Faculty News and Accomplishments
Publications and Presentations
Show-Me Business Week
News from Grad Studies
Phi Beta Lambda
Central Missouri Food Bank Food Drive
Staff and Student News
Video Conferencing Technology Joins Classrooms

Faculty News and Accomplishments

The 2004 Missouri Banking Symposium was held on April 2, 2004 at the Reynolds Alumni Center. The symposium, co-sponsored by John Howe (Professor of Finance and Missouri Bankers Chair), the Missouri Bankers Chair Advisory Board, and Stephen P. Ferris (Rogers Chair of Money, Credit and Banking) featured three speakers and a panel discussion. The theme was "The Future of Bank Corporate Governance." The keynote speaker was Professor Therese Maynard, Professor of Law and Leo J. O'Brien Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

Chuck Franz, Dan French, and Jim Sharrock visited the Alicante University in Alicante, Spain during spring break to establish a contract for expanding the summer business program for 2005. Dan French will coordinate the Alicante program, while Chuck Franz will continue to oversee the Bergamo, Italy program. The contract is expected to be signed by both university partners by late summer so that student recruitment can begin in fall 2004.

The College of Business collaborated with the romance language department during January and winter semester 2004 to offer an intensive three-hour Italian language course to ten business students who planned to participate in the 2004 summer business program in Bergamo, Italy. The student feedback, course evaluation results, and experiences of the students from this experimental course will be evaluated during the fall semester to decide on offering the course again in January and winter semester 2005.

Tom Dougherty was part of a four-person team from MU's Colleague Circles faculty mentoring program who participated on April 30th in the kickoff sessions for Kansas State University's Parallel Paths faculty mentoring program.

Shaoming Zou, as principal co-investigator, received a research grant ($5,000) for researching global account management issues from the Teradata Center for CRM at Duke University.

Jere Francis was appointed associate editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.

Peter Bloch and Suraj Commuri were selected as the recipients of the college's Research Support Fund (RSF) Grant for fall 2004. Their grant will be used to support a project titled "Opinion Leadership in E-Commerce: An Investigation of Source and Message Factors as Determinants of 'Word-of-Web' Influence." The RSF Grant Program is designed to support out-of-pocket expenses for faculty research projects.

Billie Cunningham and Loren Nikolai were two of three campus-wide recipients of the 2003 Student-Athlete Advisory Council's Most Inspiring Professor Award given at the 2004 Student-Athlete Academic Awards Breakfast on April 21.

Jenice Prather-Kinsey is the recipient of a $1,000 grant for internationalizing the curriculum awarded by the MU Council on International Initiatives for her proposal for developing the new course "International Accounting" (Accounting 8419). The grant will be administered through The International Center.

Daniel Turban is the recipient of the MBA Project Grant for fall 2004 for Myers-Briggs Type Inventory test administration in Management 438. The MBA Grant program was made possible by the Gordon E. Crosby, Jr. contribution to the MBA program and is designed to provide MBA instructional faculty access to stipend and project grants related to MBA course development and delivery.

Chuck Franz attended the Big12 MIS conference at Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, April 2-4. He served as the co-chair of the conference. The college's Chinese visiting scholar, Nong Qiu, also attended the conference.

A number of faculty members received awards during the college's Honors Luncheon on April 29:

• Chuck Franz: Outstanding Faculty Service Award.
• Vairam Arunachalam: Distinguished Research Fellowship.
• Mary Beth Marrs: Faculty Member of the Year, selected by students during Show-Me Business Week.
• Chris Robert: Raymond F. and Mary A. O'Brien Excellence in Teaching Award.
• Inder Khurana and Marsha Richins: Harry Hall Trice Faculty Research Award.

Publications and Presentations

Tom Dougherty and management and doctoral candidate Felissa Lee presented "MU Entrepreneurial Initiatives: Mentoring the Students" on February 26 at the 2004 MU Teaching Renewal Conference, sponsored by the Program for Excellence in Teaching.

Ratti Ratneshwar presented a research paper at the Society for Consumer Psychology conference in San Francisco. He also made invited research presentations at Baruch College, New York, and the University of Kansas.

Shaoming Zou made an invited presentation, "The Determinants of Distinctive Competencies and Performance of International Joint Ventures," to the international business faculty and doctoral students at the University of South Carolina. Shaoming also published a co-authored article, "The Political Economy Explanation of International Market Entry Mode Choice: An Exploratory Study," in the Handbook of Research in International Marketing.

Mark Houston published a paper in the February 2004 issue of Journal of Business Research titled "Assessing the Validity of Secondary Data Proxies for Marketing Constructs."

Elaine Mauldin presented a paper at the AAA IS Section Mid-Year Meeting in Clearwater, Florida, in January titled "Investment in Technology: An Analysis of ERP Annual Report Disclosures."

Ken Shaw presented a paper "Stock Option Compensation and the Likelihood of Meeting Analysts' Quarterly Earnings Targets" at the American Accounting Association Midwest Regional Meeting in March.

Vairam Arunachalam's article titled "Electronic Data Interchange: An Evaluation of Alternative Organizational Forms" was published in the April-May, 2004 issue of Accounting, Organizations and Society.

Jenice Prather-Kinsey presented her study with Variam Arunachalam and Chris Chan, "Organizational Management Control Systems: A Cross-Cultural Analysis," at the AAA IAS Midyear Meeting in San Diego in February. Jenice also published two articles. The first is titled "An Analysis of International Accounting Research in U.S. and non-U.S. Based Academic Accounting Journals," with co-author Norlin Rueschhoff in the Journal of International Accounting Research. The second is "The Effect of Revised IAS 14 on Segment Reporting," with co-author Gary Meek in European Accounting Review.

Jere Francis published two papers in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory: “Auditor Industry Specialization, Client Bargaining Power, and Audit Pricing,” and “Professional Service Fees and Auditor Objectivity." Jere made conference paper presentations at the British Accounting Association's Annual Conference in York, England in April; European Accounting Association's Annual Congress in Prague, Czech Republic in April; National Auditing Conference of the Auditing Special Interest Group of the British Accounting Association in Southampton, England in March; and the mid-year meeting of the Auditing Section, American Accounting Association in Clearwater in January. He also made invited research presentations at the University of Paris IX Dauphine in March and the University of Toronto in April. He was a plenary speaker at the British Accounting Association's Annual Conference at York University in April.

Todd Chiles published an article titled "Process Theorizing: Too Important to Ignore in a Kaleidic World" in the Academy of Management Learning & Education.

Tim Waid, adjunct instructor for management, had an article published in the March 2004 issue of Techniques, the national publication for the Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE). The article, titled "Race Issues in Career and Technical Education: A Snapshot in Black and White," explores diversity challenges in career and technical education.

Show-Me Business Week

The College of Business Student Council held the annual Show-Me Business Week beginning on April 25, 2004. Student Council's vice president of activities Joe Freund and Business Week coordinators Jon Fink and Laura Thompson organized the week's events with the help of six committees comprised of nearly thirty students. Katy Farr, Mandy Gruchala, Lindsey Porlier, Mark Swierczek, Allison Voigt, and Greg Westrich chaired the committees.

The week began with a 3-on-3-basketball tournament at the Student Rec Center. On Monday, faculty, staff, and students teamed up to compete in a Knowledge Bowl held in Cornell Hall. On Tuesday, faculty, staff, and students competed in a miniature golf tournament at Perche Creek Golf Course. A picnic on the grounds outside Cornell Hall attracted faculty, staff, and students for lunch and to watch Drs. Michael Christy, James Wall, and Dean Bruce Walker kiss pigs at the annual Kiss the Pig contest on Wednesday. The contest raised over $3,300 in donations for the Central Missouri Food Bank. The week ended on Thursday at the Blue Note with a Night on the Town Talent Show featuring a stand-up comedy act by Dr. Joel Poor.

Throughout the week, over 1,000 pounds of food was collected for the Central Missouri Food Bank. During College of Business Week, student organizations compete for points at the various events. At the end of the week, Alpha Kappa Psi was named the winner. The week was a great success in both supporting the Central Missouri Food Bank and bringing the members of the College of Business together for a week of fun events before finals and the end of the semester.

News from Grad Studies

Professional development perspectives - Each semester, Crosby MBA students benefit from a wide range of topics conveyed by visiting executives. Speakers during the winter 2004 semester included:

• Ed Eschbach - CEO/director, Deloitte Consulting Italy (retired)
• David Van Vliet - president/CEO, Growing Family
• Dave Holt - president/CEO, Lightspeed Semiconductor
• Dan Henry - president/COO, Euronet Services
• Samuel Dirgirolamo, attorney, Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin
• Linda Wertheimer - NPR Host
• Jim Amos - chairman emeritus, Mail Boxes Etc.
• David Thomas - VP/chief diversity officer, Sprint
• Dr. Elson S. Floyd - president, University of Missouri
• Bob Holmes - senior vice president, LaSalle Bank
• Mike Smid – president/CIO, YellowFreight/Roadway Corp.
• Glenda Kemple – co-founder/principal, Quest Capital Mgmt

Hallmark Cards field trip - A visit to the business research department of Hallmark Cards provided Crosby MBA students with a valuable look at the role of business research and marketing at the world’s largest “social expressions” company. As they observed business and marketing research being conducted and participated in a case study of a current Hallmark initiative, they were able to transfer learned classroom skills to the business world. Students gained valuable networking contacts and had ample time to converse with Hallmark representatives.

International Day - Each semester, the Crosby MBA Program hosts "International Day," a special occasion focusing on international culture and the global business world. Activities include a potluck luncheon featuring food from students’ home countries and a series of short student presentations relative to their native cultures. This semester’s student presentations were given by Gennadiy Petrykovets (Ukraine), Chinwe Ndubuka (Nigeria), Feng Pan (China), and Satish Subramani (India). Also, to further stimulate students' international awareness, guest speaker Daniel Dahlke shared insights into global business topics with particular emphasis on topics drawn from his extensive experience in China.

Doctoral student awards for 2003-04 - Honors included

• College of Business Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award: Alexei Nikitkov (Accountancy), W.D. Allen (Finance), Dana Haggard (Management), and Lynn Murray (Marketing)
• College of Business Outstanding Research Assistant Award: James Michael Braswell (Accountancy), Gary McCormick (Finance), Liviu Florea (Management) and Amanda Helm (Marketing)

Phi Beta Lambda

Members of the Mizzou Phi Beta Lambda chapter participated in the State Leadership Conference on March 26-27 in Jefferson City. The conference featured competitive events for individuals and teams, leadership training, and election of state officers. Rachel Parker, a junior, was elected state Parliamentarian. PBL members placed in the top 5 in 16 of the contests. Ten of the 15 members who attended are eligible to attend the National Conference which will be held in Denver, Colorado in July.

The outstanding achievements of the PBL membership also include a Gold Seal Chapter Award of Merit, the Joanne Newcomer Spirit Award, in recognition for service with the March of Dimes. This conference was highly successful for all of the participants involved as they applied their skills and gathered new ideas for the upcoming year.

Central Missouri Food Bank Drive

The Marketing Forum (the American Marketing Association student chapter) and students in Marketing 204 conducted a fundraiser for the Central Missouri Food Bank. The effort culminated with a food drive on Feb. 25 at Cornell Hall. On the same day, Peggy Kirkpatrick, director of the Central Missouri Food Bank, gave a presentation on non-profit marketing in Dr. Joel Poor's two sections of Marketing 204.

This project fulfilled three important needs:

1. The needs of the hungry. This fundraising effort was conducted at a time of greatest need for the hungry in this state.
   

2. The needs of the student. Students gained valuable marketing sales and communication experience through fundraising efforts with business people and students.
   

3. The needs of the marketing field and the College of Business. The project underscored that the tools of marketing can play a powerful role in the exchange of ideas and the promotion of social responsibility. The college’s support of projects like this food drive gives students an ability to see themselves and business in a larger societal context.

Staff and Student News

Al Eberhard assumed the position of senior development d irector in the Advancement Office of the College of Business, effective April 1, 2004. In this expanded role, Al will oversee a development director and a development officer. In addition to fund-raising activities, Al and the two new hires will work on other college development initiatives, such as the upcoming faculty and staff campaign, coordination with the Legacy Society, and the Annual Fund.

Kerri Hogan joined the Department of Finance as office support staff. Kerri is new to the area and formerly resided in Farmington, Missouri, where she worked as a clinical secretary.

Jan Mackay accepted an offer to serve as full time office support staff in the Dean's Office. Jan will have a variety of responsibilities including assisting the dean's office with fiscal affairs and the Technology Services office with administrative tasks.

At the annual Human Rights and Diversity Awards banquet this spring, Clarence Wine was awarded the Staff Diversity Enhancement Award. This very prestigious award is given to one staff member on campus each year. The award recognizes Clarence's many years of hard work and commitment to increasing the level of diversity within the College of Business, development of programs to attract minority students, and mentoring and advising minority students.

Phyllis Moore received the 2004 MU Excellence in Advising Award.

Videoconferencing Technology

Joins Classrooms that Are a World Apart

On April 21, Sanjay Purohit, associate vice president and head of corporate planning of Infosys Technology Ltd., presented a class lecture from Bangalore, India to mid-Missouri students about the outsourcing industry in the global marketplace and the history and philosophy of Infosys, a global leader in this industry. The guest lecturer gave his presentation in a conference room that was over 10,000 miles away in India; his lesson and discussion were transmitted by two-way video conference technology. Purohit spoke to Management 375 students in Cornell Hall.

“The ability to use this technology has been limited to large corporations or to Star Trek,” said Vishal K. Gupta, graduate instructor in the MU College of Business. “Now, with the technology available in the College of Business, we are able to bring this to the classroom and into our students' lives.”

The idea for the international video conference was conceived by Gupta, a doctoral student and instructor for the undergraduate capstone course, who had seen the technology used previously by Dr. Al Bluedorn. Having the two-way capabilities presents an opportunity to invite a guest to the college without the budget constraints, travel expenses or geographical differences that may normally occur with such an event. It also demonstrates to the students how technology can affect their lives in meaningful ways. Primarily, Gupta saw this as a chance to expose his students to the ‘hottest’ issue these days- outsourcing, specifically wanting them to interact with a non-American company and see the issue from a different perspective.

“The fact that this guest lecture combined two-way technology and an international firm is a milestone for the college and underscores that the technologies used in Cornell Hall are a valuable part of the educational experience for our students,” said Dean Bruce Walker.