Professor Andrew Bernard's article "Firms in International Trade" was published in the summer 2007 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. During the fall, Bernard presented findings from his research on firms and globalization to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and the European Commission in Brussels. His keynote presentation at the inauguration of the Economics School of Louvain in Brussels focused on the role of multiproduct firms in international trade. Bernard's travels also brought him to London and Tokyo, where he conducted sessions on the Chinese economy for Tuck alumni.
Professor Colin Blaydon recently participated with a group of 20 prominent academic energy economists and regulatory experts in the submission of an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States. The group included faculty from Princeton, Cal Tech, MIT, Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. The brief addressed the presumption of validity in long-term energy contracts and raised concerns about the impact that changes in contract certainty would have on commodity markets. Blaydon also traveled to California and spoke at The Economics of Private Equity Investment symposium held by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In addition, Blaydon spoke to KPMG partners on "Journey Through the Changing Capital Markets" at their annual partners' meeting in Orlando, Florida.
At the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Medical Society in October, Dartmouth President James Wright addressed the topic of "Improving Access to Higher Education for Injured Veterans," Dr. C. Everett Koop D'37 spoke on "Serving Veterans," and Tuck Professor Donald Conway MD T'72 presented arguments for free markets in healthcare versus planned publicly funded care.
Professor Richard D'Aveni was recently named to the Thinkers 50 list in the Times (London), a list of the 50 most influential management gurus in the world. In November, he published "Mapping Your Competitive Position" in the Harvard Business Review; the article develops the use of price-benefit mapping for product positioning strategies. D'Aveni has been serving as leader of Tuck's Strategy and Management Group, which has been very successful in recruiting talented new faculty. And D'Aveni's two electives on global and advanced competitive strategy feature 21 Fortune 500 CEO speakers during 2007–08, as well as his famous case using another type of CEO: The Godfather.
Professor Vijay Govindarajan was also named to the Thinkers 50 business gurus list, along with Professor Richard D'Aveni. D'Aveni and Govindarajan are on the list along with top 5 (in descending order) C.K. Prahalad, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Michael Porter, and Gary Hamel, as well as 43 of "the world's most influential living management thinkers."
Professor Robert A. Howell continues to teach his second-year electives in financial statement analysis. During the fall term, industries and companies studied included homebuilders, mortgage finance, and major banks in an attempt to assess and understand the impact of the subprime mortgage issues on them. Over the past five years, his classes have studied more than 400 companies. He and Professor Anant Sundaram are leading a tailored Financial Management for Senior Executives executive-education program, which will reach close to 200 senior executives of a leading software company around the world. Howell also continues to teach the Scrutinizing Financial Statements module for the Corporate Directors Institute of the National Association of Corporate Directors. His current research and writing is directed toward the issues of improved financial reporting.
In recent months, Professor Eric Johnson presented three papers related to his research on information security, including "Information Risk in Financial Institutions," presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry in Montreal; "The Psychology of Risk," presented at the Security Standard conference in Chicago; and "Rebuilding Confidence: Trust, Control and Information Technology in Humanitarian Supply Chains," at the Academy of Management annual meeting in Philadelphia. Johnson also published the article "Delight or Despair" in the summer issue of Sloan Management Review; the chapter "Ubiquitous Communication: Tracking Technologies within the Supply Chain" in the Logistics Engineering Handbook; and "Mastering the Supply Chain," with Professors Quintus Jett and David Pyke as coauthors, in the September/October issue of MBE [Minority Business Entrepeneur] magazine.
Professor Kevin Lane Keller's third edition of Strategic Brand Management, the best-selling branding text in the world, was published in summer 2007. Keller presented his talk "Branding India" at the Brand India Consortium at the University of Connecticut in May and "Achieving Brand Resonance" at the Marketing Science Institute's Creating and Cultivating Brand Connections conference at the University of Minnesota in June.
