International Business | High Point University

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Dr. Assar has served as a financial advisor at prestigious firms including Allstate Financial, Waddell & Reed, Prudential, and Jackson National Life Insurance Company. He has hired and developed numerous successful financial advisors for the said companies. He holds various licenses through FINRA and State of North Carolina. Dr. Assar is a member of Social Media Research Foundation and has been a speaker on the topic of social media and its impact on businesses, politics, policy making, etc. He has conducted seminars on subjects related to senior citizens and baby boomers dealing with issues involving financial, healthcare, and fraud challenges faced by the elderly. He has served as the Treasurer and Vice President of the ARC of High Point and is active in the autism community. While attending Marshall University he played soccer, making it to the finals of the NCAA Southern Conference championship. He is a big fan of Dallas Cowboys, Phoenix Suns, and Pittsburgh Pirates. 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As Director of the International Business Program, he works closely with the Modern Foreign Language Department and is responsible for the management and assessment of the major. In May of 2010 HPU honored Dr. McCully with the Meredith Clark Slane Distinguished Teaching Award. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics, international economics, and comparative economics as well as the MBA course in managerial economics. Dr. McCully recently presented his co-authored paper, “The Impacts of Social Capital on Environmental Behavior: A North Carolina Case Study” (co-authored with Daniel Hall and Christine Cugliari) at the Missouri Valley Economic Association meetings, Kansas City, Missouri. The paper focuses on the idea of people cooperating with each other to protect the natural environment. The theory holds that people who are active in social groups would also be more active in protecting the environment. With the help of HPU’s Survey Research Center, the professors collected information on whether people in North Carolina were actively involved in social organizations such as environmental groups or other nonprofits. The survey also asked about everyday environmental activities, such as recycling. A correlation was found in study participants between social involvement and environmental activity. The Earl N. Phillips School of Business (PSB) and HPU have benefited from Dr. McCully’s service on the Business Leadership Team, the Professional Growth Committee, the HPU Educational Policies Committee, the Global Studies Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee, the Curriculum Committee, the Tenure and Promotion Standards Committee, and the Graduate Council. His professional affiliations include the American Economic Association, Association for Social Economics, Missouri Valley Economic Association, and the Association of Christian Economists. Dr. McCully likes to travel and has been to Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Poland, the Netherlands, Ghana, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. Dr. McCully earned his Ph.D. in Economics in the fields of Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Development Economics from the University of Notre Dame; his M.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame; and his B.A. in Economics from Austin College. 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Dr. Fox’s papers have been published in the: • Journal of Conflict Resolution • Applied Research in Economic Development • Economic Research Network Educator • Journal of Macroeconomics Dr. Fox is currently working on a book on the American political macroeconomy. He has presented his works frequently at the Academy of Economics and Finance Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the Midwest Economics Association. Additionally, he is proficient in Japanese and travels there bi-annually for research and further language training. He is a frequent guest on local TV news affiliates applying economic principles and his knowledge to current events in the world of economics. Dr. Fox joined HPU in 1993 and has taught in both the undergraduate and MBA programs including courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics, managerial economics, and international economics. He has served on the Graduate Admissions Committee, Graduate Council, Survey Research Center Advisory Committee, and International Studies Committee at HPU and currently serves on the Earl N. Phillips School of Business Assurance of Learning Evaluation Committee. Dr. Fox earned his Ph.D. in Economics (fields of International Economics and Econometrics) at the University of Utah and his B.S. in Economics at Brigham Young University. 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Prior to those appointments, he worked in Australia at the Melbourne Institute of the University of Melbourne, most recently as Associate Professor and Head of Macroeconomic Research. During his time in Australia he also served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include empirical macroeconomics, business cycles, time series econometrics, Bayesian econometrics, forecasting, and economic indicators. His works have been published in the Journal of Economics, the B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Review, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and Economics Letters, among others. Some of the titles include: • The Effect of Monetary Policy on Real Commodity Prices • Regime Switches in GDP Growth and Volatility • Labor Market Cycles and Business Cycles • What Does an Oil Shock Do? • What Caused the ‘Great Moderation’? • Identification and Normalization in Markov Switching Models of ‘Business Cycles’: The Engine of Growth or its Handmaiden? At HPU he has taught principles of microeconomics, principles of macroeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, money and banking, and a first year seminar on financial crises. He serves on the Phillips School of Business Assurance of Learning Evaluation Committee and the First-Year Seminars Committee. Dr. Summers holds professional affiliations with the American Economic Association, the International Institute of Forecasters, and the Missouri Valley Economics Association. Dr. Summers earned his Ph.D. in Economics, his M.S. in Mathematics, his M.A. in Urban & Regional Planning, and his B.A. in Communications all at the University of Iowa. 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