Scruggs
The Houston A&M Club honored longtime entrepreneur Richard Scruggs ’77 with its annual Outstanding Houston Aggie award this summer.
Scruggs has long been the kind of man who recognizes opportunity, and helps others learn how to find it. As director of the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Mays, the Aggie MBA graduate has driven [...]
JainProfessor of Marketing Sanjay Jain’s paper “Pricing Digital Products: A Model and Application for National Academy Press” was one of four finalists selected in the Marketing Science Practice Prize competition.
The Practice Prize is awarded for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts. Methodology must be appropriate to the problem and organization, and the work should have [...]
A new administrative team has been formed at Mays in the wake of Jerry Strawser’s recent move to the interim provost and executive vice president chair across campus.
Interim Dean Ricky W. Griffin announced a new administrative lineup in July. Bala Shetty, currently associate dean for graduate programs, will take over the executive associate dean’s role [...]
In a country where cities of 3 to 4 million people are referred to as “small towns,” the marketing scene is quickly blossoming. China is kicking into high gear as it prepares for the summer 2008 Olympics in Beijing. But even a booming country like China has its slumps.
One advertising campaign for a new morning [...]
Marketing Professor Sanjay Jain and new associate professor Allan Chen were invited to join the editorial review board of Marketing Science this summer. Chen, who started work at Mays in recent weeks, also fielded a request to join the review board of the Journal of Business Research.
Jain and Chen share a focus on pricing and [...]
Murray Barrick
R. Duane Ireland
Professor Murray Barrick assumed duties as head of the Department of Management in July. Barrick takes over for Bennett Chair R. Duane Ireland, who is stepping down from his administrative role this summer to guide scholarly efforts as incoming editor of the prestigious Academy of Management Journal.
Barrick, also the Paul M. and [...]
Perry earned the Outstanding Educator Award from the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants in 2001
“I don’t really see any downs. For me, it was the best time in the world.” That’s Texas A&M Senior Accounting Lecturer Linda Perry’s response to the question of her ups and downs of teaching at Mays.
After 24 years of [...]
Management professor’s work part of Supreme Court justice’s dissenting opinion
Texas A&M University Interim President Eddie J. Davis tapped Mays Dean Jerry Strawser last month to fill one of the university’s top posts as the chief operating officer and chief academic officer. Strawser will serve as Texas A&M’s interim provost and executive vice president, starting work June 18.
He’s taking on a vital guiding role as [...]
Marketing Professor and Brandon C. Coleman, Jr. ’78 Chair in Marketing Venkatesh Shankar is advising two more scholarly groups after a round of appointments this spring.
He was appointed in April as a Sloan Industry Studies Affiliate, joining a scholar community focused on data and observations of the companies and people in different industries. The affiliates [...]
