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College of Business and Economics Professor Spotlight

  • Dr. Balaraman Rajan, Associate Professor of Management, discusses the . 
  • Marketing Professor Dr. Yi He was included in an ABC 7 news segment about a . 
  • Dept. of Management professor Dr. Kaumudi Misra comments on the reason for the . September 
  • Dept. Chair Filippo Rebessi and Professor Farhad Sabetan were interviewed on the . May 2023







  • and talk to Economics Interim Dept Chair Dr. Filippo Rebessi about the Impacts of the Silicon Valley Bank Purchase. Mar 2023
  • KRON4 News talks to Dr. Filippo Rebessi about Soaring Food Prices and the Economy. Nov 2022 
  • 麻豆传媒社区入口 Professor of Management Dr. Asha Rao talks to KRON about the . Nov 2022
  • Dept. of Management professor Dr. Lynn Bowes-Sperry was interviewed by ABC 7 on . Nov 2022
  • Dept. of Management professor Dr. Kaumudi Misra weighs in and gives valuable advice to all employees during this time Oct 2022
  • Dept. of Management professor Dr. Balaraman Rajan spoke to ABC-7 today about the impending rail strike and the  Sep 2022
  • Interim Chair of Economics Filippo Rebessi talked to ABC-7 about  Sep. 2022
  • NBC interviews Dr. Lynn Bowes-Sperry, Acosta Professor, Dept. of Management at 麻豆传媒社区入口 on .  
  • Dr. Lynn Bowes-Sperry quoted in the article 
  • Tech, business and legal experts weigh in after Los Angeles judge rules California's 'Women on Boards' law unconstitutional. Professor Kaumudi Misra shared her perspective on the importance of diversity. May 2022 
  • On NPR’s Well Woman Show Dr. Kaumudi Misra, Professor at 麻豆传媒社区入口 East Bay’s College of Business and Economics talks about the role of strategic human resource management practices for employee and organizational productivity and work-life flexibility practices as a strategic HR tool. Apr. 2022 
  • Nearly two years into this pandemic, we’re still talking about jobs. What’s important to us, what can we afford, and where can we afford to live? It’s all part of the equation. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Kaumudi Misra of 麻豆传媒社区入口, for some insight. Jan. 2022
  • Dr. Kaumudi Misra discusses how companies implement “ and what it means for employees. Jan. 2022
  • Dr. Kaumudi Misra, Associate Professor of Management featured scholar on the . Aug. 2021
  • Dr. Lynn Bowes-Sperry weighs in on whether you should include gender pronouns on your resume, or LinkedIn profile
  • Why we need more ethics as business leaders featuring Joanna Bauer and Dr. Lynn Bowes-Sperry.
  • Congratulations to Khaled Obaid, Accounting & Finance Assistant professor and recipient of the 2019 Hillcrest Behavioral Finance award for co-writing “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Measuring Investor Sentiment by Combining Machine Learning and Photos from News” with Kuntara Pukthuanthong from the University of Missouri-Columbia. In their research, Obaid and Pukthuanthong worked to find the connection between pictures in the news and how it affected investor sentiment. They looked at news photos from 1926 to 2018, classified them by sentiment, and thus created a “daily market-level investor sentiment index” of “Photo Pessimism.” 
  • Jed DeVaro, Economics Department Chair had his article   featured on the homepage of IZA World of Labor. The article was also be featured on IZA World of Labor's social media channels.
  • James C. W. Ahiakpor, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics at California State East Bay has completed a book titled "Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keynes" Modern macroeconomics is in a stalemate, with seven schools of thought attempting to explain the workings of a monetary economy and to derive policies that promote economic growth with price-level stability.
  • T. T. (Rajan) Selvarajan, Assistant Professor of Management and Kaumudi Misra, Associate Professor of Management at 麻豆传媒社区入口 East Bay were highlighted in from Elon University on their research about work-family conflict and counterproductive work behaviors.
  • Christian Roessler, Associate Professor of Economics was interviewed by ABC7 News on whether game theory could explain the recent winning streak on Jeopardy.

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