The assistant professor of management received recognition from his former graduate students.
David Jiang, assistant professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, received the 2020 Outstanding Faculty of the Year award from the students in cohort 84 of the program.
The award was presented virtually at the annual Georgia WebMBA faculty workshop held Oct. 9.
The Georgia WebMBA is a consortium of seven Georgia universities that offer an online master鈥檚 in business administration program. Each university in the consortium provides faculty to teach in the Georgia WebMBA. At the end of their time in the program, each graduating cohort selects a faculty member聽for the Outstanding Faculty of the Year award. Jiang taught Business Strategy in the program.
鈥淚鈥檓 honored to receive this award from my MBA students,鈥 Jiang said. 鈥淭he Georgia WebMBA attracts a lot of successful, bright, and hardworking career-minded students from around the world, but especially from the Atlanta-metro area. I enjoyed learning about all of the knowledge and experience that they brought to and applied in their MBA studies. It was a real pleasure working with them.鈥
Before joining 黑料不打烊 in August 2020, Jiang was an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Georgia Southern University鈥檚 Parker College of Business.
Jiang received his Ph.D in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee. He serves on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Family Business Review. His research applies psychological and sociological approaches to understand unique entrepreneurship and family business phenomena.