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Events, Highlights & Awards

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Department Events

The International Business & Management Department hosted its inaugural Investment Competition in Fall 2023, with the support of the Career Center, student groups, alumni and industry professionals. Contestants—among them international students and four first-year and four exchange students—traded $1 million in virtual money on a real-time, simulated platform. President John E. Jones III '77, P'11, Provost and Dean Renée Ann Cramer as well as alumni and industry professionals were present to award the prizes and make remarks. Read more here.

The International Business & Management Department celebrated its 25th anniversary on April 2023 with a three-day on campus gathering featured classroom discussions, dinner reception, alumni-student coffee hour, and an alumni career panel “Strategies for Career Success,” featuring Alex Osberg ’09 (manager, global CPG sales, Twitter), Leo Davelman ’02 (vice president of customer success, iPipeline), Jason Fine ’09 (vice president, account management & strategic partnerships, Meazure Learning) and Rohan Sen ’08 (technology investment banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch). Read more here.

On May 17, the festivities continued at a private gathering at the Cornell Club of New York, an event meant to promote networking among Dickinson alumni working in international business.

Faculty Highlights

Steve Erfle, professor of International Business & Management, has recently published 'Electronic String Art: Rhythmic Mathematics' with Taylor and Francis in 2024. The book provides accessible insights and interactive digital resources, facilitating a deeper understanding of mathematical principles and creative image manipulation.

Steve Riccio, senior Lecturer in International Business & Management, has been named the 2023 recipient of the annual Constance & Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching. Read more here.

Steve Erfle, professor of International Business & Management, along with Don Chakerian, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis, published “Up the Hill and Down Again” in the College Mathematics Journal. Read the full article here.

Forrest Watson, assistant professor of International Business & Management, along with Professors Mark Peterson and Walid J. Abou-Khalil, recently published “Explaining Consumer Support for Sustainable Business Practices in the Frontier Market of Lebanon,” in the Journal of Macromarketing. The article explores the factors influencing consumers’ purchasing support for firms pursuing sustainable business practices in the frontier market. Read more here.

Helen Takacs, associate professor of International Business & Management, has been named the 2021 recipient of Dickinson’s Constance & Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching. Read more here.

Xiaolu Wang, assistant professor of International Business & Management, published “Pricing through Ambiguity: A Flocking Model of the Inter-dynamics between Pricing Practices and Market Uncertainties” in the Journal of Mathematical Sociology. This study constructs a formal dynamic flocking model to investigate the inter-dynamics between market uncertainties and the viability of the three pricing practices. Find out more here.

Qing Bai, assistant professor of International Business & Management, along with associate professor Shaonan Tian of San Jose State University, published “Innovate or die: Corporate innovation and bankruptcy forecasts” in the Journal of Empirical Finance. The article investigates the relationship between a firm’s innovation performance and its probability of bankruptcy. Read more here.

Joy Middaugh, senior lecturer in International Business & Management, was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Why More Colleges Are Teaching Financial Wellness” for her inspirational teaching in the First-Year Seminar in 2019. Read the full article here.  

Qing Bai, assistant professor of International Business & Management, in collaboration with her coauthors, published “How Does Social Media Impact Bitcoin Value? A Test of the Silent Majority Hypothesis,” in the Journal of Management Information Systems. The article examines the dynamic interactions between social media and the monetary value of bitcoin and was featured in the LSE Business Review. Read more here.

Dengjian Jin, professor of International Business & Management, was awarded the prestigious Schumpeter Prize from the International Schumpeter Society at 16th conference for his book, the Great Knowledge Transcendence. He shared the prize of 10000 euros with a professor from the Harvard Business School.

Steve Erfle, professor of International Business & Management, published the book “Intermediate Microeconomics: An Interactive Approach” in 2016.

Student Awards

The Financial Executives International central PA chapter board of directors selected Olivia Cox '24 as its recipient of the FEI 2024 Outstanding Student Award. Cox will attended Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business for her MBA and master’s in accounting on the school's Dean’s Scholarship for Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business."

Olivia Cox receives her award

Olivia Cox receives her Financial Executives International Award.

John L. King Prize for Excellence in International Business and Management

2023: Amanda Rose Sorensen

2022: Leah Ashley Blatt

2021: Natasha Di Centa

Grant D. Fryling ’04 Memorial Prize in International Business & Management

2023: Coco Fulton

2022: Sasha Brady Quinlan

2021: Joanne Adebayo

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