Penn State Smeal Institute for the Study of Business Markets: ISBM's 2007 Business Marketing Doctoral Support Awards Competition: Winners
The ISBM provides financial support for up to five Ph.D. dissertations for candidates in accredited doctoral programs. The 2007 individual award winners of these dissertation funds are presented.
ISBM Announces 2007 Doctoral Support Award Winners
Winners have been named in the seventeenth annual ISBM Business Marketing Doctoral Support Award Competition. This year there were three winners; each named ISBM Business Marketing Doctoral Fellows. In addition, one winner was honored with the Outstanding Submission Award.
ISBM Doctoral Support Award Winners
Outstanding Submission Winner
Denish Shah, University of Connecticut for “Enhancing Marketing Productivity in the Manufacturing-Distributor Setting of Business Markets”
Advisor: V. Kumar
Other Support Winners
Sujan M. Dan, Texas A&M University for “An Empirical Examination of the Role of Consortium, Partner and Format Characteristics in the Market Acceptance of Formats”
Advisors: Alina Sorescu and Rajan Varadarajan
Renna Jiang, University of Chicago for “Structural Estimation of a Moral Hazard Model: An Application to Industrial Selling”
Advisors: Pradeep K. Chintagunta and Peter E. Rossi
We received a total of forty-three entrants from which twelve finalists were selected. The winners were selected from the finalists. Winners receive $7,500.00US in support of their research. The outstanding submission receives an additional $2,500.00US. The Institute for the Study of Business Markets will again sponsor this competition in 2008. For information about the competition, e-mail the ISBM at ISBM@psu.edu or visit the Web site for 2008 Competition Information.
