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 Message from Dean Zhan Li
Our School welcomes five new full-time faculty members with impressive credentials. We have started a few key partnerships. And, the discipline-based faculty department structure is now in place and operational. [More] |
 Mission In Action
|  Catholic Voice Reports on SMC's Mission Driven MBA Program and the work of students in the Trans-Global Executive MBA program to create a sustainable business model for Holy Innocents Children's Hospital in Uganda was spotlighted in a recent article in the Catholic Voice. The T-GEMBA program partnered with Oakland's Children's Hospital to assist Holy Innocents, which is the only children's hospital in Uganda.
 Holly Dalton, Director of Recruiting and Admissions, was the first recipient of SEBA's "Catholic and Lasallian Mission Fellowship". She recently attended the Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education Seminar at Boston College, July 9 - 12, 2012.
 HSBC, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, is partnering with SEBA in developing responsible business leaders. HSBC is inviting one SEBA faculty member per year to participate in its Sustainability Leadership Programs.
 Professor Kristine Chase has been elected Chair of the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries of the East Bay. Goodwill has almost 30 stores in the East Bay, and last year provided job-related services to over 4000 people. It is a relatively unique organization, since it does not rely on monetary donations, but instead is self-supporting through the donations of goods that people make.
 SEBA Professor Barbara McGraw attended an invitation-only White House briefing on the goals and progress of the President's faith-based initiative. The five-hour event on May 11 was entitled "Advancing the Common Good at Home and Abroad" and was held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.
 To broaden the global perspectives of students, SEBA partners with Peking (Beijing) University, a top-ranked school in China, for a Professional MBA class on International Management. "Partnering with a prestigious educational institution like Beijing University reflects SEBA's emphasis on quality education - a Lasallian core principle," said Zhan Li, Dean of School of Economics and Business Administration.
 Professor Andrew Wilson's MBA marketing class recently joined forces with the Contra Costa Federal Credit Union to address problems associated with an aging membership. The class came up with a successful marketing plan - complete with a Facebook page, Twitter feed and YouTube channel - to attract younger members to the credit union. Read more. |
Achievements
|  Professor Norm Bedford was invited to speak at the Athens Institute for Education and Research on July 2nd to 100+ conference attendees on the topic of "Developing Corporate Strategies to Successfully Conduct Business in an Uncertain Eurozone."
 The Saint Mary's American Marketing Association Chapter received the following Awards for 2011-2012 academic year: Outstanding Chapter Planning and Outstanding Chapter Communications.
 Professor Judith White participated in a community/environmental service project cleaning up Hominy Creek in Asheville, North Carolina, with colleagues from the International Association for Business and Society. During the conference Judith presented a paper on her research on moral courage and the leadership of the human rights and democracy movement in Burma.
 During her Fulbright Scholar journey in India, Professor Jyoti Bachani gives a presentation titled "Making Good Decisions for the Executive MBA students at MDI." This is one of many presentations she has been giving in India - visit her blog.
 Professor Sam Lind, along with colleagues at UC San Francisco, School of Dentistry will have their research article published in the September 2012 Journal of Dental Education, titled "Identifying Misconceptions in Biomedical Education." This is their fourth article published in this journal.
 As part of SEBA "Excellence" initiative, "Brown Bag Lunch-n-Learns" were developed, where staff and faculty provide training to each other for professional development each month, over lunch. The first two sessions featured Jackie Williams who showed the team how to create professional video slideshows in a matter of minutes; and Drew Ungs, who showed the team how to best use smcmba.com, the graduate business student portal.
 Exposing students to senior level practitioners is part of the MBA experience. Professor Tomas Gomez brought his Executive MBA students from his Managing Global Competition class to visit Gloria Nogales, Director of Worldwide Business Operations at Intel. In addition, Larry Oliver, graduate business alumnus and General Manager of Business and Internal Services at Chevron was a guest speaker for this class.
 SEBA Economics Professor and Senior Fulbright Scholar Ravi Bhandari arranged a private dinner and talk with John Perkins of Confessions of an Economic Hitman fame for his students in Econ 152, Labor Economics. The talk was entitled "Corporatocracy in the Age of Globalization" and was a memorable experience for all those who attended. Professor Bhandari is co-authoring a piece with John Perkins for his new edition of Real World Globalization to be published by Dollars and Sense.
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What's New
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 SEBA welcomes five new full-time faculty members: Dr. Michael Hadani, Associate Professor of Management, Dean's Distinguished Fellow; Dr. Kenji Klein, Assistant Professor of Management; Dr. Kevin Okoeguale, Assistant Professor of Finance, Trans-America Fellow; Dr. Wenting Pan, Assistant Professor of Operations Management; Dr. Kim Clark, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management. Learn more about new colleagues.
 On Monday, July 23rd, SEBA welcomed 36 Executive MBA participants from our sister Lasallian institution, La Salle Barcelona, yesterday on campus. The two-week visit packed full with presentations, corporate visits (Chevron, Goodwill, wineries and more), sightseeing, and networking mixers with current graduate business students.
 Based on the faculty's recommendation of last semester, our School has now six discipline-based faculty departments in place. These departments and their Chairs are: - Greg Merrill, Chair, Department of Accounting
- Bill Lee, Chair, Department of Economics
- Tina Zhang, Chair, Department of Finance
- Rebecca Carroll, Chair, Department of Management
- Saroja Subrahmanyan, Chair, Department of Marketing
- Yung Jae Lee, Chair, Department of Operations Management and Quantitative Methods
 Seven SEBA faculty members have participated in three out of four summer orientations (the last orientation is coming up in August) to welcome new incoming freshmen students (Class of 2016). Special thanks go to Rebecca Carroll, Mary Coe, Cathy Finger, Larisa Genin, Patrick Hogan, Bill Lee and Joe Lupino for participating in the Academic Fair and helping 135 students register for their first semester at Saint Mary's College!
Professor Tomas Gomez-Arias was named Associate Dean of Faculty and Research for the School of Economics and Business Administration (SEBA), effective July 1st.
On July 1st, Professor Linda Herkenhoff began her post as Academic Program Director for the Trans-Global Executive MBA program.
 As part of SEBA's reorganization, Cherie Grant will be transitioning into the position of Event Coordinator and Administrative Assistant for SEBA, providing administrative and operational support for internal and external events as well as supporting the newly elected Department Chairs and Program Directors.
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On June 2nd, Professor Eric Kolhede and his wife welcomed their first grandchild, Joseph Christopher Schneider. Joseph's parents, Christopher and Jennifer Schneider, are both Gaels! Congratulations Eric! 
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Kim Clutts wins a "coffee break" contest from local radio station KKDV FM 92.1. A KKDV DJ brought coffee and breakfast pastries to the Rheem campus, and the Graduate Business staff was featured on live radio!
