  Ken
Saban is the primary
investigator and Stephen Rau is associate
researcher on a research grant of $148,000 awarded
by the Department of Justice. The objective
of the grant 'to
assess the cyber security preparedness of enterprises
and their supply chains in various industries
by comparing cyber practices with exposure to
cyber threats.'
 Dave Pentico's paper "The Assortment
Problem: A Survey" was accepted by the
European Journal of Operational Research.
 Ryan Garvey's paper titled "Order
Selection and Prior Outcomes" has been
accepted for publication in the Journal of Trading. The
paper will appear in the journal this fall.
 
John
Mawhinney and Bill
Presutti had an article
accepted for publication in Supply Chain Management
Review. It is entitled "A Model
for Linking Supply Chain Measures to Corporate
Financial Performance," and will be published
in SCMR's September issue.
 Bill Spangler's paper titled "Conflict
Identification and Reconciliation in a Collaborative
Manufacturing Scheduling Task," co-authored
with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh
and Bayer Corporation, was accepted for publication
in the International Journal of Information Technology
and Decision Making.
 Maryellen
Kelly and Steve
Greenberg successfully
presented their work on Social Capital and Baseball
Alumni Associations at the 19th Cooperstown Symposium
on Baseball and American Culture on June 7th,
8th and 9th. (Photo not available for Dr. Maryellen
Kelly.)
 Matt
Drake and Dave
Pentico's paper titled "On
the EOQ with Partial Backordering and Time-Dependent
BackorderPercentage" was accepted for
presentation and will appear in the Proceedings
of the Decision Sciences Institute national conference
in November 2007.
 In
June 2007, Ron Dick presented two
papers (with colleagues)—"Developing
a Metadiscrete Sports-Sales Training Program:
Utilizing research-based program evaluation" and "Marketing
Techniques and Research in the NBA:Current trends
and Issues"—at the North American
Society of Sport Management Conference in Miami,
Florida. Ron
and his colleagues also are presenting two more
papers at the upcoming Sport Marketing Association
Conference here in Pittsburgh in November. Those
papers are titled "The Impact of Student
Ticketing Systems on Sales and Attendance in
Intercollegiate Athletics" and "Taking
it to the Next Level: A Rationale for Expanding
Sport-Sales Training Experiential Elements."
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