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Linda Weiser Friedman
Professor of Computer Information Systems
linda.friedman@baruch.cuny.edu
http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/friedman/
Education:
BA Baruch College Statistics/Biology 1976 MS Polytechnic Institute of New York Applied Statistics 1980 PhD Polytechnic Institute of New York Operations Research 1983
Areas of Expertise:
Social Media, Corporate Social Responsibility, Humor Studies, Statistical Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments, Programming Languages, Quantitative Research Methods
Selected Publications:
"The Global Financial Crisis of 2008: What Went Wrong?" (with H.H. Friedman). In Robert W. Kolb (ed.), Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, forthcoming April 2010.
"Lessons from the Global Financial Meltdown of 2008" (with H.H. Friedman) Journal of Financial Transformation, forthcoming 2010.
“A Framework For Information Systems Metaresearch: The Quest For Identity” (with V. Raghupathi). Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), Vol 24, Article 20, March 2009, pp. 333-350.
“How Virtuous is Your Firm? A Checklist” (with H.H. Friedman) Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, vol. 14 no. 1, 2009, pp. 14-20.
“Barack Obama 2.0: The Power of New Media in Achieving and Sustaining Presidential Charisma” (with V. Manlow and H.H. Friedman) John Ben Shepperd Journal of Practical Leadership, vol. 4, Spring, 2009, pp. 77 -85.
“Imperatives of CEOs: Creating the Virtuous Corporation” (with H.H. Friedman and F. Kass-Shraibman) Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics, 3(4), December 2008.
"The Role of Modeling in Scientific Disciplines: A Taxonomy" (with H.H. Friedman and S. Pollack) Review of Business, 29(1), Fall 2008, pp. 61-67.
“Can 'Homo Spiritualis' Replace Homo Economicus in the Business Curriculum?” (with H.H. Friedman) e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, 2 (2), 2008, pp. 1-11.
"The Use of Information Technology to Create a Better Workplace for Individuals with Disabilities" (with R. Adler and H.H. Friedman) Management Online Review, August 2008.
"High Impact Areas of the New Media Technologies: A Review" (with H.H. Friedman) Management Online Review, July 2008.
“Ethical Academic Leadership: Lessons from the Academies of Confucius and Hillel” (with H.H. Friedman) The John Ben Shepperd Journal of Practical Leadership, 3, Spring 2008, 19-27.
“ Taking Happiness Seriously in Today's Business Environment” (with H.H. Friedman) Journal of International Marketing and Marketing Research, 33 (1) February, 2008, 3-17.
“A New Kind of Marketing: Creating Micro-Niches Using Resonance Marketing” (with H.H. Friedman and T. Lopez-Pumarejo) Journal of Internet Commerce, 6(1), 2007, 83-99.
“Frontiers in Mulcultural Marketing: The Disabilities Market” (with H.H. Friedman and T. Lopez-Pumarejo) Journal of International Marketing and Marketing Research, 32, 1, February 2007, 25 – 39.
“Student Perceptions of the Ethics of Professors” (with H.H. Friedman and J. Fogel) Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organizational Studies, 10, 2, November 2005, pp10-15.
“Transforming a University from a Teaching Organization to a Learning Organization,” (with H.H. Friedman and S. Pollack) Review of Business, 26(3), 2005, 31-35.
“Conflict of Interest: The Common Thread Underlying Ethical Lapses” (with R.I. Bell and H.H. Friedman) Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, 10 (1), 2005, 4-8.
“Using Humor in the Introductory Statistics Course,” (with H.H. Friedman and T. Amoo) Journal of Statistics Education, 10 (3, November) 2002.
“Simulation Metamodeling.” In S.I. Gass and C.M. Harris (eds.), Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass, 2001, 751-755.
"Reducing the “Wait” in Waiting-Line Systems: Waiting Line Segmentation" (with H.H. Friedman) Business Horizons, 40 (July), 1997, 54-58.
"From Babbage to Babel and Beyond: A Brief History of Programming Languages" Computer Languages, 17, 1991, 1 17.
The Simulation Metamodel. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
Academic Activities:
Executive Committee, Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems.
Executive Committee, PhD in Business.
Faculty Membership Committee, PhD in Computer Science.
Member, Doctoral Faculty of both the Computer Science and Business programs.
Created the Information Systems specialization of the PhD in Business Program.
Created the Tier III Minor in Information Technology and Social Responsibility.
Dissertation Advisor.
Awards, Honors, etc.:
Recipient of PSC-CUNY grant every year since 1995.
Membership on the doctoral faculties of Business (since 1993) and Computer Science (since 1991), Graduate Center, CUNY.
