MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER About the Department Mission Statement:
Professor Clarke speaking at the Internship Roundtable event
The Management/ Economics Department provides students with conceptual knowledge, analytical tools, practical skills, and experiences they will be able to use and build upon wherever they work. Our mission is to advance the intellectual, ethical, and social development of students so they become personally and socially responsible managers, leaders, and individual contributors who create value for their organizations and communities.
Students meeting at the Internship Roundtable event
Areas of Study
Number of Students
Management Majors
106
Accounting Majors
33
Accounting Minors
3
Management Minors
25
Economics Minors
13
Health Care Minors
19
Organizational Leadership
27
Sport Management Concentration
15
Faculty News Dr. Sharon McKechnie had a paper accepted by the Journal of Managerial Psychology: James, J. B., McKechnie, S. P., Besen, E., & Swanberg, J. “Exploring the workplace impact of intentional/unintentional age discrimination. “
Beebe held an Obamacare Roundtable discussion on Tuesday, March 28th. This event detailed what is happening involving the universal health care law from an economic and legal point of view to educate students on the law.
Professor Yoo-Taek Lee will be presenting his paper “Moral and Strategic Imperatives for Corporate Social Responsibility at a Most Admired Korean Company” accepted to the OM Divisional program of the AOM Annual Meeting in Boston in August this year.
Dr. Rebecca Moryl will be presenting her paper “Local EcoWHY CAN’T WE GET WHAT WE WANT? nomic Development, Why Can’t Studying the Alignment of Local Economic Development Goals and Policies We Get What We Want? A Study of the Alignment of Local Economic Development Goals and Policies” at the 42nd annual Urban Affairs Association meeting in Pittsburgh, PA in April.
Professor Shuyi Jiang and Professor Rebecca Moryl will be presenting a paper entitled “Gold, Moonshine, and Occupy Wall Street: Do audio podcast based assignments engage students differently across learning styles?” at the American Economic Association meeting in Boston in June.
Emmanuel College Faculty Research Seminar – March 16, 2012
Rebecca Moryl, PhD Assistant Professor of Economics Department of Management & Economics
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Professors Rosemary Macero and Maggie
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