FACULTY NEWS

FACULTY NEWS

Associate Professor Sergey Anokhin’s paper, “Local Context and Post-Crisis Social Venture Creation” was accepted for publication by the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. The paper explores the effects of the local market and government on creating social ventures during a post-crisis recovery period.

Assistant Professor Faten Ben Bouheni and Associate Professor Manish Tewari presented a paper called “Common risk factors and risk-return trade-off for REITs and Treasuries” at the American Real Estate Society’s Leadership Conference.

Senior Adjunct Professor Caroline Casper’s fictional short story, “Sneaker Waves” was runner-up in the 2021 Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize Contest.

Lecturer Donna Crane was invited to speak at the fifth Women’s Leadership and Policy Summit at San Jose State University. Crane participated on a panel entitled, “Implications of Dobbs v. Jackson, advocacy on a national level, and community organizing.” She was also featured in an AP News article entitled, “California to vote on constitutional right to abortion” for her expertise on political outcomes regarding abortion access

Associate Professor Ruixue Du’s research article, “Lean Accounting, Fat Problem?” was accepted by the Journal of Accounting and Finance for publication. The article examines lean accounting’s value through a case study of Toyota. Another research article titled, “Can Corporate Weibo Accounting Information Disclosure Increase Investor Attention,” was accepted by China Economic Quarterly. Based on manually-collected Weibo accounting information disclosure data of firms on the main board and ChiNext from 2011 to 2019, this article examines the effect of Weibo accounting information disclosure on investor attention and the different effects between the main board and ChiNext.

Professor Fabian Eggers continues to organize the annual Global Research Conference on Marketing and Entrepreneurship (GRCME) as the organization’s director since 2014. This academic event started in 1986 to advance research at the intersection of marketing and entrepreneurship, and to institutionalize the discipline of Entrepreneurial Marketing. The next conference will be in Hamburg, Germany.

Lecturer Jesús Garcia’s undergraduate and graduate work helped build the Science Day event at California State University, Stanislaus, which continues to be funded in 2023. With the help of the student organizations in the College of Science, the first-ever Science Day helped bring in over 2,500 community members. Garcia looks forward to involving Menlo College students at this year’s event.

Professor Dima Leshchinskii was featured in WalletHub. His article entitled “Best Credit Card Sign-Up Bonuses” offered his expertise on evaluating different types of credit cards. This semester, Leshchinkskii invited Gopi Rangan, founding partner at a venture capital firm which invests in early stage start-ups, to be a guest speaker in his Entrepreneurial Finance course.

Associate Professor Lisa Mendelman looks forward to teaching the rebooted “Sex & Culture” class in the spring. Along with Professor Marianne Marar Yacobian, she overhauled the former “Women & Culture” class in light of contemporary matters of sex, race, gender, and sexuality. Mendelman recently spoke to the Willa Cather Society as part of their Author Series dedicated to Cather’s work. She also delivered a paper on Nella Larsen’s novel Passing (1929) and Rebecca Hall’s recent Netflix adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance classic at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in San Francisco. At the MLA conference, Mendelman participated in a roundtable that brought together scholars and activists working across disciplines to continue research, teaching, and service online during the pandemic. She spoke on her work in organizing a scholarly reading group that gave birth to a digital publication. Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor Melissa Michelson was the corecipient of the 2022 American Political Science Association’s Distinguished Career Award for Civic and Community Engagement with Nykidra Robinson, Founder and CEO of Black Girls Vote. They have partnered since 2020 on increasing voter participation in majority-Black communities around the country, working with community organizations. Michelson also co-launched the Student Vote Research Network (SVRN), which brings together different stakeholders to develop evidence-based best practices for increasing college student voter participation. In addition to securing a $250,000 grant from the Campus Democracy Fund, Michelson and students secured several other grants to encourage voting participation among eligible Menlo students. Finally, Michelson had five co-authored articles published in peer reviewed journals, she is now lead author of the textbook California in the Twenty-First Century, and she gave several public talks this year about her 2021 book, LGBTQ Life in America: Examining the Facts.

Assistant Professor Travis Miller received the Dunlop Spark Grant for his project developing a new method to measure individuals’ desires to change aspects of their personalities. He compares the new method with previously-established ones, and explores which can most accurately predict actual change in personality.

Professor Emeritus Bruce Paton gave a talk as a part of the University Innovation Fellows program’s 2022 Silicon Valley Meetup. The event lasted several days, and gathered Menlo College alumni of the program, 400 current University Innovation Fellows from across the globe, and institutional leaders for sessions, talks, and activities.

Lecturer Lakiba Pittman’s poetry is included in a new publication featuring Black poet laureates, entitled “Black Fire This Time.” Pittman also co-led the “Cultivating Compassion & Care” workshop for Harvard Medical School, and offered three related workshops through Stanford University this summer. She is also an instructor for a Yale University research study focused on examining the mental health of students of color and the efficacy of self-care and compassion on improving outcomes. Pittman was selected as a LEAD Bay Area Fellow. By focusing on homelessness and how communities can co-create solutions via intersectional coalitions and collaborations, Pittman and her LEAD Bay Area cohort aim to bring improvement to the community in this area.

Assistant Professor Melissa Eriko Poulsen presented at the biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies conference on a panel entitled, “Shadow Saviors, ‘Sun Summoners,’ and Radical Hope: Mixed Race Roles in Speculative Fictions and Academia.” Her paper, “Monstress Knowledge: Monsters, Saviors, and Mixed Race Resistances,” examined the graphic series Monstress as emblematic of mixed-race representation in cultural production in the late-2010s. Poulsen’s article, “The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in ‘Post-Racial’ Asian American Literature” was published in MELUS (Multiethnic Literature of the United States). The article examined Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You and Emily X. R. Pan’s The Astonishing Color of After, considering how those contemporary novels engage with and estrange nineteenth- and early twentieth-century representations of mixed race.

Assistant Professor Poulsen and Dean of Student Affairs Devin Carr took part in the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and EvidenceBased Learning (AAEEBL), where they considered strategies for using ePortfolios to enhance students’ first-year experience. Together, they designed a new ePortfolio component for the Menlo 101 course that allows students to use the tool to produce and share multimedia responses to this year’s Common Book, Kawai Strong Washburn’s Sharks in the Time of Saviors.

Associate Professor Sean Pradhan and Professor Marianne Marar Yacobian published two journal articles. The article, “Interception! Sports Fans’ Responses to Social Justice in the National Football League,” appears in the International Journal of Sport and Society, and “A wolf in (black) sheep’s clothing? Subjective group dynamics in sports fans,” can be found in the International Journal Sport and Exercise Psychology. They also presented “Indefinitely delayed penalty: Professional hockey fans’ reactions to Native American imagery” at the North American Society for Sport Management Conference in Atlanta.

Associate Professor Pradhan and Assistant Professor Miller co-authored a paper titled, “Does rest breed rust? An examination of DNP-Rest decisions and performance in the National Basketball Association regular and post-season,” which studies the impact of resting healthy players during the regular season on post-season performance, in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living.

Director of Institutional Effectiveness Dr. Kristina Powers has announced the launch of KPPowers.com - where she continues to work with ambitious leaders in higher education and beyond.

Adjunct Professor Jonathan Reichental published his sixth book and second Dummies publication Data Governance For Dummies. The book reached #1 on Amazon’s new releases in Information Theory.

Adjunct Professor Bill Schmarzo was named to the 30 LinkedIn Top Voices in Tech for 2022. The list includes 30 individuals who continue to share their wisdom and knowledge on data, analytics, and innovation.

Vice President for Student Success and Strategic Planning Dr. Angela Schmiede represented Menlo College at the WSCUC Annual Conference. She presented “Dynamic Strategic Planning with Objectives & Key Results (OKRs),” giving an overview of Menlo’s recent strategic planning process. She illustrated Menlo’s adoption of the OKR framework and the way it integrates the “Social Justice @ Menlo College” action plan to improve the College’s alignment of goals, objectives, and results.

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the School of Business Dr. Mouwafac Sidaoui, Assistant Professor Ben Bouheni, and Associate Professor Tewari co-authored a paper entitled, “Fintech and Operating Performance: Islamic Banking Evidence.” It was presented at the 5th Middle East and North Africa Conference for Information Systems.

Dean Sidaoui and Assistant Professor Ben Bouheni, with current students Samuele Mian ’22 and Zandanbal Arslankhuyag ’22 published a paper titled, “Fintech and Islamic banking growth; new evidence,” in the Journal of Risk Finance.

Director of the Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center and Director for Partnerships and Innovation Dr. Annika Steiber published her 11th management book Leadership for a Digital World: The Transformation of GE Appliances (Management for Professionals). The book was available for preorder through Amazon and went out of stock shortly thereafter. Steiber’s research paper, “Learning with startups: An empirically grounded typology,” published in The Learning Organization, won an award for Outstanding Paper in the 2022 Emerald Literati Awards. Steiber also hosted a business delegation from the Royal Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences at the Silicon Valley Sculpture 2022 event on the Menlo College campus, and she represented Menlo at the World Agile Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, as well as at the 14th Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna, Austria.

Executive Director for Academic Success Dr. Lisa Villarreal and Executive Director of International Student Services Erik Bakke also attended the 2022 AAEEBL. They presented a paper on using ePortfolios to redesign Menlo’s former remedial courses in Math and English. Villarreal gave a presentation entitled, “Designing ePortfolio assignments to promote metacognition.”

President Steven Weiner was interviewed by Natfluence. He talked about initiatives Menlo is pursuing and reflected on his career in higher education administration. Weiner also gave his advice and insights on “passion,” “success,” and “aspirations.”

Professor Marianne Marar Yacobian and Professor Janis Zaima were co-authors of the article, “At the Intersection of Corporate Social Irresponsibility, Gender, and Race: Millennial and Gen Z Consumer Loyalty,” which can be found in Archives of Business Research.