Month: July 2014

Seven academic conferences (plus an additional conference as an advisor for our SMWC leadership club) in three weeks was an exhilarating but exhausting trek involving plenty of content-rich activities but also much waiting for and waiting on trams, trains, shuttles, buses, and planes, which was not fun but necessary.  I was able to visit at [...]

  At the Azores Islands (850 miles West of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean), presenting my research paper "Post-Cold War State Industrialization as a Means of Economic Growth in East Asia versus Eastern Europe” at the The European Scientific Institute’s 2nd Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference. Fact about the paper:  The paper assesses the amount of overall economic advancement attributed [...]

In Vienna, Austria, presenting "Gender Diversity in the Board Room: Organizational Trends by Region” at The Fourteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, hosted by the Vienna University of Economics. Fact about the presentation:  Norway has the most representation of women in their boardrooms. Country Manufacturing as a % of GDP (Rank of seven [...]

In Florence, Italy at the Business & Economics Society International conference, presenting my research paper titled "American Inward Foreign Direct Investment: Trends in global industrial origination” Fact about the paper:   While many reports have noted trends toward decentralized manufacturing to underdeveloped areas in the past decades, there has been a lack of studies related to manufacturing [...]

In Craiova, Romania at the 10th World Congress: The Human Being as a Species:  Its Nature and Functions, presenting my paper "Profiles of CEOs from Top-Performing Multinational Manufacturing versus Financial Organizations: Age, tenure, internal hiring, and gender”. Fact about the paper: Financial and industrial CEO profiles were researched and findings include some of the following notes:  The [...]

In Athens, Greece at the 12th Annual International Conference on Management, presenting my research paper, "America's Staple Exports and the EU's Favorite Purchases: Seasonal Trends in Global Exporting of Consumer Durables" Fact about the paper: Statistics on Consumer Durables, which play a central role in predicting and dictating GNP in both America and Europe, are [...]

In Rotterdam, Netherlands at the 30th EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium's Post-Doctoral and Early Career Scholars Pre-Colloquium Workshop, hosted by the Rotterdam School of Management, presenting my paper "Disparities in Duality Management Structure in Top Industrial Multinational Organizations in America Versus Europe". Fact about the paper: Top-performing industrial organizations based on 2012 total [...]