Darden Faculty International Reach in Winter 2014

The Darden faculty brings their global perspectives and experience not only to the classroom but by also conducting thought-leading research and convening thought leaders from around the globe.  Below are some of the highlights of the recent international reach of our faculty:

HONORS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS:

  • Ed Freeman received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Humboldt Conference on CSR in Berlin, Germany in October.
  • In November, Ed Freeman received an Honorary Doctorate in Economics (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland.
  • Rajkumar Venkatesan was recognized as top 5% of marketing strategy scholars measured in terms of impact in top tier marketing journals in the past 10 years.

PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES:

  • Gal Raz was invited to speak at the World Remanufacturing Summit in Rochester NY that had participants from all over the world on his research “Environmental and Economic Assessment of Remanufacturing for Product + Service Firms.”
  • In October, Liz Demers attended the Contemporary Accounting Research journal conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Andrew King, Senior Researcher at the Batten Institute and a PhD candidate at Darden, travelled to London in September to deliver a presentation on his work with Jeanne Liedtka on design thinking at the Design Management Institute’s annual academic Design Management conference. This year the conference explored “Design Management in an Era of Disruption.”
  • Ed Freeman presented “Rethinking the Purpose of the Corporation” at the 10th Politeia Forum at the University of Milano, Milan, Italy. Ed also presented the keynote address, “Stakeholder Theory and CSR: Where are we and where can we go,” at the Humboldt Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.  Additionally, Ed presented at INDEG-IULL in Lisbon and at the University of Tampere and Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Ed also conducted a Research Workshop with RESPMAN Group at Tampere University in Finland and was an opponent on the dissertation defense of Anna Heikkenen of Tampere University.
  • Pedro Matos presented “Asset Management within Commercial Banks Worldwide: International Evidence” at the Luxembourg Asset Management Summit (Luxembourg), at the University of Alabama, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). Pedro also presented “Foreign Portfolio Investment and Corporate Innovation” at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Kentucky, Manchester University (UK), University of Exeter (UK), University of Bristol (UK) and Virginia Commonwealth University.
  • Kieran Walsh presented “Asset Pricing and the One Percent (joint with Alexis Akira Toda)”’ at a Faculty Macroeconomic Seminar, University of Cambridge in November.
  • Veronica Cacdac Warnock was a featured speaker at the Australian Conference of Economists in Hobart Tasmania, where she presented “Building Sustainable Housing Finance Systems.”  She also presented “Developing Housing Finance Systems: A Global Perspective” at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore / International Monetary Fund Conference on Housing Markets, Financial Stability and Growth in Bangalore India. With Frank Warnock, she also presented “U.S. Investment in Global Bonds: As the Fed Pushes, Some EMEs Pull” at Banque de France.
  • Frank Warnock presented “Capital Flow Waves” at the Banco de México/IMF high level meeting in Mexico City on “Regional Macroeconomic Strengths and Challenges”.  In Hobart Tasmania, he presented “U.S. Investment in Global Bonds: As the Fed Pushes, Some EMEs Pull” at the Econometric Society Australasian conference. He presented both “The Many Forms of International Capital Flows” and “Housing Finance in Latin America: What is Holding it Back?” at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. In Wellington, New Zealand, Frank both served as a panelist in the session “Policy issues related to cross-border financial linkages in Asia and the Pacific” and presented “Cross-Border Portfolios: Assets, Liabilities, and Wealth Transfers” at the RBNZ-BIS Conference on Cross-border Financial Linkages.
  • Sean Carr,  Executive Director of the Batten Institute, and W. Bernard “Bernie” Carlson, Professor, Department of Engineering & Society, SEAS, travelled to King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia from 1-5 November 2014 where they gave presentations and led panels during the University’s 2nd Entrepreneurship Forum. Carr originally presented at the first conference at KFUPM in the fall of 2013.  This led to the Saudi delegation making a reciprocal visit to Darden in January 2014. The Saudis continue to learn as much as they can about creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem, with Sean now serving on KFUPM’s Global Advisory Board. Last year this engagement led to a Darden Case Writing & Teaching Workshop at KFUPM, led by Jim Clawson and Gerry Yemen. Outcomes from this burgeoning relationship for Darden this year may include custom Executive Education opportunities with regional corporate partners, such as Saudi Aramco (petroleum extraction & refining) and the Aramco Entrepreneurship Center.

JOURNALS

  • Frank Warnock is the editor of a special issue of the Journal of International Money and Finance on “International Dimensions of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy”.

BOOKS

  • Rebecca Goldberg and Elliott Weiss published a book The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement with CRC Press.

TEACHING MATERIALS