U.S. News Survey: Robinson's Undergraduate Program in Top 50; Risk Management Maintains Leadership Position
Robinson's undergraduate program ranked among the top 50 in U.S. News & World Report's 2005 annual survey of "America's Best Colleges." Additionally, the College's risk management and insurance program, which has been in the top five for six consecutive years, was ranked third in the nation. Earlier this year, the College's part-time MBA program was ranked among the top 10 programs in the country for the ninth consecutive year.
The 2005 survey also ranks Robinson's management information systems program 11th overall. "Our undergraduate program remains as one of the nation's best as a direct result to our outstanding faculty, dedicated staff and enthusiastic students," says Dr. H. Fenwick Huss, dean of the Robinson College of Business. "In addition, we're extremely proud of our risk management and insurance and information systems programs, which continue to compete with programs from the nation's top business schools."
The rankings are included in the magazine's annual special edition guidebook titled, "America's Best Colleges." The expanded online rankings are available at www.usnews.com.
Robinson Launches Atlanta Business Leaders Speaker Series
Jeff Dunn, former president of Coca-Cola North America, Ben DeCosta, general manager of aviation at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, and Mario Concha, president of Georgia-Pacific Corporation's chemical division, are just a few who will help kick off Robinson College's Atlanta Business Leaders Speaker Series.
The series will give students and alums an opportunity to hear presentations from executives with Atlanta's top companies, including Delta Air Lines, Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, Inc. and Georgia-Pacific. A question-and-answer session topped off by a chance to network will immediately follow each presentation. The speaker series was designed to support the College's new MBA curriculum and is open to all Georgia State University students and alums as well as other members of the Georgia State community. A complete list of speakers along with times and locations can be accessed by visiting www.robinson.gsu.edu/business/speakers.
Robinson Prof Awarded Decade Award for Entrepreneurial Research
Benjamin M. Oviatt, professor of managerial sciences and director of the Herman J. Russell, Sr. International Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robinson College of Business, has received the 2004 Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Decade Award. The presentation was made at the Academy of International Business meeting in Stockholm.
Oviatt, along with co-author Patricia McDougall (Indiana University and former faculty member at Robinson), received the award for their article, "Toward a Theory of International New Ventures." The article, published in 1994, described and explained the historically accelerated internationalization of start-up companies. Following its publication and along with other articles by Oviatt and McDougall, international new ventures became a legitimate area for research. The article also helped establish the broader arena of international entrepreneurship as an important area of academic inquiry.
The JIBS Decade Award, sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan publishers, is designed to recognize the most influential article published in JIBS 10 years ago. The unanimous selection of this year's award-winning article by a committee of international business scholars was made from among the most-cited articles published by JIBS in 1994.
Following the award presentation, Oviatt and McDougall delivered a paper providing a current view of their original work which will be published later this year in a special section of JIBS.
Honoring Alums
The Robinson College Alumni Awards will celebrate its second year of recognizing outstanding alums in categories such as Lifetime Achievement, Community Service, Service to Robinson, Global Business, Outstanding Young Alum, Entrepre-neurship,Technology Leadership and Honorary Alum.
Last year's inaugural event was a great success, attracting more than 300 people. Honorees from last year include Bill Dahlberg - Lifetime Achievement; Parker "Pete" Petit - Community Service; Gary Meggs - Service to Robinson; Hubert L. Harris - Global Business; Deepak Raghavan - Outstanding Young Alum; Rene Diaz - Entrepreneurship; Christine Jacobs - Technology Leadership; and Jenny Pruitt - Honorary Alumna.
This year's event will be held at the Atlanta History Center on Tuesday, November 16. For more information, go to robinson.gsu.edu/alumni/award/index.html.
Duhaime Named Associate Dean for Robinson College
Irene M. Duhaime, Zwerner Chair of Entrepreneurship and Family Business, director of the W.T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment, and professor and chair of managerial sciences, has been named associate dean for the College. She reports directly to Dean Huss.
Prior to joining Robinson, Duhaime was professor of management in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis, where she held several administrative positions, including associate dean for external relations, associate dean for administration and external relations and associate dean of graduate studies. In addition, she served as associate professor of strategic management at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she was a faculty member for more than ten years and a core faculty member of the MBA Program for International Managers.
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