January 2007

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New e-board takes helm of Broad School Alumni Association – The new executive board of the 2007 Eli Broad College of Business Alumni Association took the helm on Jan. 1. Executive board members include President Stuart Jeffares, Vice President Sharon Wicker and Treasurer Diane Grieves. More…

Duncan, Lobbestael to speak at Grand Rapids alumni event – Robert B. Duncan, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean, and Michael Lobbestael, professor of practice in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, will share their perspectives on business education and business in general with Michigan State University Alumni Association members of the West Michigan Club on Feb. 22, 2007. More…

MSU NEWS

Michigan State implements ban on 'preferential treatment' – MSU has spent the last several weeks preparing to comply with a new amendment to the State of Michigan Constitution known as Proposition 2 that bans affirmative action programs. More…

FACULTY NEWS

Sollenberger, undergrad partner on credit union research – In two recent financial industry articles, Accounting and Information Systems Professor Harold M. Sollenberger sifted through eight years of financial statement data and regulatory reports for more than 8,000 credit unions. His coauthor was not another faculty researcher nor a doctoral candidate, but an undergraduate Accounting major, Colin Taggart. More...

Arens, Ward retire after decades of teaching and research –Every Broad School alumnus/a who took an accounting course since 1968 knows Al Arens, PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting and Professor Dewey Ward. Both are profiled in the Fall 2006 Accounting and Information Systems magazine, starting on page 3. More...

PROGRAMS

Broad School, BTM Corp. offer execs new technology program – Beginning this spring, the Broad School and BTM Corporation will partner to offer executive-level programs in business technology management. More…

Daniel Otto
ALUMNI PROFILE

And now, a few words from our newest alumnus...

Speaking to an auditorium full of thousands of your class-mates and their families takes raw courage. But the December 2006 commencement speaker Daniel Otto (BA Supply Chain Management ’06), now an account executive for Coyote Logistics, Lake Forest, Ill., handled the crowd like a pro, sharing lessons he had learned ... and plenty of laughter. More...

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