Love School of Business

Twenty-three Business Fellows in the Love School of Business visited several Wall Street firms as part of the annual Business Fellows New York City trip September 10-12.

Dave Rendall, former vice president of strategic planning at Nortel and founder of Rendall and Associates, will be the first speaker this fall in the C. Ashton Newhall Lecture Series sponsored by the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

The Love School of Business is hosting a Town Hall Meeting for LSB juniors and seniors.

BizEd, a magazine for the AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, published a short review of professor emeritus David Noer's new book, Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Corporations, in its September/October edition.

Professor emeritus David Noer in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has been cited twice in recent weeks in influential business publications.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a featured webcast speaker Aug. 21 at the University of Sacred Heart Entrepreneurship Workshop in San Jose, Puerto Rico.

The 4th annual MBA Tailgate Party & Football Game will be held Saturday, September 26 at Rhodes Stadium. The tailgate starts at 12 pm, with kick-off for the Elon vs. Georgia Southern game at 1:30 pm. For more info or to request tickets (free for MBA students, $10 for alumni and friends, and $5 for kids age five and under), please contact Judy Dulberg, MBA Program Coordinator, at 278-5930 or jdulberg@elon.edu.

BusinessWeek featured Elon's efforts to reach out to students' families as part of its Career Services programs. The magazine says, " ... It's hard to find a school that has more seamlessly capitalized on friends and family networks than Elon University in North Carolina..."

Andrea Dorrow, an economics and business major and one of the inaugural Lumen Scholars, was featured in the annual report of the Beit CURE International Hospital in Malawi. As part of her Lumen Scholar research, Dorrow spent time in the southeast African country studying the role that minimal healthcare plays in determining the economic health of a developing nation.

Mark Kurt, an assistant professor of economics, spoke with the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record for a Sept. 1 story on the sales and excise tax increases taking effect in North Carolina.