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September 2006 Bestselling Author To Address EMBA, MBA Students Center for Supply Chain Research Honored With Logistics Award Smeal To Host Executive Coaching Skills And Certification Programs Trading Room Open Home Football Saturdays Smeal Alumnus Addresses National Accounting Fraternity Smeal Alumni Encouraged To Connect With Current Students Via Message Board U.S. News Ranks Smeal Among Top Ten Public Business Programs Dean Thomas Hosts Chicago-Area Alumni On Lake Michigan 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.
Dean Thomas Hosts Chicago-Area Alumni On Lake Michigan Several Smeal friends and alumni joined Dean James Thomas in Chicago last month for a yacht excursion on Lake Michigan. The event was designed by Walt Zegers '67 to give Chicago-area alumni an opportunity to get to know Smeal's new dean in a casual and fun environment. The day began with lunch at the Chicago Yacht Club before the group set sail aboard Mirage, a 70-foot sloop. "It was great to connect with some of our friends and alumni and bring a little bit of Smeal and Penn State to Chicago," Thomas said. "The trip gave me a chance to get out and see firsthand the passion and enthusiasm for Smeal College that is so widespread in our alumni circles around the country and the world." For more information and a photo of the event, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ U.S. News Ranks Smeal Among Top Ten Public Business Programs Smeal is ranked 18th overall and 10th among public universities in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of undergraduate business programs, which was released last month. This is the second year in a row that the magazine's "America's Best Colleges" feature has ranked Smeal 18th overall. U.S. News also ranked Smeal's Supply Chain Management degree program fifth in the nation this year. For more on the rankings, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Smeal Alumni Encouraged To Connect With Current Students Via Message Board The Smeal Message Board provides busy alumni with an avenue to respond to student questions, offer career advice, and connect directly with students on their own terms, right from their home or work computer. Log on to http://connect.smeal.psu.edu to sign up. When signing up, registrants may elect to receive email notification on particular subjects, alerting them each time a student posts a question to a specific topic. Questions may be directed to Ryan Newman '01 at newman1@psualum.com or Anne Johnson, director of alumni relations, at ael6@psu.edu. Smeal Alumnus Addresses National Accounting Fraternity Smeal Board of Visitors member Anthony Buzzelli '71 served as keynote speaker in early August for the annual meeting of Beta Alpha Psi, a national fraternity for accounting and finance students. Buzzelli, national managing partner, U.S. Regions & Markets, Deloitte & Touche, stressed the importance of community involvement to the more than 1,000 students gathered in Washington for the conference. For more on Buzzelli's speech, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/aug06/buzzelli.html. Trading Room Open Home Football Saturdays Starting Sept. 16, Smeal's Trading Room will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to noon on home football Saturdays. The Trading Room brings all of the tools and technology of Wall Street to students in University Park. It features three plasma television screens, two Bloomberg terminals, dual projectors, two stock boards, a moving ticker, video-conferencing ability, and 54 workstations, each with dual-monitor displays, 64-bit servers and access to Reuters, TradeStation, and financial trading simulations. For more information on the Trading Room, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/smeal/traderoom. Smeal To Host Executive Coaching Skills And Certification Programs Penn State Executive Programs has added two new executive education programs to its list of 2006-2007 offerings, both of which rely on published experts to teach executive coaching skills to managers and executives. Judith Colemon and Brenda Corbett, founders of Sherpa Coaching LLC, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm, will lead both programs. They will cover key aspects of executive coaching, such as the leader's role as coach, communicating expectations and setting direction, accountability as a positive factor, coaching styles, action plans, and the path to coaching certification. For more details and registration information, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/aug06/sherpa.html. Center for Supply Chain Research Honored With Logistics Award Smeal's Center for Supply Chain Research has been named the 2006 institutional recipient of the Eccles Medal by the Executive Board of Directors of the International Society of Logistics. This is the second time the medal has been associated with the Center for Supply Chain Research. In 2004, John Coyle, founder of the Center and professor emeritus of business administration, was named the individual medal recipient. For more on the honor, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/aug06/eccles.html. Bestselling Author Addresses EMBA, MBA Students More than 75 students enrolled in Smeal's Executive MBA Program in Philadelphia had lunch last month with Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight Inc. Ferrazzi addressed both EMBA and MBA students on Aug. 24 about the importance and value of networking for career success. His visit was one highlight of the Smeal EMBA on-campus immersion week, the students' week-long visit to University Park. His address was part of the Smeal EMBA Executive Speaker Series, a quarterly event which allows professionals enrolled in the program to hear from today's top business leaders. For more on Ferrazzi's speech, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/aug06/ferrazzi.html. Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world's news media. In August, faculty members were featured in media outlets such as The Economist, The Times of London, Agence France Presse, and Bloomberg News. For a complete list, 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/topic/date.html for more information or click the links below for some of the specific programs being offered. The Human Resources Management Program http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/hrmp.html November 13-17 Processes And Tools For Supply Chain Success http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/mesc2.html
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