Two Perdue School INFO 460 students, Kymbe Schoofield and Miguel Vargas, from INFO 460, have already passed the test and earned their TestOut Security Pro Certification. The INFO 460 class received free vouchers to take the CompTIA Security Plus Certification Exam from CompTIA. The CompTIA is an accredited certification that is valuable to INFO graduates. The official names are the TestOut Security Pro Certification and the CompTIA Security + Certification. “More of our students can take the Security Pro cert, and I anticipate we will have more certificate holders,” said Professor John Murphy.
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Khazeh, K., Arvi, L., Winder, R. C., “Covid-19 and its impact on multinational enterprises: A modified value at risk approach,” Journal of Global Business Insight, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Article 2, March 2024; 14-28.
Dr. Ani Mathers participated in the 2023 Southern Finance Association conference on November 15-18, where she presented her paper, “Local Vibrancy and Innovation Spillover,” coauthored with Dr. Corey Shank. She also chaired a session and discussed a paper at the conference.
Dr. E. Patrick McDermott has been selected as a 2024-25 Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He will teach negotiation and constitutional law classes while assisting the academy in developing a negotiation curriculum. As a result of this appointment, Dr. McDermott has stepped down as Management Department Chair to ensure department continuity during his appointment. Dr. Nitya Singh is the new management department chair.
McDermott and Jim Rosenberg, partners at Abato, Rubenstein and Abato, P.A., Baltimore, will team-teach a redesigned Employee-Management Relations (MGMT 452). The course syllabus informs the students that “this course is taught by two professors with extensive experience on both the labor and management sides of labor relations. They have represented unions, employers, and major corporations in a wide range of industries, from sea to land.” The students will participate in a simulated union organizing drive, collective bargaining, and an arbitration hearing.
The Management Department conducted a successful flash fund raiser to help finance the student SHRM chapter on a visit to New York City. This was our first effort to obtain much-needed external funding. We thank those of you who contributed. It is not too late to contribute.
Dr. Amit Poddar, Chair of the Marketing Department, has crossed a major milestone in terms of his publications. This year, he cumulatively crossed 5000 citations (5135 citations, to be exact). 3045 of those citations came in the last 5 years. He is currently the 19th most cited sales management professor in the world.
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On January 9, 2024, Dr. David P. Weber published an op-ed in The Hill on the new Foreign Extortion Prevention Act, which criminalizes the demand or receipt of bribes by foreign officials from public corporations or U.S. domestic concerns, as well as those indirectly acting on their behalf. This law, for the first time, punishes the “demand side” of foreign corruption and bribery to address the longstanding loophole in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which only punishes the “supply side” of bribery by public corporations. The new law will be enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where Dr. Weber formerly served as the Chief Investigator. You can read the piece here: Read More
The Conversation, a nonprofit reporting organization, has announced an investigative journalism project co-directed by Dr. David P. Weber and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jake Bernstein. Their first investigation will concern the gift card economy and fraud crisis, which play a major role in tens of millions of dollars in fraud against vulnerable adults and elders across the United States each day. They intend, for the first time, to tell the story of how the gift card industry was created, why it happened, and how the industry has evaded financial regulation. The story will be edited by Kurt Eichenwald, who spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, an Emmy Award nominee, and the author of six non-fiction books, including “The Informant!”, which was later turned into a major motion picture starring Matt Damon. The project is expected to be published during the spring 2024 semester. You can read more about the investigative work of the Conversation here: Read More
Drs. Ying Wu and Hong Yao were invited to present their paper (joint with Duong Kim Hong and Eduardo Schiehll) entitled “Environmental and Social Disclosure, Managerial Entrenchment, and Investment Efficiency” at the plenary session of the 2024 Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (JCAE) Annual Symposium, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, January 9-10, 2024.
A conference paper presented by Drs. Ying Wu and Hong Yao (joint with Duong Kim Hong and Eduardo Schiehll) won the Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF)’s 2023 Best Conference Paper competition in Economics. The paper is entitled “The Dual Effect of Transparency on Investment Efficiency: Evidence from Environmental and Social Disclosure” and it will be recognized at the 2024 AEF annual conference, Charleston, South Carolina, February 7-10, 2024.
Dr. Ying Wu presented his paper (joint with Jiacheng Cai), entitled “The Movements in the U.S. Federal Funds Rates and Monetary Base (1990-2022): A Dynamic Perspective from the Markov Regime Switching Model,” in a monetary policy session at the 93rd Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, November 18-20, 2023. This paper is also presented later at the Perdue School of Business Faculty Research Colloquium, on February 2, 2024.
Dr. Hong Yao chaired a session, “Macroeconomics Labor” at the 93rd Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 18-20, 2023.
Dr. Hong Yao presented her paper (joint with Dr. Ying Wu) entitled “Discouraged Workers and the Unemployment Rate: A Dynamic View” at the 93rd Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 18-20, 2023.