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CEO Duality and Firm Performance During the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak

Business and IT
Faculty, Research

Sydul Karim, assistant professor of finance and accounting in the College of Business and Information Technology, had one of his studies featured in Fortune magazine in the article titled “CEOs serving as board chairs are controversial but a new study shows they could be great during a crisis”.

The article can be found at Fortune.com

In this study, Karim showed that U.S. public companies led by a CEO who was also chair outperformed their peers during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The full study can be found at ScienceDirect.com

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.