{"id":25064,"date":"2015-02-24T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=25064"},"modified":"2015-02-24T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:09:31","slug":"faculty-notes-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2015\/02\/faculty-notes-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Notes: January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>College of Business<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three faculty members have been selected to serve as judges for the 2015 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge. They are Karlene C. Cousins, associate professor of Decision Science and Information Systems; Seema Pissaris, professor, Management and International Business; and Kimberly Taylor, associate professor, Department of Marketing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Department of Decision Science and Information Systems <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karlene C. Cousins, associate professor, was an invited speaker on Strategies for Managing Worklife Balance for the Mobile Workforce at the International Economic Development Council\u2019s Leadership Forum, January 25-27. She was also selected as an FIU STEM Transformation Institute Founding Faculty Fellow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Department of Finance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arun Prakash, professor, coauthored two books: Financial, Commercial and Mortgage Mathematics and their Application (Praeger Publications) and The Undaunted (Aventine Press). The Undaunted is a novel he coauthored with a former classmate Vikramaditya Prasad, a retired Justice of High Court of the State of Jharkhand, India. Also, Prakash co-authored \u201cEffect of Bank Monitoring on Earnings Management of the Borrowing Firm: An Empirical Investigation,\u201d which has been accepted for publication in the <em>Journal of Financial Research<\/em>. In addition, a three-part series of articles that he co-authored \u2013 \u201cWith One Shot, Which Bullet Would You Use? Market versus Accounting Data in Bankruptcy Prediction Part II\u201d &#8212; appeared in 2014 in three consecutive issues of the <em>International Journal of Finance. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Department of Management and International Business<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Haar, professor, wrote an op-ed column entitled \u201cPresident\u2019s Move Beams Ray of Hope to Cuba\u2019s Entrepreneurs\u201d that appeared in Miami Today on January 28, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Department of Marketing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Taylor, associate professor, was quoted in Johhny Diaz\u2019s article \u201cBurdines, WCIX and other iconic S. Florida brands remembered online\u201d which appeared in the Sun Sentinel on January 26, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College of Business Three faculty members have been selected to serve as judges for the 2015 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge. They are Karlene C. Cousins, associate professor of Decision Science and Information Systems; Seema Pissaris, professor, Management and International Business; and Kimberly Taylor, associate professor, Department of Marketing. Department of Decision Science and Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":25065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[188,835,1288,1461,1512,2403],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25066,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25064\/revisions\/25066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}