MMMIS Newsletter

Fall 2009

Dr. Saleem Abuliel: Congratulations for publishing a paper: "A Taxonomy of IT Project Failure: Root Causes" in the International Management Review Journal vol 5, No. 1, ISSN:1551-6849.

Dr. Khalid Alsamara: Congratulations for publishing a paper: "A Taxonomy of IT Project Failure: Root Causes" in the International Management Review Journal vol 5, No. 1, ISSN:1551-6849.

Dr. Suad Alwan: Congratulations on completing Sabbatical on Management Research Project in Spring 2009. Research was focused on Quality Control in Academic settings and university environment. Welcome back.

Prof. Stephanie Bibb: Working hard with students.

Dr. Zafar Bokhari: 1: Participated at USDA Central America Mission in Guatemala in October 2008. @: Presented paper: “A Revisit of NAFTA on the US Trade Policies”, at The American Society for Competitiveness in November 2008. 2: Presented paper: Retooling MBA Education in a Competitive Global Environment: A Customer Focused Approach. Co-Authored with Dr. Louis Osuji and Dr. Farhad Simyar at American Institute of Higher Education, Nashville, TN, April-May, 2009

Dr. Terrence Kearney: Congratulations on Completing Sabbatical Marketing Research Project while on Sabbatical in Spring 2009. Welcome back.

Dr. Wolanyo Kpo: Working on Community and Business Development Projects in Ghana. Department wish him well.

Dr. Ben Liu: 2009: Congratulations: Publishing: State and Context-Dependent Information Management and Wealth Accumulation: An Information Analysis of the Billionaires between Taiwan and China in Journal of International Technology and Information Management. Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, and Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting. Congratulations on multiple intellectual contributions.

Prof. Roosevelt Martin: 1: Many contributions with SBDC and Entrepreneurial Development and as advisor. 2: Selected as a member the McGraw Hill Academic Advisory Board. 3: Review to be Published: Clashing Views on Educational Issues.

Dr. Louis Osuji: Worked with SIFE and received National Award. Congratulations on job well done. 1: Presented paper: Retooling MBA Education in a Competitive Global Environment: A Customer Focused Approach. Co-Authored with Dr. Zafar Bokhari and Dr. Farhad Simyar at American Institute of Higher Education, Nashville, TN, April-May, 2009 2: Presented paper: Osuji, Louis.O. (with MA Chukwuanu) 2009. Regional Trade Agreements and South-South Trade: Analysis of the experience of the major Sub-Saharan African Groupings" Paper delivered at the MBAA Conference, Drake Hotel, Chicago Illinois.

3: Osuji, Louis O. "Trade Policies and Development of Technology in Africa" In  Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy" (ed). N. Ekekwe. IGI Global Publication ( Forthcoming)

Dr. Behrooz Saghafi: Congratulations: 1: Presented Paper 2009 MBAA International annual meeting in Chicago and served as Chair of Session. 2: Dr. Saghafi also served as the Editor of the Proceedings of Information Systems and Quantitative Methods, Society for the Advancement of Information Systems (SAIS), MBAA International 2009.

Dr. John Stedl: Congratulations on multiple intellectual contributions. 2009: 1) Presented a paper at MBAA in March, 2009

2) Participated in a 3 day statistics workshop (learning the on-line statistics package SOCR) at UCLA. SOCR is a free on-line comprehensive statistics analysis tool kit developed at the UCLA statistics department.

Prof. Hamid Ali: Came to Department in Fall 2008 with 20+ years of teaching experience. Taught at COB CSU in 1987-1990 & 1999-2000. Covered for different faculty members when sick or away. Department thanks and acknowledges his team spirit and help.

Prof. Tonya Boddie: Joined MMMIS in Spring 2009. Came with tremendous experience in Corporate and Sales, as well as teaching experience in Marketing and Management.

E. Clayton and J. Muhammad: Both CSU employees; teach Part Time. Thanks for their effort and contributions.