The American Accounting Association honored Tina Carpenter, Dan Smith Professor of Accounting and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, with the J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize. She is the first Tull faculty member to win the award, the association’s most distinguished teaching honor.
The Academy of Management honored Susan Cohen, associate professor of management, with its Entrepreneurship Practice Award. The award recognizes the real-world impact of her 2013 article “What Do Accelerators Do? Insights from Incubators and Angels.”
Business law associate professors Greg Day and Lindsay Sain Jones received the Hoeber Award for American Business Law Journal Excellence in Research. The award recognizes their 2025 American Business Law Journal paper “Antitrust for the FinTech Era.” The Academy of Legal Studies in Business also honored Jones with the Early Career Achievement Award.
Gregory Eaton, Bradford McFadden Professor of Personal Financial Management and associate professor of finance, and Andriy Shkilko, associate professor of finance, took home the 2026 Hillsdale Investment Management – CFA Society Toronto Research Award for their paper “Nocturnal Trading.”
Felix Feng, associate professor of finance, won the Fubon Best Paper Award from the Taiwan Finance Association for “Simple Budgeting Mechanisms with Persistent Private Information.”
Ugur Lel, the Nalley Distinguished Chair in Finance, was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies, the flagship journal of international business studies in finance, accounting and economics.
Lei Ma, assistant professor of real estate, secured a $312,731, three-year grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to complete her affordable housing study, “Is Zoning Reform Enough? Lessons from Oregon’s Middle Housing Reform.” She will work with faculty at the universities of Colorado and Arkansas.
Daniel Rettl, assistant professor of finance, and Malcolm Wardlaw, associate professor of finance, won the Southern Finance Association’s 2026 Best Paper Award in FinTech for “The Contracts Not Written: Measuring Covenant Tightness with LLM-Generated Synthetic Counterfactuals.”
The Academy of Legal Studies in Business recognized Mike Schuster, associate professor of business law, with its Holmes–Cardozo Award, which recognizes the best working paper submitted to the ALSB’s annual conference. He was also invited to present the paper, “The AI Penalty in Trade Secret Litigation,” at the IP Scholars Conference at Stanford Law School.
Rik Sen, associate professor of finance, took home the Best Paper Award from the 2026 Financial Management and Accounting Research Conference for “Management of Management Proposals.”
Ralph E. Steuer, the Sanford Family Distinguished Chair of Business, was elected to the executive committee of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making. The society consists of 3,000 members from over 100 countries.