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Faculty Notes

• Churchill Professor of Marketing Jan Heide received the Louis W. Stern Award from the American Marketing Association (AMA) for the best article in an AMA refereed journal on marketing channels and distribution. He also was awarded an Outstanding Faculty award by the Evening MBA Program's first graduating class.

 

• Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting Larry E. Rittenberg has been named vice chairman-research and president of the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation board of trustees. IIA is an international professional association with more than 70,000 members worldwide.

 

• The Selling and Sales Management Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association has honored two School of Business emeritus marketing professors. Neil Ford and Gil Churchill, Jr. of the School of Business received Lifetime Achievement Awards for their collective contributions to the field of sales education.

 

• After three years with the UW Foundation, Development Director Kristine Urrutia leaves her position working on behalf of the School of Business to care for her infant daughter, Jade.

 

• Faculty in the Department of Management and Human Resources were in the forefront of a recent issue of the Academy of Management Journal. Four of the 10 articles in the June issue of the prestigious academic journal were co-authored by School of Business faculty. The journal featured research conducted by Mason Carpenter, Alexander D. Stajkovic and Gerard George.

 

• Assistant Professor Neeraj Arora, of the Department of Marketing, was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Marketing Research.