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April 2005 CSCR To Host 15th Annual Symposium CMTOC To Host Advanced Manufacturing Forum Penn State Among Best For Entrepreneurship MBA Program Advances In U.S. News Ranking Students Excel At Competitions Struthers, Murray To Speak At Smeal Commencement Ceremonies Smeal Investigates Growth & Energy In Philadelphia Smeal Research: Proactive Marketing During Recession General Links: - Latest News |
Welcome to the Smeal Zine!
Here's the latest issue of SMEAL Zine, a monthly electronic magazine designed to keep alumni and friends in touch with the latest news and information from Penn State's Smeal College of Business and its nationally ranked programs and world-renowned research centers.
Smeal Research: Proactive Marketing During Recession Well positioned firms that respond to recessions with an aggressive increase in marketing spending achieve superior business performance even during downturns according to research co-authored by Smeal’s Gary Lilien and Arvind Rangaswamy. Read more about their forthcoming article in the International Journal for Research in Marketing at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Smeal Investigates Growth & Energy In Philadelphia The college will host two keynote events on April 14 at The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia. The Executive Forum: Perspectives on Driving Growth in Today's Economy will feature insights from leading faculty experts on global trends, leadership, and shareholder value. An evening panel discussion, Conversations with Business Leaders: The Role of Energy in Today's Economy, will feature commentary from top energy executives who serve on the Smeal Board of Visitors. Learn more about the events and how you can register at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/philadelphia/. Struthers, Murray To Speak At Smeal Commencement Ceremonies Richard K. Struthers ’77, vice chairman and chief lending officer of MBNA, will offer the spring commencement address to Smeal undergraduates and their families at 1:30 p.m. on May 15 in the Bryce Jordan Center. Tim Murray ’75, senior managing director at Bear Stearns & Co., will speak at Smeal’s MBA pre-commencement ceremony on May 8. Read more about the speakers at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Abdullah Yavas, the William Elliott Professor of Business Administration, was recently recognized as a Fellow of the prestigious Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. He was named Outstanding Editorial Board Member of the journal Real Estate Economics. Read more about Yavas and his awards at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/mar05/yavas.html. Students Excel At Competitions Two teams of Smeal undergraduates recently finished third at international case competitions in Los Angeles and Toronto, while a Smeal doctoral candidate earned top honors at Penn State's Graduate Exhibition. USC’s Marshall International Case Competition called on competitors from 24 teams to strategize about the merger of two large biotechnology firms. The 24 teams in the University of Toronto’s Rotman International Trading Competition weathered five rounds of financial trading simulations. Smeal took the top spot among undergraduates. Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems, won first place in the Engineering category at the annual Graduate Exhibition. Read more at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/mar05/competitions.html. MBA Program Advances In U.S. News Ranking The Smeal MBA Program ranks 37th overall and 18th among public universities in the 2006 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools," which is published by U.S. News & World Report. The program also ranks 8th in the nation in the discipline-specific category of Supply Chain/Logistics. Read more about the rankings at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/mar05/rankings.html. Penn State Among Best For Entrepreneurship Smeal and the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship recently led the University to a top-tier ranking in Entrepreneur magazine's annual assessment of the best entrepreneurship programs in the nation. Read more about the range of entrepreneurship-focused initiatives at Smeal at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/mar05/entre.html. CMTOC To Host Advanced Manufacturing Forum Managers from ArvinMeritor, Kennametal, Rockwell Automation, and United Defense will lead programs on technological and organizational innovation as part of the 57th Advanced Manufacturing Forum from April 14-15 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. Read more about the forum, which is hosted by Smeal's Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/mar05/forum.html. CSCR To Host 15th Annual Symposium Smeal's Center for Supply Chain Research will host the R. Hadly Waters Supply Chain Symposium from April 28-29 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. The event will focus on the need for organizations to have flexible, agile supply chains to meet today’s global business challenges, and will feature keynote addresses by Gary S. Smith, vice president of global logistics for IBM, and Arthur Mesher, CEO of The Descartes Systems. Read more about the symposium at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/conf/HadlyWaters/. Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world’s news media. In March, faculty members were featured in media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and United Press International. Please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/innews/index.html. Programs and Events Penn State Executive Programs is currently accepting reservations for its upcoming programs. Please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/date.html for more information or click the link below for some of the specific programs being offered this fall.
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