Yadong Luo, Emery Findley Distinguished Chair and professor of management, is the world's foremost international business scholar according to the results of a study recently published in the Management International Review. The same research article ranks the University of Miami No. 2 in the world for international business research.

Susan Amat (BLA ’01, MBA ’04, PhD ’08), a management and marketing lecturer at the School of Business and executive director of The Launch Pad, has received the WITI (Women In Technology International) “Women to Watch” Award and the Carolyn Leighton Leadership Award.

Top scholars and pioneers in strategy management gathered at the University of Miami in November as part of an extension to the Strategic Management Society’s 31st annual conference.

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.