Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Faculty and Staff Updates for Fall 2024

This semester, the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business announces promotions and work anniversaries, welcomes new faculty members, and thanks faculty and staff who are leaving the School for their efforts and dedication.

Promotions

• Ganesh Pandit, DBA, has been promoted to the rank of professor of accounting.
• Winston Waters, MBA, JD, has been promoted to the rank of professor of business law.
• Jason Na, PhD, and Eunji Lim, PhD, have been awarded tenure with promotion to the rank of associate professor of finance and economics and associate professor of decision sciences, respectively.

New Faculty and Staff Members

• Yifan Xie, PhD, tenure-track assistant professor of business analytics
• Hanieh Sardashti, PhD, tenure-track assistant professor of marketing
• Yifan Xie, PhD, tenure-track assistant professor of business analytics
• Steven Dock, adjunct professor of decision sciences
• Dominick Kerr, Michael Porcelain and Carey Savio, adjunct professors of accounting
• David Lee and Aditya Singh, adjunct professors of economics
• Nicole Henderson, executive assistant to the dean

Departing Faculty and Staff

We wish Britt'ny Armstrong, director of graduate programs, all the best as she leaves Adelphi after six years.

In Memoriam

It is with sadness that we share the passing of Jack Angel, a beloved professor of accounting for more than 40 years.

Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Annual Bender Research Awards

These awards honor outstanding published work by the School's faculty. This year, the Outstanding Body of Work Award, given to a faculty member for their contributions to scholarship over the previous three years, went to Jason Na, PhD, associate professor of finance, in recognition of his sustained record of high-quality publications during 2021, 2022 and 2023. The 2024 individual paper awards were given to five Willumstad faculty members:

• Best Paper Award: Yue Han, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences and marketing (with Declan Braun and Heng Emily Wang, co-authors), "The application of feed forward neural networks to merger arbitrage: A return-based analysis," published in Finance Research Letters.
• Inaugural Outstanding Paper for Corporate Social Responsibility: Susan Li, PhD, professor of decision sciences and marketing (with Wenjun Jiang and Shuli Liu, co-authors), "An extended cross-efficiency evaluation method based on information entropy with an application to the urban logistics industry," published in the Journal of Modelling in Management.

Outstanding Paper Awards

• Murat Sakir Erogul, PhD, associate dean (with Dilek Zamanti Nayir, Emir Ozeren and Aykut Arslan, co-authors), "Female soldiers maneuvering visibility in the Turkish Armed Forces," published in Culture and Organization.
• Cem Karatas, DBA, clinical assistant professor of finance and economics (with Senay Acikgoz, co-author), "Do psychological factors exert greater influence on investment decisions than psychological factors? Evidence from Borsa Istanbul" published in the Borsa Istanbul Review.
• Monica Yang, PhD (with Qi Ai, co-author), "Completion of High-tech M&As by Chinese Firms: Knowledge distance, industry attractiveness, and government involvement, " published in Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Faculty Scholarly Activity

• Charles Richard Baker, PhD, professor of accounting and law, and Zhimin Huang, PhD, professor of decision sciences, were recognized as Top Scholars by Scholar GPS. Their strong publication record, the impact of their work and the quality of their scholarly contributions have placed them in the top 0.5 percent of all scholars worldwide.
• Raghida Abdallah Yassine, PhD, assistant professor of management, co-authored "Addressing brain drain through employee development: the interplay of organizational commitment, turnover intention, and individual differences in Lebanon's health-care sector," published in the European Journal of Training and Development. She also had a teaching case study, Toters Delivery: Culture Driving Performance, published by Ivey Publishing.
• Charles Richard Baker, PhD, professor of accounting and law, published "Sobriété et réduction des couts caches" ("Sobriety and reduction of hidden costs") in the journal Entreprise & Société and "Historical perspectives on time and temporality" in the journal Recherche en Sciences de Gestion-Management Sciences-Ciencias de Gestión.
• Alan Cooper, PhD '95, clinical associate professor, co-authored "Risk Factors Affecting Life Expectancy Resulting in Premature Mortalities and the Accompanying Economic Losses" in Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology.
• Murat Sakir Erogul, PhD, associate dean (with Dilek Zamanti Nayir), published a book chapter, "Turkish Women and the Military: Entanglements as Negotiated States," in E.S. Meydanoglu, R. Ozturk, D.Z. Nayir, and M. Klein (eds.), Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (Shaker Verlag, 2024).
• Robert Goldberg, James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance, and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Finance and Economics, had "A New Measure of Monetary Accommodation" published in International Advances in Economic Research.
• Robert Goldberg, James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance; Zahra Sedighi Maman, PhD, assistant professor of decision sciences and marketing; and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Finance and Economics, authored a research note titled "Modeling the Effects of Exogenous Changes on the Social Problem of Capital Allocation," published in International Advances in Economic Research.
• James Hazy, EdD, professor of management, is the first author on a book chapter, "Modelling the Leadership Influence Process," included in The Oxford Handbook of Agent-based Computational Management Science (Oxford Academic, 2024).
• Zhimin Huang, PhD, professor of decision sciences, co-authored "Transitioning from gasoline to electric vehicles: Electrification decision of automakers under purchase and station subsidies" in the Journal of Transportation Research Part E.
• Cem Karatas, DBA (with Senay Acikgoz, co-author), clinical assistant professor of finance, co-authored a paper titled "Do psychological factors exert greater influence on investment decisions than psychological factors? Evidence from Borsa, Istanbul" in the Borsa Istanbul Review.
• Eunji Lim, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences, published "Estimating a Function and Its Derivatives Under a Smoothness Condition." in Mathematics of Operations Research.
• Winston Waters, JD, MBA '15, professor of accounting and law, authored "The Need for Comprehensive Federal Legislation to Regulate Facial Recognition Technology," which was published in the Southern Law Journal.

In the News

• Joseph Celentano, MBA '04, senior adjunct professor of management, was honored as one of the 28 recipients in the 2024 Diversity in Business Awards program presented by Long Island Business News.
• Robert Doud, JD, was featured in Homes & Gardens regarding liability when a tree falls in a neighbor's yard.
• Robert Goldberg, James F. Bender Clinical Professor of Finance, authored an opinion piece titled "The Fed Doesn't Know the Natural Rate of Interest: It's likely about 1.5%," which was published in The Wall Street Journal on March 13.
• MaryAnne Hyland, PhD, dean of the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, was selected by PoliticsNY as a 2024 Power Player in Corporate Social Responsibility. This list honors leaders pioneering social responsibility within their organizations. From corporate social responsibility executives to corporate foundation presidents and impact officers, Power Players in Corporate Social Responsibility are dedicated to pioneering positive change and shaping a brighter future for all.
• Cem Karatas, DBA, clinical assistant professor of finance and economics, was a featured expert on WalletHub, offering guidance to consumers on debt consolidation loans.
• Arthur Leibowitz, clinical associate professor of accounting and law, is a featured expert on WalletHub, offering guidance to consumers on online checking accounts.
• David Machlis, PhD, associate professor of finance and economics, authored an op-ed titled "A lesson from Nazi Germany for university presidents amid tidal wave of antisemitism," which was published May 3 in The Jerusalem Post.
• Ganesh Pandit, DBA, professor and chair of the Department of Accounting and Law, is a featured expert on WalletHub, offering guidance on student checking accounts and was quoted in two articles in GOBankingRates:
  • "7 Unnecessary Luxuries You Should Stop Paying For in 2024 - And Disney Is One of Them," in which Dr. Pandit advises that expensive cars, technology gadgets and vacations are luxuries that should wait if consumers have to take on debt to pay for them
  • "70% of Americans Label Economy 'Poor': 10 Ways To Save Money in a Bad Economy," in which he shares ways for consumers to cut their spending
• Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Finance and Economics, authored a letter published in the Financial Times on January 31 titled "Consumption has to fall for climate crisis to ease." He also was quoted in two articles in GOBankingRates:
  • "New Money vs. Old Money - Does This Make a Difference for Rich People?"
  • "I'm an Economist: My Prediction for Household Incomes in 2025 If Trump Wins the Election
• Karen Wallace, assistant professor of accounting and law, was quoted in a February 13 article in GOBankingRates titled "Are HOA Fees Tax Deductible?" Professor Wallace discusses the factors behind whether homeowners association fees can be deducted when filing income taxes.