College of Business News
Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge 2024
Zayed University proudly celebrates the exceptional achievement of our finance student team, The Risky Rockets, in the 2024 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge. Under the expert supervision and guidance of Dr. Ibrahim Bostan (College of Business), the team secured 1st place in the Middle East & Africa and 22nd place globally, competing against 2,453 teams from 396 universities across 46 countries.
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AACSB Assurance of Learning Seminar with Ihsan Zakri at the College of Business
The College of Business had the pleasure of hosting Ihsan Zakri, Regional Head for the Middle East and Africa at AACSB International, for a seminar entitled "Assurance of Learning Seminar I" on November 14th at the Dubai Campus. The seminar was attended by all College of Business faculty.
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College of Business - Majors Day Participation (6-7 March 2024)
"Major’s Day" was organized on both Zayed University campuses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, where faculty and staff assisted hundreds of students in choosing their majors and, consequently, charting their future careers. The College of Business actively participated in the event on Wednesday, March 6th, 2024, at the Dubai Campus, Abu Dhabi Male and Mixed Campus, and on Thursday, March 7th, 2024, at the Abu Dhabi Female Campus.
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TRIBE- The CMO Summit Agenda 22nd February 2024
Professor Ian Michael, from the College of Business (CoB) Dubai campus, assumed the role of moderator during a panel discussion titled 'Revolutionizing Engagement: Next-Gen Customer Experience & Interaction in the Digital Landscape' at the prestigious marketing summit 'Tribe,' hosted by Khaleej Times in Dubai.
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Published Book on Social Science by Natasa Slak
Dr. Natasa Slak, an Associate Professor at COB, edited and published a book on social science of Socotra island. The book focuses on people indigenous to Socotra, Socotri cultures, heritage and also offers contributions from business, tourism, linguistic, communication, and anthropology. While a lot has been published in natural science about Socotra’s endemic species, biodiversity, and nature in general, social scientific research of the island is very limited. The book has been published by Springer Nature, who presents the book as »Uniquely the only book that will approach social science of Socotra Island. Discovers Socotra as an unknown island located in Yemen, probably one of the very few untouched places in the world (source: Springer Nature https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-4358-6 . Besides publishing the book, Dr. Slak travelled to Socotra with few other authors to present the book to Socotra community. The event was held at Socotra Archipelago University and resulted in an immense interest.
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Student Participation at the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
Our HRM major undergraduate student Ghalia Aljeneibi [SID 201517229], with assistance from Dr Reynold James, presented a paper at the 2022 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Hybrid format) Conference held at Cape Town, S. Africa, on the 22nd July 2022. The paper that Ghalia presented (online) was titled: ‘An exploration of the role of job seekers’ attitudes as an impediment to workforce nationalization in a GCC nation’.
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CoB Students at the Student Exchange Program launched by the Ministry of Economy
"The youth are our country's most cherished asset" - this quote by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, reflects the UAE wise leadership’s belief in the potential of youth. Inspired by this wise vision, today I had the pleasure of meeting a group of ambitious Emirati youth as part of the Student Exchange Program launched by the Ministry of Economy in collaboration with a number of leading national universities. Through this program, we will work to develop the potentials of youngsters who are capable of understanding the variables of the economy and foreseeing its future. The program is a new opportunity to invest in Emirati youth and enable them to contribute to the economic growth and support the country's future vision for the next 50 years. Youth will remain the most important and the safest bet to invest in, in order to develop the present and build the future.
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Publication on Sustainability in Harvard Business Review (HBR online)
Climate change, sustainability, and ESG considerations are increasingly taking center stage in corporate boardrooms across the world. When measuring and communicating corporate sustainability performance through sustainability reports or ratings, executives face a rapidly evolving and complex set of choices. As a result, companies are at risk of falling behind or choosing inappropriate reports and ratings that don’t drive sustainability performance and open the door to accusations of greenwashing. This article introduces the sustainability reporting matrix, a tool that helps executives and sustainability managers to focus on the sustainability reporting standards and ratings that are most closely aligned with their strategic requirements and the information needs of their stakeholders.
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Shamma Abdulla Al Hosani, Accounting student is named EY Corporate Finance Woman of the year 2021
Shamma Abdulla Al Hosani from Accounting department is named as EY corporate Finance Woman of the Year 2021. "In the annual competition record number of participants (289) from across the globe competed in this year's competition". Shamma got the first position from all the UAE participants and third across the globe.
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Zayed University has the largest Bloomberg Finance Lab in the Middle East
Zayed University joins more than 800 universities worldwide with Bloomberg Terminals finance labs. With 64 Bloomberg Terminals across two campuses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Zayed University has more Terminals available to students and professors than any other university.
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Professor John Rice's analysis of the strategic problems facing Tesla
Professor John Rice's analysis of the strategic problems facing Tesla that may raise questions about its current valuation has been read by around 60,000 people globally. The article, originally published on The Conversation has been republished in Singapore, India, Canada, and elsewhere. This is a great example of the global reach of the college’s high-quality research that is influencing business across the world economy.
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2020 Literati Emerald Award
Dr Ian Michael paper "A study of unconscious emotional and cognitive responses to tourism images using a Neuroscience method" won the outstanding paper in "Journal of Islamic Marketing" and received 2020 Literati Emerald Award from the Journal. Click here for further details
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