The Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Business recently announced the establishment of a new interdisciplinary center, addressing contemporary business problems through a partnership between Robinson scholars, alumni and faculty.
Professor Lars Mathiassen, academic director of the Executive Doctorate in Business program at Robinson, will serve as director for the center, which will be housed at GSU’ Buckhead Center. Mathiassen is currently a professor of computer information systems and co-founder of the Center for Process Innovation at Robinson. Mathiassen, a leading researcher in informatics, was recently awarded with an honorary doctorate from Umeå University in Sweden—his second honorary doctorate since 2011.
The new Center for Engaged Business Research aims to address two main problems which alumni of the Executive Doctorate program at Robinson must face: creating opportunities for their work to be published in peer-reviewed business journals and in conference presentations; and to find ways of collaborating on post-graduate research projects. The new center will give students and alumni the opportunity to create more of these opportunities while also fostering collaboration between faculty and other doctoral students.
According to Mathiassen, “graduates of the Executive Doctorate in Business program involved in the new Center for Engaged Business Research will have opportunities to launch and develop research that can be to the benefit of the company or networks they work in.”
The new center will also be a location for various workshops and seminars, where a network of students, faculty and alumni from executive doctorate programs around the U.S. and world can collaborate and connect.