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Her research has been viewed by distinguished
academics as being particularly relevant for
practitioners. For example, one of her articles was
selected as a “must-read for marketers” (a curated
list of 10 academic works that are highly relevant
to marketing practitioners) by the Academic
Trustees (a panel of distinguished marketing
academics) at the Marketing Science Institute
(MSI) in 2016. MSI is the premier international
institution dedicated to bridging the gap between
marketing academia and marketing practice.
She is also sought after as a consumer behavior
expert in the media. In 2016, she appeared on
eight TV programmes in Singapore. She has also
provided expert comments on a variety of current
business events in Singapore and Southeast Asia
in 17 newspaper articles in Singapore.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ILYA CUYPERS
Associate Professor Ilya Cuypers was given the
Academy of Management International Manage-
ment Division’s FIU Emerging Scholar Award,
2016. He was also given the Journal of International
Business Studies Best Reviewer Award, 2016.
PROFESSOR KAPIL TULI
Professor Kapil Tuli of the Marketing group
received the 2016 Outstanding Reviewer Award
by the
Journal of Marketing
and the 2016
Varadarajan Award for Early Career Contribu-
tions to Marketing Strategy Research.
Professor Tuli is the Director of the Retail
Centre of Excellence, the Research Director for
the Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton – Singapore
Management University (LVMH-SMU) Luxury
Brand Initiative and the postgraduate research
coordinator for the Marketing group.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LIM YUN FONG
Associate Professor Lim Yun Fong delivered
keynote presentations at a number of confer-
ences between 2014 and 2017 including:
• The 6
th
International Conference on Elec-
tronic Business (Nanning, China, 2017).
• SMU Industry Leaders Dialogue (Jakarta,
Indonesia, 2016).
• Express, Logistics, and Supply Chain
(ELSC) Conclave (Mumbai, India, 2015).
• ISE Industry Forum (Singapore, 2014).
His work on inventory management and con-
signment contracts for online retailing appears
in
Management Science
and
Manufacturing and
Service Operations Management
.
He was also named the Chang Jiang Chaired
Professor by China’s Ministry of Education. This
professorship is sponsored by the Li Ka Shing Foun-
dation and is the highest accolade given to a visiting
professor by the China’s Ministry of Education,
which allows him to establish research collabo-
rations with scholars in top Chinese universities.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DANIEL ZHENG
Assistant Professor Daniel Zheng was invited
to join the editorial board of the
Journal of
Management Science and Engineering
(JMSE)
as an Associate Editor in the area of “decision
making”. JMSE is a new journal published by
the National Natural Science Foundation of
China. There is already a Chinese version of this
journal. Both are managed by the same team
with the same editor-in-chief. JMSE is super-
vised by Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has
internationally renowned scholars serving as
senior editors in its editorial board.
AWARDS AND
RECOGNITION
CHAIR, PROFESSORSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP
Last year, the Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School
of Business, Professor Gerard George, was
awarded the Lee Kong Chian Chair Professorship
for a five-year term that will end in June 2021.
The Lee Kong Chian Professorship was
awarded to Professor of Finance Melvyn Teo for
a three-year term that will end in June 2019.
Three others were awarded the one-year Lee
Kong Chian Fellowship. They were Assistant
Professor of Finance Hu Jianfeng, Associate
Professor of Marketing Sandeep Chandukala
and Professor of Operations Management
Shantanu Bhattacharya.
Associate Professor Gokhan Ertug was
awarded the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship and was
appointed as an Associate Editor of the
Academy
of Management Journal
, starting July 2016.
Professor Wang Heli was awarded the Lee
Kong Chian Professorship and was appointed
an Associate Editor of the
Academy of Manage-
ment Review
, starting July 2017.
Assistant Professor Geng Xuesong was
awarded the Della Suantio Fellowship while
Associate Professor Kannan Srikanth was given
the Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HANNAH CHANG
Associate Professor Hannah H. Chang is
currently serving as the National Representa-
tive for Singapore in the European Marketing
Academy (EMAC) Executive Committee. She
began serving in 2014, and will continue in the
position until 2020. EMAC is a premier profes-
sional society for those interested in marketing
theory and research.
She was also appointed an Academic Fellow
by the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight
(ACI), a national research institute set up by the
Singapore Economic Development Board. Their
Academic Fellow panel consists of professors
from elite research universities around the world.
L–R:
KIM SOO JIN (3
RD
AUTHOR),
KYUJIN SHIM (1
ST
AUTHOR)
AND YEO SU LIN (4
TH
AUTHOR).
JMSE is a scholarly journal that publishes
scientific research on the latest improvement
and practice of management science and
engineering, an area emphasizing modelling,
optimisation, computation and data analytics in
identifying and solving management problems,
making business decisions, and managing risks
in complex management systems.
AWARD-WINNING PAPER
Three faculty members from the Corporate
Communication group won two awards at the
International Communication Association Annual
Conference held in San Diego in late May, 2017.
The paper, “Impact of Moral Founda-
tions on Consumers’ Boycott Intentions: A
Cross-Cultural Study of Crisis Perceptions
and Responses in US, Korea, Malaysia and
Singapore”, had four co-authors, three of whom
were from Singapore Management Univer-
sity, namely Assistant Professor KyuJin Shim,
the first author of the paper, and two other
co-authors, Assistant Professor Kim Soojin and
Assistant Professor Yeo Su Lin. This paper was
funded by Singapore Management Universi-
ty-Ministry of Education Tier 1 grant for which
KyuJin Shim is the sole principal investigator.
The paper won the Best Faculty Paper and
the prestigious Robert Heath Award Top Faculty
Paper. The latter award was established in
2003 in honour of Professor Robert Heath from
the University of Houston.
WORLD PUBLIC RELATIONS FORUM
Two members of the Lee Kong Chian School
of Business Corporate Communication group,
Professor Gregor Halff and Assistant Professor
IMPACT/ RESEARCH FRATERNITY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
YEO SU LIN RECEIVING THE
NEW RESEARCHER AWARD
AT THE WORLD PR FORUM
2016 - TORONTO
