| BUSINESS > RESEARCH Faculty Achievements and Service Publication of Books or Papers Julie Clarkson, assistant professor of business administration, and Susan Meyeraan, assistant professor of business administration, wrote “Business Leaders And The Triple Bottom Line” for the December 2007 publication of Cedar Valley Business Monthly. Dr. Scott Fullwiler, associate professor of economics and James Leach chair in banking and monetary economics, wrote “Interest Rates And Fiscal Sustainability” for the December 2007 publication of Journal of Economic Issues. Fullwiler wrote “Can The Fed Target Inflation? Toward An Institutionalist Approach” for the June 2007 issue of Journal of Economic Issues with G. Allen. Fullwiler wrote “Macroeconomic Stabilization Through An Employer Of Last Resort” for the March 2007 issue of Journal of Economic Issues. Meyeraan and Fullwiler wrote “Micro-Enterprise And Economic Uplift: A New Model For Entrepreneurial Studies” for the Refereed Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Business and Leadership Symposium with P. Langan. Fullwiler wrote “Setting Interest Rates In The Modern Money Era” for the spring 2006 issue of Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. Meyeraan and Fullwiler wrote “Wartburg Lends A Hand To Micro-Entrepreneurship Movement”
for the June 11, 2007, issue of Cedar Valley Business Monthly. Professional Presentations Gloria Campbell, associate professor of business administration/economics and Hagemann professor in business, and Katie Lienau, a senior majoring in business administration, will present “How Are Media Changing In Recruiting Websites? What Does It Mean For BC?” for the Jan. 8, 2008, Cedar Valley Society of Human Resource Management meeting in Waterloo, Iowa. Campbell and Lienau presented “How Are Media Changing In Recruiting Websites? What Does It Mean For BC?” at the Oct. 11, 2007, Association of Business Communication Conference in Washington, D.C. Campbell presented “Accepted! But To What College? (How To Decide On The Right College)” for the Business Professionals Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 22, 2007. Kimberly Folkers, associate professor of marketing, presented “Keeping It Fresh – The Challenges Of Incorporating The Latest Trends Into Marketing Curriculum” at the Marketing Management Association Spring Conference on March 28-30, 2007. Folkers presented “Managing Client-Based Projects” at the MMA Fall Educators' Conference in September 2007. Folkers was a discussant on “Sales Compensation Strategies” at the Marketing Management Association’s spring conference in Chicago, on March 16-17, 2006. Fullwiler and Chris
Knudson, web developer/manager and lecturer in business,
presented “Engaging Students First In The Nation—An
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Between Wartburg College And Franklin
Pierce University,” at Celebrating Campus and Community Engagement,
Iowa Campus Compact’s fourth annual meeting which was held
in Pella, Iowa, in April 2007. Fullwiler presented “Can The Fed Target Inflation? Towards An Institutionalist Approach” at the annual meeting of the Association for Evolutionary Economics in Chicago with G. Allen. Campbell presented “The Speed Of Change Ramps Up: Dashboards Impact Business Communication” at the Oct. 26, 2006, meeting of the Association of Business Communication in San Antonio, Texas. Meyeraan and Fullwiler presented “Micro-Enterprise And Economic Uplift: A New Model For Entrepreneurial Studies” at the second annual Business and Leadership Symposium for the College of Business and Leadership in Hays, Kan., in Sept. 2006, with P. Langan. Meyeraan presented “Take Control: Prioritize Your Time” as part of the Hawkeye Community Train and Gain Consortium in 2007. Fullwiler presented “When Is Monetary Policy Unsustainable?” at the Ninth International Post Keynesian Conference at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Kansas City, Mo., in Sept. 2006. Fullwiler presented “Sustainable Macroeconomic Policy Under Flexible Exchange Rates” at the Third International Conference on Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, which was held at the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao, Spain, in July 2006. Fullwiler presented
“Monetary Operations: An Institutionalist View” at the
2006 Interdisciplinary Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian,
Institutionalist and Feminist Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City in Kansas City, Mo. Media Citation Campbell was cited in “Selling Your Staff On The Value Of Dashboards” in the June 2007 edition of CIO Magazine. Fullwiler was interviewed for the article “Drowning In Debt,” published in the U.S. News and World Report. Fullwiler was interviewed for a story on the Congressional Budget office's revised deficit projections, which aired on National Public Radio’s Market Watch. Professional Service Folkers served on the First National Bank of Waverly and First of Waverly Corporation boards. Fullwiler served on the Board of Directors for the Waverly-Shell Rock Area United Way. Fullwiler and Meyeraan served as co-facilitators of Wartburg College and Northeast Iowa
Synod’s “Barnabas Uplift” Micro-lending and Entrepreneurship
Program. Community Presentations Fullwiler presented “Employment Guarantee Policies: Theory And Practice” to the Wartburg Philosophical and Literary Society in Waverly, Iowa, in Jan. 2007. Campbell presented “Ramping Up The Speed Of Change: Impact Of Dashboards On Business Communication” to the Wartburg Philosophical and Literary Society in Waverly, Iowa, in Feb. 2007. Community Service Meyeraan, S. and Clarkson, J. (2007) Corporations taking notice of social responsibility. Cedar Valley Business Monthly, 2 (1),13. Fullwiler served
on the Board of Directors for the Waverly Area Development Group. International/Domestic Travel |
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Recent Student Research Student research
project gains wide recognition Iana
Stahov, ‘07 Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Social Capital Measurement: Which Came First? Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Janice Yee, Professor of Business Administration and Economics As part of a student-faculty research grant, a small rural community in Iowa was surveyed to gauge the levels and dimensions of social capital. Engaging the local government for help was vital to the survey response, but the team has attempted to pair more deliberately and intentionally with community leaders to help them use the evidence gathered. In doing so, the team has found interdisciplinary dialogue vital to providing city and community leaders with the necessary information and perspective to move forward with the information gathered from the survey. Moreover, the work has begun to spark greater interest in interdisciplinary work among disciplines on campus that would produce a more comprehensive Condition of the City report. Karie Just, ‘07 Stacey Ehlinger, ‘07 Iana Stahov, ‘07 Social Capital and Economic Development Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Janice Yee, Professor of Economics Paper presented at the National Social Sciences Association Spring Conference, Las Vegas, Nev. Defined by Robert Putnam (2000) as the “connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them,” social capital has often been considered instrumental in assessing and predicting the ability of a community to experience positive growth, both economically and socially. The extent of a community’s interaction with each other is believed to be a predictor of how well community programs will perform. This paper will discuss our findings on the relationship between social capital and economic development. We distributed a survey to residents of Waverly, Iowa in order to determine the social capital present. After considering the size and uniformity of the town, we expect to find social capital to be quite high, but we also hope to better understand the complexities of social capital and the role that it plays in the economic development of a community.
Senior Katie Lienau of Fredericksburg, IA, teamed with Prof. Gloria Campbell to research changes in the media and content of the recruiting sections of webpages of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. They presented to the Association of Business Communication in October 07 (as shown in the attached photo) and the Jan. 08 meeting of the Cedar Valley Chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management in Waterloo.
Several students teamed with Lisa K Smith of LKS Career Connections to survey HR managers in the Cedar Valley. Their goal was to benchmark the strategic planning issues that HR managers are currently facing. Their results will be shared with members of the Cedar Valley Society of Human Resource Management. Participating in the study were seniors Heidi Hesse and Britt Panuska and juniors Sharese VanSloten and Stephanie Wiebel.
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