Susan Albring (School of Accountancy) was invited to join the editorial board of the prestigious Journal of American Taxation Association. She also had two papers accepted for publication:

• “IPO Underpricing and Audit Quality Differentiation Within Non-Big 5 Firms.” International Journal of Auditing, 2007.

• "Discussion of Examining Investor Expectations Concerning Tax Savings on the Repatriations of Foreign Earnings Under the American Job Creations Act of 2004." Journal of American Taxation Association, 2007.

Murad Antia (Finance) was selected as the winner of the Kahn Teaching Award. This is a college award funded by Steve Kahn, a long-time business law professor and retired member of the college faculty.

Michael Barnett (Management) was recently published in the Academy of Management Review and has had additional work accepted for publication in a future issue. Barnett completed guest editorship of a special issue of Corporate Reputation Review, which will be published next year and was awarded the College's Outstanding Research Achievement Award. Barnett earned conditional acceptance for work he submitted to the Academy of Management Journal and has been appointed to the editorial board of Long Range Planning.

Maureen Butler’s  (School of Accountancy) "Human Resource Outsourcing: Market Performance of Service Providers" has been accepted for presentation at the AAA 2008 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting in Long Beach, California. She co-authored this paper with Carolyn Callahan and Rod Smith.

Kaushal Chari has been elected as vice chair of INFORMS Information Systems Society.

Cynthia Cohen (Management) is editing a special issue of the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal on “Issues in Employee and Retiree Benefits.”

Lisa Gaynor (School of Accountancy) had three papers accepted for publication:

• “Disclosing Elements of Financial Reporting Quality" with Norma Montague and Brad Schafer, Executive’s Tax and Management Report, forthcoming, October 2007.
• “The Practice Implications of Research Findings Regarding Communications Between Auditors, Audit Committees, and Boards,” with Jeff Cohen, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, and Arnie Wright, Current Issues in Auditing.  Forthcoming, December 2007.
• “Auditor Communications with the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors: Policy Recommendations and Opportunities for Future Research” with Jeff Cohen, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, and Arnie Wright, Accounting Horizons, June 2007.

Grandon Gill (IS/DS) and Anol Bhattacherjee (IS/DS) won the best paper award for their paper entitled, “The Informing Sciences at a Crossroad: The Role of the Client,” at the 2007 Informing Science + IT Education (InSITE) Joint Conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June.

Grandon Gill (IS/DS) and Patrick Kelly (Finance) are winners of this year’s Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. This award is given annually by the provost’s office and the winners are selected by a committee of peers and students. Only 16 awards are given university-wide. Gill also won the Instructional Innovation Award from the Decision Sciences Institute for innovations in teaching.

Alan Hevner (IS/DS) has accepted the position of Senior Editor for Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly. MISQ is rated as the number one journal in the information systems field.

Irene Hurst,a graduate of USF’s MBA program, has been named director of MBA Programs, stepping into role in January when the current director, Steve Baumgarten, retires.  Hurst has been with the Small Business Development Center for twenty years and is extremely active with the Tampa Bay business community.

John Jermier (Management) is a founding and current editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Organization & Environment and also serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, Organization, Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly, Leadership and the Journal of Workplace Rights.  He presented a paper entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility: Critical Perspectives” at an All-Academy Symposium at the Annual Academy of Management Meetings in Philadelphia, PA. Jermier also authored a chapter entitled “Critical Organizational Theory” in Theories of Organization (2007). 

Balaji Padmanabhan (IS/DS) has been appointed as an associate editor for Information Systems Research. He has been named the Anderson Professor of Global Management and also as Senior Fellow at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions.

Dahlia Robinson’s (School of Accountancy) paper on "Managers' and Investors' Responses to Media Exposure of Board Ineffectiveness” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2008.

Eileen Rodriguez has been named interim director of USF’s Small Business Development Center.

Jennifer Kahle Schafer (School of Accountancy) has been named a Grant Thornton Faculty Research Fellow.

John Selsky (Management) organized and chaired a symposium at the recent national Academy of Management conference in Philadelphia entitled, “New directions in Socio-Ecological Thinking.” The conference brought together 12 researchers from the US, Canada, UK, Turkey and Australia. Selsky also presented a paper on agility and resilience capabilities in organizations at the conference; he co-authored that paper with Joe McCann and Jim Lee, from the University of Tampa.

Nathan Stuart’s (School of Accountancy) paper on “Diversification to Mitigate Expropriation in the Tobacco Industry,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.

Sajeev Varki (Marketing) serves on the editorial review board of Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Service Research. He was an invited speaker for the plenary session of the 2007 Frontiers in Services conference held in San Francisco, where he spoke about “Real-Time Marketing.” Also, his paper titled “Moral Judgments in Pricing” was featured in the 2007 Association for Consumer Research symposium in Memphis, TN.