The handlebar, the horseshoe, the Dalí—these are just a few of the mustache styles you might have seen around the Lillis Business Complex this past month. For the second year in a row, Oregon MBA candidates participated in Movember, the international movement dedicated to raising awareness of—and funds for—men's health issues, raising a grand total of $9,579 so far (handily winning their gentleman's wager with their counterparts in the law school).

When we say the Oregon MBA's unique offerings draw students from all over the globe, it's no exaggeration. Students in the cohort that started this fall hail from spots as diverse as Anchorage, Alaska; Aiea, Hawaii; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Mungyeong City, South Korea; and Quito, Ecuador--to name just a few. Whether they've joined us from a place as close as Eugene, or as distant as Beijing, we welcome the breadth of experience--and diverse viewpoints--each MBA candidate brings to the program. (And now that they've joined us on campus, are their traveling days on hold?

A new vision for our Executive MBA program, MBA students take on a wind-power project, T. Bettina Cornwell on branding and the very young, and more.

"Top notch"--that's what US News & World Report's college guide called our business program in a recent article on the University of Oregon. (The Lillis Business Complex and its solar panels were also singled out for special mention.) Meanwhile, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur ranked the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship among the nation's top twenty-five for graduate-level entrepreneurship education--making this the fourth time in the past five years the center has been numbered among this elite group.

Fall term is off to an exciting start, with 855 undergraduates entering as prebusiness majors. October 12 is the date of the New Majors Celebration, when the entire college will join together to congratulate the 350 students who have progressed to full business major status since last spring.

It was a match made in start-up heaven. Doug Anderson, MBA '11, and Paul Clark, MBA '11, were looking for a real-life project to apply the skills they'd honed in the business school's venture launch pathway. UO architecture professor Ihab Elzeyadi was looking for a way to commercialize the SolarStream Awning, an innovative three-in-one green building product he had recently developed.

"Who is this guy?" was the question on everyone's lips when first-year pro triathlete Jesse Thomas came out of nowhere to win this year's prestigious Avia Wildflower Triathlon with a time of 4:04:45. Folks at the Lundquist College of Business knew Thomas as a 2009 graduate of the school's MBA program in the sports marketing track with a secondary concentration in entrepreneurship. After graduating, Thomas put off his job search to follow his dream of becoming a professional athlete.

Hands-on experience managing live money in emerging markets: How's that for a resume builder? Starting this fall, finance-minded MBA students will have a chance to do just that, by enrolling in a class in which—with faculty oversight—they share the responsibility of managing the school's newly created Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio (EMEP). Though elements are modeled after the successful portfolios managed by the student-run University of Oregon Investment Group, the new fund offers additional layers of complexity.