COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS

An updated edition of the best-selling textbook, Information Technology for Management by Ephraim R. McLean, professor and George E. Smith Eminent Scholars Chair of the CIS Department, has been released by publisher John Wiley & Sons.

eCOMMERCE

Richard Welke, director of the eCommerce Institute, was unanimously elected chairman of the GEM (Global eManagement) university consortium for the next three years at a meeting held in Barcelona, Spain. The consortium includes business schools from 11 universities in Europe, South America, Central America and the United States. Recently Welke was also featured in a University Business magazine article, "We're All Connected," which highlighted the GEM program.

EXECUTIVE MBA

Maury Kanitz, former director of the Executive MBA program at the Robinson College of Business, has been named executive director of the Executive MBA Council, headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California. The council's mission is to foster excellence and innovation in executive MBA programs in a globally competitive environment. It supports academic and program administrators in responding to the educational needs of a diverse group of professionals who compose its student population.

FINANCE

Professor John D. Hogan retired from the faculties of Finance and Economics at the end of the spring semester, concluding 10 years of service, with six of those (1991-1997) as dean of the College of Business Administration. In his last semester at the RCB, he published "The GrammLeach-Bliley Act and Its Implications for Insurance" in the Journal of Financial Service Professionals.

Milind M. Shrikhande, assistant professor of finance, has co-written "Economic Exposure and Debt Financing Choice," published by the Journal of Multinational Financial Management.

Ernest W. Swift, associate professor of finance, has completed the third edition of two books, Instructors Manual to Accompany Financial Institutions Management: A Modem Perspective and Test Bank to Accompany Financial Institutions Management: A Modem Perspective, both published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

A partnership formed in 1997 between the Robinson College of Business (RCB), Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA), Khazar University (KU) in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus School of Business (CSB) in Georgia is developing MBA and BBA programs. Members from these partner faculties visit GSU for one semester of faculty development and administrative training, with members from KU and CSB visiting this spring. In April, Fred Jacobs, professor of accountancy, taught a course in managerial accounting and control in Baku Azerbaijan; and Bijan Faziollahi, associate professor of decision sciences, and Gary McKillips RCB director of communications and external affairs, visited KU and ASOA to meet with the MBA Board of Advisors, heads of businesses and members of U.S. organizations such as the U.S. Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce, as well as MBA students and faculty.

MANAGEMENT

Professor of management Rodger Griffeth recently saw publication of his book, Retaining Valued Employees, by Sage Publishers in Thousand Oaks, California.

Associate professor Ben Oviatt has co-written "International Entrepreneurship: The Intersection of Two Research Paths," which introduces a special multiarticle research forum on international entrepreneurship in the Academy of Management Journal. He has also published "How New Ventures Exploit Trade-offs among International Risk Factors: Lessons for the Accelerated Internationalization of the 21st Century" in the Academy of Management Journal. With Irene Duhaime professor of management, and Deborah S. Butler, assistant professor of management, he presented "Linking Entrepreneurship Education to the Community Through Creative Fund Raising" at the annual meeting of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in February in Orlando. Also with Butler and other colleagues, he presented "Innovative Financing of University Entrepreneurship Centers" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in August in Washington, D.C.