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December 2005 eBusiness Research Center Announces Competition Winners Two Smeal Grads Head 19,000-Member CPA Society Clothier Shares His Company's Unique Business Model In Lecture Smeal Expert: 'GM's Future More Uncertain Than Ever' Economist Ranks Penn State Executive Programs Among The World's Best Smeal Alum Named Chairman Of U.S. Steel Smeal Research: Family Crucial To Beating The Stress Of Moving Abroad Fortune Ranks Smeal Grad Sixth Most Powerful Woman In Business 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.
Fortune Ranks Smeal Grad Sixth Most Powerful Woman In Business Fortune magazine has named Smeal alumna Patricia Woertz as one of the most powerful women in business for the seventh year in a row. Woertz, executive vice president of Chevron's Global Downstream division, is ranked sixth on the magazine's list. Woertz was honored as a Distinguished Alumna earlier this year and named an Alumni Fellow in 2002. She has remained active in the college and University since earning her bachelor's degree in accounting from Smeal in 1974, including delivering the fall 2003 commencement address for Penn State and serving on Smeal's Board of Visitors. For more on Woertz's honor, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Smeal Research: Family Crucial To Beating The Stress Of Moving Abroad A recent study by David Harrison, distinguished professor of management at Smeal, published in the Academy of Management Journal sheds fresh light on the way people working in a foreign country handle the stress of their assignment. Specifically, the study refutes previous evidence and conventional wisdom that prior experience working overseas and the ability to speak the native language are the most important factors in adjusting to work in a foreign country. Rather, Harrison and his co-authors find that spouse adjustment is the most important variable in determining how a married expatriate will adjust to the stresses of living and working in a foreign environment. For more information, please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/ Smeal Alum Named Chairman Of U.S. Steel United States Steel Corporation announced that its board of directors has elected Smeal alumnus John P. Surma Jr. as chairman of the board, effective February 1, 2006. He will continue to serve as president and chief executive officer of the company. Surma graduated from Smeal in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in accounting. He remains an involved supporter of the college, serving on the Board of Visitors and actively investing in the Nittany Lion Fund, Smeal's student-managed investment portfolio. For more information on Surma's new role at U.S. Steel, please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/nov05/surma.html. Economist Ranks Penn State Executive Programs Among The World's Best Penn State Executive Programs is one of only 14 open-enrollment executive education providers worldwide to be rated "good" or better by The Economist magazine in its ranking of executive education programs. Penn State Executive Programs received a rating of 3.9, which tied with the University of Cape Town, the University of Michigan, Ohio State, and Stanford for 10th place among open-enrollment programs. The highest rating was 4.2. For more information on Penn State Executive Programs, please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/execed/index.html. Smeal Expert: 'GM's Future More Uncertain Than Ever' The decision by General Motors to close 12 plants and lay off 30,000 workers is just more bad news for the struggling U.S. automobile industry, according to Terrence Guay, clinical assistant professor of international business at Smeal. "The U.S. automotive industry is a tale of two industries," he says, "a declining one comprised of GM and Ford and a competitive and promising one consisting of Japanese and European firms who make cars in the United States and employ an increasing number of U.S. workers." For Guay's assessment of the GM plant closures, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/nov05/guay.html. Clothier Shares His Company's Unique Business Model In Lecture Marty Bailey, vice president of operations for American Apparel, and three of his colleagues delivered this year's G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture in Business Ethics on Nov. 3, sharing the company's distinct business model. In contrast to many of its competitors' operations offshore, American Apparel houses all aspects of its production—from sewing to marketing—under one roof in downtown Los Angeles. For information about other Smeal events and lectures, visit http://events.smeal.psu.edu/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?CalendarName=Smeal. Two Smeal Grads Head 19,000-Member CPA Society Pennsylvania's 19,000-member CPA association is currently under the leadership of two Smeal alumni. Robert H. Krebs Jr. '64 BusAdm and J. Andrew Weidman '78 Acctg serve as president and president-elect, respectively, of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), the second-oldest organization of its type dedicated to preserving and promoting the interests of CPAs and the profession. For more information on Krebs' and Weidman's roles at PICPA, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/nov05/picpa.html. eBusiness Research Center Announces Competition Winners Smeal's eBusiness Research Center has announced this year's winners of the Fifth Annual Doctoral Award Competition. The Outstanding Winner for 2005 is Dongwon Lee of the University of Minnesota for his proposal, "Understanding Price Rigidity in Internet-Based Selling: A Massive Quasi-Experimental Data Mining Approach." Smeal Ph.D. student Janine Spears and Zhongming Ma of the University of Utah were chosen as Additional Winners. For more information about the competition, visit http://www.ebrc.psu.edu/award. Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world's news media. In November, faculty members were featured in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, The Detroit News, and on CNBC's "Closing Bell." For a more 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/date.html for more information or click the links below for some of the specific programs being offered.
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