Research and Publications

Janice Bell

• Completed a chapter with Ginny Soybel and Bob Turner in the new book “The Entrepreneurial Leader.”  The chapter is entitled “Sustainability Metrics:  Has the Time Arrived for Accountants to Embrace SEERS Reporting?”

• Presented a paper, “Business Case for Sustainability Reporting:  Impact on Job Desirability and Salary” at the ENROAC Conference (European Network for Research on Organizational and Accounting Change) in Lisbon, Portugal.

Eli C. Bortman

• Presented at a workshop put on by the Boston University History Department for History and Social Studies teachers in the Boston Public Schools.  The topic was how politics and prejudice could affect a criminal trial, specifically the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Craig Ehrlich

• “Accountants’ Liability in Compiling Financial Statements: Why the Disclaimer in Compilation Reports doesn’t Always Work – and What to Do About It,” The CPA Journal, January 2011, pp. 16-23.

• "The Interplay Between Case Law and Professional Standards for Compiled Financial Statements", American Business Law Journal, Volume 48, Issue 3, 409–448, Fall 2011.

Michael Fetters

• April, 2011: AACSC International Conference and Meeting 2011, NYC  Presentation: University-Based Entrepreneurship Ecosystems: Developmental Pathways with Patti Greene, Mark Rice and Arturo Torres (ITESM).

 Robert Halsey

• Published a new text book, Advanced Accounting by Halsey, Robert F. and P.E. Hopkins, Cambridge Business Publishers.

• Completed the 5th edition of Financial Accounting for MBAs, which is now the market leader in MBA accounting text books.
• Easton, Peter D. Easton, J.J. Wild, and R.F. Halsey. 2006. Financial Accounting for MBAs. 2nd ed., Cambridge Business Publishers.
• Wild, John J., K.R. Subramanyam and R.F. Halsey. 2007 Financial Statement Analysis, 9th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill. 

Paul Juras

• Canace, Tom, and Paul E. Juras, (2011) “Cilindro del Sur and United Gas Products:  An Application of the Strategic Cost Management Framework”, Issues in Accounting Education, Vol.26   No.2: 321-339.

• Canace, Tom, and Paul E. Juras, (2011) “POGS at the Park, POGS at Home: C-ing Business Expansion Opportunities”, Strategic Finance, forthcoming in August or September. - This case is going to be used in the IMA Annual Student Case Competition.

• Published, with Paul Mulligan,"Dräger Medical Systems, Inc.: Technology for Life," IMA Educational Case Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, Art. 1, March 2011

Ross Petty

• Ross D. Petty (2011), The Evolution of Trademark Law and the Co-development of the Concept of Brand Marketing in the U.S. before 1946, 31(1) Journal of Macromarketing 85-99.

• Ross D. Petty (2011), Labels and Trademarks and Prints, Oh My! Legal Evidence of US Interest in Brand Protection in the 1800s, Marketing History in the New World, Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference in Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM) 145-156 (L. Neilson ed.). 

• Ross D. Petty and Joan Lindsey-Mullikin (2011), Marketing Tactics Discouraging Price Search: Deception and Competition 64(1) Journal of Business Research 67-73.

• Ross D. Petty, Susanna H. S. Leong and May O. Lwin (2010) Slogans that Both Promote and Identify the Brand –Using US and EU Trademark Law to Protect Slogans from Imitation (with), 29(3) International Journal of Advertising 473-500.

• Ross D. Petty (2010), The “Amazing Adventures” of Super Hero®, 100(3) The Trademark Reporter 729-755.

• Ross D. Petty (2010), The Strategic Use of Legal Margins: How to Introduce an Extension of Someone Else’s Brand in LEGAL STRATEGIES: HOW CORPORATIONS USE LAW TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE, Antoine Masson and Mary J Shariff, eds. Chapter 15, 317-334. 

• Ross D. Petty (2010), Naming Names: Part three –Safeguarding brand equity in the U.S. by developing a family of trademarks, 17 (8) Journal of Brand Management Special Issue on Brand Governance –Managing and Safeguarding Brand Equity 561-567. 

• Ross D. Petty (2010), Post Boom Bicycling in Minneapolis: Counting Transportation Use, Cycle History: Proceedings of 20th International Cycle History Conference 73-80 (Gary Sanderson, ed.).  This paper was revised as Bicycling in Minneapolis in the Early 20th Century,

• Minnesota History 62(3) 84-95 (Oct. 2010).  

• Ross Petty made the following presentations during the 2010-2011 academic year:

• International Advertising law and Regulation: A Research Review and Agenda –The Devil is in the Details. Presented at the 2011 Marketing and Public Policy Conference, Washington, DC (June 2011).

• Labels and Trademarks and Prints, Oh My! Legal Evidence of US Interest in Brand Protection in the 1800s.  Presented at the 15th Biennial Conference in Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing (CHARM), New York City (May 2011).  

• The World Wide Web vs. National Trademark Laws –Protecting the Brand in Global Commerce. Presented at the International Trade & Academic Research Conference, London, UK (Nov. 2010). 

• The “Amazing Adventures” of Super Hero® Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Richmond, VA (Aug. 2010).

Ginny Soybel

• Completed a chapter with Jan Bell and Bob Turner in the new book “The Entrepreneurial Leader.”  The chapter is entitled “Sustainability Metrics:  Has the Time Arrived for Accountants to Embrace SEERS Reporting?”

Bob Turner

• Completed a chapter with Jan Bell and Ginny Soybel in the new book “The Entrepreneurial Leader.”  The chapter is entitled “Sustainability Metrics:  Has the Time Arrived for Accountants to Embrace SEERS Reporting?”

Joanne Williams

Published the following articles with Craig Ehrlich:

• “Accountants’ Liability in Compiling Financial Statements: Why the Disclaimer in Compilation Reports doesn’t Always Work – and What to Do About It,” The CPA Journal, January 2011, pp. 16-23.

• "The Interplay Between Case Law and Professional Standards for Compiled Financial Statements", American Business Law Journal, Volume 48, Issue 3, 409–448, Fall 2011.