Faculty News

Social Investment Prize Awarded to Hart
Kenan-Flagler management professor Stuart L. Hart has won the 2001 Moskowitz Prize of the Social Investment Forum. The forum (http://www.socialinvest.org/) is a national nonprofit that promotes the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing. Hart and professors Glen Dowell of Notre Dame and Bernard Yeung of New York University won the prize for a study asserting that multinational companies that do a better job of protecting the environment earn higher returns.

Lang Wins Best-Paper Prize
Accounting professor Mark Lang won the first-place, best-paper prize at a recent Journal of Accounting & Economics conference on new economy issues at Boston's MIT.

The paper was "Information Distribution Within Firms: Evidence From Stock Option Exercises."

C2M Taps Pringle for Advisory Board
Management professor Ed Pringle, formerly an editor at C2M (Consulting to Management) magazine, has joined its advisory board. He joins other leaders from the consulting field who act as reviewers of submitted articles and advise on editorial direction. C2M (www.c2m.com) magazine is the only professional development magazine serving consulting professionals worldwide.

Roth Named Chief Co-Editor For Operations Journal
Aleda Roth, professor of operations, technology and innovation management, has been elected chief co-editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/centers/msom/home.htm), a top-tiered operations journal, beginning in 2002. Roth, faculty leader for Kenan-Flagler's global supply chain MBA concentration, will share the duties with Paul Zipkin of Duke and Candi Yano of Berkeley.

Wagner Featured in Operations Research Anniversary Issue
The production planning and inventory control work of Harvey Wagner, Kenan-Flagler professor of operations, technology and innovation management (OTIM), has been featured in the 50th anniversary issue of Operations Research (January-February 2002) (http://or.pubs.informs.org/). The journal is one of the oldest and most prestigious published by INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Study Examines Families Without Bank Accounts
One of every six lower-income families in North Carolina - more than 220,000 households - does not have a bank account, according to a study by the Kenan Institute's Center for Community Capitalism.

This is among the many findings in "Welfare, Work and Banking: The North Carolina Financial Services Survey," a comprehensive report of the financial services available to the state's lower-income families, by Center director Michael Stegman. The report can be downloaded from http://www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/Centers/CCC/ccc.CFM.

"The McKinsey Mind" Penned by PhD Student
PhD student Paul Friga has co-authored a new book, "The McKinsey Mind: Understanding and Implementing the Problem-Solving Tools and Management Techniques of the World's Top Strategic Consulting Firm." A practical guide for executives, the book takes a look at the problem-solving techniques of McKinsey & Co., the prestigious global consulting firm.