Lance Gentry, associate professor in the College of Business, presented research on telework trends and public policy implications to the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and helped lead a workshop on potential public policy improvements on Feb. 9, 2017.
Business majors Sara Armor and Kenneth Vukmanic presented the paper, “Should we live in the moment? Plan to anticipate the event,” at the 2017 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas (January 19-21). The paper was co-authored with Dr. Kashef Majid, assistant professor in the College of Business.
Tiffany Jana, CEO of her own international diversity and inclusion strategies consulting firm and author of the book titled Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences, is speaking on campus on Jan. 24 at 12:30 p.m. in the Digital Auditorium of the Hurley Convergence Center. This event is free and open to the public.About Tiffany Jana: Tiffany Jana is […]
A UMW staff rate of $50 per session is being offered for the series (includes 2.75% service fee).Taught by Cara Parker ’05 MBA Project management skills are a necessity for ensuring ideas become actual results. New findings from the Project Management Institute suggests organizations that focus on excellence in project management execution reduce risk, improve […]
Bellah Fontem, assistant professor in the College of Business, received the Best Paper award at the INFORMS conference for “An Optimal Stopping Policy for Car Rental Businesses with Purchasing Customers.” Fontem’s fellow finalists were from Texas A&M and Ohio State. The paper studies revenue-maximizing decision rules for car rental firms that serve both rental and purchasing customers using the […]
