George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology

Celebrating Excellence

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS2009-2010

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Jim Brasfield Run Niu Ali Ovlia

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Faculty AccomplishmentsGeorge Herbert Walker

School of Business & Technology2009-2010

Webster UniversityGeorge Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology

470 E. Lockwood Avenue • Webster Groves, Missouri 63119314.968.5951

DeanBenjamin Ola. Akande

Associate DeanPat Masidonski

Chair, Management DepartmentJim Brasfield

Chair, Department of Math & Computer ScienceAl Cawns

Chair, Department of BusinessDebbie Psihountas

Director, CommunicationsCharla Lord

PhotographyRebecca Barr

On the Web: www.webster.edu/wsbtOn Twitter: @WebsterU_Biz

Artist rendering of Webster University’s future home of The George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology Building

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Faculty AccomplishmentsGeorge Herbert Walker

School of Business & Technology2009-2010

Webster UniversityGeorge Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology

470 E. Lockwood Avenue • Webster Groves, Missouri 63119314.968.5951

DeanBenjamin Ola. Akande

Associate DeanPat Masidonski

Chair, Management DepartmentJim Brasfield

Chair, Department of Math & Computer ScienceAl Cawns

Chair, Department of BusinessDebbie Psihountas

Director, CommunicationsCharla Lord

PhotographyRebecca Barr

On the Web: www.webster.edu/wsbtOn Twitter: @WebsterU_Biz

Artist rendering of Webster University’s future home of The George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology Building

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Dean’s Message

We have had much to celebrate in the past year as our business school embraces a new begin-ning as the George Herbert Walker School of Busi-ness & Technology. Yes, our name has changed but our high standards of excellence in teaching and learn-ing continue to be exemplified by our faculty around the world. The work highlighted in this document truly illustrates the very best of our faculty.

In this publication we have high-lighted the areas that make the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology stand out: our commitment to teaching; the integration we provide for our students by melding our exper-tise with others; the passion for research and discovery we have in our fields of study; the applica-

tion of our knowledge outside the classroom and the emphasis we place on sharing what we

have learned with a broader con-stituency through outreach, discipline and community engagement.

It has long been my strong belief that the future belongs to those who can see it. That’s why in this publication you will see that the Walker School of Business is made up of forward thinkers

who, because they are people of accomplishment, do not let things happen to them. They are cata-lysts. By spotlighting their work, we give proof to our students and alumni all over the world that they can achieve as well. Benjamin Ola. Akande, DeanGeorge Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology

Table of Contents

Teaching ..................................................... 6

Integration ................................................13

Research or Discovery ........................17

Application ...............................................25

Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement ..............28

George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology

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Dean’s Message

We have had much to celebrate in the past year as our business school embraces a new begin-ning as the George Herbert Walker School of Busi-ness & Technology. Yes, our name has changed but our high standards of excellence in teaching and learn-ing continue to be exemplified by our faculty around the world. The work highlighted in this document truly illustrates the very best of our faculty.

In this publication we have high-lighted the areas that make the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology stand out: our commitment to teaching; the integration we provide for our students by melding our exper-tise with others; the passion for research and discovery we have in our fields of study; the applica-

tion of our knowledge outside the classroom and the emphasis we place on sharing what we

have learned with a broader con-stituency through outreach, discipline and community engagement.

It has long been my strong belief that the future belongs to those who can see it. That’s why in this publication you will see that the Walker School of Business is made up of forward thinkers

who, because they are people of accomplishment, do not let things happen to them. They are cata-lysts. By spotlighting their work, we give proof to our students and alumni all over the world that they can achieve as well. Benjamin Ola. Akande, DeanGeorge Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology

Table of Contents

Teaching ..................................................... 6

Integration ................................................13

Research or Discovery ........................17

Application ...............................................25

Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement ..............28

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Teaching At the Walker school of Business & Technology, teaching is embed-ded as the foundation of every-thing we do. Faculty use teaching and instruction to enable our students’ intellectual as well as interpersonal growth. It is our mission to ensure the develop-ment of profound, useful knowl-edge in every student we mentor. Along with those highlighted in this section, two of our faculty have published major text books

in their fields which will allow them to impact the lives and pro-fessions of more students outside their own individual classrooms. Dr. James Brasfield, chair of the Walker School of Business’ management department, has embraced his more than 30 years of teaching, researching and writing on health care in the pub-lication Health Policy: The Decade Ahead. Dr. Ali Ovlia’s new book Accounting Information systems: The Crossroads of Accounting and IT is set to help students around

the world understand and master business-specific accounting systems.

JULIA AICHINGER-SKOBELEVA (Adjunct Professor, Business and Management, Webster Vienna)Aichinger-Skobeleva, J. (2010, April 16-17). Practice of Cross-Cul-tural Knowledge Creation in HRM Class. Presentation at Webster SBT Global Academic Conference, St. Louis, MO.

BRENDA BOYCE (Associate Pro-fessor, Computer Science) Developed and implemented

learning activities based on scaffolding instruction for the Systems Concepts course (COSC 5060). Scaffolding instruction allows the students to break complex tasks into easier steps, which facilitates student achieve-ment.

ALBERT E. CAWNS (Mathematics Department Chair, Professor, Computer Science)Revised the capstone graduate computer science class for the distributed systems emphasis to reflect changes in the program. The projects’ revisions reflect

Dr. James Brasfield, chair of the Walker School of Business’ Management Department

Dr. Ali Ovlia, Associate Professor in Computer Sciencew

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Teaching At the Walker school of Business & Technology, teaching is embed-ded as the foundation of every-thing we do. Faculty use teaching and instruction to enable our students’ intellectual as well as interpersonal growth. It is our mission to ensure the develop-ment of profound, useful knowl-edge in every student we mentor. Along with those highlighted in this section, two of our faculty have published major text books

in their fields which will allow them to impact the lives and pro-fessions of more students outside their own individual classrooms. Dr. James Brasfield, chair of the Walker School of Business’ management department, has embraced his more than 30 years of teaching, researching and writing on health care in the pub-lication Health Policy: The Decade Ahead. Dr. Ali Ovlia’s new book Accounting Information systems: The Crossroads of Accounting and IT is set to help students around

the world understand and master business-specific accounting systems.

JULIA AICHINGER-SKOBELEVA (Adjunct Professor, Business and Management, Webster Vienna)Aichinger-Skobeleva, J. (2010, April 16-17). Practice of Cross-Cul-tural Knowledge Creation in HRM Class. Presentation at Webster SBT Global Academic Conference, St. Louis, MO.

BRENDA BOYCE (Associate Pro-fessor, Computer Science) Developed and implemented

learning activities based on scaffolding instruction for the Systems Concepts course (COSC 5060). Scaffolding instruction allows the students to break complex tasks into easier steps, which facilitates student achieve-ment.

ALBERT E. CAWNS (Mathematics Department Chair, Professor, Computer Science)Revised the capstone graduate computer science class for the distributed systems emphasis to reflect changes in the program. The projects’ revisions reflect

Dr. James Brasfield, chair of the Walker School of Business’ Management Department

Dr. Ali Ovlia, Associate Professor in Computer Sciencew

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changes in the field so students’ knowledge and proficiency in ag-ile methodology combined with database design and develop-ment and creation of middleware can be evaluated.

LARRY GRANDA (Assistant Pro-fessor, Mathematics) Developed and implemented MATH 3090 Advanced Topics: Introduction to Topology. Topics to be covered in this first course in point-set topography include: set theory, topological spaces, continuity, connectedness, and compactness. Developed and implemented MATH 3130 Real Number System. This course studies the natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and real numbers, with a focus on the classification of real numbers as either rational or irrational and as algebraic or transcendental. Also covered are the field proper-ties, order properties and com-pleteness properties of the real number system.

JEFF HALDEMAN (Associate Professor, Management) Haldeman, J. (2010). How Strong Values Create Blinders for Orga-nizational Change. DMGT 7520 action research project with

large regional non-profit organi-zation in the Midwest. Doctor of Management Program, Webster University. Haldeman, J. & Robinson, J. (2010/2011). Leadership and Or-ganizational Change. Integrated, innovative two course action learning sequence to facilitate consultant competency acqui-sition in a real world setting. Doctor of Management Program. Webster University.

STEVE HINSON (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Hinson, S. (2010). Hyperbolic Dis-counting as an Alternate Explana-tion of Student Procrastination.

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L. and Wang, J. (2009). Reduce Pressure on Students and IT Services via Software-Vendor Programs and Hosting. Proceed-ings of the Association of Com-puting Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on University and College Computer Services (SIGU-CCS’09), October 11–14, 2009, St. Louis, Missouri.

Wang, J., Kourik, J.L., and Maher, P.E. (2010). Introducing Leading IT Technologies into Curricula via the IBM Academic Initiative. Proceedings of the American So-ciety of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS), Las Vegas, Nevada, February 18-21, 2010, pp.12 and Journal of Business and Educational Leadership (JBEL), Fall 2010.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) Developed and implemented new capstone accounting course, Accounting Seminar, to serve as a tool for assessing outcomes of our accounting program. The course incorporates all of the accounting knowledge and train-ing received in the accounting program. Developed with faculty team new 10 course graduate program in Forensic Accounting to start in Fall 2011.

MARIA MADLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Manage-ment, Webster Vienna) Integrated research into teaching via a quantitative survey project

in the course MNGT 4570 where students undergo all necessary steps of defining a research problem, formulating research questions, conducting literature research, developing hypotheses, testing, and designing a question-naire, analyzing the data with statistical software (SPSS), and interpreting and presenting the results.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Computer Science) Kourik, J.L., Wang, J.P., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Introducing Leading IT Technologies into Curricula via Vendor-Hosted Services. Jour-nal of Business and Educational Leadership. Kourik, J.L., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Through a Global Lens: Higher Education Assessment and Accred-itation. Proceedings of the Global Academic Conference, St. Louis. JOHN P. ORR (Associate Professor, Management)Orr, J.P. Critiqued and wrote cov-er text, McFarlin, D.B., & Sweeney, P.D. (2010). International Manage-ment: Strategic Opportunities and Cultural Challenges, 4th ed., New

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changes in the field so students’ knowledge and proficiency in ag-ile methodology combined with database design and develop-ment and creation of middleware can be evaluated.

LARRY GRANDA (Assistant Pro-fessor, Mathematics) Developed and implemented MATH 3090 Advanced Topics: Introduction to Topology. Topics to be covered in this first course in point-set topography include: set theory, topological spaces, continuity, connectedness, and compactness. Developed and implemented MATH 3130 Real Number System. This course studies the natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and real numbers, with a focus on the classification of real numbers as either rational or irrational and as algebraic or transcendental. Also covered are the field proper-ties, order properties and com-pleteness properties of the real number system.

JEFF HALDEMAN (Associate Professor, Management) Haldeman, J. (2010). How Strong Values Create Blinders for Orga-nizational Change. DMGT 7520 action research project with

large regional non-profit organi-zation in the Midwest. Doctor of Management Program, Webster University. Haldeman, J. & Robinson, J. (2010/2011). Leadership and Or-ganizational Change. Integrated, innovative two course action learning sequence to facilitate consultant competency acqui-sition in a real world setting. Doctor of Management Program. Webster University.

STEVE HINSON (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Hinson, S. (2010). Hyperbolic Dis-counting as an Alternate Explana-tion of Student Procrastination.

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L. and Wang, J. (2009). Reduce Pressure on Students and IT Services via Software-Vendor Programs and Hosting. Proceed-ings of the Association of Com-puting Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on University and College Computer Services (SIGU-CCS’09), October 11–14, 2009, St. Louis, Missouri.

Wang, J., Kourik, J.L., and Maher, P.E. (2010). Introducing Leading IT Technologies into Curricula via the IBM Academic Initiative. Proceedings of the American So-ciety of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS), Las Vegas, Nevada, February 18-21, 2010, pp.12 and Journal of Business and Educational Leadership (JBEL), Fall 2010.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) Developed and implemented new capstone accounting course, Accounting Seminar, to serve as a tool for assessing outcomes of our accounting program. The course incorporates all of the accounting knowledge and train-ing received in the accounting program. Developed with faculty team new 10 course graduate program in Forensic Accounting to start in Fall 2011.

MARIA MADLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Manage-ment, Webster Vienna) Integrated research into teaching via a quantitative survey project

in the course MNGT 4570 where students undergo all necessary steps of defining a research problem, formulating research questions, conducting literature research, developing hypotheses, testing, and designing a question-naire, analyzing the data with statistical software (SPSS), and interpreting and presenting the results.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Computer Science) Kourik, J.L., Wang, J.P., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Introducing Leading IT Technologies into Curricula via Vendor-Hosted Services. Jour-nal of Business and Educational Leadership. Kourik, J.L., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Through a Global Lens: Higher Education Assessment and Accred-itation. Proceedings of the Global Academic Conference, St. Louis. JOHN P. ORR (Associate Professor, Management)Orr, J.P. Critiqued and wrote cov-er text, McFarlin, D.B., & Sweeney, P.D. (2010). International Manage-ment: Strategic Opportunities and Cultural Challenges, 4th ed., New

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Developed new General Educa-tion Program as part of General Education Task Force. JOHN ROBINSON (Associate Pro-fessor, Management) Collaborated with Dr. Jeff Halde-man in co-teaching experiment of doctoral course, DMGT 7370 – Topics in Leadership: Practicing Adaptive Leadership (Robinson), with doctoral course, DMGT 7520 – Organization Development and Change (Haldeman) to give doc-toral students longer OD consult-ing assignments over extended period of time. ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) Implemented BUSN 6070 course in which cases focus on interna-tional perspective of manage-ment accounting and at least five take place outside the United States.

ED SAKURAI (Professor, Math-ematics) Collaborated with Dr. Larry Granda in conducting review of Webster University’s mathemat-ics program. Results included the

modification of the requirements for the BA and the BS in Math-ematics, renumbering of some courses, the offering of Topol-ogy as a topics course, and the adjustment of content of several courses.

DENIZ SARAL (Chairman, Profes-sor, Business and Management Programs, Webster Geneva) Incorporated with the assis-tance of alumnae Tülin Yildirim Magnenat, Carina Blanco and teachers Roy Hodgson and Aytaç Boduroglu the Pearson Publish-ing’s interactive e-learning into the learning management sys-tems (LMS) of ACCT 2010 and 2025. These two courses are now used by all Webster University – Geneva students to enhance their learning comprehension and access the 24-hour electronic tutorial system.

CAROL SCHWAB (Associate Pro-fessor, Mathematics and Computer Science)Developed an online general education math course using the research based learning program ALEKS. The system uses artificial intelligence to assess each stu-

Teaching

York, NY: Routledge. DEBBIE PSIHOUNTAS (Busi-ness Department, Chair, Associate Professor, Finance) Developed a hybrid course based on studying how World Fairs (World Expos) impact commerce and image for a given country. As part of this course, students attended the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China and incorporat-ed the explicit as well as underly-ing themes conveyed by China in discussion points in their final papers.

TOM QUIRK (Professor, Market-ing) Implemented multi-week courses in Marketing Statistics and Mar-keting Principals at the Univer-sity of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Heidenheim, Germany, July 2009 and July 2010. Authored Student Practice Quiz-zes, Peng, M., Global Business, 2nd edition, Cengage, 2010; Per-reault, Cannon, McCarthy. Basic Marketing, 18th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010 and Hodgetts/Hegar. Modern Human Relations at Work, 11th edition, Cengage, 2010.

Authored new multiple-choice items, Perreault, Cannon, McCar-thy. Basic Marketing, 18th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Developed assessment for Master of Human Resources Manage-ment program.

Created Introduction to Business Law course.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Employed the use of Sports Business Daily and Aplia (on-line instructional resources) to further the hands-on application and understanding of real-world concepts and how they relate to economics as part of continuing efforts that resulted in the David Steward Integration of Technol-ogy in Teaching Award.

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Reviewed and clarified sample syllabi, course outlines and stan-dardization of program goals for the Master’s of Health Adminis-tration 2009-2010.

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Developed new General Educa-tion Program as part of General Education Task Force. JOHN ROBINSON (Associate Pro-fessor, Management) Collaborated with Dr. Jeff Halde-man in co-teaching experiment of doctoral course, DMGT 7370 – Topics in Leadership: Practicing Adaptive Leadership (Robinson), with doctoral course, DMGT 7520 – Organization Development and Change (Haldeman) to give doc-toral students longer OD consult-ing assignments over extended period of time. ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) Implemented BUSN 6070 course in which cases focus on interna-tional perspective of manage-ment accounting and at least five take place outside the United States.

ED SAKURAI (Professor, Math-ematics) Collaborated with Dr. Larry Granda in conducting review of Webster University’s mathemat-ics program. Results included the

modification of the requirements for the BA and the BS in Math-ematics, renumbering of some courses, the offering of Topol-ogy as a topics course, and the adjustment of content of several courses.

DENIZ SARAL (Chairman, Profes-sor, Business and Management Programs, Webster Geneva) Incorporated with the assis-tance of alumnae Tülin Yildirim Magnenat, Carina Blanco and teachers Roy Hodgson and Aytaç Boduroglu the Pearson Publish-ing’s interactive e-learning into the learning management sys-tems (LMS) of ACCT 2010 and 2025. These two courses are now used by all Webster University – Geneva students to enhance their learning comprehension and access the 24-hour electronic tutorial system.

CAROL SCHWAB (Associate Pro-fessor, Mathematics and Computer Science)Developed an online general education math course using the research based learning program ALEKS. The system uses artificial intelligence to assess each stu-

Teaching

York, NY: Routledge. DEBBIE PSIHOUNTAS (Busi-ness Department, Chair, Associate Professor, Finance) Developed a hybrid course based on studying how World Fairs (World Expos) impact commerce and image for a given country. As part of this course, students attended the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China and incorporat-ed the explicit as well as underly-ing themes conveyed by China in discussion points in their final papers.

TOM QUIRK (Professor, Market-ing) Implemented multi-week courses in Marketing Statistics and Mar-keting Principals at the Univer-sity of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Heidenheim, Germany, July 2009 and July 2010. Authored Student Practice Quiz-zes, Peng, M., Global Business, 2nd edition, Cengage, 2010; Per-reault, Cannon, McCarthy. Basic Marketing, 18th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010 and Hodgetts/Hegar. Modern Human Relations at Work, 11th edition, Cengage, 2010.

Authored new multiple-choice items, Perreault, Cannon, McCar-thy. Basic Marketing, 18th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Developed assessment for Master of Human Resources Manage-ment program.

Created Introduction to Business Law course.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Employed the use of Sports Business Daily and Aplia (on-line instructional resources) to further the hands-on application and understanding of real-world concepts and how they relate to economics as part of continuing efforts that resulted in the David Steward Integration of Technol-ogy in Teaching Award.

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Reviewed and clarified sample syllabi, course outlines and stan-dardization of program goals for the Master’s of Health Adminis-tration 2009-2010.

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dent’s current knowledge. Inte-gration resulted in the design of an online Business Math course. Designed two additional online math courses based on the study of student evaluations which indicated that even students with math phobia can be successful.

GEORGE SLUSARZ (Assistant Professor, Accounting) Assisted in development of the new MS in Forensic Accounting.

Member of Forensic Accounting Committee. Served as Director of the George Herbert Walker School of Business Internship Program.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science) Wang, J. (2010, April). Bringing

Leading Industry and Computer Science Curricula Together. Pre-sentation at Webster SBT Global Academic Conference, St. Louis, MO.

Teaching

Integration

As teachers we must serve as a bridge for our students. It is our job to show logical, critical and insightful synthesis of isolated facts from disparate disciplines into new and more comprehen-sive meaning or perspective. Through everything from text-books to manuscripts we inte-grate our areas of expertise so others may understand. JULIA AICHINGER-SKOBELEVA (Adjunct Professor, Business and Management, Webster Vienna) Skobeleva, J. (2008). Grounded theory of knowledge creation in cross-cultural executive teams. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 8(4), pp. 67-72. Aichinger-Skobeleva, J. (2010). Creating knowledge in cross-cul-tural teams (practice of cross-cul-tural knowledge creation in HRM class). S.T. Menon (Ed.), Compet-ing values in an uncertain environ-ment: managing the paradox (pp. 495-499). Shreveport: Louisiana State University.

BENJAMIN AKANDE (Dean, Walker School of Business & Tech-nology)Maher, P.E., Kourik, J.L. & Akande, B.O. (2010, July). Achieving qual-ity, excellence, and consistency in a global academy - Technology Management for Global Economic Growth. Portland International Center for Management of Engi-neering and Technology, PICMET Conference proceedings.

RICH DIPPEL (Assistant Profes-sor, Business) Dippel, R. and Marcella, A. (2010). Technical, Legal and Internal Control Implications of Today’s Digital Multifunctional Devices. Journal of Forensic & In-vestigative Accounting, Vol. 2, Is-sue 2, pp. 255-275, www.bus.lsu.edu/accounting/faculty/lcrumb-ley/jfia/Articles/v2n2.htm

STEVE HINSON (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics)Hinson, S. (2010). Tragedy of the Commons. Retrieved from http://cnx.org/content/m35288/latest/

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L. and Wang, J. (2009). Preparation of Knowledge Workers for Web Services and E-Business:

Michael Sherraden, Director and Founder of the Center for Social Development, Washington University and one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential addresses the Walker Speaker Series on “Using Knowledge to Create Change” in St. Louis, Mis-souri on November 4, 2010.

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dent’s current knowledge. Inte-gration resulted in the design of an online Business Math course. Designed two additional online math courses based on the study of student evaluations which indicated that even students with math phobia can be successful.

GEORGE SLUSARZ (Assistant Professor, Accounting) Assisted in development of the new MS in Forensic Accounting.

Member of Forensic Accounting Committee. Served as Director of the George Herbert Walker School of Business Internship Program.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science) Wang, J. (2010, April). Bringing

Leading Industry and Computer Science Curricula Together. Pre-sentation at Webster SBT Global Academic Conference, St. Louis, MO.

Teaching

Integration

As teachers we must serve as a bridge for our students. It is our job to show logical, critical and insightful synthesis of isolated facts from disparate disciplines into new and more comprehen-sive meaning or perspective. Through everything from text-books to manuscripts we inte-grate our areas of expertise so others may understand. JULIA AICHINGER-SKOBELEVA (Adjunct Professor, Business and Management, Webster Vienna) Skobeleva, J. (2008). Grounded theory of knowledge creation in cross-cultural executive teams. The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 8(4), pp. 67-72. Aichinger-Skobeleva, J. (2010). Creating knowledge in cross-cul-tural teams (practice of cross-cul-tural knowledge creation in HRM class). S.T. Menon (Ed.), Compet-ing values in an uncertain environ-ment: managing the paradox (pp. 495-499). Shreveport: Louisiana State University.

BENJAMIN AKANDE (Dean, Walker School of Business & Tech-nology)Maher, P.E., Kourik, J.L. & Akande, B.O. (2010, July). Achieving qual-ity, excellence, and consistency in a global academy - Technology Management for Global Economic Growth. Portland International Center for Management of Engi-neering and Technology, PICMET Conference proceedings.

RICH DIPPEL (Assistant Profes-sor, Business) Dippel, R. and Marcella, A. (2010). Technical, Legal and Internal Control Implications of Today’s Digital Multifunctional Devices. Journal of Forensic & In-vestigative Accounting, Vol. 2, Is-sue 2, pp. 255-275, www.bus.lsu.edu/accounting/faculty/lcrumb-ley/jfia/Articles/v2n2.htm

STEVE HINSON (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics)Hinson, S. (2010). Tragedy of the Commons. Retrieved from http://cnx.org/content/m35288/latest/

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L. and Wang, J. (2009). Preparation of Knowledge Workers for Web Services and E-Business:

Michael Sherraden, Director and Founder of the Center for Social Development, Washington University and one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential addresses the Walker Speaker Series on “Using Knowledge to Create Change” in St. Louis, Mis-souri on November 4, 2010.

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One Avenue. Eighth Wuhan Inter-national Conference on e-Business (WHICEB2009), Wuhan, P.R. China, May 2009 and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMIS-CPR’10, May 20–22, 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) McGowan, J. and Luh, T. (2010, November). The Hire Act of 2010. The Tax Advisor.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Shao, K., & Maher, P.E. (2009). Populating the Global Software Talent Pool: An Effective Approach to Computer Science Education in China. Proceedings of ICCSE 2009 – International Conference on Computer Science Education, Nanning, China. Akande, B.O., Masidonski, P., Kourik, J.L., Maher, P.E. (2009). Consistent Diversity: Balancing Cultural, Economic, and Assess-ment Needs in a Global Institution. ACBSP Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-

agement) Marcella, A. (2010). Digital Mul-tifunctional Devices: Forensic Value and Corporate Exposure. EDPACS, Volume 41, Issue 1 Janu-ary 2010, pp. 1 – 11. This article was developed from Chapter 10 appearing in Marcella, A., Menen-dez, D. (2008) Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Exam-ining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes, Second Edition, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN 0-84938-328-5.

PAT MASIDONSKI (Associate Dean, Walker School of Business & Technology) Akande, B., Masidonski, P., Maher, P. & Kourik, J. (2009). Consistent Diversity: Balancing Cultural, Eco-nomic, and Assessment Needs in a Global Institution. ACBSP Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.

JOHN P. ORR (Associate Professor, Management)Orr, J.P. (2009). Developmental Paper Track: Ethics & Aberrant Behavior. Track chair and session moderator at Midwest Academy of Management, Chicago, Oct. 24. ALI OVLIA (Associate Professor,

Computer Science) Ovilia, A. , Kay, D. (2010). Ac-counting Information Systems: Crossroad of Accounting and IT. It is a senior/graduate level text. This book will be published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall and will be available after January 2011.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Rishe, P. Florida Marlins’ Dirty Play On Stadium Deal Rankles. Retrieved August 31, 2010 from Forbes.com http://blogs.forbes.com/sports-money/2010/08/31/florida-mar-lins-dirty-play-on-stadium-deal-rankles/

Rishe, P. The CrossFit Games: An Action Sports Investment Opportu-nity in the Making. Retrieved from July 20, 2010 from Forbes.com http://blogs.forbes.com/sportsmoney/2010/07/20/the-crossfit-games-an-action-sports-investment-opportunity-in-the-making/

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Risker, D.C. (2009). Toward a Theory of Creativity in Qualita-

tive Research. To be submitted to the Institute for Qualitative Research. Risker, D. C. (2010-present). Edi-torial Board. Journal of Business Strategies.

ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) Article that integrates the cur-rent cost accounting tools and ap-plies them to a Corporate Social Responsibility framework so that managers can improve the ef-ficiency, management and control of the CSR initiatives. A chapter has been published in a book and the paper has been presented at the Webster Conference and will be presented at the IV CSR conference in Berlin.

DENIZ SARAL (Chairman, Profes-sor, Business and Management Programs, Webster Geneva) Serves as a member on the Advi-sory Board of European Learning Industry Group ELIG where work is focused on bridging the gap be-tween fast-changing self-learning tools and techniques.

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One Avenue. Eighth Wuhan Inter-national Conference on e-Business (WHICEB2009), Wuhan, P.R. China, May 2009 and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMIS-CPR’10, May 20–22, 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) McGowan, J. and Luh, T. (2010, November). The Hire Act of 2010. The Tax Advisor.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Shao, K., & Maher, P.E. (2009). Populating the Global Software Talent Pool: An Effective Approach to Computer Science Education in China. Proceedings of ICCSE 2009 – International Conference on Computer Science Education, Nanning, China. Akande, B.O., Masidonski, P., Kourik, J.L., Maher, P.E. (2009). Consistent Diversity: Balancing Cultural, Economic, and Assess-ment Needs in a Global Institution. ACBSP Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-

agement) Marcella, A. (2010). Digital Mul-tifunctional Devices: Forensic Value and Corporate Exposure. EDPACS, Volume 41, Issue 1 Janu-ary 2010, pp. 1 – 11. This article was developed from Chapter 10 appearing in Marcella, A., Menen-dez, D. (2008) Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Exam-ining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes, Second Edition, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN 0-84938-328-5.

PAT MASIDONSKI (Associate Dean, Walker School of Business & Technology) Akande, B., Masidonski, P., Maher, P. & Kourik, J. (2009). Consistent Diversity: Balancing Cultural, Eco-nomic, and Assessment Needs in a Global Institution. ACBSP Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.

JOHN P. ORR (Associate Professor, Management)Orr, J.P. (2009). Developmental Paper Track: Ethics & Aberrant Behavior. Track chair and session moderator at Midwest Academy of Management, Chicago, Oct. 24. ALI OVLIA (Associate Professor,

Computer Science) Ovilia, A. , Kay, D. (2010). Ac-counting Information Systems: Crossroad of Accounting and IT. It is a senior/graduate level text. This book will be published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall and will be available after January 2011.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Rishe, P. Florida Marlins’ Dirty Play On Stadium Deal Rankles. Retrieved August 31, 2010 from Forbes.com http://blogs.forbes.com/sports-money/2010/08/31/florida-mar-lins-dirty-play-on-stadium-deal-rankles/

Rishe, P. The CrossFit Games: An Action Sports Investment Opportu-nity in the Making. Retrieved from July 20, 2010 from Forbes.com http://blogs.forbes.com/sportsmoney/2010/07/20/the-crossfit-games-an-action-sports-investment-opportunity-in-the-making/

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Risker, D.C. (2009). Toward a Theory of Creativity in Qualita-

tive Research. To be submitted to the Institute for Qualitative Research. Risker, D. C. (2010-present). Edi-torial Board. Journal of Business Strategies.

ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) Article that integrates the cur-rent cost accounting tools and ap-plies them to a Corporate Social Responsibility framework so that managers can improve the ef-ficiency, management and control of the CSR initiatives. A chapter has been published in a book and the paper has been presented at the Webster Conference and will be presented at the IV CSR conference in Berlin.

DENIZ SARAL (Chairman, Profes-sor, Business and Management Programs, Webster Geneva) Serves as a member on the Advi-sory Board of European Learning Industry Group ELIG where work is focused on bridging the gap be-tween fast-changing self-learning tools and techniques.

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Research or Discovery

Growing as educators comes only through continuous research into existing knowledge or the unearthing of new information. It is through this research in the form of professional publications or presentations that members of our faculty show evidence of their conscientious, systematic inquiry. The result is a validation and refinement of that knowl-edge that can be shared with the world.

JEFF HALDEMAN (Associate Professor, Management) Haldeman. J. (2010, August). The learning organization: From dys-function to grace. Paper, presen-tation, and publication in pro-ceedings, The American Institute of Higher Education 5th Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.

Haldeman, J. (2010). The Path to Brutality in Organizations. Paper, presentation, and publication in proceedings, Industrial Relations

BRAD SCOTT (Associate Profes-sor, Finance) Scott, B. G. and Tamashiro, R. (2009). Promoting Global & Col-laborative Learning with New Web Technologies. 2009 ACBSP Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 28. Scott, B. G., Hanssen, P., Viele, D. and Tamashiro, R. (2009). Global Citizenship: Challenges and Op-portunities for Online Learning Systems and Universities. BbWorld 2009 Conference, Washington, DC, July 14-16.

MARTHA SMITH (Professor, Computer Science) Using knowledge gained from web usability workshop with the undergraduate certificate/mi-nor in Web Design. The research presented included studies based on observation and eye tracking of subjects performing specified tasks on everyday websites, mo-bile websites, and mobile apps.

XIAOYUAN SUO (Assistant Pro-fessor, Computer Science) Zhu, Y., Suo, X., and Owen, G.S.

(2009). A Visual Data Exploration Framework for Complex Problem Solving Based on Extended Cogni-tive Fit Theory, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Inter-national Symposium on Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spring, 2009.

Zhu, Y., Suo, X., and Owen, G.S. A Study of the Vulnerability of Click Based Graphical Password, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spring.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science)Kourik, J. L., & Wang, J. (2010). Educating Knowledge Workers for E-Business and Web Services. Proceedings of the 2010 SIGMIS CPR Conference, 121-127.

Wang, J., Kourik, J. L., & Maher, P. E. (2010). Introducing Leading IT Technologies into Curricula via the IBM Academic Initiative. Proceed-ings of the 17th Annual ASBBS Conference, 888 - 899.

Integration

Communication remains at the heart of all integration as Dave Senay, President/CEO of Fleishman Hillard, one of the world’s largest public relations agen-cies explains in “Searching for Truth in a Fictional Society” on October 12, 2010 in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Research or Discovery

Growing as educators comes only through continuous research into existing knowledge or the unearthing of new information. It is through this research in the form of professional publications or presentations that members of our faculty show evidence of their conscientious, systematic inquiry. The result is a validation and refinement of that knowl-edge that can be shared with the world.

JEFF HALDEMAN (Associate Professor, Management) Haldeman. J. (2010, August). The learning organization: From dys-function to grace. Paper, presen-tation, and publication in pro-ceedings, The American Institute of Higher Education 5th Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.

Haldeman, J. (2010). The Path to Brutality in Organizations. Paper, presentation, and publication in proceedings, Industrial Relations

BRAD SCOTT (Associate Profes-sor, Finance) Scott, B. G. and Tamashiro, R. (2009). Promoting Global & Col-laborative Learning with New Web Technologies. 2009 ACBSP Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 28. Scott, B. G., Hanssen, P., Viele, D. and Tamashiro, R. (2009). Global Citizenship: Challenges and Op-portunities for Online Learning Systems and Universities. BbWorld 2009 Conference, Washington, DC, July 14-16.

MARTHA SMITH (Professor, Computer Science) Using knowledge gained from web usability workshop with the undergraduate certificate/mi-nor in Web Design. The research presented included studies based on observation and eye tracking of subjects performing specified tasks on everyday websites, mo-bile websites, and mobile apps.

XIAOYUAN SUO (Assistant Pro-fessor, Computer Science) Zhu, Y., Suo, X., and Owen, G.S.

(2009). A Visual Data Exploration Framework for Complex Problem Solving Based on Extended Cogni-tive Fit Theory, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Inter-national Symposium on Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spring, 2009.

Zhu, Y., Suo, X., and Owen, G.S. A Study of the Vulnerability of Click Based Graphical Password, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spring.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science)Kourik, J. L., & Wang, J. (2010). Educating Knowledge Workers for E-Business and Web Services. Proceedings of the 2010 SIGMIS CPR Conference, 121-127.

Wang, J., Kourik, J. L., & Maher, P. E. (2010). Introducing Leading IT Technologies into Curricula via the IBM Academic Initiative. Proceed-ings of the 17th Annual ASBBS Conference, 888 - 899.

Integration

Communication remains at the heart of all integration as Dave Senay, President/CEO of Fleishman Hillard, one of the world’s largest public relations agen-cies explains in “Searching for Truth in a Fictional Society” on October 12, 2010 in St. Louis, Missouri.

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and Human Resource Manage-ment Association, 5th Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.ARNO HASLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Manage-ment, Webster Vienna) Haslberger, A. (2010). Gender dif-ferences in expatriate adjustment. European Journal of Interna-tional Management, 4(1/2), pp. 163-183. Marshall, S., Vaiman, V., Napier, N., Taylor, S., Haslberger, A., & Anderson, T. (2010). The End of a ‘Period’: Sustainability and the Questioning Attitude. Academy of Management Learning & Educa-tion, 9(3).

Haslberger, A. (2010). On The Declining Significance of Career Considerations in Global Careers. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Montreal.

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Maher, P.E. and Kourik, J. L. (2010). Exploratory Study of Agile Methods in the Vietnamese Software Industry, . The Fifth

International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Infor-mation Technology (ICCGI 2010), September 20-25, 2010, Valencia, Spain.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) Luh, T. (2010). Cyber Forensics. 3rd Edition published by Al Mar-cella, Jr. Working manuscript.

Luh, T. (2010). Accounting Educa-tion/Forensic Accounting Journal for Missouri CPAs.

MARIA MADLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Manage-ment, Webster Vienna) Madlberger, M., & Roztocki, N. (2010). Digital Cross-Organiza-tional Collaboration: A Metatri-angulation Review. Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Poipu, Kauai, HI.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L., Maher, P.E., & Chook-ittikul, W. (2010). Exploratory Study of Agile Methods in the Vietnamese Software Industry.

The Fifth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI), Valencia, Spain.Smith, C., Strauss, J., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Abstract Concepts to Con-crete Implementation: Visualizing the Evolution of Data Structures through Animation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Confer-ence on Computer Supported Education, Valencia, Spain. Smith, C., Strauss, J., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Data Structure Visual-ization: The Design and Imple-mentation of an Animation Tool. Proceedings of the 48th ACM Southeast Conference, Oxford, Mississippi.

AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-agement) Marcella, A., Dippel, R., (2010). Technical, Legal and Internal Control Implications of Today’s Digital Multifunctional Devices. Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 255-275. Mortimore, K., Marcella, A., and Menendez, D. (2009). Cyber

Forensics and the Changing Face of Investigating Criminal Behavior. ISSA Journal, pp. 22-27. RUN NIU (Assistant Professor, Operations Management) Niu, R. H., Zhao, X., Castillo, I., and Joro, T. (2010). Joint pricing and inventory/production decisions in a dual-retailer channel supply chain. Proceedings of the Produc-tion and Operations Society 21st Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada. Niu, R. H., Zhao, X. and Castillo, I. (2010). Selecting distribution channel strategies for non-profit organizations. European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 44 No. 7/8.

DOUG O’BANNON (Associate Professor, Strategy)My research interest has been to integrate strategy theory using expectancy-valence logic into a general theory of strategy as con-textualized resource movement. A paper on this reason has been accepted to the Academy of Management - Southern Division (SMA) conference 2010.

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and Human Resource Manage-ment Association, 5th Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.ARNO HASLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Manage-ment, Webster Vienna) Haslberger, A. (2010). Gender dif-ferences in expatriate adjustment. European Journal of Interna-tional Management, 4(1/2), pp. 163-183. Marshall, S., Vaiman, V., Napier, N., Taylor, S., Haslberger, A., & Anderson, T. (2010). The End of a ‘Period’: Sustainability and the Questioning Attitude. Academy of Management Learning & Educa-tion, 9(3).

Haslberger, A. (2010). On The Declining Significance of Career Considerations in Global Careers. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Montreal.

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Maher, P.E. and Kourik, J. L. (2010). Exploratory Study of Agile Methods in the Vietnamese Software Industry, . The Fifth

International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Infor-mation Technology (ICCGI 2010), September 20-25, 2010, Valencia, Spain.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) Luh, T. (2010). Cyber Forensics. 3rd Edition published by Al Mar-cella, Jr. Working manuscript.

Luh, T. (2010). Accounting Educa-tion/Forensic Accounting Journal for Missouri CPAs.

MARIA MADLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Manage-ment, Webster Vienna) Madlberger, M., & Roztocki, N. (2010). Digital Cross-Organiza-tional Collaboration: A Metatri-angulation Review. Proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Poipu, Kauai, HI.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L., Maher, P.E., & Chook-ittikul, W. (2010). Exploratory Study of Agile Methods in the Vietnamese Software Industry.

The Fifth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI), Valencia, Spain.Smith, C., Strauss, J., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Abstract Concepts to Con-crete Implementation: Visualizing the Evolution of Data Structures through Animation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Confer-ence on Computer Supported Education, Valencia, Spain. Smith, C., Strauss, J., & Maher, P.E. (2010). Data Structure Visual-ization: The Design and Imple-mentation of an Animation Tool. Proceedings of the 48th ACM Southeast Conference, Oxford, Mississippi.

AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-agement) Marcella, A., Dippel, R., (2010). Technical, Legal and Internal Control Implications of Today’s Digital Multifunctional Devices. Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 255-275. Mortimore, K., Marcella, A., and Menendez, D. (2009). Cyber

Forensics and the Changing Face of Investigating Criminal Behavior. ISSA Journal, pp. 22-27. RUN NIU (Assistant Professor, Operations Management) Niu, R. H., Zhao, X., Castillo, I., and Joro, T. (2010). Joint pricing and inventory/production decisions in a dual-retailer channel supply chain. Proceedings of the Produc-tion and Operations Society 21st Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada. Niu, R. H., Zhao, X. and Castillo, I. (2010). Selecting distribution channel strategies for non-profit organizations. European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 44 No. 7/8.

DOUG O’BANNON (Associate Professor, Strategy)My research interest has been to integrate strategy theory using expectancy-valence logic into a general theory of strategy as con-textualized resource movement. A paper on this reason has been accepted to the Academy of Management - Southern Division (SMA) conference 2010.

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ALI OVLIA (Associate Professor, Computer Science) Ongoing research on how to col-lect and store enterprise sustain-ability data. The idea behind this research is to help organizations to use sustainability data in their decision making process re-search. Includes findings into the next edition of the forthcoming published Accounting Information Systems: Crossroad of Accounting and IT.

JULIE PALMER (Assistant Profes-sor, Management) Palmer-Schuyler, J., & Gardner, C. (2010). Results in A CSPIP (Class-Sponsored Physical Improvement Program) and a personal change assignment incorporated into the syllabi of a human resource management course and an orga-nizational change class. Journal of Management Education (Special Edition). Palmer-Schuyler, J., & Gardner, C. (2010). Analyzing the Results of a Health/Wellness/Exercise/Change Project in Undergraduate Human Resource Management Courses: Practical and Theoretical Implica-tions. Organizational Behavior

Teaching Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

DEBBIE PSIHOUNTAS (Busi-ness Department Chair, Associate Professor, Finance) Slusarz, G. & Psihountas, D. (2010). Area of focus: Public Policy/Taxation. Complexity and Discrimination - Federal Income Tax Policy. We examine whether the identification (or refusal to do so) of same-sex marriages as a legally taxable entity is creat-ing an undue tax burden on these couples. Manuscript in prepara-tion.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Renz, G. L. & Yang, Y. (In prepara-tion). The Effect of Transforma-tional Leadership Behaviors on Followers’ Commitment to Organi-zational Change. Renz, G. L. & Yu Chi, Y. (In prepa-ration). Investigating substitutes for leadership in broad-based sample. ERIC RHINEY (Assistant Profes-sor, Marketing) Rhiney, E. (2009). Consumer Eth-

nocentrism vs. Cosmopolitanism: A re-evaluation and comparison of constructs. Presented at the 2009 American Marketing Associa-tion Conference. Currently being revised due to rejection from Journal of Consumer Research. Economic Effects: A Longitudinal Study of Its Influence On Consumer Ethnocentrism. A three-year and five-year longitudinal study to determine if the economy has an effect on an individual’s tendency towards ethnocentric consump-tion behavior or is CE a static trait.

ELIZABETH RISIK (Assistant Professor, Finance) Risik, E. A. (2010, February). Signaling and Value Creation in Mergers. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Finance Association, Las Vegas, NV.

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Risker, D.C (2009). Inventory of service learning and community-based learning. Webster Univer-sity, Webster Groves, MO.

JOHN ROBINSON (Associate Pro-

fessor, Management) Robinson, J. (2010). Moderator/panelist Graduate Courses in Lead-ership: What should we teach, and how should it be taught? Webster University School of Business and Technology Global Academic Conference, St. Louis, MO. Robinson, J. (2009). What en-dures? The results of an attempt to assess the effects of using Ronald Heifetz’s approach to teaching and learning leadership on the prac-tices of professionals back in the workplace. Academy of Business Administration Global Confer-ence, Paris, France.

ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) The Measuring of Corporate Social Responsibility. We are in the pro-cess of data collection and valida-tion of the model included in the paper. The data is being collected in Peru, Panama and the Domini-can Republic. Multinational Corporations and Transfer Prices Policies: The reac-tion of tax authorities during the crisis. Data collection and prelimi-nary writing of the paper.

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Research or Discovery

ALI OVLIA (Associate Professor, Computer Science) Ongoing research on how to col-lect and store enterprise sustain-ability data. The idea behind this research is to help organizations to use sustainability data in their decision making process re-search. Includes findings into the next edition of the forthcoming published Accounting Information Systems: Crossroad of Accounting and IT.

JULIE PALMER (Assistant Profes-sor, Management) Palmer-Schuyler, J., & Gardner, C. (2010). Results in A CSPIP (Class-Sponsored Physical Improvement Program) and a personal change assignment incorporated into the syllabi of a human resource management course and an orga-nizational change class. Journal of Management Education (Special Edition). Palmer-Schuyler, J., & Gardner, C. (2010). Analyzing the Results of a Health/Wellness/Exercise/Change Project in Undergraduate Human Resource Management Courses: Practical and Theoretical Implica-tions. Organizational Behavior

Teaching Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

DEBBIE PSIHOUNTAS (Busi-ness Department Chair, Associate Professor, Finance) Slusarz, G. & Psihountas, D. (2010). Area of focus: Public Policy/Taxation. Complexity and Discrimination - Federal Income Tax Policy. We examine whether the identification (or refusal to do so) of same-sex marriages as a legally taxable entity is creat-ing an undue tax burden on these couples. Manuscript in prepara-tion.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Renz, G. L. & Yang, Y. (In prepara-tion). The Effect of Transforma-tional Leadership Behaviors on Followers’ Commitment to Organi-zational Change. Renz, G. L. & Yu Chi, Y. (In prepa-ration). Investigating substitutes for leadership in broad-based sample. ERIC RHINEY (Assistant Profes-sor, Marketing) Rhiney, E. (2009). Consumer Eth-

nocentrism vs. Cosmopolitanism: A re-evaluation and comparison of constructs. Presented at the 2009 American Marketing Associa-tion Conference. Currently being revised due to rejection from Journal of Consumer Research. Economic Effects: A Longitudinal Study of Its Influence On Consumer Ethnocentrism. A three-year and five-year longitudinal study to determine if the economy has an effect on an individual’s tendency towards ethnocentric consump-tion behavior or is CE a static trait.

ELIZABETH RISIK (Assistant Professor, Finance) Risik, E. A. (2010, February). Signaling and Value Creation in Mergers. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Finance Association, Las Vegas, NV.

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Risker, D.C (2009). Inventory of service learning and community-based learning. Webster Univer-sity, Webster Groves, MO.

JOHN ROBINSON (Associate Pro-

fessor, Management) Robinson, J. (2010). Moderator/panelist Graduate Courses in Lead-ership: What should we teach, and how should it be taught? Webster University School of Business and Technology Global Academic Conference, St. Louis, MO. Robinson, J. (2009). What en-dures? The results of an attempt to assess the effects of using Ronald Heifetz’s approach to teaching and learning leadership on the prac-tices of professionals back in the workplace. Academy of Business Administration Global Confer-ence, Paris, France.

ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) The Measuring of Corporate Social Responsibility. We are in the pro-cess of data collection and valida-tion of the model included in the paper. The data is being collected in Peru, Panama and the Domini-can Republic. Multinational Corporations and Transfer Prices Policies: The reac-tion of tax authorities during the crisis. Data collection and prelimi-nary writing of the paper.

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QUINN SHAO (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Shao, K. (2010). Must Technology Take Place in Mathematics and Science Pedagogy? Proceedings of Society for Information Technol-ogy and Teacher Education-21 International Conference for the Advancement of Computing, San Diego, CA, March. Shao, K., Petras, C., and Tamashi-ro, R. (2010). The Role of Technol-ogy in Mathematics and Science Pedagogy- Lessons from Asian Educators. Proceedings of 8th Hawaii International Conference on Education, Hawaii.

Shao, K., Beck S., Cavallo, R., Mareels, I., and Zhang, X. (2009). Computer Science Education Model. IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, July 26, 2009, Nan-ning, China.

GEORGE SLUSARZ (Assistant Professor, Accounting) Slusarz, G. and Psihountas, D. (2010). Area of focus: Public Policy/Taxation. Complexity and Discrimination - Federal Income

Tax Policy. We examine whether the identification (or refusal to do so) of same-sex marriages as a legally taxable entity is creat-ing an undue tax burden on these couples. Manuscript in prepara-tion. MARTHA SMITH (Professor, Com-puter Science) Currently in the data collection process of a study which fo-cuses on undergraduate female attitudes towards the field of computer science. Study partici-pants are being recruited from various Midwestern universities, including Webster University. It is anticipated that study results will be available in the fall of 2011.

XIAOYUAN SUO (Assistant Profes-sor, Computer Science) Zhu, Y., Suo, X. , and Owen, G.S. A Visual Data Exploration Frame-work for Complex Problem Solving Based on Extended Cognitive Fit Theory. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Vi-sual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spring, 2009. Zhu, Y., Suo, X. , and Owen, G.S. A Study of the Vulnerability of Click

Based Graphical Password. Pro-ceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Sci-ence, Spring, 2009. ECE TUNCEL (Assistant Professor, Management)Tuncel, E., & Bottom, W. P. Revisit-ing the role of anger and fear on optimism. The Society for Judg-ment and Decision Making Con-ference, St. Louis, MO, Nov 2010. Tuncel, E., Kong, D. T., & McLean Parks, J. Positive face threat sen-sitivity and conflict avoidance in negotiation. The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, August 2010. Kong, D. T., Tuncel, E., & McLean Parks, J. The role of anticipated happiness in negotiation. The International Association for Conflict Management Conference, Boston, MA, June 2010. Kong, D. T., Tuncel, E., & McLean Parks, J. Developing face threat sensitivity measures. The An-nual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, August 2009.

Former Financial Times reporter and author of Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, Julie MacIntosh explains the research behind her best selling tell-all book on the fall of one of the world’s largest breweries. January 19, 2011, St. Louis, Missouri.

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QUINN SHAO (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Shao, K. (2010). Must Technology Take Place in Mathematics and Science Pedagogy? Proceedings of Society for Information Technol-ogy and Teacher Education-21 International Conference for the Advancement of Computing, San Diego, CA, March. Shao, K., Petras, C., and Tamashi-ro, R. (2010). The Role of Technol-ogy in Mathematics and Science Pedagogy- Lessons from Asian Educators. Proceedings of 8th Hawaii International Conference on Education, Hawaii.

Shao, K., Beck S., Cavallo, R., Mareels, I., and Zhang, X. (2009). Computer Science Education Model. IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, July 26, 2009, Nan-ning, China.

GEORGE SLUSARZ (Assistant Professor, Accounting) Slusarz, G. and Psihountas, D. (2010). Area of focus: Public Policy/Taxation. Complexity and Discrimination - Federal Income

Tax Policy. We examine whether the identification (or refusal to do so) of same-sex marriages as a legally taxable entity is creat-ing an undue tax burden on these couples. Manuscript in prepara-tion. MARTHA SMITH (Professor, Com-puter Science) Currently in the data collection process of a study which fo-cuses on undergraduate female attitudes towards the field of computer science. Study partici-pants are being recruited from various Midwestern universities, including Webster University. It is anticipated that study results will be available in the fall of 2011.

XIAOYUAN SUO (Assistant Profes-sor, Computer Science) Zhu, Y., Suo, X. , and Owen, G.S. A Visual Data Exploration Frame-work for Complex Problem Solving Based on Extended Cognitive Fit Theory. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Vi-sual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Spring, 2009. Zhu, Y., Suo, X. , and Owen, G.S. A Study of the Vulnerability of Click

Based Graphical Password. Pro-ceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Sci-ence, Spring, 2009. ECE TUNCEL (Assistant Professor, Management)Tuncel, E., & Bottom, W. P. Revisit-ing the role of anger and fear on optimism. The Society for Judg-ment and Decision Making Con-ference, St. Louis, MO, Nov 2010. Tuncel, E., Kong, D. T., & McLean Parks, J. Positive face threat sen-sitivity and conflict avoidance in negotiation. The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, August 2010. Kong, D. T., Tuncel, E., & McLean Parks, J. The role of anticipated happiness in negotiation. The International Association for Conflict Management Conference, Boston, MA, June 2010. Kong, D. T., Tuncel, E., & McLean Parks, J. Developing face threat sensitivity measures. The An-nual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, August 2009.

Former Financial Times reporter and author of Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, Julie MacIntosh explains the research behind her best selling tell-all book on the fall of one of the world’s largest breweries. January 19, 2011, St. Louis, Missouri.

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case dealing with the valuation of three Waffle House franchises. Valuation of Brentwood Supply Company: case deals with the assessment of a building supply store. Valuation of Four Paws Animal Clinic: case deals with the assessment of a Multi-Doctor animal hospital. Valuation of Directory Publishing Solutions: case involves the assessment of a Directory Publishing company.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L., Maher, P.E., & Akan-de, B.O. (2010). Achieving Quality, Excellence, and Consistency in a Global Academy. Proceedings of PICMET’10, Phuket, Thailand.

Maher, P.E., & Kourik, J.L. (2010). A Global Business School on a Path to Consistency and Accredita-tion: Reflecting on the Journey. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sci-ences (ASBBS), Las Vegas.

AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-agement) Marcella, A. and Guillossou F., (201x), The Nuts and Bolts to Understanding the Art and Science

Behind Cyber Forensics. Publica-tion in 2011.

Marcella, A., Menendez, D., (201x), Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examin-ing, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes. Third Edition, Publication in 2011.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Reviewed leadership textbook proposal for Pearson. Reviewed organizational behav-ior textbook for Cengage Learn-ing.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Economic Impact Analysis of Athletics for the University of New Mexico (August 2010). Consulting Project.

Application of Economic Impact Template, (April 2010). Collabora-tive Partnership/Presentation with the National Association of Sports Commissions.

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Consultant to Ghisallo Running

Application

Applying what you know to benefit the knowledge and work of others is as essential to edu-cational growth as the expertise itself. Everything from consult-ing projects to collaborative part-nerships with others highlight how the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technol-ogy is continually engaged in new approaches, protocols and procedures in and outside the university setting.

BENJAMIN AKANDE (Dean, Walker School of Business & Tech-nology)Akande, Benjamin & Feltz, Chuck. Why Strategy Fail. Chief Learning Officer, August 2010.

Akande, B., Feltz, C., HR’s New Year’s Resolution: Take a Seat at the Strategic Table, Market Watch. (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 6, 2011).

Akande, B., Feltz, C., Why Strat-egy Fails?, Chief Learning Officer Magazine. (August 2010).

JEFF HALDEMAN (Associate Professor, Management) Haldeman, J. (2009/2010). Career development assessment and consulting for three mid-level managers. Regional Utility Com-pany, St. Louis, MO.

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L. and Maher, P. E. (2010). A Global Business School on a Path To Consistency and Accreditation: Reflecting on the Journey. Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS), Las Vegas, Nevada, February 18-21, 2010, pp. 6. Maher, P. E., Kourik, J.L., Akande, B.O. (2010). Achieving Quality, Excellence, and Consistency in a Global Academy. Portland Inter-national Center for Management of Engineering and Technology Conference (PICMET’10), July 18 - 22, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) Deposition in Frame v. Frame;

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Application

case dealing with the valuation of three Waffle House franchises. Valuation of Brentwood Supply Company: case deals with the assessment of a building supply store. Valuation of Four Paws Animal Clinic: case deals with the assessment of a Multi-Doctor animal hospital. Valuation of Directory Publishing Solutions: case involves the assessment of a Directory Publishing company.

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Mathematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L., Maher, P.E., & Akan-de, B.O. (2010). Achieving Quality, Excellence, and Consistency in a Global Academy. Proceedings of PICMET’10, Phuket, Thailand.

Maher, P.E., & Kourik, J.L. (2010). A Global Business School on a Path to Consistency and Accredita-tion: Reflecting on the Journey. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sci-ences (ASBBS), Las Vegas.

AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-agement) Marcella, A. and Guillossou F., (201x), The Nuts and Bolts to Understanding the Art and Science

Behind Cyber Forensics. Publica-tion in 2011.

Marcella, A., Menendez, D., (201x), Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examin-ing, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes. Third Edition, Publication in 2011.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Reviewed leadership textbook proposal for Pearson. Reviewed organizational behav-ior textbook for Cengage Learn-ing.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) Economic Impact Analysis of Athletics for the University of New Mexico (August 2010). Consulting Project.

Application of Economic Impact Template, (April 2010). Collabora-tive Partnership/Presentation with the National Association of Sports Commissions.

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Consultant to Ghisallo Running

Application

Applying what you know to benefit the knowledge and work of others is as essential to edu-cational growth as the expertise itself. Everything from consult-ing projects to collaborative part-nerships with others highlight how the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technol-ogy is continually engaged in new approaches, protocols and procedures in and outside the university setting.

BENJAMIN AKANDE (Dean, Walker School of Business & Tech-nology)Akande, Benjamin & Feltz, Chuck. Why Strategy Fail. Chief Learning Officer, August 2010.

Akande, B., Feltz, C., HR’s New Year’s Resolution: Take a Seat at the Strategic Table, Market Watch. (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 6, 2011).

Akande, B., Feltz, C., Why Strat-egy Fails?, Chief Learning Officer Magazine. (August 2010).

JEFF HALDEMAN (Associate Professor, Management) Haldeman, J. (2009/2010). Career development assessment and consulting for three mid-level managers. Regional Utility Com-pany, St. Louis, MO.

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science) Kourik, J.L. and Maher, P. E. (2010). A Global Business School on a Path To Consistency and Accreditation: Reflecting on the Journey. Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS), Las Vegas, Nevada, February 18-21, 2010, pp. 6. Maher, P. E., Kourik, J.L., Akande, B.O. (2010). Achieving Quality, Excellence, and Consistency in a Global Academy. Portland Inter-national Center for Management of Engineering and Technology Conference (PICMET’10), July 18 - 22, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand.

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting) Deposition in Frame v. Frame;

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Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement

Store. University City, St. Louis MO, strategy and product line expansion Fall 2009.

ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) Consulting projects in Inter-national Transfer Prices policy for US multinationals in Latin America. (Colgate and British American Tobacco). Collaboration with the Latin American Insurance Board on measuring and helping the implementation of the new IFRS (Presentation to the members of

the BOD in early September). Collaboration with the Board Rectors from the Latin American Business Schools on how to bring the CSR topic into the classroom.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science)Professional consulting with CollegeBuilt, involved in project design and implementation in projects: system neuroscience, neuroscience PhD program evaluation, vision center, and office of neuroscience research at Washington University.

Walker Speakers Series panelist Chris Reimer, Owner of Rizzo Tees and Chief Mar-keting Officer of The Scorch Agency explains the outreach potential of social media during Social Media: Bettering Your Business as fellow speakers Amber Talbot, BA ’04, from Scottrade, Kathleen Manning from Monsanto Company; and Dave Collett from Weber Shandwick look on. St. Louis, Missouri December 2, 2010.

Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement Faculty at the Walker School of Business & Technology are con-tinuously sought out by the public and private sector to link their scholarship and the intellectual resources of themselves as well as the university in the addressing of important and urgent social, civic, and professional challenges and opportunities. Through our memberships of and leadership in professional, social and commu-nity based activities we become activists for education.

BENJAMIN AKANDE (Dean, Walker School of Business & Tech-nology)Chair, Investment Committee, MICDS. Charged with managing $60 million endowment.

JOHN ALESHUNAS (Associate Professor, Mathematics and Com-puter Science)Summer 2010 - Society for Ameri-can Baseball Research (SABR) National Conference (Atlanta, GA) – attendee

JIM BRASFIELD (Management Department Chair, Professor, Man-agement) Officer and Board Member, Mu-nicipal Parks Grant Commission, St. Louis County, Missouri.

DAVID BRENNAN (Professor, Marketing and International Busi-ness) Attended American Marketing Association / St. Louis Branch conference in St. Louis in Febru-ary 2010. Accompanied by 14 senior students in Webster Uni-versity’s Management/Marketing program. The topic of conference was The New Decade of Social Relationships and provided stu-dents with information on social networks and career opportuni-ties in marketing.

RICH DIPPEL (Assistant Professor, Business) Participated in Poster Session for the Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting for the American Accounting Association in New York City involving the use of Microsoft Access in order to involve the students in the development and use of account-ing information systems and as a result enhance their learning of the subject material.

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Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement

Store. University City, St. Louis MO, strategy and product line expansion Fall 2009.

ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ (Associ-ate Professor, Accounting) Consulting projects in Inter-national Transfer Prices policy for US multinationals in Latin America. (Colgate and British American Tobacco). Collaboration with the Latin American Insurance Board on measuring and helping the implementation of the new IFRS (Presentation to the members of

the BOD in early September). Collaboration with the Board Rectors from the Latin American Business Schools on how to bring the CSR topic into the classroom.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science)Professional consulting with CollegeBuilt, involved in project design and implementation in projects: system neuroscience, neuroscience PhD program evaluation, vision center, and office of neuroscience research at Washington University.

Walker Speakers Series panelist Chris Reimer, Owner of Rizzo Tees and Chief Mar-keting Officer of The Scorch Agency explains the outreach potential of social media during Social Media: Bettering Your Business as fellow speakers Amber Talbot, BA ’04, from Scottrade, Kathleen Manning from Monsanto Company; and Dave Collett from Weber Shandwick look on. St. Louis, Missouri December 2, 2010.

Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement Faculty at the Walker School of Business & Technology are con-tinuously sought out by the public and private sector to link their scholarship and the intellectual resources of themselves as well as the university in the addressing of important and urgent social, civic, and professional challenges and opportunities. Through our memberships of and leadership in professional, social and commu-nity based activities we become activists for education.

BENJAMIN AKANDE (Dean, Walker School of Business & Tech-nology)Chair, Investment Committee, MICDS. Charged with managing $60 million endowment.

JOHN ALESHUNAS (Associate Professor, Mathematics and Com-puter Science)Summer 2010 - Society for Ameri-can Baseball Research (SABR) National Conference (Atlanta, GA) – attendee

JIM BRASFIELD (Management Department Chair, Professor, Man-agement) Officer and Board Member, Mu-nicipal Parks Grant Commission, St. Louis County, Missouri.

DAVID BRENNAN (Professor, Marketing and International Busi-ness) Attended American Marketing Association / St. Louis Branch conference in St. Louis in Febru-ary 2010. Accompanied by 14 senior students in Webster Uni-versity’s Management/Marketing program. The topic of conference was The New Decade of Social Relationships and provided stu-dents with information on social networks and career opportuni-ties in marketing.

RICH DIPPEL (Assistant Professor, Business) Participated in Poster Session for the Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting for the American Accounting Association in New York City involving the use of Microsoft Access in order to involve the students in the development and use of account-ing information systems and as a result enhance their learning of the subject material.

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Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement

Member of the Litigation Support Committee, Forensic & Investiga-tive Accounting Section of the American Accounting Associa-tion.

JIM EVANS (Professor, Manage-ment) Program Leader, MA in Manage-ment & Leadership (2006-pres-ent).

ACBSP Self-Study Committee (2007-present). Ad Hoc Committee to Review ‘Advocate Dean’ Model for Cen-ter for Interdisciplinary Studies (2009-2010).

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science)Akande, Masidonski, Maher & Kourik (2009). Consistent Diver-sity: Balancing Cultural, Economic, and Assessment Needs in a Global Institution. ACBSP Annual Confer-ence, Texas, June 2009. Program Leader, MA in Manage-ment & Leadership (2006-pres-ent).

ACBSP Self-Study Committee (2007-present).

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting)Member of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA).

Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). MARIA MADLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Management, Webster Vienna)Involvement in services to the sci-entific community as a reviewer (journals: Electronic Markets, Behavior and Information Tech-nology, Information Resources Management Journal, conferenc-es: International Conference in Information Systems, Hawaii In-ternational Conference on System Sciences, Wirtschaftsinformatik), associate editor (Electronic Com-merce Research Journal), and member of program committee (Networking and Electronic Com-merce Conference).

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Computer Science) Invited member of the Interna-tional Program Committee for the International Conference on Knowledge Management and In-

formation Sharing – KMIS 2010.

AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-agement) December 2009, attained the re-quired experience and successful-ly passed the industry certifica-tion examination, for recognition as a Certified Information Securi-ty Manager (CISM), as recognized by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

ALI OVLIA (Associate Professor, Computer Science) American Computing Machinery (ACM).

American Accounting Association (AAA).

Association of Information Tech-nology Professionals (AITP).

JULIE PALMER (Assistant Profes-sor, Management) Faculty Advisor to SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise).

Volunteer teacher at the Harris House, St. Louis .

DEBBIE PSIHOUNTAS (Business Department Chair, Associate Pro-fessor, Finance) Selected by the St. Louis Business

Journal for 2009 “Most Inclusive Leader” award.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Renz, G. L. (2009, July). Pay for Performance: Pros and Cons. Semi-nar presentation for Society for Human Resources Management of St. Louis, MO. Received a “2010 Outstanding Reviewer Award” by the Organi-zational Behavior Division.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) SportsMoney Blog with Forbes.com (http://blogs.forbes.com/people/prishe/, http://blogs.forbes.com/sportsmoney/author/prishe/)

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Guest Lecturer, Qualitative Research: Action Research and Inquiry. University of Missouri St. Louis, College of Nursing, Spring 2010. DENIZ SARAL (Chairman, Profes-sor, Business and Management Programs, Webster Geneva) Unanimously elected as Presi-dent-Elect of Region 8 (Europe and Asia) of Association of

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Outreach, Discipline or Community Engagement

Member of the Litigation Support Committee, Forensic & Investiga-tive Accounting Section of the American Accounting Associa-tion.

JIM EVANS (Professor, Manage-ment) Program Leader, MA in Manage-ment & Leadership (2006-pres-ent).

ACBSP Self-Study Committee (2007-present). Ad Hoc Committee to Review ‘Advocate Dean’ Model for Cen-ter for Interdisciplinary Studies (2009-2010).

JANET KOURIK (Professor, Math-ematics and Computer Science)Akande, Masidonski, Maher & Kourik (2009). Consistent Diver-sity: Balancing Cultural, Economic, and Assessment Needs in a Global Institution. ACBSP Annual Confer-ence, Texas, June 2009. Program Leader, MA in Manage-ment & Leadership (2006-pres-ent).

ACBSP Self-Study Committee (2007-present).

TROY LUH (Associate Professor, Accounting)Member of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA).

Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). MARIA MADLBERGER (Research Faculty, Business and Management, Webster Vienna)Involvement in services to the sci-entific community as a reviewer (journals: Electronic Markets, Behavior and Information Tech-nology, Information Resources Management Journal, conferenc-es: International Conference in Information Systems, Hawaii In-ternational Conference on System Sciences, Wirtschaftsinformatik), associate editor (Electronic Com-merce Research Journal), and member of program committee (Networking and Electronic Com-merce Conference).

PETER MAHER (Associate Profes-sor, Computer Science) Invited member of the Interna-tional Program Committee for the International Conference on Knowledge Management and In-

formation Sharing – KMIS 2010.

AL MARCELLA (Professor, Man-agement) December 2009, attained the re-quired experience and successful-ly passed the industry certifica-tion examination, for recognition as a Certified Information Securi-ty Manager (CISM), as recognized by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

ALI OVLIA (Associate Professor, Computer Science) American Computing Machinery (ACM).

American Accounting Association (AAA).

Association of Information Tech-nology Professionals (AITP).

JULIE PALMER (Assistant Profes-sor, Management) Faculty Advisor to SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise).

Volunteer teacher at the Harris House, St. Louis .

DEBBIE PSIHOUNTAS (Business Department Chair, Associate Pro-fessor, Finance) Selected by the St. Louis Business

Journal for 2009 “Most Inclusive Leader” award.

GARY RENZ (Associate Professor, Management) Renz, G. L. (2009, July). Pay for Performance: Pros and Cons. Semi-nar presentation for Society for Human Resources Management of St. Louis, MO. Received a “2010 Outstanding Reviewer Award” by the Organi-zational Behavior Division.

PATRICK RISHE (Associate Pro-fessor, Economics) SportsMoney Blog with Forbes.com (http://blogs.forbes.com/people/prishe/, http://blogs.forbes.com/sportsmoney/author/prishe/)

CHRIS RISKER (Associate Profes-sor, Health Administration) Guest Lecturer, Qualitative Research: Action Research and Inquiry. University of Missouri St. Louis, College of Nursing, Spring 2010. DENIZ SARAL (Chairman, Profes-sor, Business and Management Programs, Webster Geneva) Unanimously elected as Presi-dent-Elect of Region 8 (Europe and Asia) of Association of

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Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

GEORGE SLUSARZ (Assistant Professor, Accounting) Slusarz, George (2010). Volunteer Money Management (VMM). Pro-vided older adults who need help with their day-to-day financial tasks.

MARTHA SMITH (Professor, Com-puter Science) Served at Site Director of the 2009 ACM Collegiate Program-ming Competition at Webster University for the Regional Competition. Ten teams from local colleges and universities competed in the all-day event. This competition was a qualifier for the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

World Finals which were held in China. This was the fourth year Webster had hosted the competi-tion and Prof. Smith had served as Site Director.

XIAOYUAN SUO (Assistant Profes-sor, Computer Science) SIFE at Webster University (Students In Free Enterprise), Co-Advisor.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science)Professional consulting with CollegeBuilt, involved in project design and implementation in projects: system neuroscience, neuroscience PhD program evalu-ation, vision center, and office of neuroscience research at Wash-ington University.

Bart Decrem, founder of the world’s lead-ing app developer Tapulous and senior vice president/general manager of Disney Mobile, received the Walker School of Business 2010 CEO of The Year award at Webster University in Leiden, The Nether-lands, September 10, 2010.

SBT Mission Statement

Our mission is to prepare lifelong learners for

professional fulfillment in the fields of business and

technology through the application of knowledge

in a supportive academic environment.

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Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

GEORGE SLUSARZ (Assistant Professor, Accounting) Slusarz, George (2010). Volunteer Money Management (VMM). Pro-vided older adults who need help with their day-to-day financial tasks.

MARTHA SMITH (Professor, Com-puter Science) Served at Site Director of the 2009 ACM Collegiate Program-ming Competition at Webster University for the Regional Competition. Ten teams from local colleges and universities competed in the all-day event. This competition was a qualifier for the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

World Finals which were held in China. This was the fourth year Webster had hosted the competi-tion and Prof. Smith had served as Site Director.

XIAOYUAN SUO (Assistant Profes-sor, Computer Science) SIFE at Webster University (Students In Free Enterprise), Co-Advisor.

JIANGPING WANG (Associate Professor, Computer Science)Professional consulting with CollegeBuilt, involved in project design and implementation in projects: system neuroscience, neuroscience PhD program evalu-ation, vision center, and office of neuroscience research at Wash-ington University.

Bart Decrem, founder of the world’s lead-ing app developer Tapulous and senior vice president/general manager of Disney Mobile, received the Walker School of Business 2010 CEO of The Year award at Webster University in Leiden, The Nether-lands, September 10, 2010.

SBT Mission Statement

Our mission is to prepare lifelong learners for

professional fulfillment in the fields of business and

technology through the application of knowledge

in a supportive academic environment.

George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology

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