Current Research Topics

Mergers and acquisitions and value creation, mergers and acquisitions and strategic competition, financial implications of corporate climate change strategies

Selected Publications

With J. S. Black, “The Environment and Internal Organization of Multinational Enterprises,” Academy of Management Review, 1993; with K. John and T. John, "An Empirical Examination of Strategic Competition and Firm Values," Journal of Financial Economics, 1996, reprinted in Essays in Honor of Stephen Ross, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007; with D. Logue, "Valuation Effects of Foreign Company Listings on U.S. Exchanges," Journal of International Business Studies, 1996; with M. Bradley, C. Schipani, and J. Walsh, "The Purposes and Accountability of the Corporation in Contemporary Society: Corporate Governance at a Crossroads," Law and Contemporary Problems, 1999; with A. Inkpen and K. Rockwood, "Cross-Border Acquisitions of U.S. Technology Assets," California Management Review, 2000, reprinted in International Mergers & Acquisitions: A Reader, Thomson Press, 2002; with A. Inkpen, "The Corporate Objective Revisited," Organization Science, 2004, reprinted in Stakeholders, Edward-Elgar Publishing, 2010; "Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance," in Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, JAI Press, 2004; "Tending to Shareholders," Financial Times, 2006; with K. John, L. Senbet and P. Woodward, “Limited Liability and Market Power,” Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2006; with K. John, “Product Market Games and Signaling Models in Finance: Do We Know What We Know?” in Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management, Springer, 2010

Awards

Co-recipient, Sloan Foundation Grant, 1994; Distinguished Paper Award, The Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 1999; numerous teaching awards; Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula, honorable mention, University of South Carolina, 2009

Professional Activities

Academic positions: Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, 1987–94; Visiting Associate Professor, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 1994–96; Associate Professor of Finance, Garvin School of International Management, Thunderbird, 1996–2005; Tuck School of Business, 1987–94, 2001–02, 2005–present

Nonacademic positions: Consultant, Systems Research Institute, 1978–79; Consultant, Operations Research Group, 1979–81; Consultant, A.F. Ferguson and Company, 1981–82; Consultant, World Bank, 1983–84; Faculty Director, Tuck Executive Education, 2005-08

Editorial positions: Special Issue Coeditor, Law and Contemporary Problems; Editorial Board, Journal of International Business Education, Journal of Multinational Financial Management; Ad Hoc Reviewer for major journals