Academic Resources

Summer Scholars Program

Participating Faculty Members

Management Department

Updated for 2013

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porth
Dr. Steven Porth

Research Objective
Enhance understanding of ethics in the pharmaceutical industry by combining knowledge from the College of Arts & Sciences (CA&S) and the Haub School of Business (HSB)

Research Project

  1. To accomplish this objective, students will pursue answers to their own research questions about the objective as well as contribute to ongoing research about ethics and the pharmaceutical industry. Based on assessment of current information to include publications and data sources, there are two primary project areas:
  2. Information Assessment - Assess information from newspaper front-page articles and editorials to determine their ethical positions and to identify the positions of the pharmaceutical companies involved.
  3. Database Enhancement / Management - Evaluate the current EthicsTrak® database (developed under 2006 Summer Scholars Program) and improve its data-searching and data-mining capabilities.

Projected Outcomes

  1. Identify a learning synergy between students from the CA&S and HSB
  2. Improvement of trademarked database for data mining research sources
  3. Data and data analyses to support an editorially reviewed publication in the pharmaceutical industry's trade publication, Pharmaceutical Executive (fourth annual update)
  4. Data and data analyses to support academic journal publication(s)

Regina Robson

Regina Robson, J.D.

Research Interests:
A wry observer once remarked, “no one is innocent, but there are different degrees of responsibility.” I am interested in how the law determines the “degrees of responsibility”  in a business context. This interest has led me to explore issues of a number of areas in which the law functions to allocate risks and apportion responsibilities. I have published articles focused on white collar crime and corporate governance.  Most recently, I have begun to explore how the law balances an employer’s interest in a disciplined workplace with the right of employees to make comments and communicate via social media.  

Dr. Song

Dr. Sangcheol Song

International business, foreign direct investment,
alliances, mergers and acquisitions, Korean/Chinese studies, Strategic management, etc.

 

 

weidner
Dr. Ken Weidner

 

Both of my 2013 SSP research interests revolve around teaching and learning.

1. My latest research on academic integrity examines forms of social loafing by students on group projects as a violation of academic integrity. I am most interested in working with a student scholar who is interested in exploring students' opinions and attitudes toward social loafing and academic integrity. I find this issue fascinating on a both a macro (institutional) and micro (instructor/classroom/group/student) level. The student scholar might be interested in this subject as a student (in any discipline), or in relation to psychology, sociology, philosophy, or any other majors/disciplines. I think working with a student scholar would bring a fresh perspective to these issues, and I would look forward to learning with a student as part of the SSP.

2. I am teaching a First-Year Seminar during both semesters of 2012-13, "Serious Comedy and Social Justice" and I am interested in both looking "back" and "forward" at the subjects in the course, (a) economic justice, (b) justice related to sexuality and gender, and (c) racial justice. Looking "back," I am interested in researching in-depth students' impressions of the course materials and subject matter. This would involve interviewing former students and analyzing the data obtained. Looking "forward" would involve research on the forms and impact of "serious comedy" as social commentary and a call for action on social justice issues.