New leadership position uses data and metrics to improve student experience.
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Mastering Academic Effectiveness

Photo: Todd Chaykosky

Bauer College continues to strengthen its focus on student success in the classroom with the addition of a new staff leadership position, Executive Director of Academic Effectiveness, which will be filled by longtime accreditation staff member Todd Chaykosky.

This new college-level position will proactively use data and metrics to work with department and program leaders to improve student experience across Bauer programs and courses.

Photo: Amy Horner

Woman to Watch

Bauer College Executive DBA Program Academic Director Amy Horner is a part of an elite group of women across the world, recognized by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in their inaugural Global Women to Watch program.

Bauer Climbs U. S. News Ranking

The C. T. Bauer College of Business has jumped several spots in the recently released U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best Online Business Masters list.

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Recognitions and Awards

Assistant Professor Jinghui (Jove) Hou has been named Associate Editor for Information & Management.

Associate Professor Xiao Ma has been added to the editorial reviewer board (ERB) of Information Systems Research.

Professor Micheal Ahearne was named #1 in Sales by ScholarGPS.

Associate Professor Johannes Habel was named winner of the Marvin Jolson Award for the best contribution to selling and sales management practice, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management: Friess, Maximilian, Sascha Alavi, Johannes Habel, and Bianca Richter (2024), "When Sales Leaders Induce Competition among Sales Employees: A Source of Motivation or Exhaustion?" Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, 44 (4), 355-373.

Assistant Professor Martin Krämer and his colleagues were named the winner of the 10th Annual Young Scholar Research (YSR) Competition, Organizational Frontlines Interest Group, American Marketing Association: Gabriel, Anna, Martin Krämer, Jonas Rübertus, and Sascha Alavi (2026), "Compensatory Incentives in Multi-Channel Conflicts," AMA Winter Academic Conference, American Marketing Association, Madrid, Spain.

Associate Professor Johannes Habel, Professor Michael Ahearne and their colleagues were named winners of the 10th Annual Young Scholar Research (YSR) Competition, Organizational Frontlines Interest Group, American Marketing Association: Jacob, Saskia, Nathaniel Hartmann, Johannes Habel, and Michael Ahearne (2026), “Does Verbal Mirroring Make the Sale? The Role of Linguistic Features and Timing,” AMA Winter Academic Conference, American Marketing Association, Madrid, Spain.

Recent Publications and Acceptances

By Department

Department of Marketing

Hartmann, Nathaniel N., Heiko Wieland, Nawar N. Chaker, Johannes Habel, and Frederick J. Tyler: "Sales content platforms and opportunity conversion," Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.

Beeler, Lisa, Ryan Mullins, and Johannes Habel: "Using Latent Profile Analysis to advance Job Demands-Resources Theory: An empirical demonstration in the sales context," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, forthcoming.

Schmitz, Bianca, Olaf Plötner, and Johannes Habel (2026), "Why Salespeople Fear Pitching RadicalInnovation," MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring.

 

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Vanessa Patrick
Associate Dean of Research
vpatrick@uh.edu

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