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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' nationally ranked programs and world-renowned research centers. |
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| December 1, 2002 | |
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Nation's First Supply Chain & Information Systems Program Created at Penn State The Board of Trustees approved, on November 22, the merger of the Department of Business Logistics and the Department of Management Science and Information Systems to form the nation's first Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems in the Smeal College of Business. This action creates a new program that combines the strengths of these established distinctions within Smeal. Read more about this online at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/nov02/scis.html. |
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Leading Scholar in Field of Marketing Engineering Receives Prestigious Awards Gary L. Lilien, professor of management science at Smeal, was among the first recipients of the newly created INFORMS Fellow Award, along with past Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Harry Markowitz and John Nash. The award was established to "recognize exceptional achievement and experience in operations research and the management sciences." He received the award during the annual meeting of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in San Jose, CA on November 18. At this meeting, Dr. Lilien also received the prestigious George E. Kimball Medal awarded and gave the Philip McCord Morse Lecture as one of the plenary addresses at the conference titled: "Modeled to Bits: Marketing Decision Models for the Digital, Networked Economy." Read more about Dr. Lilien's award and his pioneering work in the new field of marketing engineering online at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/dec02/leading.html. |
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New Study Shows When and How Diversity Makes a Difference in Work Teams Diversity in race, gender, and age can be a source of friction and conflict for work teams. However, new research led by David A. Harrison, professor of management at Smeal, indicates that managers should be less concerned about these "surface-level" demographic differences when forming teams than factors relating to "deep-level" differences in personality traits, values, and attitudes. Read more about this online at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/dec02/research.html. |
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Gathering of E-Business Research Centers in Philadelphia Philadelphia was the site for the second annual eBusiness Research Center Directors' Forum. This event, organized by Smeal's eBusiness Research Center, brought together the largest concentration of e-business research directors in the country. The purpose of this forum was to push the envelope of e-Business research by increasing research center collaboration in the areas of research, curricula, research center structure, and funding. In total 30 research center directors attended the forum. Read more about this online at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/nov02/largest.html. |
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Alumni Nominations Sought For Emerging Professionals Awards The Smeal College Alumni Society Board is calling for nominations for its prestigious Emerging Professionals Awards. These awards recognize the career successes and community service of alumni who have graduated from the College within the past fifteen years. Read more about this online at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/dec02/alumni.html. |
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Search for New Corporate Director, Executive MBA Program in Philadelphia The Smeal College is seeking to fill the position of Corporate Director, Executive MBA Program. This new position will be responsible for the marketing, sales, and administration of the program in Philadelphia as well as some cross-selling of other Smeal degree and non-degree programs targeted at a similar customer base. An MBA or Executive MBA degree is preferred for the successful candidate, and relevant job experience is required. |
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Take the eBRC Poll The Smeal eBusiness Research Center is fielding a poll asking, "In a weak and uncertain economic environment such as we have today, what are your CEO's top focus areas?" To take this poll visit, http://www.ebrc.psu.edu/index.html. Poll results are updated instantly for viewing. |
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Media Round-Up Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world's news media. In October, faculty members appeared in Associated Press, Fortune, New York Times, Newsweek and USA TODAY. Please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/innews/index.html to see a summary of these stories. |
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Class Notes & Events For information on your classmates and other Smeal alumni, visit Class Notes at www.smeal.psu.edu/alumni/classnotes.html. You can receive regular updates on events by completing the "Alumni Information Form" found online at http://java.smeal.psu.edu/jsp/alumni/info.jsp. |
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New Address? Change your address, phone and other information at www.alumni.psu.edu/membership/address/default.htm. |
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Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science 