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Elsevier: Penn State No. 1 University for Alternative Energy Research

Penn State was recently ranked as the No. 1 university in the world for alternative energy research, according to the SciVal Spotlight Alternative Energy Research Leadership study conducted by Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services.

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.

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.

Farrell Center Director Pens Book, Book Chapter

Anthony Warren, director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, has just had published the third edition of his textbook "Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management," and has a book chapter about to published in three-volume set on business technology.

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.

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.

Video: Ghadar on the Pittsburgh G-20 Meeting

Fariborz Ghadar, director of the Center for Global Business Studies, discusses the Pittsburgh G-20 meeting, its significance, and what it means for Pittsburgh to host it.

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.

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.

Smeal's Management Faculty Ranked No. 1 in Research Productivity

Over the past four years, faculty and Ph.D. students from the Department of Management and Organization at Penn State's Smeal College of Business have published more research papers in the top management journals than any other management department in the United States and Canada, according to joint research from Texas A&M University and the University of Florida.

Research: CEO Charismatic Language Leads Analysts to Less Accurate Projections

Securities analysts tend to offer more favorable, yet often inaccurate, forecasts to companies whose new CEOs use charismatic language in their vision statements, according to new research coauthored by a professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. The research results suggest that analysts should be more cautious when considering CEO charisma in their projections.

Survey Ranks Smeal's Supply Chain Program No. 1

A survey of 126 companies and 19 academic institutions conducted by AMR Research, a research firm focused on the global supply chain and its supporting technologies, has identified Penn State's Smeal College of Business as having the best supply chain program in the United States in terms of industry value, program depth, and program scope.

Smeal Professor Awarded Fulbright Research Chair

Daniel Cahoy, associate professor of business law at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been selected to receive a Fulbright award to study how different governments reconcile conflicts between human rights and intellectual property law.

Smeal's Garber VC Fund Invests In Two Companies

The MBA student-managed Garber Venture Capital Fund at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business closed two investments during the spring 2009 semester.

Startup Software Company Wins Smeal's IdeaPitch Entrepreneurship Competition

A startup business founded by a Ph.D. student in Penn State's Eberly College of Science won first place and $2,000 in the second annual IdeaPitch competition hosted by the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Smeal College of Business.

Smeal Hosts Leading Marketing Scholars At Annual Research Camp

The Department of Marketing at Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host four leading marketing scholars at its fourth annual Marketing Research Camp on April 17 on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Research: No Evidence For 'Too Big To Fail' Policies

The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be "too big to fail," according to new research from Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Center for Sports Business & Research And The ESPN/TNS Sports Poll

The Center for Sports Business & Research (CSB&R) at Penn State's Smeal College of Business has reached an agreement with TNS, the world's largest custom research business, for direct access to data from the ESPN Sports Poll, considered the industry standard for monitoring the overall status and health of the sports industry from the fans' perspective.