Love School of Business

A team of four Elon University business school students won first place this month in a national case competition that measured the ability to interpret, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate a solution to a management accounting problem.

William J. Burpitt has been named associate dean for graduate and executive programs for the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University.

Innovators from across the country gathered June 2-5 at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro for a four-day journalism event hosted by Journalism That Matters and supported by Elon University’s School of Communications, the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Elon University and UNC-Greensboro.

Martin “Marty” Blevins was presented with the Richard H. Behrman Award on May 19 at a dinner to celebrate Elon’s 25th graduating MBA class.

Elon University senior economics major Kaylyn Swankoski was awarded the 2011 Allen Starling Johnson Jr. Outstanding Symposium Presentation Prize for the April 29 presentation of her senior thesis at the Duke Economics Department 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a presenter at the 2011 Joint Triad HR Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference held at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday, May 17. The conference theme was "What's Next? HR & the New Frontier."

The 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of top undergraduate business schools by specialty rates Elon #19 in the nation for entrepreneurship and #22 for sustainability.

John J. Burbridge, a professor of operations and supply chain management, and Coleman R. Rich, senior lecturer of operations and supply chain management, recently had their case on VF Corporation accepted for publication in the upcoming 14th edition of Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases to be published by Prentice Hall on December 31, 2011.

Coleman R. Rich, Senior Lecturer of Operations and Supply Chain Management was recently interviewed by the High Point Enterprise newspaper about job growth prospects after the merger of three main showrooms at the High Point Market and the World Market Center in Las Vegas.

David Stephens, a 2008 graduate of Elon's master of business administration program, recently completed his law degree at Elon University School of Law, becoming the first person to earn three different degrees from the institution. His experiences were the basis of an article in the spring 2011 issue of The Magazine of Elon. Continue reading this post to learn more about Stephens' story.