Babson Faculty Research Fund Awards
The Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) provides support for meritorious projects, but cannot guarantee that all worthy projects are funded. Rather, through a competitive process, the BFRF makes awards to those faculty research projects that have the most promise of advancing the BFRF's mandate.
2011 Fall Course Releases
The following faculty members are working on research projects this fall supported by a BFRF course release:
Kenichi Matsuno, Marketing, is writing a journal article, “Corporate Entrepreneurship, Marketing -R&D Integration, and Market Performance: A Japanese Study.”
Kandice Hauf, History and Society, is completing “The Geographical and Cultural Context for the Rise of Charismatic Masters and Devoted Disciples” and Chapter 6 "Conclusion" for her the book Disciples: Followers of Charismatic Masters. 2011 Summer Stipend Awards
Cristiano Busco, Accounting and Law, "Management Accounting Practices in SMEs: the Interplay between Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Two Comparative Case Studies "
Marjorie Feld, History and Society, “American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid”
Mary Godwyn, History and Society, “Challenging Gender and Race Stereotypes: The Impact of Organizations in shaping Individual Responses to Prejudice”
Nan Langowitz, Management, “Early Career Outcomes and Attitudes: Does Gender Make a Difference
Xinghua Li, History and Society, “Communicating the "Incommunicable Green": A Comparative Study of the Structures of Desire in Environmental Advertising in the U.S. and China”
Mary O'Donoghue, Arts and Humanities, " Beo-Gheit and the Buzzard Poet: Translations of Sean O Riordain and Tomas Transtromer"
Virginia Rademacher, Arts and Humanities, "Revisions of two chapters of a book manuscript -- Biographical Questioning and the Quest for the Real in cntemporary Spanish Narrative"
Brian Seitz, Arts and Humanities, “Freud's Dream of the Double”
Rosa Slegers, Arts and Humanities, “Regret, Empathy, and the Role of Emotions in Moral Decision Making”
Janice Yellin, Arts and Humanities, “A Topology for Meroitic Offering Tables as a Tool for Dating/Establishing Meroitic Chronology”