Honor Roll: outstanding Foster faculty receive major recognition

Avolio, the founding director of the Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking, ranks among the world’s top one percent of scholars in the natural and social sciences thanks to his prolific and influential work in authentic and transformational leadership development.

SIOP, a division of the American Psychological Association, recognizes Barnes’ meteoric rise to international authority on the effects of fatigue in the workplace. Then the prolific scholar, with 38 papers published since 2007, receives an award for his judgment of other scholars' contributions—from the principal journal in management.

The preeminent association in finance deems Bond’s 2015 paper—analyzing the utility of Wall Street’s lavish compensation packages—most exceptional in corporate finance. Bond is also co-editor of the Journal of Finance and president of the Finance Theory Group.

Chen’s 2013 paper demystifying the Chinese system of Guanxi—social networks and influential relationships that regulate business—is one of the most cited papers across all business disciplines. No wonder she also received the Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award from the International Association for Chinese Management Research this year.

Foster MBAs select Dewenter as the 16th winner of the school’s highest teaching honor, established in 1998 by PACCAR Inc.

The West Coast affiliate of the Academy of Management names Fehr among a handful of young b-school scholars who have demonstrated an exemplary record of research, teaching and service—and even greater potential.

Gilbert, past winner of the PACCAR Award for Excellence in Teaching, is recognized as one of the 40 best young MBA instructors in the world—by the world’s most influential MBA news site.

Harford’s paper finding that long-term investors improve corporate decision-making earns top honors from the SFA and from the International Center for Pensions Management.

The essential MBA news site counts Hill—recipient of the Foster School’s Charles E. Summer Outstanding Teaching Award this year—among the most inspiring, innovative and indelible business educators in the world today.

With his election, Karpoff joins a select company of giants in the field of finance that includes Nobel Prize winners Robert Engle, Merton Miller and William Sharpe, and Eugene Fama, the “father of modern finance.”

The preeminent management association pays tribute to the indelible career contributions of Lee: 90 papers published in top journals, co-author of seminal job embeddedness theory; past president of the Academy of Management; former editor of the Academy of Management Journal.

A career of exemplary scholarship earns Matsumoto a position of editorial leadership at the premier journal in the field of accounting.

Palmatier’s 2013 Journal of Marketing paper introducing the notion of corporate relationship velocity is one of the most-cited papers across all business disciplines. The Buzzell Award recognizes his significant contribution to marketing practice and thought.

The foremost association in marketing recognizes the significant and lasting contribution of Rutz’s 2011 paper on search behavior on the Internet and the value of paid search advertising.

After being named a Chang Jian Scholar by the Chinese Ministry of Education last year, Tan follows up by winning the most prestigious award in information systems from the discipline’s foremost association.

The essential MBA news site counts Young—winner of the PACCAR Award and professor-of-the-year distinction in nearly every Foster School program—among the most inspiring, innovative and indelible business educators in the world today.