Frank M. Bass
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Frank. M. Bass, the Eugene McDermott Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas, passed away on December 1, 2006
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:25:34 -0700
From: "Popkowski-Leszczyc, Peter" <ppopkows@ualberta.ca>
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is with great sadness that we report to you the news that Frank. M. Bass, the Eugene McDermott Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas has passed away on December 1, 2006. Frank has been one of the founders of our field and his list of accomplishments is long. He has received many major awards, including a nomination for the Nobel price. He will in particular be remembered for his papers, especially the Bass model, published in Management Science, which has about 600 citations and is the 5th most cited article in the journal’s history. He will also be remembered for the supervision of close to 60 Ph.D. students, many of whom are established researchers in the field of marketing.
His wife Portia Bass has provided information concerning Frank’s funeral arrangements on his website at: http://frankbass.org/fmb/fmb.aspx (an obituary will be posted soon). A request has been made to not send any flowers; instead it was Frank’s wish that contributions are made to the Frank M. Bass Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas http://som.utdallas.edu/bass/).
He was our friend, colleague and mentor and he will be missed a lot,
Dominique Hanssens
Don Lehmann
Bob Leone
Len Parsons
Peter T.L. Popkowski Leszczyc
Dave Reibstein
And the other 50+ Bass students