In this Issue:
> World Wise Network Update
> Attention International Alumni
> Alumni Achievments: Hilal Aytemiz
> Spotlight: Communications Class with Ev Dennis
> Faculty News: Awards, Conferences, & Publications
> Dean's Update
> Upcoming Events
> Kudos Corner
> Alumni Benefits: RAMPASS

Faculty News: Awards, Conferences, and Publications
We are proud to highlight the many recent accomplishments of our faculty. As you will see below, Fordham Graduate School of Business Administration professors are winning awards at preeminent conferences and being published in respected journals all over the globe.
Paul Baard
Baard presented “Coaches’ Communication Style and Team Performance” at the Self-determination Theory International Conference. He was also interviewed on the The Charlie Rizzo Show on the topic of Communication and Motivation.
John Carey
Carey’s recent publications include:
“Is TV Dead?”(with Gali Einav), TV Quarterly, Winter 2008.“Peer-to-Peer Video File Sharing: What Can We Learn From Consumer Behavior?” in Peer-to-Peer Video: The Economics, Policy and Culture of Today's New Mass Medium. “Expressive Communication and Social Conventions in Virtual Worlds,” ACM SIGMIS Database Journal.
“The Path To Ultrabroadband: Lessons From Consumer Behavior” appeared in Broadband, and “Expressive Communication and Social Conventions in Virtual Worlds” is forthcoming in the ACM Database Journal.
Sris Chatterjee
With An Yan, Chatterjee co-wrote “Using Innovative Securities under Asymmetric Information: Why do some firms pay with contingent value rights?” which was accepted for publication by the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Katherine Combellick
Combellick has consulted with two Kenyan small businesses, partnered with SERRV International (a nonprofit which markets third world products), and presented at K-Rep Bank and Equity Banks in Nairobi about microfinance partnerships with Fordham.
Everette Dennis
Studies in Communication Sciences published Dennis’ "Economics of Journalism in the October issue. Dennis also contributed the "Gannett Center for Media Studies, 1984-98" section to the new, three-volume in Encyclopedia of American Journalism History.
Shoshana Dobrow
Dobrow has received a number of research awards at major international research conferences. Her paper “The Development of Calling: A Longitudinal Study of Musicians” received Best Paper, Careers Division and Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, Careers Division at the Academy of Management Conference in Philadelphia. The paper was also one of three top finalists for the Academy’s William H. Newman Award, which is the All-Academy award for best paper based on a dissertation across all divisions. At the European Group for Organizational Studies Conference in Vienna, Dobrow was awarded Winner of Best Paper, Careers Stream for the same paper. It was also nominated for the conference Best Paper Award; which will be announced at the July 2008 conference in Amsterdam.
John Fortunato
Fortunato co-wrote “A communication plan for autism and its applied behavior analysis treatment: A framing strategy” with Jeff Sigafoos & Lisa Morsillo-Searls; it was published in Child and Youth Care Forum’s volume 36. With Jef Richards, Fortunato wrote “Reconciling sports sponsorship exclusivity with antitrust law,” which was included in Volume 8 of the Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law.
Wei Gao
“An Interest Support Based Subspace Clustering Approach to Predicting Repurchases,” which Gao co-wrote with Zhuo Yang and Olivia Sheng, was accepted for presentation at the Seventeenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems.
Hooman Estelami
Estelami’s book titled Marketing Financial Services was published by Dog Ear Publishing, LLC. Estelami also co-wrote “The Negative Effect of Policy Restrictions on Consumers’ Post-Purchase Reactions to Price-Matching Guarantees,” with Dhruv Grewal and Anne Roggeveen, and it has been accepted by the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. As well, the Journal of Services Marketing has accepted “An Exploratory Study of the Predictive Relationship between Employee Turnover and Customer Satisfaction,”co-written with Robert F. Hurley.
John Finnerty
Finnerty contributed two chapters to the Handbook of Corporate Finance, Chapter 35: “Securities Innovations” and Chapter 40: “Real Options.” Finnerty and Mary Kuan co-authored “When the Insurance Regulators Sneeze, the Hybrid Market Can Catch a Cold” which was published in the Summer issue of Journal of Insurance Regulation.
Yabing Jiang
Jiang published "Price Discrimination with Opaque Products" in the Journal of Revenue & Pricing Management.
Sertan Kabadayi
Kabadayi co-authored “The Performance Implications of Designing Multiple Channels to Fit with Strategy and Environment” with Nermin Eyuboglu and Gloria P. Thomas. The research paper was included in Vol. 71 of the American Marketing Association’s Journal of Marketing.
Evangelos Katsamakas
Katsamakas’ paper “Knowledge processes and learning options in networks: evidence from telecommunications” was published in Human Systems Management 26(3). “Disruptive innovation strategy effects on hard-disk maker population: a system dynamics study, co-written with N. Georgantzas is included in Information Resources Management Journal, 20(2). “A System Dynamics model of Open Source Software Development” was included in the Proceedings of 50th Systems Dynamics Society Conference, and “Why most open source development projects do not succeed?” was included in the Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. Both were co-written with Georgantzas.
Dawn B. Lerman
Lerman’s co-authored article, "Why Are You Telling Me This? An Examination into Negative Consumer Reviews on the Web" was published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing. Lerman also announced publication of her invited book chapter: Lerman, Dawn (2007), "Phonology, Morphology and Semantics: Towards a Fuller Conceptualization of Brand Name Meaning," Tina Lowrey (ed.), Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Sharon Livesey
Livesey delivered a paper with Julie Graham titled "Transforming the Firm: Corporate Eco-Talk and Eco-Collaboration" at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual meeting. At the Academy of Management annual meeting she delivered a paper entitled "Doing 'Good' in California’s Sacramento Valley—The Changing Landscape of American Farming.” Finally, Livesey and co-author, Molly Shearer delivered "Nor Any Drop to Drink? An Exploration of the U.S. Water Privatization Debate” at the Association for Business Communication annual meeting.
James R. Lothian
Lothian had two papers accepted for publication:
“The Signaling Hypothesis Revisited: Evidence from Foreign IPOs” by the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
"Real Exchange Rates over the Last Two Centuries: How Important Is the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Effect?" by the Economic Journal.
Paul McNelis
McNelis’ recent publications include:
"Central Bank Learning, Terms of Trade Shocks, and Currency Risk: Should Only Inflation Matter for Monetary Policy?" with Guay C. Lim, Journal of International Money and Finance.
"Inflation Targeting, Learning and Q-Volatility in Small Open Economies", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
McNelis’ recent papers in Books or Conference Volumes include: "Forecasting Inflation with Forecast Combinations: Using Neural Networks in Policy", in M. Salzano and D. Colander (eds.), Complexity Hints for Economic Policy.
Pam Moulton
Molton’s paper "Liquidity: Considerations of a Portfolio Manager" has been accepted for publication by Financial Management. Her co-author was Laurie Simon Hodrick of Columbia University.
Philip Napoli
Napoli and co-author J. Karaganis published “Toward a federal data agenda for communications policymaking” in CommLaw Conspectus: The Journal of Communications Law & Policy. With co-author S. Sybblis. Napoli published “Access to the media versus access to audiences: The distinction and its implications for electronic media regulation and policy” in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology.
RP Raghupathi
Raghupathi had a series of publications last year. “Exploring an MDA approach to developing information systems in health care,” co-written with A. Umar, was published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. “An Open Source Approach to Health Information Technology Development,” co-written with W. Gao, appeared in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. The e-Service Journal published “Interoperable Electronic Health Records Design: Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture,” co-written with S. Kesh. “Exploring a UML Profile Approach to Modeling Web Services in Health Care, “with Gao, was printed in the International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics. “Corporate Governance of Information Technologies: A Framework for Development,” was accepted by Communications of the ACM.
Travis Russ
Communication Education published Russ’ “Addressing college drinking through curriculum infusion in the communication classroom: A study of the use of an experiential learning intervention” (with L. C. Lederman and L. P Stewart). Leadership and Organization Development Journal published “Evaluating the impact of organizational self-assessment in higher education: The Malcolm Baldrige/Excellence in Higher Education framework,” which Russ co-wrote with B.D. Ruben, S. M. Smulowitz, and S. L. Connaughton. “Casting agency: Exploring the communicative consequences of prejudging on interpersonal relationships” was published by Communication Teacher.
Sinan Tan
"Labor Income Dynamics at Business Cycle Frequencies: Implications for Portfolio Choice", written with Anthony Lynch, NYU, was accepted into the American Finance Association’s 2008 Annual Meeting.
Amjad Umar
Umar received a Fulbright Senior Specialist award from the US Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) to help overseas institutions develop new academic programs and improve the current ones in telecommunications, information security and enterprise architectures.
An Yan
"Using Innovative Securities under Asymmetric Information: Why do Some Firms Pay with Contingent Value Rights?", co-written with Sris Chatterjee, will be published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. "A Theory of Contractual Provisions in Leasing", co-authored with Thomas Chemmanur of Boston College and Yawen Jiao of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will be published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
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