Dean’s Message

It’s hard to believe it’s August! I hope you had time to rest and enjoy some time off over the summer. For those who are new to the Ivy College of Business, welcome! Please be sure to read this newsletter each month so you are aware of the happenings around the college. It’s also a great way to get to know people outside your unit.  

We have a lot of exciting events coming up, including the Ivy Faculty and Staff Picnic at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, August 17, at Brookside Park, Maple Shelter, Ames.

I encourage you all to check the college events calendar on our website for all upcoming events. This is an excellent resource as you plan additional events with your unit/departments. It’s also a good idea to visit our Latest News page to read about the many students, events, programs, staff, and faculty who are featured. Those articles are often featured on the college's social media accounts. When you follow, like, and share our social media messages, you help additional people in your circle learn about the college.

I would like to thank all of you for your ongoing commitment to our students and for everything you are doing to prepare for the beginning of classes, which begin on August 21. I look forward to working with all of you this year!    

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Business Career Services (Undergraduate)

Business Career Services hosted industry partners through an Employer Circle event. Over 50 employers joined for a day of college updates, professional development, and networking. Special thanks to Colby Clark, employer engagement specialist, for her leadership.

Colby, Shana Hicks, career coordinator, and Bobbi Sullivan, assistant director, attended the Career Professionals of Iowa Conference.

Shana traveled to John Deere’s headquarters to view the final presentations of accounting and finance interns.

Bobbi completed the RESPOND training offered by Student Health and Wellness. She also attended the final session of Insure Your Future, a new leadership development program for early-stage interns interested in the insurance industry.

Tanya Austin, assistant director, led a strengths discovery workshop for the Ames Chamber of Commerce as part of the Women Who Lead series. She also facilitated a resume workshop for CYstarters participants.

Kathy Wieland, director, was part of a Career Services panel for student interns at organizations in the Iowa State University Research Park.

Business Career Services met with the following employers to enhance their recruiting presence on campus: Athene, Bayer, Cigna Health, Dakin, Hy-Vee, Huron, Kent Corporation, Meyocks, Sterling, Target, and TTI Group.

Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics

Cheng Nie, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, had a paper, "Firm Competitive Structure and Consumer Reaction in Search Advertising," accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. The paper was coauthored with Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng and Sumit Sarkar, both from University of Texas at Dallas.

Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, presented his work, "Robust and Inclusive Matching: A Mixed Integer Linear Program Approach," at seminars at Yonsei University (School of Business) and Korea University (School of Industrial and Management Engineering) in Seoul, Korea.

Department of Management and Entrepreneurship

Marc Anderson, Dean’s Fellow and associate professor of management and entrepreneurship, has been invited to serve on the editorial review boards for the Academy of Management Review and for the Journal of Management (both of which are departmental A and Ivy Elite journals).

Melissa Chamberlin, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship, has been invited to serve on the editorial review board for the Journal of Management.

Laura D’Oria, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship, has been invited to serve on the editorial review board for the Journal of Management.

Mike Howard, Hilsinger-Janson Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, has been invited to join the editorial review board at the Journal of Management.

Mike Howe, Dean's Fellow and associate chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, has been invited to join the editorial review board at the Journal of Management.

Scott Johnson, Thome Professor in Business and associate dean for research and academic personnel, has been invited to remain on the editorial review board for the Journal of Management.

Mike Lerman, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship, had a paper accepted at Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (a department A- journal). The paper, "Driven to Influence: How Entrepreneurial Drive and Political Skill Influence New Venture Performance," is co-authored with Justin Yan, Nick Mmbaga, and Tim Munyon.

Mike Lerman, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship, has been invited to join the editorial review board for the Journal of Management.

Mauricio Mercado, PhD student, successfully defended his dissertation earlier this month and will be starting a two-year, post-doc position at Syracuse University.

Robert Olinger, assistant teaching professor of management and entrepreneurship, was approved for a Term Faculty Professional Development Award by the office of the SVPP.

Phoebe Pahng, PhD student, successfully defended her dissertation earlier this month and will begin a tenure-track position at Cal State Sacramento.

Annaleena Parhankangas, Kingland Systems Professor of Entrepreneurship, had the paper "Processing Preferences and Crowdfunding Pitch Evaluations" accepted at the Journal of Business Venturing Insights with M. Mahajan and C.R. Chan.

Andreas Schwab, Dean’s Fellow and associate professor of management and entrepreneurship:

had a paper "Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches" accepted in the American Journal of Sociology," Vol. 129(1), 227-275. DOI: 10.1086/725389, with C. Rider, J. Wade, and A. Swaminathan.
has also been invited to serve on the editorial review board for the Journal of Management.

Yanjaa Shuumarjav, PhD student:

received the Summer 2023 Teaching Excellence Award for PhD students
received a Best Reviewer Award from the OB division of AOM

Jake Telkamp, PhD student, successfully defended his dissertation in late June and will be starting a tenure-track position at Augusta University (in lovely Augusta, Georgia) this summer.

Clay Thomas, assistant teaching professor of management and entrepreneurship, received an award from the OMT Division of AOM, their "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty" reviewer award.

Carlos Valladares, PhD student, successfully defended his dissertation earlier this month.

Anonymous donors have pledged support for a new scholarship for PhD students in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. This new scholarship will provide an additional award of almost $6,000 to one first-year PhD student each year.

Department of Marketing

Ashley Goreczny, assistant professor of marketing:

has been asked to join the editorial review board for the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice.
presented her research at the Ivy Sales Forum Sales Summit in May. Her research, “The Unique Approach to Buyer-Supplier Relationships for Underrepresented Firms: An Empirical Examination,” was co-authored by Raj Agnihotri, director of Ivy Sales Forum and professor of marketing.

Hui (Sophia) Feng, associate professor of marketing, had a paper, “When Do Marketing Ideation Crowdsourcing Contests Create Shareholder Value? The Effect of Contest Design and Marketing Resource Factors,” accepted by the Journal of Marketing (an Ivy elite journal) with Z. X. Cao, H. Feng, and M. Wiles, forthcoming (Equal Contribution).

Department of Supply Chain Management

Meltem Denizel, associate professor of supply chain management, and Zoe Schumm, PhD student in apparel merchandising and design, had their paper, "Closed Loop Supply Chains in Apparel: Current State and Future Directions," accepted for publication in the Journal of Operations Management.

Events

Ivy Faculty and Staff Picnic, 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 17, at Brookside ParkLinks, Maple Shelter, Ames
Donuts with the Dean from 8:30-11:00 a.m. on August 23
Ivy Women in Business Awards Ceremony from 5:30- 7:00 p.m. on September 27

Marketing and Communications Services

Michele Appelgate, director of marketing and communications, completed the AMA Digital Marketing Copywriting Bootcamp.

Emily Bowman, graphic designer:

Attended the following courses as part University Human Resources’ Leadership Skills Certificate Program:
- “Effective Leadership and Communication” on July 12
- “Managing Conflict” on July 18, in the Memorial Union

Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship

Iowa State University was named Entrepreneurial University of the Year! Judi Eyles, director, and Jean Walsh, program specialist, attended the Triple E Awards in Barcelona, Spain, to accept the award. Read the press release. These rankings assess the incorporation and prioritization of entrepreneurial initiatives throughout the university. Eyles also participated in a panel presentation on “Mastering Quality, Excellence, and Impact in Entrepreneurship Engagement” with entrepreneurial leaders from Madrid, Spain, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Five team members attended the Women in Leadership – Strengths Finder professional development event by Tanya Austin and hosted by the Ames Chamber. The CliftonStrengths assessment highlighted each team member’s strengths and led to a discussion about ways we can be more collaborative, productive, and happier at work and as a team.

Judi Eyles led a week-long “Start Something” program for a group of college students from Tatung University, an American degree program institution in Taipei, Taiwan. They learned about the university’s entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives and developed their own business ideas that they pitched to the CYstarters program participants.

Welcome and Farewell

Welcome to Blake McClure, CyBIZ Lab program manager, and Lindsey Murray, communications and outreach specialist, who recently joined the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship!

News Coverage

June 1: Jonathan Phares, assistant professor of supply chain management, was interviewed on the FreightWaves TV show MODES episode titled "New trucking fleets are getting hammered."

June 16: Jonathan Phares was quoted in the Transport Dive article "Managing expenses, growing revenues will be top challenges for CH Robinson CEO."

July 7: Judi Eyles, director of CyBIZ Lab and the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, was mentioned in the Iowa State University News Service article, "Iowa State University named Entrepreneurial University of the Year." This article was also picked up by:

July 10 - AgriMarketing - Article
July 10 - KMALAND - Article
July 10 - Iowa Agribusiness Network - Article
July 13 - Ames Tribune - Article (subscription needed)
July 20 - RADIOIOWA - Article
July 20 - KJAN - Article
July 20 - EXBULLETIN - Article

July 7: Christine Denison, Roger P. Murphy Professor in Accounting, was featured in the Iowa Public Radio segment, "The Threats and Promises of AI on College Campuses." She was also featured in:

July 20: Inside Iowa State - Article

July 10: Dermot Hayes, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences and Pioneer Hi-Bred International Chair in Agribusiness, was featured in The Pig Site article, "2023 WPX: ADM outlines economics of pork industry at seminar."

July 11: Raj Agnihotri, Mary Warner Fellow and director of the Ivy Sales Forum, was mentioned in the Business Record article, "ISU launches new custom education program for Iowa businesses." He was also mentioned in articles by:

July 12: Daily Advent - Article
July 18: Tech Transfer Central - Article

July 13: Lisa Shimkat, state director of America's SBDC Iowa, and Judi Eyles, director of CyBIZ Lab and the Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, were mentioned in the Business Record's "innovationIOWA Weekly."

July 13: The Ivy College of Business was mentioned in the Business Record article, "ISU announces 2023 Ivy Women in Business Award winners." This article was also picked up by:

July 17: Fearless - Article

July 14: David Spalding, Raisbeck Endowed Dean, was featured in the Business Record article, "Shaping the Future."

July 18: Feng (Jason) Guo, Deans's Fellow in Accounting, was mentioned in the CFO article, "Warning: Don’t Mention Trade Secrets in 10-Ks."

July 19: Robert Overstreet, assistant professor of supply chain management, co-authored an article for The Conversation, "Just in time for back-to-school shopping: How retailers can alter customer behavior to encourage more sustainable return." This article was also picked up by:

July 19: goskagit - Article
July 19: Foreign Affairs - Article
July 19: JOHANSEN - Article
July 19: yahoo!news - Article
July 19: SFGATE - Article
July 19: Metro Digital - Article
July 20: Eric Block On Responsible Branding - Article
July 23: FASTCOMPANY - Article
July 24: AsianSpectator - Article