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October 2006 Smeal Instructor Starts Radio Talk Show Leading Manufacturers Gather To Share Lean Practices Smeal Included In Two National Rankings Study: An Overpaid CEO Often Translates To Overpaid Employees Research Paper Suggests Honor Codes To Improve Academic Integrity For Nine Years, Newsletter Has Alerted Readers To 'Early Indications' Two Students Travel To Romania With Habitat For Humanity Events Connect Smeal Students And Alumni Meet Smeal's Dean In Philadelphia And Pittsburgh 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.
Meet Smeal's Dean In Philadelphia And Pittsburgh Two
upcoming events in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia will provide an
opportunity for area Smeal alumni to meet the college's new dean,
network with fellow alums, connect with old friends, and learn about
the Smeal Business Clubs in each city. At both events, Dean James
Thomas will talk about some of the issues and trends currently
affecting business and business education and share some of his vision
for the future of the college. The Philadelphia reception will be held
at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, and the Pittsburgh event is at 6 p.m.
on Wednesday, Nov. 1. For more details and RSVP information, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Events Connect Smeal Students And Alumni Smeal
hosted two events last month to provide students with some tools and
opportunities to network with high-level business executives. On Sept.
28, members of the Smeal Board of Visitors and the Alumni Society Board
returned to campus to talk one-on-one with current students and
participate in several panel discussions on topics ranging from
forensic accounting and supply chain resiliency to succeeding on Wall
Street and finding work-life balance. The next day, author and small
talk expert Debra Fine offered students advice on how to feel
comfortable in any situation by mastering the art of small talk. For
more details and photos, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Two Students Travel To Romania With Habitat For Humanity Two Smeal students spent 10 days in Romania last month working with local families, community leaders from Austin, Texas, and students from four other U.S. universities to refurbish a Soviet-era apartment building through Habitat for Humanity's Global Village Program. Jeff Kranzel, senior in accounting and Spanish, and Scott Walters, senior in finance, also got to explore some of Romania on the trip, which was organized and funded by the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation. Kranzel and Walters are both recipients of the Mitte Foundation's scholarship. For more details and a link to photos of their trip, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/sep06/romania.html. For Nine Years, Newsletter Has Alerted Readers To 'Early Indications' Since October 1997, John Jordan, executive director of Smeal's eBusiness Research Center, has been publishing an electronic newsletter that examines emerging technologies and how they impact business and society. Each month in Early Indications Jordan identifies tech companies on the cusp, presents analysis of trends in e-business, or offers predictions on everything from the next major consumer technology to what the big tech buzzwords will be in the coming year. For more details and information on how to get a free subscription, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/sep06/ebrc.html. Research Paper Suggests Honor Codes To Improve Academic Integrity Graduate students are cheating at an alarmingly high rate and MBA students are doing so at even higher levels, according to a new research report co-authored by Linda Treviño, Cook Fellow in Business Ethics at Smeal. She and her fellow researchers recommend that college administrators work with faculty and students to create what they call a "culture of integrity and responsibility" in their schools. At Smeal, Treviño has worked with students and administrators to design an academic honor code that emphasizes the promotion of academic integrity among students as a community value. The code is being piloted in the MBA Program this semester. For more on Treviño's findings, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/sep06/ethics.html. Study: An Overpaid CEO Often Translates To Overpaid Employees Companies with overpaid CEOs tend to overpay other employees and may experience more employee turnover, according to a new research report co-authored by Timothy Pollock, associate professor of management at Smeal. Pollock and two colleagues from Rutgers and Stanford warn that ultimately, this systemic overpayment and turnover can negatively impact overall organizational performance and shareholder value. Pollock says that his "research shows that shareholders might want to be more careful about exorbitant CEO salaries because they tend to cost corporations far more in their payrolls and in employee turnover." For more on Pollock's findings, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/sep06/pollock.html. Smeal Included In Two National Rankings Smeal's MBA Program is ranked 23rd in the United States according to the Wall Street Journal's annual list of the top regional MBA providers. The college is up 10 spots in this year's rankings, which are based on interviews with 4,125 MBA recruiters. The Journal also ranked Smeal eighth overall in the discipline-specific category of operations management. For more details, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/sep06/wsjrank.html. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked the Smeal MBA Program 15th on the list of the top 25 graduate programs for entrepreneurship. A number of criteria were factored into the evaluation, including the entrepreneurial emphasis of the curriculum, mentoring, experiential learning, faculty credentials, and the success of graduating students and alumni. For more details, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/sep06/entrank.html. Leading Manufacturers Gather To Share Lean Practices The 60th meeting of the Advanced Manufacturing Forum will convene in Nov. 2 at Penn State with representatives from Boston Scientific, Flinchbaugh Engineering, The HON Company, and Thomas and Betts Corporation offering insight into their companies' experiences streamlining production and plant operations. The forum, which is sponsored by Smeal's Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, fosters discussion and idea exchange among managers who are introducing changes in their operations. For more details and forum registration information, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/cmtoc/forum/forum60.html. Smeal Instructor Starts Radio Talk Show A Smeal faculty member hosts a new State College-area radio program, addressing leadership issues and taking calls from listeners on workplace and management challenges. The hour-long program is designed for anyone who has a job, aspires to grow into a leadership role, or is already in one in their career. The goal of the show is to help listeners accomplish their professional goals and find enjoyment in the workplace. "Speaking Confidentially," hosted by Kenneth Pasch, instructor in accounting and management, airs on WBLF-AM in State College at 11 a.m. on Fridays. For more information, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/sep06/pasch.html. Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world's news media. In September, faculty members were featured in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Toronto Star, 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. |
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