In this Issue:

• Dean's Forum
• Spotlight: Flaum Leadership Lectures
• Student News
• World Wise Network: Tips for Your Career
• Kudos Corner
• Faculty News
• Alumni Benefits
• Upcoming Events

Faculty News:

We are proud to highlight the many recent accomplishments of our faculty and staff. Our professors and administrators have been quoted, have won awards and have been published all over the globe.

Special Announcement: Howard Tuckman, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration was interviewed by ABC World News on December 3. Click here to watch the video.

Lerzan Aksoy, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing

• Interviewed by MSN Money about her paper “The Long-Term Stock Market Valuation of Customer Satisfaction," which was published in the Journal of Marketing.

Mark Conrad, J.D., associate professor of business law and chair of the Legal and Ethical Studies area

• Published "The Right of Publicity in the Digital Age: Doctrinal Tensions, Common Law Theories and Proposals for Solutions," in volume 24 of The Computer Law and Security Report (2008).

Everette E. Dennis, Ph.D., Felix E. Larkin Distinguished Professor, director of the Center for Communications and chair of the Communications and Media Management area

• Quoted in the article “Journal Buyouts a Sign of Times” in the Providence Business News.

Albert Greco, Ph.D., professor of marketing and professor of communications and media management

• Quoted by The Daily Pennsylvanian in a four part series titled “Truth About Textbooks,” particularly in parts one and four: “Buying Used May Contribute to High Costs” and “In Choosing Books, Professors can Lessen Financial Burden.”
• Interviewed by the New York Observer for “Report: Becky Saletan, Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Struggling Trade Division, Resigns.”
• Forecasted that the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt textbook business would generate $2.3 billion in revenue this year on Employment Crossing on media.revver.com.

Elizabeth Ingrassia, Ph.D., director of the Entrepreneurship Center and the Institute for Family and Private Enterprise

• Quoted in a Wall Street Journal personal finance article titled “Wait to Work for Family.”
• Quoted in a Time Out New York careers article titled “Phase One: Getting the Job You Want.”
• Quoted in a Crain's New York Business article titled “Owners Pushed to Political Sidelines.”

Paul McNelis, Ph.D., Robert Bendheim Chair and professor of economics and financial policy

• The MIT Press published McNelis’ Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy (co-author G. C. Lim).

Philip M. Napoli, Ph.D., associate professor of communication and media management and director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center

• Published “Audience Evolution and the Resuscitation of ‘Mass Communications:’ Implications for Communications Policy and Policy Research” in the Social Science Research Council’s online forum Making Communications Matter.

Cynthia Perez, M.B.A., director of admissions

• Interviewed by the Interview Skills Blog for “Episode 9: Interview Tips.”

Francis Petit, Ed.D., assistant dean and director of executive programs

• The part-time MBA program in Westchester was highlighted by the Wall Street Journal in a business column titled “Work and Family Mailbox.”
• Wall Street Journal published rankings on domestic and international executive MBA programs. Fordham’s EMBA program was ranked 26th overall and 20th in terms of return on investment for domestic programs.

Howard Tuckman, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration

• Highlighted in “Escalating Tuition Fees Could Push College Out of Reach” on topnews.us.

Frank Werner, Ph.D., associate professor of finance and economics

• Did a live on-air interview with KCBS radio San Francisco on the joint effort of 12 U.S. airlines to ask their customers to lobby congress for tougher regulation of commodity (petroleum) speculators.
• Did a live on-air interview with KCBS radio San Francisco on the new FAA requirement to retrofit 2,730 aircraft and require all new aircraft to have an inert gas system to prevent explosions in the center fuel tank.

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