Zhi Cao (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) co-authored a paper, "Carriers of Competing Institutional Logic: The Effect of Returnees on Corporate Boards on M&A," that was selected as a finalist for the IM Division Douglas Nigh Award in this year's Academy of Management annual meeting, which will be virtual this year.  The…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Robyn Raschke (Accounting) recently were included in a Forbes article, “Covid-19 The Opportunity For Business Schools To Think Creatively,” which featured the findings from their paper, “The Story Only Few Can Tell: Exploring the Disproportionately Gendered Professoriate in Business Schools…

Sutirtha Chatterjee (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation) recently was appointed as a senior editor of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). ISJ is an international journal promoting the study of, and interest in, information systems, and publishes articles about research, practice, experience, current issues, and debates.

Richard Gardner (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently was appointed to the editorial review board for the Academy of Management Journal. It is an A+ journal on the Lee Business School journal list and considered one of the premier journals in management. The appointment is a three-year term.

Sutirtha Chatterjee (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently was appointed as a senior editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. The flagship journal of the Association for Information Systems, it publishes the highest quality scholarship in the field of information systems. It is inclusive in topics, level,…

Nikkole Liesse (Lee Business) recently was named to the 2020 list of Women Inspiring Nevada by Vegas Inc. This year's 12 honorees include women who are doing inspiring work in business and philanthropy throughout the state.

Joel Wisner (Marketing and International Business) recently had the second edition of his textbook, Introduction to Operations Management: A Supply Chain Process Approach, published by Cognella.      

Mary Blankenship (Chemistry and Economics) recently co-authored "From the George Floyd Moment to a Black Lives Matter Movement, in Tweets" with Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution. They analyzed protest-related tweets between May 27 and June 4 to display the development of the Black Lives Matter movement. Blankenship is pursuing…

Mary Blankenship (Chemistry and Economics) co-authored "How Misinformation Spreads on Twitter" with Carol Graham, Brookings Institution Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow. The pair discuss that while social media has many advantages, information pollution is prevalent and in some cases "generate[s] more engagement than factually reliable…

Aaron Saiewitz (Accounting) was recently re-appointed to the editorial advisory and review board for Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT). It is an A-level journal on the Lee Business School Journal List and is widely considered the premier journal focused on auditing research. This is Saiewitz's second three-year term on the…

Vivek Sah (Lied Center for Real Estate) has been elected to serve a full five-year term on the American Real Estate Society (ARES) board of directors as an at-large member. ARES is one of the leading and premier academic real estate organizations in the world. 

Ian McDonough (Economics) has been selected to receive the Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy Article Award for "Criminal Incarceration, Statutory Bans on Food Assistance, and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households: Findings from a Partnership with the North Texas Food Bank." McDonough and co-…