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August 2021

Dear Students and Colleagues, Our administrative team is back on campus and ready to welcome our new and continuing students in a few short weeks. Please see our upcoming events listed below, including our annual Welcome Social, which will be held outside this year.

Regards, MaryAnne Hyland, PhD Interim Dean Robert B. Willumstad School of Business

FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

Congratulations to the 2021 Bender Body of Work winner, Murat Sakir Erogul, PhD, associate professor of management, in recognition of his sustained record of high-quality scholarly works published during 2018, 2019 and 2020.    Congratulations to the following 2021 Bender Best Paper Award winners:   Huajing Hu, PhD, associate professor of finance and economics, “Anchoring on Historical High Prices and Seasoned Equity Offerings,” published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, September 17, 2019 HyunJun Na, PhD, assistant professor of finance and economics, “Proprietary information and the cost of bank debt,” published in International Journal of Managerial Finance, July 7, 2020 Zahra Sedighi Maman, PhD, assistant professor of decision sciences and marketing, “A data analytic framework for physical fatigue management using wearable sensors,” published in Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 155, October 1, 2020 Fan Liu, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences and marketing, and Zachary Johnson, PhD, interim associate dean for undergraduate students, “Nonmonetary and nonreciprocal freecycling: Motivations for participating in online alternative giving communities,” published in Journal of Consumer Behaviour, February 13, 2020 Robert Goldberg, clinical associate professor of finance and economics, and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of finance and economics, “Managing Climate Change: The Case for a Climate Security Fund,” published in Journal of Managerial Issues, vol. 32, issue 2, Summer 2020 Robert Goldberg, clinical associate professor of finance and economics, and Rakesh Gupta, associate professor of decision sciences and marketing, were both quoted in the U.S. News & World Report article on June 1, 2021,“10 Services That Allow You to Buy Now, Pay Later.”   Joseph Celentano, MBA ’04, senior adjunct management faculty, has been approved to be a member of the New York Mentoring Hub, an exclusive online forum for mentoring professionals in the New York Mentoring Network to connect, build community, elevate best practices and scale solutions.      James K. Hazy, EdD, professor of management, presented a paper entitled “Pardon Me for Being Human: Reimagining Leadership When Mixed Reality Human Interactions Overwhelm Traditional Organizing” at the 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences on July 23, 2021.   James K. Hazy, EdD, professor of management, and Murat Sakir Erogul, PhD, associate professor of management, presented a paper entitled “A Social Complexity Organization Theory of Collective Leadership” at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting on August 2, 2021.   Juan Jaramillo, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences and marketing, was the keynote speaker at I Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Industrial Universidad de Lima, Peru, on the application of computer vision in industry in Spanish: “Visión Computacional en la Industria–Avances.” The Congress was held virtually on July 14–July 15, 2021.    Darko Skorin-Kapov, PhD, professor of decision sciences and marketing, presented his paper “Game Theory and Multicriteria Decision Connectivity Game” at the ECCO 2021 Conference in Madrid, Spain, held virtually in July.

ALUMNI NEWS

Nicholas Chimienti, MBA ’19, was promoted to senior associate at Andersen in July 2021.   Stephanie Higgins '12, MBA ’13, joined Deloitte as a tax manager in May 2021.     Khadija Mudassar '14, MBA ’15, was promoted to audit manager at CohnReznick in July 2021.

Wednesday, September 15: Welcome Social, 12:00 noon–2:30 p.m.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, August 28: Undergraduate Student Orientation, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 noon. Location to be determined.   Saturday, August 28: Graduate Student Orientation, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 noon. Virtual. Register here.   Friday, September 10: Faculty Retreat, 8:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. This will take place in the Ruth S. Harley University Center, Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom. There will also be a Hyflex option.    Wednesday, September 15: Welcome Social, 12:00 noon–2:30 p.m. An opportunity to have ice cream and network with Willumstad School students, faculty and staff outside Hagedorn Hall on the Flagpole Lawn. There will be a meet-and-greet with the Dean’s Advisory Board at 1:30 p.m. Adelphi swag will be raffled off throughout the event. Register here.    Wednesday, September 29: “Managing Cyber Security to Enable Digital Trust,” 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Elizabeth and Allen Don Center for Innovative Technology and Decision Sciences. Register here.

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Produced by the Office of the Dean, this monthly e-newsletter is designed to keep our faculty and staff informed about peer accomplishments and events happening within the School. Stories intended for future inclusion in this monthly edition should be sent to Judy Greiner at greiner@adelphi.edu.