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January-February, 2008
Management and International Business
“Measuring Work Preferences: A Multidimensional Tool to Enhance Career Self-Management,” an article co-authored by G. Ronald Gilbert, clinical professor, Department of Management and International Business, has been published in Career Development International. Read more.
Ed Glab, director, Knight Ridder Center for Excellence in Management and clinical professor, Department of Management and International Business, was featured in a segment on “En Efectivo,” hosted by Gabriel Frias on CNN en Espanol. In addition to the interview, the segment included stock footage and other commentary on global oil, and was repeated approximately eight times. Glab participated in a colloquium titled “The Millennium Challenge Corporation in Latin America,” which also featured Ambassador John J. Danilovich, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Presented by the Summit of the Americas Center (SOAC) at Florida International University, the event took place on February 1, 2008.
Palgrave Macmillanhas published two books co-edited by Jerry Haar, associate dean for international affairs and projects and professor, Department of Management and International Business: Small Firms, Global Markets: Competitive Challenges in the New Economy, and Can Latin America Compete: Confronting the Challenges of Globalization. Also, on January 30, 2008, Haar was a panelist at a Connections event, a multinational series put on by WorldCity. The topic was “Global Economic Outlook 2008.” In addition, he published an op-ed piece titled “Florida’s Future Rests on Research, Technology, Talent” in the Miami Herald on February 28, 2008.
Two faculty members in the Department of Management and International Business have received 2008 Kauffman Professor Awards from the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center. Sumit Kundu, Knight Ridder Center Research Professor, will research international entrepreneurship in the software industry, focusing on evidence from Asia-Pacific, and Assistant Professor William Schneper will undertake two projects on entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and the concept of the firm.
Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Stylianos Drakatos (PhD ’06), instructor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, has obtained his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) after having successfully passed the examination. Also, his paper, “A Future Location-Aware Replacement Policy for the Cache Management at the Mobile Computing Environments,” has been accepted for publication in the journal Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
Kaushik Dutta, assistant professor, Decision Sciences and Information Systems, has been appointed area editor (database and data management) for the Journal of Systems and Software, published by Elsevier.
Iris Mack, instructor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems met with Robert E. Rubin, former Treasury Secretary, former chair and current chair of the board of Citibank, former chair of Goldman Sachs, and founder of the Hamilton Project, a new think tank, on January 10, 2008, in Miami, Florida. The purpose of the one-on-one meeting was to discuss their interest in social venture networks, including the Mathematics Edutainment Social Network of which Mack is the president and CEO. She and her colleagues at Phat Math, Inc. have launched a new mathematics edutainment social network (SNW) at www.phatmath.com. Among its features, the SNW will give students (K-12 and college) access to free 24/7 online mathematics homework help.
Finance and Real Estate
Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam appointed John S. Zdanowicz, professor, Department of Finance and Real Estate, to the Florida International Bankers’ Association (FIBA) Professorship, effective January 1, 2008, for a period of three years. The FIBA professorship was established in 1998 thanks to a $100,000 gift (to which 50 percent in state matching funds were added) from FIBA to endow a professorship in international finance. As a FIBA professor, he will continue to conduct research, teach courses in the field, and serve actively in the academic community. He also will be the college’s liaison to FIBA and will both attend and participate in that organization’s professional and social functions.
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