The American Marketing Association selected Sundar Bharadwaj, who serves as The Coca-Cola Company Chair of Marketing, for its newest class of AMA Fellows. The program honors those who made a significant contribution to marketing research, theory and practice over a prolonged time.
Daniel Gamache, associate professor of management, was named an international research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. The center supports research into how organizations manage social evaluations such as reputation, status, celebrity, legitimacy, stigma and trust.
Gerald Kane, C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration, professor and head of the Department of Management Information Systems, received the Davis-Dickson Impact Award from MIS Quarterly. The award recognizes a paper published a decade earlier that had a significant and sustained impact.
C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Distinguished Chair of Business Administration and UGA Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems Elena Karahanna joined the advisory board for the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities and the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction.
The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science recognized Emily H. and Charles M. Tanner Jr. Chair in Sales Management and marketing professor Son Lam as one of the journal’s top five outstanding area editors in 2024.
Marty Parker, a senior lecturer in the Department of Management, was named a Top Voice by the community engagement team at LinkedIn. Parker is the first UGA-affiliated person to be awarded the badge, given to subject matter experts who most effectively spread their message on the employment-focused social media platform.
Hani Safadi, associate professor in the Department of Management Information Systems, won the 2024 Association for Information Systems Mid-Career Award and the 2024 INFORMS Information System Society Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award. Both recognize the impact of the researcher’s body of work on the field of information science.
Mike Schuster, associate professor in the Legal Studies Program, received the 2024 Ralph Hoeber Memorial Award for Excellence in Research from the American Business Law Journal and the 2024 awards for Best Interdisciplinary Paper and Best Sports and Entertainment Law Paper from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
The Advertising Research Foundation inducted Julio Sevilla, L. Edmund Rast Chair of Business and marketing professor, into the 2024 class of Marketing Science Institute Scholars. He was one of only 33 marketing researchers worldwide invited to participate in the roundtable.
The American Accounting Association recognized J.M. Tull School of Accounting KPMG-Atlanta Partners’ and Employees’ Professor Erin Towery with the 2024 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. The award is given for work published in the previous five years and recognizes its impact on the future of accounting literature. Her paper, “How do IRS Resources Affect the Corporate Audit Process?”, was published in 2020 in The Accounting Review.
The UGA Office of Research recognized Laura Zimmermann, associate professor in the John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics, and her interdisciplinary research team at the Center on Human Trafficking Research and Outreach with the 2024 Team Impact Award.