In August 2009, the new MBAs worked on a creative project at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh that focused on four themes: experience-based learning, globalism, teamwork, and ethics and leadership. Katz students used the following creative way to discuss these themes that are central to our MBA program.
The paper, "Firm size and the gains from acquisitions" in the Journal of Financial Economics (Volume 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pp 201-228) was the third most cited paper in the Journal of Financial Economics in the past five years. The paper was written by Sara Moeller, Frederik Schlingemann, and Rene Stulz from Ohio State.
The Communications of the Association for Information Systems (Volume 24, Article 14, 2009), recently reviewed publications from nine leading IS journals during calendar years 2003 to 2007. In the core basket of three journals, Dennis Galletta and Varun Grover (PhD) were tied for 10th. In the official basket of six journals, Varun was tied for 4th, Dennis was tied for 9th and William King was tied for 25th. In the extended basket of nine journals, Varun was tied for 7th, William was tied for 15th and Dennis was tied for 19th.
Carolyn Weisberger Mendelson has been honored with the NASAA Distinguished Service Award of 2009 by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) to recognize outstanding work in the area of securities law and investor protection. Mendelson began work with the Pennsylvania Securities Commission in 2004. On behalf of Pennsylvania, she has been a member of NASAA's twelve state auction rate securities taskforce which has returned over $60 billion to investors and $600 million in penalties and fines against Wall Street firms for their prior marketing and sales practices of auction rate securities. Mendelson also chairs NASAA's broker dealer market regulatory committee.
This April, Katz will celebrate a milestone - the school's 50th anniversary of graduate education. To mark this milestone, we're compiling a list of 50 things that students, alumni, faculty, and staff love about Katz. The list will be published in the spring 2010 issue of Pitt Business magazine. Perhaps it was a favorite spot for team meetings, a memorable professor or staff person, an unforgettable project or assignment, or the best happy hour in Pittsburgh. Tell us what you love about Katz - and then tell someone else too!
CNBC awarded COFCO Limited chair Frank Ning (MBA '85) Asia Business Leader of the Year for inspiring growth for his company, while keeping in step with global trends. Starting as a single grain, oil, and food trader, Ning has grown the company into China's largest diversified product and service supplier. Read more.
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