Dean Gropper Presents
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoin Dan Gropper, Dean of the Florida Atlantic University College of Business, as he introduces the college's faculty members, research, programming, innovations, and much more. Follow Dean Gropper on Twitter at @FAUbusinessdean.
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Taxes and Economic Policy in the United States, with Dr. Arthur Laffer
November 17, 2022 17:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBDr. Arthur Laffer, an American economist and author, joins Dean Daniel Gropper to discuss taxes and economic policy in the United States. Support the show
Veterans & Entrepreneurship, with Carl Cyrius - CEO/Founder of The Oasis Firm
May 25, 2022 18:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBCarl Cyrius is the CEO/Founder of The Oasis Firm, a financial services company, and an alum of the Veterans Florida Entrepreneurship Program at Florida Atlantic's College of Business. Support the show
Yannick Thams: Associate Professor, Management Programs
December 02, 2020 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBYannick Thams, Ph.D., joins Florida Atlantic as an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Programs. Prior to her appointment at FAU, she was an Associate Professor of strategy and international business at Suffolk University in Boston. Support the show
Mircea Marandici: Instructor, Information Technology and Operations Management
October 15, 2020 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBPreviously an adjunct instructor at Florida Atlantic, Mircea Marandici is now a full-time member of the Department of Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM) at FAU Business. More > Support the show
Kenny Leblanc: Instructor, Business Communications Program
October 13, 2020 22:00 - 8 minutes - 5.96 MBPreviously a visiting instructor, Kenny Leblanc is now a full-time member of the Business Communications Program at the FAU College of Business. More > Support the show
Patch Paczkowski: Instructor, Management Programs
October 08, 2020 22:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBBill "Patch" Paczkowski -- a former Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps -- joins FAU Business as an instructor in the Department of Management Programs. Support the show
Sarah Nielsen: Instructor, Business Communications Program
October 06, 2020 21:00 - 8 minutes - 5.61 MBPreviously a visiting instructor, Sarah Nielsen is now a full-time member of the Business Communications Program at the FAU College of Business. More > Support the show
J.B. Ward: New Faculty Member, FAU Business
October 01, 2020 20:00 - 8 minutes - 5.83 MBPreviously a visiting instructor at Florida Atlantic, James "J.B." Ward is now a full-time member of the Hospitality and Tourism Management program at FAU Business. More > Support the show
Mohsen Emadikhiav: New Faculty Member, FAU Business
September 28, 2020 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBMohsen Emadikhiav is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Operations Management at the FAU College of Business. More > Support the show
Long Liu: New Faculty Member, FAU Business
September 24, 2020 22:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBLong Liu joins FAU Business as an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. Prior to arriving at Florida Atlantic, Liu was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. More > Support the show
Inkyoung Hur: New Faculty Member, FAU Business
September 21, 2020 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.75 MBInkyoung Hur is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Operations Management at FAU Business. More > Support the show
Magno Queiroz: New Faculty Member, FAU Business
September 11, 2020 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBMagno Queiroz joins FAU as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Operations Management at FAU Business. Previously, he taught at Utah State University and at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. More > Support the show
Soyoung Park: New Faculty Member, FAU Business
September 01, 2020 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBSoyoung Park joins FAU as an Assistant Professor in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Program at the College of Business. More > Support the show
Vernon L. Smith: Economist, Professor, and Nobel Laureate
March 09, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBVernon L. Smith is the George L. Argyros Chair in Finance and Economics and President, International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics at Chapman University. Vernon L. Smith, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms,” has held appointments at Purdue University, Stanford University, Brown University, University of Massach...
The Unfree World w/ Economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
December 20, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBRobert Lawson, Ph.D., holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Endowed Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and is the director of the William J. O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Benjamin Powell, Ph.D., is the director of the Free Market Institute and a professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. Support the show
Siri Terjesen, New Faculty Member @FAUbusiness
November 13, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBSiri Terjesen, PhD, joins the Department of Management Programs at FAU as a full professor and Dean's Distinguished Research Fellow. Prior to joining the Florida Atlantic University College of Business, Terjesen held a similar position at American University in Washington D.C. She also has an on-going joint faculty appointment with the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. Additionally, while completing her master's degree in economics from the Norwegian School, Terjesen earned th...
Amir Javadinia, New Faculty Member @FAUbusiness
October 30, 2019 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.33 MBAmir Javadinia, Ph.D., is a new assistant professor in the Marketing Department at the Florida Atlantic University College of Business. Professor Javadinia recently earned his Ph.D. in marketing from the University of South Carolina and his research uses big data to investigate issues in marketing strategy, especially at the intersection of marketing and finance. Using data from the automobile industry, Professor Javadinia's research examined the effects of product recalls on firm financial ...
Capitalism, Socialism, and Open Borders w/ Bryan Caplan, Ph.D. - Economics Professor, Author, and Blogger
October 23, 2019 14:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBBryan Caplan, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He specializes in public economics, public choice theory, psychology in economics, and the economics of the family. Caplan's book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, was named the best political book of the year (2007) by the New York Times. In his new work, Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, Caplan makes a bold c...
Milad Baghersad, New Faculty Member @FAUbusiness
October 14, 2019 17:00 - 8 minutes - 5.64 MBMilad Baghersad earned his Ph.D. in Business Information Technology from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Florida Atlantic University, Professor Baghersad was a visiting faculty member at Cleveland State University. His primary research interests include supply chain disruptions and disaster operations management. Professor Baghersad has published papers in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals like Decision Sciences Journal, International Journal of Production E...
Milad Baghersad, New Faculty Member @FAUbusiness
October 14, 2019 17:00 - 8 minutes - 5.64 MBMilad Baghersad earned his Ph.D. in Business Information Technology from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Florida Atlantic University, Professor Baghersad was a visiting faculty member at Cleveland State University. His primary research interests include supply chain disruptions and disaster operations management. Professor Baghersad has published papers in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals like Decision Sciences Journal, International Journal of Production E...
Lakshman Chandrashekhar, New Faculty Member @FAUbusiness
September 26, 2019 18:00 - 12 minutes - 8.31 MBLakshman Chandrashekhar earned his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2003. He brings a wealth of experience from having taught all over the world in locales such as China, Finland, France, India and across the United States. Professor Chandrashekhar has also published extensively. He's written three books and more than thirty refereed journal articles. Professor Chandrashekhar is joining the International Business faculty in the Department of Management Programs at the...
Mary O’Grady, Opinion Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
May 06, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 14 MBMary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined The Wall Street Journal in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis-based Liberty Fund. In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom...
Free Market Environmentalism, with Dr. Terry Anderson, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
April 24, 2019 14:00 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBTerry L. Anderson has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1998 and is currently the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow. He is the past president of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT, and a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University where he won many teaching awards during his 25 year career. Dr. Anderson is one of the founders of “free market environmentalism,” the idea of using markets and property rights to help solve environmental problems....
Professor Carol Alexander, University of Sussex
April 15, 2019 16:00 - 18 minutes - 8.31 MBCarol Alexander is Professor of Finance at Sussex and Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. Prior academic appointments were as Chair of Financial Risk Management at the ICMA Centre in the Henley Business School at Reading (1999 – 2012) and lecturer in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Sussex (1985 - 1998). She holds degrees from the University of Sussex (BSc First Class, Mathematics with Experimental Psychology; PhD Algebraic Number Theory) and the London School of ...
Andrew S. Gallan, Ph.D.
March 25, 2019 14:00 - 9 minutes - 4.24 MBAndrew S. Gallan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and the Director of the FAU Center for Services Marketing & Management. His almost 20 years of business experience in sales, sales management, and marketing, which, combined with his academic qualifications, enable him to have a distinct perspective on research and teaching. Andrew's areas of research interest include service innovation, service design, and customer/patient experience, almost exclusively conducted in the health ...
Robin C. Sickles, Professor of Economics at Rice University
March 21, 2019 16:00 - 19 minutes - 8.92 MBRobin Sickles is the Reginald Henry Hargrove Professor of Economics, a Joint Professor at the Department of Statistics at Rice, and an Adjunct Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is also a Research Associate at the Ovideo (Spain) Efficiency Group and a Member of Executive Committee for the International Finance and Banking Society. Professor Sickles is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and has served as associate editor of Journal of Applied Econom...
Forensic Accounting @FAUbusiness with FAU's Michael Crain, DBA
February 27, 2019 15:00 - 6 minutes - 2.83 MBMichael Crain, FAU Instructor & Director of the Center for Forensic Accounting @FAUbusiness, talks about the Forensic Accounting program's recent #2 ranking by BestColleges.com for Best Online Master's in Forensic Accounting. Dr. Crain also discusses some of their latest applied research on the the cost of capital, and the center's participation in an annual conference with the United States Department of Treasury. Follow Forensic Accounting on Twitter at @FAUForensic & the FAU Center for Fo...
Rajeev Sawant, Faculty @FAUbusiness
January 09, 2019 05:00 - 8 minutes - 3.76 MBRajeev Sawant, Ph.D. joins FAU as an experienced assistant professor, coming to us from Baruch College at the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. With expertise in various aspects of international business and foreign direct investment, his articles have appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Business Research. His book, “Infrastructure Investi...
Melanie Lorenz, Faculty @FAUbusiness
December 19, 2018 05:00 - 10 minutes - 4.68 MBMelanie Lorenz, Ph.D. is an experienced assistant professor. A native of Germany, she has worked in banking and consulting. She then decided to become an academic, and earned her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Alabama in 2016. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Toledo. Her focus is in international business and marketing; her research has been published in the Journal of World Business, International Marketing Review, and Academy of Management Learning and Ed...
Joao Faria, Faculty @FAUbusiness
December 05, 2018 05:00 - 11 minutes - 5.31 MBJoao Faria, Ph.D. joins us as a tenured associate professor. He comes to FAU from the University of Texas–El Paso, where he was a tenured professor. He has published more than 100 articles, primarily in macroeconomics, development economics, and most recently in the economics of terrorism. Originally from Brazil, he is now a U.S. citizen, and he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kent in England. Faria’s work has appeared in many excellent academic journals, including Journal of Money,...
William Luther, Faculty @FAUbusiness
November 14, 2018 05:00 - 6 minutes - 3.06 MBWilliam Luther, Ph.D. comes to FAU as an experienced assistant professor, having previously been at Kenyon College. His expertise is in monetary economics and alternative currencies, including Bitcoin. He is also the director of the Sound Money Project at the American Institute for Economic Research, and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives in Washington D.C. The author of more than two dozen articles, he has published in such leading jo...
Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan, Faculty @FAUbusiness
October 12, 2018 04:00 - 17 minutes - 7.83 MBDouglas Cumming, Ph.D. and Sofia Johan, Ph.D. join @FAUbusiness from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. While they each have impressive scholarly records on their own, together this husband-and-wife team has produced three books and more than 30 refereed journal articles. Support the show
Together, We are Building for Success @FAUbusiness
October 01, 2018 04:00 - 3 minutes - 1.87 MBAt FAU, our goal is to build a first-class, nationally-recognized, public business school in South Florida. To accomplish that goal, we need three things: top-notch people, first-rate facilities, and outstanding programs. Together, we will continue to build a university that has a lasting, positive impact in Florida and across the United States of America.Support the show