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Faculty Research Profile: School of Business

EARL G GRAVES SHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
MONTH OF OCTOBER
HIGHLIGHT OF ACTIVITIES

Faculty Development:

Dr. David Jacobs attended the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Atlanta.

Dr. Leyland Lucas attended the University of Michigan Business School’s Managing in a Global Organization program.

Dr. Emdad and Dean Thomas attended a joint meeting of a U.S. Department of Education and Lockheed-Martin MS2 to discuss partnership, grants, and feasibility of program offerings by MSU. September 22, 2006.

Dr. Sanjay Bapna’s paper entitled “Wavelet-Based Approach to Preserve Privacy for Classification Mining,” was accepted for publication in the prestigious Decision Sciences Journal, Vol. 37, Issue 4.

Dr. Sanjay Bapna’s article entitled ”Navigation Rules for Exploring Large Multidimensional Data Cubes,”  was published in International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, October-December 2006, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Dr. Bilal Makkawi invited representatives from the United States Army Audit Agency to speak in his auditing class during the month of September.
A paper by Dr. Makkawi was accepted for presentation at the North American Case Research Association Conference. The paper is entitled “The Softnet System Case:
Fraud or Expertise.”  This case is scheduled for presentation on October 25, 2006 in San Diego.
Ernst and Young LLP, one of the Big Four accounting firms, held an information session on campus on September 13, 2006. Dr. Arundhati S. Rao worked with the student clubs to host this session. She also attended the session.
Dr. Rao attended the SB and Company information session held on campus on September 28, 2006. SB and Company is a minority CPA firm managed by Graylin Smith, a former partner with Arthur Andersen and Co. Arthur Andersen is the accounting firm that went out of business in connection with the Enron scandal.
Dr. Rao updated the School of Business webpage to include new faculty information during September.
Dr. Phyllis Keys submitted two papers during the month:
“Does Diversity Affect Stock Returns?” was submitted to a journal“.
 “A Gender Analysis of Productivity in Finance Research” was submitted to a conference.

Hospitality Management:

• Marriott held recruitment for perspective December 2006 graduates
• Staff and students attended and recruited at Restaurant Association of Maryland Food and Beverage Expo at Convention Center, Baltimore

CARMA:

Faculty and Ph.D. students attended Center for Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) 2006-2007 Consortium Webcast Program. David Zoogah, contact person

MBO’s 2006-07:

Dean and Chair met with faculty to review and discuss MBO’s 2006-07.

Faculty University Service:

Dr. Nathan Austin and Dr. Darlington Richards were elected to represent the School of Business on the University Council.

STUDENTS:

INSS students attended the monthly dinner meeting of the AITP at Timonium Holiday Inn. September 21, 2006.

INSS students attended the Diversity Job Fair featured as part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Conference (CBCF) in Washington, D.C. September 7, 8, 9.

LaTorsha L. Hill, Diversity Recruiting Program Manager at IBM conducted an information session and discussed jobs and internships. September 28, 2006.

Dan Noonan, IBM Global Business Services Senior Consultant was a guest speaker in Dr. Partha Mohapatra’s E-Business class. September 22, 2006.

Finance Club. The finance club was reorganized and new officers selected by the finance majors. Dr. Tang is the faculty advisor for this club. He assisted with this reorganizing effort. I did not receive a monthly report from this club.
Accounting Club. This student club is holding regular information meetings as they make preparations to attend the NABA Student Regional Conference in October. Dr. Makkawi is the faculty advisor for the accounting club. I did not receive a monthly report from this club.
Beta Alpha Psi. This honors fraternity is holding regular meetings as they organize the pledge line and set up the accounting tutorial program in the Department. Professor Karen Robinson is the faculty advisor for this group. The following professional activities took place during September 2006:

• Resume Writing Workshop, September 12, 2006. Eboni Z. Gatewood, Corporate Recruiter for Columbia MedCom Group, was the speaker for this event.
• BAP held another event called Stepping Out on September 26, 2006. The nature of this event was not included in the report. A Bank of America representative was present for this event but the name of the representative was not included in the report.

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