August 22, 2008

BEL Salutes the College of Business

US News & World Report just released its 2008 rankings of undergraduate programs. Illinois' College of Business was ranked in the top 10 in the following areas:

Accounting
Finance
Insurance
Real Estate

Hats off to the College of Business!

Posted by Becky at 12:55 PM

April 1, 2008

BEL Salutes Carissa Holler

This afternoon, Bellog has learned that BEL's own Carissa Holler was named as one of List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent.” Associate Dean and Finance Department Chair David Ikenberry made the announcement via e-mail. Carissa taught a half credit course in the Finance Department called Financial Information Systems to MBA's and MSF's.

Congratulations, Carissa!

Posted by Becky at 2:25 PM

August 28, 2007

BEL Appreciates Caterpillar

Caterpillar is one of the top industrial companies in the United States and happens to be located in Central Illinois.

Fitch Rating Service had this to say recently about Caterpillar, which rated the company an A+:

CAT is the world's leading manufacturer in construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. Other major businesses include Remanufacturing Services, Logistics, and Progress Rail. Through its financial products subsidiary, CAT provides retail-financing to its customers and dealers for the purchase and lease of CAT and non-competitive products. In the first half of 2007, 54% of CAT's consolidated sales were outside the U.S.

The ratings reflect CAT's consistently strong cash flow generation, competitive products, diversified customer base, global manufacturing footprint and strong international dealer network. The ratings are also supported by CAT's substantial financial flexibility, solid credit metrics and the strength and stability of CAT Financial, all of which give CAT the ability to absorb economic and product cycles.

(information taken from Mergent Online)

We appreciate Caterpillar for their partnership with the College of Business and in making it possible to have Bloomberg in our library. Bloomberg is used throughout the core curriculum in the Finance Department.

Posted by Becky at 12:18 PM

July 31, 2007

Bancrofts Support Sale of Dow Jones to Murdoch

From the NYT:

News Corporation has garnered just enough of Bancroft Family support to purchase Dow Jones for $5B.

Read the rest here.

Posted by Becky at 11:40 AM

May 1, 2007

BEL Salutes the Business School Faculty Promotees

From Dean Ghosh's e-mail this morning:

I am delighted to inform you that the Provost’s office has now approved the recommendations submitted by the College to grant tenure to Professors Glenn Hoetker, Scott Weisbenner and Martin Wu in the Departments of Business Administration, Finance and Accountancy, respectively. They have also been promoted to rank of associate professor effective August 16, 2007 and subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees.

The Provost’s office has also approved the promotions of Jeffrey Brown (Finance) and Michael Pratt (Business Administration) to full professor.

Congrats to all of these faculty!

Posted by Becky at 10:38 AM

November 21, 2006

BEL Salutes: Professor William Bernhard

Bellog has discovered that U2IPERG (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign International Political Economy Research Group) Team member and Political Science professor William "Bill" Bernhard, along with co-author David Leblang at the University of Colorado, has a new book out, entitled Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics.

To read more about the book, go here to read a prospectus. It will be available for circulation sometime next week in BEL.

Congratulations, Professor Bernhard. We look forward to seeing more research from you and other members of the U2IPERG community.

Posted by Becky at 3:08 PM

November 2, 2006

BEL Salutes: Ricardo Flores

bellog discovered today that Ricardo Flores, a doctoral student in Business Adminstration at UIUC, received Best Interactive Paper Award at the 2006 Academy of Management Meeting, Organizational Change and Development Division, in Atlanta this past August.

The full citation is as follows: Flores, R., (2006). Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Adaptation: Exploring the role of Organizational Identity. In K.Mark Weaver (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN 1543-8643

Congratulations to Ricardo, who is seen in BEL quite often doing a ton of research for himself and some of his professors. He is our first doctoral student to make the BEL Salutes section. Below is a picture of Ricardo (on the right) receiving a plaque at Academy of Management Conference.

Posted by Becky at 12:31 PM

September 14, 2006

BEL Salutes: Professor Theodore Sougiannis

UIUC College of Business just announced today in an e-mail issued by Dean Ghosh:

Professor Theodore Sougiannis has been appointed KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accountancy. By conferring the KPMG Professorship on Professor Sougiannis, the College recognizes and celebrates his many contributions in the field of Accountancy and to his department and the College.

Professor Sougiannis, or “Theo” as he is fondly known, joined the College in 1990, after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Earlier he graduated from the University of Pireaus (Greece) and received M.B.A and M.A. degrees from York University in Canada. Theo’s research focuses on the use of accounting numbers in stock market valuations, the choice of financial accounting rules, and accounting regulation. His research papers in these areas—often at the interface of accounting and finance—have had significant impacts on the literature and the understanding of accounting phenomena.

Social Science Research Network has ranked Professor Sougiannis's co-authored paper, "A Comparison of Dividend, Cash Flow, and Earnings Approaches to Equity Valuation" as number 5 in number of downloads. To see the abstract of that paper, click here.

BEL congratulates Professor Sougiannis in his accomplishments, and he is our first UIUC Accountancy Professor be to saluted!

Posted by Becky at 11:03 AM

July 26, 2006

BEL Salutes 3 GAs Who Have Graduated

Erin Guss, who went to work as a Youth Services librarian at St. Louis Public Library
Angela Maycock, who wil be working as an Instruction/Reference Librarian at Michigan State University

and former BEL GA Kyle Naff who will be Business Liasion at Univ of Wisconsin at Whitewater

Congrats to you all and thank you for the many projects and hours helping our researchers here.
Best of luck as you start your new careers!

Posted by Becky at 1:48 PM

May 10, 2006

BEL Salutes our Graduating Seniors

Robert Meier--who will be moving to SF area to work for a start-up firm
Claire Chase--who will be working in Chicago area for awhile before going to Law School
Anna Stowell--who will be moving to NYC and teach math to inter-city kids
Jennifer Bailey--who will be working in BEL this summer while making her final plans.

Many thanks for your miles of smiles, shelf reading, call slips, answering questions, noting our head counts of researchers who learn in BEL, and answering librarians/staff questions about your classwork.

Our SA's are more than student assistants: they are Super Assistants!

Congrats to all 4, and we hope you will stay in touch with us.

Posted by Becky at 12:12 PM

May 5, 2006

College of Business Celebrates Groundbreaking Ceremony

On Friday April 28, 2006, The College of Business at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign broke ground on its new Business Instructional Facility, which is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2008.

Provided below are highlights from the day's events, which included a panel discussion, groundbreaking ceremony and reception.

LINK to rest of News Release from the College of Business.

Posted by Becky at 9:48 AM

May 1, 2006

BEL Salutes Professor Neil Pearson

Today Professor Neil D. Pearson was given the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor in Financial Markets and Options chair. To borrow language from Dean Avijit Ghosh's e-mail announcement,

" Professor Pearson, who joined the College in the Department of Finance in August 1995 as an assistant professor, is one of the country’s leading academic experts in the field of financial economics, particularly the growing sub-field relating to futures and options, derivatives trading and financial risk management. His research in this area is universally regarded for its creativity, its high quality and for the impact it has had on the discipline. In recognition of his excellent scholarship, the College appointed Professor Pearson as an IBE Fellow in Finance in 2002.

The Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professorship in Financial Markets and Options was established in 1987 by a gift from Harry A. Brandt to provide academic leadership, in the area of financial markets and options. A 1956 graduate of the College of Business, Harry Brandt served as the President of Brandt and Associates in Chicago, a firm specializing in processing transactions for options traders. The College is extremely grateful to Harry and Sharon Joyce Brandt for their support."

We join the Dean in congratulating Professor Pearson. He is one of BEL's regulars--often doing research on the Bloomberg terminal.

Posted by Becky at 1:59 PM

March 29, 2006

BEL Salutes: Professor David Ikenberry

Professor David Ikenberry is head of the Finance Department at UIUC's College of Business. Recently, UIUC News Bureau interviewed him and posted this story on their web site:

A Minute with David Ikenberry

David Ikenberry's research has focused on issues relating to stock-market returns as well as the informational efficiency of markets and the reasons why companies buy back their own stock. The growing influence of "activist stockholders" in corporate America has stirred fears that they are mostly speculators looking for quick profits at the expense of established companies. Ikenberry analyzes the background of these high-profile battles.

Read the rest here.

Professor Ikenberry is a good friend of BEL and has made it possible for our library to have Bloomberg.

Posted by Becky at 1:26 PM

March 15, 2006

BEL Salutes: Visiting Assistant Prof Laura Hanson

Today, bellogers said good bye to this blog's administrator, Visiting Assistant Professor Laura Hanson. Unfortunately, her position was not funded because of very competitive internal capital markets.

Professor Hanson made this blog a friendly place to visit, and for bellogers to post; likewise she completely re-designed the BEL web site, as well as the Industrial and Labor Relations website. While we gratefully acknowledge the re-design was based on some good survey research previously done by the ESSL and code borrowed, Professor Hanson created the look and feel of BEL appear as though it was our own in order to appeal to our clients--students, faculty, and onlookers. She included RSS feeds both in this blog and to our website to create value and draw readers to what belloger and BEL faculty colleague Yoo-Seong Song has coined, "the library killer app", which means more of our readers will find navigation through our information tsunmai a lot calmer and easy to do.

I was amazed all of the work that went into the graphics and the care of ensuring that our pages were so reachable by anyone. Some of the College of Business faculty gave our new web site accolades. We are pleased they like the new pages; most of the complements were about the look and feel.

She left us with excellent products. Professor Hanson will continue her career in Digital Librarianship. She is off to an excellent start, and we believe she will do very well.

Only bellogers know as well how Professor Hanson contributed to the training of our grad assistants, and how she answered many tough questions related to datasets.

From BEL staff and faculty-- thank you, Professor Hanson from the bottom of our minds and hearts.

From this belloger, Bon chance, Laura...hope you will connect with us when you can. BEL wasn't designed to be an alpha nor an omega for learning and relationship building.

Posted by Becky at 7:30 PM

December 22, 2005

BEL Salutes: Zoe Revell and Anna Gerard

Zoe Revell and Anna Gerard were recently approved for upgrades for the work they do. Zoe is now Senior Library Specialist and Anna was upgraded to Library Specialist.

Congrats!

...and one other salute: Dave Pherigo. Dave has been part of the BEL team for the past 4 years. He is always available for our customers.

To see what the staff do, click here.

Posted by Becky at 3:39 PM

December 12, 2005

BEL Salutes: Larry Neal, Economics

Larry Neal, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics recently received an excellence award From the Economic History Association. The link is to EHA databases of interest to economic historians since their program doesn't disclose this particular award receipent ahead, and I'm certain Professor Neal would want this link mentioned (instead).

bellog has obtained a presentation quote by Professor Ken Snowden of UNC Greensboro:

Tonight we recognize the recipient of the twelfth annual Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. The award is based on letters of support from students and colleagues, and an examination of the candidates teaching methods, materials and contributions. The goal is to identify and recognize dedication, commitment and excellence in the dissemination of economic history.

Congratulations, Professor Neal! Well deserved!

And thanks to another fellow librarian who provided the scoop to the bellogers about this honor!

Posted by Becky at 4:41 PM

BEL Salutes: Larry Neal, Economics

Larry Neal, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics recently received an excellence award From the Economic History Association. The link is to EHA databases of interest to economic historians since their program doesn't disclose this particular award receipent ahead, and I'm certain Professor Neal would want this link mentioned (instead).

bellog has obtained a presentation quote by Professor Ken Snowden of UNC Greensboro:

Tonight we recognize the recipient of the twelfth annual Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. The award is based on letters of support from students and colleagues, and an examination of the candidates teaching methods, materials and contributions. The goal is to identify and recognize dedication, commitment and excellence in the dissemination of economic history.

Congratulations, Professor Neal! Well deserved!

And thanks to another fellow librarian who provided the scoop to the bellogers about this honor!

Posted by Becky at 4:41 PM

December 8, 2005

BEL Salutes: Profs Carissa Holler and Yoo-Seong Song

Our BEL faculty have been busy teaching Bloomberg to several groups. One complement came through my e-mail last week, from a UIUC Distinguished Teacher in the department of Finance:

Your presentation of the Bloomberg system to the bankers from ABC Bank was a huge success. Each presentation created mew excitement and your inserting Chinese as the language to explain each screen was an excellent decision. Your ability to read the interest and needs of the Chinese bankers resulted in many wonderful discovery type learning experiences.

Also your enthusiasic responses to the questions from each group created a natural excitement from the bankers. You have many wonderful characteristics that tell me you are going to be a great teacher!!

Good going! Despite not feeling her best, Professor Holler still gave it all she had to do these presentations.

In addition, thanks to Professor Yoo-Seong Song who was with her on some of the sessions and contributed suggestions for searching Bloomberg on certain questions as well.

Posted by Becky at 6:21 PM

BEL Salutes: Rajshree Agarwal, Strategy

UIUC Associate Professor Rajshree Agarwal was one of 4 co-authors of an article "Knowledge Transfer through Inheritance: Spinout Generation, Development, and Survival" which was recently given the Best Article Award for 2004 by the Academy of Management Journal.

Congratulations, Professor Agarwal!

To see the other AOM winners for earlier years, click here.

Posted by Becky at 1:47 PM

August 23, 2005

BEL Salutes : New Fellows at the College of Business

Today Dean Ghosh announced 4 new fellows at the College:

Rajshree Agarwal, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, James F. Towey Faculty Fellow

Jeffrey Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Julian Simon Memorial Faculty Fellow

Allen Poteshman, Associate Professor, Department of Finance, James F. Towey Faculty Fellow

Michael Pratt, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, James F. Towey Faculty Fellow

Our hats are off to you! Congratulations!

Posted by Becky at 10:32 AM

August 19, 2005

BEL Salutes: Carissa Holler, BEL Business Reference Specialist

Carissa Holler, Business Reference Specialist in BEL, recently completed The Bloomberg Global Product Certification Program. She has received certificates in all three available tracks, including Equity, Fixed Income, and Foreign Exchange. Carissa also holds the positions of Research Manager for (IBC) Illinois Business Consulting and Research Professional for the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership. For more information about Bloomberg Certification, please see: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/bel/bloomberg_cert.htm

Posted by at 1:28 PM

June 23, 2005

BEL Salutes: Yoo-Seong Song, Labor Librarian & in BEL

Assistant Professor Yoo-Seong Song received a "highly commended paper" award from Emerald Publishing for his article, entitled" International Business students: a Study on Their Use of Electronic Library Services" in Reference Services Review 32 (4): 366-71. This same paper was delivered as a presentation at LOEX of the West conference last year.

Posted by Becky at 12:48 PM

June 22, 2005

BEL Salutes: Steve Michael, College of Business

Hat's Off to Associate Professor Steve Michael who has been cited three times in a new book (soon to be cataloged for the UIUC Libraries) entitled The Economics of Franchising, by Roger D. Blair and Francine Lafontaine. Professor Michael is an expert in franchising and entrepreneurship at our College of Business.

Posted by Becky at 3:43 PM

June 20, 2005

BEL Salutes

BEL Salutes is a section that recognizes individuals in BEL units or College of Business and Department of Economics faculty.
This week, BEL has two faculty to salute:

Yoo-Seong Song, Assistant Professor and ILIR & Economics Librarian has two papers accepted for conferences at the International Federation of Libraries Association in Oslo and at the Evidence-based Librarianship meeting in Brisbane.

Becky Smith, Head of BEL, was elected Secretary of the SLA Leadership & Management Division's Executive Board (very more akin to a Communications officer position)

More to come...

Posted by Becky at 1:46 PM