Cranfield Professor Publishes Findings on Promotion of Gender Equality
A professor at Cranfield University School of Management has compiled guidelines for men in middle management on how to foster gender equity in the workplace.
Professor Elisabeth Kelan, in a report entitled “Men, Middle Managers and Gender Inclusive Leadership,” chose explicitly to address the men—who make up 70 percent of middle managers—in her report. Though geared toward that specific audience, Kelan notes that the guidelines suggested by her research could also be used by current leaders in all levels of workplace structure to help foster gender equality.
George Mason School of Business and College of Education Set to Launch Executive Chief Learning Officer Program
George Mason University’s School of Business and the College of Education and Human Development has announced its new Executive Chief Learning Officer program, making Mason one of a handful of colleges to offer a program dedicated to the quickly expanding role of the chief learning officer in the business world. What’s a chief learning officer?
Roy Hinton, the business school’s associate dean of executive education, called them C-suite members who are “focused on the development of human capital.” Continue reading…
NIU Business Dean Given 2015 Outstanding Dean Designation
NIU Business Dean Denise Schoenbachler has been named the 2015 Outstanding Dean by the International Honors Society Beta Alpha Psi. Founded in 1919, Beta Alpha Psi is an honor organization for financial information students and professionals. There are over 300 chapters on college and university campuses with over 300,000 members initiated since Beta Alpha Psi’s formation. Continue reading…
NIU Professor Named Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Accounting Education
According to a news blurb on the Northern Illinois University School of Business website, the Journal of Accounting Education named NIU’s Caterpillar Professor of Accountancy Natalie Churyk to serve as the Journal’s editor-in-chief. Churyk will serve in this role for three years.
According to the publication’s website, The Journal of Accounting Education is a refereed journal dedicated to promoting and publishing research on accounting education issues and to improving the quality of accounting education worldwide. The Journal “provides a vehicle for making results of empirical studies available to educators and for exchanging ideas, instructional resources, and best practices that help improve accounting education.” Continue reading…
Georgetown MBAs Honored at McDonough Entrepalooza
The McDonough School of Business celebrated the best, innovative business ideas dreamt up by students at the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative’s Entrepalooza. At the competition, nine student teams (either on the social track or the commercial track) pitched their plans to a panel of 21 judges. Continue reading…
Booth Professor Releases New Book
Richard Thaler, professor of behavioral science and economics at the Booth School of Business, has spent extensive time exploring the notion that the central agents in the economy are “fallible, error-prone humans” and not the “rational actors assumed in traditional economics.” Thaler, who is considered a founder in the field of behavioral economics, is now releasing a new book on May 18, 2015 that further examines why people love to misbehave in ways that effect the economy so much. Continue reading…
