14
Dec
Top 10 Stories of 2023
Looking back through the past year in the UTSA Carlos Alvarez College of Business, we’ve compiled below the Top 10 stories of 2023. #10–Ramiro Cavazos Keynotes Annual Frost Lecture Series #9—College Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2023 #8—Joe Broschak Named Chair of the Department of Management #7—College’s MBA Programs Ranked by CEO Magazine #6—College Announces… Read more »
27
Nov
Two Faculty Receive Endowed Chair Appointments
Two faculty members have recently been named to newly-created endowed chair positions in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at UTSA. Joseph Broschak, chair and professor in the Department of Management, has been named the Glenn and Ann Biggs Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship. Juan Manuel Sanchez, Ph.D. ’06, has been named the Charlie and Ann… Read more »
19
Sep
Finance Professor Uncovers Gender Pay Gap Across Cultures
It is no secret that a gender pay gap exists in industries across the globe. No matter where you go and what the role is, the likelihood that you would discover a woman earning less than a man in a similar position is inevitable. Natasha Burns, professor of finance at the Carlos Alvarez College of… Read more »
11
Sep
College Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2023
The college welcomed 21 new full-time faculty to start the fall semester, including 12 new tenure-track faculty. ACCOUNTING Teena Philip, postdoctoral fellow Abigail Zhang, assistant professor ECONOMICS Rodrigo Velez, professor Natassa Zervou, associate professor FINANCE Tim Zhang, assistant professor INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND CYBER SECURITY Brent Bloodworth, assistant professor of practice Thomas Ervin, assistant professor of… Read more »
1
Sep
Leung Named a Romo Endowed Professor
Mark Leung, associate dean of undergraduate studies in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business, has been selected as the newest recipient of the Ricardo Romo Ph.D. Endowed Professorship. Established in 2009, the two-year appointment awards faculty in the Honors College for their exceptional teaching, research, leadership and service to students. Over the course of the… Read more »
23
Aug
Wenbo Wu Named a Texas Academic Leadership Academy Fellow
Wenbo Wu, the Graham Weston Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Management Science and Statistics, has been accepted into the Texas Academic Leadership Academy (TALA) for the 2023-2024 academic year. TALA is a year-long experience that develops leadership skills in aspiring academic leaders. TALA Fellows are guided by senior academic leaders and mentors… Read more »
7
Aug
College Mourns Loss of Faculty Member Pamela Smith
Pamela C. Smith, associate dean of administration and professor of accounting in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at UTSA, died on Aug. 2 following a chronic health battle at the age of 52. Visitation services will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25 at Lewis Funeral Home. The funeral service will be… Read more »
1
Aug
Business Faculty Member Receives NSF Grant to Defend Against Online Hate
Nishant Vishwamitra, assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security at the Carlos Alvarez College of Business, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative research grant totaling $175,000. Awarded to support promising new faculty in jumpstarting their academic research careers, Vishwamitra will be… Read more »
20
Jun
Alvarez Professor Explores Entrepreneurial Racial Disparities
With the goal of expanding the minds of business scholars by exploring the connections between entrepreneurship, structural disadvantage, social class, gender and agency, Alexander Lewis, ’20, assistant professor of management in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at UTSA, is determined to use his research to make a positive impact on society. His most recent… Read more »
17
May
Leung Receives Richard S. Howe Outstanding Teaching Award
Mark T. Leung, associate dean for undergraduate studies and professor of management science and analytics in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at UTSA, was named the recipient of the Richard S. Howe Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award during the University Excellence Awards event last month. “It is an honor and a privilege to receive this… Read more »
25
Apr
Pepe Chang Paved a Unique Path to Professorship
Becoming a college professor can be a fairly straightforward path for many aspiring instructors: earning bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, spending time as a teaching assistant, conducting and publishing research and writing dissertations. Pepe Lee Chang chose to take a less traditional route in her higher education journey. Her resume includes her current role as… Read more »
20
Mar
Researcher Explores Correlation Between Natural Disasters and Entrepreneurship
Do natural disasters impact the creation of new business ventures? According to research by Arkangel Cordero, assistant professor of management at the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at UTSA, the correlation of the two is uncanny. Cordero’s paper, “Community and Aftershock: New Venture Founding in the Wake of Deadly Natural Disasters,” was recently published in… Read more »
