August 2012
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Upcoming Research Programs
BFRF and TIF Contacts
Faculty News
BFRF Final Products
External Funding - CFGR
Research @ Babson is published by the
Babson Faculty Research Fund
Faculty Support
Contact Information
2012-13 Committee Members
Babson Faculty
Research Fund
John Edmunds, Finance
Dhruv Grewal, Marketing
Kandice Hauf, History & Society
Joel Shulman, Chair, Entrepreneurship
Brian Seitz, Arts & Humanities
Susan Chern, Coordinator
Teaching Innovation Fund
Voting Members:
Jon Dietrick, Arts & Humanities
Ruth Gilleran, TOIM (TIF Chair)
Katie Platt, History & Society
Vikki Rodgers, Mathematics & Science
Ex-officio Members:
Kathy Esper, Center for
Engaged Learning & Teaching
Cheryl Kirschner, Accounting & Law,
Babson Editor-in-Chief
Martha Lanning, Babson Editor
Noon to 1:15 PM -- Needham Room, Olin Hall
Wednesday, September 5
Steven Gordon – Technology, Operations and Information Management
“The Impact of Social Media Support on Office Friendship”
Nan Langowitz – Management
“Early Career Outcomes: Does Gender Make a Difference?”
Thursday, September 20
Mary Pinard, Arts and Humanities
“ “Refugia”: Poems in Search of the Prairie”
Srinivasa Rangan and Peter Cohan, Management
Capital Rising: How Global Capital Flows Are Changing
Business Systems All Over the World
Faculty News
“Bank–Firm Relationships: Do Perceptions Vary by Gender?” by Patrick Saparito,
Amanda Elam, and Candida Brush, Entrepreneurship, appeared in the June 2012
issue of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. This study examines how smallbusiness owners’/managers’ perceptions about their banking relationships are
influenced by the gender of both the small-business owner/manager and the bank
manager.
Sebastian Fixson has three recent publications to his credit. “Shifting grounds:
How industry emergence changes the effectiveness of knowledge creation
strategies - The case of the U.S. automotive airbag industry,” co-authored with W.
Lee, appeared in January 2012 issue of Technology Analysis & Strategic
Management. “Teaching Innovation through Interdisciplinary Courses and
Programmes in Product Design and Development: An Analysis at sixteen U.S.
Schools,” originally published in 2009 in: Creativity and Innovation Management,
was re-printed in the June 2012 issue of IEEE Engineering Management Review.
And the June 2012 MIT Sloan Management Review included “The Problem with
Digital Design” which was co-authored with T. J. Marion, and M. H. Meyer.
Arts and Humanities Professor, Julie Levinson, has a new
book. The American Success Myth on Film, was published by
Palgrave Macmillan. The book highlights the central role that
films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about
success and work in America. This project was supported by
both the BoR and BFRF.
“Modeling the spread of fault in majority-based network systems: Dynamic
monopolies in triangular grids” by Denise Troxell, Mathematics and Science, and
co-authors Sarah Spence Adams, Paul Booth, and S. Luke Zinnen, was published in
the July 2012 issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics.
Please forward your publication news to the BFRF.
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BFRF Final Products Accepted
Gang Hu, Finance, “Small Negative Earnings Surprises and
Transient Institutions’ Trading Behavior”
Using a proprietary database of institutional investors’ daily stock
trading records in the post-Regulation FD period, this study
examines whether transient institutions have the independent
ability to correctly process small negative earnings surprise
announcements, which management claims transient institutions
have difficulty in interpreting. We find economically significant
abnormal selling by transient institutions in response to small
negative earnings surprises. Transient institutions’ selling in
response to small negative earnings surprises is also associated
with significant contemporaneous stock price declines. However,
we find no evidence that transient institutions’ trading in response
to small negative earnings surprises is an overreaction as there is
no reversal of stock prices subsequent to transient institutions’
trading. More importantly, we show that transient institutions’
trading in response to small negative earnings surprises helps
improve the informational efficiency of share prices.
Steven Gordon, Technology, Operations, and Information
Management, “The impact of social media support on office
friendship”
This research examines whether organizational support of social
media affects employees’ satisfaction with work, their
commitment to and engagement with their organization, and their
knowledge of the organization and its members. It is motivated
by three interconnected hypotheses. First, organizational support
for social media increases its use within the organization.
Second, the use of social media within the organization increases
the number and depth of office friendships. Finally, the number
and quality of office relationships has an effect on employee
satisfaction, commitment and engagement, and knowledge. We
conclude that organizational support of social media has a
positive effect on the human resource variables of interest.
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External Funding
Corporate, Foundation, and
Government Relations
Office (CFGR)
The Office of Corporate, Foundation and
Government Relations (CFGR) within
Development and Alumni Relations at
Babson College provides guidance and
assistance to faculty and staff seeking
funding from corporations, foundations, and
government agencies to support their
research and curricular development
initiatives. Among the services provided are
pre-award activities such as identifying and
researching possible funding sources,
assisting with cultivation of funding
prospects and with proposal development and
writing, particularly in the final draft stage,
and ultimately with the submission of
proposals. Post-award assistance is provided
by both the CFGR and the Business Office.
If you would like additional information
about how to apply for any of the
Fellowships at the right, or would like to
explore other possibilities of external funding
please contact Wendy Silverman, Director,
Corporations, Foundations, and
Government Relations.
Fellowship Opportunities for Faculty Members
The American Academy in Berlin has an annual fellowship program. The Berlin
Prize Fellowships are given for a semester of independent research in Berlin both to
emerging and established scholars. The Academy provides airfare, housing, and a
$5,000 monthly stipend. Fellows must be US-based, but do not have to be US
citizens. Fields have included historians, economists, poets, writers, legal scholars,
anthropologists, public policy experts, and others. You can find more information
and the application here:
http://www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows/applications.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) provides many Fellowship
opportunities for faculty conducting scholarly work in the Humanities.
“ACLS continues to be the leading private institution supporting scholars in the
humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. In
2012, the Council gave over $15 million in fellowship stipends and other awards
to more than 320 scholars in the United States and abroad. The listing of
Fellowships with deadlines can be found at http://www.acls.org/programs/comps/ .
The online application site, http://ofa.acls.org/ , is open.
The Rome Prize is annually awarded to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the
early or middle stages of their careers who exemplify the highest standard of
excellence in arts and humanities scholarship. Fellows are chosen from the disciplines
of architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture,
literature, musical composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies,
Renaissance and Early Modern studies, and Modern Italian studies. Each Rome Prize
winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a study or
studio. (Those with children under the age of 18 live in partially subsidized
apartments nearby.) Winners of six-month and eleven-month fellowships receive
stipends of $14,000 and $26,000, respectively.
Applicants must be United States citizens at the time of the application. Please note:
The program requires an application fee of $30 for one application, and $40 for two
or more applications. The annual deadline for applications is November 1.
Applications will be accepted between November 2 and November 15 for an
additional fee. For more information, Link to Complete RFP.
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