College of Business Online Newsletter

April 2012- Number 190

Dean's Message	SCIS
Business Career Servcies	Undergraduate Programs
Iowa Small Business Development Centers	Media Hits

Dean's Message

Meeting with Mike
Interim Dean Crum invites you to join him for a brown-bag lunch “Meeting with Mike.” This is your opportunity to hear about the state of the college and ask questions of the dean. In order that more schedules can be accommodated, there will be two “Meetings with Mike” scheduled this month. Please plan to join on either Tuesday, April 10 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in 3164 Gerdin or Wednesday, April 11 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in 2200 Gerdin, the Krieger Board Room. Please RSVP to Julie Lelonek at jlelonek@iastate.edu if you plan to attend either session.

 

COB Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony and Reception
Please join us for the April 19, 2012, College of Business Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in room 0129 Gerdin. There will be a reception immediately following in the Bergstrom Commons. Our thanks to the Dean’s Advisory Council for their sponsorship of this special event and Delta Sigma Pi for their assistance with set-up of the reception.

 

President and Provost College Site Visit – Open Forum with Faculty/Staff
The open forum with President Steven Leath and Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Hoffman, is scheduled for Friday, April 27, 2012 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in 1148 Gerdin (Stark Lecture Hall). This is part of central administration's annual site visit to each of the colleges on campus. Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.

 

Event to Honor Labh Hira
You and your guest/spouse are invited to join us on Friday, April 27 from 5-7 p.m. in the Bergstrom Commons as we honor Labh Hira. His transition to the ISU Foundation happened so quickly that we didn’t get the chance to offer him a proper thanks for his nearly 11 years of dedication and success as our dean.

This will take place immediately following President Leath and Provost Hoffman’s open forum in 1148 Gerdin from 4-5 p.m. Food and drinks will be served. We hope you can join us. Please RSVP to Elizabeth Salton at esalton@iastate.edu by Friday, April 20.

Business Career Services

We have new data available! Our 2010-2011 six-month employment report is available online in this handout. New salary information updated for 2010-2011 is also available in a summary report.  The full annual report will be available by the first of April.

 

Many summer internship and full-time job opportunities continue to be identified and posted on ISU CMS. There are 180+ current business internship positions and 400+ full-time positions we are working with today. Please encourage students who are seeking to check ISU CMS on a daily basis and talk to Business Career Services for additional internship and comprehensive job seeking resources.

 

Iowa Small Business Development Centers

The Iowa SBDC’s 2011 Neal Smith Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, Timothy Greene, President of Quality Machine of Iowa, Inc., Audubon, was chosen as the 2012 Iowa Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.  Tim will be presented with his award at the SMART Economic Development Conference on May 3rd in Des Moines. As the 2012 Iowa Small Business Person of the Year, Tim will also represent Iowa at National Small Business Week ceremonies in Washington, D.C. on May 20-26, 2012, where he will compete for the national award. 

 

The Kirkwood Community College Small Business Development Center was a vital part of the Cedar Rapids Business Success Initiative, a/k/a the Business Long Term Recovery Initiative, as their primary source for subject matter experts on finance, marketing, planning, and other necessary business recovery advice, and for teaching educational workshops. The Initiative worked closely with Cedar Rapids businesses in the aftermath of the 2008 flood. The Initiative was recently honored by the Cedar Rapids Council for its hard work and dedication to area small businesses. The following excerpt was published in the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance e-connection newsletter dated March 9, 2012:

 

Business Long Term Recovery Initiative Praised for Efforts
The Business Long Term Recovery Initiative, also known as the Business Success Initiative, was recently honored by the Cedar Rapids City Council for its work with local businesses in the aftermath of the 2008 flood.

 

The team was established in January 2010 by the former Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the City of Cedar Rapids. The program was the first case management program that focused on business disaster recovery nationwide. Led by Bob Harschnek and Scott Swenson, the team worked with 565 businesses by offering educational workshops, resources for funding assistance, business efficiency services and more. Their efforts assisted with the return of 82% of our flooded businesses - well exceeding the national average of just 45% of businesses that return from a disaster.

 

The group has also been recognized by Steven G. Smith, director-Office of Disaster Planning, U.S. Small Business Administration. Smith lauded the group's efforts, noting he has not seen any group orchestrate a better plan for long term recovery than the Cedar Rapids group. He said the work the team accomplished is a case study on what a "whole community" can do.
The Initiative was disbanded December 31, 2011, when federal funding ran out. A hearty ‘job well done!’ to Kirkwood SBDC Regional Director Al Beach and his team for their devoted work in helping so many Cedar Rapids businesses to recover. 

SCIS

Journal Paper Acceptance:
Furner, C.P. & George, J.F. “Cultural Determinants of Media Choice for Deception.” Computers in Human Behavior. Forthcoming.

 

Luse, A., Mennecke, B., Townsend, A.M. “Pursuing Relevant Research as a Doctoral Student.” International Journal of Doctoral Studies. Forthcoming.

 

Conference Paper Acceptances:

Bobby Martens and Yoshi Suzuki, “Impact of Stale Rates on Truckload Shipments” accepted for presentation at the 53rd annual meeting of the Transportation Research Forum in Tampa, Florida. 

 

Conference Presentations:

Zhengrui Jiang gave an invited presentation on his paper “The Economics of Public Beta Testing” at the University of Texas at Dallas on March 30, 2012.

 

Yoshi Suzuki presented the paper entitled “Impact of Stale Rates on Truckload Shipments,” co-authored with Bobby Martens at the 53rd annual meeting of the Transportation Research Forum in Tampa, Florida on March 17, 2012.

 

Guy Helmer gave a talk titled "Data Breaches and Web Servers: The Giant Sucking Sound" at the RSA 2012 Conference in San Francisco, CA on February 29, 2012.

Undergraduate Programs

Registration continues through the week of April 9. Please note that Business faculty cannot sign students into Business classes. Refer students to Sarah Wilson in 1200 Gerdin to assist in the registration of Business courses.

 

The College of Business Commencement Ceremony will be Friday, May 4 at 3:30 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum. We have over 650 students (undergraduate and graduate) graduating this spring and summer, and anticipate nearly 350 students to attend the ceremony. Please join us in celebrating our student's accomplishments.

 

Honors Poster Presentations will be April 25 from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the Great Hall, MU. College of Business students participating, their majors and project advisors are as follows:
 

 

Erin Asmus	MGMT	Michael Golemo
Fan Feng	MIS/MKT	Sree Nilakanta
Nick Graber	FIN/ACCT	Larry Curtis
Qi Guo	ACCT/FIN	Peter Orazem
Siyuan He	FIN/ACCT	Xiaolu Wang
Ziyu Jiang	SCM	Scott Grawe
Yiting Li	ACCT/STAT	Peter Orazem
Carey Marbry	MKT	John Wong
Leslie Millard	MKT/JLMC	Russ Laczniak
Di Nu	FIN	James Brown
Alex Payton	OSCM/MKT	Toyin Clottey
Michael Pfeifer	LSCM/I-BUS/GER-LCP	Kevin Amidon
Wayne Sander	SCM/FIN	Bobby Martens
Adria Staky	ACCT/SPAN	Cristina Pardo-Ballester
Qi Wang	FIN/MIS	Sree Nilakanta
Morgan Wickersham	ACCT/MKT	Cristina Pardo-Ballester
Qiushi Yang	ACCT	Cynthia Jeffrey
Shuai Zhang	FIN	Andreas Schwab

Business Council students will be participating in VIESHA activities.

 

The Learning Communities Peer Mentor award ceremony is being held on April 4 from 4:15-5:00 p.m. where Ben Jones (Marketing) will be recognized as an Exemplary Peer Mentor for his efforts in the Business Learning Teams.

 

Fall 2012 peer mentors for the Business Learning Teams (BLTs) have been selected. They will work with all levels of BLT programs. Peer mentors Freshman BLT programs will include Tyler Etten, Amanda Huntrods, Sarah Cleveland, Jessica Kimberley, Laura Hutzel, Mark Crowley, Kathleen Sorensen, Josie Gooder, Lindsay Monday, Elizabeth Downey, Pat McCormick, Ben Jones, Matt Winkleblack, Hannah Sinclair, Alicia Snyder, Gregory Hunt, Morgan Bobb, Kelly Gifford, Katie Kruse, Karly Bergquist, Jessica Buman, Nathaniel Bullock, Steven Kellogg, Meredith Graham, Amy Cappel, and Erica Tramonte. Peer mentors for the Transfer BLT program will include Trevor Fennelly, Leilani Larsen, Ashleigh Belin, Amy Den Hartog, Nick Bierbrodt, Danielle Jakoubek, Abbey Dooner, Elizabeth Volden, Gabriela Davila, Kalais Eddy, Mary-Brigid Brady, and Gracen Kostelecky. Peer Mentors for the new Junior-level Accounting BLT will be Spencer Vore, Hannah Ericksen, and Sadie Hayes.

Media Hits 

March 27, 2012
ISU News Service
“Mindless Eating” author to speak at Iowa State April 5

 

March 22, 2012
Iowa State Daily
New interim dean for the College of Business

 

March 21, 2012
ISU Pappajohn Center  for Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship learning community hosts Innovation Pitch Competition

 

March 19, 2012
ISU News Service
ISU Foundation president steps down; retiring CoB Dean Labh Hira named Foundation interim president

 

March 13, 2012
ISU News Service
Iowa State graduate programs ranked among nation’s best by U.S. News and World Report

 

March 11, 2012
Ames Tribune
You should know: Michael Crum

 

March 7, 2012
ISU News Service
Michael Crum named interim dean of Iowa State’s College of Business

 

March 7, 2012
Des Moines Register
Crum named interim dean of ISU’s College of Business

 

March 1, 2012
Des Moines Register
Critics brace for Google’s privacy switch today

 

March 1, 2012
Google Privacy Policy Changes
WOI-TV

 

March 1, 2012
Des Moines Register
Iowans take advantage of discounts for gas from grocers, big-box retailers

 

February 29, 2012
College of Business Release
Iowa State MBA Team Claims Prestigious Case Competition Title

 

Shane Kirkegaard is participating in Research in the Capitol on April 4.  Twenty undergraduate research projects from each of ISU, UNI and UI have been selected to participate in the 11:30 – 1:30 poster presentation.  Student researchers will share their work, highlighting the importance of undergraduate research to legislators, reporters, and top university administrators. 
 
More information about the event can be found here.