Ithaca College Quarterly
The Ithaca College student chapter of theAmerican Marketing Association has been recognized for high chapter performance by the national student American Marketing Association. ICAMA will be sending five student representatives to the national student conference in New Orleans to compete for the Outstanding National Chapter Award.
Kudos to those business school grads who sent us their business cards! Thanks to your enthusiastic response, more than 70 cards have been received to date, sparking lots of positive reactions and comments. There is always room for more, so please keep them coming! If you would like to share your success with current students, please mail two of your business cards (with your class year on the back) to Kelly Meyer, School of Business, 401 Smiddy Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850-7170.
The School of Business recently completed production of a promotional video for the Center for Trading and Analysis of Financial Instruments. The video, "Real Time --- Real Experience," was a collaborative effort of Gossa Tsegaye ’76, an instructor in the television-radio department, and Abraham Mulugetta, associate professor of finance and director of the trading room. The video will be used as a tool to market the business school to current and prospective students and their parents, alumni, and potential employers.
In February the International Business Association sponsored a daylong trip to the United Nations. Ten students participated, along with Professor Hormoz Movassaghi, the student club’s faculty adviser. The trip consisted of a tour of the United Nations and its major divisions, such as the Security Council and the General Assembly.
The tour was followed by a secretariat briefing on growth in trade across countries and continents. The visit concluded with a presentation by the head of Israel’s economic mission to the UN, highlighting trade and investment opportunities in Israel and the significant progress achieved in the development of Israel’s infrastructure and a broad range of high-tech industries.
All of those who participated in the trip found it very educational and recommended it become an annual tradition. The IBA gratefully acknowledges the efforts of international business major Ari Cohen ’98 in organizing this trip.
Under the tutelage of associate professor of accounting Alan Cohen, five accounting majors helped their peers complete their tax returns this spring. The service was free of charge. The volunteer income tax assistants --- seniors Beth Berger, Keri Curtis, Andrea Herzog, Greg Naviloff, and Kevin Nervegna --- worked out of Cohen’s office in Smiddy Hall, using a new tax accounting software, Intuit-Pro Series. They also provided this service to the greater Ithaca community, using the Women’s Community Building.
On the evening of March 4 the newly formed Management Club, in conjunction with the Financial Management Association, sponsored a "Meet the Deans" function in Clark Lounge. The purpose of the event was to provide students with an opportunity to meet and converse with the acting dean and the assistant dean in an informal setting. The activity was very well attended, and the student associations involved plan to make this event a once-a-semester tradition.
Raquib Zaman, Dana professor and chairman of the finance and international business department, has been elected president of the Association for Global Business for a two-year term. The AGB is an international association of academics and practitioners in all fields of international business disciplines. Its annual meeting, which is held in November each year, is attended by members from all over the world. The AGB publishes the Journal of Global Business and refereed proceedings of its annual meetings.
Zaman and Alka Bramhandkar, associate professor of finance, recently coauthored and published a paper. "Performance of Multinational Banks: A Comparison" appeared in the International Journal of Finance last year. Zaman is also the author of "Competition in the Financial Service Industry in the Wake of European Monetary Union," which was published in International Trade in the 21st Century, edited by K. Fatemi.
Eileen P. Kelly, associate professor of management, recently had her article on "Historical Perspectives on Legal and Ideological Challenges to Labor-Management Participation Efforts" accepted for publication in the International Journal of Public Administration.
Students of marketing instructor Mattie Epps’s Segmenting the Mature Market course have been working to aid the American Red Cross local chapters of Onondaga, Cortland, and Tompkins Counties. The semester-long project will incorporate the use of geodemographic technology to reach and target individuals over the age of 50 for volunteering.
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