Latest News: January 2009

Smeal MBA Students To Meet With Warren Buffett In Omaha

A group of 27 MBA students from Penn State's Smeal College of Business will travel to Omaha, Neb., next week to meet with Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathway and arguably the most successful investor of all time.

Journal Honors Marketing Professor With Second Best Paper Award In Two Years

A paper by Marvin Goldberg, Bard Professor of Business Administration at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, and marketing doctoral student Kunter Gunasti, was named the winner of the 2008 Thomas C. Kinnear/Journal of Public Policy & Marketing Award. This is the second year in a row that Goldberg has received this honor from the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

World Campus Names Smeal Accounting Professor Best Faculty Member

Penn State World Campus recently named Robert Crum, associate professor of accounting at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, as the winner of its 2008 Outstanding MBA Faculty award in recognition of his contributions on the faculty of the World Campus iMBA program.

Supply Chain Professor Receives Best Paper Honor From Business Horizons

The editorial board of Business Horizons, the bimonthly journal of the Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has chosen a paper co-authored by Christopher Craighead, assistant professor of supply chain management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, for its 2008 Best Paper Award.

Real Estate Economics Names Ambrose Study Best Paper

A paper co-authored by Brent Ambrose, Chaired Professor of Insurance and Real Estate at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, was recently named the 2008 Edwin Mills Best Paper in Real Estate Economics.

Smeal Marketing Chair Elected President Of The Society for Consumer Psychology

Hans Baumgartner, chair of the Department of Marketing at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been elected president of the Society for Consumer Psychology, a national organization of academics, practitioners, and students dedicated to the study of the psychology of consumer behavior.

Penn State Executive Programs Takes Executive Coaching To The National Institutes of Health

When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sought an external partner to help develop the leadership competencies of its managers and supervisors to enhance employee performance, it turned to Penn State Executive Programs.

Smeal Ph.D. Candidate Earns Best Paper Honors

The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport recently awarded a Smeal College of Business doctoral student with the Barbara A. Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Smeal's Spring Executive Insights Series Hosts Three Business Leaders

Business executives from the Pittsburgh Pirates, Dick's Sporting Goods, and The Bank of New York Mellon will visit Penn State's Smeal College of Business this semester for the college's guest speaker series, Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights.

Persistence Pays For Job Seekers

"While it is true that the daily headlines about the economy are not encouraging, there are two words that should guide those seeking employment in 2009: perspective and persistence," writes Patrick Cataldo, associate dean for executive education, in an op-ed.

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