News From Adelphi's Robert B. Willumstad School of Business

Dear Students and Colleagues,

The end of the academic year is upon us, which is the time for semester-end projects and exams, followed by celebrations for the completion of an academic semester, an academic year or an academic degree. All deserve hearty congratulations. For those of you graduating, I hope to see you on May 21. For those returning in the fall, I wish you a safe and enjoyable summer and hope to see you at our welcome social on September 18.

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Executive in Residence Shares Expertise With Students, Faculty and Visitors

One of the goals of an executive in residence is to connect theory and practice by sharing experiences and best practices from the business world. Over the course of the spring semester, alumna and advisory board member Deborah Zawisza ’80 did just that. As a technology expert and former CIO, she had plenty of important information she could share. She met with business school faculty, visited business classes, had a lunch discussion with a group of analytics students, met with international students visiting Adelphi, and provided an Insights From Experts lecture on how data, analytics and AI are reshaping business strategies. We are grateful to her for generously sharing her time and expertise with the Willumstad School.

Scholarship Winners at the Honors and Awards Ceremony

On April 15, business students who have received scholarships and were recognized with various awards gathered for a celebratory evening. The event began with a welcome from the school’s namesake, Robert B. Willumstad '05 (Hon.). The winner of the school’s inaugural Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award, Frederic Salerno, MBA '68, also shared inspiring words via video. At the heart of the ceremony were the student honors and awards. Clinical Associate Professor Arthur Leibowitz and several other faculty members announced the students so that they could take to the stage and be recognized. Congratulations to all!

Competition Winners Travel to Germany

This is the fourth year that Adelphi has partnered with Hochschule Fresenius in Germany for the TAVEC (Trans-Atlantic Virtual Exchange and Collaboration) project to have students from both schools form teams to participate in a case competition to win a free trip to the partner university. Ian Sebbowa, Avacia Rogers, Diego Rafael Morales Gonzalez, Alexander Rosa and Isabella Velez-Hill were the winners of this year’s exchange experience, which took place in March during spring break. If you are a student who is interested in participating in this project next year, please contact Noreen Gillin, reporting and student programming specialist, at ngillin@adelphi.edu.

Faculty Accomplishments

Professor Jayen Patel, DBA, received the Teaching Excellence Award at the MBAA Academy of Finance International Conference Meetings held in Chicago.

Faculty in the News

Clinical Assistant Professor Cem Karatas, DBA, provided advice on debt consolidation loans for WalletHub.

Robert Goldberg, James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance, authored an opinion piece titled “The Fed Doesn’t Know the Natural Rate of Interest: It’s likely about 1.5%,” which was published in The Wall Street Journal on March 13.

Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of finance and economics, was quoted in an April 8 article in GoBankingRates titled “New Money vs. Old Money — Does This Make a Difference for Rich People?”

Faculty Scholarship

Assistant Professor Raghida Abdallah Yassine, PhD, co-authored "Addressing brain drain through employee development: the interplay of organizational commitment, turnover intention, and individual differences in Lebanon’s health-care sector," which was published in the European Journal of Training and Development.

Professor Charles Richard Baker, PhD, published "Sobriété et réduction des couts caches" (“Sobriety and reduction of hidden costs") in the journal Enterprise and Society.

Robert Goldberg, James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance, and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of finance and economics, had “A New Measure of Monetary Accommodation” published in International Advances in Economic Research, DOI 10.1007/s11294-024-09895-0 Publication Date 2024-04-03.

Professor James Hazy, EdD, is the first author on a book chapter, "Modelling the Leadership Influence Process,” included in The Oxford Handbook of Agent-based Computational Management Science. He also presented a paper titled “Are you an APPRECIATOR? How Technology-Augmented Leadership Can Empower Workers to Build Their Social Capital” at the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) 2024 International Research Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

Staff News

Nicole Henderson is the school's new executive assistant. Welcome, Nicole!