From the Dean's Desk


Mission Research Awards

Dean Martijn Cremers

Dean Martijn Cremers

Tuesday, 22 April 2025

Happy Easter! The Lord is risen, alleluia!

I’m pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Mendoza Mission Research Awards, an annual recognition for Mendoza research papers published in high-quality academic journals that exemplify the College’s imperative to “Grow the Good in Business.” 

I also invite you to attend a presentation on May 2 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Mendoza 161, where the award winners will briefly describe their research findings. A reception will follow in the atrium.

Here are the recipients for 2025:

John Donovan, Gerspach Family Associate Professor of Accountancy
Yadav Gopalan, Assistant Professor of Accountancy
Pay for Prudence (Journal of Accounting and Economics)
This study introduces "pay for prudence" (PfP) in banker compensation, showing how it balances shareholder risk preferences with regulatory requirements. Detailed PfP terms correlate with equity incentives while reducing tail risk, bad loans, and regulatory downgrades without sacrificing profitability. PfP serves as "guard rails" complementing traditional equity incentives in guiding investment decisions.

Gregory Robson, Associate Research Professor of Business Ethics and Society
James Otteson, John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics
Freedom in Business: Elizabeth Anderson, Adam Smith, and the Effects of Dominance in Business (Philosophy of Management)
This paper strengthens Anderson's critique of workplace dictatorships by incorporating Smith's insights on labor division's harmful effects. The authors argue that workplace unfreedom is more severe than Anderson acknowledges, requiring stronger institutional remedies than she proposes to address worker domination.

Ben Matthies, Assistant Professor of Finance
Benjamin Golez, William and Cassie Daley Associate Professor of Finance
Fed Information Effects: Evidence from the Equity Term Structure (Journal of Financial Economics)
This study explores whether Fed interest rate decisions signal information about the state of the economy to investors. The authors use option prices to construct a short-horizon equity asset, a claim to aggregate dividends over the next six months, and study its response in a narrow window around FOMC announcements. The authors find a positive relationship between monetary policy surprises and short-horizon asset responses, revealing that short-term and long-term equity assets move in opposite directions on average following Federal Open Market Committee announcements. This pattern suggests that market participants interpret central bank policy decisions as conveying information about economic conditions. As a result, surprise accommodative monetary policy actions intended to stimulate economic growth may prove counterproductive if market participants interpret them as indicators of deteriorating economic conditions and curtail investment accordingly.

John Lalor, Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
Ahmed Abbasi, Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
Kezia Oketch, Ph.D. in Analytics Candidate
Should Fairness be a Metric or a Model? A Model-based Framework for Assessing Bias in Machine Learning Pipelines (ACM Transactions on Information Systems)
This paper introduces FAIR-Frame, a framework for modeling fairness across multiple protected attributes in ML models. Extensive testing showed that FAIR-Frame’s representational fairness measures better align with and predict allocational harm observed in downstream applications. FAIR-Frame has important implications for various ML contexts, including information retrieval, user modeling, digital platforms, and text classification, where responsible and trustworthy AI are becoming an imperative.

Cindy Muir, Professor of Management & Organization
Supervisor integrity empowers employees to advocate for diversity in problematic climates (Journal of Applied Psychology)
This research explores why supervisors often struggle to inspire employees to engage in diversity advocacy — moral, value-centric behaviors that actively support equity in the workplace for all employees. The authors propose that a key reason may be that employees don’t feel empowered to take such action. However, they argue that when supervisors demonstrate strong integrity by consistently adhering to valued, acceptable principles, it can inspire employees to step up as advocates, especially in environments where the diversity climate is perceived as poor because that’s when employees may feel their actions are most needed. The theory is tested through three studies: a field survey, an experimental vignette, and a behavioral experiment.

Shijie Lu, Howard J. and Geraldine F. Korth Associate Professor of Marketing
Within-Category Satiation and Cross-Category Spillover in Multiproduct Advertising (Journal of Marketing)
This study examines how privacy-preserving policies, such as reduced consumer data retention, affect consumer behavior, advertiser profits, and platform revenues in the context of multiproduct ads (MPAs). While enhancing privacy, these measures lower ad variety, reducing consumer engagement and ad effectiveness due to intensified within-category satiation and weakened cross-category complementarity. The findings underscore the challenge for ad platforms in balancing privacy with consumer interest and advertiser profitability.

Please join me in congratulating the winners and I hope to see you at the presentations on May 2.

In Notre Dame,

Martijn

Martijn Cremers
Martin J. Gillen Dean
Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance

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Construction Updates

Mendoza Facilities


Building the Good in Business

Restroom Closure Notice – April 28–30

The men’s and women’s restrooms on the west side of the lower level will be closed from Monday, April 28 through Wednesday, April 30, as crews work to safely remove ceramic tiles containing very low levels of lead. The work area will be fully enclosed with plastic barriers, and air quality will be monitored throughout the process.

 

Please follow all posted signage and avoid entering restricted areas.

 

 

Please email questions or concerns to mendoza-fixit-list@nd.edu.

January 13, 2025

MCOB Updates


Wall Street Journal Subscription Update

Collections Update from the Mahaffey Business Library

We now have direct access to the Wall Street Journal

If you are already personally subscribed to the Wall Street Journal already. Do 2 things:
1. Cancel your current subscription
Please email AcademicSupport@dowjones.com or call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel. When
requesting an account cancellation, indicate that your University has partnered with WSJ to
provide complimentary memberships to students, faculty, and staff.

2. Go to WSJ.com/ND and do a one-time account creation.

If you are not personally subscribed to the Wall Street Journal. Do 1 thing:
1. Go to WSJ.com/ND and do a one-time account creation

Our Capital IQ access policy has changed and can now be accessed by the following methods.
1. Access Capital IQ at the following link with your netID and password.
2. Alternatively, access as a clickable icon in okta.nd.ed

Please reach out to Ask a Business Librarian if the sign-in gives you an error or the Okta icon does not
appear

Accounts from the previous policy will still work for a brief migration grace period. Eventually, these
accounts will become inaccessible requiring all users to access via the new policy. Our Business Library Databases Page also maintains active links to each of these resources in addition to many others.

October 10, 2022

Mendoza IT

Tech Tips


Google Scholar

Citation analysis is being monitored more in the academic profession as a measure of impact. By creating a Google Scholar Profile (leave it public, which is the default) you can increase the accessibility of your research and have immediate access to h-statistics and other impact metrics.

February 3, 2020

ND Google Shortcuts

Did you know there are shortcuts to log in to your ND Gmail and other Google services? If you visit google.nd.edu you are taken directly to Google Drive, or to the login page if you are not already logged in. You can also skip logging in to insideND or visiting gmail.com by going directly to gmail.nd.edu for Gmail. You can also go directly to Google Calendar by visiting gcalendar.nd.edu.

February 3, 2020

Manage When Participants Join Zoom

If you enable Waiting Room in your Zoom settings, you can manage when new attendees are able to join a meeting from the list of Participants. When these tools are enabled, the option to allow attendees to join the meeting before the host arrives is automatically disabled.

February 3, 2020

Window Snapping

In Windows, you can drag a window to the left or right edge of your screen to make it fill one half of the screen, or drag to the top of the screen to maximize the window. View two windows side by side quickly and easily. You can also press the Windows key + left or right arrow to make the active window fill the left or right side of the screen.


Minimize All Windows

Sometimes you have a bunch of applications running, and you want it all to go away so you can get to the desktop. Simply pressing Windows key + D will minimize everything you have up, which will save you some time pressing the minimize button for each window. To bring everything back, press the Windows key + D again to restore your windows.