Turner Business

Turner College economics professor Frank Mixon has been named to the editorial board of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology ( AJES ).  The journal was launched in 1940, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, and is currently published by Wiley, with editorial offices at George Mason University.  In terms of mission, the AJES encourages the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. The 26-member editorial board also includes faculty from the University of Wisconsin, Georgia Institute of Technology, West Virginia University, Texas Tech University, Ohio University and the University of Helsinki, among others.  Mixon was also recently named to the editorial board of Advances in Economics Education ( AEE ), which is currently part of the Elgar Publishing journals portfolio.   This journal aims to foster excellence in economics education by disseminating scholarship and research on pedagogical methods, student learni...

Several Turner College of Business students are set to embark on a study abroad program in Scotland in May of 2023.  The students will be accompanied by management professor Neal Thomson, TSYS School chair Shamim Khan, and Kirk Heriot, the Crowley Professor of Entrepreneurship.  According to Thomson, “The bulk of the students’ study abroad experience will be spent in either Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, or Edinburgh.”  Glasgow is home to a majority of the 10 largest general insurance companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, while several well-known banking sector companies also maintain a presence in the city of more than 625,000 residents.  Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland and home to the Bank of Scotland.  It boasts a population of about 500,000 residents, more than 200,000 of whom hold a college degree or professional certification.  The study abroad trip to Scotland is scheduled as part of CSU’s Maymester 2023.

TSYS School computer science professor Rania Hodhod was awarded the Edwin and Florette Rothschild Chair beginning fall semester of 2022.  Hodhod earned a PhD from the University of York, and in 2015 received the Faculty Writing Fellowship Award, the Graduate Faculty Award, and the Outstanding Teacher of Writing Award.  In 2017 Hodhod won CSU’s Teaching and Learning Award, while in 2021 she won the Turner College’s Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award.  According to Turner College Dean Deborah Kidder , “Given the growing demand for online degree programs, particularly at the graduate level, as holder of the chair Professor Hodhod will focus primarily on online learning excellence.”  Hodhod’s research program complements her awards portfolio in supporting this focus.  For example, her 2018 study in the International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering addresses the lack of expertise needed to educate professionals in cybersecurity.  There, Hodhod a...

CSU’s Turner College of Business held its annual Student Appreciation event on August 30, 2022, and attendance was up 190 percent over this same time last year.  The students, faculty and staff in attendance enjoyed pizza and dessert in the main lobby of the Synovus Center for Commerce and Technology.  In speaking to Turner Business about the event, Turner College Dean Deborah Kidder noted that the “ . . . event was a lot of fun, and very successful! We had such a great turnout. Last year, we had about 90 students participate, and this year we were up to 261.”  Putting this event together is no small feat, and Kidder took the opportunity to thank those who assisted in preparation.  “I would like to start by thanking our wonderful staff: Laurie [ Aiken ], Elizabeth [ Chess ], Talisha [ Lockhart ], Jennifer [ Stone ], Shunta [ Walls ], and Danielle [ Navarrete ], for all their work buying supplies, advertising, working with Facilities, moving furniture, se...

Turner College Dean Deborah Kidder visited Girls Inc. of Columbus on September 1 to discuss with Turner College alum, Gail Burgos , CEO of Girls Inc. of Columbus, ways that the two can collaborate in the future.  According to Burgos, “[Dean Kidder] enjoyed spending time with the girls, who introduced themselves, showed her around our Baker Center facility and shared their college and career plans.”  In addition to her work with GIC, Burgos is also the founder and CEO of Burgos Consulting Group, which provides strategic solutions and roadmaps for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.  Burgos earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Turner College, a master’s degree in human resource management from Troy University, and a doctorate in organizational theory and leadership from the University of Phoenix.  Prior to joining GIC, she completed a 25-year career with TSYS, last serving as its Chief Diversity Officer.  “ It was a pleasu...

Turner Business occasionally examines Google Scholar data for faculty in the Turner College of Business at CSU.  There are currently 37 faculty in the TCOB’s corps of instruction, and this group has collectively garnered 18,798 Google Scholar citations to date.  These figures produce an average of 508 Google Scholar citations.  Leading the TCOB is the Department of Management and Marketing, which includes faculty in management information systems.  The 15 faculty in this group have together produced 9,240 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 616 Google Scholar citations.  Next, the 10 faculty in the Department of Accounting and Finance, which includes economics faculty, have garnered a total of 5,596 Google Scholar citations.  These totals produce an average of 560 Google Scholar citations.  Lastly, the 12 faculty in the TSYS School of Computer Science have collected 3,962 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 330 Google Scholar citations...

Turner College assistant professor of finance Joshua Brooks recently published a study on carry arbitrage in the U.S. China.  Carry arbitrage involves buying an instrument or commodity with borrowed funds and selling short a futures market position to hedge price risk.  The study, titled “The Samuelson Hypothesis in Futures Markets: An Analysis using Intraday Data,” is set to appear in a November 2022 issue of the Journal of International Money and Finance .  As indicated by the paper’s title, Brooks and his co-author Robert Brooks of the University of Alabama, also investigate the validity of the Samuelson hypothesis, which argues that the futures price volatility increases as the futures contract approaches its expiration.  To do so, they examine 15 matched pairs of futures markets between October 31, 2015 and October 31, 2021.   Although the study reports that evidence of carry arbitrage activities is extremely limited in most Chinese futures markets, it doe...