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Spring 2008 Business Quarterly
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Students
International Case Competition
The School of Business Administration, in partnership with Computer Associates
and Association for Information Systems (AIS), is organizing an international case
competition on Strategic Position of IT. Students from Universities of Arizona,
Indiana, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Syracuse, and George Washington, as well as
students from University of Helsinki, National University of Singapore, University
of British Columbia (Canada) and Monterrey Tech (Mexico) will be participating in
this competition. For details, click
here.
Student Recognitions
OASIS, BAP, and NABA hosted the 25th annual Accounting Awards banquet: The
event, held on April 18th, was a great success with more than 150 individuals in
attendance. Representatives from Blue Care Network, Clayton McKervey, DKSS, Deloitte,
Doeren Mayhew, E & Y, KPMG, O'Keefe and Associates, Plante Moran, PWC, UHY, The
Rehmann Group, UHY, and Virchow Krause and Associates attended the evening function.
Also in attendance were 65 undergraduate and graduate students with sixteen SBA
faculty members. Ms. Judy Hegelund, National Controller for Deloitte and SBA Accounting
Alum '95 served as the guest speaker. Congratulations to the following accounting
and finance scholarship awardees and we extend sincere appreciation for generosity
of so many who made these awards possible.
Professor Ronald M. Horwitz Outstanding Finance Student Endowed Scholarship:
Amy Howard and Chad Ridgway - Co-winners
Accounting & Finance Advisory Board Accounting Scholarship: Ashley Denard
Accounting & Finance Advisory Board Finance Scholarship: Magdalena Sofia
Molina
Bud Kulesza Family Endowed Scholarship: Anthony Debay
Derderian Kann Seyferth & Salucci Scholarship: Michel Paye
Other Student Recognitions:
Dicron Tafralian Merit Scholarship: Carley Laux
Linda Hardman Award: Lori Dorko
Doeren Mayhew Scholarship: Michael Ferguson
TMBKS Scholarship Award: Andrea Hitchcock
Jon & Gwyn Hartman Scholarship: Ashley Eckhout
Soo Sieber, a 2007 Economics graduate, won the Kapp Award at the 2008 Annual
Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science Arts and Letters recently held at Western
Michigan Academy. The Kapp Award is given to the best undergraduate paper presented
at the prior year's annual meeting. Sieber presented a paper on cigarette excise
taxes at the 2007 meeting held at Ferris State University
Alexandria Kelly was selected for the 2008 Wall Street Journal Student Achievement
Award. Kelly is a Human Resources Management Major, with a minor in International
Management and ATiB. She served as President of both SHRM and the Future Alumni
Network, and as a Senior Scholar.
Beta Gamma Sigma initiation: The SBA had 48 undergraduate and graduate students
initiated into the International Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma this year. The Mission
of the Society is to encourage and honor academic achievement in the study of business,
to foster personal and professional excellence, to advance its values, and to serve
its members.
SBA Alumnus and current Economic Board Chair Ed Eickhoff was this year's
Honoree and keynote speaker. In his speech, he shared, "It is by joining
an organization like Beta Gamma Sigma, an organization that builds global
communities of academic achievers by providing opportunities for individual
growth through leadership, career development, network and service that you will
enhance your traditional and non-traditional education by learning the
non-classroom skills needed to succeed."
The event was an overall success and much thanks to go to Professor Mohammad
Bazaz, the chapter adviser, and the undergraduate and graduate offices for the
work they put into helping to make this event a huge success each year.
Student chapter wins recognition:
Oakland University's
Society of Human
Resource Management (SHRM) was named a Superior Merit Chapter for the 2007-08
academic year, as well as being honored as one of the top 10 Outstanding Chapters
of the year by the national committee.
Graduate students recognized:
Graduates of our master's programs in the School of Business Administration, Summer
2007 through Spring 2008 received an invitation to the Master's Dinner honoring
this year's graduates. This year's dinner was the 26th annual held at Meadow Brook
Hall on Friday, April 25, 2008. This year's guest speaker was Ms. Rebecca Smith,
President, East Michigan Region, The Huntington National Bank, and an OU Alumna.
SIFE Team's Accomplishments:
Top (left to right): Ron Tracy, Paul Vance Brennon Edwards,
Wayne Blizman
Bottom (left to right): Alex Cherup, Jenny Van Vliet, Roslyn Taylor, Wes Arnold
500 teams from Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) represented their respective
schools in 15 regional competitions across the U.S. in Cleveland and on March 19,
2008 OU's SIFE Team was named the SIFE USA Regional Champion in the overall competition.
The team also received recognition as a national finalist in the Success Skills
and Market Economics Individual Topic Competitions.
The National Exposition of Students in Free Enterprise was held in Chicago on May
13 - 15 where 145 universities who were named Regional Champions earlier this year
competed for the opportunity of representing the U.S. at the SIFE World Cup Competition
to be held in Singapore this October. The Oakland University SIFE team did an excellent
job in presenting to a panel of judges. While the OU team did not advance beyond
the opening round of the overall team competition, Oakland University did place
third in the Nation in the Market Economics criteria and in the Top 20 in the Nation
in Success Skills criteria, which were 2 of 6 Individual Topic Competitions. Congratulations
to our Oakland University SIFE team for a job well done!
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