support Fund for the Institute of Innovation and Jefflyn W. Williamson Naveen Jindal in the Naveen Jindal School of Entrepreneurship Management Professor Randy Guttery Real Estate 2014 SCHOLARSHIP O.P. Jindal Graduate Fellows Opportunity Fund BREAKFAST CHAIRS Robert and Gloria Hewlett Opportunity Platinum Sponsor Caruth Chair of Management Fellowships and Scholarships Fund for the School of Management Ericsson, Inc. Andrew R. Cecil Chair in Applied Ethics Karla and Hassan Al-Tabatabaie International Management Opportunity Wingate by Wyndham Richardson Dallas Charles and Nancy Davidson Chairs Scholarship Fund O.P. Jindal Chairs Jasper H. Arnold III EMBA Scholarship Mathew and Gracey Jacob Opportunity Gold Sponsors Eugene McDermott Chair Angelica Barriga Scholarship Fund Avnet Annie Laurie Bass Scholarship Lennox Opportunity Fund MUFG Union Bank, N.A. Frank Bass Scholarship Steven W. Lyle Opportunity Fund The Sherwin-Williams Company PROFESSORSHIPS Bate Family Scholarship/Fellowship Isha and Mohit Malhan Opportunity Dallas World Salute Distinguished Terry W. Conner Leadership and Fund Silver Sponsors Professorship in Global Strategy Service Scholarship Diane S. McNulty Opportunity Fund Austin Industries Adolf Enthoven Distinguished CORENET Scholarship for Real Estate Clint and Lacey Miller Opportunity Fund BlueCross BlueShield of Texas Professorship in Accounting and Davidson Graduate Fellowship Fund Meade Monger ’95 Opportunity Fund Capgemini Information Management DFW Chapter of CEO Netweavers Ed Pavese Opportunity Fund Friends of CREW Dallas Jindal School of Management Advisory Servant Leadership Endowed Paycom Opportunity Fund Crowe Horwath LLP Council Professorship Scholarship PCG Opportunity Fund for Accounting Deloitte Lars Magnus Ericsson Distinguished EMBA Class of 2011 Scholarship Fund Richardson Living Magazine Opportunity Encore Enterprises Professorships Lars Magnus Ericsson Fellowship in Fund Ernst & Young Constantine Konstans Distinguished Management Kevin and Cristi Ryan Opportunity Fund freshbenies Professorship in Accounting and Lars Magnus Ericsson Scholarship in Hasnain and Rashida Saboowala Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. Corporate Governance Management Opportunity Fund Grant Thornton LLP Susan C. and H. Ronald Nash Stephen E. Guisinger Memorial Henry Schein Dental Opportunity Fund Haynes and Boone, LLP Distinguished Professorship Scholarship Fund for Sales Sydney Smith Hicks,* PhD Yancey Hai Fellowship Roy C. Snodgrass IV Opportunity Fund Huselton, Morgan & Maultsby, PC Ebby Halliday Scholarship for Real Estate Sorath Lion Opportunity Fund Institute of Real Estate Management, FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS David L. Holmberg Scholarship/ Valdespino Opportunity Fund for Audit, Dallas Chapter Sydney Smith Hicks Faculty Fellowship Fellowship Compliance and Ethics Lennox International Inc. Tom James Company Scholarship Wingate by Wyndham Richardson Mary Kay, Inc. Liberty Mutual Scholarship Dallas Opportunity Fund McGladrey LLP ENDOWMENTS McAfee, Inc. Scholarship MedSynergies, Inc. General Skip Moore Leadership and Service Merit Energy Center for Internal Auditing Excellence Scholarship LEGACY GIFTS Montgomery Coscia Greilich LLP Endowment Southwest Securities Management Randy Black Brad, Connie and Caitlin Perdue Davidson Management Honors Scholarship Pamela Foster Brady PricewaterhouseCoopers Program in the Naveen Jindal School David Springate Scholarship James L. Brasfield Rockwell Collins of Management Gary L. Tillett Scholarship Jerri L. Hammer Stantec/The Beck Group Debjyoti and Roshni Goswami Charles and Christina Quinn Award Joyce Johnson State Farm Insurance Endowment Fund for Jindal School Veterans Susan Kessel Texas Instruments Morris Hite Center for Product Beena K. and Jackson A. Varnan Family Stan Liebowitz, PhD Trinity Industries Development and Marketing Scholarship John Macaulay Weaver Science The Jefflyn Williamson Scholarship Fund Lynne Manilla Whitley Penn Jindal Faculty Research Support Fund Jennie McCament Jindal School of Management Fund Opportunity Funds Kit and Patti McKee for Excellence Debi and George Carter Opportunity E. Michelle Miller 2014 JSOM CONTRIBUTORS Naveen Jindal Institute for Fund for Real Estate Skip Moore* Corporate Contributors Indo-American Business Studies Edgington Family Opportunity Fund Monica Macy Scott Accenture Naveen Jindal Scholars Program in the EMBA Class of 1995 Opportunity Fund Forrest F. Smith Alliance Data Systems, Inc.

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Anonymous Recording Industry Association Na An Randy R. Braden Arts Incubator of Richardson of America, Inc. Karen A. Anderson Pamela Foster Brady AT&T Corporation Renaissance Associates Sandy L. Anderson Kenan C. Brandes AT&T Inc. Rep My Vote Inc. Alex Andrews Paula L. Bratt Austin Industries Richardson Living LLC Lorraine M. Andrews Michelle M. Brekken AVNET Roach, Howard, Smith & Barton, Inc. Anonymous James Brienza B&J Financial Services PLLC John Roberts Agency Alfred Arias Don J. Briscoe Bank of America Henry Schein Dental Avi A. Arora Burnis B. Brown Baylor University Sci-Tech Discovery Center Jason K. Arriola Jeffrey S. Brown The Beck Group The Sherwin-Williams Company Elizabeth Asefaw J.K. Brown BKD, LLP Silicon Valley Bank Chrystie L. Askins Thomas K. Brown Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Snappy Salads Rahul D. Athale Curtis H. Browne Texas, Inc. Southwest Systems Technology Mehmet Ayvaci, PhD Corey D. Bugay The Boardroom Spencer Consulting Inc. Shaima Azeem Melinda Buntyn CA Technologies, Inc. State Farm Insurance Faisal U. Aziz John D. Burbey Capgemini TEK Systems Irfan F. Aziz Rodney O. Burchfield Civitas Capital Management, LLC Tektronix, Inc. Edward E. Bacon Preston B. Burkhalter Coffee House Cafe Tenet Healthcare Corporation Joe M. Bailey Danielle C. Butts DAC Investments Inc. Texas Capital Bank Mary E. Bailey Davie A. Buyanga Dallas Mavericks Texas Instruments, Inc. Marcus Baker Gabriel M. Calderon Dal-Tile Transglobal Technologies, Inc. Virginia Banda-Rodriguez Mark A. Calhoun DC Vintage Trinity Industries, Inc. Angel A. Barahona William D. Calkins Deloitte Twinrose Investments John Barden Brandon T. Callahan driversselect Visual Bi Solutions Inc. Indranil Bardhan, PhD Juliana G. Camilotti Enterprise Holdings, LLC Whitley Penn, LLP Laura C. Barrera Scott A. Campbell Epson America, Inc. Wingate by Wyndham Richardson/Dallas Laura A. Barrett Maria E. Campos Ericsson Inc. Angelica E. Barriga Melissa J. Carley Exhale Spa Foundation Contributors Sam J. Bartfield Shawn M. Carraher, PhD Firewheel Brewing Company The Catholic Foundation Joseph P. Basulto Emilio Carranco The Flying Saucer Communities Foundation of Texas Bate Bate Michael Carraway Freebirds Deloitte Foundation Stephen R. Bauerband Rob Q. Carruthers Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. Ernst & Young Matching Gift Foundation Sophie C. Baweja Tyler M. Carson G6 Hospitality LLC Grant Thornton Foundation Kathryn A. Beasley Debra A. Carter Goldman, Sachs & Company Ann and Jack Graves Charitable Amy W. Bechner Laura J. Caskey Ebby Halliday, Inc. Foundation Marilyn F. Bechtol Arturo Castillo Halliburton Investor Relations Home Depot Foundation Efrem K. Bekena Melanie A. Castro Haystack Burgers & Barley Robert J. Potter Foundation Kimberly A. Cahlik Belcher Donna L. Cekal Hemlock & Heather Silicon Valley Community Foundation Raghu N. Bellary Makenzie R. Cernosek IBM The Sinclair Foundation Hector Beltran Jin H. Cha Institute of Real Estate Management The University of Texas Foundation Henry Benjes Abhijit N. Chamala The James Group Inc. Wells Fargo Foundation Melissa Berasaluce Catherine C. Chang Tom James Company Dongjing Berglund Johnny Chang Jindal Steel & Power Limited Individual Contributors Stephanie E. Bergmann Sahil R. Chaniyari KBM Group Mohammad H. Abusaad Michael J. Berke Larry H. Chasteen, PhD KWJW Real Estate Holdings, LLC Prajesh Acharya Christine Besset Wilson Y. Chau Lennox International Inc. Albert Acosta Jason Bessonette Ming Min M. Chen Liberty Mutual Tara J. Acton Santosh Bhamidipati Steve Chen Logotology Jennifer L. Adamcik-Anderson Som N. Bhandari Xuan Chen Martin House Brewing Co. Niyi Adedeji Jayshree Bihari Kiran J. Cheriyan Mary Kay, Inc. Daniel G. Adeyemo Thebe D. Bivens Elizabeth K. Cheung Medsynergies, Inc. Gunjan Aggarwal* Ronald J. Blair Taiteyi G. Chinembiri Microsoft Art M. Agulnek Robert R. Blankinship Donyrell L. Chism MOHR Partners, Inc. Olumuyiwa A. Ajakaiye Alan R. Blommer Emily Choi, PhD Montgomery Coscia Greilich, LLP Nicholas E. Albertini Dan C. Bochsler Lois M. Christman Multiview Inc. Rubina Aleksanyan Evan H. Bogar Amanuel S. Chuol MXM Curtis L. Alexander Bradley S. Bogar Kathleen M. Clair Norton Rose Fulbright Nancy J. Alford Sanjeev Kumar Reddy Bollam Jonathan E. Clarke Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas Mohammad A. Alhawari Francesa B. Bonavita Dwight D. Clasby One Group Creative Ashiq Ali, PhD Tiffany A. Bortz Susan H. Clayton Optimize PM Mazhar A. Ali Darren W. Boruff Joshua J. Clounch Outline the Sky Jack B. Alldredge Lawrence G. Bouchelle Christopher J. Clyde Panacea Limousine Steve M. Allen Mohammed A. Bourji Rebecca Cobb Parry Financial Stephen M. Allie Rena R. Bowden Patrick Cochrane Paycom Richard D. Almazan Richard Bowen Daniel Cohen, PhD Pearson Partners International, Inc. Ali Al-Srogy Steven G. Boyd Chayse A. Colbert Ralph Lauren Pamela C. Altizer Betty S. Boyd-Meis Jonnie L. Cole Raytheon Company Raul Alvarado Charles F. Boyette James M. Coles

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Case C. Collett Anthony D. Eggers Hari Krishna Gunturu Caroline J. Howard Eddie W. Collins Kathryn A. Eggleston, PhD Yishan Guo Jungchan Hsieh William Collins Esther Elliott Randy Guttery, PhD Xin Hu Jeffrey V. Combs Joseph R. Elliott Giovanni G. Hager Susan J. Hudson Aaron T. Conley, PhD Mark R. Elliott Yancey I. Hai Hsin Y. Hung Lorie K. Conn Walt Ellis* Donald D. Haig Ali A. Husain Anne Conner Naomi R. Emmett Patton S. Haldeman Derick Hutchins Terry Conner* Stephen G. Engel John W. Hall John L. Hwang Kristine C. Conway Gloria Espinosa Susan A. Ham Kristine A. Imherr Eugene T. Cook Veronica Espinosa Laura E. Hambrick Pedro P. Inga Steven P. Cook Kenneth L. Evans Howard B. Hamilton Jr., PhD Alexia D. Isaak John P. Corrigan Jose G. Evans Chris M. Hampton John W. Jackson Joy L. Cortez June D. Everitt Chien-Jih Han Varghese S. Jacob, PhD Ka Cotter Neal Ewing Sarah J. Hancock Ashley L. Jacobs Barton R. Cox Leticia Fajardo Ramya P. Hande Robert D. Jacoby Betty A. Crawford Scot C. Farber Preston D. Hanisko Calvin D. Jamison John W. Crawford Valrie M. Farmer Monda P. Hanna Ganesh Janakiraman William M. Cready, PhD Sayyeda H. Fatima Andrea M. Hapeman Surya N. Janakiraman, PhD J.R. Crews Mark W. Feist Mohammed M. Haque Debbie G. Janssen Reed C. Crow John F. Fell Ravandhu K. Hariram Colleen R. Jensen Kai Cui Anthony W. Fenimore John T. Harper Barbara L. Johnson Christian J. Curotolo Talia Fernandez Glen A. Harris Cynthia L. Johnson Zhonglan Dai, PhD Rebecca L. Files, PhD Maria Harrison Diane E. Johnson Tevfik Dalgic, PhD Karen B. Fishkind Steve L. Harrison Ashley S. Johnson Purushottam Dangol Alfredo Flores Angela T. Hart Jennifer G. Johnson Kent Q. Dangtran Michael J. Flores Julia C. Hart Sean Johnson David E. Daniel, PhD John P. Flynn James K. Harvey Jo Johnston* Diann M. Dansereau Christina L. Ford Maria Hasenhuttl, PhD Dale C. Johnston Dariel J. Dato-on David L. Ford, PhD Rejin N. Hassan James P. Jolly Glenn A. Davidenko Debra J. Fournerat Donald R. Hatley Janelle M. Jones Charles D. and Nancy Davidson Joanna M. Fowler Timothy A. Hausman Mindy M. Jones Susan H. Davidson John M. Fowler David C. Hawkesworth Winston S. Jones Kylene S. Deitemyer Gregory Franklin Lyndel R. Hawkins David A. Jones Dylan S. Dement Ted A. Fredericks* Julie B. Haworth Lynn C. Jones Chathura B. Deniyawatta Emily N. French Gary R. Hayes Venkatarama S. Jonnalagadda David Z. Depew Sachin B. Funde Yih Wen W. He James E. Jordan Forrest D. Dermid Jiayi Gao Iris A. Heath Siji Joseph Craig M. Derryberry Kristina L. Garcia Jeremy G. Hefner Jody Justus Raquel C. DeSimone Theresa R. Garcia Ramesh Hegde Yon U. Kadota Gregory G. Dess, PhD Debra A. Gardner Andrew S. Heidt Mary T. Kaiser Adriene M. Devereux Eric Garza Durwood J. Heinrich Robert C. Kaiser Helen Brooke N. DeVore Scott W. Gasikowski Kendall H. Helfenbein Mukul C. Kanabar Alan J. Diamond Beverly C. Gatton Ryan J. Hellen Thomas Kang Ian T. Dickson Ryan D. Gause Raymond C. Hemmig* Marilyn R. Kaplan, PhD Jason J. Didier Esyas T. Gebrieal Judy G. Hendrick Evelyn M. Karlson Derek G. Dillmann Christine E. Gemelli Billy H. Hendrix Edwin K. Karuga Willie C. Dixon Erika D. Gentry Brian H. Henehan Susan E. Kassen Kim B. Do Joseph M. Gerhart Suzanne R. Hengst Lauren M. Katri Joseph P. Dodson Aaron W. Gerring Robert P. Henley Manal F. Keen Alexander Doll Janelle M. Gibbs Clinton T. Hennen Jencey L. Keeton Shoba G. Donti Jenniffer S. Gibbs Brian C. Henry Lee S. Kellogg Ramona Dorough Ryan M. Gibson Douglas J. Hermann Sandra K. Kettelhut R.E. Drews Maria Gill Steve M. Hernandez Rasheed Khan Mark K. Duckworth Melissa M. Glanton Ronnie M. Herrera Anum A. Khan Nancy E. Duncan Douglas Glen Sydney S. Hicks, PhD* Sartaz A. Khan Sean R. Dungan Katherine S. Goddard Deborah S. Highbarger Himani A. Khandare Phillip Dunkelberger Jonathan A. Godinez John M. Hillman Hemisha D. Khatri Tab C. Dupree Vedashree S. Gokhale Nick G. Hinojosa Mark A. Kielhorn Mario E. Duran Icciyomara Gomez Shelley Hitt Robert L. Kieschnick, PhD Warren D. Durham Daniel Gonzales Huy N. Ho Eugene D. Kim Michael W. Dutton Melissa A. Gonzales Gerald H. Hoag* Kevin Kim Brent H. Duty Edward N. Goodreau Florence H. Hogan Jackie Kimzey Philip J. Duvall Mary Beth W. Goodrich Richard D. Hohnholt Robert G. Kipp Samantha Dwinell* Lynne M. Gorman David L. Holmberg Bryan A. Knapp Barbara A. Easter Debjyoti Goswami Carl A. Hooks Bhaskara R. Koduganti Adolfo Echeverria Tanya R. Gould Dana J. Hopkins Venkat Koduri Courtney Echols William D. Gray Jo Hopper David Kohl Kyle D. Edgington, PhD Janice T. Green John C. Horton Karen S. Korte Corey Egan Fernando Guerra Gloria K. Hoselton Anchi H. Ku Glenn Egelman Sharla Gunn Patricia M. Housel Ziqiong Kuang

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Eileen Kuang Steven J. Malecek Skip Moore* Ricky G. Parker Sujata J. Kulkarni Amit S. Malhan Susanne M. Romaine Moore Erick A. Parra Archawin Kulsirimongkol Mohit S. Malhan Ali N. Moosa Virendra H. Patel Chih-Tien Kung Kirsten A. Mallicote Yvette P. Morehead Anant K. Patel Daniel N. Kunsch Yiu K. Man Daniel Moreno Jikesh Patel Michael W. Lahrman Caroline Mandel Adib Motiwala Anas A. Patel Heidy D. Lam Ben Mandel James G. Muncey Ed A. Patschull Rick H. Lam Richard A. Mangham Jose A. Munoz Mrunal Patwa Dianne S. Lamendola Lynne Manilla William A. Murray Edward A. Pavese David B. Lamp Seth T. Manry B.P. Murthi, PhD L.P. Payne Gahn H. Lane Colleen M. Marchetti Steven M. Myles Yolanda Pazwakavambwa Giulia M. Lane Livia Markoczy, PhD April D. Myrick Madison F. Pedigo Marvin M. Lane Stephen B. Marshall Noma T. Nabi Anne G. Pelosof Mark V. Langston John N. Martin Andrew Nadzam Mike W. Peng, PhD Brett C. Larson Thomas J. Martin Veena V. Naik Steven Penson* Steven J. Lauff Carrie D. Martinez Maria A. Nally Susan Penson Jay M. LeCrone Gilbert L. Martinez Bhuvaneswari Namburajan Thomas J. Pepe Pete Lee Yohel A. Martinez Lori Nandavanam Herman Perdomo Seung-Hyun Lee, PhD Mary S. Masal Michael Nash Charles B. Perdue Sylvia Lee Finny C. Mathew Ramachandran Natarajan, PhD Nathan A. Perry Carole L. Lein James M. Mathews Ernesto Nava Christine A. Peterson Kristin L. Lelsz Dipin Mathews Eduardo Navarro Mary Beth Petruska Bruce L. Lenzer Prasad Mathivanan Omar S. Naziruddin Nhan Ai C. Phan Kevin J. Leo Christopher J. Matthews Louis P. Neeb Christopher M. Phillips Gregory Lewis Vanessa Matthews Shirley E. Neely Tuan Q. Pho James T. Lewis Joseph A. Mauriello Steven R. Neff Amy L. Phung Steven L. Lewis Hannah May Gregory J. Nelson Joseph C. Picken, PhD Diana Leyva Alex U. Mbanefo Shulamit Netzer Jared Pickens Lei Li Michelle M. McCabe Susan V. Newman Thomas J. Pignone Xiaoyan Li Melanie M. McCallum Donna J. Newton Pravin P. Pingat Zhengzheng Li, PhD Jennie P. McCament Jonathan Q. Ngo Lillian Pinkus Zhuo Li Bradley G. McCleary* Dat T. Ngu Mark D. Pitts Chuyi Liang Eugene (Craig) C. McClure Phuong T. Nguyen Dennis M. Plate Stan J. Liebowitz, PhD Angus A. McColl Andrea R. Nicholas Matthew M. Polze Zhiang J. Lin John P. McCown* Paul M. Nichols Michele T. Pomella Wenjie Lin John McCracken, PhD Julie Nickols Reesa L. Portnoy Chris C. Linsteadt Alexis E. McCubbin Richard A. Nietubicz Nikhil M. Potbhare Jie Liu Dennis C. McCuistion LeNelle B. Noble Heather M. Potter Jing Liu Margaret McDermott Mary J. Norris Robert J. Potter, PhD Jinnan Liu Melanie A. McDonald Wylan N. Nowasky Timothy E. Potter Ling Liu Lisa A. McGee Nayeli Nunez Monica S. Powell, PhD Matthew T. Liu Geneva McGlasson Robert Nuno Subhendu R. Pradhan Yani Liu Holly McGowan Mike Nurre Mary E. Preslar Stefan Lloyd Jacques P. McGregor Michael L. Oatman Sara A. Price Wayne A. Lombardo Kasey L. McKay-Erwin Eric M. Odell Jacob S. Prince William P. Long J. J. Mckeller Damilola Odusanya Pujita Pundhir Virginie Lopez-Kidwell, PhD Barbara A. McKenzie Leviticus M. Ogana Hamzeh H. Qattan Andrea M. Lowery Jonathon E. McLaughlin Chetachi C. Ohagi Leonard C. Queiroz Cecil W. Lowrie Paul G. McLeod Mukadansi A. Olanrewaju Charlie W. Quinn Dahe Lu Diane S. McNulty, PhD Landon J. Oliver Christina A. Quinn Gonzalo Luna Joseph M. Melle Wayne P. O’Neill Susan H. Rader Hannah T. Luu Joan P. Mileski Matthew M. O’Reilly Suresh Radhakrishnan, PhD Luan K. Ly Clinton M. Miller Jorge C. Ortega Sam N. Raghavachari Steven W. Lyle Kevin A. Miller Carolyn J. O’Shaughnessy Sylvia I. Raith Kimberly A. Lyons Sharon M. Miller Mohamed M. Ouahb Saranya C. Rajarajan Doan A. Ma William T. Miller Richard B. Ouellette* Priya Ramnarayan Phuong T. Ma Deborah K. Milligan Seena R. Padalia Shaheena S. Ramzan Kathryn Macdonell Amar D. Mistry Christopher Padilla Mayur Ranoliya Mary J. Macdonell Larry Mitchell Mariela Padron Heidi R. Rasmussen Jessica MacIntosh Pankhuri Mittal Pedro W. Palcios Gilberto Vazquez Ramos Laura Madden Zafar I. Mohammed Catherine A. Palmer Michael S. Ray Dionne Magner Sadanand Sakthivel Mohankumar Steven M. Palomares Christina L. Redden Randall Mahaffey James Molzahn Vinod P. Panicker Jordan L. Reed Chandan N. Mahalingappa Patricia A. Monfrey Reshmi Parameswaran Larry Regen Linh T. Mai Julieta Monge Vihang K. Parikh Oemar Rehmaan Gilda Majidiaghda Meade A. Monger Chakka K. Parker Gary A. Reichmuth Melanie G. Majors David W. Montgomery Fred Parker Amin Reimoo

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Nick C. Repak Yul Shelton Shun Ling L. Swei Joshua S. Warmann Cynthia M. Reynolds Marcy E. Shepherd Andrea L. Switser Allison B. Weaver Eddie W. Rhea Prarthana S. Sheth Husain Syed Brett C. Webb Kristin M. Rice Mahesh Shetty Jane A. Tacker Mindy S. Webster Ashley B. Rich Zahraa Z. Shubbar Timothy P. Taft Natalia V. Weeks Orlando C. Richard, PhD Jonathan E. Silk Nooshin Tajahmadi Jane C. Wegmann Marcus Richardson Michael N. Sills Arnita R. Talley Jing Wen Eric E. Rickard Johnny J. Silva Xianan Tan William S. Westphal Susan S. Rickman Sandra D. Silvera Erica R. Tang Cheryl J. Wheatcroft Susan C. Riddle Sarina Simental Mia K. Tangeman Christine A. White Bruce D. Riggs Donald E. Simmons Gunjan Tanna Irene White Matthew P. Rivera Eric Simonsen Vasil V. Taskov Philip C. Whittle Stratis N. Rizos Judson M. Sinclair Jordan A. Tata Gerard I. Widodo Justin D. Robason Gurminder Singh Gregory J. Taylor Michael L. Wiese Terrence L. Rock Shridhar Sinha Larry B. Taylor Ashlea K. Wiley Charles Roden Nahit M. Sirelkhatim Andrew M. Thillainathan Courtney D. Wiley Ruby E. Rodriguez John A. Small Madhan M. Thirukonda David D. Williams Larry D. Ronsko James E. Smallwood S. Jill Thomas Debra A. Williams James J. Roskopf Michael W. Smart Thomas Thomas Ira G. Williams Raymond L. Rossi Barbara S. Smith Wesley Thomas Timothy C. Williams Steven E. Rosson Gregory J. Smith Nancy L. Thorn Billie Williamson Sonja R. Ruehle Kelly M. Smith Annie M. Thun Jesse R. Ruiz Kenneth L. Smith Michael D. Tiambeng Jefflyn W. Williamson Edgar E. Ruiz Michele E. Smith Daniel J. Tijerina Michelle R. Wilson Roy Rumbough Robert J. Smith Gary L. Tillett Michael O. Winemiller Kevin J. Ryan* Ronald L. Smith Christine S. Tim Alisa Woideck Terrence G. Ryan David L. Smithen Andrea Titoyan Jeff J. Wolfe Jon A. Ryser Lori Snitzer Ishkhan Topalian Steven E. Wolfert Gil Sadka, PhD Roy C. Snodgrass Alyssa Tran Karah K. Womack-Hosek Carolyn Saint Jessica M. Snyder Jimmy Tran Carmel Wood Alfred T. Saker Andrea Sobek The H. Tran Kevin M. Woods Mark L. Salamasick Ali Sohail Van C. Tran John V. Workman Jose D. Salinas Steven J. Solcher Omar Trejo Brandon L. Worsham Jane E. Salk, PhD Aeric Solow Huy X. Trinh Lesley A. Worsham Parth N. Sampat C.L. Spangler Amy Troutman Bruce A. Wright Jenny Sanchez Robert P. Spencer Sarah E. Trowsdale Carolyn F. Wright Natasha M. Sanchez Matthew D. Spinek Eric W.K. Tsang, PhD Randy Wright Tangelar L. Sanders Adam J. Spinn Rebecca L. Tudor Robert G. Wright Ryan M. Sanders David J. Springate, PhD Donna Y. Tunsel Di Wu Shashank Saraff Janine S. Spurgeon Lauren A. Tupper Martin W. Wu Samar Sarma Eric C. Squillaci Daniel J. Turney Matthew T. Wyder Krishnanand Sathian Brandon C. Stacy Thea R. Turner Melissa A. Wyder Aaron M. Saucedo Kathryn E. Stecke, PhD Jason M. Tyra Jun Xia, PhD Jason A. Saunders Michael A. Stefko Sridhar Vadlamudi Yinan Xiao Paul M. Sawyer James K. Stephens Apoorv Vaidya Jian Xie Joshua W. Scalf Brooke C. Stephens Charles D. Valaitis Erica C. Yaeger Chad S. Schieber Michael A. Stevens Paul A. Valdespino Julie L. Yancey D.R. Schieferstein Pamela A. Stevens Marijke Van Der Linden Cheng Yang Bobby H. Schiff Angelica B. Stewart David A. Van Ness Ling Yang Kyle T. Schleigh Doug R. Stewart John W. Van Ness, PhD Zhuoqun Yang Cristie F. Schlosser Syndee K. Stiles Gerald F. Vander Voord Ryan Yarbrough Christopher M. Schlosser Marguerite McClinton Stoglin Jackson A. Varnan Hongjun Yin Bobbie J. Schniebs Robert L. Stone Vikas Vashisth Jim Young* Devin J. Schor Gregg O. Stopher Gustavo A. Velez Samuel C. Yu Annetta J. Schroeder Robert A. Strain Sridhar Venkatesh Li-Tang Yu Holly M. Schumacher George H. Stroh Sharman Vesecky Larry Zacharias Robert I. Schwartz Kenneth W. Struck Lora J. Villarreal Douglas C. Scott Judy N. Stubbs Melba Vinson Sandra Zelisko Melva J. Scott Guang Qiang G. Su Jared M. Vise Richard A. Zembower Monica L. Scott Po-Jung Su Srinivas Vishnubhotla Anni Zhang Daniel M. Sessa* Shuhui D. Su Sarah F. Vogt Yifeng Zhang Jonathan G. Seyoum Dorit Suffness Kapil R. Vora Yuan Zhang, PhD Raj J. Shah Jennifer Y. Sui John A. Voss Yuqi Zhang Ritesh R. Shah Tian Sun Madhusudhan Vudali Zihan Zhao Muhammad A. Shaikh Chao Sun Karie T. Vue Ada Zhu Yu Shang Tanveer M. Sunesara Anil Wadhwa Nujeen Zibari Susan B. Shapiro Prateek Surapaneni James R. Wallace Laurie L. Ziegler, PhD Lisa B. Shatz Debbie H. Sustaita James Y. Wang Steven H. Zimmerman Yu Yun Shaw Preeti D. Sutaria Tze E. Wang Douglas A. Zink Zahid S. Sheikh Mark W. Sutherland Wan Wang Kathy Zolton Robert R. Shelby Walter L. Sutton Zhuliang Wang Timothy R. Zoltowski Allison B. Shelton Steven J. Swanson Akshay Wani Louis E. Zweig

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