Professor Victor McGee wrote a tribute to Professor Wayne Broehl, who passed away in 2006. "Wayne Broehl and I were friends and colleagues for 40 years. Did you know we started a ping-pong club in the attic of Tuck Hall before it became third-floor offices? Although we had totally different backgrounds, we wrote papers together and he sat in on my Topics in Multivariate Procedures course, not once but three times! So maybe it's not surprising that when he died in June 2006 there was some unfinished business. He and I had emeritus offices next door to each other, so I'd see him submerged under mountains of documents as he worked—for the 18th year—on a definitive business history of the Cargill company. When Wayne died in June 2006, the final (third) book was not quite finished, so (a) Cargill came to Tuck and crated up Wayne's office to ship back to Minnesota, (b) Cargill appointed an in-house person to edit and finish the manuscript, and (c) Tuck School asked me to play a role as "peer-reviewer" on Wayne's behalf. The Cargill author and I worked together for many months as we edited the manuscript and edited each other, and now the third volume, Cargill: From Commodities to Customers, is at the publisher (UPNE, the University Press of New England), scheduled for production in March 2008. As I said in my preface, ‘It was a privilege to "hear" Wayne speak through his writing, long after he was gone.'"
Professor Koen Pauwels presented his research on "Store Brand Use and Store Loyalty,' with Kusum Ailawadi and Jan-Benedict Steenkamp, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in March, and at Wharton in April. His new paper, "The Impact of Brand Equity and Innovation on Long-Term Promotional Effectiveness," was presented at the University of Michigan and accepted by the Journal of Marketing Research. In June, Pauwels spoke on the executive panel of Marketing Performance Management at the Henry Stewart XVII conference in New York. In being awarded tenure this year, Pauwels thanked everyone at Tuck for contributing to the most excellent working and learning environment anywhere.
Professor David Pyke's paper with T'06 J. Andrew Grimson, "Sales and Operations Planning: An Exploratory Study and Framework," was published in the Fall 2007 issue of the International Journal of Logistics Management. Pyke also presented his research on pricing and supply chain management at the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management conference in Beijing in June.
Professor Richard Sansing's article "Using Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements to Resolve Tax Transfer Pricing Disputes," coauthored with Anja De Waegenaere and Jacco Wielhouwer, was published in the June issue of the National Tax Journal. In June, Sansing visited the Norwegian School of Economics and Tilburg University, where he presented "Corporate Governance in a Competitive Environment," coauthored with Professor Phillip Stocken. In August, he presented "Taxation of International Income and Accounting Valuation," coauthored with Anja De Waegenaere, at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association. Sansing was elected the next editor of the Journal of the American Taxation Association at its annual meeting; his three-year term will begin in June 2008.
Professor Robert Shumsky presented his paper "Dynamic Revenue Management in Airline Alliances" at the PROS Revenue Management Summit in Houston in April and at the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in Barcelona in June. In the spring, Shumsky was elected vice-chair/chair-elect of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section. He was invited to be an associate editor of the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and continues to serve as an associate editor for three other journals. Shumsky's article with Professor Stephen Powell, "Covering the Spread," was published in the March/April issue of BizEd magazine.
In March, Professor Matthew Slaughter returned to active status at Tuck after completing his tenure as a member on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. Slaughter managed the international-macro portfolio at CEA. In this role, he worked regularly with such officials as President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson D'68, and former CEA Chairman and current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. In March, he became senior fellow for business and globalization at the Council on Foreign Relations in March. Slaughter published an op-ed column, "Yuan Worries," in the May 22 Wall Street Journal. In the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, he also published the lead essay, "A New Deal for Globalization."
Professor Michael Zubkoff, chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine and director of the MD/MBA Program at Dartmouth, was invited by Dr. Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academies, Dr. Harvey V. Fineber, president of the Institute of Medicine, and Dr. Richard C. Atkinson, chair of the division of behavioral and social sciences and education, to serve as a member of the Board on Children, Youth and Families (BCYF). The BCYF provides a national focal point for authoritative, nonpartisan analysis of child, youth, and family issues relevant to policy decision. Its overarching mission is to inform policy and programs and stimulate research by synthesizing, analyzing and evaluating scientific research on critical national issues that relate to children, youth and families; and disseminating research and its policy and programmatic implications to a wide array of audiences, ranging from scientific community to the lay public.
