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Son (Sonny) Lam
Son K. Lam (Sonny), doctoral candidate in Marketing, won first prize in the annual doctoral dissertation proposal competition jointly held by the American Marketing Association (AMA) Relationship Marketing Special Interest Group and the Georgia State University Center for Business and Industrial Marketing. As the winner, Sonny is invited to give a presentation of his proposal “Customer-Brand Identification as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Multinational and Longitudinal Examination” at the 2008 AMA Summer Educator's Conference in San Diego, California, and will receive a grant of $1,000 to support his research. Michael Ahearne, Associate Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of the Sales Excellence Institute at the Bauer College of Business, University of Houston chairs his dissertation. This is the first time a UH doctoral student has won this award.
DOUG HUGHES
Doug Hughes is one of only two recipients of the University of Houston Graduate Assistant Teaching Award for 2007, winning out over a field of almost 2,000 other eligible competitors across the University. Doug is the third Bauer College teaching award winner in the past three years. On May 1, 2007 Donald Foss, University of Houston Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, will present Hughes with a trophy and a check for $1,000. He holds an MBA from Michigan State University and his undergraduate degree in marketing from University of Tennessee. Prior to his graduate studies, Hughes held director-level positions with The Coca-Cola Company and Miller Brewing Company.
DOUG WALKER
Doug Walker (Bauer MBA ‘05) won the Best Paper Award in the student competition sponsored by the UH chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Doug’s paper, “Precision and Selectivity in Database Marketing,” topped submissions from students in all management science areas, including operations, optimization, information systems, decision analysis, finance, and organizations. In addition to his MBA from Bauer College, Walker holds undergraduate degrees in finance and in marketing from Kansas State University. He has experience trading stocks, options, and commodities, and has worked as an investment advisor, broker, and floor trader. On May 4, Walker will receive $500 for his award. Walker will present his paper at the 2007 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference to be held June 28—30 at the Singapore Management University in Southeast Asia.
Frank Fu
Frank Fu's dissertation, “Marketing-Sales Interface for New Products: Analytical and Empirical Essays”, won the 2006 American Marketing Associations Sales SIG Doctoral Student Award for the best dissertation in sales. His dissertation co-chairs were Steven Brown and James D. Hess. Frank is now Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Misssouri - St. Louis.
Demetra Andrews
Demetra Andrews presented a paper “Missed Opportunities: An Examination of Drivers of Inaction Inertia,” co-authored by Partha Krishnamurthy (Associate Professor at UH) and Anu Sivaraman (Assistant Professor at Delaware and UH Ph.D. class of 2004) at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference in Santa Monica. The BDRM Conference is held biennially and brings together research in the judgment and decision making field with interests in Accounting, Bargaining and Negotiations, Decision Analysis, Games and Economic Behavior, Finance, Management and Marketing.
Keith Richards
Each year the University of Houston gives campus-wide teaching awards to faculty and graduate teaching assistants. There are over a thousand graduate teaching assistants across the university, but only two receive the award as the outstanding graduate teaching assistant at University of Houston.
RICHARDS SELLS A WINNING FORMULA
UH Today, May 3, 2006 - When doctoral student Keith Richards began teaching Introduction to Professional Selling, he had not yet completed his coursework. Despite that irregularity, the Bauer College of Business faculty was sold on the idea of having Richards begin early. Since he began teaching two years ago, Richards has received student evaluations that place him in the top 15 percent of all business school faculty. For these reasons, he received a University of Houston Graduate Assistant Teaching Award.
“In my life there are only a few people who have had a significant impact in my present success, and Keith Richards is one of those people,” one student wrote in an evaluation. “The amount of practical information I learned had me craving a future career in sales.”
The award includes a $1,000 prize and a trophy.
Travis Coggin
Staff writer
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