Tag: H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship

Study: Drug Overdoses Rise During COVID-19, Creating ER Disparities

Nova Southeastern University professors conducted a landmark study on drug overdoses in Florida during COVID-19 and found unexpected results regarding disparities by age, ethnicity, and insurance status.

Among their key findings:

  • There were more opioid and stimulant overdoses reported by emergency departments (EDs) during COVID-19 in Florida than before the pandemic.
  • ED visits among those under age 18 were more likely to involve drug overdoses during COVID-19 compared to before COVID-19.
  • ED visits among those on Medicaid or without insurance were more likely to involve drug overdoses during COVID-19 compared to before COVID-19.
  • There were no disparities according to ethnicity or race. Drug overdoses were problematic for all groups during COVID-19.

The interdisciplinary, multi-college, multi-university study was conducted by Professors Timothy F. Page and François Sainfort from NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Professor Julie Jacko from NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, and Professor Weiwei Chen from Kennesaw State (Ga.) University’s Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis. Their study of disparities in drug overdoses during COVID-19 was the first research of its kind in the state of Florida.

The researchers compared ED data from April to September 2019 (before the pandemic) to the same time period in 2020 (during the pandemic). While opioid overdose visits increased during the pandemic, visits for other causes declined as activity was restricted during the pandemic.

“This type of research has broad impact in the scientific community. It advances our knowledge of drug abuse during the pandemic and therefore helps us help society,” said Andrew Rosman, Dean of the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship.

The opioid crisis continues to persist in Florida as well as the United States, fueling thousands of overdose deaths. In 2019, the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control awarded Florida a new Overdose Data to Action grant, which was expanded in the scope of previous drug overdose surveillance to include more non-opioid related overdoses and strengthened funding of prevention efforts.

For details on the study go to https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/pop.2021.0369 or contact Professor Timothy F. Page at tpage1@nova.edu

Posted 03/15/22

Associate Professor Pens Opinion Piece for Wall Street Journal

PHOTO: JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS

Emre Kuvvet, an associate professor of finance at Nova Southeastern University, recently penned an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on the politicization of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Wall Street Journal subscribers can read the article here.

NSU faculty, staff, and current students can access The Wall Street Journal, including podcasts, finance tips, and career insights through the library’s portal here.

Have questions? Ask a librarian at the Alvin Sherman Library!

Posted 03/08/22

Adjunct Professor Plans 5K Run/Walk for Childhood Cancer

Beth Cohen Besner is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship (HCBE).  She primarily teaches courses on the Entrepreneurial Mindset.  Besner is a proud graduate from Duke University and the George Washington University Law School.  After law school, she practiced bankruptcy law and litigation first in Washington, D.C., and then in Miami.  Not only is Besner a professor at HCBE but she was also the Assistant Director of Career Services at the NSU School of Law before starting a family in 1995.  Beth had three sons – Ian was born in 1995, Grant in 1997 and Noah in 1999.

Sadly, in 2006 tragedy struck when Besner’s eldest son Ian was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 11.  After undergoing four months of treatment, he contracted meningitis and died in May 2006.  Besner and her husband, Brad, established the I Care I Cure Childhood Cancer Foundation in Ian’s memory.  Since its inception, I Care I Cure has raised more than $3 million for research to find gentler, less toxic cures for childhood cancer.  The foundation, now merged with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, is hosting its 14th Annual I Care I Cure 5K Run/Walk and Festival on NSU’s campus on Saturday, March 5 at 9 a.m.  The Besners hope that members of her NSU “family” will join her for this event for a worthy cause.

Sign up to run/walk and/or attend the festival and concert at : https://www.alexslemonade.org/campaign/i-care-i-cure-5k

Posted 02/24/22

Wonder Women Event Will Offer Scholarship Opportunity

The NSU Center for Academic & Professional Success (CAPS) in partnership with H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Office of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement, and The Women’s Success Series will be hosting an exciting event known as Wonder Women. The event will feature a panel of women from various industries who are considered Wonder Women for their accomplishments. The event will be held on Tuesday, March 22, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Nominate a current undergraduate NSU student today. Students can nominate their peers that have developed and displayed traits that embody a Wonder Woman:

  1. Leadership
  2. Academic Excellence & Career Focus
  3. Community Service
  4. Integrity/Ethics
  5. Women’s Empowerment

The winning student will receive a $500 scholarship. The NSU Wonder Woman award is open to all undergraduate students.

The winner will be announced at the event, which will feature a panel of women in different industries who are considered Wonder Women for their accomplishments. The Wonder Women panelists lineup announcement is coming soon.

To submit your nominations, visit https://nova.edu/wonderwomennominations. Nominations close on Sunday, March 13, at 11:59 p.m.

Panel Moderator:  Dr. Andrea Nevins, Ph.D., M.F.A., Dean, Farquhar Honors College – Nova Southeastern University

Register for event. 

Posted 02/10/22

2022 Berger Entrepreneur Bootcamp on Feb. 18-19

The Shepard Broad College of Law and the Sharon and Mitchell W. Berger Entrepreneur Law Clinic proudly present the 2022 Berger Entrepreneur Bootcamp: Innovating Successfully – Making it Happen!

The bootcamp will be Friday, February 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. and Saturday, February 19, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission to the program is free and includes course materials, breakfast, coffee, and water. Lunch can be purchased for $20 per day.

Building on the successes of the previous two Berger Entrepreneur Bootcamps, each with more than 200 in-person and online participants, the program will immerse entrepreneurs in the skills and disciplines needed to successfully launch and grow a start-up business.

The 2022 Bootcamp will feature a faculty of more than 20 diverse presenters from NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law, NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, start-up founders, and other experienced professionals and participants in South Florida’s start-up ecosystem.

This two-day workshop is open to ALL NSU students, faculty, staff, and the general public.  It also will be simulcast and recorded for those who want to attend the program online.

Posted 01/16/22

Deerfield Beach Students Attend Business College Workshop

On December 9, 41 students from the Academy of Finance program at Deerfield Beach High School visited Nova Southeastern University. Donning their business attire, bright green scarfs, and ties, the students received executive treatment from the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship staff.

Students participated in a leadership workshop from business college administration focusing on innovation, an hour lesson on investing from Associate Professor Albert Williams, Ph.D., and a guided tour of the university’s campus by Huizenga Business Innovation Academy students. The students even met with their high school teacher, Frank Pizzo’s oldest son Frankie, a senior at NSU, majoring in neuroscience. He shared some of his personal experiences, how much support the university provides, and how to self-advocate while in college.

Academy of Finance students received certificates for excelling in recent cooperative learning projects, including Stockbroker of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, and Group Leader of the Year. Students also received certificates for helping with a food drive and club leadership activities. At the end of the educational activities and informative campus tour, the students were treated to lunch at the University Center food court by the Huizenga Academy.

Pizzo says he is incredibly proud of his students and looks forward to the next opportunity to share leadership opportunities outside of school. NSU’s business college welcomes student associations, high schools, and others for special site visits throughout the year. If you would like to refer anyone for these on-campus learning opportunities, please email hbia@nova.edu.

Posted 12/15/21

College of Business Establishes New Fellowship with USchool

The NSU H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and NSU University School are set to launch a new partnership in the form of a fellowship this spring. Twelve high-achieving Upper School students from USchool have been selected from more than 60 applications for this highly anticipated program. “USchool has been building specialized fellowship programs since 2017 with different colleges at NSU, starting with the Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine and then adding the Shepard Broad College of Law in 2018. We are so proud to be adding this third partnership with the College of Business to our program offerings,” said Samantha Nelson, Director of Experiential Learning at USchool.

The Business Fellowship will begin at the start of 2022 and run from January until May. The fellows will be welcomed during a pinning ceremony with an official Huizenga College pin. Throughout the fellowship, students will be able to experience the different industries and career opportunities in the subjects of accounting, finance, management, marketing, entrepreneurship, real estate, and sports management. They will meet with expert faculty and have VIP invitations to many of the college activities and events with administration. Each week, the fellows will experience different college settings around the university such as the DeSantis building, Mako Hall Shark Cage, and the NSU-Broward Innovation Center. The fellows will also get to work with Huizenga Academy students as well as career services.

To conclude the fellowship journey, the USchool students will present their career path projects at a final Shark Showcase and celebration! This new era of innovation is the perfect time for this partnership. The goal is to prepare these passionate and curious students for college and beyond. The Dean, faculty, administration, staff, and students at the business college are looking forward to giving the USchool fellows a taste of the real business college experience. Go Sharks!

Posted 12/12/21

Ph.D. Adviser Receives Prestigious Economics Award

David Card, the Ph.D. adviser of NSU Professor of Decision Sciences Florence Neymotin, was recently announced as a winner of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – commonly called the Nobel Prize in economics. Card pioneered a “credibility revolution” in economics by using empirical data to rigorously test theoretical predictions. He used data from natural experiments and sophisticated statistical tools to better understand the impact of minimum wage policies, immigration, and education. For example, in the early 1990s, he showed that raising the minimum wage in New Jersey did not lead to an increase in unemployment, using nearby western Pennsylvania as the control group. In contrast with the predominantly theoretical analyses of the past, the majority of economics research published today is based on observational or econometric data due to his successes.

Florence Neymotin

Neymotin maintains a close relationship with Card. As a graduate student, she was acknowledged for her research work on two of his foundational papers. In “Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?” they discovered that, contrary to what some had feared, the presence of immigrants did not adversely impact the labor market opportunities for natives. Neymotin was also acknowledged on his paper published in The American Economic Review, a top-5 journal in economics titled “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Medicare.”

Neymotin, currently in the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, said about her role in the process: “I could not be happier to see this important work recognized and to have played a part in making economics a more rigorous science.”

She says she hopes to continue making progress in her own research using the tools of empirical economics she learned from Card. In particular, Neymotin uses data-driven approaches to better understand entrepreneur and employment decisions, as well as changes in the health care system.

College of Business and Entrepreneurship Elevates Virtual Events

The H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship is taking virtual events to the next level with their new 3-D event floorplan featuring the William S. Spears Courtyard Atrium in the Carl DeSantis Building located at the Davie campus.

In May 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Huizenga Business Innovation Academy (HBIA) faced the difficult task of turning their highly hands-on, experiential learning summer boot camp course  fully virtual, in a matter of three weeks. After much research, they partnered with Remo, an interactive virtual event platform, to facilitate their “live classroom” team and networking activities. Remo allows for camera and microphone sharing between the guests sitting at each table, so conversations are semi-private once all the virtual seats at the table are full. This feature allowed HBIA faculty, administration, and students to meet virtually and feel like they were gathering in a real setting with the autonomy to move freely between tables and speak with other attendees around the virtual conference floor.

Over a year later, the college and the Business Innovation Academy are still using Remo and have held various events such as career fairs, holiday parties, study sessions, academic conferences, business trade shows and recruitment events.

“This platform has allowed us to safely continue working with our community partners throughout the pandemic and is a refreshing break from the traditional Zoom meetings” said, Monica Paneque, director of the Huizenga Business Innovation Academy.

Now, the college is taking the virtual event space to the next level with one of the most popular venues on-campus, the DeSantis building Courtyard Atrium. In innovating the representation of NSU’s first and only virtual event space, the Huizenga Academy’s program manager, Najeeb Ahmed, took his technical design skills and drew sketches from various perspectives of the atrium. With the help of a talented graphic designer, the college was able to bring their vision to life! If you have ever visited the atrium on campus, you will see how this new digital floorplan offers a familiar and amazing NSU virtual experience for events.

With all the excitement around our virtual venue that complements the on-campus experience, the Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship has hosted more than 100 virtual events to date and plans to continue using the platform even into a post-COVID era. For instance, the virtual conference experience allows the college to attract attendees to events from all over the world without the worry of space capacities, travel restrictions or double booking. Should your college, department, or association like to learn more about reserving our virtual atrium, you are welcome to contact us at HBIA@nova.edu.

NSU Undergraduates Take on Chocolate Bark Challenge

During the Winter 2021 semester, eight undergraduate students from the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the H.Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship were selected to participate in a special topics communications course partnering with Hoffman’s Chocolates and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation. The eight-week online course, offered through the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts, gave students the opportunity to work closely with leadership, chocolatiers, and marketing and design professionals from Hoffman’s Chocolates and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation and develop a new chocolate bark product.

Now in its third year, the special topics course partnering with Hoffman’s Chocolates took on a new challenge by also partnering with the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation to design a new chocolate bark and marketing campaign focused on conservation of Florida’s coastal and Everglades ecosystems. Selected students represented a variety of majors — Art + Design, Communication, Marine Biology and Marketing — and worked in two teams to develop their chocolate bark products, packaging and marketing campaigns featuring paintings by Guy Harvey.

“I’m especially proud of this year’s cohort of dedicated, ambitious students,” said Miriam Ahmed, Ph.D., assistant professor of graphic design for the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts, who taught the course. “They weren’t afraid to push beyond their comfort zones, and they pursued avenues for achieving the tougher goal of centering sustainability within their communication strategies, marketing, and product packaging.”

An advantage of the course’s online format, Ahmed said, was that it allowed students the chance to collaborate remotely with team members from the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation who are located in the Cayman Islands.

On April 20, the student teams pitched their proposed flavor profiles to leadership and representatives from Hoffman’s Chocolates, the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation, NSU and its Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. During the final presentation, students showcased “Spiced Paradise” featuring a spiced-ginger rum and dark chocolate bark and “Citrus Coast” featuring a Key Lime Bay white chocolate bark. Both flavors were selected for upcoming production by Hoffman’s Chocolates.

The flavors will be paired with the 2020 Orange Blossom chocolate bark developed by students from last year’s special topics course. The product’s launch was postponed because of COVID-19, and the bark is now set to launch this summer along with this year’s winner.

“Hoffman’s and the GHOF were excellent partners, providing students with exciting interdisciplinary experiential learning opportunities,” said Shanti Bruce, Ph.D., chair and professor for the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts.

For more information about the special topics course and its “Battle of the Barks,” click here.

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