MODUL University Vienna has just recently launched three fanpages on the social networking platform Facebook. Besides a general representation of the University on Facebook, there is a page for the Bachelor of Business Administration in Tourism and Hospitality Management and the Master of Business Administration in New Media Technology and Management programs.

Roger Mesznik talks about the financial crisis
MODUL University Vienna had the pleasure to host a presentation by Prof. Roger Mesznik, an expert in finance from the Graduate Business School of Columbia University, New York, who has more than twenty five years of experience in lecturing on corporate finance, financial markets and instruments and financial strategy and planning. Prof. Mesznik, who is also a consultant to corporations and multi-national and international institutions such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, IBM, and the World Bank, has shared his insight into the current financial crisis with an audience of about eighty students, scholars, politicians and businessmen and women.

The Embassy of the United States of America and the Department of Public Governance and Management of MODUL University Vienna cordially invite you to The Financial and Economic Crisis: Are We on the Way Out of It? a presentation by Roger Mesznik, Columbia University, Finance and Economics Department.

A small buffet and drinks will be provided after the presentation.
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 4:00 p.m.
Location: MODUL University Vienna

(Vienna, 4 November 2008). The latest analyses of the US Election 2008 Web Monitor shed light on fundamental differences in the online media coverage about the Democratic and Republican candidates. In the home stretch of the campaign, Barack Obama manages to defend his lead by capturing 42% of media attention (John McCain: 35%).

MODUL University Vienna, in close collaboration with the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien’s Institute of Tourism and Leisure Studies, investigated the influence of residents’ acceptance of the sport mega event – the EURO 2008 soccer championship. Overall, the advocates had a slight majority of 55% in May 2008, just a few weeks before the beginning of the tournament. Attitudes towards positive effects on the community and national levels show the strongest impact on the degree of acceptance.

Members of MODUL University Vienna (Ponocny, Bauernfeind, Zins) are involved in a methodological work on the OECD PISA study. This study is an international assessment of students’ performance which takes place every three years in many countries all over the world. A special focus of the methodological analyses are dimensionality issues, that is, whether the strategy of building scales and publishing results on scale level but not on the level of individual items is empirically justified. With respect to competences, PISA compares countries based on Mathematics, Science and Reading performances of students who are around 15 years old.

Celebrating the accreditation of the MBA Program in New Media Technology & Management (www.modul.ac.at/nmt/mba), the Embassy of the United States of America and MODUL University Vienna cordially invite you to a presentation by Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program Publisher of “The Washington Note”

Date: Tuesday, September 30th, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Location: MODUL University Vienna
Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Auditorium Maximum
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As American colleges and universities have increasingly become involved in economic development since the mid-1980s, there has been a concomitant growth of interest in measuring the impacts of higher education on regional economies.

In the last 20 years many research universities in the US have added regional business and economic development as a core mission to the traditional ones of instruction and scholarly research. It has been claimed by many critics, however, that this ‘entrepreneurial turn’ presents conflicts with long established academic norms, procedures, and reward systems.

Professor Harvey Goldstein possesses a long and successful academic career in the U.S. in the area of Public Governance. We are privileged to have him at MODUL University Vienna. He previously worked at the Department of City and Regional Planning of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (USA). There, he taught and conducted research in the field of regional economic development which he will continue to do at MU Vienna.