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Mary Gowan, Dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has been elected to be the Vice Chair Economic Development for the Alamance County Area Chamber of Commerce for 2010. Dean Gowan has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber since January of 2008.

C. Catherine Chiang, assistant professor of accounting in the Love School of Business, recently published an article, “Product Diversification in Competitive R&D-Intensive Firms: An Empirical Study of the Computer Software Industry,” in the January/February 2010 issue of Journal of Applied Business Research.

Kerrii B. Anderson, former president and CEO of Wendy's, will be featured as the Love School of Business' Legends of Business speaker on March 4, 2010, at 4:30 p.m. in the LaRose Digital Theatre. The event is open to all Elon students, faculty, and staff. A reception will follow.

Martha and Spencer Love School of Business faculty members Neeraj Gupta and Christy Benson are leading Elon business students on the Winter Term Study Abroad course titled Business in the Pacific Rim.

Tina Das, professor of economics, and Casey DiRienzo, associate professor of economics in the Love School of Business, have published an article, “The Nonlinear Impact of Globalization on Corruption,” in the International Journal of Business and Finance Research (vol. 3(2): 33-46, 2009).

The MBA Program is forming an MBA Student & Alumni Consulting Group that will focus on not-for-profit organizations. The goal of this group is to provide a wide range of business consulting services to not-for-profits from the home communities of MBA students and alumni from the Triad to the Triangle.

The MBA Consulting Group Steering Committee is meeting this evening from 6 pm to 7 pm in KOBC 204. Members of the Consulting Group Steering Committee include Jennifer Sider, Florence Bell, Paul Marshall, Kate Panzer, Heather Scheel, Dave Clark, LaToya Marcus, and Eduardo Figueroa.

Karl Sherrill, VP of Sales for Senn-Dunn and an Elon MBA alum, was a guest speaker in Michael Rodriguez’s Professional Selling class on Friday, Nov. 20.

Love School of Business students Sarah Doggett, Caitlin McGuire and Charles McKenna competed in the Great Northwoods Sales Warmup competition, held Nov. 12-14 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. It was Elon’s first appearance in this regional sales competition.