BFRF Newsletter May 2007
Faculty News
“Adaptation and Organizational Connectedness in Corporate Radical Innovation Programs” by Donna Kelley, Entrepreneurship, has been accepted for publication in Journal of Product Information Management. This paper was funded by the BFRF in the spring of 2006. It was presented at an innovation conference at Northeastern in June 2006 and will be presented at the Academy of Management conference in August in Philadelphia.
Mary O’Donoghue, Arts and Humanities, has yet another book to her credit. Her newest poetry collection, Among These Winters, was published in May by Dedalus Press. UNESCO.org calls Dedalus Press “One of the most outward-looking poetry presses in Ireland and the UK." James Silas Rogers, Editor, New Hibernia Review, says of the collection: “Among These Winters opens with an epigraph from Rilke on the heartbreak of parting, and stays mindful of this theme... There are also poems that send you scurrying to the OED—only to be astonished by her gift for the perfect and surprising word. O’Donoghue takes a polymath’s delight in language that calls to mind Mahon, Muldoon and, especially, Auden, as she imaginatively claims the idioms of medicine, geology, myth, and science as her own—as in the chilling ‘Dauernarkose’ that uses mathematical terms to pity the “cure” of a schizophrenic woman. Yet a striking good humor suffuses the collection, and nowhere more so than in poems like ‘The Stylist’ and ‘Leading the Apes in Hell’, where she displays that distinctly Irish gift of setting out a comic proposition and letting it run its antic course.”
In addition, one of O’Donoghue’s one of the stories from the Small Home Truths manuscript: will appear in the literary journal Salamander 12.2 (May 2007). And, two poems will appear in Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.4 (May 2007).
Marketing Division Generates Numerous Publications
Grewal, Dhruv and Michael Levy (2008), Marketing, 1st Edition, Burr Ridge, IL: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. It is clear that marketing has changed significantly in the past few decades. So much so, that in the summer of 2004, the American Marketing Association redefined the word “marketing” itself. Grewal/Levy is the first Principles of Marketing text to be written from the ground up using the new definition and its value focus. In keeping with the value theme of the text, the authors met face to face with more than 150 instructors and walked through each chapter of the text and each supplement of the package in order to provide the most current, useful text and package on the market.
Grewal also recently published several articles including a number with Babson Colleagues:
Bolton, Ruth N., Dhruv Grewal and Michael Levy (2007), “Six Strategies for competing through services: An agenda for future research,” Journal of Retailing, 83 (1), 1-4.
Neslin, Scott A., Dhruv Grewal, Robert Leghorn, Venkatesh Shankar, Miriji L. Teerling, Jacquelyn S. Thomas and Peter C. Verhoef (2006), “Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Channel Customer Management,” Journal of Services Research, 9 (2), 95-112.
Palmatier, Robert, Rajiv Dant, Dhruv Grewal and Kenneth Evans (2006), “A Meta-Analysis on the Antecedents and Consequences of Relationship Marketing Mediators: Insight into Key Moderators,” Journal of Marketing, 70 (October), 136-153.
Roggeveen, Anne, Dhruv Grewal and Jerry Gotlieb (2006), “Does the Frame of a Comparative Ad Moderate the Effectiveness of Extrinsic Information Cues?,” Journal of Consumer Research, 33 (June), 115-122.
Lindsey-Mullikin, Joan and Dhruv Grewal (2006), “Market Price Variation: The Availability of Internet Market Information,” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 34 (2), 236-243.
Grewal, Dhruv and Joan Lindsey-Mullikin (2006), “The Moderating Role of the Price Frame on the Effects of Price Range and Number of Competitors on Consumers’ Search Intentions,” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 34 (1), 55-62.
Chandrashekaran, Rajesh and Dhruv Grewal (2006), “Anchoring Effects of Advertised Reference Price and Sale Price: The Moderating Role of Saving Presentation Format,” Journal of Business Research, 59 (October), 1063-1071.
Harris, Katherine E., Dhruv Grewal, Lois A. Mohr and Kenneth L. Bernhardt (2006), “Consumer Responses to Service Recovery Strategies: The Moderating Role of Online versus Offline Environment,” Journal of Business Research, 59 (April), 425-431.
Dessi Pachamanova, Mathematics and Science, had two articles published in the Journal of Portfolio Management over the last year. "Handling Parameter Uncertainty in Portfolio Risk Minimization" appeared in Vol. 32(4), Summer 2006, pp. 70-78, and "Robust Portfolio Optimization: Recent Trends and New Directions," with F. Fabozzi, P. Kolm and S. Focardi, appeared in Vol. 33(3), Spring 2007, pp. 40-48. Her book, Robust Portfolio Optimization and Management (with F. Fabozzi, P. Kolm and S. Focardi), J. Wiley & Sons, is scheduled to appear in print at the end of May. John M. Mulvey, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, in his review writes: “The topic of robust optimization (RO) has become 'hot' over the past several years, especially in real-world financial applications. … Anyone interested in these developments ought to own a copy of this book. The authors cover the recent developments of the RO area in an intuitive, easy-to-read manner, provide numerous examples, and discuss practical considerations. I highly recommend this book to finance professionals and students alike.” The book was supported by a major BFRF grant in the 2006-2007 academic year.
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Fall BFRF Proposal Dealine
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
There is just one due date for major awards, 2008-2009 course releases, and 2008 summer stipends. Application forms and copies of the Bylaws are online at k\faculty\BFRF\forms...
The BFRF has funds available for research-related expenses such as research assistants, editing, typing/transcribing, data collection, statistical consulting, and other necessary research-related expenses.
Requests of less than $2500 require a one-page Mini-Grant application.
If you have any questions, contact Susan Chern: Ext 5339 or
chern@babson.edu.
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BFRF 2007 Summer Stipends
The following faculty members have been awarded stipends to pursue BFRF sponsored research activities this summer.
Elaine Allen, Mathematics and Science/Entrepreneurship and Nan Langowitz, Management
“The Leadership Profile of Established Women Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts: 2000 – 2006”
This project will focus on an analysis of those women leaders who are also the founders of their firms, i.e. to look longitudinally at established women entrepreneurs in Massachusetts. Given the richness of the data set, we will be able to look at these women entrepreneurs and conduct analysis with respect to firm size, industry, ownership, CEO demographics and background, organizational and leadership characteristics, and business attitudes.
Craig Ehrlich, Accounting and Law
“May CPAs use exculpatory clauses in their letters of engagement?”
This research seeks to explore and clarify the issue of whether exculpatory clauses, now frequently showing up in accounting letters of engagement to reduce massive malpractice liability, will be enforced by the courts.
Elizabeth Goldberg, Arts and Humanities
“Cross-Currents/Emerging Paradigms,”
Chapter 16: Cambridge History of African American Literature.
The Cambridge History of African American Literature will present both a chronological description of African American literature in the United States (1600-2006), and an explanation of the convergence of oral and printed literary traditions in its development. This chapter will specifically address experimental literature that revises existing historical and literary tropes; that brings together various genres in one literary text; and that extends the borders of African American literature to emphasize connections among literatures of the African diaspora.
Shari Laprise, Mathematics and Science
“Investigation of the role of RASSF1A in the cell death response in cancer models”
The RASSF1A protein is believed to play a defensive role in cancer by regulating the suicide of pre-cancerous cells, and alterations to the RASSF1A gene have been detected in many human cancers. The goal of this project is to elucidate the function of RASSF1A in the cell death response.
Dessislava Pachamanova, Mathematics and Science
“Generalized Deviation Portfolio Allocation: Relation to Utility Theory and Empirical Evidence”
It has been well-documented that skewness in the distribution of future asset returns is an important factor in asset allocation. We suggest a new measure of asset skewness, generalized deviation. In contrast to other risk measures that have been suggested in the literature, generalized deviation can be naturally linked to expected utility maximization. We will explore other properties of the generalized deviation, and study the performance of the mean-generalized deviation framework in computational tests with simulated and market data.
The following faculty members have summer stipends as part of their 2007-2008 BFRF major award packages.
Mary Godwyn, History and Society
In preparation for next year’s work on her book manuscript, Narratives and Images of Minority Women Entrepreneurs, Godwyn will be conducting in-depth phone and/or face-to-face interviews throughout the summer. The interview data and work-in-progress will be presented at the American Sociological Association conference in August 2007.
Mary O’Donoghue, Arts and Humanities
O’Donoghue will begin work on Aquitania, a book of poetry in three parts – Wrecks, Transports and The Ship Beautiful – each part situated in sea-faring.
Ivor Morgan and Jay Rao, TOIM
Morgan and Rao have collected extensive data on positive, neutral, and negative service industries. During the summer, they will focus on 10-12 positive service companies in preparation for writing their book manuscript, Experience Innovators, this fall.
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Final Products Accepted
The Babson Faculty Research Fund has accepted Final Products from the following faculty members who have completed their BFRF sponsored research projects.
Marjorie Feld, History and Society
Lillian Wald: Ethnic Progressive
A second-generation German Jewish American, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) won international acclaim for her pivotal role in the creation of a more pluralist society and the American social welfare state. This study challenges conventional views of Wald and of the Progressive reform movement. Her innovative work on behalf of immigrants and industrial laborers was rooted in Jewish cultural identity, yet it expressed a universal vision at odds with the ethnic particularism with which she is now identified. By recovering Wald’s neglected legacy, Ethnic Progressive contributes to historical – and contemporary – understanding of such major issues as feminism, Zionism, immigration, and ethnic identity.
Ajaz Hussain, Economics
“Network Disequilibrium in the Post Deregulation U.S. Airline Industry: an Argument for Re-regulation?”
The US airline industry was deregulated in 1978 and three decades later it appears that expectations from deregulation have been fulfilled. Legacy carriers are incurring losses while `low cost carriers' (LCCs) are profitable and expected to displace legacy carriers. This paper takes a contrarian stance that while the deregulation of the US airline industry was warranted, its implementation overlooked several key aspects of the economics of airline networks. Based on Lederer and Nambimadom (1998), Hussain developed a model of airline network design to show that point-to-point/directed networks are optimal only over a small number of high demand routes. Put another way, point-to-point/directed networks cannot be optimal over the legacy carrier set of cities and demand patterns. He demonstrates that social welfare with legacy carriers operating HS networks and LCCs operating point-to-point/directed networks is lower than just legacy carriers operating HS networks, implying that social welfare would have been higher if entry by LCCs had been restricted. Without such restrictions, there is no equilibrium in network design which reduces social welfare in the long run.
Julie Levinson, Arts and Humanities
“Success Reassessed: Ambitious Women/Midlife Men”
This chapter focuses on work and professional achievement as the cornerstones of success. It investigates gender in Hollywood movies in relation to American ideologies about work and success. The first part of the chapter surveys both the representation of professional/managerial women in films from the 1930s to the present as well as the theoretical discourse that has formed around those films. The second part is a close analysis of seven recent films centered on midlife men, in which the cinema’s defining tropes of masculinity are questioned and complicated. Considered together, these movies dealing with professionally ambitious women and professionally disaffected men point to a crack in the consensus about what constitutes success and how gender, work, and success are intertwined.
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Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations Office (CFGR)
Wendy Silverman, Director, CFGR
The Office of Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations (CFGR) within Development and Alumni Relations at Babson College provides guidance and assistance to faculty and staff seeking funding from corporations, foundations, and government agencies to support their research and curricular development initiatives. Among the services provided are pre-award activities such as identifying and researching possible funding sources, assisting with cultivation of funding prospects and with proposal development and writing, particularly in the final draft stage, and ultimately with the submission of proposals. Post-award assistance is provided by both the CFGR and the Business Office.
Of course, not all of our proposals are funded. However, if you never apply, you never get funded. If you would like to explore the possibility of external funding or examine your research agenda please contact me at x5993 or silverman@babson.edu.
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Babson College Spnsored Programs Current Grants
The CFGR office is pleased to provide a summary of current grants to individual faculty members and Babson College.
| Project | Faculty/Administrator | Donor |
| Business Plan Research Fund | Mark Potter | St. Paul Travelers Foundation |
| Stridekick Research and Development | Brian Abraham, Todd Peavey M’06; Jim Biggins M’08 | National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance |
| Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Doctoral Consortium | Andrew Zacharakis | Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation |
| Research on Businesses Owned by Women-of-Color | Donna Stoddard | Center for Women’s Business Research |
| SEE – Europe | J.P. Jeannet | Gebert-Ruef Stiftung |
| On-line Learning Research | Elaine Allen | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| HP Technology for Teaching | David Kopcso/Bill Rybolt | Hewlett-Packard Co. |
| Technology and assessment in the undergraduate curriculum | David Kopcso/Bill Rybolt | Davis Educational Foundation |
| Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility | Dennis Hanno | Association of American Colleges and Universities |
| E-Commerce Research | P.J. Guinan | McGraw-Hill Companies |
| E-Commerce Research | P.J. Guinan | Metropolitan Life |
| On the Market Impact of Repurchase Trading | Laurie Krigman | NASDAQ Educational Foundation |
| Symposium for Engineering Entrepreneurship Educators | Jeff Timmons/Greene | National Science Foundation |
| Course development – Cryptology and Coding | Gordon Prichett | National Science Foundation |
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External Funding Information
Community of Science (CoS) Funding Opportunities
Babson, with assistance from the Babson Faculty Research Fund, has subscribed to the Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities database. This on-line service enables all faculty and staff to search for external funding support from any computer on campus by going to http://fundingopps.cos.com/. The COS Funding Opportunities is the largest, most comprehensive database of available funding to support research and other academic activities. It has more than 22,000 records representing over $33 billion in funding. Grants are available for work in all disciplines—physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health & medicine, arts & humanities—and for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, and capital or operating expenses. Searching is easy and intuitive.
You may also access the database from an off-campus computer by going to the COS Workbench at http://www.cos.com/login/join.shtml and click on Join. You will be asked to fill out information for a profile, and then will be able to select a username and password. If you have any problems or need more information you may contact Wendy Silverman, Director, Corporate, Foundation & Government Relations, at ext. 5993 or silverman@babson.edu.
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Grant Opportunities
If you are interested in teaching or doing research in a foreign country, the Fulbright Scholar Program provides that opportunity.
The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers short-term (2-6 weeks) academic opportunities; shorter grant lengths give specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant that works best with their current academic or professional commitments. The Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program allows for semester and year-long assignments in a wide variety of academic and professional fields around the world. Each year, 800 U.S. faculty and professionals go abroad. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
For more detailed information you may go to the CIES website listed below or contact Wendy Silverman in the CFGR office.
Deadline: August 1, 2007
Contact: CIES, 3007 Tilden Street, N.W., Suite 5L, Washington, D.C. 20008-3009
Phone: (202) 686-7877 Fax: (202) 362-3442
E-mail: apprequest@cies.iie.org
Web: www.cies.org
North American Case Research Association
2007-2008
Request for Proposals
For $10,000 Case Research Grants
The North American Case Research Association (NACRA) is a nonprofit, voluntary professional association whose mission is to promote excellence in case research, writing, and teaching in business and other administrative disciplines. NACRA will make at least two grants to support case research during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Submission Guidelines are available at www.nacra.net.
All submissions must be received by June 1, 2007.
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