April 7: Minnesota State Mankato College of Business Faculty to Present Research

Friday, April 7, 2023
8:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Centennial Student Union, Rooms 253/4/5 (Registration required)

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato’s College of Business faculty research award recipients will discuss their research during the annual “College of Business Faculty Research Day” on Friday, April 7 from 8:30 – 11:45 a.m. in Centennial Student Union, Rooms 253/4/5.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required; click here to register.

College of Business Dean Brenda Flannery will open the event at 9 a.m. by welcoming guests and introducing the Drs. Narciso and Luth Tenorio guest speaker in the second annual Tenorio Research Lecture Series event.

At 9:10 a.m., Tenorio research guest speaker Ryan J. Wilson, Ph.D., who is the Henry B. Tippie Chair in Accounting and a professor in the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, will give a presentation titled “Exploring the role of taxes in shaping firms’ investment and operating decisions.” (Bio information on Wilson is available here.)

Wilson’s presentation will be followed at 10:15 a.m. by presentations by the Minnesota State Mankato College of Business research award recipients (abstracts available here).

Chandrasekhar (Chandu) Valluri (Department of Marketing and International Business) and Kyle Nash (Department of Management and Entrepreneurship) will present “The Marketing of Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity (DEI): A Mission and Vision Statement Analysis.”

Ferdinand Siagian (Department of Accounting and Business Law) will present “Stakeholder Orientation and Inventory Stockpiling.”

Nguyen Nguyen (Department of Finance) will present “Does technology make you happier? Online budget planner and financial well-being.”

M. Anaam Hashmi (Department of Marketing and International Business) will present “Role of Innovation-Driven Leadership on Organizations’ Performance.”

Each year the College of Business holds a research day, during which the college promotes, acknowledges and listens to presentations from award-winning research faculty. This opportunity was enhanced in 2022 through the creation of the Drs. Narciso and Luth Tenorio College of Business Research Lecture Series Endowment.

The lecturer chosen for the Drs. Narciso and Luth Tenorio College of Business Research Lecture Series will rotate every year between the various programs and academic areas in the College of Business. The Research Committee will represent the faculty and select a visiting lecturer who is prominent in a research area important to the vision of the College of Business.

Narciso (Norge) and Luth both taught at Minnesota State University, Mankato for over 30 years, where Norge served as the chair of the Department of Business Law before retiring. In 2000, Luth Tenorio retired as the dean of the College of Nursing at Seattle University.

For more information, please contact Jen Cucurullo, director of marketing and communications in the College of Business, by phone at 507-389-5424 or by email at jen.cucurullo@mnsu.edu.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,482 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 30 colleges and seven universities.