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Rotman Faculty honoured with awards for research and impact

September 24, 2013

TORONTO, ON — Three fac­ul­ty mem­bers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto’s Rot­man School of Man­age­ment have been rec­og­nized for their achieve­ments this month.

Jef­frey Callen, a pro­fes­sor of account­ing at the Rot­man School, received a Dis­tin­guished Schol­ar­ly Con­tri­bu­tion Award from the School. The annu­al award is giv­en out in recog­ni­tion of a fac­ul­ty mem­ber’s aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ments and long-stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to the inter­nal and exter­nal research com­mu­ni­ties.

Prof. Callen, who has been at the Rot­man School since 2000, is also the hold­er of the Joseph L. Rot­man Chair of Account­ing. His research inter­ests include cor­po­rate val­u­a­tion, account­ing infor­ma­tion and cap­i­tal mar­kets, effi­cien­cy mea­sure­ment and the non-prof­it firm. He is the for­mer Edi­tor-in-Chief of the Jour­nal of Account­ing, Audit­ing and Finance. Cur­rent­ly he is an Edi­tor of Con­tem­po­rary Account­ing Research, a Co-Edi­tor of the Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Account­ing, and an Asso­ciate Edi­tor of the Multi­na­tion­al Finance Jour­nal. He serves on the edi­to­r­i­al boards of the Account­ing Review, Chi­na Jour­nal of Account­ing Research, Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Dis­clo­sure and Gov­er­nance and the ARN and FEN net­works.

A paper co-authored by Rot­man Prof. Nina Mažar has received an hon­ourable men­tion in the 2013 Robert B. Cial­di­ni Awards for excel­lence in a pub­lished field study. The award is giv­en out by the Soci­ety for Per­son­al­i­ty and Social Psy­chol­o­gy.  “Sign­ing at the begin­ning makes ethics salient and decreas­es dis­hon­est self-reports in com­par­i­son to sign­ing at the end” was pub­lished in 2012 in the Pro­ceed­ings of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences.  Prof. Mažar’s co-authors were Lisa Shu of the Kel­logg School of Man­age­ment, Prof. Dan Ariely of Duke Uni­ver­si­ty, and Profs. Francesca Gino and Max Baz­er­man of Har­vard Busi­ness School.

Prof. Beat­rix Dart, who is also the Asso­ciate Dean, Exec­u­tive Degree Pro­grams at the Rot­man School, has been named as a Top 25 Women of Influ­ence by the orga­ni­za­tion Women of Influ­ence. Now in its third year, the rank­ing is designed to cel­e­brate and show­case the achieve­ments of the most influ­en­tial Cana­di­an women in busi­ness, health, non-gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions, pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices and the pub­lic sec­tor over the course of the last year. Prof. Dart, in addi­tion to her role as the direc­tor of the School’s suc­cess­ful Ini­tia­tive for Women in Busi­ness, is also the Aca­d­e­m­ic Direc­tor for the Rot­man Exec­u­tive MBA pro­gram, as well as the Omni­um Glob­al Exec­u­tive MBA pro­gram. She joined the Rot­man School in 2000 fol­low­ing a career with McK­in­sey & Com­pa­ny.

For the lat­est think­ing on busi­ness, man­age­ment and eco­nom­ics from the Rot­man School of Man­age­ment, vis­it www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/NewThinking.aspx.

The Rot­man School of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is redesign­ing busi­ness edu­ca­tion for the 21st cen­tu­ry with a cur­ricu­lum based on Inte­gra­tive Think­ing. Locat­ed in the world’s most diverse city, the Rot­man School fos­ters a new way to think that enables the design of cre­ative busi­ness solu­tions. The School is cur­rent­ly rais­ing $200 mil­lion to ensure Cana­da has the world-class busi­ness school it deserves. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www.rotman.utoronto.ca.

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