FACULTY MEDIA ACTIVITIES -
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER, 2001

We've had a highly successful year for placing VCU School of Business quotes and news with the media. The business news climate has been slow to return after September, but let's look forward to a productive 2002. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our media activities. Fran

Dr. Etti G. Baranoff - FIRE
The Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut "Estimating Insurance Losses" by Indraneel Sur. Dr. Baranoff discusses difficulties people encounter when trying to estimate losses from catastrophes.

Dr. Charles Gallagher, Dean of External Affairs
Commonwealth Times November 29 by Sharon Ramos "Star economist pays visit" Dr. Vernon Smith interview by Sharon Ramos. Dr. Gallagher also discusses Thalhimer Family Scholar-in-Residence

WRVA Interview by Doug Parish with Dr. Vernon Smith that aired Nov. 9

Dr. George Hoffer, Economics

November 4 - Baltimore Sun and Sun Spot.com. "CarMax is on a roll" by Ted Shelby. "They have actually made buying a used car fun," says Hoffer.

November 13 - Baltimore Sun and Sun Spot.com "Extension of Keep America Rolling Program" on GM again extending zero-percent finqncing.

November 13 & 14 - Fox TV Newscast, Richmond, Dr. Hoffer discusses fuel surcharge for airlines.

November 25 Baltimore Sun and Sun Spot.com "Harley sales go hot wild" by Ted Shelby. "Harley is truly one of America's great business success stories," says Hoffer.

Issue No. 7 of Equilibria published by the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank profiled George Hoffer as an economist specializing in transportation.

December 10 Inside Business "Used car sales boost Circuit City." Hoffer predicts next six months will be bullish for Car-Max.

Dr. Wallace Stettenius, Management

December 11, Richmond Times Dispatch, "Waste not, Want not" article about Central Virginia Foodbank, Inc. and its director. Dr. Stettenius quoted about his assistance in creating a strategic plan for food bank.

OTHER NEWS AND HONORS

Chris S. Zubof has been asked by the American Society of Training and Development to serve on its 2001 ASTD Excellence in Practice (EIP) Awards Expert Review Committee. The role of trhe committee is to review nominations made to ASTD for outstanding practices in areas relating to training, workplace learning and performance improvement.

Dr. Leslie S. Stratton, Dr. Dennis O'Toole and Dr. James N. Wetzel, Economics Dept., have been notified that their paper "Factors Affecting Part-Time College Enrollment Within the First Year" has been selected as the winner of the Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award by the Association for Institutional Research.

Dr. Leslie S. Stratton, Economics Dept. and Joni Hersch have been notified that their paper "Household Specialization and the Male Marriage Wage Premium" in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54(1) has been selected as one of the top 20 articles published in 2000 on Work-Family Research. Over 400 published articles in 36 leading journals competed for the award.

Dr. Ruth W. Epps, H. HassabElnaby and Ph.D. student Amal A. Said, Accounting, for receipt of "Best Paper" Award in the accounting track at the 2001 annual meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences. Their paper was entitled "An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Accounting Development & Environmental Factors: Longitudinal Intra-Country Evidence.

October 2001 - Faculty Media Activities

Dr. Walter Griggs,
October 10 "A-Fish-inados" in the Richmond Times Dispatch highlights Dr. Griggs' workworking hobby of making fish and hanging them in the Admissions Office.
October 29 "Business School says, 'Go Fish!'" in Commonwealth Times Highlighting Dr. Griggs' hanging fish.

Dr. George Hoffer, Economics
October 5 The Orlando Sentinel, "Area Car Dealers Say Sales Adding Up with 0 Percent Financing"
October 16 The Dallas Morning News "CarMax finds best model, Used-car giant learns to match vehicles with outlets' sales histories. "Their model is to distinguish themselves as a different kind of car dealer, and they can get a premium price for premium cars," said Hoffer.
October 22 Baltimore Sun and SunSpot.net "GM/s zero financing to be extended 18 days." By Ted Shelby originally published October 18
November 3 Richmond Times Dispatch, "Dealers face used-car glut"
November 12 "Zero-Percent Financing on Vehicles Comes at a Price for Some," The Dallas Morning News and the Knight Ridder Tibune Business News

Dr. James Boykin, FIRE
October 24 Richmond Times Dispatch "Keyboard classroom timing is right" on Real Estate Departments distance learning course
October 28 Emerging Trends in Real Estate Conference Special Section in Inside Business 8 page section reviewed the VCU School of Business Real; Estate & Urban Land Development program.
October 30 "Area realty outlook grim" in Richmond Times Dispatch, a follow-up article to the Trends Conference

Dr. Pamela Kiecker, Marketing and Business Law Department
November 9 Part of panel discussion for Greater Richmond Retail Association
November 10 "Will holiday sales edge up? In Richmond Times Dispatch
November 11 Broadcast by NBC-TV 12 Richmond and WSLS-TV 10 Roanoke

Dr. Vernon Smith, Chas. Thalhimer Family Scholar-in-Residence, broadcast on November 9 interview with Doug Parish, WRCA radio Profile on Dr. Smith in Metro Business, Richmond Times Dispatch November 5.

Other Awards

J. Curtis Hall Award to Dr. Dennis O'Toole, Economics, presented by the Virginia Council on Economic Education

Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award to Dr. Leslie S. Stratton, Dennis O'Toole, and James Wetzel, Economics, presented by The Association for Institutional Research.

Center for Families has identified the paper "Household Specialization and the Male Marriage Wage Premium" by Dr. Leslie Stratton, Economics and Joni Hersch, an attorney, published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, as one of the top articles published in 2000 on Work-Family Research. Over 400 published articles in 36 leading journals competed for the award.

Faculty Media Activities - September 2001

Dr. George Hoffer, Economics Department
Aug. 30 Bridgeton News, article discussing airline prices/usage. .
Sept. 3 – Toy Story magazine. Story about survey results showing that people would pay more for easy to open toys.
Sept. 12 – East Valley Tribune, article about retail sales slowing after terrorist attacks
Sept. 12 - Bristol Herald Courier. Article about retail sales going downward after attacks
Sept. 12 - Richmond Times-Dispatch "Retailers expected to suffer" as sales go downward
Sept. 13 Winston-Salem Journal
Sept. 13 WRIC –8 News at 6 p.m. with Simon Perez
Sept. 17 Inside Business "Transportation industry faces a major overhaul" In the long term, Dr. Hoffer predicts airline pre-registration and going as far as showing fingerprint or eyeball scan to the airline.
Sept. 20 WRIC – 8 News at 6 p.m. with Simon Perez
Sept 25 WRVA Radio interview on airline prices and usage during Richmond morning drivetime.
Sept. 29 Star-Ledger "Travel agents cry foul over cut" discussing airline collusion on ticket prices
October 3 – Baltimore Sun "0% financing rate puts car buyers in high gear" discussing zero interest financing

Dr. Edward Millner, Economics Department
Sept. 13 AP Newswire, Article about stock market effects after terrorist attacks
Picked up by Fairfax Journal, Sept. 14
Daily Progress, Sept. 14
Roanoke Times, Sept. 15
Northern Virginia Daily, Sept. 14
Virginia Review, Sept. 14
Alexandria Journal, Sept. 14
Arlington Journal, Sept. 14
Martinsville Bulletin, Sept. 16
Tampa Tribune Sept. 17
Sept. 18 WTVR-6 News commenting about stock market
Sept. 18 at 2:35 p.m. Alternative Rock Station 101.1 discussing buying/selling airline stocks, etc.
October 2 interviewed by Virginia Lottery Commission for a segment in its new instructional /promotional video to be shown statewide.

Dr. Neal Murphy, FIRE
Sept. 17 WWBT Channel 12, 6 p.m. news, repeated on Sept. 18 morning news at 5 a.m. talking on selling or keeping stocks.

Dr. David Dubofsky, FIRE
Channel 6, live at the station for 6 p.m.
Sept. 17 & 18 WRCA radio with Jimmy Barrett

Dr. Valter Moreno, Information Systems Department
Sept. 25 WRIC Channel 8 interview with Jennifer Roth 6 p.m. news discussing internet hoaxes (electronic changes in photographs and email content) Repeated 11 p.m.

Dr. Dennis O'Toole, Economics
Oct. 3 - WRVA radio speaking to Matt Decline about the economy

Other Items:
General Article on VCU School of Business Real Estate Center
Sept. 3 Dolan's Virginia Business Observer, Norfolk, VA

General Article on VCU "Executive MBA Programs Fire Up Careers Without Burnout"
Oct. 3 – Richmond Times Dispatch, distributed by Four14 Communications syndicate

First RIMS Scholarship Awarded

For the first time the Virginia Chapter of Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. RIMS) has awarded a $2,500 scholarship to a rising senior majoring in the Insurance/Risk Management field of study. The recipient is Sharon G. Verry, who is an active member of the society's Gamma Iota Sigma.fraternity and other RIMS programs. Recently she attended the National RIMS Annual Convention in Atlanta, GA and will be RIMS' guest at the Virginia and Potomac RIMS regional conference in October 2001.

AUGUST FACULTY MEDIA ACTIVITIES

Congratulations Everyone

Dr. Pamela Kiecker, Marketing and Business Law
VCU’s Interactive Marketing Institute and the Certified Director Marketer designation was profiled by Inside Business “Direct marketers go Pro” included a photograph of Dr. Kiecker.

Dr. George Hoffer, Economics
July 27 “Shoppers in car-buying Mood” by Matt Glynn, The Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY
Dr. Hoffer says that although “new car vehicles carry higher sticker prices, used cars actually have a higher profit margin for the franchised dealers.”

August 19 - “Ford’s Blue Oval stirs debate” by Ted Shelsy in The Baltimore Sun.
Dr. Hoffer comments on Ford Motor Company’s incentive standards for dealers.

August 20 “CarMax gives Circuit City a helping hand” by Sean Ryan for Inside Business. Dr. Hoofer comments on Circuit City’s profitable little subsidiary and how well its car sales are going.

August 21 “AutoNation accelerating after shifting gears” The firm targeting D-FW in bid to acquire more new-car dealerships. In The Dallas Morning News Dr.Hoffer comments on their earlier problems and how the company is functioning now.

Dr. James Boykin, Real Estate and Land Development
August 14 - “A landmark proposal” by David Sneed in The Tribune of the Central Coast, and San Luis Obispo.com. Dr. Boykin commenting on “the Hearst Ranch as a textbook example of a property that should be preserved.” The article was about conservation easements.

Dr. Tai Shin, Finance
July/August Edition of Global Magazine published by Deloitte & Touche, “The Road to Reform - Fixing Korea” by Marlene Piturro Dr. Shin looks hopefully at Korea’s high-tech global alliances as a new way to attract new capital and build new business models. . “With the government encouraging global investment in the country’s high-tech sector, things look promising, ” he says. The publication is distributed to global business investors.

Dr. David Urban, Marketing and Business Law
August 30 Dr. Urban’s Letter to the Editor led off the column in The Wall Street Journal. He expressed his thoughts on video teaching as a follow-up to an earlier article that appeared in the publication. He closed with the reminder that “in the new model of higher education, professors have to make it worthwhile for students to come to class. Otherwise, they have only themselves to blame for the empty seats in the lecture hall.”

“The MBA Is Back” by Sean Ryan in Inside Business on August 27. Although the story focuses on the MBA in general, the comments and photograph of Robyn Dorsey, part-time VCU MBA, serve as an influential third party endorsement.

Dr. Valter Moreno, Information Systems
September 5 Interviewed for Channel 8’s 5 p.m. news about Internet hoaxes.

September 5 Information Systems Department
Featured on Channel 6 at 5:30 p.m. A profile of Aylett Hill, a 91 year old student who is taking Introduction to Microsoft. The Educator of the Week spot.

If we have overlooked or missed someone, please let us know. Thanks to everyone.

Frances E. Altman
Public Relations Specialist
School of Business
Virginia Commonwealth University
fealtman@vcu.edu. (804) 827-1801

FACULTY MEDIA ACTIVITIES FOR JUNE-JULY, 2001

Includes Media Activities and Other Honors

Dr. Kenneth Daniels, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
June 11 “A lesser of two evils?” in Inside Business’ Quarterly
Banking & Finance section Discusses the Wachovia-First Union-
SunTrust battle.

Dr. David J. Urban, Marketing & Business Law
June 4 “Circuit City plans image makeover.” By Sean Ryan
in Inside Business,

and, June 11. “Blown Circuit” by Sean Ryan. Inside Business.
Dr. Urban discussing the current situation at Circuit City.

Dr. Steven Peterson, Economics
June 11, Forbes Magazine “Predicto-Mania” by Michael Maiello

Dr. George Hoffer, Economics
July 1, “Quitting time for 150 autoworkers, ” by Liza Berger.
Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wisconsin - Dr. Hoffer discussing discontinuation
of Cherokee from Kenosha Engine Plant.

and, July 12, Dallas Morning News “Keeping pace: New vehicle sales still strong….”
By Terry Box Also appeared on Dallas Morning News.com and picked up by
Knight-Ritter Syndicate. Discusses new cars as a discretionary purchase.

Dr. John O. Everett, Accounting
July 9 contributed to “Mad Tax Party,” by Janet Novak in Forbes
Also, Dr. Everett and co-author, Dr. Cherie J. O’Neil, Colorado State University, were
winners of the 2000 Best Article Award from The Tax Adviser, a national journal distributed to tax practitioners. Their article “AMT Planning Strategies” appeared in the November 2000 issue.

Dr. Pamela Kiecker, Marketing & Business Law
May 12 “Gender has negligible impact on salary in PR” An update article in PR Week in which Dr. Kiecker commented on an earlier study she has done on this topic.

Dr. Ruth Epps, Accounting
Elected Regional Vice President for Southeast, 2001-02 Accounting Program Leaders Group of The American Accounting Association.

Dr. Walter Griggs, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Volume 12 of The Moose Call In the article “The Moose and Thomas Jefferson”
Dr. Griggs describes the shipment of a moose to Jefferson while he was the ambassador to France..

Dr. Etta Baranoff, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
Awarded the Stickler Innovation in Instruction Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association, for inventing an insurance risk management game that helps students understand the relationship of risk to different types of insurance.

Frances E. Altman
Public Relations Specialist
School of Business
Virginia Commonwealth University
fealtman@vcu.edu. (804) 827-1801