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May 2005 Alumni Network Links Graduates & Opportunities Update: New Building Fundraising Campaign Penn State Executive Forum Offers Perspectives On Leadership Finance Major Emerges As Newest Smeal Survivor Student Marketing Association Named Region’s Best Smeal Hosts Panel Discussion On Energy Issues Smith To Receive Accounting Education Award Goldberg Addresses Marketing Influence On Childhood Nutrition Smeal Team Wins Big Ten Case Competition 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 Team Wins Big Ten Case Competition A team of four first-year Smeal MBA students recently won the annual Big Ten MBA Case Competition, with two Smeal students also earning individual accolades at the event. The competition called on teams to propose venture capital funding strategies to support expansion into China. Read more at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Goldberg Addresses Marketing Influence On Childhood Nutrition Marvin Goldberg, the Irving & Irene Bard Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Department of Marketing at Smeal, has completed an in-depth report on marketing tactics to address the unhealthy eating habits of children and the growing problem of childhood obesity. He recently presented the major elements of the report to an Institute of Medicine task force. Read more about Goldberg’s work at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Smith To Receive Accounting Education Award Charles H. Smith, the KPMG Professor of Accounting at Smeal, has been selected to receive the 2005 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The award annually recognizes full-time college accounting educators who exhibit excellence in teaching and have achieved national prominence in the profession. Read more at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/apr05/smith.html. Smeal Hosts Panel Discussion On Energy Issues Top energy executives and Smeal alumni including Pat Woertz of ChevronTexaco, John Arnold of Petroleum Products Corp., and Steve Sheetz of Sheetz Inc. joined Smeal’s Fariborz Ghadar and Don Hambrick for a discussion on the role of energy in today’s economy. Video highlights of the event, which was held in conjunction with Smeal's Board of Visitors meetings, can be viewed at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/apr05/energy.html. Student Marketing Association Named Region’s Best The Penn State Marketing Association, one of 29 student organizations at Smeal, was named top chapter in the Eastern Region during the American Marketing Association International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans. PSMA is one of the largest student-run organizations at Penn State and in the nation. Read more at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/apr05/psma.html. Finance Major Emerges As Newest Smeal Survivor Michael Ettinger, a senior majoring in finance and history, withstood several intense rounds of Smeal Survivor V as the virtual CEO of British Petroleum, eventually taking first place in the annual undergraduate leadership competition. The event was sponsored by PNC Financial Services Group, Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, NVR, Shell Oil, and Ingersoll-Rand. Read more at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/apr05/survivor.html. Penn State Executive Forum Offers Perspectives On Leadership Smeal faculty experts on leadership, strategy, and shareholder value will share their expertise during a one-day forum in June at University Park. The Penn State Executive Forum: Perspectives on Leadership will begin with a reception and dinner on June 22 followed by a full-day of knowledge-sharing on June 23. Read more about the event at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/apr05/eforum.html. Update: New Building Fundraising Campaign Fundraising for Smeal’s new 210,000-square-foot building continues. The college has raised $26.4 million so far and is closing in on its $29 million private fundraising goal, which includes a $1 million challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation. Read more about Smeal's new home, which will open this summer, at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/building/index.html. Alumni Network Links Graduates & Opportunities Penn State’s extensive alumni network is an important factor in helping students access appropriate employment opportunities. More than 92 percent of Smeal’s MBA class of 2004 was employed three months after graduation, among the best long-term placement rates of any business school in the nation. The college continues to benefit from your organizational connections to open up employment opportunities for graduates of our undergraduate and MBA programs. Please contact Carol Lockard (814-863-3071, cll2@psu.edu) for MBA internship or employment opportunities or Adora Way (814-865-3244, aaw2@psu.edu) for undergraduate opportunities. Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world’s news media. In April, faculty members were featured in media outlets such as BusinessWeek, MSN Money, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 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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