SBU Finance mentioned in Toronto Globe and Mail

SBU Associate Finance Professor Jim Mahar was mentioned in this past weekend's Globe and Mail.

The September rally that wasn't supposed to happen

"As might be expected, the hot trend these days is behavioural. (That’s apart
from the painful soul-searching among prominent economists who discovered in the
current global crisis that their cherished beliefs about free markets were not
scientific truths.)

Last month, Prof. Mahar posted a summary of a
psychological study showing that temptation is a much stronger force than people
realize. He wondered jokingly if the Lord’s Prayer might make for useful
financial advice.

His own solution to curb irrational tendencies? Make a
plan in advance and put the whole investing process on autopilot. “Take the
discretion out of investing so you won’t be able to take unwise chances or take
risks that a rational investor would not.” "

Accelerated MBA programs

SBU's MBA program was one of the early "Accelerated" programs. The WSJ had the following on these programs:

The Top M.B.A. Programs if You’re in a Hurry - WSJ.com:

"[Only] About 90 accredited schools world-wide offer the accelerated M.B.A..

But the degree's growing popularity and reach led The Wall Street Journal to take its first close look at accelerated M.B.A. programs."

Getting through in one year is a definite upside, so are the pluses of an MBA! Look at the numbers on the left!



A downside? Many classes, little time.

"Some students said they wish they had more time to absorb case studies. Others said that the fast-paced curriculum was exhausting, leaving little time for extracurricular activities,...

It's all true, administrators say. "These students want to be taught, and then they want to move on," says Sean Rickard, director of Cranfield's M.B.A. program, adding that students have no time to do anything but study. "They never stop. It's five days of intensive lecturing and projects, week after week ...They begin to realize they can handle any problem you throw at them.""

More Faculty News

Kristin Paul and Dr. Rodney Paul had the paper “Noise Trading and Pointspread Movements in the NCAA Football Betting Market” accepted for publication in the Journal of Business, Industry, and Economics.

Meet the Accountants Night

Meet the Accountants Night is scheduled for:
Monday, Sept. 21
6 p.m.
San Damiano Room

Faculty News

SBU alumnus Kevin McNamara, ’02, John Watson, and Carol Wittmeyer published “The Utilization of a Succession Plan to Effectively Change Leadership and Ownership in a Small Business Enterprise” in The Journal of American Academy of Business (September 2009).


Dr. Kimberly Young had two book chapters published in The Praeger International Collection on Addictions published by Praeger.