The American Risk & Insurance Association awarded Dr. William Ferguson and Dr. Tammy Ferguson the 2009 Les B. Strickler Innovation in Instruction Award for the "Strategic Market Entry Project."

This project is used as an optional team assignment in both the senior business risk management seminar course (INSR492) and the MBA risk management course (FNAN510).  Dr. William Ferguson initially concieved the project for his visiting Fulbright lecture position in Austria at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in 2003.

Dr. William Ferguson made a formal presentation of the Project to the ARIA membership at their annual meeting in Providence, RI August 5, and there also will be a related publication in a forthcoming issue of the ARIA sponsored Risk Management & Insurance Review.

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