Two faculty members have received appointments to endowed professorships at the University of Oregon'sLundquist College of Business. The selections recognize outstanding leadership and quality of scholarship.

The Philip H. Knight Professor of Business appointments were awarded to Sergio Koreisha and Dennis Howard.

The named positions are critical for the college to compete in the academic marketplace, according to James Bean, dean of the Lundquist College of Business.

Venture teams of students from the Lundquist College of Business and the School of Law at the University of Oregon are making waves around the world as they take top prizes in national and international business plan contests. Perpetua and CleanSmart have won three out of five competitions entered, flying far and wide to compete against the world's best universities and colleges.

The Lillis Business Complex is more than a new state-of-the-art facility. It is a functional part of the curriculum, a physical presence that plays a major role in the unique approach to business education at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.

Second-year M.B.A. finance students at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business participated in the Eighth Annual Hewlett-Packard Case Competition in November 2004. Student teams presented their analyses of a complex case written by Finance Professor Megan Partch and representatives from Hewlett-Packard.

The University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business holds liberal arts and critical thinking as pillars of its curriculum. So when Dean James Bean wanted to partner with other liberal arts disciplines within the university, the philosophy department jumped at the opportunity.

On November 8, 2004, the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business hosted the PricewaterhouseCoopers xACT (short for extreme accounting) case competition. More than seventy-five students participated in the competition, which is designed to give students the experience and exposure to real world accounting and auditing issues.

Research by Assistant Professor of Finance Woodrow Johnson at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business finds that short-term shareholders impose more transaction costs on mutual funds than long-term shareholders, who end up subsidizing these costs.