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Dean James T. Strong
Welcome to
The Report, CBAPP's newsletter, where we give you a glimpse of the
great people working and great programs and events happening within the college each
month. If you have any ideas, comments or questions about the newsletter,
please e-mail me at
jstrong@csudh.edu
Administration
James T. Strong
Dean
Kaye Bragg
Associate Dean
Kenneth Poertner
Director of Graduate Programs
Ryan Brandt
Editor
Reza Boroon
Web Designer
Department Chairs
Mohamed El-Badawi
Accounting and
Finance
Raoul Freeman
Information Systems and Operation MGT
Roger Berry
Management
and Marketing
Iris Baxter
Public Administration
Richard Palmer
Political Science/ Economics/Labor Studies
General Contact
Judy Case
Dean's Office
310-243-3548
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Photo courtesy Gary Kuwahara |
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Instructors David Hoopes (left), Xia Zhao (right), and Marcella McGee
(not pictured) had student groups within their Management 490 classes
ranked in the top 25 worldwide. |
Student Groups Rank in Top 25 in Business Simulations
Over the spring and summer sessions, students in three different sections of
Management 490, Strategic Management, were ranked in the top 25 in several
different categories of the business simulations in which they were
competing. While the overall goal was to make sure they understood all of
the concepts and could apply them together in this capstone class of the
undergraduate program, their global rankings served as proof positive for
their teachers that they were doing just that.
Full story
10 Questions…on Stealth
Compensation for Frank Strier
Frank Strier, professor of business
law, published a journal article in the International Journal of Disclosure
and Governance on “stealth compensation” in May and founded the nascent
Center for Corporate Governance and Business Ethics to address such topics. Most
people know of stealth compensation – the excessive payment of executives that
is disguised within a company’s financial statements – in the form of backdated
stock options. Yet Strier says it runs much deeper than those few media
buzzwords. With new legislation being discussed in Congress, Strier explains
here why stealth compensation has risen to the forefront now, what’s being done
about it, and where the new Center fits into the debate.
Full story
CBAPP and Campus News
New President García Welcomes
Campus Back at Fall Convocation
The 2007 Fall
Convocation ushered in the new academic year on Aug. 20 in the University
Theatre on campus. The recently-arrived president of California State
University, Dominguez Hills, Mildred García, was introduced to a nearly
485-seat venue filled with faculty and staff, who formally met their new
leader for the first time. In anticipation of the large crowd, the
convocation was web cast on the Internet for the first time ever by the
university’s Center for Mediated Instruction and Distance Learning.
Full story
State-of-the-Art Library Expansion Breaks Ground
History and community were two major themes at the official groundbreaking
ceremony for the $51-million expansion of the CSUDH Library on Monday, Aug.
20 on the hill south of the existing library. This is the first significant
capital improvement of the Leo F. Cain Library since it was built in 1970
and when complete, the library will consist of a two-building complex poised
to meet the educational and technological needs of the campus and its
surrounding community. The expansion is expected to be completed in 2009.
Full story
M.B.A. Online Program Gets Good Press Again
On the heels of a CNNmoney.com story that pointed to CSUDH’s M.B.A. Online
program as one of the best in the country, the program was again referenced
in similar fashion in a new Yahoo! Finance story. Read the CNNmoney.com
story
here, now saved as a pdf on the program’s Web site, and the Yahoo!
Finance story
here.
CSUDH Among Magazine’s “Top 100”
Minority Degree Producers
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education,
a national magazine devoted to minority
issues in academe, recently released its annual “Top 100 Undergraduate
Degree Producers” and “Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers” rankings. CSUDH
was listed 45th and 39th for undergraduate and graduate degrees
respectively.
Full story
Fourth Annual CSU Night at the Galaxy
Game, Sept. 8
The CSUDH Office of Alumni Relations and the L.A. Galaxy of Major League
Soccer invite all CSU Alumni, Family, and Friends to attend the Fourth
Annual CSU Night at the Galaxy Game on Sept. 8 when the Galaxy takes on
Colorado at 7:30 p.m. The special CSU price is $20 per ticket, and the first
25 tickets purchased for kids under the age of 16 will allow them to go onto
the field before the game to form a “high-five” line to greet David Beckham
and the rest of the professional soccer players as they take the field. To
reserve your tickets, call the Office of Alumni Relations at 310-243-2237 or
email alumnirelations@csudh.edu.
All tickets must be purchased by Wednesday, Sept 5.
Newsmakers
Sang Choi, assistant
professor of public administration,
presented a paper, titled “Network Characteristics and the Impact on
Network Performance,” at the 2007 Academy of Management (AoM) Conference
meeting that was held in Philadelphia on Aug. 3-8.
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like to receive information on Friends Mixers and other upcoming events,
please contact deanstrong@csudh.edu.
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