Professor Paul Argenti's new book, Strategic Corporate Communication, was published by McGraw-Hill in India in July and is the culmination of work that he started during his sabbatical. The book will also be published in a U.S. edition next year and deals with corporate communication in India.
In March, Professor Andrew Bernard was the featured guest for the NPR program "On Point" on the future of U.S. manufacturing. Over the last year, Bernard has visited China, Japan, India, Sweden, Austria, Germany, England and Spain to conduct research or to give presentations. This fall, he and Richard McNulty, adjunct associate professor and director of Tuck's career development office, launched a societal-leadership elective on the role of microfinance in reducing global poverty. In an innovative twist, Dartmouth College Paganucci Fellows will spend their summer researching microfinance and will then join Tuck project teams as part of the course.
Building on the Center for Digital Strategies roundtable in Prague in September 2006, Professor Hans Brechbühl has put together a European chapter of the Roundtable on Digital Strategies. Inaugural members include the CIOs of Nestlé, BT, Holcim, ABB, BMW, Hilti, and Novartis. The chapter will meet on its own once a year and jointly with members of the U.S. chapter annually as well, alternating European and U.S. locations. The initial joint roundtable will take place this fall at Tuck. Brechbühl was recently quoted extensively in an article about what U.S. executives need to understand about doing business in Europe. The article, which appeared in The Conference Board Review, The Conference Board's journal quoted Brechbühl as saying, "Given my background, it's the natural place for me to make a contribution to Tuck's global strategy and presence."
In May, Professor Aine Donovan presented a paper at the International Association of Business and Society conference in Florence on the ethical issues in the recent Hewlett-Packard scandal. The association's goal is an exploration of how business and society interact, especially in a global economy. Donovan's paper focused on the management decision at HP taken in regard to the leaking of classified information to the press.
Professor Sydney Finkelstein was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management, an honor bestowed on less than 1 percent of academics in management around the world. Finkelstein's new book, Breakout Strategy, was published, with book events for alumni held in Boston, New York, and London. His research on breakout strategy was also profiled in an article in U.S.News & World Report in March. His earlier book, Why Smart Executives Fail, was published in Portuguese, the 11th foreign-language edition of the book, and hit the bestseller list in Brazil. Finkelstein is currently working on a new book focusing on how people's emotions and experiences sometimes conspire to produce highly ineffective decisions, with Hurricane Katrina as a primary example.
This spring, Professor Eric Johnson presented three related research papers on inadvertent information disclosures in the financial sector at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Carnegie Mellon University, the forum on Financial Information Systems and Cyber Security: A Public Policy Perspective at the University of Maryland, and at the Financial Sector-ISAC Annual Meeting in Florida. This research was highlighted in a wide range of media outlets, from the Wall Street Journal to Information Week. Johnson also published (with Eric Goetz) "Embedding Information Security Risk Management into the Extended Enterprise" in IEEE Security and Privacy's May-June issue and "Put People Before Process" in CIO Magazine in April. In March, Johnson was awarded $1.45 million in three grants from the Department of Homeland Security to support his ongoing research on information risk. The grants will support projects to examine business drivers for security investment, the risks faced in controlling access to information within financial institutions (conducted jointly with colleagues in Dartmouth's computer science department), and to develop an executive-education program to build business skills for managers working within security organizations (with Professor Hans Brechbühl).
In July, Professor David Kang was promoted to professor of government at Dartmouth and adjunct professor of business administration at Tuck. Kang's book China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia will be published in October by Columbia University Press.
Professor Kevin Lane Keller presented "Branding Excellence: The New Branding Imperatives" at the Nordic Branding Academy in Stockholm, Sweden (October 2006), George Washington University (March 2007), the University of Wisconsin (March 2007), and the World Management Congress 2007 in Brazil (June 2007). In March, two of his articles— Consumer Evaluations of Brand Extensions" and "Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Managing Customer-Based Brand Equity—were named by the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science to its list of the top 20 marketing science papers written in the past 25 years "that have most affected the practice of marketing science."
