Category: Faculty in Focus

Bruce Barry, the Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Professor of Management, was named Chair of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Conflict Management and Associate Editor of the scholarly journal Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.

Nick Bollen, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Finance, was promoted to full professor.

Jim Bradford, Dean and Ralph Owen Professor of Management, was reappointed Dean of Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management for a five-year term, effective July 1.

Michael Burcham, Lecturer, was appointed President of the newly formed Nashville Entrepreneur Center.

Bill Christie, the Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Finance, continues his appointment as Editor of the journal Financial Management through 2011.

Bruce Cooil, the Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management, received the 2010 Faculty Research Impact Award.

Tim DuBois, Clinical Professor of Management, was named Vice President and Managing Executive of Nashville’s newly expanded regional office of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Ray Friedman, the Brownlee O. Currey Professor of Management, joined the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and received a 2009 Visiting Scholar Grant from the National Science Council of the Republic of China. He also won Best Empirical Paper 2009, International Association for Conflict Management (with Wu Liu and Ying-yi Hong) and Best Practitioner Presentation Award, 18th Frontiers in Services Conference, Honolulu, 2009 (with Bart Larivière, Timothy Keiningham, MBA’89, and Lerzan Aksoy).

Tim Gardner, Associate Professor of Management, was appointed to a three-year term as a member of the editorial board of the journal Personnel Psychology.

Nancy Lea Hyer, Associate Professor of Operations Management, won Best Paper 2009 from the Journal of Operations Management (with Dr. John A. Morris Jr. from Vanderbilt University Medical Center).

Dawn Iacobucci, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Marketing, won the American Marketing Association Excellence in Research Award.

Debra Jeter, Associate Professor of Accounting, was appointed Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education and was named to the editorial board of The Accounting Review.

Michael Lapré, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Operations Management, continues as Department Editor for Production and Operations Management (2006–present) and Associate Editor of Management Science (2009–present) and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2007–2010).

Craig Lewis, the Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Management, is serving a visiting appointment at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Brian McCann, Visiting Faculty of Strategic Management, won the 2010 Executive MBA Outstanding Teaching Award.

Steve Posavac, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing, was promoted to full professor and received the 2010 Faculty Research Productivity Award.

Ranga Ramanujam, Associate Professor of Management, joined the editorial board of Organization Science and was granted tenure. He also was a finalist for the Academy for Management Review Best Paper Award in 2009.

Gary Scudder, the Justin Potter Professor of Operations Management, was appointed Associate Editor of Operations Management Review.

Mike Shor, Assistant Professor of Management, was presented the 2010 James A. Webb Excellence in Teaching Award.

Bob Whaley, the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management, won the 11th Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for Best Article published in the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2009.

Jim Schorr’s first year as an MBA student was a transformative one. He had enrolled at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University expecting to pursue a career in international business, but a class called Business & Its Environment and guest lectures by a couple of dynamic social entrepreneurs—Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, and Anita Roddick, Founder of the Body Shop—pointed him in a new direction.

“The combination of the class and those guest speakers introduced me to the idea that business could be a powerful force for social impact and injected a greater sense of purpose into my career path,” says Schorr, Clinical Professor of Management.

This newfound inspiration led Schorr to co-found Students for Responsible Business, which later evolved into Net Impact, an international nonprofit organization that educates and equips students to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world through business. Owen hosted Net Impact’s annual conference in 2007, attracting more than 1,800 MBAs from all over the world. Schorr continues to play a key role in the organization’s success, serving as Board Chair.

At Owen, Schorr is working toward launching the Vanderbilt Center for Business & Society, which echoes his previous work at University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Responsible Business. The objective of the center is to enrich the student experience by developing courses, programs, events and other content in three areas: corporate responsibility, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.

“My role here is to build on what Jim Bradford, Bart Victor and others have been doing at Owen for years,” Schorr says. “As enthusiastic as I am about this new initiative, I know that it wouldn’t be possible without their groundwork.”

If accounting is the language of business, then it might come as a surprise just how much is lost in translation from one country to the next. For years countries have been following their own reporting standards, making it difficult for accountants and investors in one part of the world to understand the financial statements of companies in another.

All of that is changing, though. There is a movement underway called the Global Convergence of Accounting Standards, which aims to unify reporting standards under one set of rules—the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Richard Willis, Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker Jr. Associate Professor of Accounting, is making sure that his students are prepared for these coming changes.

“It’s an interesting time to be in this field,” Willis says. “I see accountants becoming more mobile geographically. To think that we can teach someone the principles of accounting here at Owen, and then that person can practice elsewhere in the world is really exciting.”

Since companies are afforded more discretion under IFRS, Willis expects there to be a rise in accounting scandals—and, consequently, an increased need for capable ac-countants. “Accounting discretion helps managers provide information to investors in the most meaningful way, but the flip side is that managers can misuse discretion to obscure the truth,” he says. “Auditing and enforcement will continue to play an important role, and I expect accountants to be even more in demand.”

Jeff Dotson
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Jeff Dotson is an expert on marketing research and theory. His research focuses on the development and application of Bayesian statistics to a variety of marketing problems, including linking customer satisfaction to firm financial performance and developing more accurate models of consumer decision making. He joined Owen after completing his Ph.D. in marketing at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, where he taught marketing research and served as a Teaching Assistant for courses in Bayesian statistics and marketing.

His research has been published or accepted for publication by such journals as Quantitative Marketing and Economics and Marketing Science, and he has presented his work at leading academic institutions including Brigham Young University, Harvard Business School, University of Iowa, University of Southern California, and INSEAD. In addition Dotson is actively involved in the marketing research practitioner community. He presented papers at the American Marketing Association’s Advanced Research Techniques (ART) Forum in 2007 and 2009, where he was runner-up (2007) and winner (2009) of the award for best presentation.

In 2007 and 2008 Dotson was honored as a Haring Symposium Fellow. He was also an INFORMS Doctoral Consortium Fellow in 2006. From 2005 to 2009 he was the recipient of the Davidson Doctoral Fellowship from the Fisher College of Business, and is currently a member of INFORMS, the American Marketing Association and the American Statistical Association.

Prior to his academic career, Dotson worked as a Category Manager and Senior Analyst for a national consumer packaged goods firm. He also has extensive professional experience in retail banking and recently completed a three-year term as Vice Chairman of the board of directors for a regional credit union.

Miguel Palacios
Assistant Professor of Finance

Miguel Palacios’ primary research interests are in the areas of asset pricing and labor economics, particularly as they relate to human capital. He joined Owen after completing his Ph.D. in finance at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a Graduate Instructor for several finance courses and received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Dean Witter Fellowship and the Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award.

He is the author of Investing in Human Capital: A Capital Market’s Approach to Student Funding (Cambridge University Press) and co-author of the monograph Investing in Emerging Markets (Research Foundation of AIMR).

Palacios has presented at conferences at universities and private and government organizations such as the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, University of Virginia, Libertad y Desarollo (Santiago, Chile) and the Korean Education Ministry. He has also served as a Referee for The Economic Journal and Management Science.

In 2001 Palacios co-founded Lumni Inc., which structures and manages innovative investment vehicles for financing education in which students agree to pay a percentage of their future income in exchange for financing of their education costs. He has also worked as a Summer Associate at ValuePartners LLC and an Economic Studies Analyst at Sigma S.A. He began his academic career by teaching physics at Colegio Los Nogales in Bogotá, Colombia.

Palacios is an instrument-rated pilot and has been a member of Colombia’s water-skiing team. He recently ranked third (2006) and fourth (2008) on the West Coast in Men’s II Trick Water Skiing.

Mark Ratchford
Assistant Professor of Marketing

Mark Ratchford is an expert in consumer behavior and game-theory-based models of marketing strategy. He joined Owen after completing his Ph.D. in marketing at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, where he taught marketing research and consumer behavior and was awarded the Gerald Hart Research Fellowship and the University Fellowship.

His primary research interests include the impact of social networks on coalitions among firms, perceptions of firm fairness and the optimal strategic marketing mix for branded input products. He has also conducted behavioral research on the impact of goal setting and self-regulatory resource depletion of subsequent task performance.

Ratchford has presented his work at several major conferences, including the Association for Consumer Research Conference and INFORMS Marketing Science Conference. In 2006 he was an invited speaker at the Robert Mittelstaedt Marketing Doctoral Symposium in Lincoln, Neb., and was honored with the Best Paper Award at the American Marketing Association Winter Educators Conference. He is an AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow and serves as a Conference Referee for the Association for Consumer Research.

Earlier in his career Ratchford held analyst roles for ATX Telecommunications, Boat America Corporation, Teligent Inc. and PacifiCorp. He also served as Director of Industry Affairs for the Wireless Communications Association International in Washington, D.C.

Ratchford is affiliated with several other professional organizations, including the American Marketing Association, Association for Consumer Research, Society for Consumer Psychology and INFORMS, and is a member of the professional business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi.

	Jim Bradford, Dean and Ralph Owen Professor of Management, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the association of leading graduate business schools worldwide.
	William (Bill) Frist, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, has been named University Distinguished Professor in Health Care. At Owen he is leading a first-of-its-kind academic experience for Health Care MBA students, having created a unique class that combines business students with fourth-year medical students to examine the financing, delivery and quality of health care.
	Chad Holliday, a nationally renowned business leader who has been championing the business case for sustainable development and corporate responsibility, has been named Executive in Residence. Holliday serves on the boards of directors at DuPont (Chairman) and Deere & Co., and has led numerous collaborations focused on harnessing business for social good.
	Dawn Iacobucci, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing, has been named Associate Dean for Faculty Development. In this role she is responsible for all faculty evaluation, promotion and tenure recommendations and collaborates with directors of the school’s degree programs on curriculum development.
	Brian McCann has been named Visiting Lecturer in Strategy after serving as Adjunct Professor of Management at Owen since 2005. His areas of expertise span strategic management and entrepreneurship. He is the co-author (with Luke Froeb, William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise) of the leading textbook Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach.
	David Owens, Clinical Professor of Business Strategy and Innovation, has been named Faculty Director of the Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute. In this role Owens oversees the curriculum for and delivery of all nondegree professional development offerings and works to expand Owen’s portfolio of programs in key industry sectors such as health care, law and sustainability.

	Bruce Barry Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Professor of Management Barry has conducted vast research and written extensively on social issues in management. He is the author of Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace, which examines free expression and workplace rights from legal, managerial and ethical perspectives.
	Paul Chaney E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Accounting An expert in financial accounting and financial statement analysis, Chaney recently co-authored a landmark study that found a direct correlation between the public perception of an auditor’s reputation and a company’s market value.
	David Parsley E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Economics and Finance Parsley’s current research focuses on exchange rates and the integration of goods and services markets, financial markets and labor markets. He has also measured the effects of political connections on firm financial performance.
	Steve Posavac E. Bronson Ingram Associate Professor in Marketing Posavac is an expert in the field of consumer judgment and decision processes, including perceptions of value, and advertising and persuasion.
	Jacob S. Sagi Vanderbilt Financial Markets Research Center Associate Professor of Finance Sagi, an expert on financial economics and decision theory, has conducted extensive research on asset pricing and decision making under risk and uncertainty.
	Gary Scudder Justin Potter Professor of Operations Management Scudder’s research interests include business strategy and operations management. He has consulted with a number of large corporations, primarily in the areas of managing new product development and strategic planning.
	Richard H. Willis Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker Jr. Associate Professor of Accounting Willis has studied the effect of security analysts’ earnings forecasts on analysts’ performance evaluation, the determinants of persistence in analysts’ stock picking ability, and the effect of investor sophistication in interpreting analysts’ stock recommendations, among other topics.

	Nick Bollen, E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Finance, received the Faculty Research Impact Award. One of his early papers, an analysis of the impact of decimal pricing on mutual fund trading costs, proved especially groundbreaking. His most recent work showed that mounting restrictions on hedge fund withdrawals can erode investor value by as much as 15 percent.
	Michael Burcham, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, was selected by the Executive MBA Class of 2009 to receive the Executive MBA Outstanding Professor Award.
	Dewey Daane, the Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, Emeritus, has been honored for more than three decades of service to Owen. He was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to the Federal Reserve Board and represented the United States from 1963 to 1974 as one of the two U.S. Deputies of the Group of Ten in their frequent meetings related to the international monetary crises.
	Michael Lapré, E. Bronson Ingram Associate Professor in Operations Management, received a 2008 Manufacturing & Service Operations and Management (M&SOM) Meritorious Service Award for providing timely, unbiased and thoughtful reviews of manuscripts submitted to the journal.
	Craig Lewis, Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Management in Finance, was selected by the MBA Class of 2009 to receive the James A. Webb Excellence in Teaching Award. Lewis teaches Corporate Valuation, one of the most beloved (and feared) classes in the MBA program.
	Richard Oliver, Professor of Marketing at Owen since 1990, has been named Professor, Emeritus. A renowned researcher and pioneer in the field of consumer psychology, Oliver received the prestigious 2008 Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing Award for his work, titled “Whence Consumer Loyalty.”
	Jacob Sagi, Financial Markets Research Center Associate Professor of Finance, received the Faculty Research Productivity Award for his extensive analyses on financial economics and decision theory.

Joseph D. Blackburn, James A. Speyer Professor of Production Management, was honored as a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society in recognition of his research contributions to the field.

Mark A. Cohen, Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Enterprise (Strategy and Economics), was appointed Vice President for Research at Resources for the Future (RFF), a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research on environmental, energy and natural resource issues.

Bruce Cooil, Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management (Statistics), received the 2007 Marketing Science Institute/H. Paul Root Award and Outstanding Paper Award for his research into the fallacy of the Net Promoter customer loyalty metric.

Salvatore T. March, David K. Wilson Professor of Management (Information Technology), was honored with the Design Science Lifetime Achievement Award, presented at the 2008 International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST).

Ronald W. Masulis, Frank K. Houston Professor of Management (Finance), received the 2007 Hana Bank Outstanding Paper Award at the Second Annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets in South Korea for his work titled “Agency Problems at Dual-Class Companies.”

Richard L. Oliver, Professor of Management (Marketing), was the recipient of the 2007 Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing Award, which honored his 1999 paper “Whence Customer Loyalty” as having made the most significant long-term contributions to marketing theory and practice.

Hans Stoll, The Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker Professor of Finance and Director of the Financial Markets Research Center, was awarded an honorary degree by Goethe University Frankfurt, the leading German university in the area of financial markets.

Research and Teaching Awards

Dean’s Award for Research Impact

Dawn Iacobucci, E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Marketing

An expert on social networks, customer satisfaction and service marketing, Iacobucci has authored 47 papers in refereed journals including Marketing Science, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing and Journal of Marketing Research. She also co-authored Marketing Research: Methodological Foundations, the leading marketing research text in the industry and has authored and edited several additional books on services and integrated marketing.

Dean’s Award for Research Productivity

Steve Hoeffler, Associate Professor of Management (Marketing)

Hoeffler’s research on such topics as positioning multiple category products, marketing radically new products and the advantages of strong brands have appeared in such journals as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology and Journal of Product Innovation Management. Hoeffler also has served as Chair for the Consumer Behavior Track of the American Marketing Association Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference.

James A. Webb Excellence in Teaching Award

Mikhael Shor, Assistant Professor of Management (Strategy and Economics)

Shor teaches Game Theory and Business Strategy, as well as Pricing Strategies—two highly regarded courses in the MBA program. His expertise is in the fields of game theory, experimental economics and industrial organization, and his theoretical work on the effects of mergers in auction markets is accompanied by experimental research into human decision making.

Executive MBA Excellence in Teaching Award

Nancy Lea Hyer, Associate Professor of Management (Operations)

Hyer teaches Operations Management to the Executive MBA students and was cited for the energy, intellect, respect and enthusiasm she shows in the classroom. Before joining the Owen faculty, Hyer served as Operations Research Manager for the Hewlett-Packard Network Measurements Division in Santa Rosa, Calif. Her work in the academic and business communities has focused on cellular manufacturing, process redesign and project management.

Sen. William H. Frist, M.D.

University Distinguished Professor

Professor Frist joins the faculty of the Owen School as part of a joint appointment with the Vanderbilt University Medical School (VUMC). Drawing upon his vast knowledge of and storied career in both medicine and politics, Frist will teach a new course that brings together Vanderbilt Health Care MBA students and fourth-year medical students to examine the financing, delivery and quality of health care in the United States and around the globe. Board certified in both general and cardiothoracic surgery, Frist has performed over 150 heart and lung transplants, including the first lung transplant and first pediatric heart transplant in Tennessee and the first successful combined heart-lung transplant in the South. In 1986 Frist became Director of VUMC’s Heart and Lung Transplantation Program and later founded the Southeast’s first multi-organ, multidisciplinary transplant center at Vanderbilt, which quickly became recognized as one of the premier transplant facilities in the nation. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, over 400 newspaper articles and five books on topics such as bioterrorism and transplantation. In 1994 Frist embarked on a career in public office and won election to the U.S. Senate for the state of Tennessee, becoming the first practicing physician to be elected to that body since 1928. In 2006 his colleagues unanimously chose him to serve as the 16th Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. Prior to his retirement from the Senate in 2007 after his pledged two terms of service, he was a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, where he served as the Congressional Representative to the United Nations General Assembly in the 107th Congress. Frist also currently serves as Partner and Chairman of the Executive Board of Cressey & Company LP, and was the 2007-2008 Frederick H. Schultz Professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In addition to leading annual medical mission trips to Africa as part of World Medical Mission, Frist serves as Co-Chair of the ONE Campaign’s presidential initiative (ONE Vote ’08) and Save the Children’s “Survive to Five” Campaign, and as Chair of Hope through Healing Hands, which promotes improved quality of life for communities around the world. His other current board service includes Africare, the U.S. Holocaust Museum’s Committee on Conscience, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, and the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project.

David Owens

Clinical Professor of Management (Leadership and Innovation)
Assistant to the Provost for Strategic Process Innovation

David Owens returns to the Owen faculty—where he previously served for more than a decade—after his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Nashville-based Griffin Technology, the largest developer of accessories for iPods, iPhones and portable MP3 players. Beyond teaching in the MBA program and serving as a Faculty Director for the Executive Development Institute at Vanderbilt, Owens will serve as Assistant to the Provost for Strategy and Innovation at Vanderbilt University, where he works to develop a holistic and innovative approach to the university’s strategic planning. Among Owens’ areas of expertise are business strategy, product development and strategic innovation. He delivers executive education programs and consulting services on these topics to a wide range of clients around the world, and his research has been published in several leading academic journals and featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian (U.K.), The San Jose Mercury News and Marketplace Radio, among other media outlets. He is also the recipient of numerous teaching awards and consistently high ratings from students in his courses, programs and executive seminars. His recent education and consulting work in the area of business strategy, innovation process and product development have included engagements with such organizations as NASA, LEGO, Gibson Guitar, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Bridgestone Firestone, Sygen International, OrangeUK, Alcatel, Tetra Pak, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, among others. He has also performed product design consulting work for a variety of firms including Daimler Benz, Apple Computer, Coleman Camping, Corning World Kitchen, Steelcase and IDEO. Owens was a Co-Founder of Nova Bionics, a medical device start-up now part of Micro International, and he served as Global Director of Product Development for SeriousPlay, a LEGO Group company, during its start-up phase. He also worked as a Product Design Engineer at IDEO, a leading product development consulting company in Palo Alto, Calif. In a prior career, Owens became registered as a Professional Electrical Engineer while designing power distribution systems at the San Francisco International Airport.

Rangaraj “Ranga” Ramanujam

Associate Professor of Management (Organizational Studies)

Ranga Ramanujam is a leading researcher and consultant on the organizational causes and consequences of errors in high-risk work settings. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Medical Care, Journal of Patient Safety and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Among his current research interests are leadership, organizational change and design in the context of patient safety in hospitals and operational risk in financial institutions. Prior to joining Owen, Ramanujam served as Assistant Professor of Management at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, where he received several teaching awards and served as a research fellow at the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. He has also served as a Research Scientist at the Center of Excellence for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice at the Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis and Area Marketing Manager for Standard Chartered Bank in India. He has consulted for a wide range of organizations, such as the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, Clarian Health Partners, the Indiana State Patient Safety Center, International Association of Holiday Inns and Sennheiser Corporation. In addition his work has been presented at meetings of the Academy of Management, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Production and Operations Management Society. Ramanujam is currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Organizational Behaviors and the Stanford University Press book series on high reliability organizations. He also served as Chair of the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors’ taskforce that reviewed the Institute of Medicine Report on Performance Measurement in Healthcare.

James L. Schorr

Clinical Professor of Management (Ethics, Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship)

Jim Schorr has 15 years of experience working at the intersection of business and society, and is among the nation’s leading experts on issues of social enterprise and entrepreneurship. In 1993 he co-founded Net Impact, a global network which has since enabled more than 25,000 graduate business students and professionals on five continents to integrate social and environmental priorities into their educations and careers. From 2000 to 2007 Schorr was CEO of Juma Ventures, one of the most well-known and admired social enterprises in the world. During his tenure Juma Ventures was profiled in Harvard Business Review as a model organization in this field. His career has also included leadership and consulting positions with major corporations, start-up companies and government agencies, giving Schorr insights into the role of business in society from a variety of perspectives. Other organizations in which he has served include: Cobra Golf, Windermere Associates, Ecom Brands and Florida Leisure Corp. Prior to joining Owen, Schorr was a faculty member at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed and taught coursework on social enterprise and entrepreneurship within the school’s Center for Responsible Business. He continues to serve as Board Chair of Net Impact, and is on the Board of Directors for the Social Enterprise Alliance, Global Social Venture Competition and Juma Ventures. Schorr’s perspectives on social enterprise have been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and he has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences and events, including the 2008 Social Enterprise World Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland.