Debra L. Shapiro, Clarice Smith Professor of Management and Organization, has been appointed director of the Smith School’s doctoral program, replacing Lawrence A. Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting, effective July 1, 2008. Gordon has served as director for the past 12 years. Shapiro received her PhD in organization behavior from the J.L.

Curt Grimm, Dean’s Professor of Supply Chain and Strategy, received his PhD in economics from the University of California-Berkeley, with primary focus on industrial organization.

The Smith School is recognized as one of the top research institutions in the world, but it is also a place where students can learn from some of the best teachers in the business.

A paper by Sandor Boyson, research professor and co-director of the Supply Chain Management Center, titled “Unified Communications: Leading Advances in Global Decision Making & Economic Development,” was published in the World Economic Forum’s 2008 Global Information Technology report.

Roland Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, chair of the marketing department, and executive director of the Center for Excellence in Service and the Center for Complexity in Business, has be

Entrepreneurship is often thought of strictly in terms of new venture creation. But as the half-life of technologies, products and business models becomes ever shorter, established companies are finding that their existing bases of competitive advantage are decaying and becoming obsolete at a faster rate.

Research by Curt Grimm and Ken Smith

Research by P.K. Kannan The publishing industry is going through a major transitional period as it tries to come to terms with the Web as a delivery platform for content. How can publishers keep their digital content from cannibalizing the market for printed material yet still provide new options to customers?

Research by Russ Wermers Knowing how the best mutual fund managers are choosing their portfolios can be valuable information for investors, if stocks picked by skilled fund managers really outperform those picked by unskilled managers. But it has been difficult to test this hypothesis, since it is not clear how to use fund holdings to pick stocks.