Thomas A. Turk, Ph.D., Dean of Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics, is pleased to announce that Mario Leone will be the new Director of the Ralph W. Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics, effective December 1, 2018. Professor Leone teaches strategy and information systems at the Argyros School, holds multiple board
Dr. Brett Danaher, Assistant Professor of Economics and Management Science, was a keynote speaker for the Motion Picture Association (MPA)’s annual presentation at the Tokyo Film Festival October 25-November 3, 2018. Dr. Danaher presented his research on successful tactics to stop web-based piracy. There are issues with those supplying pirated content, and those purchasing the
Olivia Huseman, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. After graduating in May 2017 from the University of Iowa with her doctorate in Accounting, Olivia accepted a tenure-track position at Chapman as an Assistant Professor. Olivia conducts empirical research on voluntary disclosure behavior within capital markets and
The Argyros School of Business and Economics Faculty create research on topics impacting businesses big and small around the globe. These studies, articles and papers are consistently found in the leading business journals and publications. We are extremely proud of the contributions. We had 93 papers published or accepted in the academic year 2017 –
Marshall Toplansky, MBA serves as a research fellow at the C. Larry Hoag Center for Real Estate and at the Center for Demographics and Policy. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. Most recently, Marshall co-authored (along with Joel Kotkin) The OC Focus, a multi-year
As the campus community was preparing for the end of an academic year, Professor Clas Wihlborg, in conjunction with the Argyros School, had the pleasure of hosting Chapman’s 2nd Conference on Money and Finance, titled the Systemic Risk and the Organization of the Financial System. Prominent finance industry leaders from around the world converged at
Every time you use your smartphone to send a text, download an app or check social media you are sending and receiving data. That data travels along the electromagnetic spectrum, a shorthand term for all the various frequencies and wavelengths at which energy can travel. We can think of the electromagnetic spectrum as an interstate
Inspired by his 2017 return to the Argyros School classroom, President Emeritus Jim Doti challenges his business statistics students to join him in running the OC Half Marathon on Sunday, May 7. Dr. Doti, and the rest of the informal Chapman running group, are adopting the Hal Higdon’s Novice Training program for completing the 13.1-mile half marathon distance.
The A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University hosted the 39th Annual Economic Forecast on December 15, 2016 and released the forecasts for the United States, California, and Orange County. Approximately 1,000 Chapman students, alumni, and Orange County business and community leaders were in attendance at the conference in the University’s Musco
Four Chapman faculty members have set out to uncover new opportunities for societal impact by examining and analyzing large amounts of data. Dr. Hesham M. El-Askary hopes to stabilize the relationship between extreme weather and resulting outages, ultimately resulting in higher customer satisfaction. Dr. Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook seeks to identify Orange County at-risk mothers and their
A philanthropic student and social media professor are slated to present at the TEDx Mission Viejo conference on October 14. The conference will take place at the Civic Center and focus on the theme of perception. TEDx Mission Viejo details the theme’s goal as “cracking open the nut on perception and challenging the way people think, live, love,
Dr. Vernon Smith, of Chapman University’s Economic Science Institute, delivered a talk entitled, Faith and the Compatibility of Science and Religion, at Acton University on June 16. Watch the entire talk online.