The School of Business Administration welcomes seven new faculty members, whose areas of expertise range from multinational corporate management to consumer behavior and social psychology. The appointments include faculty who join the School’s accounting, economics, management science, management, and marketing departments.

On Aug. 1, the School of Business welcomed Gene Anderson as its new dean. Since then, Dean Anderson has been meeting with many groups from the University community to discuss his vision, and has already begun working with business leaders to continue strengthening the School’s ties across the region’s business community.

The School of Business welcomes more than 550 new students as the fall 2011 semester begins. Orientation began on Aug. 15 with networking opportunities and workshops for the new full-time MBA class, while undergraduates were paired with peer counselors and attended academic meetings with the School's Dean beginning on Aug. 21.

Sandro Andrade, an assistant professor of finance at the School of Business, says there is no chance the U.S. will not pay back its debt and insists the S&P downgrade makes no sense. In this VIDEO SERIES, Andrade also outlines the real causes of the nation’s financial troubles and offers solutions to fixing them.

The huge market swings on Wall Street in the wake the S&P downgrade of the U.S. credit rating can lead investors to make costly mistakes, according to Alok Kumar, a behavioral finance expert.