Internal Updates: August 2025

From Lacey Taylor...

🏈Executive Education Tailgate

You and a guest are invited to the annual Executive Education tailgate - this year for the Memphis Tigers vs Florida Atlantic Owls!

 

Join us for food, fun, and tailgating activities on Saturday, September 27.

Festivities for the tailgate are still being determined, as we are waiting for the kickoff time to be announced.

This is a family friendly event and kids are welcome to join. Registration includes: T-shirt, clear bag compliant with stadium policy, premium catered food and refreshments, unlimited alcoholic beverages, photo booth, music, games, and the option to reserve 2 football game tickets!

RESERVE YOUR TAILGATE & GAME TICKETS HERE! 

 

Parking Information: On game day, all lots on campus will be dedicated to game parking.

Please follow the signage seen throughout campus determining the price per lot.

Game Ticket Information: You are eligible to reserve complimentary football game tickets for yourself and your guest.

In the reservation link, please designate this to ensure your tickets are reserved.

 

Register by September 19!

Email Lacey Taylor at LaceyTaylor@fau.edu for questions. We look forward to seeing you then! GO OWLS!

From The Dean's Office...

📋Faculty & Staff Directory

We’re pleased to announce that the latest version of the COB Directory is now available!

These updated directories are designed to streamline communication, foster collaboration, keep you more connected, better informed, and up to date with the latest changes across our department.

If you have any questions or need assistance accessing the information, please feel free to reach out to us aborges4@fau.edu. 

College of Business - Faculty & Staff - Frequent Directory - August, 2025

College of Business - Faculty & Staff Directory - August, 2025

From The Communications Team...

📸Faculty & Staff Photos

Our next staff photos will be as follows:

• Tuesday, September 16th - from 1:30 - 3:00 PM
• Wednesday, September 17th - from  9:30 - 11:00 AM

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Please confirm your date selection by sending an RSVP to cobcommunicatinos@fau.edu to reserve your spot.

💻CMS Website Training

If someone from your department needs training on the CMS to make department or program webpage updates please send their name and email to cobcommunications@fau.edu.

We have create a CMS Website Training on Canvas for them to complete.

Keep an eye out for communications on an in-person refresher session later in the semester.

Help us in congratulating the following faculty on their well deserved promotions:

• Anna Agapova - Professor - Finance
• Pierre Alexander - Associate Professor, Health Administration - Management
• Milad Baghersad - Associate Professor - ITOM
• Katarina Brant - Senior Instructor - Management
• Adria Depasquale - Admissions Admin. for the Professional MBA & MS in Finance Programs - Executive Education
• Ernesto Lee - Instructor - ITOM
• Joffrey Leevy - Instructor - ITOM
• Anita Pennathur - Chair - Finance
• Neeraj Puro - Program Director of Health Administration / Associate Professor - Management
• Zsuzsa Pusztai - Instructor - ITOM

Sending a warm welcome to the following new faculty and staff:

• Daniel Creed - Instructor - Business Communications
• Cony Ho - Assistant Professor - Marketing
• Gina Sue Fleitman - Instructor & Dir. of Sales - Marketing
• Doehun Kim - Assistant Professor - ITOM
• Minh Nguyen - Assistant Professor - ITOM
• Stephan Reid - Assistant Professor - Management
• Sebastian Tello - Operations Assistant - Executive Education
• Khawaja Zain Ul Abdin - Instructor - Business Communications

Peer-Reviewed Research

Jian Cao, Associate Professor, School of Accounting, with co-authors, have had their paper, "The Audit and Economic Ramifications of Persistent Organization-level Quality Control Deficiencies in Big 4 PCAOB Inspection Reports: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment," accepted for publication in AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJG 3).

Roland Kidwell, Desantis Distinguished Professor of Management/Entrepreneurship, Management Programs with co-authors, have had their paper, "Retaining reluctant successors in family firms: The roles of childhood exposure and affective commitment," accepted for publication in Journal of Small Business Management (ABS 3).

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’ Nonperforming Commercial Mortgages

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