More than sixty of the school's MBA candidates traveled to Portland October 27-29 for the 2011 Net Impact Conference, the annual gathering of graduate students and professionals committed to using business skills to make the world a better place. Our students have traditionally made a strong showing at these events. This year they enjoyed an especially high profile because, in addition to being a conference co-host, the UO chapter played a leading role in organizing it. What's it like to transition from attendee to organizer?
What's the easiest way to stay up to date with activities of the students in the Building Business Leaders project? Just scan the group's brand-new QR code, created for them by Qreative Partnerships, a firm headed by area technology entrepreneur Quentin Harley. The high-tech graphic was unveiled during an October event celebrating the project's second year and welcoming the new group of students joining the original cohort.
Five new faculty members have joined the Lundquist College of Business this fall. Some are up-and-coming talent. Others are already renowned in their fields. Their areas of expertise span many topics, including sports business, statistical analysis and mathematical optimization, disclosure policy, executive risk-taking, management, and more.
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.
For the undergraduates and MBA students attending the Warsaw Sports Business Club's first annual Global Sports Business Symposium, a day spent in Portland provided a panoramic view of sports business in China.
A new $12,000 grant from the university's Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity has provided seed money for the debut of the business school's Diversity in the Workplace Symposium, scheduled for winter 2012. Developed by the Lundquist College of Business Diversity Committee, the day-long event will bring together students, faculty, staff, and community members to discuss the value of workplace diversity, how businesses can promote and affirm it, how students can best prepare themselves for working in diverse environments, and more.
Congratulations to Richard Reynolds, Ryan Bennett, and Liam Bain, three undergraduate finance students who recently won the Oregon round of the CFA Institute Global Investment Research Challenge.
With the warmer weather and (at least a few) sunnier days, comes another inevitable spring ritual: tax day. Luckily for the tax-phobic among us, help is at hand. Starting each February, members of the UO branch of the national accounting society Beta Alpha Psi team up with law students to offer free tax preparation to students and area residents, as part of VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), a nationwide program run by the Internal Revenue Service. Still haven't filed? You're in luck--VITA volunteers will be available two more Saturdays: April 9 and April 16, from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Bright smiles, tables draped in vivid primary colors, and the hum of excited talk among the fifty female undergraduates matched with fifty professional women--all pointed to the success of the sixth annual student-run event. This year's theme was "Paint Your Own Picture," and the keynote speaker was business school alum Erin Tyburski, who recently served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya. Catch the energy in this video.
