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Smeal to Co-Host Advanced Invention to Venture Workshop

Penn State's Smeal College of Business and the College of Engineering will host the Advanced Invention to Venture (AI2V) workshop Nov. 20 to 23 on the University Park campus.

Smeal Partners with U.S. Army to Offer Logistics Training to Iraqi Officials

The Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State's Smeal College of Business is working with the U.S. Army's Iraq Training and Advisory Mission (ITAM) to assist in the logistics training of Iraqi officials.

Global Innovation Tournament Helps Students Find Their Inner Entrepreneur

Hundreds of students from Penn State and other universities are gearing up to compete in a most unusual global competition: They will have just eight days to create innovative solutions to a mystery challenge using very limited resources, and to convey their results in a short video posted to YouTube. Called the Global Innovation Tournament, the competition is organized by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) at Stanford University.

U. S. Steel CEO to Speak at Smeal

John Surma, chairman and chief executive officer of United States Steel Corporation, is scheduled to speak at Penn State's Smeal College of Business on Nov. 6 as part of the college's executive speaker series, Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights.

Smeal Professor Testifies Before Senate Committee on Pensions

A faculty member at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has been called to testify before the U.S. Senate regarding pension funding during recessions. Ron Gebhardtsbauer, faculty-in-charge of Smeal's Actuarial Science Program, testified Oct. 29 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP).

Farrell Center in Planning Stages to Host 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Conference

The Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has been selected to host the 2010 international conference for the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.

Smeal to Host Business Ethics Discussion in New York City

Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host a panel discussion on business ethics on Oct. 27 in New York City for the college's 2009 Wall Street Initiative.

Indian Official to Discuss Country's Role in Global Economy

Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host a talk on Wednesday by Daggubati Purandeswari, Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development (Higher Education) for the government of India. Purandeswari will discuss the growing role and importance of India in the global economy at 1:15 p.m. in room 126 of Smeal's Business Building. The talk is free and open to the public.

Conference: The Business of Water and Energy Sustainability

The Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, together with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), hosted a forum to address the role of business in energy and water sustainability. "The Business Challenges and Opportunities of Energy and Water Sustainability" was held on Oct. 13 at CSIS in Washington, D.C.

Supply Chain Program Ranked Among Best in North America

A recent survey of supply chain academics and practitioners published in Supply Chain Management Review has ranked the supply chain program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business among the top two such programs in North America.

IdeaPitch Contest for Student Entrepreneurs Accepting Applications

The third annual IdeaPitch competition, hosted by the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, is now accepting applications from Penn State students who have an idea for a viable business venture. For the first time, this year's winning team will go on to compete against teams from other Big Ten universities in April in Chicago.

Princeton Review: Smeal Among Top Ten for Facilities, Faculty

In the 2010 edition of its annual "Best Business Schools" guidebook, The Princeton Review ranks the Smeal College of Business MBA Program No. 5 on its list of "Best Campus Facilities" and No. 9 on its "Best Professors" list.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Events, Films, and Cuisine

Penn State's Smeal College of Business is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month with events and special programs beginning Oct. 1.

Deloitte CEO Kicks Off Executive Insights Guest Speaker Series

Penn State's Smeal College of Business will welcome Barry Salzberg, chief executive officer of Deloitte LLP, to campus on Oct. 2 as the first speaker in this year's Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights guest speaker program.

Five Join Smeal Faculty

Penn State's Smeal College of Business has added five members to its faculty at the start of the 2009-2010 academic year.

Conference: Should Big-Time College Athletics Be a Tax-Exempt Enterprise?

For many colleges and universities, athletics revenues surge as reliably as crowd noise on rivalry weekend, allowing profits from football and other big-time sports to support hundreds of student athletes. Taxation of collegiate athletics revenues will be the subject of a panel discussion co-sponsored by the Center for Sports Business & Research at Penn State's Smeal College of Business on Sept. 18.The conference begins at 1:30 p.m. in room 114 of the Dickinson School of Law's Lewis Katz Building.

Smeal Student Earns Working Role at MTV Video Music Awards

On Sept. 1, one day before her 22nd birthday, Lauren Mitsch, a Penn State senior majoring in advertising and marketing, found out her summer internship at Nickelodeon had produced an unexpected reward—an all-expenses-paid trip to the annual MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday in New York City.

Research: Demanding Lives of Clergy Reveal Tactics for Achieving Work-Life Balance

Through interviews with individuals who face particularly extreme challenges in balancing work and home demands—Episcopal priests—a researcher at Penn State's Smeal College of Business and his co-authors have identified 11 tactics to help employees achieve work-life balance by negotiating the boundaries between their office life and their home life.

Artist Hosts Smeal MBA Alumni at Exhibition Opening

Richard Mayhew, emeritus professor of Art in Penn State's School of Visual Arts, is considered one of the greatest living landscape painters. When his latest exhibition opened at Zone: Contemporary Art in Midtown Manhattan this summer, he invited his longtime friend Vernis Welmon, Smeal associate dean of diversity and community, to attend the artist's reception on opening night, along with a small group of Smeal MBA alumni living in the New York area.

Smeal Forms Advisory Board of Leading Corporate Sustainability Executives

The Sustainability Council at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has formed a corporate advisory board consisting of sustainability executives from some of the world's leading corporations. The eight-member board is made up of representatives from Alcoa, Caterpillar, Dell, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and Xerox.