President Jim Greenfield, OSFS ’84 joined Chris Cocozza, Jerry Joyce, Patterson Ford and business students Hannah McDonnell, Mary Frances McNulty, Andrew Saglimbeni, and Tyler Seidel at the Union League in Philadelphia to honor and thank VIP business alumni from the Philadelphia region. Among the special guests were Eric Bloesch ‘94, Gail and John Dalton ‘85, Concetta and Francis Meehan ‘77, Nicholas Moriello ‘96, Mark Watermasysk ‘00, and Rev. Dr. Binu Edathumparambil, MSFS, Principal of St. Francis DeSales College in Bengaluru, India. OUR ALUMNI ARE NOT JUST GRADUATES; THEY ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THE DESALES FAMILY. THROUGH THEIR GENEROSITY AND ENGAGEMENT, THEY STRENGTHEN OUR NETWORK OF SUCCESS. WE ARE HAPPY TO FOSTER THESE EVERLASTING RELATIONSHIPS! A Night at the Philadelphia Union League
Division of Business Faculty Activities Dr. Tahereh Alavi Hojjat co-authored a paper entitled “Financial Inclusion and Poverty Reduction: An Analysis of Panel Data 2010-2019” which was published in the Journal of Economics and Public Finance. Dr. Hojjat also participated in a panel discussion “Pay and Gender Inequality” at the Lehigh Valley Business Council Women’s
Conference, and presented her paper “Iran in 2023: Volatile Economy and Human Sufferings” at the Woman, Life, Freedom: A Global Gender Protest conference held at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Susan Givens-Skeaton has been providing consulting services to global firms in the region on establishing and maintaining DEI initiatives, and presented “Building Your Intercultural Competence” at the April 2023 DeSales MBA Power Breakfast. Dr. Thomas Craig presented a research paper, “The Technological Impact of Patent Classes: Innovation Trajectories of Firms and Locations”, at the NABET Conference in State College, PA. The paper has been published in the J ournal of Business, Economics and Technology.
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