Faculty Excellence

Expanding Knowledge

The foundation for excellence of any business school
is the caliber of the faculty members who lead the
intellectual life of the school. While this has always been
true in academic institutions, the demands on business
school faculty have expanded dramatically in recent
decades. Globalization and information technology
innovation have created major upheaval in the business
environment, which creates corresponding dynamism in
business education. Faculty must remain more closely
connected to business practices than ever before to ensure
that research and teaching are on the leading edge.

Real faculty excellence in this kind of world demands
more than simply good teaching. It also requires the
ability to advance thinking through academic research
and advance practice through engagement with
business practitioners, policy makers and other national
organizations.

School of Business faculty members have earned national
reputations for their contribution to scholarly publications
and leading roles in professional associations.

In particular, the strength of our faculty in research
has long been noted. A recent nationwide study of
business faculty research productivity ranked them 14th
in the United States overall, and two departments—
Management & Human Resources and Marketing
—were each ranked second in the nation.
Another study published in 2003 by the American
Marketing Association found that our marketing
professors were the most infl uential in the nation in terms
of citations to their work by other scholars. Individually,
Jan Heide, Irwin Maier Professor of Marketing, was
ranked third in research infl uence.

R.D. Nair
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
608/262-3819
rnair@bus.wisc.edu

Peter Barcher
Assistant Dean for Research and Development
608/263-2085
pbarcher@bus.wisc.edu

www.bus.wisc.edu/faculty

2003 Faculty Accomplishments

Accounting & Information Systems

• Mark Covaleski, Robert M. Beyer Professor, serves on the National Advisory Council of the Health Care Financial Management Association. One of his articles was selected as the “2003 Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper.”
• Larry Rittenberg, Ernst & Young Professor, serves as president of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Research Foundation and vice-chairman for research. He recently completed a term as vice-president for the American Accounting Association.
• Karla Johnstone published several articles on CPA-firm quality control systems in leading academic accounting journals.
• Jon Davis, in addition to his considerable research success, served as the key organizer and mentor for student teams that won honors in national tax competitions.

Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance

• Joan Schmit, American Family Insurance Professor, was appointed by Wisconsin’s governor to the Board of Governors of the Patient’s Compensation Fund. She and Dan Anderson, the Leslie P. Schultz Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, were appointed research fellows of the China Center for Insurance and Society Security Research.
• Jed Frees, Fortis Health Professor, is the editor of the North American Actuarial Journal.

Finance, Investment and Banking

• Ken Kavajecz was appointed chair of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) economic advisory board.
• Toni Whited was appointed editor of the new journal, Finance Research Letters.

Management and Human Resources

Four faculty were published in major journals:

• Mason Carpenter in the Strategic Management Journal.
• Gerry George in Research Policy.
• Jon Eckhardt in the Journal of Management.
• Larry Hunter in Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Marketing

Faculty were published in the three leading marketing journals:

• Jan Heide, Irwin Maier Professor, and Joann Peck in the Journal of Marketing.
• Aric Rindfleisch and Joann Peck in the Journal of Consumer Research.
• Jan Heide, Kenneth H. Wathne and Aric Rindfl eisch in the Journal of Marketing Research.

Operations and Information Management

• Urban Wemmerlöv, Kress Family Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and director of the Erdman Center, was awarded the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing for his book “Reorganizing the Factory: Competing through Cellular Manufacturing.”
• Donald Hausch had one paper and James Morris, Dean’s Professor, had two papers published in Management Science that were cited 50 times or more.

Real Estate and Urban Land Economics

• Stephen Malpezzi, Robert E. Wangard Faculty Scholar, co-authored “A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy,” a book explaining the economics of housing policy for a general audience. He was also elected second vice president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
• Timothy Riddiough, E.J. Plesko Chair, won the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association’s 2003 Edwin S. Mills Award for best research paper.