VISITING SPEAKERS Throughout
the month several guest speakers have made presentations to various
classes. On March 12 economist Dr. Leonard Lapidus of the U.S. Treasury
spoke to the Fast Track Executive MBA class and later to faculty
and guests. His topic was a review of his responsibilities as a
Senior Advisor to the Central Bank of Iraq. While there, his team
worked with local bankers to reform and rebuild Iraq's banking
and financial system and to make it privately owned, safe and competitive.
On March 11, Dr. Neal M. Ashkanasy , professor of management,
The University of Queensland, and visiting professor, Fuqua School
of Business, Duke University spoke to students and faculty on "A
Multi-Level Model of Emotions in Organizations". In recent
years we have seen an upsurge of interest in the study of emotions
in organizations. Research has been hampered by the ephemeral nature
of emotions, and a lack of an integrated multi-level model. In
this presentation Dr. Ashkanasy presented a five-level model of
emotions in organizations and discussed them.
STUDENTS NEED BETTER INSIGHT OF FED Recently
at the Virginia Association of Economists conference Dr. Dennis
O'Toole discussed a paper written by Dr. Margaret Ray of the Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank and Dr. Andrew Hill of the Philadelphia Federal
Reserve Bank, titled "The Fed: Fact or Fiction? The Treatment
of the Fed in Principles of Economic Texts." Their argument
is that most "principles of economics textbooks" frequently
convey incorrect or outdated information about the Federal Reserve
System. Publishers and writers appear to assume that the Fed has
not changed from years past, and so they are not keeping up with
the changes that the Fed has made. (A textbook requires about two
years to be revised, so if corrections are not made in a timely
manner, some information may become obsolete.) The Federal Reserve
argues that at present there are a number of items that they (the
Federal Reserve System) thought were important that have been omitted.
The purpose of the papers is to get economic principles text writers
to update and improve their treatment of the Fed. Dr. O'Toole made
eight suggestions to the authors of this paper to improve the chances
that textbook writers will make the needed changes. .
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SEEKS MEMBERS. Future Business Leaders
of America -- Phi Beta Lambda, has been reactivated with the election
of officers. They are Yen Pham, president; James Barrett, treasurer;
Thea Thinhgs, reporter and Nathan Morse, parliamentarian. The purpose
of this organization is to bring business and education together
in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership
and career development programs. Phi Beta Lambda is the collegiate
division of the national association, Future Business Leaders of
America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc. The faculty advisor is Dr. Iris Johnson.
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SAYING GOODBYE. After 12 years at VCU, the last
three of which have been with the School of Business Development
Office, we send Phillip Perdue off to a new position as Vice President
of Development with Virginia Wesleyan College. It's not really
goodbye since Phillip earned his MBA here while working for various
offices in the School. Phillip was responsible for enriching the
Alumni Board, establishing the Investor's Circle and working with
alumni members on numerous successful projects.
OFF TO LONDON TOWN. Dr. Etti G. Baranoff, assistant
professor, FIRE Department, will deliver the research paper "Who's
Running Life Insurers' Asset Allocation Decisions? Regulation,
Financial Rating, Owners/Manager Conflicts or Other Determinants?" on
July 14 at the 2004 Research Round Table of the International Insurance
Society, in London. The paper was co-written with Thomas Sager,
The University of Texas at Austin
 PHOTO OPPORTUNITY. Last month we mentioned that
Dr. Robert Andrews, associate professor of Decision Sciences, was
honored by SEDSI, the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute with
the Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Andrews was accompanied by
VCU colleague Jim Wynne, Chair of the Council for SEDSI and Tom
Jones from University of Arkansas, who is the immediate past president
of the Decision Sciences Institute.
Events
April 13 - The International Business Forum Click
on link and catch all of the details http://www.bus.vcu.edu/
April 22 - CANCELLED Read More - The Charles
G. Thalhimer Family Scholar-in-Residence presents Dr. George S.
Day,
Geoffrey
T. Boisi
Professor, Professor
of Marketing & Co-director of Mack Center for Technological
Innovation at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, will
present "Becoming Market Driven" at 12:30 p.m. in the
Capital Ballroom, VCU University Student Commons.
April 29 - 6:30 p.m. School of Business Honors
Program, SunTrust Bank Building, 919 East Main Street, 4th floor
auditorium |
