Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently was recognized as a runner up for the 2020 Best Paper for the Academy of Management Discoveries along with co-authors Shon Hiatt (USC) and Michael Cummings (Arkansas) for their paper titled, "Does a Common Mechanism Engender Common Results? Sustainable Development…

Han-Fen Hu and Kirk Silvernail (both Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) co-authored a publication with former UNLV professor Robert Randolph titled "Better the Devil You Know: Inter-organizational Information Technology and Network Social Capital in Competition Networks." The paper will appear in the September issue of Information…

Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently had his co-authored paper, “Effects of Structural and Trait Competitiveness Stimulated by Leaderboard and Points on User Engagement and Performance Growth: A Natural Experiment with Gamification in an Informal Learning Environment,”  accepted by the European Journal of…

Robyn Raschke (Accounting) has been appointed the Kenneth and Tracy Knauss Endowed Chair in Accounting. The endowment was established to provide financial support for the department of accounting’s premier faculty member. The position was previously held by Lee Business School accounting professor Bill Messier and is awarded for a three-year…

Dominic Ronca, Stephanie Pohl, and Claire Stanley (Accounting) of the Beta Alpha Psi Theta Omicron Chapter received the Gold Chapter Award for the fifth year in a row at the international organization's  2020 virtual annual meeting. In addition, for the first time in Beta Alpha Psi history, the Theta Omicron chapter received first…

Ian McDonough (Economics) has been awarded the S.J. Hall Faculty Fellowship. Awarded to tenured professors in the department of economics, the fellowship provides incentive for continuing research productivity and teaching performance. The fellowship is funded in the memory of Sherwood James Hall, a successful lumber entrepreneur who sought to…

Zhi Cao (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) co-authored a paper, "Carriers of Competing Institutional Logic: The Effect of Returnees on Corporate Boards on M&A," that was selected as a finalist for the IM Division Douglas Nigh Award in this year's Academy of Management annual meeting, which will be virtual this year.  The…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business) and Robyn Raschke (Accounting) recently were included in a Forbes article, “Covid-19 The Opportunity For Business Schools To Think Creatively,” which featured the findings from their paper, “The Story Only Few Can Tell: Exploring the Disproportionately Gendered Professoriate in Business Schools…

Sutirtha Chatterjee (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation) recently was appointed as a senior editor of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). ISJ is an international journal promoting the study of, and interest in, information systems, and publishes articles about research, practice, experience, current issues, and debates.

Richard Gardner (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently was appointed to the editorial review board for the Academy of Management Journal. It is an A+ journal on the Lee Business School journal list and considered one of the premier journals in management. The appointment is a three-year term.

Sutirtha Chatterjee (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) recently was appointed as a senior editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. The flagship journal of the Association for Information Systems, it publishes the highest quality scholarship in the field of information systems. It is inclusive in topics, level,…

Nikkole Liesse (Lee Business) recently was named to the 2020 list of Women Inspiring Nevada by Vegas Inc. This year's 12 honorees include women who are doing inspiring work in business and philanthropy throughout the state.