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a token representation of female managers. As countries such as South Korea slowly become more diverse, they say, the competi- tive advantage of hiring excluded groups will decrease. The working paper, "Multination- al Firms, Labor Market Discrimina- tion, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide," is available at www.hbs.edu/ research/pdf/11-011.pdf. Culture Predicts Performance Vasyl Taras Can an individual's cultural heritage tell a potential employer more about his or her promise than a personality test? A recent study finds that culture can trump personality when it comes to predicting future work performance and organizational loyalty. The study Piers Steel Brad Kirkman was conducted by Vasyl Taras, assistant professor of international management at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Bryan School of Business and Economics; Piers Steel, associ- ate professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Cal- gary's Haskayne School of Business RESEARCH RECOGNITIONS n Kuntara Pukthuanthong, associate professor of finance at San Diego State University's College of Busi- ness Administration in California, has received a 2010 Lamfalussy Fel- lowship from the European Central Bank. Pukthuanthong was recog- nized for her research proposal, "Are Jumps Between High and Low Volatility Regimes Correlated Across Countries?" The fellowship is one of five awarded on an inter- national basis to scholars younger than 36 years old. n The Aspen Institute has awarded its Faculty Pioneer award to four business professors. The 2010 recipi- ents of the award in the "Lifetime Achievement" category are James Post, the John F. Smith Jr. Profes- sor of Management at the School of Management at Boston University in Massachusetts, and David Vogel, the Solomon P. Lee Professor of Busi- ness Ethics at the Haas School of Business at the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley. The winner in the "Faculty Pio- neer" category is Mark Swilling, a pro- fessor of sustainable development in the School of Public Leadership at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. The winner in the "Rising Star" category is Aaron K. "Ronnie" Chatterji, associate professor in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; and Brad Kirkman, associate professor of management at Texas A&M Univer- sity's Mays Business School in Col- lege Park. The authors examined data from nearly 600 previous studies—which of strategy at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Dur- ham, North Carolina. Vishal Agrawal, assistant professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, received the 2010 Dis- sertation Proposal Award from The Aspen Insitute's Center for Busi- ness Education. The award honors innovation in research in core busi- ness disciplines that consider the interdependence between business decision making, society, and the environment. n Two professors from the Stevens Institute of Technology's Howe School of Technology Manage- ment in Hoboken, New Jersey, each received a Bright Idea Award in Information Technology from the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the New Jersey Policy Research Organization Foun- dation, the public policy research affiliate of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association. German Creamer, associate professor of quan- titative finance and financial engi- neering, received the award for his paper "A link mining algorithm for earnings forecast and trading," pub- lished in the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Assistant professor Tal Ben-Zvi was honored for his paper "Data analysis: A roadmap to better decision-making: Methods, techniques and applications." together surveyed 200,000 individu- als—on how employees' cultural val- ues affected their job outcomes. The data involved 80 factors, including nonverbal communication, percep- tion of justice, and employee rewards. The researchers found that the BizEd JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 55