2009 Headlines
Faculty Recognized for Teaching and Research Excellence
MBA graduates and recent alumni honored Johnson School faculty at commencement and reunion.
July 10, 2009 | Ithaca, NY | July 10, 2009 | Ithaca, NY | New and recent Johnson School MBAs recognized five faculty for their excellence in teaching, while four additional faculty members were singled out for their research contributions, as part of the school's commencement and reunion activities.
Risa Mish, lecturer of management and director of the school's leadership skills program received the Apple Award for Teaching Excellence. The MBA class of 1992 instituted the award to to honor a faculty member who demonstrates outstanding leadership and enduring educational influence.
The Globe Award for Teaching Excellence, which honors an Executive MBA (EMBA) faculty member who demonstrates a command of subject matter, and also possesses creativity, dedication, and enthusiasm, essential to meet the unique challenges of the EMBA education, went to Gordan Bodnar. Bodnar is the Morris W. Offit Professor of International Finance at John Hopkins University.
Graduating MBA students in the Cornell-Queens Executive MBA Program selected Sanjeev Bhojraj as their top professor. Bhojraj is associate professor of accounting at the Johnson School, and also serves as faculty director of the Parker Center for Investment Research.
The recipient of the Steven Russell Distinguished Teaching Award is selected by five-year reunion class, which votes for a faculty member whose teaching and example have continued to influence them five years into their post-MBA careers. The MBA class of 2005 selected Sachin Gupta, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and professor of marketing for this honor.
For the 2008-2009 academic year, the Johnson School's Faculty Research Award went to Vrinda Kadiyali, professor of marketing and economics. The Faculty Research Award is given annually in recognition of outstanding research contributions and achievements. Kadiyali's research focuses on firms' competitive strategies. She uses econometric models of game theory to study how firms compete with their rivals and their channel partners.
The academic year's Whitcomb Faculty Fellowships went to Mark Leary, assistant professor of finance, and Young-Hoon Park, assistant professor of marketing. The fellowship was established by Clifford Whitcomb, '43, MBA '48, to support the work of the recipients.
Leary's work explores the area of corporate finance, with a focus on capital structure and security issuance decisions. His research was recognized with Best Paper in Corporate Finance awards from the Financial Management Association and the Southwestern Finance Association in 2004. At the Johnson School, Leary teaches a course in corporate financial policy.
Young-Hoon Park's expertise centers on the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities, and to conduct customer relationship management. His other major research interest lies in developing new models of marketing research and marketing strategy. At the Johnson School, Park has taught customer relationship management, marketing and e-commerce, and marketing research, as well as PhD courses.
The newly established Half-Century Fellowship went to James Detert, assistant professor of management and organizations. The fellowship supports the regular stipend of a junior tenure-track faculty member, in order to foster his or her research, teaching, and professional growth, as a future academic leader of the Johnson School. Detert's research focuses on three topics: the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of improvement-oriented voice from subordinates to authorities in work organizations; leadership processes, behaviors, and outcomes; and ethical decision making and behavior, particularly the socio-cognitive processes and mechanisms of moral disengagement.
Vishal Gaur, associate professor of operations managed, earned the Core Teaching Award, an award established by the MBA Class of 2010 to recognize the professor who best fosters learning through lecture, discussion, and coursework in the first-year core curriculum. MBA students elected Gaur for this award at the end of the fall 2008 semester and presented the award to him when they returned to school in January
