First Inaugural 2018 SBPA Business Firebirds’ Research Annual Conference

2018 Inaugural Business Firebirds Research Conference — was a great success. The conference was scheduled for Thursday, November 29 (12:30 pm to 2:30 pm) in the School of Business and Public Administration (SBPA – Windows Lounge, Building 38, Second Floor) at the University of the District of Columbia. The event had 33 posters presented – 12 graduate posters and 21 undergraduate posters – with participation from 81 undergraduate and graduate UDC Business students. The conference theme was Global Business Environment. Dr. Anshu Arora, Associate Professor of Marketing was the conference chair. The faculty advisors for the event were – Dr. Sylvia Benatti, Associate Professor and Coordinator of MPA Program, Dr. Nazha Gali, Associate Professor of Management, and Dr. Amit Arora, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management.

Judges for the event were Dr. John McIntyre, CIBER Director and Professor of Management at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; Dr. Margaret O’ Connor, Chair and Professor – Department of Innovation, Technology, and Supply Chain Management, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania; Dr. Denise Bedford, Faculty, Georgetown University; Ms. Farah Gheriss, Special Assistant to the Chief Information Officer, International Monetary Fund; Mr. Ramin Aliyev, Senior Knowledge Management Officer, World Bank Group; and Ms. Hinda Kada, Retired Chief Technology Officer and Chief Enterprise Architect, World Bank.

Dr. Julius Anyu, Dr. Malva Reid, and Dr. Sylvia Benatti were internal judges from UDC-SBPA faculty who helped external judges to come to a consensus for top 3 positions for undergraduate and graduate research categories. The winners were:

UNDERGRADUATE CATEGORY

2018 SBPA DEAN’S AWARD FOR BEST UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH POSTERS:

FIRST PLACE – Anthropomorphic Decline and Rise of Reverse Anthropomorphism: How Generation-Y Shuns Whimsical Advertising – 

Dustin Scott, Matthew Anderson, Robert Spake, and Jordan Fraser

SECOND PLACE – The Evolution of Buyer-Supplier Relationships – 

Loucace Dorcas Ampe, Barbara Ann Payne, Robert Iyeli Spake, and Shavon Sharpe

THIRD PLACE – Prosopopoeia Anthropomorphism: Bringing Advertising to Life through Visual Analogies in Personification and Anthropomorphism –

Monique Waithe, Aya Boukhari, Franck T. Vincent, and Taylor Bryant

GRADUATE CATEGORY

2018 SBPA DEAN’S AWARD FOR BEST GRADUATE RESEARCH POSTERS:

FIRST PLACE – Believe It or Not: Trust and Persuasiveness of SOL Anthropomorphism – 

John Brooks, Delonte D. Bright, and Sharadindu Saha

SECOND PLACE – Incorporating Sustainable Practices in Supply Chain Management: Need and Risk Analysis – 

Dominika Hadnadova, Gabriella Gabriel, and Rosa Labra

THIRD PLACE – When Humanizations Attract: How ‘Humanized Anthropomorphism’ Mitigates Self-Control? – 

Monica Wiggins and Kaleef