New Faculty Member Joins Smeal, Others Honored
Penn State's Smeal College of Business recently hired a new chaired professor, while another faculty member was appointed to a named professorship and another was honored for teaching innovation.
New Faculty Member Joins Smeal, Others Honored
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (November 15, 2006) – Penn State's Smeal College of Business recently hired a new chaired professor, while another faculty member was appointed to a named professorship and another was honored for teaching innovation.
New Smeal Chaired Professor
Michael Rothkopf, professor of management science and information systems at Rutgers Business School, has been named the next Smeal Chaired Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems.
Rothkopf has been on the Rutgers faculty since 1988, where his teaching and research interests have focused on applied mathematical modeling, auctions, applications of operations research, and energy models. He is widely published in journals dealing with management science, operations research, and economics, and is a leading expert on the modeling of competitive bidding.
Prior to joining Rutgers, Rothkopf was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and worked on the research staff for Xerox and Shell. He has a master's in industrial management and a Ph.D. in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Garud Named Clemens Professor Of Entrepreneurship
Raghu Garud, professor of management and research director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, has been named the new Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Entrepreneurship.
Prior to joining Smeal, Garud was on the faculty of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, where he studied how innovation unfolds within and across firms. His research interests include modularity, industry emergence, intellectual capital, and path creation.
He holds a Ph.D. in strategic management and organization from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from Xavier Labor Relations Institute in India.
The Clemens Professorship is endowed by Smeal alumnus and Board of Visitors member Alvin H. Clemens '59, chairman and CEO of The Provident, a Pennsylvania holding company that owns interests in technology companies.
Thomchick Honored For Teaching Innovation
Evelyn Thomchick, associate professor of supply chain management, and three of her Penn State colleagues are recipients of the first-ever Supply Chain Teaching Innovation Award from Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. The award was presented at the council’s annual Supply Chain Management Educators' Conference held in October in San Antonio.
The award was presented to Thomchick and her colleagues for their manuscript "Problem-Based Learning in an International Logistics Course: Biting the Bullet and Lessons Learned." The paper described the implementation of an educational project that was funded by a Smeal College of Business Teaching Enhancement Grant and supported by the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence.
Recipients of the award with Thomchick are Wenyi Ho of the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning, Jill Lane of the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, and Michael Wright of the Schreyer Business Library.
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Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
