- Consumer survey and market analysis
- Virtual reality and simulation
- Consumer behavior analysis
- Web-based enterprises
- Economic analysis of Internet business models
- Business-to-business supply chain management
- Electronic commerce for global business
Other CBA profs involved in the project include: Andy Bailey, David Gardner, Charles Kahn, Kent Monroe, Greg Oldham, Seymour Sudman, and Howard Thomas.
Drawing on the strength of the Commerce faculty, Shaw is working with other faculty members and industrial partners to add research and learning programs in technology strategy and high-tech entrepreneurship.
THE OFFICE OF REAL ESTATE RESEARCH (ORER) along with several other real estate programs throughout the United States, was selected to receive a three-year, $60,000 grant from the Research and Education Trust Fund of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, in support of ORER's real estate finance program. In conjunction with Loyola University, Chicago, the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association, and the Northern Illinois Commercial Association of Realtors, ORER used the grant to offer a seven-week course in the spring of 1998 titled "Commercial Mortgage Securitization." The course was held on the Loyola campus and will be offered again in the spring of 1999, along with a two-week short course about current issues in the commercial mortgage securitization industry.
Grant money is also funding a Mortgage Bankers Association Lecture Series, held on the
UIUC campus in conjunction with the Real Estate Financial Markets course. Speakers for the
lecture series include prominent industry professionals and academicians speaking on a
variety of topics related to real estate finance.
A NEW COURSE TITLED "ISSUES IN ARCHITECTURE" WAS OFFERED IN THE SPRING OF 1998 by the College of Fine and Applied Arts with funding provided by an outside donor through the Office of Real Estate Research. The course was created to offer business students an opportunity to learn about issues in architecture. It will be offered again in the spring of 1999.
THE ORER IS SERIOUS ABOUT THE QUALITY OF ARTICLES IN ITS ILLINOIS REAL ESTATE LETTER. So serious, in fact, that it offers awards of up to $2,000 for articles accepted for publication. Since implementing this policy, the articles in the newsletter have been of extremely high quality. As an industry-funded, university-based research center, ORER has an obligation to present conceptual issues in a format that is accessible to the educational community, the professional real estate community, and interested members of the public. The highly regarded Illinois Real Estate Letter does just that.
Illinois Statistical AbstractMORE WOMEN THAN MEN ARE PURSUING A HIGHER EDUCATION IN ILLINOIS. BUT MORE MEN ATTEND GRADUATE SCHOOL. This is just a |
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| small sampling of the many interesting facts in the 1998 edition of the Illinois Statistical Abstract. Newly published by the Commerce Office of Research, the latest version of this highly regarded resource book — which is unique in the variety and scope of the information it offers on the State of Illinois — contains an enormous range of up-to-date statistics from more than forty different sources. With stats on sectors that range from business, agriculture, and industry to population, energy, and education — and also including transportation, income, recreation, and crime — this is a valuable reference for offices and libraries. The Abstract is available as an 864-page volume and on diskette and CD-Rom. (Both of the latter offer user-friendly software interfaces.) For a brochure, call 217-333-2331. Or check it out on the Web: www.cba.uiuc.edu/research/ |  |
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| VISITING EXECUTIVES The autumn semester brought many distinguished members of the business community to talk and visit with CBA students. The Emerson Cammack Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Finance, while the Professional Lyceum is arranged by the Department of Accountancy and Executives-in-Residence visit campus courtesy of Alumni Affairs.
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