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Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Kent State University’s MBA team took home the grand prize in the Cleveland Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Competition that took place at the Union Club in Cleveland. The regional competition’s case focused on mergers and acquisitions.
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Beta Alpha PSI and the Accounting Association were pleased to present Philip Cajka, the CEO of Audio-Technica on Thursday February 16, 2012. This presentation at the College of Business was open to all Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems majors.
Celebrating its 50th…
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
The Dean's Office is pleased to announce that Jaume Franquesa will officially begin his new role as the Academic MBA Director next week. In this important responsibility, Jaume will work closely with the Dean's Office and the five Department Chairs to advance all facets of the…
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
We are pleased to announce that, effective immediately, John Thornton has been appointed to serve as the Chair of the College’s Finance Department. John, a Naval Nuclear Officer in the early 70’s, earned his PhD in Finance at Georgia State University, following a banking career…
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Colleagues in the College of Business,
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
The Great Recession has reinvigorated America’s entrepreneurial spirit. As the job market soured during the housing market crisis and ensuing economic swoon, business creation rates soared to record heights. We averaged fewer than 29 new start-ups per 100,000 people each month…
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Having completed the final stage of the process and received their letters from President Lefton, it is now official that Al Guiffrida, Mary Hogue, and Jennifer Wiggins-Johnson have all been granted tenure and will be Associate Professors in the Fall. In addition, Mark Altieri…
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Please congratulate Professor Julia Levashina and Professor Xiaoling Pu on their recent publications!
Dr. Julia Levashina from the Department of Management and Information Systems has been accepted to publish in an A+ journal, Personnel Psychology.
Dr. Xiaoling Pu from the…
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Please join me in congratulating Sung Ham on the acceptance of his paper in Management Science. The paper, “Designing Multi-Person Tournaments with Asymmetric Contestants:"An Experimental Study” is coauthored with Hua Chen and Noah Lim. Way to go Sung!
Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:00am
Dear Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Al Guiffrida and Dr. Pratim Datta for running a successful Green Supply Chain Symposium last weekend. They made themselves, the Department, College and Kent State University proud. The symposium was attended by researchers…
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 10:07am
On Wednesday April 27, 2011 the College of Business gathered to bid farewell to seven retirees.
Michael Hu
Rick Kolbe
Robert Krampf
Michael Pearson
Rick Schroath
Marvin Troutt
Ed Ziegler
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 12:00am
Kent, OH – July 16, 2014 – Kent State University’s School of Communication Studies and College of Business Administration offer an opportunity to obtain two degrees at once: a Master of Arts in Communication Studies (M.A.) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA), starting…
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 12:00am
Juniors:
Paul Apoian
Jason Bagoly
Robert Ball
Kathryn Bennett
Alexander Evans
Christopher DeSanto
Deanna Fleming
Anthony Hochuli
Andrew Klue
Jonathon Kyger
Bryan M. Leuszler
Courtney Lockshaw
Timothy McLaughlin
John Meine
Gabrielle Mingrone
Darrel Mobley
Zachary…
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 12:00am
Our Beta Alpha Psi students raced off to Indianapolis this weekend for the BAP Midwest Regional Meeting and Best Practice competition. 24 of our finest accounting, finance, and MIS students traveled in a Supercharged 15 passenger Ford Econoline Van and three trail cars.
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 12:00am
On the 5th of November 2010, the College of Business organized a broomball tournament and ice carnival event for it's First Year Experience students at the Kent State University Ice Arena. The entire event was free for the students. They played broomball, cornhole, board games,…
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 12:00am
Kent State University’s College of Business Administration welcomes Steven Dennis, Ph.D., as the new Firestone Chair in Corporate Finance and the Chair of the Department of Finance.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 12:00am
Entrepreneurship should be taught in 1st Grade, right along with the normal subjects of Math, Science, Reading, Language, etc. Let me start with some background.
My Background: I am a serial entrepreneur, on my 4th company, and have started and sold 3 of the 4 startups. I also…
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 12:00am
PRLog - Jun. 19, 2014 - KENT, Ohio -- Three faculty members from the College of Business Administration at Kent State University have had their research paper accepted to Regional Science and Urban Economics, an A journal and a top journal for urban and region economics.
“When…
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 12:00am
Kent State University's College of Business Administration was recently recognized by the Sales Education Foundation as a 2014 Top University for Professional Sales Education.
Ellen Daniels, faculty member of the College of Business Administration at KSU, said the honor is…
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 12:00am
Danielle Flemister noticed there were a lot of T-shirt designs, but not many that celebrated the various cultures of fellow students at Kent State University.
“I was just noticing there was a lack of apparel for certain ethnic groups,” said Flemister, 23, who is graduating this…
Monday, June 9, 2014 - 12:00am
PRLog - Jun. 9, 2014 - KENT, Ohio -- A professor from Kent State University’s College of Business Administration recently spent six weeks with the FBI as part of the FBI Citizens Academy.
David Dumpe, Ph.D., associate professor of finance at…
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 09:23am
The College of Business Administration is continuously evolving to meet the needs of our ever-growing student population. In the 2013 fall semester, the college experienced an 80 percent retention rate and an impressive 4.2% growth rate compared to the prior year.
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 09:12am
Kent State University was recently recognized by the Sales Education Foundation as a “2014 Top University for Professional Sales Education.”
Ellen Daniels, a Marketing and Entrepreneurship instructor for the College of Business Administration, currently oversees the sales…
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 09:09am
Academic and Leadership Awards
Students from the College of Business Administration received 93 academic scholarships and leadership awards for the 2013-2014 academic year at Kent State University’s 36th Annual Student Leadership and Honors Awards Ceremony and the College of…
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 09:04am
Xiaoling Pu, Ph.D., a finance professor in the College of Business Administration, is the firstrecipient of the Dean’s Annual Distinguished Scholar Award.
The award began as a way to provide summer research support for outstanding research proposals from faculty in the College…