Faculty Research Highlights: Archive

September 28 - November 18

• Dr. Bozena Leven's paper "Poland's Transition in Business Education" won the Best Paper Award at The Clute Institute for Academic Research 2009 EABR & ETLC Conference in Prague, this summer.
• “Using Web Technology to Teach Students About Their Digital World,”  co-authored by Dr. Lynn Braender, was published in the Journal of Information Systems Education, in July. Braender also presented this research in November 2008 at NJEDge.com, a non-profit technology consortium of academic and research institutions in New Jersey.
• In September, Dr. Mark Nigrini delivered the plenary session for the Association of College and University Auditors conference in Minneapolis. One of Nigrini’s areas of expertise is the study of Benford’s Law.  He co-authored “Data Diagnostics Using Second-Order Tests of Benford's Law,”  which will be published in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, this November.
• Dr. Al Pelham’s recent publications include: "Industry and Training Influences on Sales Force Consulting Time and Consulting Effectiveness,” in the October issue of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and “The Impact of Salesperson Perception of Firm Market Orientation on Behaviors and Consulting Effectiveness,” in December’s Journal of Business to Business Marketing.
• In the October issue of Links Newsletter, Dr. Al Quinton discusses using "LINKS Supply Chain Management Simulation" in class with mentors from Johnson & Johnson. "This is one of the few things where you can honestly see and let the students see the results of the theory and the examples that you are giving them in class."
• Dr. Subarna Samanta’s collaboration with Igor Pleskov, TCNJ class of 2009, is forthcoming in the Middle East Business and Economic Review. Click here for the abstract, of this and other Economics faculty/student research projects.

October 9 - December 9, 2009

• Professor Nigrini interviewed on WNYC Radiolab - Listen to Dr. Mark Nigrini's interview about physicist Frank Benford, a man whose curiosity about a book inspired a bizarre discovery: "From Benford to Erdös."

September 22 - December 9, 2009

• "Professors Daryl Fair and Kevin Michels got into the spirit of Constitution Day [...] holding a forum entitled 'Two Views on Constitutional Interpretation.' Fair, professor of political science, argued that the text of the Constitution makes it fairly easy for judges to interpret. Michels, professor of business, argued that the Constitution cannot be the answer to every problem in courts today.” Read more in The Signal: Professors talk politics.

August 15 - September 28, 2009

• Bea Chiang is collaborating with Assistant Professor Stacen Keating, in the School of Nursing, on a research project that seeks to validate the level of accuracy of the Nursing Intensity Weight Model currently being suggested to policy makers as a potential national model of billing for nursing care.
• David Letcher and Joao Neves presented "Determinants of Undergraduate Business Student Satisfaction: A Case Study" at the Academy of Business Disciplines, in November 2008.
• Kevin Michels' article, "Third-Party Negligence Claims Against Counsel: A Proposed Unified Liability Standard," appears in the current volume of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. His article, "Internal Corporate Investigations and the Truth," which analyzes the obligations of counsel who conduct internal corporate investigations, will appear in Volume 40 of the Seton Hall Law Review.
• Dr. Donald Vandegrift and economics graduate Dvir Frumkin '08 co-authored "The Effect of Size, Age, Beta, and Disclosure Requirements on Hedge Fund Performance" which will appear in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds. View the abstract here, along with other faculty/student collaborations in the Department of Economics.

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