Chronicle - FACULTY AND TEACHING

Innovation and Impact Beyond the Classroom

INNOVATION FOR IMPACT

Class Inspires a New Student Club

When Management & Organization teaching professor Wendy Angst created her class, Innovation and Design Thinking, she aimed to establish an experiential learning opportunity that connected Mendoza students and the St. Bakhita’s Vocational Training Center. St. Bakhita’s is dedicated to helping women in Kalongo, Uganda rebuild their lives years after tragic abductions by the Lord’s Resistance Army. And although the class allowed some students to meet the women of St. Bakhita’s in-person, Mendoza students wanted to continue that connection long after the class ended.

Thus, the Innovation for Impact student club was born. During the 2021-2022 winter break, Angst and 15 students from the club went to St. Bakhita’s where they could see firsthand the difference their work was having. This included the impact of one of their newly launched programs called Innovation Scholars, a funding effort to provide tuition support in the form of a work study model so students can attend the school and learn life-changing skills.

“I think students [were] excited about the opportunity to move beyond a recommendation and have an opportunity to roll up their sleeves and work on implementing their ideas to have a meaningful impact — moving from innovation to impact,” said Angst.

Since it was created, the club has raised over $20,000 toward its fundraising goal, which is enough to provide tuition for nearly 40 students, and a full year’s salary for two teachers. Ultimately the club is looking to raise $112,000, which is the annual operating budget for the school, including tuition support.

Club projects span finance, technology, energy, curriculum, marketing and agriculture, and each project vertical has an industry advisor, as well as a graduate student and undergraduate student lead. Plus, there is a real budget to work with and the club measures success by ideas implemented.

COURSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Students of all majors can now examine climate change via business ethics and economics in a new course taught by Jessica McManus Warnell, associate teaching professor of Management & Organization, and Eva Dziadula, associate teaching professor of economics. The class, Climate, Economics & Business Ethics, focuses on environmental and social justice implications of climate change, public policy and impacts on global economies and communities.

WOMEN LEAD

Katie Wowak, associate professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, was featured in the University’s Women Lead feature discussing her expertise in strategic supply chain management on International Women’s Day. Read her profile at womenlead2022.nd.edu.

MARKETER OF THE YEAR

Tim Bohling was named the American Marketing Association Marketer of the Year, recognizing his leadership and achievements in the field of higher education marketing. Bohling is a teaching professor of marketing and Chief Marketing and Graduate Enrollment Officer at the Mendoza College of Business.

MOD-AWAY

For seven weeks, 14 MBA students participated in the pilot Silicon Mod-Away program in partnership with Notre Dame California. Students lived and studied in Silicon Valley as part of the MBA program’s growing commitment to the technology field and an expansion of analytics training. The Mod-Away included four courses taught by Associate Professor Xuying Zhao, Associate Professor Nick Berente and Jan Poczobutt (’83), a senior executive at Amazon.

NEW DEPARTMENT CHAIRS 

The following faculty members were announced as new chairs for three of the College’s five academic departments:

Brad Badertscher, Deloitte Foundation Department Chair of Accountancy

Ann Tenbrunsel, Chair of the Department of Management & Organization 

Shane Corwin, William and Cassie Daley Department Chairof Finance

IN MEMORIAM 

Frank K. Reilly, Martin J. Gillen Dean Emeritus and Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance Emeritus, died September 23, 2021. Reilly served as dean from 1981 to 1987 and as a professor from 1987 to 2015. He was an expert in security analysis, capital markets, credit analysis and security market indexes, and taught courses at Notre Dame in applied investment management, capital budgeting, fixed income analysis, and investments, among others.

AWARDS, PROMOTIONS, HIRES

RESEARCH AWARDS

Yixing Chen
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Award: The Financial Times awarded the 2022 Academic Research Award for the paper, “Improving Cancer Outreach Effectiveness Through Targeting and Economic Assessments: Insights from a Randomized Field Experiment” published in the Journal of Marketing.

Nicholas Berente
Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations

Award: The Association for Information Systems awarded the International Conference on Information Systems’ Best Theory Development Paper Award, which recognizes a completed research paper that advances the state of knowledge on an existing theory or to offer a new theoretical perspective.

John Lalor
Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations

Award: The Association for Information Systems awarded the International Conference on Information Systems’ Best Theory Development Paper Award, which recognizes a completed research paper that advances the state of knowledge on an existing theory or offers a new theoretical perspective.

Junghee Lee
Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations

Award: The Association for Information Systems awarded the International Conference on Information Systems’ Best Student Paper Award on Information Systems, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for his paper that provides scholarly contribution to the state of existing knowledge.

Tim Gilbride
The Late Steve and Anne Odland Associate Professor of Marketing

Award: The 2021 Marketing Science Institute’s Robert D. Buzzell Best Paper Award for the paper “Right Metric for the Right Decision: A Behavioral Model to Infer Metric Effectiveness in Managerial Marketing-Mix Decision-Making” with co-authors Ofer Mintz from the University of Technology Sydney, Peter Lenk from the University of Michigan and Imran S. Currim from the University of California Irvine.

Frank Germann
Associate Professor of Marketing

Award: For the study "Do Marketers Matter for Entrepreneurs? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda" published in the Journal of Marketing, Germann received the 2021 Varadarajan Award for Early Career Contributions as well as the 2021 American Marketing Association/ Marketing Science Institute/ H. Paul Root Award.

FACULTY PROMOTIONS

Timothy Balko
Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor of Management & Organization

Seth Berry
Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations

Jennifer Cronin
Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor of Management & Organization

Vamsi Kanuri
Promoted to Associate Professor of Marketing

Frederick Nwanganga

Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations

Jason Reed
Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor of Finance

Christopher Stevens
Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor of Management & Organization

Jennifer Waddell
Promoted to Teaching Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations

Adam Wowak
Promoted to Associate Professor of Management & Operations

NEW PROFESSORS 2021–22

ACCOUNTANCY

Tim Morrison
Associate Teaching Professor

IT, ANALYTICS, AND OPERATIONS

Junghee Lee
Assistant Professor

Margaret Traeger
Assistant Professor

MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION

Dorian Boncoeur

Assistant Professor

Joseph Sweeney
Assistant Teaching Professor

MARKETING

Christopher Bechler
Assistant Professor

John Costello
Assistant Professor

Joonhyuk Yang
Assistant Professor