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LEADERSHIP AWARDS ANNOUNCED

The winners of this year’s Roberto C. Goizueta Award for Leadership are Michael Battat 20BBA and Major Jason “J” Waidzulis 20MBA. Nominated by a member of the Goizueta community (faculty, staff or a fellow student), the award recognizes one graduating BBA student and one graduating MBA student who embody the values and leadership qualities exhibited by Roberto Goizueta. Nominations are reviewed by a selection committee composed of BBA and MBA program deans and several professors, and the winners are chosen with six leadership criteria in mind: love of learning; inspirational leadership; creative thinking; courage and commitment; transparency and trust; excellence and integrity.

Established in the fall of 2018 and endowed by The Goizueta Foundation, each student receives $25,000 as part of the award. Student recipients also identify the faculty member most influential in shaping their time at Goizueta. Battat selected Jeff Rosensweig, associate professor of finance and director of The Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government. Waidzulis identified Ken Keen, senior lecturer in organization & management and associate dean for leadership. Rosensweig and Keen will each receive a $5,000 honorarium.

“It’s an honor to be recognized for leading in a way that reflects the legacy of Roberto Goizueta,” said Waidzulis. “It’s also extremely meaningful because selection required nomination and support from a community of world-class faculty, staff and colleagues at the Goizueta Business School. They have inspired me over the past two years, and it makes me feel good knowing that I have been able to pay it forward by impacting the lives of others.”

For more details about the award recipients, visit emory.biz/ leadershipaward.

FACULTY ACCOLADES

Karen Ton, assistant professor of accounting, received the Emory Crystal Apple for Excellence in Undergraduate Business Education in February. Sponsored by the Residence Hall Association, the Crystal Apple Awards honor faculty members who go above and beyond in their search for knowledge and involvement in the Emory community. Students provide the nominations, and this year the committee received more than 200 nominations.

In March, Emory’s Office of Technology Transfer recognized Daniel McCarthy, assistant professor of marketing, and David Schweidel, professor of marketing, at their 14th Annual Celebration of Technology & Innovation. The pair were highlighted for their 2019 technology innovation—a software that can derive brand insights from mobile location data. While mobile location analytics software has existed for a while, McCarthy and Schweidel have developed a privacy-preserving methodology to infer a brand’s customer base size and share of wallet within a category by separately identifying customers’ location and time-invariant preferences both for brands and specific stores.

Ruomeng Cui, assistant professor of information systems & operations management, was awarded a 2019 Alibaba Innovative Research Award for her proposal entitled “Causal Inference and Optimization: Dynamic Treatment Strategies in Coupon and Pricing Applications.” The awards are given annually by the Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR) program, a bridge that connects the Alibaba Group with researchers from top universities and research institutes around the world. AIR provides research funding, real-life business scenarios and other necessary support to successful applicants.

Vilma Todri, assistant professor of information systems & operations management, is this year’s recipient of the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award recognizes faculty with a record of excellence in teaching and was established by Emory Williams, a 1932 Emory College alumnus and long-time trustee.

GOIZUETA LAUNCHES NEW HYBRID EXECUTIVE MBA

In a latest effort to stay current with the dynamic market for MBA programs for seasoned professionals and with emerging best practices in business education, Goizueta is now offering its Executive MBA Program in a new hybrid format that delivers some course content online as well as on campus.

This new offering comes after a rigorous research process into the range of formats for delivering an MBA education and their effectiveness and accessibility, led by Jackie Conner, associate dean for executive MBA programs.

The enhanced on-campus format of the Executive MBA Program features classes every other Friday evening and Saturday, while the hybrid format includes three

weekend on-campus residencies each semester and six hours of online content each week. Regardless of format, all students will take the same courses, be taught by the same faculty and receive the same Career Management Center support. Both formats will also include intensive leadership development with executive coaching and networking events that bring together all Executive MBA students. When students in the hybrid program are on campus, they will be in class with their counterparts in the on-campus program, giving all students more opportunities to expand their professional networks.

Goizueta’s EMBA can be completed in 18 months and includes global immersion and executive skills immersion experiences.

“We were really focused on making our programs more accessible and convenient for busy working professionals who already have extraordinary demands on their time,” said Ed Leonard, senior associate dean of graduate education. “By offering an on-campus and a hybrid format, we’re giving students the flexibility to earn their MBAs in a way that best fits their needs. We’ll also be bringing students in both formats together three times each semester. That will help build an atmosphere of community and also enrich the classroom experience because we’ll have more students and greater diversity of thought. That’s something our current and prospective students have expressed interest in.”

SHETH AWARDS REACH THE BIG 100

The annual Sheth Awards surpassed a major milestone this year, reaching 100 recipients since the award’s inception in 2006. The awards, sponsored by Professor Jagdish Sheth and his wife, Madhuri, are given each year to Goizueta PhD students who pass their comprehensive exams or papers, typically in their second summer in the program. It’s a time when the students have mastered their coursework and turn their attention to research and teacher training. The $1,000 award money helps support these academic efforts. The following students are this year’s crop of Sheth Fellows.

ACCOUNTING

Leo Barcellos Jen Choi

ISOM

Jiayi Liu Sokol Tushe

FINANCE

Jaemin Lee Ishitha Kumar Jinoug Jeung Abinash Pati

MARKETING

Wooyong Jo

O&M

Ananya Chatterjee Tosen Nwadei