Faculty Notes: October 2011

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Karlene C. Cousins, associate professor, moderated the panel at the Distinguished Lunch and Learn Series for students in the Master of Science in Management Information Systems (MSMIS) program. The topic was “Legal Issues Facing the Technology Entrepreneur.” Law School faculty and local intellectual property attorneys participated. More than […]

Faculty Notes: September 2011

Department of Management and International Business Jerry Haar, associate dean for international affairs and projects, professor and research fellow, was quoted in article titled “Angola and Brazil Are Buying Portuguese Companies” in Bloomberg Businessweek on September 15, 2011. David Wernick, senior lecturer, successfully defended his dissertation, “Secondary Stakeholders as Agents of Influence: Three Essays on […]

Faculty Notes: August 2011

School of Accounting Wendy Gelman has been promoted to senior instructor. Department of Marketing Two articles by John Tsalikis, BMI associate professor of marketing, will be included in a 2012 30th anniversary commemorative issue of The Journal of Business Ethics, the leading academic publication in the area of business ethics. The 50 selections were based […]

Faculty Notes: July 2011

School of Accounting 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. Stewart Appelrouth, Manuel Dieguez,  Meghna Singhvi and Shawn Wolf […]

MSMIS students create public health dashboards.

When Monica Chiarini Tremblay gave an assignment this spring to her health informatics class in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), her instructions were vague—on purpose. The students, all working on a Master of Science in Management Information Systems (MSMIS), were given current nationwide health rankings and told to develop a […]

Faculty Notes: May 2011

School of Accounting Yunhao Chen, assistant professor, and Xiaoquan Jiang, assistant professor, Department of Finance and Real Estate, won a 2011 Kauffman Professorship for their proposal titled “Risk assessment and business valuation of new entrepreneur companies in Latin America and South Florida.” Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Faisal Kaleem, adjunct, was interviewed on […]

Faculty Notes: April 2011

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor and Gloria Deckard, associate professor, received a $495,980.00 grant from the Agency for Health Care Administration to evaluate the statewide health information exchange being put in by Harris for the State of Florida. This same study will be conducted by one team in […]

FIU Business captures spot on prestigious UT Dallas ranking of research contributions.

On March 15, 2011, the “The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) Top 100 North American Rankings of Business Schools Based on Research Contribution 2006-2010” was released. For the first time, the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) made the list, coming in at #98. “This ranking positions us among the […]

Faculty Notes: March 2011

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Nancy Borkowski, clinical associate professor and director of health management programs, appeared as a panelist on WPBT2’s Issues. The roundtable public affairs program focused on the future of Jackson Health System. Kaushik Dutta, associate professor and Debra VanderMeer, assistant professor, have had their article “SOA Performance Enhancement through […]

Faculty Notes: February 2011

School of Accounting Robert W. McGee, associate professor, presented three papers at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) conference, held in Orlando in January. Two were awarded prizes and all were published in the IABPAD Conference Proceedings: “The Ethical Theories of Frédéric Bastiat”; Taxation and the Philosophy of Frédéric Bastiat, winner […]