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ANNOUNCEMENT
The 17the
Annual Conference on PBFEAM* and
The 3rd
International Conference on Business in Asia
(ICBA)
Conference Theme-
Value
Creation and Management: Vision for 2010s
Will be held at
Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at
CentralWorld
July 1-2, 2009
Bangkok, Thailand
For Information
with respect to Paper Submission, Publication Note,
Conference
Registration Fee
and Hotel
information, please see the details in the website
http://www.icba2009.com/
* The 17th
Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and
Management
Keynote Speaker:
Randolph P.
Beatty
Title of
Speech: What’s Next? Business, Politics, and Globalization
Dean
Beatty has extensive experience in business education. He is an accomplished
teacher, scholar, and administrator.
His
academic career spans over three decades. Randy has held appointments at (1)
the University of Illinois, (2) the Wharton School, (3) the University of
Chicago, (4) SMU’s Cox School, and (5) USC’s Leventhal School of Accounting. He
has won numerous teaching awards and has been recognized by Business Week
as a “Master of the Classroom.” He has taught in undergraduate, graduate
(Masters and MBA), and PhD programs.
His
scholarly research background provides a unique approach to understanding
contemporary business issues. He is a widely recognized expert on initial
public offerings (IPOs) and corporate control. His scholarly research has been
published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of
Law and Economics, Administrative Science Quarterly,
Strategic Management Journal, The Accounting Review,
Journal of Accounting Research, and a number of other venues.
Dean
Beatty has led the Leventhal School for the past eight years during a period of
significant change in program size and student quality. The Leventhal School
has recently been recognized as the only private school ranked as a top-10 in
undergraduate, graduate, and PhD education by Public Accounting Report.
Keynote Speaker:
Sharan Jagpal
Title of Speech:
Fusion for
Profit: How Marketing and Finance Can Work Together to Create Value
Sharan Jagpal is an internationally
recognized scholar and management consultant in a number of fields
including marketing, finance, econometrics, and strategy. He is widely
acknowledged by academics and executives for pioneering the
marketing-finance interface and is the author of two acclaimed
multidisciplinary books, Marketing Strategy and Uncertainty
(Oxford University Press) and Fusion for Profit: How Marketing and
Finance Can Work Together to Create Value (Oxford). Thus, Harry
Markowitz, Nobel prizewinner in economics and inventor of modern
portfolio theory, describes Jagpal’s research on the theory of the firm
as “pioneering.” And John A. Greco, Jr., President and CEO, Direct
Marketing Association, concludes that “ Jagpal brilliantly combines
these seemingly disparate fields [marketing and finance].”
Jagpal has made many
“first-of-a-kind” theoretical and methodological contributions to
multiple disciplines. This research has been published in top-tier
journals in many fields including marketing (e.g., Marketing Science
and the Journal of Marketing Research), economics (e.g., International Economic
Review), and statistics (e.g., Journal of Classification). In addition, he has had extensive
experience in executive training and developing customized courses for
top-level executives in several countries including the United States,
China, Canada, Japan, Singapore, and India.
Sharan Jagpal has served for several
years as Chairperson of the Marketing Department at Rutgers Business
School where he is currently Professor of Marketing. He is also the
president of Strategic Management & Marketing Consultants, a consulting
firm that specializes in developing customized models for its clients.
He holds a B.Sc. (Economics Honors) Degree from the London School of
Economics and the M.B.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia
University. For more details, please visit his Web site
www.fusionforprofit.com
Keynote Speaker:
Cheng-Few Lee
Title of Speech:
Overview of Quantitative Finance and Risk
Management: Past, Present, and Future
Professor Cheng-Few Lee
is a Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers
University and was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988–1995. He
has also served on the faculty of the University of Illinois (IBE Professor of
Finance) and the University of Georgia. He has maintained academic and
consulting ties in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the United States for the past
three decades. He has been a consultant to many prominent groups including, the
American Insurance Group, the World Bank, the United Nations, The Marmon Group
Inc., Wintek Corporation and Polaris Financial Group, etc.
Professor Lee founded the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA)
in 1990 and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP)
in 1998, and serves as managing editor for both journals. He was also a
co-editor of the Financial Review (1985–1991) and the Quarterly Review of
Economics and Business (1987–1989). In the past thirty-six years, Dr. Lee has
written numerous textbooks ranging in subject matters from financial management
to corporate finance, security analysis and portfolio management to financial
analysis, planning and forecasting, and business statistics. In addition, he has
edited a popular book entitled “Encyclopedia of Finance” (with Alice C. Lee).
Dr. Lee has also published more than 170 articles in more than twenty different
journals in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and management.
Professor Lee has been ranked the most published finance professor worldwide
during 1953–2008.
Professor Lee was the intellectual force behind the creation of the new Masters
of Quantitative Finance program at Rutgers University. This program began in
2001 and has been ranked as one of the top ten quantitative finance programs in
the United States. These top ten programs are Carnegie Mellon University,
Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, Princeton
University, Rutgers University, Stanford University, University of California at
Berkley, University of Chicago, and University of Michigan.
Conference
Co-Organizers:
Financial Engineering Association of Taiwan
(FeAT), Taiwan
Sponsors:
Fubon Financial, Taiwan
National
Kaohsiung
University of Applied Sciences,
Taiwan
Polaris Financial
Group, Taiwan
Kainan University, Taiwan
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