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The Florida MBA Programs
has gained kudos in two recent surveys of MBA programs worldwide conducted by Financial Times and The Economist.
Our Executive MBA Program fared very well in the prestigious Financial Times EMBA Program Rankings, released in November 2004. This is the first time in our program's history that we have appeared in the Financial Times' EMBA Rankings and ours was the only program in Florida to appear in the Financial Times Rankings. The rank of a school is based on its performance in three areas: 1) Career progress of the alumni (both in terms of salary and rank); 2) School’s diversity and international experience it offers; 3) School’s intellectual output and research. Here are some of the highlights: The Economist magazine’s annual guide “Which MBA?” also ranks Florida among the world’s best in its 2004 survey. The rankings for the Economist Intelligence Unit rankings are based on data provided by business schools with full–time MBA programs, and opinions of students and alumni who graduated within the last three years. Among the highlights: |
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Colquitt
Named Management’s Top Young Researcher |
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Jason A. Colquitt , has been granted the 2004 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP). The single most prestigious award conferred by SIOP, scholars are eligible for the McCormick Award up to and including their sixth year of academic employment. The award will be issued in April at SIOP 's Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, and Colquitt will give a talk at the 2006 SIOP meeting in Dallas.
Colquitt is now the third member (along with Tim Judge and Jeff LePine) of the Management department’s Micro Group to be awarded this prestigious honor.
Colquitt has published some two dozen papers in scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , and Personnel Psychology. His research focuses on how to promote organizational justice in the workplace, and how to design teams for maximum effectiveness. In addition to his scholarly research, he has also done consulting in these areas with companies such as General Motors and Donnelly Corporation.
Jason Colquitt earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University in 1999. He attended Indiana University as an undergraduate, where he earned his bachelor’s in Psychology. |
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UF’s Real Estate Department
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In September, UF entered into a partnership arrangement with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), which accredited the College’s Master of Science in Real Estate (MRE) degree. Among other benefits, with RICS accreditation, graduates of the MRE program are eligible for an expedited route to the RICS designation. RICS is the world’s leading land, property, and construction organization, with 113,000 designees worldwide. The RICS designation is restricted to individuals who have met RICS’s stringent education and professional experience standards. The MRE program at UF is the tenth academic program accredited in the Americas, and one of only five focused on real estate, joining MIT, Cornell, Georgia State, and Columbia.
David Ling, William D. Hussey Professor of Real Estate and co-Director of UF’s Center for Real Estate Studies, was recently elected by the RICS governing board as a RICS Fellow. This prestigious designation was presented to Professor Ling during a recent visit by five members of the RICS’ Western Partnership Accreditation Board.
In addition to an expedited route to membership for MRE graduates, the RICS’ accreditation provides real estate faculty and student with access to online forums and an extensive international library of research and policy analysis on land, property, economics and environmental issues.
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Katz Awarded Edgerley Family Chair |
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Professor Jeffrey Katz (MS 1993; PHD 1995) has been selected as the Edgerley Family Chair in Business Administration at Kansas State University's College of Business Administration; it is the college's second faculty of distinction chair.
Katz earned a master's in management in 1993 and his doctorate in strategic management, with a secondary interest in international management, in 1995, from UF. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., he spent more than 10 years in the financial services industry, where he served as a senior bank regulator in Washington, D.C..
Katz joined the K-State faculty in 1995 and attained the rank of full professor in 2002. His current research examines the impact that owners and managers have in selecting company strategies that ultimately determine the future success of domestic and international firms.
Katz’ work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Management. He also serves on the editorial board of four journals in the field of management and is the president of the Midwest Academy of Management.
"I am very proud to be associated with K-State as a chaired professor of management, and to have received my doctoral training under professor henry tosi whyile a student at the Warrington College of Business Administration.” - Jeffrey Katz
K-State Dean Yar Ebadi said Katz's selection to the endowed chair was reflective of his qualities as a consummate scholar.
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Dole
Wins Outstanding Paper Award |
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Carol Dole (MA 1990; PHD 1992), assistant professor of economics at the State University of West Georgia, was presented with the Distinguished Research Award by the Allied Academies at its annual meeting in New Orleans for her article titled “Do States Optimally Set Tax Rates?
The Portfolio Approach vs. the Tax Smoothing Hypothesis.” This paper was judged to be the outstanding paper in the Accounting/Finance category at the conference and will be published this December in the Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal.
Dole earned a master's in economics in 1990, and her Ph.D., in 1992, from the University of Florida. She teaches courses on microeconomics, macroeconomics and statistics for
business.
Dr. David Boldt, economics chair, stated, “In addition to her outstanding ability as a researcher, Dr. Dole is one of the most popular economics teachers at West Georgia. She loves economics and has an ability to share that enthusiasm for the subject with her students. She has been a tremendous asset to the department and to the entire university during her three years at West Georgia.”
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Three undergraduate students have recently been selected for special honors. |
Steven Quattry, finance major, will soon begin work at General Electric, in their two-year Financial Management Program. His career plans are to earn his Ph.D. in management, with a focus on Business Ethics, and become a college professor. During his time at UF, he has been a member of the SIFE Team, Student Conduct Committee, a student Senator, as well as working as a teaching assistant for Business Law and History of Jazz courses. In addition, he has distinguished himself as a scholar, being the recipient of the Etheridge and Miller scholarships and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Golden Key and the National Society for Collegiate Scholars.
Aminta Bumrungsup an accounting grad, was also the recipient of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Scholarship for Minorities two years in a row. She will be working in the audit group at Deloitte LLP in Atlanta. She has attained numerous achievements at UF, receiving the Fisher Fellowship scholarship, being named an Anderson Scholar, gaining membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and serving as treasurer and secretary of the Thai Student association. Aminta also distinguished herself in her chosen field, representing the Fisher School of Accounting in the PricewaterhouseCoopers “xTax” competition and as a panel member at UF’s Accounting Conference, presenting to more than 300 CPAs at this AICPA-sponsored event.
Ashley Gaal, a Paducah, Ky. native, was chosen as a finalist in Beta Gamma Sigma’s Fall 2004 F. Byron Nahser Leadership Award program. Ashley majored in finance, with a minor in French. During her time at UF, she served as a cabinet chairperson for Student Government, a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army Reserves, and was inducted into Florida Blue Key. She also served as a Warrington College of Business Ambassador, she said, to make students aware of the resources and organizations available on campus and help make their UF college experience as enriching as her experience. This past summer, Ashley also interned with General Electric in their Financial Management Program, and will go to work full-time in the FMP program.
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