Faculty News

UTD School of Management faculty members continue to be recognized as
leading scholars in their fields--winning best paper awards, being named to
prestigious fellowships, being invited to join prestigious international
organizations and participate at high-profile forums. Here is an update on
some recent noteworthy accolades.


Professor Suresh Sethi

Professor Sethi, UTD's Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management and
director of The School of Management's Center for Intelligent Supply
Networks, recently garnered high honors from two top academic associations
for research and professional achievements in his several fields of
expertise.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected
Professor Sethi an AAAS Fellow and recognized him in ceremonies in Seattle
in February. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences (INFORMS) also named Professor Sethi a Fellow of INFORMS, an
honor he accepted in ceremonies in Atlanta last October.

Internationally renowned for applying quantitative methods to
manufacturing and operations management, finance, economics and marketing,
Dr. Sethi has published three books and some 300 articles in a variety of
fields.

He serves as departmental editor for the journal Production and Operations
Management, senior editor of Manufacturing and Service Operations
Management and associate editor of a number of journals, including
Automatica and Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Application.

AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of
the journal Science. The association recognized Dr. Sethi specifically for
his contributions to hierarchical decisions in manufacturing,
investment/consumption problems with bankruptcy, forecast horizons in
dynamic optimization, and optimal control applications to management
problems.

AAAS Chief Executive Officer Alan I. Leshner said AAAS Fellows are members
of the association who have made distinguished efforts on behalf of the
advancement of science or it applications. The AAAS Fellowship was
established in 1874, and Dr. Sethi was one of 348 AAAS members, from a
total membership of 140,000, the association's council elected this year
to elevated status.

"AAAS and its 272 affiliates worldwide serve 10 million scientists in
fields ranging from plant biology to dentistry. For a management scientist
to be recognized by this prestigious body is quite rare," Dr. Sethi said.
"I was greatly honored to be one of only three elected in the industrial
science and technology section this year."

Offering Dr. Sethi congratulations, Dr. Hasan Pirkul, dean of The UTD
School of Management, said, "His selection is yet another strong indicator
of the importance of the research being pursued at UTD and of the strength
and quality of The School of Management faculty."

INFORMS Executive Director Mark G. Doherty said Fellow of INFORMS awards
are given "as a way of honoring our most distinguished and illustrious
members."

Fellows are selected for achievement in research, the practice of
operations research and/or management science, significant responsibility
for applying the profession's techniques within organizations, education
in the field and service to INFORMS or the profession. Dr. Sethi was one
of 13 fellows elected last year from the INFORMS membership of more than
12,000.

"INFORMS is one of the most important societies in my profession, so this
is very significant to me because it is a recognition by my peers," Dr.
Sethi said.

Dean Pirkul, Caruth Chair and professor of Management Information Systems,
said it was significant that a second member of the school's faculty had
been selected a Fellow of INFORMS in as many years. In 2002 Dr. Frank M.
Bass, Eugene McDermott Professor of Management, was tapped as a Fellow of
INFORMS.

Previously, Dr. Sethi has been named a fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the New York Academy of
Sciences and the Canadian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.


Professor Gregory Dess

Professor Dess, who holds the Andrew R. Cecil Endowed Chair in Applied
Ethics and is coordinator of SOM's Organizations, Strategy and
International Management area, has been listed as the eighth most-cited
author in his field. Dr. Dess's listing appears in a ranking of the total
citations for authors who have written peer-reviewed articles for major
journals in management from 1981 through June 2002 by the OrgStudies
Search website www.orgstudies.org/index.php. According to the website, the
981 journal citations of Dr. Dess's articles place him as one of the top
10 "visibility" authors.

An internationally recognized expert on business management strategy, Dr.
Dess joined the SOM in the fall of 2002. He is co-author, with Alex
Miller, of the textbook, Strategic Management: Creating Competitive
Advantages. He also has co-authored two practitioner-oriented books with
SOM senior lecturer Dr. Joseph Picken, Mission Critical: The Seven
Strategic Traps That Derail Even the Smartest Companies and Beyond
Productivity:  How Leading-Edge Companies Achieve Superior Performance by
Leveraging Their Human Capital.

Dr. Dess's primary research interests are the areas of strategic
management, entrepreneurship and knowledge management. He has published
refereed journal articles in such publications as Academy of Management
Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal,
Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management. He also has
served on the editorial boards of a number of highly rated journals and
recently was inducted as one of the 33 charter members of the Academy of
Management Journal's Hall of Fame.


Professor Jane Salk

Professor Salk was inducted into the International Organization Network
(ION) during its annual meeting held this year in San Jose, California, 
February 19 to 22. ION is an association of 40 scholars from around the
world who meet annually to share and discuss the latest innovations in
teaching cross-cultural management and cross-cultural research. Membership
is by invitation only.

Dr. Salk is an associate professor in SOM's Organizations, Strategy and
International Management faculty. She teaches undergraduate and graduate
classes related to international management and leads SOM's doctoral
seminar in international management. Before coming to UTD, she taught at
the ESSEC Business School in France for seven years. Her research
interests deal with how to connect strategic needs with the management of
human resources and the development of international work teams.


Professor Stan Liebowitz

Professor Liebowitz, a member of the finance and managerial economics
faculty, was a featured presenter at an invitation-only conference in
September 2003 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The
event, "Digital Media in Cyberspace: The Legislation and Its Business
Effects," showcased the conflict over intellectual property rights in
cyberspace. It was sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
at Harvard Law School and Gartner/G2, the research arm of the business
consulting firm, Gartner, Inc. Dr. Liebowitz, who has conducted
groundbreaking research on the economic effects of piracy on digital
media, joined leading entertainment and media executives, civil liberties
advocates, attorneys and scholars in the forum's debate. He participated
in a "point-counterpoint" panel discussion with Cary Sherman, president of
the Recording Industry Association of America, and John Perry Barlow,
co-founder and vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the
San Francisco-based group that is helping defend those being sued by the
recording industry.

Dr. Leibowitz, who takes the middle position in the debate, says the
recording industry has "cried wolf" with the introduction of every new
technology, but that it has been harmed financially by unauthorized and
uncompensated copying of music.

"I've conducted what may be the only empirical investigation on the impact
of MP3 downloading of music," he says. "The results show that the
downloading of songs from the Internet is causing real damage to the music
industry--a decline of perhaps 25 percent or more in the sale of CDs."

However, rather than "turning a lot of kids into criminals who are not"
with thousands of individual lawsuits, Dr. Liebowitz proffers a less
draconian solution. "I'm in favor of digital rights management, which is
technology that would prevent CDs from being copied. It might require a
new generation of CD players before this approach becomes feasible," he
says.

As a last resort, Dr. Liebowitz would support what is called a compulsory
license. Under such a scenario, downloading of songs from the Internet
would be permitted, but there would be a tax instituted on the sale of all
music CDs. The tax revenue would then be distributed to various parties in
the entertainment industry.

Dr. Liebowitz's acclaimed book on this subject, Re-Thinking the Network
Economy: The True Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace, was published
in fall 2002.


Professor Chelliah Sriskandarajah

SOM Operations Management Professor Chelliah Sriskandarajah has accepted
an appointment to a top leadership position in the Production and
Operations Management Society (POMS). Dr. Sriskandarajah is now the
associate executive director of the international professional society,
which has some 1,000 members. In his new volunteer position, Dr.
Sriskandarajah is responsible for membership activities, organization of
national and international conferences, publication of the society's job
bulletin and distribution of the publication, Production and Operations
Management Journal. Dr. Sriskandarajah has been a POMS member for seven
years. More information about POMS is available at www.poms.org.



Professor Enthoven Addresses Moscow Conferees on Improving Accounting
Education

School of Management Accounting Professor Dr. Adolf J.H. Enthoven traveled
to Russia in January at the invitation of the Winter Conference of the
International Council of Certified Accountants and Auditors. Dr. Enthoven
addressed the conference, which was held in Moscow, on the work he has
been carrying out to enhance accounting education and training in the
former Soviet republics, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).



Information Systems and Operations Management Faculty

For the second time in two years, more papers were presented at the annual
meeting of the Workshop in Information Technology and Systems (WITS) from
UTD School of Management (SOM) faculty than from any other university.
Papers to be presented at the meeting are chosen in a highly competitive
process that involves rigorous peer review by workshop organizers.

Additionally, all four of the leading conference's "best paper"
nominations were by SOM Information Systems and Operations Management
(ISOM) faculty, former faculty or alumni. Associate Professor Srinivasan
Raghunathan co-authored the winning paper, "Intrusion Detection Policies
for IT Security Breaches," with Dr. Huseyin Cavusoglu of Tulane
University, who received a Ph.D. from UTD in 2003, and SOM doctoral
candidate Hulisi Ogut.

The workshop's other "best paper" nominations went to "Protecting
Informational Assets with Firewalls at Minimum Cost," by SOM Assistant
Professor Wei T. Yue and Dr. Amitava Bagchi of the Indian Institute of
Management, who served as a School of Management visiting professor from
2001

to 2003; "An Integrated Planning Model of System Development and Release,"
by SOM Professors Suresh Sethi and Vijay Mookerjee and Assistant Professor
Yonghua Ji of the University of Alberta, another 2003 graduate of the UTD
ISOM doctoral program; "Optimizing the Rotation of Developers in Extreme
Programming: A Model and Comparison," by Professor Mookerjee, Associate
Professor Milind Dawande and SOM doctoral student Monica Johar; and
"Revenue Maximization in Web Advertisement," by Professors Mookerjee and
Dawande and Assistant Professor Subodha Kumar of the University of
Washington, who graduated with a Ph.D. from UTD's ISOM program in 2001.

Others from SOM who had papers presented at WITS 2003, which was held in
Seattle, Washington, in December, were Professors Sumit Sarkar and
Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Assistant Professors Rakesh Gupta and Suk Rhee,
and doctoral candidates Zhengrui Jiang and Deborah Manica.

In addition, SOM Senior Associate Dean Dr. Varghese Jacob served as a
member of one of the workshop's panels, "Journal Outlets for Technical IS
Research: Do We Need a New Journal?"