• Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria - Dr. Mukhesh Bhargava
• The University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany - Dr. Balaji Rajagopalan, Dr. Vijay Sugumaran
• ZEW (Center for European Economic Research), Mannheim, Germany - Dr. Mukhesh Bhargava, Dr. Fuad Hasanov
• University of Business & Technology, Prishtina Kosovo, Serbia - Dr. Mukhesh Bhargava
• University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway - Dr. Sherman Folland
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway - Dr. Vijay Sugumaran
• University of Agder, Norway - Dr. Mohan Tanniru
• University of Paris III, Paris - Dr. Vivienne Chen
• HEC School of Management, Paris - Dr. Vivienne Chen
• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain - Dr. Vijay Sugumaran
• University of Westminster, London, UK - Dr. Vijay Sugumaran

Recent Research and Activities

The SBA, under the coordination of Dr. Ravi Parameswaran and Dr. Nivedita Mukherji, is successfully concluding four years of activities supported by a National Education grant. This has led to many faculty and student exchanges in support of both teaching and research, along with some programmatic interactions. For a quick summary, click here.

Dr. Vijay Sugumaran is involved in multiple research projects with institutions in Korea, Hong Kong, UK, Germany among others in areas related to Ontologies, Software Development, UML and Knowledge Management. For more information on this research, refer to this link here.

Dr. Joe Schiele is involved with National Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania in helping set up online MBA Program and training in teaching case study method.  He developed and taught a seminar on Lean Thinking to a group of managers from the mobile communications, banking, lower-tech manufacturing, hotel and restaurant, and the bio-medical fields.

Dr. Sherman Folland spent two weeks (May 17-30) at the University of Bergen, where he worked with five Norwegian colleagues to develop a research group on social capital and wrote two grants to the Norwegian Research Council to support this research during the next three years.

The following visiting scholars were present at the SBA this past year in support of research and teaching related exchanges:

• Dr. Christoph Grimpe and Dr. Wolfgang Sofka, Center for the European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany.
• Prof. Dr. Jon Atle Gulla, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.