{"id":14828,"date":"2011-11-30T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=14828"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:47:16","slug":"faculty-notes-november-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/11\/faculty-notes-november-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Notes: November 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam was featured along with nine other deans of business schools in an article titled \u201cTen on Ten,\u201d which appeared in the November\/December issue of BizEd<\/em>, a publication of AACSB. Her section was called \u201cWhere is IT taking us?\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor and director of graduate health management programs, served as a panelist on the topics \u201cMedical Tourism: The Globalization of Healthcare\u201d and \u201cInternational Healthcare—Greater Miami as a Destination\u201d for the South Florida Healthcare Executive Forum\u2019s (SFHEF) October educational session at Memorial Hospital Miramar and the Doral Business Council\u2019s Third Annual Healthcare Roundtable at the College of Business Administration, respectively. In November, she served as the panel moderator for the topic \u201cOrgan and Tissue Donation Awareness in Your Hospital,\u201d which was sponsored by SFHEF and hosted by University of Miami\u2019s (UM) Tissue Bank at the new UM<\/em> Life Science<\/em> & Technology Park<\/em>. Her paper, co-authored with Gloria Deckard, associate professor and associate dean, Landon Undergraduate School of Business; and another colleague, and titled \u201cModifying physician behavior to improve cost efficiency in safety-net ambulatory settings\u201d has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Deanne Butchey, senior lecturer and assistant dean, assurance of learning and accreditation, received a special award at the annual faculty awards luncheon on October 20, 2011. It was the second time the award was given to a faculty member\/administrator; two years ago, Joyce J. Elam, executive dean and James L. Knight Eminent Scholar Chair in Management Information Systems, was the first recipient. Sushil Gupta, professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, presented the award.<\/p>\n

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Sushil Gupta and Deanne Butchey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ken H. Johnson, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, has been cited extensively in the press. He was quoted in a November 4th<\/sup> article in CNN Money<\/em> titled \u201c\u2018I\u2019m home!\u2019 Adult children move back in,\u201d which examined the impact of this social trend on the rental market. On November 10 in Miami Today<\/em>, he was featured in an article titled \u201cDemand for distressed residences seen absorbing any to come.\u201d After he spoke at the National Association of Realtors (NAR) annual conference, held November 11-14 in Anaheim, California, on the topic \u201cBuyer or Renter Nation,\u201d CNN Money<\/em> and others published an article titled \u201cIs Las Vegas\u2019 housing market ready to make a comeback?\u201d A widely published press release from NAR quoted him on the subject \u201cUS will remain a nation of homeowners.\u201d In addition, he was quoted in a November 28th<\/sup> article by a MarketWatch reporter. Titled \u201cMaking a New Case for Home Buying,\u201d the article also appeared on WSJ.com.<\/p>\n

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

At the invitation of the Canadian government, Ed Glab, clinical professor, visited the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta province from November 6-11, 2011. He is organizing a conference about the oil sands and the Keystone Pipeline to take place on the Modesto A. Maidique campus on February 21, 2012.<\/p>\n

Jerry Haar, associate dean for international affairs and projects, professor and research fellow, was interviewed on \u201cThe Neal Asbury Show\u201d on November 11, 2011, speaking about the Obama administration\u2019s jobs bill. The program airs on Truth for America<\/em>. His article \u201cLatin America embraces mobile money\u201d appeared in Latin Business Chronicle<\/em> on October 25, 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho needs a ticker: seven reasons not to go public,\u201d by Dileep Rao, clinical professor, appeared in the November 7, 2011 issue of Forbes<\/em>. Also, he was quoted in a Star Tribune<\/em> article, \u201cPad & Quill is riding the iPad surge,\u201d which appeared on November 27th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndividualism-collectivism as a moderator of the work demands-strains relationship: a cross-level and cross-national examination,\u201d a manuscript by Juan I. Sanchez, professor and Knight-Ridder Byron Harless Chair in Management, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of International Business Studies <\/em>(JIBS), a premier journal and UT Dallas-ranked. This study of more than 9,000 managers in 31 nations demonstrates the role of cultural differences in the stress management process. His monograph—the first monograph on job analysis research ever to be published in the Annual Review<\/em>—has been accepted for publication in the January 2012 issue of Annual Review of Psychology<\/em>. This is the second Annual Review<\/em> monograph in the history of FIU whose first author is concurrently an FIU faculty member and the third monograph in any of the 40+ disciplines covered by Annual Review<\/em> journals ever authored by a faculty member under the FIU affiliation. On November 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup>, in Washington, DC, he attended the annual meeting of the U.S. State Department\u2019s Board of Examiners, on which he serves as a public member. He also attended a meeting of the Social Security Administration\u2019s (SSA) Occupational Information Advisory Panel, to which he was appointed in June 2011. The meeting took place September 20-22, 2011, in the SSA headquarters in Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n

From October 30 through November 5, 2011, Mary Ann Von Glinow, professor and Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Chair in International Management, was in Hong Kong where she ran a colloquium for the DBA program at City University of Hong Kong (CUHK), an event covered by the Hong Kong Economic Times<\/em>, a major business newspaper in Hong Kong. The purpose of the colloquium was for the DBA community to share their learnings with their Hong Kong learning community on the relevance of their doctoral research for practice, and not just research, purposes. She also spoke at the event on \u201cRigor vs Relevance: the critical role of high level doctoral research that has an applied and rigorous focus.\u201d The other speakers were all CEOs of large multinationals headquartered in Hong Kong who have returned to CUHK to work on their doctoral theses on topics of relevance; she served on one of those doctoral dissertation committees and is working with Kuldeep Kumar, professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems with a joint appointment at CUHK; and Brian Li, CEO of Goldpeak Electronics Ltd (GPE), to transform his study about the globalization of GPE into an article publishable in a top-tier journal. Also, on October 27th<\/sup>, as president of AIB, she delivered the \u201cState of the State of AIB\u201d keynote speech to the AIB Southeast USA Chapter at a meeting at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.<\/p>\n

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

Andrew Yap, adjunct, is mentioned in an article about his father that is titled \u201cGeorge Yap: Changing lives through employment,\u201d which appeared in the Jamaica Observer<\/em>. George Yap is executive chairman of LEASA Industries Ltd., a family business of which Andrew Yap is the president.<\/p>\n

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

Robert W. McGee, associate professor, has been appointed editor-in chief of Open Ethics Journal<\/em> (a Bentham journal). He recently completed a PhD in applied global ethics at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England.<\/p>\n

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

Modesto A. Maidique, executive director of the center, president emeritus of FIU and Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Eminent Scholar Chair in Leadership, Department of Management and International Business; Mayra Beers (PhD \u201911, MA \u201995), the center\u2019s director; and Jeffrey Thomas, formerly a graduate research assistant with the center, did a poster presentation titled \u201cThe Leaders Toolbox: A Deconstruction of High-Stakes CEO Decision-Making\u201d at the Society of Judgment and Decision-Making in Seattle, November 4-7, 2011.<\/p>\n

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