Faculty Notes

November 2009

Tom Brewer, an associate professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, has been named to the advisory committee for the preparation of the 2010 World Investment Report, which is an annual publication of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. Each edition has a special topic, and the 2010 edition will focus on climate change issues, which is one of Brewer’s areas of expertise.

John Hasnas, an associate professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, was awarded the eighth annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism for his op-ed “The ‘Unseen’ Deserve Empathy, Too,” published by The Wall Street Journal on May 29, 2009. The Bastiat Prize was founded in 2001 by International Policy Network and recognizes writers who wittily and eloquently explain, promote, and defend the principles of the free society.

October 2009

Tom Brewer, an associate professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, recently delivered a series of presentations of his research on international transfers of climate friendly technologies and associated issues of international trade and investment, including two while he was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University for the summer. In August, he made a presentation in Washington at a conference jointly sponsored by the Washington-based Center for American Progress and the London-based Royal Institute for International Affairs. In September, he made a presentation in Amsterdam at a conference organized by the Free University and the Institute for Environmental Research. In December he will make presentations at the International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which includes nearly 200 governments and more than 10,000 individual attendees.

Jose-Luis Guerrero-Cusumano, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, recently received several honors at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Chicago for his paper “ISO 9000 Quality System certification and its impact on Innovation Performance.”Cusumano’s research, which he co-authored with University of Melbourne Professor Mile Terziovski, was selected as the best paper in the area of International Operation Management. It also was a finalist in the Chan Han Best Paper Award in the Operations Management Division. It will be published in the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.

In addition, Cusamano was selected to share his opinions on ‘the future of quality’ at a colloquium on Quality in the 21st Century and the Future of Quality organized by the National Institute of Standards and the American Society of Quality. He joined nine other thought leaders from government and top Fortune 500 companies in the exclusive forum, which is organized every four years.

Jason Schloetzer, an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, recently was awarded the Best Dissertation Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. His dissertation, “Essays on Non-Financial Performance Measurement, Relative Bargaining Power and Supply Chain Performance,” was recognized for its outstanding contribution to accounting education, research, and practice. The formal awarding took place during AAA’s annual meeting in New York City.

Schloetzer’s paper explores how common supply chain initiatives are associated with future supply chain partner financial performance. His dissertation is part of a growing literature in managerial accounting that incorporates supply chain activities and extended enterprise into expanded notions of strategic cost management. According to Schloetzer, his dissertation “attempts to contribute to this literature by examining how firms employ measurement and analysis tools, such as supplier scorecards, to select and evaluate supply chain partner performance.”