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Butler to present at
AAA-MAS 2008 meeting
December 1, 2007
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Maureen Butler, an Assistant
Professor in the School of
Accountancy, has had her paper
titled "Human Resource
Outsourcing: Market Performance
of Service Providers"
accepted for presentation at the
American Accounting
Association's (AAA) 2008
Management Accounting Section
(MAS) Meeting. The Management
Accounting Section of the AAA
has their midyear meeting from
January 10-12, 2008 in Long
Beach, California. Dr. Butler
co-authored the paper with
Carolyn Callahan and Rod Smith.
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Hevner appointed as MISQ Senior Editor
November 29, 2007
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Dr. Alan Hevner, MIS Professor
in Information Systems and
Decision Sciences, has accepted
the position of Senior Editor
for Management Information Systems
(MIS) Quarterly.
MIS Quarterly, a peer
reviewed scholarly journal, is
consistently ranked as the
number one journal in the
information systems field. Dr.
Hevner begins his three-year
appointment in January 2008.
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Barnett appointed to Faculty Fellows Program
November 20, 2007
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Michael Barnett, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, was recently appointed to the Patel Faculty Research Fellows Program of the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global SOlutions. The center will provide compensation to support the development of his research on the intersection of business practice and sustainability.
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Agrawal Awarded Academic Excellence Award from Sun Micro Systems
May 1,
2007
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Manish Agrawal, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, was awarded an Academic Excellence Award of $17,215 from Sun Microsystems. The award provides 2 UNIX servers for hands-on activities in graduate and undergraduate IS classes. Spare computing power will be used for IS research projects.
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Blanton Awarded the Best Paper
April 26,
2007
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J. Ellis Blanton, Professor of
Management Information Systems,
was awarded the Magid Igbaria
Outstanding Conference Paper
Award that was given to the best
paper at 2007 ACM SIGMIS
Computer Personnel Research
Conference. The paper titled
“Examining User Resistance and
Management Strategies in
Enterprise System
Implementations" was co-authored
with Tim Klaus and Stephen C
Wingreen.
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More Funding for SBDC
February 20,
2007
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The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at COBA has received funding totaling $ 767,959 from the University of West Florida (UWF). The grant has been awarded to Irene Hurst, the Director of SBDC, for a period of 12 moths ending December 31, 2007.
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DeSalvo and Concas Awarded Funding from FDOT
February 13,
2007
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Joseph S. DeSalvo, Professor of Economics, and Sisinnio Concas, an Economics doctoral student currently with the USF Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), have received a research grant of $140,000 from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), for their project titled: “Integrating Transit and Urban Form.” This grant covers a period of 18 months beginning February 1, 2007. |
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Gebhardt
Named a Recipient of the MSI/H. Paul
Root Award
February 12,
2007
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Gary F. Gebhardt, Assistant Professor of Marketing, has been named a recipient of the 2006 MSI/H. Paul Root Award by the Journal of Marketing. Gebhardt co-authored an article that was chosen by members of the Journal of Marketing Editorial Review Board for its “significant contribution to the advancement of marketing.”
The article, “Creating a Market Orientation: A Longitudinal, Multi-Firm, Grounded Analysis of Cultural Transformation,” is the work of Gebhardt and co-authors Gregory S. Carpenter and John F. Sherry, Jr. Gebhardt teaches in the MBA and EMBA programs.
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Another Grant for COBA SBDC
December 13, 2006
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Irene Hurst, Director of Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at COBA, has received another grant totaling $32,065 from Highlands County Economic Development for a project on Highland County.
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COBA SBDC Receives Funding
November 10, 2006
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Irene Hurst, Director
of Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at COBA, has received funding
totaling $80,684 from the University of West Florida for Procurement Technical Assistance Center.
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Dant Appointed Co-editor of JR
August 22, 2006
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Rajiv Dant, Frank Harvey
Distinguished Professor
of Marketing, has been appointed
co-editor of the Journal of
Retailing along with Jim Brown
of West Virginia University,
effective September 1, 2006.
Journal of Retailing, published
by Elsevier, is one of the top
journals in marketing that
publishes leading edge research
in retailing.
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Study Finds Diversification Helped Tobacco Companies
June 8, 2006
A recent study co-authored by Nathan Stuart, Assistant Professor of Accounting,
finds diversification helped tobacco companies build “political capital” and made them less attractive
targets of regulation and litigation. The study also finds that diversification protected $5.7 to $15.3
billion (of 2001) in tobacco shareholder value through delayed or reduced expropriation. For more details,
down load working paper by
clicking here.
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ISDS Faculty Members Awarded Grant from HP
May 30, 2006
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A team of ISDS faculty members lead by Grandon Gill (PI) along with Co-PIs Stan Birkin,
Robert Fuller, and Diane Williams (USF Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence) have
been awarded a grant from Hewlet-Packard (HP) under the HP Technology for Teaching grant
initiative for their project titled: "Incorporating Technology-Enabled Collaboration into
an MBA MIS Course". As part of this project, the PI's will redesign ISM-6021, a required
MBA course, and move it towards a more collaborative case discussion format using TabletPCs
and wireless technologies.This is a competitive grant from HP that is meant to support the
development of innovative uses of technology in the classroom. The award which is
worth $69,000, includes $15,500 in cash and HP technology valued at approximately $53,000.
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Hevner to Join NSF
May 30, 2006
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Alan Hevner, Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology and Professor of Information
Systems and Decision Sciences, has accepted a two-year appointment at the National Science
Foundation (NSF) in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate in
Arlington, VA. He will participate in the strategic development of U.S. national research
policy in the fields of software engineering and information systems. Hevner will coordinate
the Science of Design program in CISE.
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Picone Awarded NIH Research Grant
December 6, 2005
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Gabriel
Picone, Professor of Economics, has been awarded a research grant
recently from the National Institute on Aging,
one of the National Institutes of Health. Picone has been awarded
the grant jointly with Frank Sloan of Duke University for their
research project titled “Visual Impairment, Treatment and Effects on the Elderly.” The USF
portion of the grant totals $ 223,000
for the period 2005 to 2009.
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CEDR Completes Study on Free Trade Agreement
October 18, 2005
The Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) completed a
research study on the potential economic effects of free trade agreements on the state of
Florida. The study was sponsored by the Center for Globalization Research. The two research
reports from this study can be found at
http://cedr.coba.usf.edu/projects.htm
Hevner's Article Receives Top Rating
October 4, 2005
A paper co-authored by
Alan Hevner, Professor of Information Systems & Decision Sciences, titled: “Design Science Research
in Information Systems,” that appeared in the March 2004 issue of Management Information
Systems Quarterly, was selected by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators as the October 2005
Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Economics and Business.
Alan Hevner's interview can be found at
http://www.esi-topics.com/fbp/2005/october05-AlanRHevner.html
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COBA Doctoral Student Wins NSF Grant
September 2, 2005 |
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Barbara J Caldwell, a doctoral student in the
Economics department, has been awarded National Science Foundation
(NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in July 2005.
This is a big achievement for a COBA doctoral student considering
the fact that doctoral dissertation improvement grants are highly
competitive. Professor Gabriel Picone of the Economics
department is guiding Barbara in her grant-winning dissertation work
titled: “Certificate of Need Regulation in the Nursing Home
Industry: Has it Outlived its Usefulness?” In her dissertation
work, Barbara is developing models for access to care, quality of
care and cost of care for Medicaid certified nursing homes. The
money from the grant will allow Barbara to buy data for her
research. |
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Picone Awarded NIH Research Grant
September 2, 2005 |
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Gabriel Picone,
Professor of Economics, has been awarded a research grant
recently from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, one of the National Institutes of Health. Picone has
been awarded the grant jointly with
Frank Sloan of Duke University for their research project titled
“Determinants and Consequences of Alcohol Consumption.” The USF
portion of the grant totals $ 225, 976 for the period 2005 to 2009.
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COBA Researchers
Work on SEI Research Project
September 2, 2005
Alan Hevner and Rosann Collins, faculty
members in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department, are
working as Research Scientists and Co-Principal Investigators on an IRAD Research Grant. This
grant titled: "Development of Ultra-Large Scale (ULS) Software Systems" is sponsored by
CERT Coordination Center, Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie-Mellon University.
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