Love School of Business

Entrepreneurship students participated Oct. 29 in The Indus Entrepreneurs of Carolina’s (TiE) networking event at the Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh, N.C. The students networked with approximately 60 high growth and technology entrepreneurs as part of their Entrepreneurship Skills course taught by Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

The LSB's Economics Department is hosting a Research Seminar and a Brown Bag Research-in-Progress Seminar this week: Research Seminar
Nov. 10, 4:15 pm in KOBC 145 Jeffrey J. Yankow of Furman University will present "Some Empirical Evidence of the Efficiency of Job Watching in Urban Labor Markets." "Brown Bag" Research-in-Progress Seminar
Nov. 11, 4:15 pm in KOBC 237 LSB Economics professors Steve DeLoach and Tom Tiemann will present "Not Driving Alone: The American Carpool Makes a Comeback."

Matt Davis, a May 2009 Elon graduate, presented a research paper on Nov. 1 at a scholarly conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies at Villanova University.

Teams can now register for the Elon Innovation Challenge, a creativity competition for college students in North Carolina held in conjunction with Stanford University's Global Innovation Tournament that will students to solve a common problem in about eight days while creating as much value as possible.

Beta Alpha Psi is sponsoring a Graduate School Forum on Tuesday November 3, at 7:00 pm in the LaRose Digital Theatre of the Koury Business Center.

Elon graduate Trey Bailey '02 and his wife Marci were guest speakers in a Marketing Princples class taught by Dr. Michael Rodriguez. Trey, an LSB alum, is the owner of Bailey's Fine Jewelry.

Twenty-five students from David Jackson's Entrepreneurship class and Maggie Miller's Marketing class visited prominent advertising firm McKinney in Durham on October 27.

Want to get a head start on your career before leaving campus? Start networking now. And when you do apply for jobs, don't send a generic cover letter. Research the company. Alumni from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and the School of Communications shared advice Friday in "wisdom sessions" for current students as part of Homecoming 2009.