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Updated 06/30/2008

Upcoming Events:

Peter Rose, CEO of Expeditors
October 15, 2008
5:30-6:30 pm, Pigott Auditorium

In the News:

Graduation

Nearly 600 Albers students graduated on Sunday, June 15th, including our first graduating class of Leadership EMBA students. MBA student Kim Farmer gave the student speech at the graduate ceremony. On June 14th, approximately 500 students, family, and friends attended our reception in Paccar Atrium honoring our 2008 graduates. Erin Kirschner received her Master’s in Student Development.

The Most Ethical Companies

John Dienhart was quoted in an article appearing in SocialFunds.com on the 2008 World's Most Ethical Companies Ranking issued by the Ethisphere Institute. John was one of 21 judges involved in selecting 93 companies for recognition. You can read the article here.

Albers Picnic

Over 70 faculty and staff gathered for the Albers end of the academic year picnic. Fr. Sundborg came to present the Albers School with the E-Award certificate and flag received at the White House on May 21st. Hui Wang, Cindy Stevens, Carlos Mello-e-Souza, and Terry Foster were recognized for their service to Albers.

New PhD

Lawrence Morales, long-time instructor in our grad calculus class, has earned his PhD in Education and the Learning Sciences from UW, which is in the Educational Psychology Area at UW's College of Education. His dissertation was entitled, "Examining the Development of Interest in a Community College Mathematics Course." It was a study on the development of interest and motivation in an applied business mathematics course.

New Venture Financing

Incoming Albers freshman Peter Crabtree has received two scholarship supporting young entrepreneurs attending college – receiving $10,000 for the "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" Award from the National Federation of Independent Business/ Visa, Inc. (selected from over 8,000 applicants) and $40,000 from the McKelvey Foundation. You can read about Peter in this article which appeared in the Kitsap Sun:

Serial CEO to Speak

Gerry Grinstein will be speaking as part of the Albers Executive Speaker Series on Thursday, January 29th, 2009. Grinstein has served as CEO of Western Airlines, Burlington Northern, and, up until September, 2007, Delta Airlines. Currently, he serves as Strategic Director for the Madrona Venture Group.

Summer Business Institute

The sixth annual Summer Business Institute took place this week. Twenty-five African American and Hispanic students from 17 high schools participated in the program. SBI is designed to encourage under-represented students to pursue a business undergraduate degree. This year, three of our six counselors are Albers students who are alumni of the SBI program.

Dubai Leadership Group Visits

Participants from the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership Development visited campus on June 24th. The Center for Leadership Formation provided a seminar on, "Creating the Future Leaders of a Global City." There were 32 participants from both public and private entities in Dubai. The event was part of a week of activities in the Seattle-Tacoma area.

Graduation

On Sunday, June 15th, Albers graduated 283 undergraduate students and 299 graduate students, including our first graduating class of Leadership EMBA students. These are 582 students who are going to go out and make a difference in the world! MBA student Kim Farmer was been selected to give the student speech at the graduate ceremony. On June 14th in the Paccar Atrium, the Albers School hosted students, family, and friends at a reception honoring our 2008 graduates.

Outstanding Faculty Award

David Carrithers has been selected to receive the 2008 SU Senior Class Outstanding Faculty Award. He will receive this prestigious university-wide award at the Commencement Brunch on Saturday, June 14th.

Faculty-Staff Awards

On May 31st, a number of Albers faculty and staff were recognized for their service at Seattle University. They included Bill Weis (35 years), Mary Rivers (30 years), Mary Carpenter and Ilona Legesse (20 years), Greg Prussia and Chris Weber (15 years), Sharon Parks and Peter Raven (10 years), Nadeje Alexandre, Dhorea Brown, Marilyn Gist, Laura Hauck, Bruce Koch, Quan Le, and Erin Talbott (5 years).

Expeditors CEO to Speak

Peter Rose, Chairman and CEO of Expeditors International, will be speaking as part of the Albers Executive Speaker Series on Wednesday, October 15th from 5:30 to 6:30 PM in Pigott Auditorium.

New Accounting Faculty Member

Carol Sullivan will be joining us as Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting. Carol has her PhD from Texas A&M and has taught at University of St. Thomas, Texas Arlington, Lamar, and Central Washington. She has received several teaching awards and her publications have appeared in the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences, the Journal of Forensic Accounting, and the International Journal of Education Research, among others.

New Undergrad Advisor

Erin Kirschner will be joining our staff as a new undergraduate student advisor. Erin has worked part-time as an Undergraduate Academic & Career Advisor in Albers for the last two years while enrolled in SU’s Master in Student Development program. She is continuing on full-time in a newly created staff advising position.

New Advisory Board Members

The Entrepreneurship Center Advisory Board has expanded, with Brent Fernyhough of Airgas Specialty Gases and Cisco Malpartida Smith of BECU joining the board. Brent has been in the specialty gas business running Byrne Specialty Gases up until it was purchased by Airgas. Cisco is a recent SU grad working at BECU as Emerging Market Strategist and Product Manager.

Farmer’s Market Study

KING 5 TV ran a story on Stacey Jones’ class study on farmer’s market pricing. The students found that farmer’s markets sell organic produce for less than grocery stores. The story ran on June 7th and you can see it here.

ABEI Goes Global

On May 9th the Albers Business Ethics Initiative hosted an informal lunch gathering in cooperation with the World Affairs Council and the US Department of Commerce. The lunch meeting brought together a delegation of international leaders in business and government with members of the Northwest Ethics Network, representing the ethics departments for Boeing, Premera Blue Cross and Regence BlueShield. Guests were leaders from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Cambodia, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Swaziland, and Trinidad and Tobago. Discussion topics included organizational ethics, preventing corruption in emerging countries and the role of corporate social responsibility in business ethics.

Commentary on Oil Prices

Chris Weber was interviewed by KING 5 TV on those high oil prices. It ran on June 9th and can be viewed here.

Advisory Board Update

There are big changes for two members of the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board. First, Tom Captain has been named vice chairman and global and US leader of Deloitte’s Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry group, which provides audit, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to commercial aerospace, defense, and space companies. Eddie Pasatiempo has joined the Clarion Group as a partner in their Kirkland office. Clarion is a management advisory firm headquartered in West Hartford, CT.

President’s E-Award

At a White House ceremony on May 21st, the Global Business EDGE Program was recognized with the President’s E-award. The award was presented to Fr. Sundborg by Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. After the ceremony, Fr. Sundborg and Joe Phillips met with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office (see picture on SU website). SU was one of 19 organizations to receive this award in 2008, and one of a handful of universities to be recognized in the 45 year history of the award.

Publications

John Dienhart's article, "The Separation Thesis: Perhaps Nine Lives are Enough," has been accepted for publication in Business Ethics Quarterly.

Bridget Hiedemann's article, "Formal Home Health Care, Informal Care, and Family Decision-Making," co-authored with David Byrne (Federal Reserve Board), Michelle Goeree (USC), and Steven Stern (Virginia), has been accepted for publication by the International Economic Review.

Fred DeKay's, Rex Toh's, and Peter Raven's  article, "Loyalty Programs: Airlines Outdo the Hotels," has been accepted for publication in the Cornell HRA Quarterly.

Ivilina Popova's paper, "Bayesian Forecasting of Prepayment Rates for Individual Pools of Mortgages", co-authored with Edward George (University of Pennsylvania) and Elmira Popova (UT-Austin) has been accepted for publication in Bayesian Analysis.

Rex Toh's article, co-authored with Michael Hu (Kent State), "Averaging to Minimize or Eliminate Regression Toward the Mean to Measure Pure Experimental Effects," has been accepted for publication by Psychological Reports.

Susan Weihrich's article, "Academic-Based VITA Programs: Issues and Best Practices from Accounting Educators," co-authored with Christine Bauman (Northern Iowa), Ed Outslay (Michigan State), and Dennis Schmidt (Montana St.), has been accepted for publication in The Tax Advisor.

Jennifer Marrone's article "A multi-level of investigation of antecedents and consequences of team member boundary-spanning behavior," co-authored with Tesluk and Carson, was published in the Academy of Management Journal.

Teresa Ling's and David Carrithers' article, "Messy Problems and Lay Audiences: Teaching Critical Thinking within the Finance Curriculum," co-authored with John Bean, has been accepted for publication in Business Communication Quarterly.

John Dienhart's article, co-authored with Tom Tyler (NYU) and Terry Thomas (TRT Consulting), "The Ethical Commitment to Compliance: Building Value-based Cultures That Encourage Ethical Conduct and a Commitment to Compliance," has been accepted for publication in the California Management Review.

Advisory board member Tom Captain continues to publish his commentaries on the aviation industry. The latest appeared in the January 28, 2008 edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology and was entitled, "No Aircraft Trade War Soon."

Greg Magnan has had several publications recently:

• "A Three-Stage Implementation Model for Supply Chain collaboration," with Stanley Fawcett and Matthew McCarter, forthcoming in the Journal of Business Logistics.

• "Supply Chain Alliances and Social Dilemmas," with Fawcett and McCarter, forthcoming in the International Journal of Procurement Management.

• "The Benefits, Barriers, and Bridges of Effective Supply Chain Integration," with Fawcett and McCarter, forthcoming in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal.

• "Strategic Supplier Relationship Management: Leading Change to Unite Metrics, Processes and People," with Marc Day, Mark Webb, and Jon Hughes, forthcoming in Supply Chain Management Review.

Rex Toh has published a book chapter entitled, "Guests’ Meetings and Hotel Group Room Reservations," in Tourism Management, edited by A.G. Woodside and D. Martin. The chapter is the culmination of seven articles that Rex co-authored with Albers faculty on hotel and cruise reservations in the last three years. Congratulations, Rex!

Holly Slay's article, "The Effect of Explanations on Prospective Applicants’ Reactions to Firm Diversity Practices," co-authored with Ian Williamson (Melbourne Business School) and Debra Shapiro (Maryland), has been accepted for publication in Human Resource Management.

Jay Lambe's article, co-authored with Kevin Webb (James Madison) and Chiharu Ishida (Illinois St.), "Self-managing Selling Teams and Team Performance: The Complementary Roles of Empowerment and Control," was accepted for publication in Industrial Marketing Management.

Holly Slay's article, "The effect of explanations on prospective applicants' reactions to firm diversity practices," co-authored with Ian Williamson (Melbourne Business School), has been accepted for publication in Human Resource Management.

Quan Le's article, "An Analysis of Policy Changes on the Seafood Industry of Vietnam", co-authored with Dao Thanh Hong of the UK Department for International Development (Vietnam), has been accepted for publication in the Pacific Economic Review.

David Reid's article, co-authored with B. Aybar, E. Mergen, and V. Perotti, "Analysis of Attitudes of Turkish Citizens toward the Effect of EU Membership on the Economic, Political and Cultural Environment," was recently published in Turkish Studies.

Vinay Datar's article, co-authored with Raymond So (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Yiuman Tse (University of Texas at San Antonio), "Liquidity Commonality and Spillover in the US and Japanese Markets: An Intraday Analysis using the Exchange-Traded Funds," has been accepted for publication in the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

Rex Toh, Barbara Yates, and Fred DeKayhave collaborated on an article, "Executive Training Exercises in Non-performance and Attrition Charges in the Hospitality Industry," that has been published in the International Journal of Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research.

Leo Simpson's co-authored article, "Creating Active and High Impact Learning: Moving Out of the Classroom with Field-Based Student Consulting Projects," was accepted for publication in Industry and Higher Education. A second article, "The Use of Student Consulting Projects as an Active Learning Pedagogy: A Case Study in a Production/ Operations Management Course," has been accepted for publication in the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.

The American Economic Review has accepted Brian Kelly's comment for publication, "Antidumping Investigations and the Pass Through of Antidumping Duties and Exchange Rates: Comment." AER is the top journal in the economics discipline. Brian has had two other articles accepted for publication – "The Law and Economics of Simultaneous Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty Proceedings," for publication in the Global Trade and Customs Journal, and "The Treatment of Profit in the Export Market in Antidumping Duty Proceedings," in the Journal of World Trade.

Katia Emm's paper, "Choices and Best Practices in Corporate Risk Management Disclosure," was accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.

Tom Captain, a member of the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board, recently published an article in US Industry Today, entitled "It’s Your Call: Flights of Fancy." The article discusses China’s plans to build large commercial aircraft. You can read the article here.

Meena Rishi's article, "Social Justice and the Agency of Women: The Kerala Story," co-authored with Kishore Kulkarni (Metro State) and Renuka Pillay (University of Cochin, India), has been published in the South Asian Journal of Human Rights.

Al Ansari's article, "The Economic, Technological, and National Security Risks of Offshore Outsourcing," co-authored with Batoul Modarres, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Business Issues.

Bill Weis' and David Arnesen's article, "Because EQ Can't Be Told": Doing Something about Emotional Intelligence," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict.

Meena Rishi's and Niranjan Chipalkatti's paper, coauthored with K. Ramesha (NIBM, India), has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.  The paper is entitled, "Depositor Discipline, Regulatory Control, and a Banking Crisis - A Study of Indian Urban Cooperative Banks."

Al Ansari's and Diane Lockwood's paper, co-authored with Batoul Modarress, "Raising the Alarm for Logistics Network Security," has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Business Research.

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