College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2020 63 Mandlenkosi Shezi Joyce Mxinwa Lerato Masehlele Dr Paul Issock sTudenTs aCComPlishmenTs • Mandlenkosi Shezi, an Honours student in Applied Information Systems under the supervision of Prof Abejide Ade-Ibijola developed an artificial intelligence application (App) called Deaf Chat. The App was aimed at assisting deaf people to communicate with up to four different speakers simultaneously. • SCiiS honours students scooped the top three positions in the 2020 College of Business and Economics (CBE) Honours Research: Poster Presentations. The first position went to BCom Marketing Management Honours students Joyce Mxinwa and Lerato Masehlele for their research titled “Understanding eco-friendly e-waste disposal behaviour in households”, supervised by Dr Paul Issock. visiTing Professors • In February 2020, the Department of Marketing Management hosted Prof Goran Svensson of Kristiania University College, Norway and Editor of the European Business Review. • In March 2020, the Department of Marketing Management hosted Prof Naresh Malhotra, Distinguished Visiting Professor, UJ, Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
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