The Alpha Kappa Chapter not only selects the best and brightest business students from the University at Buffalo’s prestigious School of Management, but we also initiate Faculty Members into our Brotherhood as well!
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Muriel Anderson
Gwen Applebaum
Dianna Cichocki
Debora Grossman
James Holmes
Michael Krupski
David Murray
Michael Paolini
Cecily Rodriguez
Dorthy Siaw – Asamoah
Education
MBA, School of Management, University at Buffalo
BS, School of Management, University at Buffalo
Certifications
Certified Public Accountant (New York State)
Background
Anderson has had a long career in the fields of accounting and human resource-related issues, and in that time has gained strong experience in business mediation, manpower forecasting, recruitment and leadership training. In her current teaching at the School of Management, she works with MBA students to assess and improve their key managerial competencies, and teaches both graduate and undergraduate students in other human resource and accounting courses.
Teaching
LeaderCORE Development I
Leadership PACE (Personal Achievement through Competency Evaluation)
Managing Human Resources/Principles of Workforce Engagement
Career Management
Introduction to Accounting I and II
Financial Analysis and Reporting
Introduction to Business I and II
Professional Associations
American Institute for Certified Public Accountants
Society for Human Resource Management
Other Experience
Vice President and Deputy Auditor, M&T Bank Corp. (1987-1998)
Human Resources Associate, Praxair Inc. (1999)
Manager, Student Services, Career Resource Center, UB School of Management (1998-2004)
Awards and Recognition
Arjang A. Assad Excellence in Teaching Award (2013)
School of Management Outstanding Contributions to Teaching Award (2008)
UMA Undergraduate Teacher of the Year (2008-09, 2007-08, 2006-07, 2004-05, 2002-03)
Graduate Management Association Faculty Advisor (2008-2010)
Delta Sigma Pi Faculty Advisor (2004-2009)
Delta Sigma Pi Chapter Advisor of the Year-Niagara Region (2006-2007)
Gwen leads the Career Resource Center both strategically and operationally. She oversees planning related to graduate and undergraduate programming and services. She also uses her extensive corporate experience in building and maintaining relationships with all stakeholders, including students, employers, alumni, faculty, and staff.
Her team includes:
Undergraduate Services
Graduate Services
Employer Relations and Operations
Internships and Experiential Learning
MS, Oswego State University
BA, St. John Fisher College
Cichocki teaches "Statistical Decisions in Management" and "Statistical Foundations in Analytics." She has given several presentations at both the state and national levels concerning incorporating technology into statistics, educational practices and assurance of learning. Cichocki has been honored with academic excellence awards for her instruction.
Statistical Decisions in Management
Statistical Foundations in Analytics
American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC)
New York State Association of Two-Year Colleges (NYSMATYC)
National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (2010)
Outstanding Classroom or Alternative Instruction (2010)
Education
MBA, Syracuse University
BS, State University of New York at Oswego
Grossman worked in marketing for several years before beginning her teaching career. She continues to work as a marketing consultant while teaching full time. Her experience includes advertising, market research, product development/management and brand management. Her current teaching responsibilities include both undergraduate- and graduate-level marketing courses.
Principles of Marketing
Selling and Sales Force Management
Product and Brand Management
Advertising and Promotion
Business and Society
Milton Plesur Excellence in Teaching Award, University at Buffalo
Excellence in Teaching Award, Niagara University
Winner of the Zeta Chi 50/50 Raffle
American Marketing Association
Product Development and Management Association
1984-1987: Marketing Specialist, Raymond Corp., Syracuse, NY
1987-1989: Project Director, Market Research, GE, Syracuse, NY
1989-1994: Product Manager, GE, Syracuse, NY
1994-1997: Consultant, Product Management, Promotional Materials and Sales Presentations, Thomson Consumer Electronics (GE/RCA), Syracuse, NY
1998-2001: Consultant, Advertising, IdeaWorks, Syracuse, NY
2004-2005: Consultant, Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA), Indianapolis, NY
2005: Consultant, Raymour & Flanigan, Advertising, Syracuse, NY
2006: Consultant, Product Development, Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA), Indianapolis, NY
2007: Consultant, Brand Awareness and Advertising, Keep It Organized LLC, Amherst, NY
2008: Consultant, Advertising, Cold Stone Creamery, Amherst, NY
Education
PhD, University of Chicago
MA, University of Chicago
BA, Wabash College
“A Stochastic Monopsony Theory of the Business CycleDownload pdf(155 KB)” (with P.A. Hutton), Economic Inquiry, (2005). [Reader’s Guide to Stochastic Monopsony, Mathcad files ADownload pdf(125 KB), BDownload pdf(98 KB), and CDownload pdf(98 KB).]
“Savings Education: Learning the Value of Self-Control”(with P.A. Hutton), Education Policy Analysis Archives, (2005), lead article.
“Keynesian Involuntary Unemployment and Sticky Nominal Wages,” (with P.A. Hutton.) The Economic Journal (1996)
“A New Test of Money/Income Causality,” (with P.A. Hutton) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (1992)
“The Specification of the Transaction Demand for Money and the Tax Multiplier,” (with D. J. Smyth) Journal of Political Economy (1972)
“A Functional-Form, Distribution-Free Alternative to Parametric Analysis of Granger Causal Models,” (with P.A. Hutton) Advances in Econometrics (1988)
“Memory and Market Stability: The Case of the Cobweb,” (with R. Manning) Economics Letters (1988)
Board of Editors, Journal of Macroeconomics.
Recipient of Milton Pleasure Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996, 2003, 2017.
Who’s Who in America. (61th Edition, 2001, 60th Diamond Edition, 2005, and prior years). (They note that I discovered the “Holmes-Smyth Effect” and a new non-parametric test for causality in a non-experimental science.)
Who’s Who in American Education. (7th Edition, 2006,).
Who’s Who Among America’s (Best) Teachers (Who’s Who Among America‘s Teachers. (1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 8th Edition, 2005, and 9th Edition, 2006).
Who’s Who in Social Sciences Higher Education. (2004-6).
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century – 1st Edition and 2nd Edition.
Leading Educators of the World. (2005).
MGG198 - Corporate Social Responsibility
MGM301 - Principles of Marketing
MGM409 - Advertising and Promotion
MGM420 - Digital Marketing Strategy
Teaching
Digital Forensics
MGS 410
MGS 610
Introduction to Management Information Systems
MGS 351
Applied Business
MGS 314
Introduction to Business
MGG 150
Here's a link to his Personal Website
Mike oversees the undergraduate career services team. He also serves as the lead instructor for Part II of the undergraduate Career Connections course (MGG 398), which is designed to help students learn how to take a more thoughtful and proactive approach to career planning, leverage effective career correspondence, interviewing communication, online image branding, networking skills and job/internship search techniques to be successful in achieving their career goals. He works with students, employers and alumni in the areas of Accounting and Internal Audit.
Professor Rodriguez has been a professor at the University at Buffalo since 2015. Before becoming a professor Cecily Rodriguez worked as an Organizational Development Consultant with First Niagra Financial Group.
PhD, University at Buffalo
MBA, School of Management, University at Buffalo
BS, School of Management, University at Buffalo
LeaderCORE Development I
Undergraduate Honors Leadership Development I and II
Organizational Behavior and Administration
Human Resource Management
Career Strategies, Planning and Management
Communication Theory
Deception in physician-patient relationship
End-of-life conversation with culture as a factor
Cultural competency in health Communication
Communication in business – The role of cultural differences
Program Coordinator, UB School of Management Finance Academy Program
Facilitator of Team Dynamics, Conflict Resolution and Stress Management Sessions, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Surgery and Medicine
Facilitator of Cultural Communication in Medical Residency, UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Medicine
Assistant Director, Students Services, School of Management Graduate Programs Office
Human Resource Intern, General Mills Company, Buffalo Plant
Siaw-Asamoah, D (2012). A Purposive Conversation about Advance Directives: A Grounded Theory Approach – Presented at the 40th North American Primary Care Research Group in New Orleans
Siaw-Asamoah, D. (2011). Patients Telling Lies to Physicians: Contents of Deception by Physicians and Patients in the United States - Presented at the 39th Annual Conference of North American Primary Care Research Group in Banff, Alberta, Canada
American Management Association
Academy of Management
National Communication Association
FourSight certified practitioner
Hogan certified practitioner
WorkPlace Big Five certified practitioner
DiSC® certified practitioner
MBTI® certified practitioner
GGP Fellow, University of Virginia and American Academy of Family Medicine Physicians
Organize yearly medical and educational mission trips with teams of volunteers to Ghana
Board member and secretary, Hope For Sisi’s Kids (HOSIKIDS) Foundation
Board member, Child and Adolescent Treatment Services of Western New York
Volunteer Facilitator, Staff Development Workshops for Not-for-Profit Organizations