NEW HEAD FOR LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE 

Arun Sharma, professor of marketing, was appointed executive director of the School’s Johnson A. Edosomwan Leadership Institute. The institute, founded in 2006, seeks to facilitate global re-search and teaching in the area of leadership.

LEADING INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR JOINS FACULTY 

David Weinstein, Emeritus Van Leer Professor of Industrial Marketing at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading graduate business schools, joined the School’s marketing department as a visiting faculty member. He will teach in the School’s Spanish-language Global Executive MBA program.

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT EDITORIAL BOARD 

Cecily Cooper, associate professor of management, joined the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, one of the top five most influential and frequently cited management journals.

SERVICE SECTOR HONORS 

A. Parasuraman, James W. McLamore Chair and professor of marketing, won a Best Article Award from the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. He was also appointed to the International Advisory Panel for a project for the government of Dubai, related to services delivery, and was named one of the directors of the Indian nonprofit Custommerce. In addition, Maastricht University in the Netherlands awarded Parasuraman an honorary doctorate. Parasuraman recently made plenary presentations at the Customer Experience Con-ference in Johannesburg, South Africa; the 13th Annual International Conference on Quality and Service Sciences, in Cottbus, Germany; and the International Conference on Services in Emerg-ing Markets, in Hyderabad, India.

FORMER DEAN RECOGNIZED 

The UM Board of Trustees honored former School of Business Dean Barbara E. Kahn for her distinguished service to the University. Kahn in January returned to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.