The grand opening for the Scott and Linda Carson Center for Professional Development will commence at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 14. in Todd 101.New vice president of sales for Boeing Commercial Airplanes Scott E. Carson and his wife, Linda, are investing with their family $275,000 to create and build the innovative Professional Development Center at […]
• “Corporate Social Responsibility: Maximizing the Benefits for Your Company and Community” is the title of the annual Burtenshaw Lecture, to be presented by Niki Leondakis, chief operating officer of Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, Inc., at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the CUB auditorium.Leondakis oversees operations, marketing and human resources for San Francisco-based […]
Harold Gray, senior vice president of the Pacific Northwest Zone of State Farm Insurance Co., will present “Above Reproach: Erasing Shades of Gray” as this year’s Walton lecture at Washington State University. His speech will be at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, in Todd Hall 276. The public is welcome.“The Department of Finance, Insurance, and […]
Washington State Auditor Brian Sonntag has canceled his previously announced plans to visit the Washington State University campus on Sept. 7. Please make note if you have it on your calendar. The forum was scheduled to discuss the new government accountability law that will require independent performance audits of all state agencies and operations. The […]
The Washington State University College of Business and Economics’ undergraduate business program is among the 10 best in western U.S. public universities, according to newly-released rankings in U.S. News and World Report: America’s Best Colleges 2006 publication.In overall national rankings, the College’s international business program received an exceptional ranking of 22nd; it has been in […]
PULLMAN — Eric Spangenberg has accepted the post of Dean of the College of Business and Economics. He served as associate dean for faculty affairs and research since 2002 and most recently as senior associate dean of the College. Len Jessup, former dean, was recently named president of the Washington State University Foundation and vice […]
PULLMAN — Len Jessup, who was named acting president of the Washington State University Foundation and acting vice president for university development in March, has been appointed to those roles on a permanent basis.WSU President V. Lane Rawlins made the announcement Friday (May 27) at the foundation’s spring board meeting in Walla Walla.“We are very […]
PULLMAN — Professor Richard Reed, chair of the Department of Management and Operations at Washington State University, has been named the new holder of the Huber Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies. The endowed position is one of 15 such chairs and distinguished professorships filled by eminent scholars and teachers from throughout the College of Business and […]
Patriya Tansuhaj and Man Zhang are applying their international business expertise in hopes of engaging the bright side of globalization to lessen its dark side — illegal organ trafficking. Tansuhaj, professor and director of WSU’s International Business Institute, and Zhang, an international business doctoral student, are researching global sourcing strategies as applied to increased human […]
Mergers. They happen frequently in the business world. Just open a newspaper and read the headlines. But, in academia the wheels turn substantially slower and change is not as quickly embraced. Even faculty members in Washington State University’s newly formed School of Economic Sciences (SES) would say amen to that. The school officially was formed […]