| A MESSAGE FROM DEAN BRAUN |
We held successful events this month including a teaching summit focusing on the flipped classroom and a new event called The Scrambler, which is designed to help The Hatch selection committee narrow down the pool of applicants to our final ten Hatchlings.
We finalized the keynote speaker for the Sebo Series in Entrepreneurship and are pleased to announce John Kelly of IBM will be discussing Digital Entrepreneurship: Transforming the Workplace and the Economy. Kelly oversees the Watson project, the IBM supercomputer that made its debut during Jeopardy and wowed the audience after defeating two of the game show's greatest champions.
Our applications are up significantly for the fall of 2016 and retention numbers are consistently increasing. Rankings continue to be strong and our students are finding jobs with competitive salaries. This is a great time to be a student in the College of Business at BGSU!
Thank you for reading the November issue of Biz News. You will note how our students, faculty and alumni are Going Beyond Business as Usual. If you are aware of other College of Business stories, please share with me at rwbraun@bgsu.edu.
Warm regards,
Raymond Braun '80
Dean, College of Business
@DeanRayBraun
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Living the Life of a Market Analyst
When I first met Kevin Fowler, I was fairly new as department chair, worried about making mistakes, but loving one part of the job, advising all of the economics majors. Kevin was one of those individuals I started to advise early on. He was a bit on the quiet side, but I could tell immediately that here was a person who was interested in learning. After graduating from BGSU with a BS-Economics degree in May of 2014, Kevin has certainly used the skills developed as an economics major to find a job that suits him very well.
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BGSU Alumnus and His Company "Make Noise" on NASDAQ Stock Market
"BGSU College of Business alumni are continuing to make things happen!" Those are the words of Brad Seaman, a 1982 alumnus who is now chairman of the board of directors at CPI Card Group ("CPI"). Seaman and the CPI's management team celebrated the company's initial public offering (IPO) on October 9th by ringing the Opening Bell on the Nasdaq in Times Square.
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Symposium Provides Career Info About High Job Growth in Insurance Industry
It is estimated there will be 50,000 insurance job openings, including the health care sector, over the next five years. Students had the chance to learn more about these career opportunities at the first annual Insurance and Risk Management Symposium, hosted by the finance department. The event's theme was "Industry Trends & Career Opportunities" which featured a panel of seven insurance professionals who shared their career insights with students.
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Students "Sell" Their Way to Advance to National Sales Competition
The winners of the BGSU Sales Competition were announced at the Sales Awards Banquet held in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Historically, the BGSU Sales Competition has been highly competitive because the top two winners earn an automatic berth to the National Collegiate Sales Competition where BGSU has a long tradition of excellence.
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Economics Alumnus Credits BGSU for Successful Career Journey; Wants to Bring Electric Buses to Alma Mater
Greg Davis's undergraduate and graduate college education did not take a typical path as most students. He credits Bowling Green State University for helping to give him the fortitude to complete his education. "I would describe my educational journey at BGSU as a long one," states Davis, who graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics in 2008 and a master's in economics five years later.
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Erik Dupont and the BAT: SMOKIN'!
If you go to the Bloomberg Institute website and look at their Hall of Fame for the Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) for February 2015, you will see Erik Dupont as the third place finisher, in the world. For those of you who know Erik, it should come as no surprise. Razor-sharp intelligence and a deep understanding of economics and finance are what Erik brings to any arena, but especially when he dons his finance hat.
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Job provides service opportunity with Habitat for Humanity
As she headed toward graduation and her future post-college, alumna Corrie Jones knew who she wanted to be her first employer--Owens Corning. Jones had done an internship there and appreciated the company's values and how they shared a passion for her favorite cause--Habitat for Humanity.
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Culture of Engagement Provides Educational Experiences that Go Beyond Business As Usual
The College of Business is creating a culture of engagement where students develop and sharpen essential business skills such as critical thinking, communication, presentation, collaboration and teamwork inside and outside the classroom. We continue to go beyond business as usual compared to other traditional business programs.
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Two Highly Successful Alums Share Experiences with Graduate Students
Business graduate students get a unique opportunity once a month to learn from already successful business people through the Graduate and Executive Programs in Business Leadership Lecture Series featuring different alumni.
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Chinese Visiting Faculty Learn Our Teaching Methods by Taking Classes
Four faculty members from Tianjin Polytechnic University (TPU) in China are here at BGSU learning how we teach our statistics, operations research, and MIS classes so they can return to their country and adopt similar teaching methods and materials in their classrooms.
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Creating ‘content contributors, not content containers’
“Meeting time is sacred time. Class should be spent doing only the things that can only be done when those people are together in that classroom,” said Erin Hachtel, a student in the executive master of organization development program.
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| The BGSU chapter of the American Marketing Association has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to send members to the International Collegiate Conference. Our campaign is live at falconfunded.bgsu.edu/BGAMA |
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Marketing Speed Interviews
Marketing students made their "sales" pitches to impress 28 employers from 21 different companies during the Marketing Department's Speed Interview event.
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Professional Selling Job Fair
Students polished their resumes and interview skills as 30 companies searched for the best sales talent at the first Professional Selling Job Fair, hosted by the Marketing Department, AMA and and the Business Career Accelerator.
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The Hatch launched its first Scrambler event in November to select the top ten student entrepreneurs
This year, The Hatch is adding several new elements. The program that is touted as a best in class practice opened up the competition to graduate students and is allowing teams of up to three students to compete. In addition, The Scrambler event was held this month to narrow the highly competitive applicant pool to ten Hatchlings who will compete in April.
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John Kelly, senior vice president of IBM, to present at the Sebo Series In Entrepreneurship
John Kelly oversees Watson, the IBM supercomputer that answers questions using artificial intelligence to accept and process natural language queries. Watson wowed the public during a "Jeopardy" debut where it defeated two of the game show's greatest champions.
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Welcome College of Business Partners!
The College of Business welcomes Cooper Tire, Marathon, Owens Corning and Owens-Illinois as our College Partners. Support from our partners provides funding for programming and special events such as Women in Leadership, the Sebo Series in Entrepreneurship and E-Week.
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Student Places 3rd at Regional Sales Competition
BGSU student Jessica Miller placed 3rd out of 66 competitors at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire "Great Northwoods Warm-Up" sales competition and was awarded $750. Angela Lucarelli earned $150 for being selected as the BGSU School Champion (the top place finisher from each school, excluding the top 3 overall winners).
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Supply Chain Students Make it to Finals
Supply Chain students Paige Stichler, Trent Kaufman, Christian Craig and Brooke Barnes competed against 19 universities at the General Motors/Wayne State Supply Chain Competition.
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Applied Statistics and Operations Research incorporates Big Ten statistics at Lecture Series
Ph.D. candidate Bobby Vaziri from Purdue University explained how he created a "Crowd-Ranking" method that he is using in a study about NCAA Big Ten football recruitment. He was the presenter at the Ralph St. John Lecture Series, hosted by the Applied Statistics and Operations Research Department.
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Team of Accounting students placed 6th in the nation
A team of accounting students and also members of Beta Alpha Psi placed 6th in the nation for the Capsim Foundation Challenge. Pictured are Reid Mankowski, Marissa Milligan, Cassie Davis, and Wade Heffner. Capsim is a simulation to demonstrate students’ business acumen. |
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