10 Questions...on 100-Percent Port Security for Larry Mallon
The uproar over foreign-operated U.S. ports last month raises the question of what it would take to make the South Bay’s ports, which bring in 40,000 containers per day, completely secure. Larry Mallon, the area’s preeminent port security expert and executive director of the CSU’s Port and Intermodal Systems Center for Enhanced Security (PISCES) Consortium, suggests we need to implement a 100-percent continuous scanning system to have appropriate security. Sound expensive and far-fetched? He explains here that such a 100-percent plan is more realistic than you might think and might even save companies money.
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CBAPP and Campus News
Students Get Inside Look at Port Operations
Twenty students in Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management Hamid Pourmohammadi’s classes received a first-hand tour of the Port of Los Angeles last month. Michael DiBernardo, director of research and planning for the port, who is also a Business Advisory Board member, gave the Operations Management and Supply Chain Management students the tour. Full story

“Brokeback Mountain” Producer and Screenwriter Speaks at CSUDH
Two days before winning an Oscar with co-screenwriter Larry McMurtry at the 78th Annual Academy Awards, screenwriter and producer Diana Ossana made an appearance at the Claudia Hampton Lecture Hall at CSU Dominguez Hills on March 3. Her talk, “Is the Success of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ a Sign of the Times?” described the team’s challenges of bringing their adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story to the screen. Full story

Newsmakers
Raoul J. Freeman, professor and chair of information systems and operations management, presented his paper, "Economics of e-Government," at the National Business and Economic Society 2006 Annual Meeting held in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, March 9-11, 2006.

Carolyn Harris, CBAPP internship coordinator, joined 160 South Bay businessmen and businesswomen during a weeklong tour of China with the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce last month. The group visited several industrial and cultural sites in Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai.

Graduate student Robert Pittman, public administration, served as a panelist at the Conference of Minority Public Administrators (COMPA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Feb. 24 based on his independent study research project titled, “Background Checks in the Public Sector.” Pittman was the only master’s degree student presenter on the “Contemporary Issues in Public Administration” panel. The other two presenters were students in Ph.D. programs. Pittman’s research paper was also submitted as a manuscript for journal publication.

Lori Skalabrin, CBAPP administrative coordinator, had an article dealing with a church fundraiser published in the April issue of San Pedro Magazine. Skalabrin has worked as a freelance writer for the magazine since Nov. 2005.

Bingsheng Yi, assistant professor of accounting and finance, co-authored “Self-selection Bias and Financing Costs: A Unified Analysis on Financing Choices and Offering Costs," with Barry Lin. Lin presented the paper in Taiwan at the 13^th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets in December. Yi co-authored another paper with Lin and fellow contributor Anthony F. Herbst that was published in the Spring 2006 issue of the Journal of Financial Education. The paper was titled, “A Simple Application of Real-Options to the Valuation of Pre-IPO High-Growth Firms.”

Meng Zhao, assistant professor of marketing, co-authored a paper titled, “Adding Interpersonal Learning and Tacit Knowledge to March’s Exploration-Exploitation Model,” with Kent Miller and Roger Calantone. The paper was presented in February at the 12^th Annual Organization Science Winter Conference in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Sang Ok Choi, assistant professor of public administration, presented "Policy Areas and Asymmetries in the Flypaper Effect" at the 2006 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) National Conference in Denver, Colorado, March 31-April 4.

If you are interested in becoming active in Friends of the College or would like to receive information on Friends Mixers and other upcoming events, please contact Leslie Patterson, CBAPP director of development, at lpatterson@csudh.edu.

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