Faculty News

February-March 2009

Management and International Business

Jerry Haar, associate dean for international affairs and projects and professor, Department of Management and International Business, was quoted in an article titled “Digging Deep,” which appeared in CNBC European Business. It is available at http://cnbceb.com/country-regional-city-reports/digging-deep/894/.

An article titled “Managing Managers,” which appeared in The Telegraph, Calcutta, quoted Sumit K. Kundu, Knight Ridder Center Research Professor, Department of Management and International Business. Published on February 12, 2009, it can be viewed at http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090212/jsp/careergraph/story_10519067.jsp.

Karen Paul, professor, Department of Management and International Business was named a 2009 Kauffman Professor for her project titled “Socially Responsible Investment Fund Entrepreneurs: An Application of the Web of Dialogue Model to Social Entrepreneurship.”

Juan Sanchez, Knight Ridder Byron Harless Eminent Chair of Management, received the highest student evaluations of the term for his section of an organizational behavior course, which he taught in the fall of 2008 in the full-time MBA program at Instituto de Empresa in Madrid.

David Wernick, lecturer, Department of Management and International Business, was named a 2009 Kauffman Professor for his project titled “Winning Strategies of Minority Entrepreneurs: Interviews with South Florida’s Small Business Owners.”

School of Accounting

Sharon Lassar, director, School of Accounting, has been selected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Florida Institute of CPAs. Her election to a vice-president post will take place on May 10, 2009.

“Fraud Brainstorming Using Computer-Mediated Communication: The Effects of Brainstorming Technique and Facilitation,” an article co-authored by Antoinette Lynch, assistant professor, School of Accounting, has been accepted for publication in the July 2009 issue of The Accounting Review, a leading journal in the field.

Leonardo Rodriguez, professor of accounting, emeritus, was named coordinator of international relations of the Interamerican Accounting Association (IAA). In this role, he will be responsible for advising the president of the IAA in international relations between the IAA and its 33 accounting associations and international accounting associations. The appointment was made February 16, 2009 in Miami, after which he participated in several events in New York. As a representative of the IAA, he attended the “Chief Executives, Strategic Forum: A Global Profession Taking Collective Actions” of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) February 16-17, 2009; the IFAC board meeting on February 19-20, 2009; and a meeting of the Group of Edinburgh,an international gathering of accounting associations of Europe, Asia and Latin America on February 18, 2009. Also, on February 19, 2009, he participated as an advisor to the president of IAA in a meeting with the president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and its director of international relations.

Finance and Real Estate

Zhonghua Wu, assistant professor, Department of Finance and Real Estate, was quoted in an article titled “Rental Potential Floats Multi-family Unit Buys,” which appeared in The Real Deal, a New York-based magazine. The article appeared on February, 12, 2009.

On February 20, 2009, John Zdanowicz, professor and Florida International Bankers Association Chair (FIBA), Department of Finance and Real Estate, spoke on “Trade Finance Risk-Profiling: Mitigating Trade Based Money Laundering Risks” at the FIBA Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Conference. Approximately 800 people attended the conference. FIBA had two pre-conference certification programs offered by the FIBA AML Institute in partnership with Florida International University: The “FIBA AML Certification Course” (AML Certified Associate AML/CA) and the “FIBA AML Institute Correspondent Banking” professional certificate course. Also, Zdanowicz met with two international visitors from the Macau Monetary Authority on February 23, 2009. They were visiting the United States under the auspices of the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program. During the meeting, he discussed terrorist financing.

Marketing

An article titled “Examination of a Discontinuous Innovation Adoption in an MBA Marketing Curriculum: A Partnership Perspective” by Barnett Greenberg, professor, and Tiger Li, associate professor, Marketing Department, will be published in the spring 2009 issue of Review of Business. This is the second refereed journal article published from research related to Corporate Simulation, a course in the college’s MBA programs.