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Samar Issa, Ph.D., assistant professor of business administration at the Frank J. Guarini School of Business at Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s University, always had an interest in understanding why the 2008 financial crisis happened. To answer this question, she examined all of the financial metrics for 89 corporations across six leading industries including technology, financial, pharmaceutical, auto, airline and energy. She invested two years into preparing a paper, which reviewed two decades worth of data since 2000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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John E. Hammett III, Ed.D., associate dean and director of the M.B.A. program; and Samar Issa, Ph.D., assistant professor of business administration at the Frank J. Guarini School of Business at Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s University, at the Bright Idea Award ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

The paper, titled<\/span> Optimal corporate leverage and speculative cycles: An empirical estimation<\/span><\/i>, ultimately determined that borrowing is not a bad thing, but excess leverage can put the economy in a state of instability. The paper also established a model that calculates an optimal debt level. Her research also revealed that the United States was at the edge of another crisis, but COVID stimulus packages saved many of the big corporations that she was researching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Issa\u2019s manuscript was quickly noticed by the wider business community and was published in a top-leading, high-impact journal titled <\/span>Structural Change in Economic Dynamics<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 However its impact did not stop there. The paper was also published in the 22nd annual volume of the <\/span>Publications of New Jersey Business Faculty<\/span><\/i>, which is produced by the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. A total of 114 papers were submitted for the publication and Dr. Issa\u2019s was one of the top ten manuscripts selected to receive a \u201cBright Idea Award.\u201d The Bright Idea Award is given to intellectual contributions that have the greatest impact on business practice and\/or advance knowledge in the discipline.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a letter to Dr. Issa, Joyce Strawser, Ph.D., dean of the Stillman School of Business shared, \u201cWe are so proud of your work and the intellectual capital that resides within our great State!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond Dr. Issa\u2019s innovative research, s<\/span>he teaches courses at Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s at the undergraduate and graduate level in finance, economics, business analytics, leadership, project management and more. She also is the director of the Center for Leadership Studies and the former founding advisor for the Student Managed Investment Fund and the Chartered Financial Analyst Research Challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samar Issa, Ph.D., assistant professor of business administration at the Frank J. Guarini School of Business at Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s University, always had an interest in understanding why the 2008 financial crisis happened. To answer this question, she examined all of the financial metrics for 89 corporations across six leading industries including technology, financial, pharmaceutical, auto, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-current-students","category-faculty-staff","category-future-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFrank J. 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