Risk Management and Decision Processes Center

The Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the
Wharton Risk Center Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowships. The Fellowships provide funding for doctoral
research on human decision making at Penn. The funding takes the form of research awards in the $1,000-$3,000 range,
funds that can be used to support data collection, travel, and other research-related expenses.

The research fellowships are named in honor of an endowment provided to the Wharton School by the Anheuser-Busch
Charitable Trust.  Russell Ackoff, Professor Emeritus of Management Science, at the Wharton School, is a well-known and
distinguished member of the Penn faculty community. His life's work has been dedicated to furthering our understanding of
human behavior in organizations.  It is in the spirit of continuing this legacy by supporting doctoral training that the
fellowships have been named.

We hope these Fellowship awards will facilitate the development of a doctoral student research community in the area of
decision making under uncertainty. As such, in addition to the direct funding, award recipients will be invited to participate in
Center-sponsored seminars to be hosted at the Wharton School.

The 2008 Fellowships have been awarded to:

RECIPIENT	DEPARTMENT	PROPOSAL TITLE
Nitin Bakshi	OPIM	Predicting Business Interruption Losses from Natural Disasters: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Rajesh Bhargave	Marketing	The Role of Resolution of Emotional Goals in Memory for Discrete Emotions
Amit Bhattacharjee	Marketing	Research on Human Decision Processes and Risk Management
Jeonghye Choi	Marketing	Are Consumers Independent or Interdependent? Firm-Driven Advertising versus Consumer-Initiated Word-of-Mouth
Felipe Csaszar	Management	Implications of Organization Design on Industry Dynamics
Brett Danaher	Business and Public Policy	Does Level of Risk Affect Individual Computer Security Decisions?
Xiaoyan Deng	Marketing	Associative and Rule-Based Processing of Product Location on Package Facade
Pnina Feldman	OPIM	Getting to NO: Theory and Evidence of Instrumental Negotiations
Stephanie Finnel	Marketing	Human Decision Processes and Risk Management
Daniel Fleder	OPIM	Mechanism for Information Sharing: Recommender Systems and their Effects on Diversity
Katherine Glac	Legal Studies & Business Ethics	Explaining Socially Responsible Investing: Toward a Unifying Framework of the Investment Decision Process
Yanliu Huang	Marketing	Trade-offs in the Dark Exemplar-Based Learning and Extrapolated Preference Functions
Shawnika Hull	Annenberg School of Communication	Selfish or Selfless? Self-interested Versus Benevolent Framed Messages in HIV-Antibody Test Promotion
Adam Isen	Business and Public Policy	Using Special Events to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime in the Short Run
Srividya Jandhyala	Management	De Jue & De Facto Protection and Impact on MNC Location Choices
Kinshuk Jerath	OPIM	Customer-Base Analysis Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Summary (RCSS) Data
Eric Keuffel	Health Care Systems	Pharmaceutical R&D Response to Shifts in Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Policy
Sang-Hyun Kim	OPIM	Incentive Contracting to Manage Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events
Ka Lok Lee	Marketing	Know Your Patients: A Model for Medication Adherence Behavior
Shimul Melwani	Management	Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones and Words Will Hurt Me: Effects of Contempt in the Workplace
Ashwin Patel	Health Care Systems	WHO DO PATIENTS LISTEN TO? The Case of Report Cards and HMO Advertising
Nicole Ruedy	OPIM	Taking the High Road: Self-Concept Maintenance and Ethical Decision-Making
Neela Saldanha	Marketing	Mixed Indulgence: How Pleasure and Sin Interact in Perceptions and Choices of Mixed Indulgence
Monica Stallings	Management	Gender Differences in Informal Network Composition and Usage
Nicole Verrochi	Marketing	Cross-Race Emotional Contagion and Helping Behaviors

 

2007 Ackoff Fellowship Recipients

2006 Ackoff Fellowship Recipients