Faculty and ResearchFaculty Awards and Honors

(July 7, 2022) The International Hospitality Institute recognized two FIU Business luxury experts - Anna Pietraszek and Deepak Ohri - in its 2022 Top 100 Most Powerful People in Hospitality list, as change-makers and influencers. MORE

(May 11, 2022) Jerry Haar, professor of international business, has been named a senior fellow at the Council on Competitiveness, an organization that brings together members from academia, business, labor, and the national labs to champion a nonpartisan action agenda that fuels entrepreneurship and spurs the commercialization of new ideas. In this role, he will provide strategic advice to help guide the Council’s policies and strengthen its membership. Haar was chosen for his expertise on matters relating to U.S. competitiveness and is expected to play a key role in several upcoming council initiatives. MORE

(April 18, 2022) Erica Harris, associate professor of accounting, will be conducting research at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland for two months during this summer of 2022. Her project is related to Irish nonprofit organizations. MORE

(April 18, 2022) Minye (Michael) Tang, assistant professor of accounting and faculty fellow in Program Administration and Evaluation, is visiting ISCTE Business School at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon in Portugal for three months during the summer of 2023. He will be working with the finance and accounting faculty and doctoral students on issues related to ESG (environmental, societal, and governance). MORE

Sumit K. Kundu, a professor of international business and James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair of International Business, has been elected vice president and president-elect for the Indian Academy of Management, an affiliate of the Academy of Management, the premier management research and education body of management researchers and educators in the world.

Kundu, who also serves as associate dean, international programs for FIU Business, was also nominated to become a fellow of the BAM Peer Review College. This is an honor bestowed upon a select few scholars by the British Academy of Management. MORE

Flavio Carrillo, an associate teaching professor of finance and director of the FIU Business Capital Markets Lab, has been appointed by the University of Florida as a visiting scholar, a one-year appointment effective spring 2022. His research will focus on Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG). MORE

(December 8, 2021) William Newburry, chair of the Department of International Business, has been named the editor of AIB Insights, the journal of the Academy of International Business. Newburry, Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business, is also an AIB fellow, non-resident senior research fellow at the Nanyang Business School Center for Emerging Markets, and president of the Consortium of Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE). MORE

(June 9, 2021) Anthony Miyazaki, chair and professor, Department of Marketing and Logistics, was recognized as a 2021 Top Scholar by the FIU Office of the Provost, one of 30 faculty members across the university to receive the award. He was recognized for achievements in the category of Globally Engaged and/or Culturally Sensitive Teaching. Miyazaki, who led the establishment of the Master of Marketing, is an expert in cause-related marketing, among other topics. His research on topics such as pricing, online consumer privacy, and state-sponsored lotteries have been published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Product and Brand Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Psychology & Marketing, and others. MORE

(June 9, 2021) Minye (Michael) Tang, assistant professor of accounting, has been named to the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) 2021 class of “30 Under 40,” which honors the most talented young individuals in the investor relations community. He is the sole full-time academic faculty member among the distinguished group of 30 professionals to be selected for the honor by the committee of NRI Fellows.

Founded in 1969, NIRI is the professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communication among corporate management, shareholders, securities analysts and other financial community constituents, and is the largest professional investor relations association in the world. MORE

(June 9, 2021) Jerry Haar, professor of international business, has been invited by the Institute of International Education (IIE) to serve on the National Screening Committee for research and study proposals in Business for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The IIE annually administers the competition for the Fulbright program, sponsored by the United States Department of State in partnership with foreign governments and universities.

Haar, the author of 12 books, is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a research affiliate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He has served as director of Washington Programs for the Council of the Americas, and served as special assistant to two cabinet secretaries. MORE

(May 10, 2021) Marjorie A. Lyles, International Business Distinguished Research Fellow at Florida International University’s College of Business (FIU Business), has be elected as an Academy of Management (AOM) Fellow, one of fourteen scholars worldwide to be selected for the prestigious honor in 2021. The designation of Fellow recognizes and honors members of the academy who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management. It also provides opportunities for fellowship and a forum for discussion among honorees.

Lyles, one of the world’s most prominent scholars in international business and strategy, joined FIU Business as a research fellow in 2018. In a career spanning over 30 years of international business research, teaching and consulting experience, she was most recently the OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration and a professor of international strategic management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. MORE

(May 3, 2021) Stav Fainshmidt, Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar and associate professor of international business at Florida International University (FIU) has received the 2021 Academy of Management IM Division FIU Emerging Scholar Award. The award recognizes the contribution to international management scholarship by a junior scholar. MORE

(January 14, 2021) Real Real Estate professor Zhenguo (Len) Lin, Hollo Research Fellow and professor at the Hollo School of Real Estate, has been appointed to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, one of the top three journals in the real estate field. MORE

(January 14, 2021) William Hardin, associate dean of the Chapman Graduate School, professor of finance and real estate, Knight Ridder Endowed Eminent Scholar and Tibor and Sheila Hollo Research Fellow, has been appointed as co-editor of the Journal of Real Estate Research. The flagship journal of the American Real Estate Society provides insight into issues in real estate for practitioners and academics. The journal focuses on investigating and expanding the frontiers of knowledge that cover business decision-making applications or scholarly real estate research. MORE

(January 14, 2021) Juan I. Sanchez, Knight Ridder Byron Harless Eminent Scholar Chair in Management and eminent scholar, Department of Global Leadership and Management, served on a National Academies of Science panel, “Committee for a Peer Review of a Report Commissioned by the Social Security Administration on Required Mental Health Requirements for Selected Occupations,” work done by the Social Security Administration and its contractors to determine the social interaction and adaptation requirements for a set of selected occupations. MORE

(December 9, 2020) Fred Walumbwa, a professor of international business is among the top 2% of researchers in their fields according to analysis of author citations published by the journal PLOS Biology. The publicly available database provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. Researchers are classified into 22 fields and 176 sub-fields. MORE

(December 9, 2020) Jerry Haar, a professor of international business, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. He will also serve as the editor of a special issue of the journal on the topic of globalization and competitiveness. MORE

(October 14, 2020) FIU Business Dean Joanne Li has been elected to the Greater Miami Chamber Commerce’s 114^th Board of Directors. She will be installed during a board retreat that will be held virtually on November 16. In her role, Dean Li will attend board meetings and assist in membership development, event sponsorships and strategy setting for the organization. MORE. MORE

(October 14, 2020) Research by Jerry Haar, a professor of international business and David Wernick, a teaching professor of international business, has been cited in the World Bank’s latest Global Investment Competitiveness Report, “Rebuilding Investor Confidence in Times of Uncertainty,” recently released. The report, developed in the month’s preceding the outbreak of COVID-19, focuses on trade and investment policy uncertainty due to policy shifts, globally and nationally. It finds that rising policy uncertainty is darkening the outlook for foreign direct investment. MORE

(September 18, 2020) FIU Business Dean Joanne Li has been named one of eight founding members of International Advisory Council for the ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management in Lisbon, Portugal. ISEG is the first Portuguese school of economics and management and is part of the University of Lisbon (ULisboa), the largest and top-ranked Portuguese university. ISEG’s master’s in finance program is currently ranked No. 31 in the world by the Financial Times. MORE

(July 15, 2020) Empirical research by Department of International Business professors Jerry Haar and David Wernick was recently cited in Chapter I of the World Bank report, “Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2019/2020: Rebuilding Investor Confidence in Times of Uncertainty” MORE

(July 7, 2020) George Marakas, director of Doctoral Programs at FIU Business, has been elected to the board of the Executive DBA Council (EDBAC), the international standards and networking body for over 150 DBA programs worldwide. The organization also approves new DBA programs at member universities and colleges. MORE

(July 6, 2020) Seema Pissaris, clinical professor of international business, has been honored with the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching by FIU’s Office of the Provost. She will receive the award at the Faculty Convocation Award Ceremony in fall 2020.

Pissaris teaches graduate level courses in entrepreneurship, leadership and social entrepreneurship. She leads an internship project which provides students the practical skills needed to set up their own enterprise and encourages them to work with mentors, alumni and other business advisors. MORE

(July 6, 2020) Deanne Butchey, university lecturer of finance, has been honored with the Faculty Award for Excellence in Service by FIU’s Office of the Provost. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to FIU Business, the university and the community-at-large. She will receive the award at the Faculty Convocation Award Ceremony in fall 2020.

In 2013, Butchey was recognized with the “Spirit of Service-Learning Award” awarded by the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of South Florida Inc. (RPCVSF), the Miami-Dade Teacher of the Year Coalition, and the Armando Alejandre Jr. Foundation. MORE

(June 10, 2020) Zhenguo (Len) Lin, professor and Hollo Research Fellow at the Hollo School of Real Estate, has received the 2020 Graaskamp Award for 2020 from the American Real Estate Society (ARES). The Graaskamp Award recognizes extraordinary iconoclastic thought and/or action throughout a person’s career in the development of a multi-disciplinary philosophy of real estate.

Lin is a previous winner of the ARES Kinnard Scholar Award, which recognizes outstanding real estate scholarship in the early stage of a real estate career. He was ranked No. 2 globally for 2015-2019 for real estate research by the Journal of Real Estate Literature.  MORE

(September 11, 2019) Ochieng (Fred) Walumbwa, associate professor in the Department of International Business, has been recognized as the fifth most productive leadership scholar during the period 2004 to 2010, and the 11th most influential leadership scholar during the period 1990 through 2017, in a paper recently published in The Leadership Quarterly. MORE

(July 10, 2019) Orhun Guldiken, assistant professor in the Department of International Business, was named a finalist for the Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award at the Academy of International Business annual meeting in Copenhagen, held June 24-27, 2019. MORE

(July 10, 2019) Stav Fainshmidt, assistant professor in the Department of International Business and faculty director of the Master of International Business, received the Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award at the Academy of International Business Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, June 24-27, 2019. MORE

(June 12, 2019) Juan I. Sanchez, chair of the Department of Global Leadership and Management, has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Social Security Administration. He previously served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Functional Assessment of Adults with Disabilities. MORE

(June 12, 2019) Jerry Haar, professor and director of Executive and Professional Education, has published Globalization, Competitiveness, and Governability: The Three Disruptive Forces of Business in the 21st Century, in collaboration with Georgetown University Professor Ricardo Ernst. MORE

(May 22, 2019) William Newberry, chair of the Department of International Business and Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business, has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. MORE

(April 12, 2019) Julia Freybote, assistant professor and director of the Hollo School of Real Estate’s Master of Science in International Real Estate, has won the Kinnard Young Scholar award from the American Real Estate Society. MORE

(April 12, 2019) Zhenguo “Len” Lin, Hollo Research Fellow and associate professor, Tibor and Sheila Hollo School of Real Estate, won the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Real Estate Research, as well as the Red Pen Award, from the Journal of Real Estate Research, widely considered as one of the top three real estate journals. MORE

(April 12, 2019) William Hardin, associate director of the Chapman Graduate School of Business and co-director of the Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute, is the recipient of the International Real Estate Society Achievement Award from the American Real Estate Society. MORE

(April 12, 2019) Kenneth Henry, associate professor of Accounting, has been named chair of the Governance Design Committee of ACCA, the global body for professional accountants. He has served as an ACCA Council member since 2010. MORE

(April 12, 2019) William Newburry, chair, Department of International Business and Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business, is the first co-recipient of the Cuervo-Cazurra & Newburry Award, given to the scholar who contributed most to the scientific capacity of academics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Newburry was also named a Silver Medalist for his legacy of contributions to the Journal of International Business Studies. MORE

(January 16, 2019) Sumit K. Kundu, associate dean, International Programs, academic director, Master of International Business program and James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business, has been appointed associate editor for the Journal of International Management, effective January 2019. MORE

(November 19, 2018) Suzanne Hollander, instructor at the Tibor and Sheila Hollo School of Real Estate and industry liaison, Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute, received the 2018 Career Advancement for Women Impact Award at the national CREW Network Convention and Marketplace. MORE

(August 22, 2018) Fred O. Walumbwa, associate professor in the Department of International Business, has been named one of the most Influential Leadership Scholars between 1990 and 2017 in a recent issue of Leadership Quarterly. MORE

(August 8, 2018) William Hardin, associate dean, Chapman Graduate School and co-director of the Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute, has been ranked in the top 10% of authors by all-time downloads on the SSRN eLibrary. MORE

(August 19, 2018) Kannan Raghunandan (Raghu), Ryder Eminent Scholar, School of Accounting, has been named associate editor for the journal " Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers," published by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. MORE

(August 30, 2018) Julia Freybote, program director, Master of Science in International Real Estate (MSIRE) and assistant professor in the Tibor & Sheila Hollo School of Real Estate, has won the American Real Estate Society's Best Paper Award in the Apartments category. MORE

(August 30, 2018) Dr. Zhenguo (Len) Lin has won American Real Estate Society (ARES) best paper awards for the Housing category for his paper titled, "Price and Trading Volume in the Housing Market." MORE

(July 23, 2018) Zhenguo (Len) Lin, an associate professor in the Hollo School of Real Estate, won a best paper award at the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress, held in Qingdao, China July 20-22. MORE

(July 17, 2018) Finance professors Shahid Hamid, Krishnan Dandapani, Suchismita Mishra and Arun Upadhyay won a best paper award at the 2018 Global Finance Conference, held in Paris July 3-5. MORE

(July 17, 2018) A paper by Fred Walumbwa, professor of management and international business, has been selected as one of the best papers for the upcoming Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting. MORE

(July 17, 2018) Curba Lampert, an assistant professor of management and international business, has been selected as the winner of a 2018 Best Reviewer Award by the Academy of International Business (AIB). MORE

(July 11, 2018) Eli Beracha, associate professor and director of the Hollo School of Real Estate, has been chosen to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (JREFE). MORE

(July 11, 2018) William Hardin, associate dean, Chapman Graduate School and co-director of the Jerome Bain Real Estate Institute, was selected as the 2018 recipient of the International Real Estate Society (IRES) Achievement Award. MORE