KUDOS: December 2024

🦉Congratulations on Your Retirement Ginger

We wanted to take the opportunity in this final newsletter of the year to recognize Ginger Hale and wish her the very best in her well-deserved retirement after decades of exceptional service to the College. May your next chapter be filled with the joy and relaxation you so richly deserve! 

Thank you...

🎁 Heartfelt Thanks for Your Generosity

We are deeply grateful to our amazing faculty & staff. Because of your kindness, the College will be able to provide 179 gifts to deserving children in our community this holiday season through Boca Helping Hands.

Sharing on behalf of Melanie Lorenz, PhD – Director of the Behavioral Insights Lab...

🖥️ Welcome to the Behavioral Insights Lab!

We are at the beginning of building something very exciting with the Behavioral Insights Lab (BIL) for researchers, students, instructors, and the local community/corporate partners.

To date, we have created the basis for our research subject pool through the BIL - Sona System, allowing researchers to post studies for recruitment, instructors to encourage students for participation, and students to sign-up for research studies or alternative assignments. The research subject pool will start in the Spring 2025 semester and will be open to all researchers in the CoB. Please feel free to reach out to us if you are interested to participate/conduct studies by emailing: COBInsightsLab@fau.edu

Stay tuned and keep checking for updates on our newly created website: Behavioral Insights Lab which gives you all the pertinent information - if you are a student, a researcher, an instructor, or want to support the mission of the BIL as a Business Insights Expert - while we make more services and opportunities available to you over the next semesters.

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🙏 Remembering Eugene Miller

Dr. Eugene Miller, age 99, died on November 21, 2024, at his home in Boca Raton, FL.  Dr. Miller was known as “A Man of Many Hats” because of his diverse background as a journalist, business executive, professor, Naval officer and government executive.

Dr. Miller was born October 6, 1925, in Chicago, IL, the son of Harry and Fannie Miller.  They later moved to NYC where he attended the Bronx High School of Science and was a member of the first four-year graduating class in 1942. 

In 1942, he studied at Bethany College in West Virginia after winning a full four-year scholarship.  He later went on to serve on the college’s Board of Trustees for 42 years.

At age 17, Dr. Miller enlisted in the Navy V-12 program and was assigned to attend both Bethany College and Georgia Tech.  He received his commission as Ensign in the Navy Supply Corps and in 1945 was assigned on the USS Stribling, an Atlantic Fleet destroyer.  He retired from active duty in August 1946 he began a career in the Naval Reserve, retiring in 1966 with the rank of Commander. 

In 1948, after completing his graduate studies at the Columbia University School of Journalism, Dr. Miller joined the staff of the Greensboro Daily News in Greensboro, N.C. as a reporter.  He later became Assistant City Editor of the newspaper, while also serving as local correspondent for 45 trade magazines as well as Business Week and Newsweek magazines. 

In 1951, he married Edith Sutker of Greensboro, NC. They eventually had three children, Ross, Scott, and June.

In 1952, Dr. Miller was named Southwest Bureau Chief of Business Week, in Houston.  He was quickly promoted to Associate Managing Editor and moved his family to New York City. Eventually he was promoted to Vice President of Public Affairs and Communication of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. In 1963, he accepted an offer by the New York Stock Exchange to become a Senior Vice President. 

In 1965, he divorced, and later married Thelma Gottlieb, adding her two sons, Paul and Alan to the family.

In 1973, Dr.  Miller accepted the position of Senior Vice President of CNA Financial Corporation and moved his family to the Chicago area. After two years at CNA, he decided to start his own business, Eugene Miller and Associates, a public and investor relations consulting firm. In 1977, he rejoined the corporate world as an officer of United States Gypsum Company (now named USG Corporation). He retired from USG Corporation as vice chairman and director in 1991 at age 65.  In his business career, he served as a director of some 14 public and private companies.

In his journalism career, he wrote a twice-a-week personal business column, “Your Purse Strings”, which appeared in Newsday, the Long Island daily, and was syndicated by the paper to 50 newspapers throughout the country.

Dr. Miller’s lifetime love of learning was evident by the numerous degrees he obtained, including: 

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1945 
• B.A. Journalism, Bethany College, 1947
• M.S. Columbia University School of Journalism,1948
• MBA NYU Graduate School of Business, 1969
• LL.D. (honorary), Bethany College, 1969

He also studied at Oxford University in England 

Upon moving to Florida, he became a professor at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL.  In that role, he created an M.B.A. course, the Executive Forum, and, during the 22 years he taught the course, hundreds of CEOs and other business executives from across the country accepted his invitation to deliver a guest lecture.

In the government service area, the Eisenhower Administration selected him to be a speechwriter during the campaign in 1956.  He later was appointed a consultant to Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges during President Kennedy’s administration.

Other achievements included: creating the first Barron’s Guide to Graduate Business Schools (and editing 15 bi-annual editions over 30 years) and founding the Society of American Business Writers and Editors (SABEW). He has been recognized and honored with awards by various universities and professional organizations.

Dr. Miller is survived by his wife, Thelma Miller of Boca Raton, FL; his sons, Ross Miller of Marietta, GA and Dr. Scott Miller of Highland Park, IL; his daughter, June Miller of Potomac, MD; stepson, Alan Gottlieb of Parkland, FL; 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

A service was held at Gutterman-Warheit Memorial Chapel, 7240 N. Federal Hwy, Boca Raton, FL 33487, on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at 11:00am. Dr. Miller will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA, at a future date to be determined. Any donations should be sent to Dr. Miller’s beloved Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia.

Recognitions

2024 Thought Leader

Congratulations to Kevin Cox, Ph.D., director of the Adams Center for Entrepreneurship, who has been featured as a "Thought Leader: An Innovator of Industry" by INNOVATE® South Florida. READ MORE

Faculty Research

Peer-Reviewed Research

Anna Agapova, Associate Professor, Finance Department, with co-authors, have had their paper titled “Navigating transparency: The interplay of ESG disclosure and voluntary earnings guidance,” published in International Review of Financial Analysis.

Susan Dennett, Instructor and Michael Harari, Associate Professor in Management Programs, with co-authors, have had their paper titled “A meta-analysis of perceived job alternatives and employee turnover: Addressing the availability versus quality distinction,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Managerial Psychology.

Melanie Lorenz, Associate Professor, Marketing Department, with co-authors, have had their paper titled "The Experience Dilemma: A Nonlinear Exploration of Antecedents to International Entrepreneurial Alertness," accepted for publication in the Journal of International Management AJG3.

Len Trevino, Professor, Management Programs, with co-authors, have had their paper titled "A Star is Born or Not: Understanding the Star Emergence Gender Gap," accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Public Scholarship Research

Steven Carnovale, Associate Professor, ITOM - Logistics Managers' Index 

Rebel Cole, Lynn Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor, Finance - Banking Initiative at Florida Atlantic: U.S. Banks’ Uninsured Deposit Stress Test

William Luther, Associate Professor, Economics - Monthly Inflation Report at Florida Atlantic

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