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7th Annual Professional MBA Research Forum
Celebrating business research and innovation

Wednesday - May 7, 2008
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
NanoFab North

Finance:
(FIN1) Eduardo Aguila – Additional Reassurance for the Individual Investor: How Even Rudimentary Portfolio Diversification Could Result in a Significant Advantage for Producing Higher Risk-Adjusted Returns
(FIN2) Luke Boughton – Trends of Asset Allocation Shifts in U.S. Growth Mutual Funds
(FIN3) Vikratadeep Cheema – International Mutual Funds (Asian v/s European v/s Emerging Markets)
(FIN4) Christina Christian – Factors Affecting Public Pension Plan Performance
(FIN5) Paul Gordon – Determinants of Quality Credit Ratings in the European Pfandbrief Market
(FIN6) Michael Griesbach – A Look at the Level of Activity in Mutual Funds
(FIN7) Rob Haessig – Investment Diversification: National versus International
(FIN8) Hanine Hajnasr – World Stock vs. Foreign Stock: The U.S. Stock Market Performance Relative to the World
(FIN9) Terence Jensen – How Fund Manager Tenure Influences Value Investing Business
(FIN10) Courtney Krisanda – A Comparative Analysis of Private Equity and Hedge Fund Strategies Performance
(FIN11) Stephen Kudzin – Analyzing Historical Data of Indices and Appropriate Asset Allocation to Maximize Your Return
(FIN12) Thomas Powell – An Evaluation of Healthcare Funds Within the Investment Spectrum
(FIN13) Colleen Staepel – The Effect of Diversification on the Performance of Small Cap Mutual Funds
(FIN14) Tiberiu Tatar – Applying the Fundamental Analysis Process to Dell Inc.

ITM:
(ITM1) Jeffrey Classen – When Baby Boomers Go Bye Bye: The Effect of Retirement on the Knowledge Asset
(ITM2) Anna Mae Decker – Three Failed IT Projects in the Public Sector: Why They Failed & Lessons Learned
(ITM3) Scott DeMarco – Requirements Analysis: Forecasting Plug-In for Intuit's QuickBooks Accounting Software
(ITM4) John Federice – Analysis of Societe Generale's Financial Fiasco - Flashback to Barings Bank's Fiasco in 1995: Lessons from History
(ITM5) Kathleen Guay – Collaboration in Higher Education: Creating Multi-Dimensional Partnerships to Develop, Manage and Maximize Lifelong Student Relationships
(ITM6) Kurian Mathew – Identity Management for Enterprise Applications in e-Government
(ITM7) Mary Morphy – Customer Service in Health Care Organizations vs. Direct Sales: Striving to be the Best
(ITM8) Ayub Salik – New Frontiers of the Net: Putting the "We" in the Web & Its Impact on Presidential Campaigns
(ITM9) Scott Strickler – Get the "Hard Stuff" Right: Lessons from a Public Retirement System Performance Management Project
(ITM10) Zoya Trachevskaya – Importance of Experience and Offeror Qualifications in Public Procurement Process in New York State

Management:
(MGT1) Rachel Anderson – The Impact of Quality Leader-Member Exchange on Self-Efficacy and Job Satisfaction
(MGT2) Monica Bisson – Transformational Leadership and its Impact on Organizational Commitment
(MGT3) Tom Fetcinko – Behaviors That Motivate Employees To Do More
(MGT4) Oiza Garba – May the Best Man Win: Effectively Leading Expert Subordinates Goes Beyond Position
(MGT5) Michelle Gromoll – The Effect of Organizational Citizenship Behavior on Career Success
(MGT6) Robert Hymes – Psychological Climate vs. Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Related to the Quality of the Leader-Membership Relationship
(MGT7) Keith Kaplan – Leadership Behavior and Employee Turnover
(MGT8) Melissa Klapp – The Effects of Leadership Behavior on Employee Job Efficacy
(MGT9) Michael Murphy – Determining the Impact Organizational Justice has on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
(MGT10) Mathew Samuel – Expertise and Managerial Effectiveness
(MGT11) Joseph Smith – Leader Member Exchange Predictor of Subordinate Organizational Behaviors
(MGT12) Ryan Waldron – Examining Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Across Career Stages

Marketing:
(MKT1) Corey Breda – New Media Advertising: Online and Interactive
(MKT2) Patrick Salonia – New Media Advertising: Online and Interactive
(MKT3) Meghan Cassidy – Consumer-Driven Health Care Plans: The Marketing Dilemma
(MKT4) Peter Whitney – In-Store Marketing


New Venture:
(NV1) Fee Bourdeau – Business Plan for a Custom Invitation/Stationery Business
(NV2) Amanda Hammell – "Allocca Enterprises" - Import & Export Regulations: Training, Consulting and Auditing
(NV3) Melissa Kowalczyk – University and For-Profit Business Incubators
(NV4) John McCarthy – John's Organic Garden Store
(NV5) Daniel Messier – DealerFone: An Innovative Marketing Tool for Automobile Dealerships
(NV6) Curt Miller – Business Plan for Creating Affordable Websites for Small Businesses
(NV7) Chris O'Connor – Analysis of a Small Business Growth Strategy: “Solar USA”
(NV8) Jacek Skalski – Global Warming: Mitigating Emissions through Economic Potential
(NV9) Cathie Wright – Business Plan for Honeywear, Inc.

 

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