Cited: Dina Mayzlin in The Economist
Mayzlin’s research shows that small, independently owned hotels generated more fake positive reviews than major hotel brands.
Marshall Faculty Publications, Awards, and Honors: December '22 & January '23
Marshall Faculty Publications, Awards, and Honors: December '22 & January '23
Business Communication
JOLANTA ARITZ has been asked to serve as a member of the Executive Committee for the Association for Business Communication (ABC).
PETE CARDON was awarded the MEADA GIBBS 2022 OUTSTANDING TEACHER-SCHOLAR AWARD by the Association for Business Communication (ABC), the largest disciplinary association in the field of business communication.
Data Sciences & Operations
MURAT BAYIZ received a Golden Apple award from the graduating MS in Global Supply Chain Management cohort. The Golden Apple is awarded to favorite professors as voted on by students.
ANDREW DAW's “Conditional Uniformity and Hawkes Processes” has been accepted for publication to Mathematics of Operations Research.
MILAN MIRIC has been invited to be part of a research collaboration by the Bavarian Academy of Arts & Sciences over the next three years.
DARYL ONO's “A Continuance of Marginal Cost Methodology in Project Change Management” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics.
PENG SHI's “Eliminating Waste in Cadaveric Organ Allocation” (with PhD student Junxiong Yin) won the best paper award at the WINE 2022 conference.
JUNXIONG YIN, PhD student, won USC Best Teaching Assistant Award from the Provost’s Office.
Finance & Business Economics
DIEGO DARUICH's “Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment” (with Raquel Fernandez) has been accepted for publication in the American Economic Review and is forthcoming.
JOHN MATSUSAKA's "Street-Level Responsiveness of City Governments in China, Germany, and the United States” (with Ekkehard Köhler and Yanhui Wu) has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in the Journal of Comparative Economics
His paper, "Is Direct Democracy Good or Bad for Corporations and Unions?" has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Economics.
KEVIN MURPHY's “From Incentives to Control to Adaptation: Exploring Interactions Between Formal and Relational Governance” (with George Baker and Robert Gibbons) has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
VINCENZO QUADRINI's “Financial Markets and Unemployment” (with Tommaso Monacelli and Antonella Trigari) has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics.
Management & Organization
The research in HYO KANG’s paper, “Non-Competes, Business Dynamism, and Concentration: Evidence From a Florida Case Study,” published in the JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY (JEMS) in 2020, was cited extensively by the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning in developing its Jan. 5, 2023 policy update RECOMMENDING A BAN OF NON-COMPETE CLAUSES. FTC Director Elizabeth Wilkins wrote to thank Professor Kang for his useful research.
Marketing
MIRIAM BURGOS has been honored with the Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching from the USC Provost’s Office. This award is the highest honor given at the University of Southern California for Teaching.
KRISTEN SCHIELE was chosen as 2023 USC iPodia Faculty Fellow. This partnership with Microsoft is a “classrooms-without-borders” concept that enables USC students to take courses virtually alongside students from universities around the world as part of the iPodia Alliance.
GERRY TELLIS' “Lockdown Without Loss? A Natural Experiment of Net Payoffs to Covid Lockdowns” (with A. Sood, S. S. Nair, and N. Sood) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing.
Tellis has been included among the Top 600 Best Scientists in the Research.com list in the Business and Management category for 2022. The list, based on a meticulous examination of 166,880 scientists on Microsoft Academic Graph, ranks scientists' D-index (Discipline H-index), which includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline.
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Marshall Faculty Publications, Awards, and Honors: June/July 2025
We are proud to highlight the many accomplishments of Marshall’s exceptional faculty recognized for recently accepted and published research and achievements in their field.
The Hidden Cost of Work-Life Balance: A Q&A with Eva Buechel
While companies understand that work-life balance increases worker productivity, Buechel’s research shows that managers may penalize employees who unplug during off hours.