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Faculty Directory

Robinson's faculty lead the way in research and professorship. National media outlets frequently seek their remarks on hot button issues such as the economy, corporate ethics and marketing trends. Many of them have published books and regularly contribute to scholarly journals in addition to spearheading institutes and centers that tackle problems and encourage discussion in their fields. Our faculty's real-world, up-to-date knowledge benefits students, too, with powerful, relevant instruction. The impact comes full circle.

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Faculty Kudos

  • CIS Professor Lars Mathiassen is spearheading a project that has received $150,000 in funding for research in incorporating telehealth with stroke preparedness. Mathiassen and a post-doctorate researcher at CEPRIN, Rajendra Singh, are collaborating with Genentech, a pharmaceutical company that produces the stroke treatment medicine, tPA, which stands for tissue plasminogen activator and is used as a blood-thinning agent.
  • Diana Barber, Alfred Mettler, V. Kumar, Arun Rai, Perry Binder and Bala Ramesh were selected for Faculty Recognition Awards at the end of 2011.
  • Naveen Donthu and Alfred Mettler have been chosen as Outstanding Professors by the Fast-Track MS Marketing and Fast-Track MS Finance cohorts (November 2011).
  • Bill Bogner, Greg Henley, Beverly Langford, Chris Lemley and Galen Sevcik have been chosen as Outstanding Teachers by the PMBA cohorts graduating in December 2011.
  • Robert Gemmell of the Department of Managerial Sciences won a best paper award from the Decision Sciences Institute. The prize was presented at the DSI 2011 conference in Boston, Nov 19-22, 2011. Gemmell is a visiting lecturer and director of the Herman J. Russell International Center for Entrepreneurship.
  • Perry Binder, J.D. (RMI) presented a paper at the IEEE International conference (August 29, 30, 2011) in Trento, Italy: Social Networks and Workplace Privacy - Scenarios from a U.S. and EU Perspective. In summer 2010, Professor Binder taught Social Media Law in Northern Italy for a consortium of universities.
  • Recent Robinson graduate SeungHan Ro and real estate associate professor Karen Gibler were invited to speak at an International Real Estate and Housing Seminar July 15 in Seoul, Korea.  It was sponsored by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements and Konkuk University and attended my KRIHS research staff. KRIHS is a federal institute charged with developing long-term and short-term plans and policies for more efficient use of land resources and balanced spatial development in the Republic of Korea.
  • TEKES, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation has awarded a grant for SEVERI (Finns Move, But Where and Why?), a two-year research project into housing decision making based at Tampere University of Technology. Karen Gibler, Associate Professor in the Department of Real Estate, is the international faculty member on the research project and will visit in Tampere with the local researchers several times over the two-year term of the grant.
  • Milind Shrikhande has been selected for the Governor's Teaching Fellows Program as a Fellow for the Academic Year 2011-2012 and its Symposium held on the University of Georgia Campus on September 7-9, October 5-7, November 2-4, 2011 and February 1-3, March 7-9, and April 11-13, 2012. Shrikhande was nominated for this honor by Georgia State University President Mark Becker.
  • George H. Zanjani has been named inaugural holder of the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance.
  • Faculty in the Department of Real Estate have been ranked No. 4 among U.S. programs and No. 5 worldwide for research published in the discipline’s three leading journals, according to a study conducted by Jang C. Jin of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Eden S. Hu of the City University of Hong Kong.
  • Arun Rai, Regents’ Professor and Harkins Chair of Information Systems, has received the 2010 Fellow Award from the Association of Information Systems (AIS) in recognition of outstanding research, teaching and service contributions.
  • Naveen Donthu, Katherine S. Bernhardt Research Professor, has been named chair of the Robinson College Department of Marketing.
  • Irene Duhaime, recently promoted to the position of Senior Associate Dean in the Robinson College, has also been named a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.
  • Mark Chen, Conrad Ciccotello, Chip Ryan and former Ph.D. student Zinat Alam (now at LSU) won the Financial Management Association's Best Paper Award in Corporate Governance for "Does Distance from Headquarters Matter? Information Acquisition and Monitoring by the Board of Directors."
  • Jayant Kale, with former Ph.D. students Ebru Reis (now at Bentley) and Anand Venkateswaran (now at Northeastern) won the Southern Finance Association's Outstanding Paper Award in Corporate Finance for "Incentives in Managerial Pay and Voluntary Turnover."
  • The Journal of Strategic Information Systems named "Effects of information technology failures on the market values of firms," by Mark Keil and coauthors Anandhi Bharadwaj (Emory) and Magnus Mähring (Stockholm School of Economics) as the best paper published by the journal in 2009.
  • Shaun Wang received the 2010 Robert I. Mehr Award from the Journal of Risk and Insurance for his 2000 paper "Class Distortion of Operators for Pricing Financial and Insurance Risks." The award recognizes the JRI paper published 10 years ago that has best stood the test of time. With Shaun's win it's a Mehr Award three-peat for RMI. Rich Phillips and Marty Grace won in 2009; Rich won in 2008.
  • Milind Shrikhande received the Outstanding Professor Award from the 2010 Global Partners MBA cohort.
  • Alfred Mettler and Galen Sevcik received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the 2010 PMBA/Alpharetta cohort. Alfred was asked to give their graduation speech.
  • Ebb Oakley, Brandon Smith and Detmar Straub received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the 2010 PMBA/Peachtree-Dunwoody cohort.