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Texas Christian University (Neeley)

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Texas Christian University (Neeley) 2900 Lubbock Avenue
TCU Box 298530
Fort Worth, TX, 76129
United States
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Demographic Information

Number of full-time MBA students (2011): 

59

Number of part-time MBA students (2011): 

50

Total duration of full-time MBA program: 

22 months

MBA faculty (Fall 2010): 

106

Females as percent of student body: 

30%


Description of MBA Program: 

An MBA degree from Neeley School of Business at TCU is more than the sum of semester hours. It is a living and learning experience that grows from our mission: to educate individuals to think and act as ethical leaders and responsible citizens in the global community.

 

We intentionally design and implement a learning experience that unleashes human potential and allows students to recognize and pursue opportunity, have confidence in their dreams, and create value in whatever career path they choose to follow.

 

Our faculty members are talented educators who help students discover new ways of looking at business, the world and themselves. They are highly respected researchers who are called upon to share their expertise at conferences and seminars around the world, and as consultants for business and nonprofit organizations. They make sure their classes reflect the most current business, social, ethical and environmental approaches as well as the innovation, information and technology that drive business forward.

 

The Neeley School of Business at TCU provides unique opportunities for TCU MBA students to think outside boundaries, shift resources, discover trends, eliminate obstacles, and flourish where others may not.

  • The Values and Ventures Program supports students who develop business plans that integrate personal ethics and corporate values with innovation and creativity associated with commercializing appropriate intellectual property.
  • Study Abroad courses give our students first-hand insight into how the business world is intricately linked, something they can’t get sitting in a classroom. Our students travel to China, Chile, Africa and other emerging markets to broaden their minds and challenge their assumptions. Neeley students learn that businesses and people can thrive, even in challenging economic environments. The Neeley Social Entrepreneurship Consulting Group assists women textile makers in Guatemala, provides food and soccer equipment for South African children in poverty situations, and issues micro-loans to women in the Dominican Republic who live in poverty and want to start a business to better their situations.
  • Neeley and Associates Consulting projects give students real experience in transforming businesses. Examples include: assessing supply chain best practices for Lockheed Martin, building an endowment to prevent family violence for Safehaven, or optimizing sales in Wal-Mart’s new “clean store” concept for PepsiCo.
  • The Educational Investment Fund, founded in 1973 and operated by TCU MBAs and undergraduates, is a $1.2 million endowment that has allowed students to learn social responsibility alongside money management. To date, students managing the fund have contributed more than $2.5 million to the Baylor School of Medicine and the Texas Christian University General Fund. Alumni of the Educational Investment Fund used their personal funds – many contributing $100,000 and more – to create a $1.5 million endowed chair for the Finance Department. There are also plans for a scholarship funded by alumni.
  • The Graduate Career Service Center works year-round to enhance student marketability. Students expand their professional toolkit by working with leadership coaches, networking with CEOs and polishing presentation skills through our Center for Professional Communication.


How does the MBA program 'walk the talk' of social and environmental impact?: 

TCU’s mission is to educate individuals to think and act as ethical leaders and responsible citizens in the global community.

Our school colors may be purple and white, but we are committed to green.

  • Upgrades and improvements to older campus buildings, landscaping and maintenance practices make TCU more efficient and sustainable resulted in lower operating costs, reduced resource consumption and improved sustainability of the campus.
  • Sherley Hall Dormitory was the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold-rated project for a renovated dormitory in Texas.
  • All new major buildings on the TCU campus will be designed to achieve LEED Silver rating or better.
  • The TCU Major Projects/Facilities Planning Department has five LEED certified professionals on staff.
  • TCU has an ongoing program for upgrading utility equipment in all facilities to state-of-the-art, energy efficient systems.
  • TCU is committed to operating all campus facilities in a manner that conserves energy and resources without compromising the comfort and health of students and faculty.
  • The university has an aggressive recycling program and all faculty, staff and students are encouraged to participate.

Whether it is through a service-learning class, student organization, or individual opportunity, TCU Horned Frogs are serving their community.

  • TCU LEAPS, an annual, campus-wide community service event that emphasizes the TCU tradition of service, impacting the community, and uniting our community. This is not your run-of-the-mill community service. Students, faculty and staff participate in physically, mentally and emotionally stimulating and challenging projects. TCU LEAPS is one of the finest opportunities at TCU to work alongside fellow classmates, professors, and staff of different cultural backgrounds. Every year, we make a difference for the city of Fort Worth and its people in need.
  • Center for Community Involvement and Service-Learning helps students, faculty and staff get out in the community to make a difference. Examples include:
  1. MLK Day of Service: In its second year, MLK Day of service grows to nearly 200 participants.
  2. Service-Learning in the Latino Community, a new course helping students improve their Spanish while simultaneously serving the community. Students are working the following community agencies: Cancer Care Services, Catholic Charities, First Command Educational Foundation, JPS Health Network, and SafeHaven of Tarrant County.
  3. SOAP: Student Outreach Against Poverty is a student organization that works with Buckner Child and Family Services to empower low income families in the area.
  4. Meals On Wheels: Students Take the Wheel allows students, faculty and staff to form relationships with one another while serving the older adult community.
  5. Fortress Youth Development Center - After being introduced to Fortress Youth Development Center through a service-learning course, TCU Defensive End and Communications major Jerry Hughes continues to volunteer working with youth.

TCU Horned Frogs are leaders in all walks of life.

  • The leadership Center takes their cue from TCU’s Mission Statement, preparing individuals to become ethical leaders and responsible citizens in the global community by providing opportunities to create positive change in themselves, on campus, in the community, and around the world.
  1. Leadership seminars offered every semester
  2. Chancellor’s Leadership Program (CLP)
  3. 2011 State of the Leadership Conference focuses on the topics of Community Renewal and Social Entrepreneurship
  4. Strengths-based training

Academic Department

Course Name: Accounting for Management Planning and Controls
Instructor: Dr. In-Mu Haw

This course includes discussion on topics related to ethical and social issues: for example, students analyze a firm's performance evaluation system (ethics of CEOs/CFOs' decision making to enhance compensation) and discuss tax avoidance practices of multinational firms through favorable transfer pricing.

Additionally, the course is a study of the basic concepts, measures, techniques, and approaches of managerial accounting. The emphasis is on understanding and developing accounting and economic concepts for decision making within profit-making and not-for-profit organizations related to such topics as short-term and long-term planning, performance measurement, transfer pricing, and traditional and contemporary product costing systems. The application of the basic concepts and approaches to small and large-sized domestic and global organizations is emphasized. Where appropriate, contemporary managerial accounting issues are stressed.

Course Name: Advanced Financial Management
Instructor: Dr. Thomas Moeller

This course covers applications of theory of corporate finance to real-world problems through case studies. An investigation of leadership case studies, global impact case studies, corporate governance issues and the effects on the social fabric of countries, diversity studies, public policy in corporate governance and bankruptcy (specifically an energy company) and restructuring. Topics include financial analysis and planning, forecasting the financial needs of a firm, capital expenditure analysis, capital structure and distribution policies, merger and acquisition analysis, corporate restructuring, and risk management. Emphasis is placed on the effects of the firm's financial and operating decisions on the value of the firm's securities in financial markets.

Course Name: Brand Management
Instructor: Dr. Robert Leone

A brand is often a company's most important asset and as such has received immense attention in recent years. This course will provide an overview about branding, and the ways that brands acquire and sustain value in the marketplace. This is a course with a decided point-of-view on the nature of brands and the skills and tasks this requires of the brand manager. We will consider brands as co-creations of consumers and marketers. If brand management is a collaborative process of meaning management, the job of the brand manager then becomes one of navigating the meaning making processes, attaining meanings that resonate therein, and to managing these meanings deftly through time so as to maximize brand value, capture opportunities, and diminish risk. Cases, as microcosm of brand management, deliver the power off real-world, applied setting and reveal concepts and frameworks that can inform management thoughts and actions.

Students do an exercise on "Brand You" --what they would offer a company that another company would not. Leadership ability is a major factor. Environmental management is discussed concerning packaging and the environment. Global branding and the importance of understanding the problems with a "one-size fits all" strategy. Ethics is investigated in advertising, packaging and pricing.

Course Name: Business Ethics
Instructor: Dr. Stuart Youngblood

This course focuses on the management of ethical conduct and social responsibility in business organizations. Students learn how to think about and manage their own ethical conduct, the conduct of the people who work for them, and the social responsibility of the organization. Two types of leadership, "quiet" and "bold" are examined. Students review four cases of leadership related to making ethical decisions and implementing specific actions.

A social responsibility model is covered and applied to cast studies.

Environmental management is discussed through case vignettes from the textbook.

Students learn to apply decision-making tools to ethical dilemmas from three perspectives: as an individual actor, as a manager, and as a senior executive. Ethical dilemmas specifically examine diversity issues within a human resource management framework.

Global impact issues are specifically examined through the review of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, discuss cultural relativism, and utilize global case studies.

Learning occurs through assigned readings, audiovisual presentations, discussions, in-class case discussions, and written assignments.

Course Name: CEO Forum
Instructor: Dr. John Baum

The CEO Forum has six CEO's in the class and all of them will talk about the ethical principles that they rely on to make critical decisions in their organizations. They also talk about the ways in which they engage in social responsibility. They are typically proud of these activities and glad to talk about them with the students. Environmental issues are becoming more important, and content varies with the industry that the CEO comes from. This is a course about leadership at the highest level and these are important issues to all of the CEO's that we invite to participate.

CEOs discuss ethical principles that they rely on to make critical decisions in their organizations and how they engage in social responsibility. Upon completion of the course students will have more than an intellectual understanding of leadership. They will understand the requirements for self-leadership and leading others. They will also learn what is necessary to successfully lead an organization. The course involves class presentations by CEO's; active verbal interaction and engagement by students; submission of written analyses or reflections on the approaches, styles, and knowledge gained from CEO presenters, and in-depth written reports and presentations on a prominent CEO.

Course Name: Challenges and Opportunities for Business
Instructor: Dr. Homer Erekson, Dr. Laura Meade

This interactive class will explore what is happening in business today through the “lens” of sustainability. Systems thinking, life cycle analysis, sustainability metrics and sustainable business strategies will be discussed. The course objectives are: to introduce graduate students to state-of-the-art business sustainability models; examine the role of systems and the triple bottom line as it applies to business; investigate various models for sustainable new product development such as life-cycle analysis (LCA) and cradle-to-cradle (C2C) business development; explore the role of sustainability in the supply chain; examine the role of measurement in the global economy and how that translates to business metrics; investigate sustainable branding issues such as the role of sustainability in brand equity, greenwashing, green company rankings, and environmental labeling; to provide an opportunity for students to “learn by doing” by applying course concepts and material through an interactive sustainability decision exercise and sustainability company debriefs.

Course Name: Consulting Applications
Instructor: Dr. Larry Peters, Dr. Edward Riefenstahl

This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to be engaged in a real consulting project for an external client. The goal is to provide students with an experiential opportunity that allows them to understand what it means to work in the service of a client's needs. In addition, students will develop a grounded understanding of consulting and consulting processes that will allow them to organize and generalize their learning from the project work.

Many consulting projects are a part of non-profit organization planning: fundraising, strategic planning, and development of endowment structure.

Course Name: Contemporary Accounting Issues
Instructor: Dr. Ray Pfeiffer

Study of various aspects of accounting theory and applications. Normally, topics include theoretical frameworks, alternative models, regulation, rule development, and the demand for accounting information.

After completing this course, students will:

have an improved understanding of the key financial reporting issues affecting auditors, preparers, financial analysts, investors, standard setters, regulators, and others;

see auditing, regulation, auditing and other institutions as arising to solve economic problems rather than ends themselves;

be able to intelligently analyze and discuss current accounting debates, understand the motives of the various parties to the debate, understand the implications of various alternatives for different stakeholders, and forecast the outcome of policy and regulatory processes; appreciate the differing perspectives that stakeholders from other countries have about accounting and why those differences exist; and understand and appreciate the nature of accounting standard setting as decision making under uncertainty and in the face of multiple competing strategic opponents.

Course Name: Economic Environment of Business
Instructor: Dr. Ira Silver

This course investigates issues including: stakeholder wealth maximization versus stockholder wealth maximization; energy price instability and its negative impact on conservation; ties between economic outcomes in different countries through exchange rates; ethical issues such as accounting scandals in 2001 and inappropriate incentives in the mortgage market in 2005-07 leading to recessions; the social impact of income inequality and social cohesion; differing home bias as a function of diversity affecting import propensity; fiscal and monetary policy and economic growth; energy stocks as a principal cause of recessions/expectations driving energy prices sharply up and down; anti-trust legislation impacting corporate profit maximization and market structure; minimum wage and poverty; Minsky theory of financial instability in which the financial system goes through slow movement from stability to crisis.

Additionally, this course is a contemporary, real-world course focusing on the economic environment within which today's businesses operate, taught from the perspective of the practicing manager. Content is both national and international in flavor. Highlights include study of the general economy, market structure and public policy, economic analysis of industries and business cycles, and economics of the firm. International comparative advantage is stressed. The course is taught through the use of materials, tools, and databases readily available to the manager.

Course Name: Educational Investment Fund I / II
Instructor: Dr. Stanley Block, Dr. Larry Lockwood

Participation in the operation of the Educational Investment Fund student managed investment portfolio including investments in energy, health care, utilities, technology and communications. Within the EIF portfolio, we spend time examining energy companies specifically. We own shares in a few, so we examine all issues related to the energy industry.

We stress leadership in the EIF through meetings with alumni and in presentations to the trustees of the William C. Conner Foundation. EIF students make presentations to these groups. Also, the EIF members practice leadership by recruiting students into the incoming classes of the EIF. This is done by evaluating candidate qualities, essays that they turn in, and via interviews that candidates hold with the current EIF members.

Global impact is part of the EIF process as we examine how companies fit into the global economic market place. We examine strength of products and services for exports, effects of currency exchange, when forecasting cash flows generating by companies, especially those that compete globally.

Sustainability is an underlying issue for some of our discussions, but especially as it pertains to the energy industry. For instance, this semester we examine First Solar -- a solar panel maker. In examining that company, we discussed issues related to environmental sustainability.

Ethics is stressed in writing research reports (stock analyses) that are unbiased and objective.

Equally important to the lessons in money management are the lessons in Philanthropy. The students become more aware of the importance of charitable giving than any other student group or organization on campus.

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Type of Offering

Tandy Executive Speaker Series

Four times a year, Dean Homer Erekson hosts prominent CEOs from various industries to share their insights, challenges and successes with area business professionals and Neeley School students. In a talk-show format, Dean Erekson’s guests talk candidly and openly about their business, experience, ethics, corporate social responsibility, global connectivity, ethical issues, environment impact, diversity and leadership initiatives. The CEOs take questions from the audience and answer them, even the tough ones from discerning TCU MBA students.

Recent guest Michael Lee Stallard, author of “Fired Up or Burned Out,” talked about creating “Connection Cultures” that increase each employee’s sense of connection to their work, their colleagues and their overall organization. He described new research and case studies that prove that connection equals flourishing and life, and disconnection equals dysfunction and death. This applies to both individuals and organizations. In addition to speaking at the business breakfast, Mr. Stallard spoke to students in leadership programs and met directly with Neeley MBA students.

Other recent guests include: Barry Salzberg, CEo or Deloitte; John Garrison Jr., President and CEO or Bell Helicopter; Tom Curley, President and CEO of The Associates Press; Bill Lively, President and CEO of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee; and Dick Evans, Chairman and CEO of Cullen/Frost Bank.

CEO Visit -Frito-Lay
Type: Neeley Connections

TCU MBA students do a lot of work outside the classroom, but the Graduate Career Service Center is taking them even farther.

TCU MBA students traveled to Plano to Frito-Lay as part of Neeley Connections, where hiring executives present business issues to TCU MBA students for their feedback. Last year, 11 businesses came to campus to participate. This year, the MBA students are going to them.

“Our students interact with potential employers in a format that allows them to spontaneously demonstrate their business reasoning and problem-solving skills, while seeing first-hand what the company‘s culture is like,” said LaTanya Johns, Director of the Graduate Career Service Center. “It enhances the hiring experience on both sides.”

Neeley MBA alum, Ralph Goedderz, hosted the students at Frito-Lay. He took them to the SMART Lab (Shopper Market and Research Testing), and asked for their feedback on a specific opportunity. The MBAs were divided into two teams, each consisting of a C-level executive from other participating companies. After some discussion, the teams presented their analysis to the Frito-Lay execs.

Neeley Connections isn’t the only opportunity that takes TCU MBAs to companies. TCU’s MBA Marketing Association traveled to Austin to visit Focus Brands, Adlucent, Gemalto, Live Strong, GSD&M, DMX and Whole Foods. A few weeks later, the MBA students in the Capital Markets Club headed to Houston to visit Deloitte Consulting, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.

“At Neeley, we believe that it is vital to the MBA experience that our students get to examine the companies they wish to work for, meet the executives and employees, and experience the company culture. And it’s equally important for the companies to witness our students in their organization’s environment,” said Bill Cron, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.

Neeley Speaker Series
Type: Neeley Speaker Series

A Few Recent Neeley Speakers

Chris Kleinert

Chairman, Hunt Investment Group

Topic: Corporate Entrepreneurialism

Chris Kleinert is chairman of Hunt Investment Group and director of Hunt Realty Investments, Inc., both of which are subsidiaries of Hunt Consolidated, Inc. Hunt Consolidated’s other business interests include oil and gas exploration and production, petroleum refining, electric power generation and transmission, ranching and agriculture.

Lauri L. Curtis

Vice President, Diversity and Leadership Strategies

American Airlines Lauri Curtis was named Vice President, Diversity and Leadership Strategies for American Airlines, Inc. in August 2010. In this role, she oversees all aspects of diversity and talent management for the airline.

Jay Meadows

Co-Owner, CEO and President of Rapid Reporting Verification Company

Meadows, an eminent fraud expert, has spearheaded many of the efficiencies the mortgage industry currently enjoys. Under Meadows’ direction, Rapid Reporting became the first private sector company in the United States to initiate a program with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to authenticate Social Security numbers against the SSA database. After three years of lobbying in Washington, D.C. for improved identity fraud prevention methods, Meadows launched DirectChek, which provides a match/no match of an authorized name and Social Security number to the SSA database, as well as valuable public and private database information, creating the most definitive identity verification product available today. A frequent speaker at industry meetings and fraud conferences, he is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, the MBAA Fraud and Ethics Subcommittee and various other professional associations.

Thomas Hund--Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, BNSF Railway

Thomas Hund assumed his current position of executive vice president and chief financial officer of Burlington Northern Santa Fe in December 2000. BNSF Railway is one of North America’s leading freight transportation companies operating on 32,000 route miles of track in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is one of the top transporters of consumer goods, grain, industrial goods and low-sulfur coal that help feed, clothe, supply, and power American homes and businesses every day. BNSF and its employees have developed one of the most technologically advanced, and efficient railroads in the industry. And we are working continuously to improve the value of the safety, service, energy, and environmental benefits we provide to our customers and the communities we serve.

Maribess Miller--Area Managing Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Dallas

Maribess Miller is a Partner of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Dallas office. Maribess joined the Firm in 1975 and has been a partner since 1984. She has experience in auditing and consulting in the healthcare, energy and technology fields.

Maribess is immediate past chair of the Board for the Texas Health Institute. She is on the Institute's panel that developed a Shared Vision for healthcare in Texas. In addition, she served on the Greater Dallas Chamber Healthcare Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Executive Committee for the Chamber Board. She also serves on the Boards of Dallas Medical Resource, Dallas Center for Performing Arts Foundation, The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, the Better Business Bureau, the Dallas Citizen's Council, the Dallas Symphony Association, the Crow Family Foundation, Inc., and the International Women's Forum. Maribess is a member of the Board of Texas Christian University's Neeley School of Business. Maribess is a past chair of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Principles and Practices Board, the AICPA Healthcare Committee, the Texas Society's Healthcare Committee, the YMCA, and is past chair of the Ft. Worth Chapter of the TSCPA.

More Neeley Speakers:

Monte Ford--Senior Vice President and CIO, American Airlines

Michael P. Friezo

Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets - Americas, Deutsche Bank

Randall Boyd--President of R.C. Boyd Enterprises, LLC

Jay Vandenbree--President, SONY Electronics Consumer Sales

Denise Lynn

Vice President, Diversity and Leadership Strategies

American Airlines, Inc.

David H. Diesslin

Founder, Diesslin & Associates Inc.

Michael McElhenie Ph.D.

Managing Director, Metatropia Institute LLC

Senior Associate, Teleos Leadership Institute LLC

Henry Joyner

Senior VP - Planning, American Airlines

Ronald Parker

Senior VP, Human Resources

PepsiCo North America

Tim Pulido

Chief Executive Officer, Shakey's USA

Scott Klososky

Vice President of Production for iBEAM Broadcasting® Corporation and founder/CEO of webcasts.com.

Devon Herrick

Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis

John Dini

Principal, MPN Inc.

Co-owner, TAB-San Antonio

SONY MBA Neeley Sales and Marketing Strategy Case Competition
Type: Case Competition

MBA students from across the country apply sales and marketing knowledge to a product from Sony Electronics USA. Random teams are formed from students representing schools such as: Darden, Harvard, Berkeley, Michigan State, Kellogg, Purdue, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Wharton, Missouri, SMU, Howard and Georgia. The also network with high-level Sony executives who judge their cases. Prizes are awarded for first, second and third place teams, and for Most Creative Solution and Best Handling of Questions. This unique competition began in 2008.

Global Supply Chain Conference
Date: April, 2011

Through the annual Global Supply Chain Conference, we are able to address current critical supply chain issues, as well as issues that are most prevalent in the DFW business community. The conference is a forum for our students, faculty, and business partners to hear from leaders in the field and exchange ideas to help them improve business performance.

The 2011 Global Supply Chain Conference will cover “Navigating the New Global Reality.”

The 2010 focus was on "Supply Chain Resilience." Students and area profesionals learned how to manage and mitigate risk, and heard strategies to help position themselves for competitive advantage in the face of change.

Speakers and panelists included:

Mr. Dave Pahl, Director of Investor Relations, Texas Instruments

Mr. John Gaida, SVP of Supply Chain, Texas Health Resources

Dr. Morgan Swink, Executive Director of the Supply and Value Chain Center and Eunice and James L. West Chair of Supply Chain Management, TCU

Dr. Raymond Smilor, The Robert and Edith Schumacher Executive Faculty Fellow in Innovation and Technology, TCU

Mr. John Boettcher, Managing Director of Strategic Alliances, American Airlines

Mr. Elijah Ray, SVP of Client Solutions, Uti

Neeley Connections Live Corporate Cases

Through Neeley Connections, TCU MBA students experience the real-life challenges that C-level execs face every day and get to offer their own solutions, even as they realize that the answers aren’t always as straightforward as they seem. Students get an insider’s view of industry trends, witness the executive mindset at work, assess data to pinpoint essential issues, brainstorm possible approaches, and determine the best solutions. It’s a rare chance to see how top-level decisions get made, showcase their own business savvy, and make impressions that they never could in a traditional job interview. Students travel to corporations such as IBM, DFW Airport and Frito-Lay to tour the facility, meet business leaders, and help them solve current challenges. Many of their ideas have been put to use, so it’s no surprise that many of our students are hired for internship and fulltime positions by the companies they help.

Here are some examples of Neeley Connection Live Corporate Cases:

Frito-Lay: What’s the competitive threat when rival Snyder’s of Hanover (the nation’s #1 pretzel company) buys out Utz Potato Chips? The merger happened just days before, so TCU students brainstormed with Frito-Lay VPs about how it would affect market share in the multi-billion-dollar chip industry.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics: How can you control the media frenzy following a leak about a technical problem that will force the redesign of several components? TCU students worked through the entire process, from managing the media to fast-tracking manufacturing changes.

DFW International Airport: How can one of America’s busiest airports adapt to future passenger needs and increase overall revenue? Students reviewed demographics, existing passenger amenities, on-site advertising options and gross sales before making on-the-spot recommendations about what the airport should stop, start, continue and change.

IBM: What methods work best to build consumer brand awareness for an established company? TCU students fired off ideas, then IBM reps gave instant feedback on how those ideas fit with the company’s overall marketing strategy. It was a win-win situation: IBM got fresh ideas that affirmed their internal business decisions, while TCU students discovered that they were thinking in the right direction.

Companies recently participating in Neeley Connections include: IBM, Southwest Airlines, Credit Suisse, Cushman & Wakefield, McKesson, First Command, Hewlett Packard, Frito-Lay, Ericsson, Intechra, Transystems, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Cobalt Capital Partners and EXP Partners.

C-Level Confidential
Type: Dinner with a CEO

Through C-level Confidential, an intimate evening, 10 to 12 TCU MBA students sit down for dinner with a senior executive to share a candid conversation about industry trends and organizational dynamics. They learn about the challenges faced by business execs and see how these top-level leaders make decisions. It’s a rare chance to hear the inside scoop about how each executive’s career progressed, how she/he is helping others, how his/her values fit with their career, and discuss the students' own values, goals and aspirations both on the business and personal level. Leadership and networking opportunities come out of this unique experience.

Recent participants include:

Steve Hill, Partner, Advisory Services, Innovation Leader, KPMG

Kurt Kimball, EVP-North America, Compass Group

Keith Harrison, Global Product Supply Officer, Proctor & Gamble

Matt Rose, CEO, BNSF Railway

Joe Clayton, former CEO and Chairman of the Board, Sirius XM Satellite Radio

John Garrison, CEO, Bell Helicopter-Textron

Julie Wilson, VP-Urban Development, Chesapeake Energy

Ralph Heath, CEO, Lockheed Martin

Career Development Seminars

Employers at these seminars offer Neeley MBA students a view from the other side of the table. You learn about company research, resume review, branding/self-marketing, networking, interviewing, and the entire hiring process – all from an employer perspective.

Graduate Career Service Center

TCU MBA students do a lot of work outside the classroom, but the Graduate Career Service Center is taking them even farther.

TCU MBA students traveled to Plano to Frito-Lay as part of Neeley Connections, where hiring executives present business issues to TCU MBA students for their feedback. Last year, 11 businesses came to campus to participate. This year, the MBA students are going to them.

“Our students interact with potential employers in a format that allows them to spontaneously demonstrate their business reasoning and problem-solving skills, while seeing first-hand what the company‘s culture is like,” said LaTanya Johns, Director of the Graduate Career Service Center. “It enhances the hiring experience on both sides.”

Neeley MBA alum, Ralph Goedderz, hosted the students at Frito-Lay. He took them to the SMART Lab (Shopper Market and Research Testing), and asked for their feedback on a specific opportunity. The MBAs were divided into two teams, each consisting of a C-level executive from other participating companies. After some discussion, the teams presented their analysis to the Frito-Lay execs.

Neeley Connections isn’t the only opportunity that takes TCU MBAs to companies. TCU’s MBA Marketing Association traveled to Austin to visit Focus Brands, Adlucent, Gemalto, Live Strong, GSD&M, DMX and Whole Foods. A few weeks later, the MBA students in the Capital Markets Club headed to Houston to visit Deloitte Consulting, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.

“At Neeley, we believe that it is vital to the MBA experience that our students get to examine the companies they wish to work for, meet the executives and employees, and experience the company culture. And it’s equally important for the companies to witness our students in their organization’s environment,” said Bill Cron, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.

National Black MBA Conference

Neeley students travelled to Los Angeles to take part in the National Black MBA Conference, along with LaTanya Johns, Director, Neeley Graduate Career Services. “Our students did great – gaining interviews with Chevron, ConAgra, WalMart, ExxonMobil, Hershey’s, GE, HP, and Wrigley’s.”

The National Black MBA conference is one of four major national career fairs that Neeley students attend. Others include National Society of Hispanic MBAs Conference (Chicago – October 24-25), National Association of Asian MBAs Career Fair (New York – August 26-28) and the National Association of Women MBAs Conference (Louisville – October 1-2). The career fairs are open to MBA students of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and genders.

These fairs are a unique opportunity to get in fronts of hundreds of employers from across the country,” said Johns. “The preparation Neeley students have prior to the event is a real advantage for our students.”

Before travelling to LA, participating students met with one of the nation’s top case interview experts, Marc Cosentino, author of Case In Point. They learned strategies for performing in case interviews for MBA-level jobs, as well as took part in a mock case interview to test their knowledge.

It’s an investment that really pays off for students, especially considering that their travel expenses were paid in part by grants from the Neeley Graduate Career Services. “Our students can apply for partial travel grants to help defer some of the major travel costs associated with these fairs,” said Johns. “I am not aware of any other major MBA program with a similar program.”

Wall Street/NYC Trip

Each fall, investment/finance students who are interested in working on Wall Street hit the Big Apple. The three to four-day trip includes a tour with Fidelity traders on the floor of the NYSE, networking with Neeley New York alumni and meetings with firms such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, AllianceBernstein, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Societe Generale and many others.

National Career Fairs and Conferences

Neeley Graduate Career Services sponsors Neeley students at national career fairs and conferences to network and interview with top employers from around the world. These include:

National Society of Hispanic MBAs Conference (NSHMBA)

National Black MBAs Association Conference (NBMBAA)

National Association of Women MBAs Conference (NAWMBA)

Masters/MBA Global Employment Conference

Targets graduate students who want to work internationally.

Employer Roundtables

Industry-specific Employer Roundtables provide one-on-one networking opportunities in finance, marketing and supply chain.

START Workshop

START Workshop

First-year MBA students meet with various employers from different industries in this dynamic networking event. In a roundtable format, you learn more about career options and companies as you begin planning for your internship. Employers appreciate the time to get to know internship candidates personally. And often, the seeds for job offers two years away are planted at START.

START Workshop is active in community service projects, including Unity Park clean-up, canned food drives and volunteer work with the Tarrant County Food Bank.

MBA/Ed.D. Degree
Tandy Center for Executive Leadership
Business School Housing? Yes
Contact Email: neeleyexec@tcu.edu

Take your career to the next level. Companies and professionals worldwide come to the Tandy Center for Executive Leadership to enhance careers, develop emerging leaders, improve teamwork, retain key employees, and foster a motivating and inspiring environment. Experienced and passionate instructors teach the best business practices and proven techniques to men and women at all stages of their careers.

Choose from:Customized Corporate Programs
We work closely with you to determine your company's development and training needs and goals, then set up programs that achieve executive-level outcomes.

Open Enrollment Programs
Learn essential business skills and strategies to develop as a leader and excel in any career.

Executive Coaching One on One
The Tandy Center for Executive Leadership provides four different models of coaching to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and implement your personal plan to success.

Consulting
Access some of the top business minds in the country for the latest strategies, research and business models.

Center for Professional Communication
Business School Housing? Yes
Contact Email: cpc@tcu.edu

The Center for Professional Communication opened in 1989 with a $1.6 million endowment from M.J.Neeley, dedicated to achieving business communication excellence for Neeley School students.

Objectives

Help students develop the communications skills

they need for business.

Create awareness about their personal

communication preferences and how those

preferences impact their career goals.

Experts in communication work closely with each Neeley student to create awareness about personal and professional communication in order to develop his/her distinctive potential. Students learn that knowledge only gets them so far. True leaders must be able to translate their knowledge into action, and that means communicating and collaborating to lead diverse groups.

The Center for Professional Communication provides:

Communication Assessments - These professional

assessments help students understand their

communication preferences, giving

them a foundation from which to work to hone their

best skills.

Interactive Workshops - Practice makes perfect,

and these workshops give students a comfortable

environment to exercise new communication

strategies and tools.

Resource Library - The CPC keeps an up-to-the-

minute resource of books, publications and articles

on communication topics.

Coaching - Individual sessions are designed

for each student in presentation and case studies,

centered on personal development that keeps them

motivated and moving in the right direction.

Students learn how to communicate to employees from a

managerial position, as well as how to communicate ideas to upper management.

Certified Trainers - Communication professionals prepare and train students to deliver skillful business presentations both individually and in teams.

Entering Neeley Seminars -These Seminars are designed to provide you with tips and tools that will help you prepare for the undergraduate admissions process.

TCU Energy Institute
Business School Housing? No
Contact Email: k.morgan@tcu.edu

The mission of the TCU Energy Institute is to create and promote cutting-edge knowledge about the energy industry, energy management, and energy-related technology.

Strategically located at the heart of the energy business in the Metroplex, the TCU Energy Institute provides an important link between university teaching and research as the need for clean and reliable domestic resources and future technologies are developed in the U.S.

The Energy Institute provides a unique location for industry taught classes, workshops, seminars and research related to the technology and management of our nation's energy needs.

The program is built around an integrated educational approach, which provides opportunities to take energy-related workshops, seminars and classes from the College of Science and Engineering and the Neeley School of Business along with the Institute for Environmental Studies and Center for GIS and Remote Sensing. Workshops and classes are taught by experienced faculty and industry professionals. Industry-sponsored internships so that participants gain on-the-job experience in their chosen areas of interest.

LKCM Center for Financial Studies
Business School Housing? Yes
Contact Email: cfs@tcu.edu

"The Luther King Capital Management Center for Financial Studies promotes excellence in financial education at Neeley.

The center is named in honor of Luther King Capital Management, an investment advisory firm for high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts and estates, and other organizations.

In addition to important financial contributions over the past decade, Luther King Capital Management's internship program with Neeley has molded dozens of top finance students. Student interns who work part-time for the firm gain broad exposure to the investment management business and many of these interns advance to Wall Street careers following graduation. Luther King Capital Management also provides adjunct faculty to lead investment classes, and strongly supports faculty research.

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Supply and Value Chain Center
Business School Housing? Yes
Contact Email: r.g.williams@tcu.edu

The Supply and Value Chain Center builds connections between Neeley students, faculty and business partners to emphasize a real-world perspective .

The Center focuses on:

Developing future supply chain leaders with integrative skills and a global perspective.

Exchanging ideas and best practices between business partners, faculty, students and supply chain experts.

Sponsoring leading-edge research to advance supply chain practices that deliver exceptional business results.

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Abusive supervision, intentions to quit, and employees’ workplace deviance: A power/dependence analysis
Author(s): Carr, Jon C.

Abstract: We conducted a two-study examination of relationships between abusive supervision and subordinates’ workplace deviance. Consistent with predictions derived from power/dependence theory, the results of a cross-sectional study with employees from three organizations suggest that abusive supervision is more strongly associated with subordinates’ organization deviance and supervisor-directed deviance when subordinates’ intention to quit is higher. The results also support the prediction that when intention to quit is higher, abusive supervision is more strongly associated with supervisor-directed deviance than with organization-directed deviance. These results were replicated in a second study, a two-wave investigation of people employed in a variety of industries and occupations.

Journal Title: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Volume: 109 Edition: 2 Page Numbers: p156-167
An Examination of Complements to Product-Process Technology Integration and Their Influences on Manufacturing Capabilities
Author(s): Swink, Morgan

Research has shown that both product-process technology (PPT) integration and supply chain integration efforts produce operational benefits, yet synergies between these types of integration are not well understood. This article empirically examines strategic customer integration and supplier integration as complementary activities for PPT integration, with the aim of helping manufacturing plant managers to intelligently implement mutually supportive types of integration. We set two conditions for establishing complementarity: (i) one type of strategic integration must positively influence the adoption of another and (ii) the two types of strategic integration must exhibit a synergistic fit with respect to manufacturing plant capabilities. We test these conditions using survey results representing 224 manufacturing plants. The findings show positive complementarities between PPT integration and supplier integration with respect to quality, delivery, and process flexibility. Also, positive complementarities exist between PPT integration and customer integration with respect to quality and new product flexibility. The results extend the emerging theory of strategic value chain integration and provide guidance to manufacturing managers who wish to assemble strategic integration policies.

Journal Title: Decision Sciences Journal Volume: 41 Edition: 2 Page Numbers: 355-372
Are Revisions to SFAS No. 5 Needed?
Author(s): Pfeiffer, Ray

In the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) project, “Disclosure of Certain Loss Contingencies,” a central issue underlying the debate is whether existing implementation of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 450-20 (previously Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 5) provides sufficient and timely information to financial statement users. The Exposure Draft explains that constituents' assertions of inadequate disclosures are the primary motive underlying the FASB's re-examination of this issue (see, for example, page v of the Exposure Draft). However, little actual data are available to indicate the extent of the alleged problem. This manuscript presents the results of a study undertaken to provide such data.For a sample of litigation-related losses, we find a surprisingly large incidence of non-disclosure of contingent losses that cannot be readily explained. Moreover, even where there is disclosure, we find many cases where firms do not provide estimates of expected losses, presumably under the permitted exception for cases where firms claim to be unable to estimate the magnitude of expected losses. On the other hand, we find relatively frequent disclosure of the items called for in the Exposure Draft, consistent with the conjecture that at least some of these items are being demanded by users. ©2010 American Accounting Association

Journal Title: Accounting Horizons Volume: 24 Edition: 4 Page Numbers: 525-545
Assessing the Social Impact of Charitable Organizations - Four Alternative Approaches
Author(s): Grau, Stacy Landreth

There is increased societal pressure on charities to improve performance. The questions that they must ask are: (1) Who is our audience? (2) What evaluation measures are important to the organization? and (3) What evaluation measures are best for the organization? There are a number of different approaches available for assessing performance, ranging from social accounting to more informal qualitative assessments of whether the organization's mission is being achieved. This paper draws on the industry and academic discussion of evaluations of nonprofit organizations to develop a four-category typology of alternative approaches for audiences. It then identifies the benefits and limitations of each. The goal is to identify the steps that charities should use to determine which approach is most suited to their specific circumstances. It is proposed that a collaborative development of evaluation criteria, of whichever type, may be most appropriate as will draw together the experiences and resources of multiple parties, and may have broader appeal than evaluations proposed by individual nonprofits.

Journal Title: International Journal of Non-Profit and Voluntary Marketing Volume: 14 Edition: not available Page Numbers: p1-16
Audit Committee Independence and Earnings Management: How Independent Are Independent Directors?
Author(s): Turner, Jerry L.

This study investigates whether a significant correlation exists between evidence of earnings management and increases in the subsequent year value of stock and exercisable stock options held by independent directors serving on the audit committee. Results show that, on average, independent directors on the audit committee of companies exhibiting evidence of earnings management benefited from significantly greater cumulative percentage increases in the market value of stock and stock options owned either actually or beneficially than did independent directors on the audit committees of companies presenting no evidence of earnings management. These results hold regardless of whether the earnings management was income increasing or income decreasing. Similar results also hold for audit committee independent chairs. While these results should not be interpreted as clear evidence that independent directors act in their own self-interest, such potential benefits could result in independent directors either being inappropriately lax when reviewing and approving management actions involving earnings management or actively participating with management in earnings management schemes. It is recommended that independent directors, like independent auditors, be prohibited from owning stock or holding stock options of any company for which they serve.

Journal Title: Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting Volume: 2 Edition: 3 Page Numbers: p34-74
Cause-Relating Marketing: The Effects of Purchase Quantity and Firm Donation Amount on Consumer Inferences and Participation Intentions
Author(s): Grau, Stacy Landreth

Abstract: A conceptual model for a cause-related marketing (CRM) campaign, which examines the effects of purchase quantity and firm donation amount on consumer perceptions of the firm (i.e., firm motive and corporate social responsibility) and participation intentions, is developed and tested in three separate studies. In Study 1, we find the positive effect of firm donation amount on participation intentions was fully mediated by consumer inferences about the firm and the negative effect of purchase quantity on participation intentions was only partially mediated by these inferences. In Study 2, and consistent with the persuasion knowledge model, we demonstrate that the effects of purchase quantity on firm inferences and subsequent participation intentions are moderated by consumer participation effort where higher participation requirements (e.g., mail-in proof-of-purchase) yield more negative purchase quantity effects. We extend the model in Study 3 to incorporate multiple exchange mechanisms and find that although purchase quantity does affect participation intentions by social exchange, the effects of purchase quantity are primarily the result of the economic exchange. Recommendations for the design of cause-related marketing campaigns and for future research are discussed. [Copyright &y& Elsevier] Copyright of Journal of Retailing is the property of Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.).

Journal Title: Journal of Retailing Volume: 86 Edition: 4 Page Numbers: p295-309
Changes in Litigation Risk: An Analysis of Post-Sarbanes Oxley Audit Portfolios
Author(s): Turner, Jerry L.

Despite passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act in 1995, litigation against auditors and their clients threatens the viability of many audit firms. Turmoil in the audit profession in the early 2000s resulted not only in the demise of Arthur Andersen and the resulting realignment of audit portfolios, but in increasingly large lawsuits and increased scrutiny of the audit profession. As a result, auditors once more are seeking regulatory and legal relief to protect themselves from damaging lawsuits. While regulatory and legal relief may be achieved at some point, audit firms and their clients likely have been proactive in otherwise reducing exposure to litigation. This study uses three different surrogates for litigation risk—estimated discretionary accruals, relative risk of restatement, and degree of financial distress—to compare the relative riskiness of the largest six audit firms and to evaluate changes in their litigation risk over time. Results indicate that the audit portfolios of five of the six firms likely reduced litigation risk between 2002 and 2005. Results also identify significant differences in litigation risk between the Big 4 and the two non-Big 4 firms examined.

Journal Title: Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting Volume: 2 Edition: 2 Page Numbers: p195-228
Digital Giving: How Technology is Changing Charity, by R. C. McPherson
Author(s): Grau, Stacy Landreth

The article reviews the book "Digital Giving: How Technology Is Changing Charity," by R. C. McPherson.

Journal Title: Journal of Non-profit and Public Sector Marketing Volume: 22 Edition: 2 Page Numbers: p156-157
Distinguishing Trust and Reputation in Buyer-Supplier Relationships
Author(s): Houston, Mark

We argue that a firm's reputation (i.e., central, enduring, and distinctive corporate associations held by individuals outside of an organization), although under-researched relative to trust, is more important than trust in impacting buyer-supplier relationships. Our conceptualization draws on theories and extant research related to transaction cost economics, information economics, and interfirm trust. The constructs of trust and reputation are distinguished and their relative impacts on relationship commitment and willingness to invest in the future of the relationship are examined. Suggestive empirical evidence is provided from a survey of industrial buyers, and implications and specific directions for future research are discussed.

Journal Title: Industrial Marketing Management Volume: 39 Edition: not available Page Numbers: 744-751
Dysfunctional Executive Behavior: What can organizations do?
Author(s): Perryman, Alexa

Much has been made of dysfunctional executive behavior in recent years. As such, the purpose of this article is to assist organizations in the design of executive work. To better construct a work environment that diminishes self-serving and unethical behavior, we propose that organizations structure an executive's work around three factors: the accountability environment, managerial discretion, and relationship composition. These factors are used to describe how organizations can better design executives' work so as to promote more desirable executive behavior. We describe how these factors should be calibrated, as well as how they affect each other.

Journal Title: Business Horizons Volume: 53 Edition: 6 Page Numbers: p581-591
Explicit Donations and Inferred Endorsements
Author(s): Grau, Stacy Landreth

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, while not necessarily intended to constitute an endorsement of the brand by the participating nonprofit organization, may nonetheless be perceived by consumers as such. Our experimental findings of two common types of CSR initiatives (licensing associations and cause-related marketing) suggest that not only can the method of presentation of CSR initiatives in advertising result in perceptions of nonprofit endorsement, but also may be entirely confused with explicit seals of approval. Heightened processing motivation either fails to correct the misperception of nonprofit endorsement or may even enhance its perception as a result of the presentation of the CSR initiative in an advertisement. Level of fit between the nonprofit and for-profit brand may also result in increased perception of endorsement. Given the positive effects of third-party endorsements, our results suggest that some CSR initiatives may result in consumer inferences that are inaccurate but desirable for the company, even while these inferences have potentially negative consequences for the nonprofit [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journal Title: Journal of Advertising Volume: 38 Edition: 3 Page Numbers: p113-126
Gender Differences in the Pricing of Professional Services: Implications for Income and Customer Relationships
Author(s): Cron, William L.

This study extends our understanding of the effects of gender on both pricing behavior and owner income by examining both relationships in an experimental simulation involving owners of veterinary practices. Consistent with prior research, women owners are found to employ “compassionate pricing” more than men, even when the same services are offered. The process by which gender influences price, however is found to depend in part on one’s relationship orientation. Specifically, women are found to have a higher relationship orientation than men and relationship orientation is found to directly bias women’s transactional pricing towards more compassionate pricing. The relationship between role orientation, pricing, and income, however, is rather complex. While lower prices have a negative relationship with owner income, relationship orientation is found to have a positive direct influence on income. As a result, the influence of relationship orientation on income is found to be both negative, due to lower prices, and positive, due possibly to the resulting customer loyalty.

Journal Title: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Volume: 109 Edition: 1 Page Numbers: 93-105
Global account management strategies: Drivers and outcomes
Author(s): White, Chris

Global account management (GAM) has become a vital part of many multinational enterprises’ global marketing. Yet little is known about successful GAM strategies. In this study, we conceptualize GAM strategies, and develop and empirically test an integrated theoretical model that links GAM strategies to their drivers and outcomes. We find that: (1) global strategic priority and globalization are significant drivers of four GAM strategies – inter-country coordination, inter-organizational coordination, marketing activities standardization, and global integration; (2) inter-country and inter-organizational coordination have significant main effects on GAM performance, while global customer demand positively moderates the effects of marketing activities standardization and global integration on GAM performance; and (3) GAM performance significantly influences relationship continuity. We discuss the theoretical and managerial implications, and provide suggestions for future research.

Journal Title: Journal of International Business Studies Volume: 41 Edition: 4 Page Numbers: 620-638
Improving Transparency and Relevance of Auditor Communications with Financial Statement Users
Author(s): Turner, Jerry L.

Recent SASs (e.g., SAS No. 114 (AICPA 2006b) and SAS No. 115 (AICPA 2008a)) expand required and optional communications from auditors to their clients. Given that some state laws likely allow stockholders to request access to those communications, and given that the ASB and the IAASB currently are examining how the auditor's report may be made more effective in communicating assurance to financial statement users, we propose expanding the current auditor's report by adding a set of accompanying footnotes. The footnotes could include auditor comments on information about the audit, the quality of the financial statements, the quality of the financial reporting system, and/or the quality of the client as a business entity. We conclude with suggestions for research that would identify the effects of suggested communications on various stakeholders. ©2010 American Accounting Association

Journal Title: Current Issues in Auditing Volume: 4 Edition: 1 Page Numbers: not available
Informal Family Business in Africa
Author(s): Bruton, Garry D.

Employing grounded theory based on comparative case studies of informal microfinanced businesses in East Africa, we build a theoretical foundation for studying the establishment and evolution of family firms in emerging markets. We show that East African entrepreneurs not only use both strong family and strong community ties to establish and grow businesses, but they also use strong community ties to counterbalance the obligations that strong extended family ties create. In addition, we show that economic informality presents opportunities for some entrepreneurial businesses but not others to cycle rapidly from opportunity to opportunity as they maneuver toward higher value-creating ventures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.).

Journal Title: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Volume: 33 Edition: 6 Page Numbers: p1219-1238
Letter From the Editor: Business and the World's Poorest Billion - The Need for an Expanded Examination by Management Scholars
Author(s): Bruton, Garry D.

The article presents the results of a literature review which searched for academic management papers on business and absolute poverty. From 1989 to 2010, 11 published articles were found which focused on this issue. It is argued that much more research ought to be done, considering that approximately one-sixth of the world's population subsists on less than a dollar per day, including major sections of the population in several developing countries. Although the poorest of the poor, by definition, are not a lucrative target market, their large numbers and tremendous growth potential make this an area where further research could lead to significant profits, as well as humanitarian gains.

Journal Title: Academy of Managemenrt Perspectives Volume: 24 Edition: 3 Page Numbers: p6-10
Modeling process-switching decisions under product life cycle uncertainty
Author(s): Ramasesh, Ranga

We address the process-switching decision of a firm that adopts a mixed process strategy with respect to a new product in the context of product life cycle uncertainty. A mixed process strategy uses a flexible process in the early stages of the product's life cycle and later switches to a dedicated process to gain cost economies. We present a model that captures uncertainty through alternative life-cycle demand functions to guide the process-switching decision. We develop a dynamic decision rule that can be used with any uncertainty-resolution scheme and demonstrate its application and robustness using an illustrative numerical example.

Journal Title: International Journal of Production Economics Volume: 126 Edition: 2 Page Numbers: p236-247
Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Reputation: Mediators in the Relationships Between Accountability and Job Performance and Satisfaction
Author(s): Perryman, Alexa

Holding people answerable for their actions captures the essence of accountability, which is one of the most fundamental constructs in the organizational sciences and, unfortunately, one about which little is known. This study formulated and tested a model that sought to explicate the intermediate linkages between accountability and job performance and satisfaction. Specifically, the hypothesized model suggests that accountability affects organizational citizenship behavior, which in turn influences job performance and satisfaction through personal reputation. Three alternative models were also examined, but the hypothesized model demonstrated the best fit to the data. Strengths and limitations of the study, directions for future research, and implications for practice are discussed.

Journal Title: Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies Volume: 15 Edition: 4 Page Numbers: p381-392
People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities, by T. Hart, J. M. Greenfield, and S.D. Haji
Author(s): Grau, Stacy Landreth

The article reviews the book "People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities," by T. Hart, J. M. Greenfield, and S. D. Haji.

Journal Title: Journal of Non-profit and Public Sector Marketing Volume: 22 Edition: 2 Page Numbers: P154-155
Recruiters’ Inferences of Applicant Personality Based on Résumé Screening: Do Paper People Have a Personality?
Author(s): Cole, Michael

Research shows recruiters infer dispositional characteristics from job applicants’ resumes and use these inferences in evaluating applicants’ employability. However, the reliability and validity of these inferences have not been empirically tested. Using data collected from 244 recruiters, we found low levels of estimated interrater reliability when they reviewed entry-level applicants’ resumes and made inferences regarding applicants’ personality traits. Moreover, when recruiters’ inferences of applicant personality were correlated with applicants’ actual Big Five personality scores, results indicated that recruiters’ inferences lacked validity, with the possible exceptions of extraversion and openness to experience. Finally, despite being largely unreliable and invalid, recruiters’ inferences of applicants’ extraversion, openness to experience, and conscientiousness predicted the recruiters’ subsequent employability assessments of the applicants.

Journal Title: Journal of Business and Psychology Volume: 24 Edition: 1 Page Numbers: not available

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