{"id":12898,"date":"2011-07-29T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=12898"},"modified":"2017-11-03T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:43:48","slug":"faculty-notes-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/07\/faculty-notes-july-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Notes: July 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

School of Accounting<\/em><\/p>\n

Kannan Raghunandan, professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Business Leadership, was recently appointed to a team that is helping the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) set standards related to the preparation and issuing of audit reports by registered public accounting firms.<\/p>\n

Stewart Appelrouth, Manuel Dieguez,\u00a0 Meghna Singhvi and Shawn Wolf have joined the School of Accounting as adjuncts.<\/p>\n

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems<\/em><\/p>\n

Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor and director of health management programs, and Gloria Deckard, associate professor, had their co-authored article \u201cHealthcare Managers\u2019 Perceptions of Professional Development and Organizational Support\u201d published in the summer issue of Journal of Health and Human Services Administration<\/em>. In addition, their co-authored paper \u201dLeadership Development Initiatives Underlie Individual and System Performance in a U.S. Public Healthcare Delivery System\u201d has been accepted for publication in Leadership in Health Services<\/em>. They are editing a casebook, Case Studies in Organizational Behavior in Health Services Organizations<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In June, Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor and director of health management programs, co-presented “Developing Students’ Competencies through a Nontraditional Case Study\u201d <\/em>at the 2011 Association of University Programs in Health Administration\u2019s annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Gloria Deckard, associate professor, has been named associate dean for the R. Kirk Landon Undergraduate Business School at the start of the 2011-12 academic year, a position held by Clifford Perry for the past ten years. He will return to the faculty.<\/p>\n

Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor, and Gloria Deckard, associate professor, were featured in an article titled \u201cFIU College of Business Professors Awarded Contract from AHCA\u201d (Agency for Health Care Administration) in South Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report<\/em>, which appeared on June 20, 2011. The article describes the three-year, $495,980 grant to evaluate the statewide health information exchange being put in by Harris for the State of Florida.<\/p>\n

Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor, was an invited panelist at the 24th annual eConference in Bled, Slovenia, June 12-15, 2011. The session was titled \u201cIndependent eHealth Solutions: Is an Integration Necessary?\u201d<\/p>\n

Arvind Gudi, Shaista Mohammed and Judy Villar Sada have joined the department as adjuncts.<\/p>\n

Department of Finance and Real Estate<\/em><\/p>\n

Research by Ken H. Johnson, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, has been featured in a number of outlets recently. He was a guest blogger for the KCM Blog, published on July 12, 2011, addressing Bringing the Sale Across the Finish Line. His research about renting versus buying was cited on a Reuters blog in an article titled \u201cRent vs buy datapoint of the day\u201d on July 20, 2011; and on a Wall Street Journal<\/em> blog in an entry titled \u201cSecondary Sources: Rent vs. Buy, Debt Thresholds, Gang of Six Plan,\u201d and in The Atlantic<\/em> in an article titled For the Past 30 Years, Renting Was Generally Better Than Buying, both of which appeared on July 21, 2011. On July 22, 2011, he commented on the same topic on The Miami Herald Friday Business Report<\/em> on WLRN.<\/p>\n

Qiang Kang and Federico Sanchez have joined the department as adjuncts.<\/p>\n

Department of Management and International Business<\/em><\/p>\n

Jerry Haar, associate dean for international affairs and projects, professor and research fellow, has been named director of the Eugenio Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center. An announcement of the appointment and details about his career appeared in a World City<\/em> article titled \u201cFIU names Haar to lead its Pino Entrepreneurship Center\u201d on July 19, 2011. Also, his article \u201cCanada: A True Partner,\u201d was published LatinBusinessChronicle.com<\/em> on July 20, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you a level VI leader,\u201d an article by Modesto A. Maidique, FIU president emeritus, professor and Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Eminent Scholar Chair in Leadership, and executive director, FIU Center for Leadership, was published in Harvard Business School Working Knowledge<\/em> (HBSWK<\/em>) on July 6, 2011. Since it was published the article has garnered worldwide attention with requests for e-distribution coming in from several locations including India. As a result, a robust and prolific conversation has developed among HBSWK readers and across the Internet. The article was listed first as HBSWK\u2019s \u201cMost popular articles\u201d. A leadership typology assessment based on the \u201cWhom Do You Serve?\u201d model is in development in collaboration with other FIU faculty. Maidique anticipates having a brief and preliminary assessment based on his collaboration with Nathan Hiller, assistant professor, to be completed by early spring 2012. Galen Kroeck, department chair, will be assisting in developing a fully-validated measure with an expected completion date of late fall 2012.<\/p>\n

Gregory Greene, Kenneth Johnson, Indu Kaveti, Charles Newman II and William Schroff have joined the department as adjuncts.<\/p>\n

Department of Marketing<\/em><\/p>\n

A co-authored paper by Alexandra Aguirre Rodriguez, assistant professor, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Research<\/em>. Titled \u201cModerators of the Self-Congruity Effect on Consumer Decision-Making: A Meta-Analysis,\u201d the paper is slated for publication online in fall 2010 and paper publication in spring 2012.<\/p>\n

Guilherme Gatti and Rafael Soltero have joined the department as adjuncts.<\/p>\n

Center for Leadership<\/em><\/p>\n

Asia Eaton and Michael Smith have joined the center as adjuncts.<\/p>\n

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