College of Management Faculty, Staff Receive Numerous Honors
Eric Overby, assistant professor of information technology management, won the 2011 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Award.
Lindsay Green of the Undergraduate Program Office won the Institute-wide 2011 Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advisor Award.
Published on: 03-29-2011
Widely recognized for excellence in teaching and research, faculty
members of Georgia Tech College of Management continue to raise the
business school's profile through their professional activities and
honors. Staff performance also continues to reflect well on the College. In recent months:
Eric Overby,
assistant professor of information technology management, won the 2011 CETL/BP Junior
Faculty Teaching Award. "Eric is an
outstanding teacher and highly deserving of being the first College of
Management educator to receive this honor in nearly 20 years," says
College of Management Dean Steve Salbu. "In addition to his passion for
teaching and innovative educational approach, Eric regularly goes above and
beyond in his service to the Georgia Tech community.
Lindsay
Green, an academic advisor in the College of Management's Undergraduate Program
Office, won the Institute-wide 2011 Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Award. "Lindsay was selected for this award due to the strong letters of
support submitted by her advisees and her excellent work on enhancing our
readmission process, improving the retention rate of and support for readmitted
students, and expanding our Website so students have more access to advising,
certificate and registration information," says Nancy Gimbel, director of
the Undergraduate Program Office.
Matt Higgins, the Imlay assistant professor of strategic management,
received a $387,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study "Estimating the Impact of Accelerated
Generic Entry on Consumer Welfare and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical
Industry."
Ajay Kohli, professor of marketing
and the Gary T. and Elizabeth R. Jones Chair, was inducted as an ISBM (Institute for the Study of
Business Markets) Fellow, a honor that has been bestowed on only a select
number of marketing scholars to date.
Deborah
Turner, the A.J. and Lynne Land associate professor of accounting,
won the Women of Distinction award from the Women’s Leadership Conference.
Frank
Rothaermel, the Angel and Stephen M. Deedy professor of strategic management,
was appointed chair of the "Value Creation through Collaborative
Public-Private Interaction" track of the Strategic Management Society.
The College
of Management received a donation from SAP totaling $180,000 for work related
to "IT and Intangible Assets" by Chris Forman, the Robert and Stevie Schmidt associate
professor of information technology management, and D.J. Wu, the Thomas R. Williams-Wachovia associate professor of information technology management. Wu also was appointed as an associate
editor of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
Mark
Ferguson, the John and Wendi Wells associate professor of operations management and the Steven A. Denning professor of Technology & Management, is
president-elect of the POMS Supply Chain College, chair-elect of the INFORMS
Revenue Management and Pricing Section, and vice president-elect of meetings
for the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management society. He also
recently served as co-editor of a special issue of the Production and Operations Management journal on New Product
Development, Innovation and Sustainability.
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