Michelle Hanlon’s paper "Are Executive Stock Options Associated with Future Earnings?” (coauthored with Shiva Rajgopal and Terry Shevlin) was published in the December 2003 Journal of Accounting and Economics and was given the Best Paper Award at the 2002 Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference. Another paper, "What Can We Infer About a Firm’s Taxable Income from Its Financial Statements?,” was published in the National Tax Journal in December 2003. Michelle presented this paper at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., in April 2003. She also gave invited presentations at the University of Texas, the University of Oregon, the University of Colorado and Michigan State University in fall 2003.

Joel Slemrod was awarded $50,000 from the Russell Sage Foundation to support a conference titled, "Behavioral Public Finance: Toward a New Agenda.” The conference will be held in Ann Arbor on April 23-24, 2004.

David Blair was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.

Jaideep "Jay" Anand's publication, "Transferring collective knowledge: Teaching and learning in the Chinese auto industry,” was accepted in Strategic Organization. It is co-authored with Z. Zhao and W. Mitchell.

Fritz Foley's paper, "Venture out alone,” co-authored with Mihir Desai and James R. Hines Jr., has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Harvard Business Review.

Thomas Gladwin received the "Lifetime Achievement” award at an October awards ceremony held in New York, which honored schools and faculty for their treatment of "social and environmental stewardship” in MBA programs. These "Beyond Grey Pinstripes” awards are given by The Aspen Institute and World Resources Institute.

Andrew Hoffman received the "Rising Star” award at an October awards ceremony presented by The Aspen Institute and World Resources Institute.

Kenneth Lieberthal has published the following:

• Governing China: From Revolution through Reform (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995). Second (revised) edition published in January 2004;
• "China tomorrow: The great transition,” co-authored with Geoffrey Lieberthal, in the Harvard Business Review (October), pp. 70-81
• "Dire straits: The risks on Taiwan,” Washington Post (December 8, 2008).

Jan Svejnar was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board for CSOB, one of the largest banks in the Czech Republic.

His article, "Objectives and constraints of entrepreneurs: Evidence from small and medium-size enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria,” was co-authored with Francisca Pissarides and Miroslav Singer, and was published in the Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 31, pp. 503-531.

Assistant Professor of Finance Amy Dittmar’s paper "Costless versus costly signaling in capital markets: Theory and evidence” (coauthored with Utpal Bhattacharya) was accepted at the FIRS Conference on Banking, Insurance and Intermediation in Capri in May 2004. Her paper "Corporate governance, incentives and industry consolidations” (co-authored with Keith Brown and Henri Servaes) was accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies. "Why do firms repurchase stock?” Journal of Business, 73” 331-355, will be reprinted in a new book entitled Recent Developments in Corporate Finance published by Edward Elgar Publishers and edited by Jay Ritter.

Dennis Capozza was appointed as the first holder of the Dale L. Dykema Professorship in Business Administration.

Tim Fort received the "Academic Leadership” award at an October awards ceremony held in New York and presented by The Aspen Institute and World Resources Institute.

David Hess’s book chapter, "Taking responsibility for bribery: The multinational corporation’s role in combating corruption,” was published in December in Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions, edited by Rory Sullivan, and published by Greenleaf Publishing, UK. His co-author was Thomas Dunfee from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dana Muir presented her paper, "Longevity and retirement age in defined benefit pension plans,” at the December Roundtable Workshop sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on Work Options for Mature Americans, held at the University of Notre Dame. The paper was co-authored with J. Turner.

In October, Dana spoke on "A Year of Change: Employer Stock, Healthcare Decision Making, and Defined Benefit Plan Funding” at the annual meeting of the American Corporate Counsel Association.

Dana has been elected to a three-year term of The Aerospace Corporation's Board of Trustees.

Priscilla Rogers' joint research with Nanyang Technological University faculty Song Mei Lee-Wong, titled, "Reconceptualizing politeness to accommodate dynamic tensions in subordinate-to-superior reporting,” was published last fall in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. While spearheading joint research in Singapore recently, Pris represented the Business School at a reception hosted by the U.S. Ambassador to celebrate International Education Week and was the faculty representative on a public forum on Michigan’s MBA program.

Kim Cameron and Arran Caza edited a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist on "Contributions to the discipline of positive organizational scholarship." Kim Cameron, David Bright and Arran Caza recently published ""Exploring the relationships between organizational virtuousness and performance." American Behavioral Scientist, 47(6): 740-765. The work of Kim Cameron, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn and Gretchen Spreitzer on positive organizational scholarship was recognized as among the 20 highest-impact ideas of the year by the Harvard Business Review in the February 2004 issue. Prof. Cameron also has recently given presentations on the results of research on positive organizational scholarship at the University of Memphis, The Human Resource Conference Board in New York and Leaders Connect in Ann Arbor. He was interviewed for media stories on positive organizational scholarship by NPR radio, Fast Company magazine, the online edition of The Wall Street Journal and the Ann Arbor News.

Jim Walsh recently presented his work at a National Science Foundation Conference, the Organization Science Winter Conference, and at seminars at the University of Michigan and Emory University. He published (with Joshua Margolis, Harvard University) "Misery loves companies: Rethinking social initiatives by business,” in the Administrative Science Quarterly, 48: 268-30, and also published (with Klaus Weber, Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, and Joshua Margolis, Harvard Business School) "Social issues and management: Our lost cause found” in the Journal of Management, 29(6): 859-881.

Gretchen Spreitzer and Scott Sonenshein published "Toward the construct definition of positive deviance.” American Behavioral Scientist, 77(6): 828-847. She is currently serving as Division Chair (an elected position) for the Organizational Development and Change Division of the National Academy of Management. In the first half of 2004, she was invited to give faculty research colloquia at Wake Forest University, Bowling Green State University and the University of California at Irvine.

Jane Dutton's article, "Fostering high-quality connections,” was published in the Stanford Innovation Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 54-58.

A chapter, "Interpersonal Sensemaking and the Meaning of Work,” co-authored with A. Wrzesniewski and G. Debebe, will appear in B. Staw and R. Kramer’ s book, Research in Organizational Behavior, published by Interscience.

The UM Office of the Vice President of Research has funded Jane Dutton, Gretchen Spreitzer, Kathleen Sutcliffe, S. Sonneshein and A. Grant for the research grant, "Thriving at Work.”

Mary Ann Glynn and Gretchen Spreitzer organized the 2nd Biannual Positive Organizational Scholarship Conference held at MBS in December. The conference brought 60 scholars and PhD students together to advance rigorous empirical POS research. The conference was sponsored by MBS, OVPR, ICOS and the Gallup Corporation.

Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks gave an invited talk on "Culture and Workplace Relationships” in November at Berkeley's Hass School of Business.

Fred Feinberg has five forthcoming articles:

• "The shape of advertising response functions revisited: A model of dynamic probabilistic threshold”
• "Linking marketing and engineering product design decisions via analytical target cascading”
• "Assessing heterogeneity in discrete choice models using a Dirichlet Process Prior”
• "Category norms as a function of culture and age: Comparisons of item responses to 105 categories by American and Chinese adults”
• "An optimal marketing and engineering design model for product development using analytical target cascading”

Michael Johnson was one of three finalists for the Journal of Service Research’s "Excellence in Service Research Award” for 2003 based on his publication with Line Lervik-Olsen titled, "Service equity, satisfaction, and loyalty: From transaction-specific to cumulative evaluations.”

Michael had two articles accepted for publication:

•  "Customer portfolio management: Toward a dynamic theory of exchange relationships,” in the Journal of Marketing, 68 (April), written with Fred Selnes
• "Compatibility effects in evaluations of satisfaction and loyalty” in the Journal of Economic Psychology, written with Seigyoung Auh.

He also made the following presentations at the Frontiers in Science Conference held at the University of Maryland in October:

• "Explaining Loyalty: A Multi-Comparative Performance Standard Approach”
• "Managing Customer Satisfaction, Brand Image, and Relationship Strength across Switching Paths.”

AAradhna Krishna was appointed as the Isadore and Leon Winkelman Professor of Retail Marketing.

Rajeev Batra has two forthcoming journal articles:

• "When corporate image affects product evaluations: The moderating role of perceived risk,” with Zeynep Gurhanulty, to be published in the Journal of Marketing Research
• "The situational impact of brand image beliefs,” written with Pamela Homer, to be published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

He gave an invited talk in December on "Global Branding: Orchestration or Improvisation?” at the Marketing Science Institute Conference on Brand Orchestration in Orlando.

Norbert Schwartz had the following publications and presentations to report for this quarter’s research activities.

• Publications: "Mood as information: 20 years later,” in Psychological Inquiry, 14, pp. 296-303, written with G. Clore.
• "Zeroing in on the dark side of the American dream: A closer look at the consequences of the goal for financial success,” in Psychological Science, 14, pp. 531-536, co-authored with C. Nickerson, E. Diener and D. Kahneman.
• "Gender typed advertisements and impression formation: The role of chronic and temporary stereotype accessibility,” in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, 13, pp. 220-229, written with G.V. Johar and C.P. Moreau.
• "Accessibility revisited,” in Foundations of Social Cognition: A Festschrift in honor of Robert S. Wyer Jr., pp. 51-77, written with H. Bless, M. Wänke and P. Winkielman, and published by Erlbaum.
• "The size of context effects in social judgment,” co-authored with H. Bless and M. Wänke, in J. P. Forgas, K. D. Williams & W. von Hippel (eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes, pp. 180-197, published by Cambridge University Press.
• Presentations in October: "The malleable meaning of experience,” at Controversies in ease of recall research, at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology meeting, held in Boston.
• "Preference fluency and its effects on no-choice, compromise, and attraction effects,” presented with N. Novemsky, R. Dhar and I. Simonson, at New frontiers in the construction of preferences, Association for Consumer Research, held in Toronto.
• "Meta-cognitive experiences in decision making,” at an invited symposium, Emotion, evaluation and decision making: Social scientists explore the limits of rationality, held at the Society for Medical Decision Making in Chicago.

Michel Wedel was ranked the second-most-productive researcher in Economics in the Netherlands, based on ISI publications for the period 1997-2001 (http://center.uvt.nl/top40/).

Michel had two articles published:

•  "Identification de segment spatiaux our des marches internationaux,” in the Recherche et Applications en Marketing, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 81-104, written with F. ter Hofstede and J.B.E.M. Steenkamp
• "The structure of self-reported emotional experiences: A mixed effects Poisson Factor model,” in the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 56, pp. 215-229, co-authored with W.A. Bockenholt and M. Kamakura.

JIE ZHANG’s paper, "Customizing promotions in online stores,” co-authored with Lakshman Krishnamurthi, was accepted for publication in Marketing Science.

Damian Beil's article, "An inverse-optimization-based auction mechanism to support a multi-attribute RFQ process,” co-authored with Lawrence M. Wein, was published in Management Science in November, 49, pp. 1529-1545.

Paul Damien has two forthcoming articles:

• "Priors with a Kullback-Leibler Property,” co-authored with Peter Lenk, MBS, and Stephen Walker, University of Bath, UK, to appear in the Journal of the American Statistical Association
• "Prior distributions on symmetric groups,” co-authored with Jayanti Gupta, MERCK and Company, to appear in Psychometrika.

A United States and worldwide patent for the invention, "Storage-Encryption-Retrieval Device and Method with Resulting Business Processes,” was awarded and is held jointly with business partner George Mentrup (Economist).

Paul presented an invited lecture, "New class of Bayesian Nonparametric and Semiparametric Models with Applications to Option Pricing,” at the Econometric Society meeting held in San Diego.