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September 1, 2007

FACULTY-STAFF NEWS

Arrivals

Shana M. Clor-Proell has joined the Department of Accounting and Information Systems as an assistant professor. She comes to the School of Business from Cornell University, where she recently earned her Ph.D. in Management. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she worked in public accounting in the areas of both audit and tax. She is a CPA in the state of Wisconsin. Clor-Proell also holds an M.S. in Management and B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

Clor-Proell’s primary teaching interests are in financial accounting. Her research in judgment and decision-making uses experimental methods to investigate the use of financial accounting information by investors. Her dissertation focuses on examining how users’ investment decisions are influenced by firms’ discretionary accounting choices and users’ expectations of the firm. She is the co-author of a recently published article in the Journal of Accounting Research on “Accounting Standards, Implementation Guidance, and Example-Based Reasoning.”

Qing Liu has joined the Marketing Department as an assistant professor. She comes to the School of Business from The Ohio State University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow. Previously, she was with JPMorgan Chase in New York City as vice president of risk and knowledge management.

Liu has been an ad-hoc referee for several academic journals, including the Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, Marketing Science and Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods. She is the coauthor of a forthcoming article in Marketing Science, “Investigating Endogeneity Bias in Marketing. “ She is the co-author of a chapter of a book, “Handbook on Research on Pricing,” to be published next March.

Liu has a Ph.D. in Statistics, with a minor in marketing from The Ohio State University, where she also earned an M.S. in Statistics. Her B.S. in Science and English is from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Sarah Barber has joined the Business Career Center (BCC) as a student services coordinator, and is part of the BCC’s student advising team. Barber will be advising Certificate in Business, Information Systems, Management and Human Resources, Real Estate and Risk Management and Insurance students and is responsible for a weekly newsletter for students and BCC Orientation.

Sarah Johnson has joined Undergraduate Academic Services as an associate advisor. She just graduated from UW-La Crosse with an M.S. in Education, focusing on college student development and administration. She previously was an advisor in UW- La Crosse’s Office of Multicultural Student Services.

John Brancamp has joined the School of Business as a lecturer in Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance.

Sheila Kelly has joined the School of Business as a lecturer in Business Communication. She has taught English at UW-Madison, and UW-Platteville. Her Ph.D. from Loyola University-Chicago is in American Literature.

David Shulman is a visiting professor in real estate. He comes to the School of Business from Baruch College, City University of New York, where he has been an executive on campus. He is the managing member of David Shulman LLC, a private investment fund that does economic and financial consulting. He has a Ph.D. in management from the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles.

Chad Proell is a visiting professor in Management and Human Resources. He most recently was an adjunct of Management and Organizations at Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. His Ph.D. in Management and Organizations is from Cornell. His research interests include power, status and influence; teams and leadership; and negotiations.

W. David Kelton is a visiting professor in Operations and Information Management. He comes to the School of Business from the University of Cincinnati, where he is a professor in the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management. His Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering is from UW-Madison. Kelton is widely published in scholarly journals, has been a presenter at many academic conferences and has co-authored several books. He has been the interim editor in Chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing. He also has done extensive consulting work, mainly in the area of simulation methods and applications.

Jody N. Andruss has joined the UW Foundation as a development director working on behalf of the School of Business. Previously she was advertising manager for niche publications for Capital Newspapers. She has a B.S. from the University of Iowa. Andruss will work with Development Director Jim Kubek to increase financial support for the School of Business.

Jenny Vigoren has joined the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis as a university services associate 1. Previously, she was an office assistant with the Department of Finance, Investment and Banking of the School of Business. She just graduated from UW-Madison in the Professional French Master’s Program and has a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College.

Steve Smith has accepted the position of university services associate 2 with the Executive MBA. He most recently was an academic department associate with the UW-Madison International Studies Major and Global Cultures Certificate. He has a B.A. and M.A. from UW-Madison.

Matthew Nelson has joined the MBA Program office as a student services coordinator. He comes to the School of Business from the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science/Human Ecology Career Services, where he was a career advisor. He has an M.S. in Education from Indiana University and a B.S. from UW-Stevens Point.

Departures

Adam Havell has ended his project appointment with the Hawk Center.

Kathy Esposito, associate outreach specialist with the Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, has ended her employment with the School of Business.

Transitions

Melissa Amos-Landgraf is the business school’s new associate dean for administration and will be responsible for the overall management of School of Business financial resources and operations, human resources, conference services and building management.

Lynette Stolarzyk is the new director of Professional Programs in Accounting. In that role, she will coordinate efforts to develop the new Graduate-Only Master of Accounting degree (GMAcc) degree, a two-year, (54 credit) program designed to accommodate students with bachelor degrees in any field. The program allows students to capitalize on their undergraduate degree in liberal arts, science, the languages, history, engineering, and business, among others. She also will serve the students in the Integrated Master of Accountancy degree or IMAcc (formerly known as the Five-Year Professional Program) and the undergraduate degree in Accounting.

Celeste Taber has accepted the position of university services associate 2,
project appointment, with the Family Business Center.

Caryl Knutsen of the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management has the new title of student services coordinator.

Accomplishments

John Surdyk, director of INSITE, discussed incubation of new companies at the Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development. The panel “From Pastures to Patents: Growing New Jobs in Old Fields,” was designed to educate junior lawmakers from Midwestern states and Canadian provinces in incubator design, operation and public financing. The conference was held at the Fluno Center in July.

Management Professors Jon Eckhardt and Mason Carpenter recently received funding from the Kauffman foundation to conduct a survey of software developers of the Palm Computing Platform. The funding provided is part of a larger research program examining entrepreneurship in software markets. Also involved in the project is graduate student Mike Ciuchta.