The faculty members at Marshall have achieved significant milestones and recognition in various fields:
Business Communication
- Peter Cardon and Jolanta Aritz have a forthcoming paper revealing that business practitioners are rapidly embracing generative AI for professional tasks, viewing it positively for enhancing efficiency and creativity.
Data Sciences & Operations
- Rashmi Ranjan Bhuyan and Gourab Mukherjee received first prize for their presentation at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Conference at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. They also won second prize at the student poster competition in the 2023 Workshop of Statistical Network Analysis and Beyond (SNAB 2023).
- Rashmi Ranjan Bhuyan, along with Adel Javanmard and Gourab Mukherjee, earned a travel award for presenting their working paper at the 2023 International Indian Statistical Association’s annual conference.
- Andrew Daw has forthcoming research in Management Science proposing a customer-agent interaction model in support contact centers.
- Chamsi Hssaine and Daniel Freund had a paper accepted by the Conference on Web and Internet Economics, focusing on fair incentives for repeated engagement.
- Lorena Martin was invited to the National Institute of Health (NIH) / National Institute on Aging Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for a grant on Personalized OSA Treatment and Effects on AD Biomarkers and Cognition.
- Gourab Mukherjee organized and chaired an invited panel session on the evolving roles of business statistics in the Big Data Era at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto.
- Gourab Mukherjee, Rashmi Ranjan Bhuyan, and Shantanu Dutta had their paper published in Annals of Applied Statistics, introducing a joint modeling framework for predicting player responses in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games.
- Matteo Sesia had a paper accepted by the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, focusing on novelty detection with FDR control.
- Dennis Shen and co-authors had a paper accepted by Econometrica, evaluating the causal effect of a treatment through panel data analysis.
- Kathy Takayama moderated the “Women in Business” panel at the Women Veterans Alliance Unconference in Las Vegas.
- Angela Zhou had her paper accepted by the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, titled “Optimal and Fair Encouragement Policy Evaluation and Learning.”
- Angela Zhou received funding from Microsoft Research’s Accelerate Foundation Models Research Initiative for her research proposal on democratizing robust data analysis for causal inference with LLM-Based Interactive Optimization.
Finance & Business Economics
- Cary D. Frydman, Mete Kilic, and Constantin Charles PhD ’23 had a paper accepted by the Journal of Finance, discussing cognitive noise and its role in inelastic demand in the stock market.
- Emily Nix and co-authors have a paper forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, linking violence against women at work to economic consequences for victims, perpetrators, and firms in Finland.
Leventhal School of Accounting
- Maria Ogneva began her term as the editor of The Accounting Review.
Management & Organization
- Nan Jia, along with co-authors, had a paper accepted in Research Policy, exploring the impact of anti-dumping sanctions on foreign exports on innovations developed by affected foreign firms.
- Jino Lu PhD had a paper on electric vehicle technologies selected as a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the SMS Annual Conference in Toronto.
Marketing
- Nikhil Malik, along with co-authors, has a paper forthcoming in Information Systems Research (ISR), titled “When does Beauty Pay?”
- Stephanie Tully, along with co-authors, published research on consumer behavior and reasonable decision-making when facing financial constraints, as studied by the American Psychological Association.
These achievements and honors highlight the diverse and impactful contributions of Marshall’s faculty across various disciplines.
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