Submit News Item
Faculty in the news
-
October 11th, 2007
Assistant Professor David Mease made Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 feature
Assistant Professor David Mease made Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 feature, an annual list of 40 up-and-coming dealmakers and innovators in Silicon Valley under the age of 40. Here’s what the weekly newspaper said in its Friday, October 5, issue: “David Mease, Ph.D, 31, is an assistant professor in the College of Business at San Jose State University. His academic speciality is statistics, which drives his research on data mining, which he in turn uses in his work as a consultant to leading Bay Area technology companies. He is known as a great teacher who really knows how to connect with his students. His undergraduate degree is in secondary education from the University of Toledo, and he received his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Michigan. In his spare time, he enjoys running, skateboarding, basketball, and swing dancing. In his previous home he even built his own skateboarding ramp.
-
May 16th, 2007
Professor Joel West Presents Paper at MIT
Joel West, associate professor of organization and management, recently traveled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., to present a paper entitled “MIT’s Golden Age of Information Theory.” The presentation was adapted from his forthcoming book on technology entrepreneurship in the post-war telecommunications industry. More.
-
March 13th, 2007
New book published by Professor Randy Stross
Professor Randy Stross’s book: “The Wizard of Menlo Park - How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World” is being published by Random House. Details can be found in the press release. The book was featured yesterday in the New York Times and is a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, as well as the leading selection in Sunday’s Parade magazine’s “Picks.”Professor Randy Stross writes the “Digital Domain” column for the New York Times and is the author of eBoys, The Microsoft Way, and Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and is a professor in the Organization and Management Department.The book is available in bookstores and online starting tomorrow (3/13/2007).Please join us in congratulating Professor Stross for the culmination of his dedicated efforts. -
February 12th, 2007
Professor Randall Stross Comments on National Public Radio on the Future of Compact Fluorescent Lights
Professor Randall Stross was a guest on “All Things Considered” when Robert Siegel posed the question, “Do Fluorescent Bulbs Light The Way to the Future?”
-
December 5th, 2006
Professor Randall Stross Discusses Cell Phones vs. Privacy on National Public Radio
“Talk of the Nation, December 4, 2006 - We can already use cell phones to get the latest news, sports and stocks, and a lot of phones incorporate GPS, the Global Positioning System. As technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, guests consider how this technology impacts your privacy.”
-
November 30th, 2006
Professor Randall Stross To Write Book on Google and Its Impact
Professor Stross has begun work on a book to be published by the Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, that will look at Google’s ever-expanding impact on business, society, education, politics, and other realms. He will be on leave in 2007 in order to work on the book as a visiting fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.
-
October 27th, 2006
Professor Anuradha Basu Moderates Entrepreneurship/Social Entrepreneurship Discussion
Professor Anuradha Basu moderated a panel discussion on Entrepreneurship/Social Entrepreneurship with distinguished panelists, Lata Krishnan, President, American India Foundation & co-founder of SMART Modular Technologies, Talat Hasan, Chair, India Community Center & co-founder of ProMetrix & Sensys Instruments, and Alo Ghosh, Wharton professor turned entrepreneur & co-founder of Techna. The session was a part of ‘Careers for the 21st Century’, a Mentoring Conference hosted by the Indian Business & Professional Women Network on October 15th, 2006, at the Holiday Inn in San Jose.
-
October 24th, 2006
Professor Anne Lawrence Named North American Case Research Association Fellow
Congratulations to Anne Lawrence who was named a Fellow of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) at its annual meeting this past week. NACRA is a professional association whose mission is to promote excellence in case research, writing, and teaching in business and other administrative disciplines. Anne has been awarded NACRA’s highest honor: it has named only 23 Fellows in its 26-year history as a professional association. In naming her as a Fellow, the organization cited her service to NACRA as president, president of the advisory council, and associate editor of the Case Research Journal; her prize-winning cases; her mentorship of others; and her awards for teaching excellence.
-
September 6th, 2006
Professors Joyce Osland and Marlene Turner Co-Author “The Organizational Behavior Reader”
A collection of research reports and theoretical essays on organizational behavior, reflecting basic concepts, new approaches, and emerging perspectives. Can be used alone or with its companion workbook, “Organizational Behavior: An Experimental Approach,” Seventh Edition, by the same authors.
-
September 6th, 2006
Professor Anuradha Basu Co-Authors “The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship”
This recent publication is a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art research in Entrepreneurship, written by an international team of leading scholars. Entrepreneurship has been a dynamic and expanding area of research over the last twenty years, but there has been no standard reference work for both established scholars and new researchers. This book fills that gap.
As we are developing the entrepreneurship area in the College of Business, the launch of this book is at the most opportune time.
-
August 23rd, 2006
Professor Joel West Publishes Open Innovation Book
In August 2006, Oxford University Press released “Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm.” The book was co-edited by Dr. Joel West, Associate Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and features contributions by researchers from six countries. For more information, see the book website http://www.OpenInnovation.net/NewParadigm
-
August 17th, 2006
Professor Stewart Karlinsky Receives 2006 ATA Outstanding Service Award
The ATA (American Taxation Association) is a national tax organization with a membership of over 1,000 tax professors.. The organization sponsors two double blind referred journals, the “Journal of Legal Tax Research” and the “Journal of the American Taxation Association” as well as a Tax Doctoral Consortium. Dr. Karlinsky has served for the past 25 years as a Trustee, a Chair of the Tax Policy Oversight Committee and the Nomination Committee, and has assisted in obtaining noteworthy speakers for their various conferences. They awarded the honor to Dr. Karlinsky at their August 7, 2006 National Luncheon.
-
June 13th, 2006
CoB Marketing Professor Dr. Jeff Kallis A Panelist in NBC 11 Community Forum on Ethics in Cyberspace
Broad Internet access, anonymity and a wealth of information available to users of all ages have given rise to questions about online honesty, intellectual property and the reliability of information. NBC11’s panel will address these issues, and help parents and teens become good citizens of cyberspace. NBC11 Community Relations Director and Producer/Host of Bay Area Vista Janice Edwards will moderate the panel discussion. Panelists include:
Dr. Jeff Kallis is a tenured Full Professor of Marketing and Business Law at San Jose State University in San Jose California. In addition to his teaching duties at San Jose State, Dr. Kallis is the Director of the Center for Marketing and Community Out Reach Consulting, an organization geared to provide consulting, research and training services to the business and government sectors in the Bay Area. Dr. Kallis is a practicing attorney at the Law Firm of Kallis & Assoc.
-
June 1st, 2006
ISE Appoints CoB Professor Dr. Frank Jones as Chairman
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 11, 2006–The International Securities Exchange announced today the following changes to its Board leadership… Dr. Frank J. Jones, Ph.D., who has been a director of the ISE since 2000 and is currently Vice Chairman of the Board, will become Chairman…
Dr. Frank Jones has been a Professor in the accounting and business department at San Jose State University since 2003. Additionally, Dr. Jones was Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Guardian Life Insurance Company of America from 1991 to 2002. Previously, Dr. Jones was Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Co., Global Fixed Income Research and Economics. He has served on several boards, including The Intermarket Clearing Corporation (a subsidiary of OCC), OCC and New York Futures Clearing Corporation. Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, a M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Cornell University and a B.A. and B.S. from University of Notre Dame.
-
March 21st, 2006
Carol Reade attends Salzburg Seminar, Roy Blitzer published in WSJ
Carol Reade has been selected as one of 5 faculty from SJSU to attend the Salzburg Seminar /International Study Program in Global Citizenship/ at the historic Schloss Leopoldskron in July. This particular program is not open to individuals, but only to people who are formally sponsored by academic institutions that have entered into an ISP partnership with the Salzburg Seminar. The Salzburg Seminar has been one of the world’s leading forums for global dialogues about international issues since it was established in 1947. It is quite an honor to be selected for this program and we should be extremely proud of Carol.
Roy Blitzer, one of our incredible part-time faculty, was featured in the Wed. March 15 edition of the Wall Street Journal giving resume advice. Roy, we are glad to see that the rest of the world is benefiting from your advice and counsel as much as our students are.