Mark Rosenbaum, Fulbright Scholar and Assistant Professor of Marketing at NIU, has been invited to join Arizona State University's Center for Services Leadership (CSL) as one of their CSL Faculty Network Research Fellows (www.wpcarey.asu.edu/csl)
. In this role, Rosenbaum will become part of a formal community of academic thought leaders focused on advancing the field of services. Established in 1985, the globally recognized CSL strives to improve the business and academic understanding of the distinctive and growing role of services in organizations and with customers. In order to be a CSL Faculty Network member, faculty members must have an exceptional academic reputation, expertise within service research, and a firm commitment to advancing knowledge in the field. Rosenbaum's research has focused on services issues such as commercial social support, quality of life issues, commercial friendships, unethical shopping behaviors, ethnic consumption, and tourists' shopping behaviors. His research has been published in Journal of Service Research, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Retail and Consumer Services, Services Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Senior Housing & Care Journal, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Travel Research, Business Horizons, and Journal of Vacation Marketing, as well as numerous domestic and international conference proceedings. Additionally, his research - particularly on commercial social support -- has been featured in the national press. Rosenbaum also consults on service marketing with Marie Stopes International (not-for-profit NGO dedicated to women's reproductive health) in Southeast Asia, and he has taught courses in Vietnam, Bhutan, and Cambodia.
Pam Smith, KPMG Endowed Professor of Accountancy in the Department of Accountancy, has earned the 2009 American Accounting Association (AAA) Innovation in Accounting Education Award. Smith was selected to receive the award for her work (with Mark Kohlbeck from Florida Atlantic University) in the area of derivatives and hedging; in particular, for their co-authored case "Accounting for Derivatives and Hedging Activities: Comparison of Cash Flow versus Fair Value Hedge Accounting" that appeared in Issues in Accounting Education. Smith is the first NIU Accountancy faculty member to receive the Innovation in Accounting Education award, which has existed for 19 years as established by the AAA in 1990.
In an effort to strengthen the financial sector, TARP -- the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- was created by the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions. Recently, the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel issued a report on the U.S. Treasury Department's use of TARP money. The report is entitled "Valuing Treasury's Acquisitions" (see the link: http://cop.senate.gov/blog/). The underlying Valuation Report, done by Duff & Phelps, utilizes a 2002 study that was co-researched by NIU Assistant Finance Professor Lei Zhou and Miles Livingston to estimate the liquidity discount for TARP Preferred Stocks. Zhou and Livington's original research article is entitled "The Impact of Rule 144A Debt Offerings Upon Bond Yields and Underwriter Fees." The recent U.S. Congressional report includes citation of Zhou and Livington's findings on pages IV-21 to IV-22 of the Valuation Report at http://cop.senate.gov/documents/cop-020609-report-dpvaluation.pdf.
When he was a NIU OM&IS major, David Nyquist wrote an outstanding paper on the airline industry's boarding problem for Professor Kathleen McFadden's service operations management class. So impressed was McFadden with Nyquist's work that she encouraged him to work with her to develop the paper further and to coauthor the expanded work for publication. Over the course of two semesters, Nyquist met with McFadden to work on the paper. 
Recently, their finalized paper was published in the Journal of Air Transport Management. Soon after, the Discovery Channel contacted McFadden for an interview about the paper, and McFadden suggested they contact Nyquist instead, since his paper in class was what generated the idea for a more indepth research study. The result of Nyquist's interview with the Discovery Channel is the story entitled "Problem Solved: The Best Way to Board a Plane."
The coauthor's findings indicate that by using a different airplane boarding procedure, airlines could save approximately $200 million a year. Nyquist graduated from NIU's College of Business in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science. Upon graduation, Nyquist did a summer internship with the FBI in Washington, D.C. and was just recently offered the job. Currently, Nyquist is working on his master's degree at Texas A&M.
View a Rockford Register Star article about David Nyquist
Mark Riley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Accountancy, has been selected to receive research funding from PricewaterhouseCoopers through the firm's INQuires Program (2008). This year, Riley is one of only 26 researchers nationwide to receive funding from the firm. The INQuires Program is a highly competitive research grant program that is in its second year; since its inception in 2006, PricewaterhouseCoopers has funded nearly $1 million grant requests. Riley's grant request proposal that won the research funding is "Accounting Estimates: A Study of the Estimates Associated with the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts." Riley co-authored the grant request proposal with Bill Pasewark from Texas Tech University.
Shaokun Carol Yu, assistant professor of Accountancy, co-authored a research paper which received the American Accounting Association's (AAA) Midwest Region 2008 Best Paper Award. The paper is entitled "SFAS No. 131: Are Reconcilable Differences between Firm-Level and Segment-Level Earnings Informative?". The paper explores whether firm-segment reconcilable differences in segment earnings provided under the SFAS No. 131 'management approach' segment reporting regime is more informative than that provided under the SFAS No. 14 'industry approach' segment reporting regime. Yu's co-authors are Dana Hollie at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Robin Tarpley at George Washington University.
Pam Smith, KPMG Endowed Professor of Accountancy, and Linda Matuszewski, assistant professor of Accountancy, co-authored a paper that describes how the NIU business college is integrating ethics into the business curriculum through the college's BELIEF Initiative ("Building Ethical Leaders Using an Integrated Ethics Framework"). Their paper was presented at the March 28, 2008 Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association. At this meeting, Smith and Matuszewski were awarded the Teaching and Curriculum Section Best Manuscript Award for their work. The co-authors recently revised their award-winning paper and title to "Integrating Ethics into the Business Curriculum." This updated version has subsequently been accepted for publication in the ethics column of the May 2008 issue of Strategic Finance. Strategic Finance is a monthly publication of the Institute of Management Accountants.
John Hansen and Bobby Riggle, both assistant professors in the Department of Marketing, received national recognition for their co-authored research. Their paper -- "The Role of Ethical Salesperson Behavior in Relationship Selling" -- won the best paper award at the 2008 National Conference in Sales Management in Dallas Texas. The National Conference in Sales Management is the leading conference in the professional selling area.
Charles Gowen, Professor in the Management Department, Kathleen McFadden, Professor in OM&IS, and Greg Stock, Professor in OM&IS won the "Best Application Paper Award" at the National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute. Their paper was selected as the best paper out of 484 refereed papers submitted nationally to the conference. Their paper is entitled "Effects of Six Sigma and Knowledge Management on Healthcare Organizational Results and Competitive Advantage." The National Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute will be held in mid-November, at which time Professors Gowen, McFadden, and Stock will receive their award.
OM&IS Professor Greg Stock's article "Hospital Operations and Length of Stay Performance" - which was published in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Vol. 27, No. 9) -- was featured in the August 2007 "Monthly Highlights" on the Emerald Web Site. Stock's research study is one of only 10 selected by Emerald each month, out of an average of 450 new research articles and case studies.
Gerald Jensen, Professor in the Finance Department, co-authored a research paper, "The Presidential Term: Is the Third Year the Charm?", which is receiving national media coverage. The research paper describes the effect of the United States President's third year on market performance, based on a review of the period 1957 to 2004. Media outlets currently carrying Jensen's co-authored research findings include: Reuters WireService, InvestmentNews, and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Along with Northern Illinois University Finance Professor Gerald Jensen, the co-authors of the research are Robert Johnson, Managing Director at the CFA Institute, and Scott Beyer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Assistant Finance Professor. Their research paper will be published in the Journal of Portfolio Management .
Don Tidrick
, Deloitte Professor of Accountancy, will receive the 2007-2008 National Author Award from the Association of Government Accountants (AGA). The award -- designated by the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Government Financial Management -- will be presented to Don at AGA's annual meeting in June 2007. Don was selected to receive the award based on his article "An Interview with Elmer Staats, Former Comptroller General of the United States: The First in a Three-Part Series," which appeared in the Journal of Government Financial Management in summer 2006. Visit the AGA Web Site.
Chang Liu, Associate Professor in the Department of Operations Management & Information Systems, was ranked in 2007 among the top 20 most productive researchers worldwide by Information & Management, which is regarded as one of the leading information systems journals. Chang's research on electronic commerce and IS usage was noted in the article. [Information & Management 44 (2007) 1-11.] Related Link