"When we started, no one bought TVs at WalMart," Vizio founder and CEO William Wang recalled, in a Q&A session with Lundquist College students and faculty this October. Radically reshaping the shopping landscape is just one of the ways that Wang's ten-year-old company has changed the world of consumer electronics. During a discussion moderated by Dean Kees de Kluyver, Wang described the "perfect storm" that helped drive his company's success and covered some of the other game-changers Vizio pioneered.
This October, Collette Niland joined the Lundquist College of Business as the assistant dean of undergraduate programs. Niland—who earned her PhD in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison--comes to us from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was assistant dean for undergraduate affairs at the college of business and founder of the school's Social Entrepreneurship Institute.
For the seventh year running, the college's Engaging Asia initiative provided a group of second-year Oregon MBA students with the opportunity to explore the sights, sounds, and business practices of another continent. The first stop on the itinerary was Shanghai, where a visit to the Wieden+Kennedy office and a zippy bus ride (yes, a bus ride) around the city's Formula 1 racetrack were among the many activities.
At the Lundquist College of Business, innovation has been a core value from our very earliest days. Most recently, this pioneering instinct has led to the creation of the Business Innovation Institute, the new framework for the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE) and the Center for Sustainable Business Practices (CSBP).
Don Upson may have stepped down from his position at the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE) this past June, but that doesn't mean he's been taking it easy.
Dave Petrone '66, MBA '68, was one of two who received the University of Oregon's 2012 Pioneer Award at an awards ceremony and gala held at the Nines Hotel in Portland in May. Known throughout the UO for his extraordinary support of a wide range of schools and departments--not to mention his successful chairing of the university's Oregon Campaign from 1992 through 1998--Petrone has also had a profound impact on one of the Lundquist College's signature programs, the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center.
