The Darden faculty brings their global perspectives and experience not only to the classroom but by also conducting research and convening thought leaders from around the globe. Below are some of the highlights of their recent global accomplishments:
HONORS & AWARDS:
- Saras Sarasvathy was awarded the Jubilee Professorship by the Swedish government to spend time at Chalmers University, Sweden’s premier technology university. This is a prestigious honor with four Jubilee Professorships awarded across all the sciences and social sciences in the country.
PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES:
- •This spring, Frank Warnock presented “The Two Components of International Portfolio Flows” at the CEPR’s Tenth Annual Workshop on Macroeconomics of Global Interdependence (MGI), which was held at Trinity Colege Dublin and sponsored by the Central Bank of Ireland. He also presented the sma paper at the NBER International Finance and Macro workshop as awell as at the IMF’s workshop on Capital Flows in Frontier and Emerging Markets.
- In April, Liz Demers attended the European Accounting Association’s annual congress in Glasgow, Scotland to present her study (co-authored with Jing Chen and Baruch Lev) entitled “Oh What a Beautiful Morning! Diurnal Variations in the Tone of Conference Call Communications.”
- In May, Jeanne Liedtka delivered a day-long session on design thinking to HSM (a private organization) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She also offered a session for alumni and another session exclusively for faculty at IAE in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Liedtka also delivered a design thinking session in Dublin working with IRDG (the industry research and development group) and a session in Madrid at IE.
- In May, Ed Freeman presented the 6th Henk Van Luijk Lecture “Business Ethics: A pragmatist Approach” at Nyenrode Business University in Breuklein, Netherlands. While at Nyenrode, Freeman also presented “Stakeholder Theory and the New Story of Business” to MSC students.
- In May, Sam Bodily presented “Multiplicative Utilities for Health and Consumption (co-authored with Casey Lichtendahl) at the International Conference on Decision Support System Technology, ICDISST 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia.
- Kieran Walsh presented “Asset Pricing and the One Percent” alongside A.A. Toda at the HEC Lausanne Macroeconomics Research Seminar at the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland on 6 May.
- The Department of Economics, University of Crete organized the 19th Annual International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance at the University of Crete in Rethymno 27-29 May 2015. Yiorgos Allayannis served as a keynote speaker at the conference and Kieran Walsh presented “Asset Pricing and the one Percent” with A.A. Toda.
- On June 4, Darden co-sponsored and hosted “Big Data: Little Ethics?” a conference in partnership with HWZ, which took place at HWZ in Zurich. Raj Venkatesan presented “Monetizing Data Products” at the event and Ed Freeman and Bobby Parmar presented mini case discussions on the topic of ethics and big data.
- Kieran Walsh presented “Portfolio Choice and Partial Default in Emerging Markets: A Quantitative Analysis” at the 13th INFINITI Conference on International Finance held at the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 8-9 June.
- Michael Lenox served as a keynote speaker at the Vienna Strategy Conference in Vienna, Austria in mid-June.
- In June, Ed Freeman presented “Business Ethics in 2015”, a public lecture at the Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) and also presented “Ethics and Human Resource Management” to Bachelors students at HSBA. While in Hamburg, Freeman also presented “Stakeholder Theory and the Humanities” to MSC Students in Sustainability at the University of Hamburg.
- Pedro Matos presented “Are Foreign Investors ‘Locusts’? The Long-term Effects of Foreign Institutional Ownership” at Ivey Business School (Canada), at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and at the Southwest University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China in June.
- Pedro Matos presented “International Corporate Governance Spillovers: Evidence from Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions” at the Hong Kong Baptist University International Corporate Governance Conference in China in June.
- Frank Warnock discussed “Explaining Liability Dollarization, Exchange Rate Exposure and Risk Management Policies in Latin American Companies” and served on a panel at the Inter-American Development Bank’s discussion seminar of its Research Network Project “Structure and composition of firms’ balance sheets”.
- Frank Warnock and Veronica Warnock presented a paper at the NBER 26th Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics in San Francisco on June 18-19.
- Beatrice Boulu-Reshef presented her paper “Organization Style, Leadership Strategy and Free-Riding” at the Rising Talents Seminar, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Universite Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
- Daniel Murphy presented “Welfare Consequences of Asymmetric Growth” at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Summer Forum workshop on Socio-economic Mobility, Inequality, and Growth.
JOURNALS
- “Learn or Die: Every Business Will Be in the Business of Learning” Ed Hess. The European Business Review.
- “How Do Private Equity Investments Perform Compared to Public Equity?” (Robert Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steve Kaplan) forthcoming, Journal of Investment Management.
- Burger, John, Raj Sengupta, Frank Warnock and Veronica Warnock (forthcoming). U.S. Investment in Global Bonds: As the Fed Pushes, Some EMEs Pull. Economic Policy (working paper version is NBER WP 20571). Claessens, Stijn, Livio Stracca.
- Frank Warnock (forthcoming). International dimensions of conventional and unconventional monetary policy. Journal of International Money and Finance. (introduction to a special issue).
- Frank Warnock was the guest editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance special issue on the international spillovers of conventional and unconventional monetary policy.
BOOKS
- Roberts, L.M., Wooten, L.P, Davidson, M.N., (Ed.) (forthcoming). Positive Organizing in a Global Society: Understanding and Engaging Differences for Capacity – Building, Taylor Francis Press.
- Burger, John, Frank Warnock and Veronica Warnock (forthcoming). Bond Market Development in Developing Asia. in From Stress to Growth: Strengthening Asia’s Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World, edited by Marcus Noland and Donghyun Park. Peterson Institute for International Economics.
- Jeanne Liedtka’s book Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers was published in both Russian and Portuguese.
