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June 2005 Gedrich To Assume Alumni Board Presidency Smeal Perspective: The Class Of 9/11 Jaffe's Teaching Inspires $500,000 Gift Academy Of Management Honors Entrepreneurship Paper Building Dedication: Mark Your Calendar Katz To Speak At Executive MBA Graduation Struthers Delivers Commencement Address eBRC Drives New Book On Agile Enterprise 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.
eBRC Drives New Book On Agile Enterprise Nirmal Pal, executive director of Smeal's eBusiness Research Center, is the co-editor of a new book on corporate agility, which features the insights of numerous thought leaders on a topic that is key to corporate success. Read more about "The Agile Enterprise: Reinventing your Organization for Success in an On Demand World" at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Struthers Delivers Commencement Address Richard K. Struthers ’77, vice chairman and chief lending officer of MBNA, asked graduates to define success for themselves and formulate a plan to keep striving for higher goals during Smeal's commencement ceremony on June 15 at the Bryce Jordan Center. Read excerpts from his speech at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Katz To Speak At Executive MBA Graduation Lewis Katz, former owner and managing partner of the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association, will offer the pre-commencement address to graduates of Smeal’s Executive MBA Program during a ceremony on June 11 at University Park. Read more about Katz and the Executive MBA Program at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/may05/katz.html. Professor of Finance Dennis Sheehan has been named associate dean for MBA programs at the college. He will lead the academic and operational aspects of Smeal’s full-time MBA Program at University Park and its Executive MBA Program in Philadelphia. Read more about the MBA leadership transition at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/may05/sheehan.html. Building Dedication: Mark Your Calendar Smeal's new home is almost complete. The college will move into its new building in July and the dedication ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 30. Mark your calendar now to visit University Park and take part in this historic event. Read more about the new building at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/building/index.html. Academy Of Management Honors Entrepreneurship Paper "A Scalable Problem-Based Learning System for Entrepreneurship Education," co-authored by Tony Warren, director of Smeal’s Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, will be published in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2005 Academy of Management Meeting in August. The paper describes Penn State's approach and plans to open entrepreneurial instruction to large groups of students across the University and beyond. Read more at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/may05/aompaper.html. Jaffe's Teaching Inspires $500,000 Gift Before he joined the Smeal faculty 25 years ago, Austin Jaffe, the Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration, taught at the University of Oregon. His influence as a teacher in Eugene recently inspired a $500,000 gift to the university to help recruit and retain quality professors. Read more about Jaffe’s impact as a teacher at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/may05/jaffe.html. Smeal Perspective: The Class Of 9/11 Students who lived through 9/11 as college freshmen are now graduating into a world forever changed by the events of that Tuesday morning in September. Andrew Bergstein, instructor of marketing at Smeal, takes a look back at that fateful day and what it has meant for the Class of 2005. Read his op-ed at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/may05/class911.html. Gedrich To Assume Alumni Board Presidency Alan Gedrich, a partner in the Investment Management Department of the law firm Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP in Philadelphia, will begin serving a two-year term as president of Smeal’s Alumni Society Board in July. Read more about the board and Gedrich at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/may05/gedrich.html. Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world’s news media. In May, faculty members were featured in media outlets such as The Associated Press, The Boston Globe, 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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