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school of business administrationSP TLIGHTFall 2022JUBILEE
Dear colleagues, Welcome to the Fall 2022 Spotlight!This Fall has been quite challenging as the 4-day week has become a final andintegral part of our professional life. Adapting to longer lectures and squeezingservice, office hours, and meetings along with other commitments has definitelybeen arduous. Thank you for your continued dedication to our mission aseducators and mentors.This year marks the 25th Jubilee anniversary of AUS, and SBA just like other partsof the institution, is contributing to these festivities: we have focused onpromoting social entrepreneurship with our Fall events, and will focus onacademic impactful research in the upcoming Spring: We will hopefully welcomea Nobel Laureate in February, and organize the second conference in March onEconomic Policy and Research in the UAE and Beyond, and the 7th Forum ofResearch in Economics and Finance (in April). We will also host the LuxuryMarketing Symposium organized by the Chalhoub professorship in February.As promised in my individual meetings with the departments earlier this Fall, SBAleadership has been working on updating the faculty annual evaluation criteria forTeaching, Research, and Service. Earlier next Spring, you will receive a copy of ourdraft proposal to discuss within your respective departments.The school has submitted to the University and received approval for twoprograms: a new major in Supply Chain Management, and a Master's program inEconomics, Policy and Data Analysis. The proposals will be evaluated by the CAAfor implementation in Fall 2023. A HUGE thank you goes to our colleagues whodiligently prepared the proposals.As part of the agreement with the Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE), wehave also prepared and submitted a proposal for the restructured MBA to becomehybrid as of Fall 2023. Our faculty involved in the new four MBA core courses havebeen working hard with Michelle, or Senior Instructional Designer, to prepare the“online content and delivery” of the courses. With the financial support of AGFE, weare working on introducing recording studios in the School, where such onlinecontent will be recorded and produced. More to share on this next Spring… SP TLIGHTschool of business administrationPlease read on....With best wishes of success, happiness and health for 2023!
Efe Cotelioglu ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FINANCEEfe Cotelioglu has received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute and USI Luganoin 2021. He spent a year at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business as a visitingPh.D. scholar. His research focuses on the trading behavior of mutual funds and hedge funds,liquidity of financial securities, information diffusion across financial markets, and financialstability. He has published in the Review of Finance, and his research has been mentioned byseveral media outlets, including Bloomberg.WELCOME TO NEW SBA FACULTYBID FAREWELLMay BarberADJUNCT IN MARKETINGMay Barber is an AUS alumna and founder of Ayed&Barber. Sheworks closely with brands on the creative side of BrandManagement. She immerses in workshops with brands toconstruct Brand DNA, refine brand positioning and enrich theiruniverse with creative and relevant brand content.Ramon Cobo-Reyes CanoPROFESSOR IN ECONOMICSWe bid good bye to our colleague in Economics, Ramon, who isoff to new adventures and endeavors after joining AUS in 2017. Hewas a very friendly colleague, and a very well appreciatedteacher. We wish Ramon the best of luck!
school of business administrationSP TLIGHTFacultyDean Narjess BoubakriReceived the EBES Fellowship Award 2022 for heroutstanding academic achievements and invaluablecontributions to the areas of Corporate Finance,Corporate Governance and International Finance.John KatsosPatrick McClellandSBA would like to say THANK YOU to Patrick who spentthe last six years at the helm of the Department ofManagement. His work and dedication are greatlyappreciated. By the same token, a warm welcome toVirginia as the new Department Head. She iscompleting her first semester as a member of DC! Herenergy and enthusiasm are well placed, and trulycontagious.
MBA OnlineAs you all know, we are moving our current general MBA from fully face-to-face to hybrid (acombination of online and face-to-face courses). Four courses in the general MBA will beoffered fully online starting Fall 2023 (MBA 601, 604, 609, and 612) Feras Salama, Iness Aguir,Yumin Perry Zhang, Jeffrey Baker, Norita Ahmad, Abroon Qazi, Linda Angell, AbdelkaderDagfhous, Sanket Roy and Javed Younas have started their training in the online MBAcourses - the Learning design Sprint conducted by Michelle Jiminez.EventsTo highlight this semester, we conducted five major events:
“Don’t spend to destroy; invest in creating,” Matteo Boffa started his talk with AUSstudents. He took the stage to speak about his start and how he decided to quit his joband start his own business; he talked about his involvement in several initiatives onsustainability, including working with DGrade, Etuix, and Flipflopi. His passion is evidentin everything he does! He shared with the students his journey when he decided toinvest in his first start-up, “Thealy”, he was a judge for one of the start-up competitionswhere a 19 years old student presented a project of turning plastic bags into sneakers.We welcomed three high school visitsfrom Victoria International School ofSharjah, Al Mawakeb school- Al Barshaand Sharjah English School (SES). Kimberly Gleason organized aninteractive activity for SES studentsusing Bloomberg and resources in theInteractive Trading Floor.
SP TLIGHTschool of business administration22 PDGsProfessional Development GrantsHanoof Abokhodair, Hosted by Rodrigo BascoKing's College LondonHanoof earned her Ph.D. in Management from King's College London, with her research focusing onfamily businesses in Saudi. She also holds an MBA from Aston University, UK. Hanoof is currently aco-founder and the Managing Partner of the Business Family House (BFH), a boutique familybusiness advisory firm. Before founding BFH, Hanoof worked with Peter May Family BusinessConsulting in Germany and Banyan Global Family Business Advisors in the USA, where she co-delivered advisory work to family businesses in Saudi. She also supported KPMG and the NationalCentre for Family Businesses (NCFB) to achieve their objectives regarding family businesses. Beforethat, Hanoof worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Line of Business, where she co-delivered many business transformation projects with private and public-sector clients.39 GuestsGuest Speakers in class &events3 ScholarsVisiting GuestScholarsSana Mohsin, from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada,and Walid Saffar, from Hong Kong Polytechnic Universityvisited the Department of Finance for about two weekseach.
Michelle JimenezMichelle Jimenez joined SBA as the new SeniorE-Learning Instructional Designer. She willdeliver online MBA Programs using the latesttrends, tools, and best practices in E-learningand Instructional Design. She will be the leadstaff to support the implementation of e-learning strategies and work with teachingstaff to develop sustainable, high-qualityonline learning content and activitiesappropriate for the discipline, incorporatingsound educational design principles and inline with SBA’s vision and mission statement. Amal AlKadriAmal AlKadri is the newest member of the SBAfamily. She just joined SBA in November, as thenew Social Media and Events Coordinator. Youwill see her very often around the School andvisiting the Departments.Amal created our first official Instagram page@aus.sba . Please follow our page for all the latest news ofthe school.StaffAs part of a self-developmentinitiative, SBA staff has started theirtraining in PowerBi. It's an interactivedata visualization tool that will beused in SBA data reporting. Appreciation for all the hard-working staff of CleanCo.From your SBA family!
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65Graduating studentsthis Fall semester6Finance studentswere awarded CFA scholarshipStartUp SBA received the 1st Place awardfor Gitex Future Stars- Just Pitch ItCompetition in 2021 and an award for StartupSupport and Innovation in 2022.EntrepreneurshipFive entrepreneurial teams got the opportunity to pitch their business projects and shared theirdisruptive business ideas. MGT403 students enjoyed the experience and interacted withdistinguished, experienced entrepreneurs who provided feedback, comments, and suggestions foreach project. Thanks to Kevin Czok , Etienne van den Peereboom, Zohare Haider and Syed WajahatKarim.Jahnavi Doshi, Fahad Mahmood and JudiDairawan won the FAB Business Challenge -the role of business in the global andnational sustainability and climate changeagenda.
Bee'ah Waste ManagementVisited Bee'ah Waste Management Facilities, Sharjah, on Thursday, October 27th, 2022. Dr. LindaAngell and her students were pleased to be invited to join this outing, sponsored by AUS'sSustainability Office. They had the opportunity to observe Sharjah's highly effective wastemanagement facilities, including recycling all types of packaging materials, dirty water, foodstuffs(via compost), clothing, tires, construction materials, furniture, and automobiles. We learned thatBee'ah could divert 76% of all collected waste from landfill via recycling. The remaining 24% isburned using scrubbers and converted into energy that powers up to 28,000 households in Sharjah.They were interested to see the many varied raw material bales that were ready for sale forindustrial usage to a wide array of companies. We could observe first-hand the cradle-to-cradleapproach to material management in the supply chain.DP WorldThis outing started at DP World's highly innovative Box Bay Facilities, a fully automated containermanagement process expected to transform future management of container ports. This systemrepresents a joint venture between DP World and SMS group, and is currently being commercialized andsold to major ports around the world. . Only one individual can operate the entire facility - and whilerequiring a high initial capital investment - is expected to reduce variable costs while dramaticallyimproving safety and efficiency significantly. The facility we observed is a prototype test facility, and wewere able to tour the site and see the technology in action, complete with Robotic Self-driving Trucks.Afterward, we had the opportunity to visit the current approach to container management, observingseveral central control areas involving hundreds of employees using computers and cameras to operatehuge cranes, stacking and re-stacking containers in storage, and loading and unloading huge containerships. We also received a guided bus tour around the port facility, where we observed ships beingloaded and unloaded. The contrast between the 'old technology' (i.e. the centralized control roomsstaffed by many operators) and the 'new technology' (i.e. a fully automated racking system requiringonly one operator) was very striking, and raised a lot of interesting questions and debates about thefuture of work in the face of the 4th and 5th industrial revolutions.
Jubaili Bros. ManufacturingFacilitiesMBA609 students were invited toJubaili Bros. Manufacturing Facilities inAl Jaddaf, Dubai, which manufacturesdiesel generators and other powersupply units. AUS WarehouseSCM202 class learned about AUS Inventory Management and JIT programs, as well as the role thatSustainability plays in WH Management.Ahmed Tarabishi and Roy Sinno published a book chapter with Kimberly Gleason and OsamahAlKhazali titled ‘ESG Scores and Islamic Banks: An Observation and Call to Action‘. This chapteris accepted for publication in the edited book ‘Research on Islamic Business Concepts:Proceedings of the 12th Global Islamic Marketing Conference’, published by Springer.SBA Graduate programs celebrated 17 graduating students for Fall 2023. GRADUATE STUDENTS
Career Design LabThe Career Design Lab was launched early thissemester. The lab includes SBA career services forstudents, fresh graduates and employers. It willalso incorporate the iLead Career PreparationProgram and Executive Education for Professionals.“SBA has positioned itself at the forefront ofbusiness education in the region. The launch of theCareer Design Lab comes as part of ourcontinuous efforts to influence the educationaland professional landscape of the UAE. Ourstudents, alumni, staff and professional partnerswill be able to benefit from a plethora of services.We hope these enhanced services will betranslated into more internships, careerplacements and market-led education thatexpands expertise and impact. The launch of theCareer Design Lab could not have come at abetter time as we celebrate the AUS Silver Jubileeand the university’s vision for the future,” NarjessBoubakri, Dean of SBA.Two AUS Marketing students experiencedthe Business of Art and Culture. Anengaging short internship for two AUSMarketing students at Abu Dhabi Art Fair2022 unwrapped impactful dynamics withthe art ecosystem, art enthusiasts, andcollectors. Batool Abdelsalam and MaiMickdaddy are doing MKT201, where theylearn marketing fundamentals in businessand non-profit organizations. SpecialThanks to Mourad Ben Ayed for supportinghis students
On November 7, 2022, Amazon gave a session on Summer Internship Student Programs! They arelaunching "Student Programs" for their summer internships, which is a more structured way toapproach internship recruitment with a potential return offer after graduation. Amazon hired 8SBA interns last summer and employs at least 3 full-time staff who are recent SBA graduates. Intotal, we have placed 16 SBA interns (5 in 497 and 11 in 397) since the summer of 2020. On November 15, 2022, AUS graduates and MBA students who work at MasterCard MEA were invitedto share their career journey with their younger fellows. Our students had the chance to knowmore about upcoming internship, graduate programs, and most importantly, how their work atMasterCard will have an impact on society and the lives of people around the world.Workplace Skills Bootcamp at SBA Career Design Lab (CDL). Our Junior students were givenchallenging case studies on topics relevant to the workplace, so they can be prepared for theirearly days of their internship.Many of our students have the opportunity to do their internship along with their fellow students!
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