KUDOS: August 2023

Announcements

Adams Center for Entrepreneurship Director

Sending on behalf of Don Neubaum…

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Kevin Cox, Department of Management, for being named Director of the Adams Center for Entrepreneurship. Kevin has been the Assistant Director of the Adam Center for a number of years, and we look forward to him advancing the entrepreneurial activities of the College to even greater heights.

Congratulations Kevin!

Information Technology Director

Sending on behalf of Don Neubaum…

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Mehran Basiratmand, Department of Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM), for being named Director of Instructional Technology for the College of Business. Mehran has a long history of teaching excellence and serving the information technology needs of FAU faculty, staff and students. 

Congratulations Mehran!

Faculty Recognitions

Jennifer Attonito, Kevin Cox; Karen Dye, Ting Levy, Todd McClure, Judy Monestime, and Joseph Patton are recognized as the College of Business Division of Research Associates for 2023-2024. Congratulations to each of these instructional faculty members who will receive a stipend for their research activities this academic year.

Anna Agapova, Associate Professor, and Uliana Filatova, PhD candidate, Finance department, have had their article "Analysts’ Institutional Client Catering and Reputation Tradeoff: Strategic Timing of Recommendations," accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (AJG 3).

Melanie Lorenz, Associate Professor, Marketing, with co-authors have had their article titled "The innovation paradox of global work: Does cultural tightness shape or constrain innovative behaviour?" accepted for publication in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 

Mark Packard, Associate Professor, Management, with co-authors, have had their paper titled, "Made to be broken? A theory of regulatory governance and rule-breaking entrepreneurial action," selected as the Journal of Business Venturing Lazaridis Institute Paper of the Year 2022. Congratulations!

Scott Seavey, Assistant Professor in the School of Accounting, with co-authors, have had his paper titled, "Earnings announcement content as a signal of reliability", accepted for publication in the Journal of Auditing, Accounting & Finance (AJG 3, A on the ABDC list, and on the SOA Preferred Journal list).

Charles Yang, Professor, Finance, with co-authors, has had their article, “The market price to embedded value gap: An analysis of European life insurers," accepted for publication in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. (ABS3).

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