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FROM THE ASSOCIATE DEAN

Good Grief

By far my worst day as a professional educator was my first class after 9/11. It wasn’t because of my uniquely held emotions. Like everyone, I was shocked, confused, angry, and incredibly sad. It was because of what I did, or rather, because of what I didn’t do … Read more

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

Happiness and Grief Are a Paradox Worth Embracing

If you are reading this while carrying the weight of loss, I want to begin by acknowledging something important: Grief is not a flaw to be corrected. It is the natural, human price we pay for having loved … Read more

Awards

This month, Kathleen Li was named a finalist for the John D.C. Little Best Paper Award, and Raji Srinivasan was listed in the Top 25 for Author Productivity in the Premier AMA Marketing Journals (2015-2024).

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Ph.D. Student Spotlight

Arun Datta is finishing his dissertation in strategic management at McCombs. He just returned from presenting a paper at the Academy of Management meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

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A Special Thank-You!

Thank you to all the faculty who participated in the Momentum 2025 faculty and staff meeting on Aug. 14. A special thanks to Dean Lillian Mills, Ethan Burris, Caitlin Mullaney, and the entire dean’s office team.

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Upcoming Events

Join us throughout the month of September for upcoming research events, lunches, and seminars.

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Research Funding Opportunities

Opportunities include the Fall 2025 McCombs Research Excellence Grants call for proposals and the McCombs Undergraduate Research Assistant Program.

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Just Accepted Journal Publications

Ramesh K.S. Rao (Finance)
“The Impact of Subjective Financial Knowledge on Perceived Retirement Adequacy for US Working Adults”
The Journal of Wealth Management

Caroline Bartel and James L. Ritchie-Dunham (Management)
“Demographic Variation in Social Support and Intimate Friend Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis”
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology

Jaime Schmidt (Accounting)
“The Consequences of Dividing Responsibility for an Audit Engagement”
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory

John William Hatfield (Finance)
“Et Tu, Agent? Commission-Based Steering in Residential Real Estate”
Iowa Law Review

Indranil R. Bardhan (IROM)
“Hospital Productivity and Value in Pay-for-Performance Healthcare Programs”
Health Systems

Guoming Lai (IROM)
“Platform Financing vs. Trade Credit for Lending to Third-Party Sellers”
Management Science

Yifan Yu (IROM)
“The Pleasant Visual Path to Review Helpfulness: Picture-Evoked Emotional Valence and Picture-Text Alignment”
MIS Quarterly

James L. Ritchie-Dunham (Management)
“An Exploratory Cross-National Analysis of the Childhood Predictors of Inner Peace in the Global Flourishing Study”
Scientific Reports

Jason Duan and Vijay Mahajan (Marketing)
“Push and Pull: Modeling Mobile App Promotions and Consumer Responses”
Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Ashish Agarwal and Andrew B. Whinston (IROM)
“The Effect of Popularity Cues and Peer Endorsements on Assertive Social Media A
Information Systems Research

Metin Sengul (Management)
“Ownership as a Bundle of Rights: Antecedents of the Wedge Between Control and Cash-Flow Rights Within Firms”
Strategy Science

Ronghuo Zheng (Accounting)
“Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers’ Information Acquisition Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?”
Journal of Accounting Research

Ashish Agarwal and Guoming Lai (IROM)
“On-Demand Healthcare Platforms: Impact of Question and Answer Service on Online Consultations and Offline Appointm
Information Systems Research

Rui Gao (IROM)
“A Short and General Duality Proof for Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization”
Operations Research

Francisco Polidoro Jr. (Management)
“Deeply Rooted and Versatile? Knowledge Scouts and External Knowledge Integration in Multidivisional Firms”
Academy of Management Journal

Andrew D. Gershoff (Marketing)
“A Sign of Divine Intervention: Supernatural Interpretation of Coincidence Lowers Consumer Punishment of Unethical Firms”
Journal of Consumer Behaviour

Yan Leng (IROM)
“Beyond Pairwise Network Interactions: Implications for Information Centrality”
Information Systems Research

Patrick Brockett (IROM)
“Health Insurance Efficiency: The Impacts of COVID-19, Market Segments, and Operational Strategies”
North American Actuarial Journal

Jaime Schmidt (Accounting)
“Can Combining Judgment Decomposition and Notetaking Improve Group Auditors’ Sensitivity to Qualitative Risk?”
Contemporary Accounting Research

John William Hatfield (Finance) and Richard Lowery (Finance)
“Collusion in Brokered Markets”
The Journal of Finance

Ehud I. Ronn (Finance)
“Testing an Arbitrage Strategy Between FLOT Floating Rate Bond ETF and LQDH Interest Rate Hedged Corporate Bond ETF Securities”
The Journal of Fixed Income

Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa (IROM)
“Organizational Learning Lens: Does Intelligent Technology Make Organizations More or Less Intelligent?”
Strategic Organization

James L. Ritchie-Dunham (Management)
“Demographic Variation in Inner Peace Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of the Global Flourishing Study”
Journal of Happiness Studies

 James L. Ritchie-Dunham (Management)
“Measuring Meaning in Life by Combining Philosophical and Psychological Distinctions: Psychometric Properties of the Comprehensive Measure of Meaning”
The Journal of Positive Psychology

Gizem Yalcin Williams (Marketing)
“Algorithmic Pricing: Implications for Marketing Strategy and Regulation”
International Journal of Research in Marketing

Maytal Saar-Tsechansky (IROM)
“A Machine Learning Framework for Assessing Experts’ Decision Quality”
Management Science

Anima Nivsarkar [Ph.D. Student, McCombs] (Marketing)
“Fit to Persuade: The Role of Source-Appeal Congruence in Cancer Screening Decisions”
Journal of Marketing

Daniel Neuhann (Finance), Mahyar Sefidgaran [Ph.D. Student, McCombs] (Finance), and Michael Sockin (Finance)
“Portfolio Regulation of Financial Institutions with Market Power”
The Review of Financial Studies

Ashish Agarwal and Anitesh Barua (IROM)
“Demand-Side Effects of Open Innovation: The Case of Cryptocurrency Forking”
Management Science

Rohan Ghuge (IROM)
“Nonadaptive Stochastic Score Classification and Explainable Half-Space Evaluation”
Operations Research

James L. Ritchie-Dunham (Management)
“Demographic Variation in Balance of Life Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of the Global Flourishing Study”
Applied Research in Quality of Life

Wayne D. Hoyer (Marketing)
“Beyond Strong Bonds: A Typology of and Motivational Insights Into Online Brand Defenders”
Journal of Interactive Marketing

Andrew D. Gershoff (Marketing)
“Consumer Flexibility and the Effectiveness of Limited Time Offers: The Role of Psychological Reactance”
Journal of Business Research