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AG-2021 April Metropolitan Business Schools Affinity Group Meeting-ICAM Virtual

  
Wednesday, April 07, 2021 8:00 AM - 8:55 AM   iCalendar Eastern Standard Time

The AACSB Metropolitan Business Schools Affinity Group, composed of institutional representatives from member organizations located in or near the urban center of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with a population of at least 250,000, is pleased to present the following Panelists from the McNair Scholars Program. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions about the McNair Scholars Program and learn more about the opportunities offered to Business Schools.

The McNair Business Scholars Network provides content and connections that encourage promising eligible undergraduates to apply to the McNair Program and to study business topics therein. We provide supplementary mentoring to McNair Scholars and their advisors to help in selecting and completing business research projects. Further, we provide a network of McNair alumni who help McNair Scholars place in and complete business PhD programs, navigate their scholarly conferences, and become and thrive as impactful business school professors.

Presenters:

  • Michael L. Barnett is Professor of Management at Rutgers University, Academic Director of the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation, and Founder of the McNair Business Scholars Network. Mike’s scholarship is focused on the relationship between business and society, with emphases on corporate social responsibility, corporate reputation, stakeholder management, and industry self-regulation. He is an early McNair Scholar (1990-91) from the University of Missouri-Columbia and holds a Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business at New York University

  • Ishva Minefee is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University. He is also the Director of the McNair Business Scholars Network. His primary research stream centers on firms' responses to domestic and international crises. Crises of interest include (a) NGO activism related to firms' operations in countries with high levels of political violence and (b) the disclosure of corporate ties to controversial social and political organizations. .

Representatives interested in joining the Metropolitan Business Schools Affinity Group or especially, those interested in planning future program opportunities, should contact Dr. Jim Fatzinger, Chairperson, jim.fatzinger@eku.edu, Eastern Kentucky University.