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Executive in Residence Emil Tedeschi visits with the business school in Fall 2024 at its annual retreat.

Promotions

• Robert Goldberg, MBA, MS听has been promoted to the rank of clinical professor of finance.
• Cem Karatas, DBA听has been promoted to the rank of clinical associate professor of finance.
• 听Zahra Sedighi Maman, PhD, has been awarded tenure with promotion to the rank of associate professor of decision sciences.

New Faculty and Staff Members

• Hanieh Sardashti, PhD, tenure-track assistant professor of marketing
• Yifan Xie, PhD, tenure-track assistant professor of business analytics
• Steven Dock, adjunct professor of decision sciences
• Dominick Kerr, Michael Porcelain and Carey Savio, adjunct professors of accounting
• David Lee and Aditya Singh, adjunct professors of economics
• Nicole Henderson, executive assistant to the dean

Departing Faculty and Staff

We wish Britt鈥檔y Armstrong, director of graduate programs, all the best as she leaves Adelphi after six years.

Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Annual Bender Research Awards

These awards honor outstanding published work by the School鈥檚 faculty. This year, the Outstanding Body of Work Award, given to a faculty member for their contributions to scholarship over the previous three years, went to听Jason Na, PhD,听associate professor of finance, in recognition of his sustained record of high-quality publications during 2021, 2022 and 2023. The 2024 individual paper awards were given to five Willumstad faculty members:

• Best Paper Award: Yue Han, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences and marketing (with Declan Braun and Heng Emily Wang, co-authors), 鈥�,鈥� published in Finance Research Letters.
• Inaugural Outstanding Paper for Corporate Social Responsibility: Susan Li, PhD, professor of decision sciences and marketing (with Wenjun Jiang and Shuli Liu, co-authors), “,” published in the Journal of Modelling in Management.

• Outstanding Paper Awards

  • Murat Sakir Erogul, PhD, associate dean (with Dilek Zamanti Nayir, Emir Ozeren and Aykut Arslan, co-authors), 鈥�,鈥� published in Culture and Organization.
  • Cem Karatas, DBA, clinical assistant professor of finance and economics (with Senay Acikgoz, co-author), 鈥淒o psychological factors exert greater influence on investment decisions than psychological factors? Evidence from Borsa Istanbul鈥� published in the
  • Monica Yang, PhD (with Qi Ai, co-author), 鈥�,鈥� published in Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Faculty Scholarly Activity

• Charles Richard Baker, PhD, professor of accounting and law, and Zhimin Huang, PhD, professor of decision sciences, were recognized as Top Scholars by Their strong publication record, the impact of their work and the quality of their scholarly contributions have placed them in the top 0.5 percent of all scholars worldwide.
• Raghida Abdallah Yassine, PhD, assistant professor of management, co-authored “,” published in the听European Journal of Training and Development. She also had a teaching case study, Toters Delivery: Culture Driving Performance, published by Ivey Publishing.
• Charles Richard Baker, PhD, professor of accounting and law, published “” (鈥淪obriety and reduction of hidden costs”) in the journal听Entreprise & Soci茅t茅 and 鈥溾�� in the journal Recherche en Sciences de Gestion-Management Sciences-Ciencias de Gesti贸n.
• Alan Cooper, PhD ’95, clinical associate professor, co-authored 鈥溾�� in Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology.
• Murat Sakir Erogul, PhD, associate dean (with Dilek Zamanti Nayir), published a book chapter, “Turkish Women and the Military: Entanglements as Negotiated States,” in (Shaker Verlag, 2024).
• Robert Goldberg,听James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance,听and Mariano Torras,听PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Finance and Economics,听had 鈥溾�澨齪ublished in听International Advances in Economic Research.
• Robert Goldberg, James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance; Zahra Sedighi Maman, PhD, assistant professor of decision sciences and marketing; and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Finance and Economics, authored a research note titled 鈥�,鈥� published in International Advances in Economic Research.
• James Hazy, EdD, professor of management, is the first author on a听book chapter, “Modelling the Leadership Influence Process,鈥� included in听 (Oxford Academic, 2024).
• Zhimin Huang, PhD, professor of decision sciences, co-authored “Transitioning from gasoline to electric vehicles: Electrification decision of automakers under purchase and station subsidies” in the Journal of Transportation Research Part E.
• Cem Karatas, DBA听(with Senay Acikgoz, co-author), clinical assistant professor of finance, co-authored a paper titled 鈥淒o psychological factors exert greater influence on investment decisions than psychological factors? Evidence from Borsa, Istanbul鈥� in the听.
• Eunji Lim, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences, published 鈥�.鈥� in Mathematics of Operations Research.
• Winston Waters, JD, MBA 鈥�15,听professor of accounting and law, authored 鈥淭he Need for Comprehensive Federal Legislation to Regulate Facial Recognition Technology,鈥� which was published in the听.

In the News

• Joseph Celentano, MBA ’04, senior adjunct professor of management, was honored as one of the 28 recipients in the听2024 Diversity in Business Awards听program presented by Long Island Business News.听
• Robert Doud, JD, was featured in regarding liability when a tree falls in a neighbor鈥檚 yard.
• Robert Goldberg, James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance, authored an opinion piece titled 鈥�,鈥� which was published in听The Wall Street Journal听on March 13.
• MaryAnne Hyland, PhD, dean of the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, was selected by PoliticsNY as a . This list honors leaders pioneering social responsibility within their organizations.
• Cem Karatas, DBA, clinical assistant professor of finance and economics, was a , offering guidance to consumers on debt consolidation loans.
• Arthur Leibowitz, clinical associate professor of accounting and law, is a , offering guidance to consumers on online checking accounts.
• David Machlis, PhD, associate professor of finance and economics, authored an op-ed titled 鈥�,鈥� which was published May 3 in The Jerusalem Post.
• Ganesh Pandit, DBA, professor and chair of the Department of Accounting and Law, is a , offering guidance on student checking accounts and was quoted in two articles in GOBankingRates:
  • 鈥�,鈥� in which Dr. Pandit advises that expensive cars, technology gadgets and vacations are luxuries that should wait if consumers have to take on debt to pay for them
  • 鈥�,鈥� in which he shares ways for consumers to cut their spending
• Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Finance and Economics, authored a letter published in the Financial Times on January 31 titled 鈥�.鈥� He also was quoted in two articles in GOBankingRates:
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• Karen Wallace, assistant professor of accounting and law, was quoted in a February 13 article in GOBankingRates titled 鈥溾�� Professor Wallace discusses the factors behind whether homeowners association fees can be deducted when filing income taxes.