Love School of Business

The Elon MBA program welcomed 36 new students in September. This is the largest cohort in the program's history.

Maurice Jennings ‘57, founder of Biscuitville restaurant and Burney Jennings ‘87, Biscuitville president, will be featured as the Love School of Business Legends of Business speakers on Wednesday, September 15, 4:30 pm. in the LaRose Digital Theatre. The event is open to all Elon students, faculty, and staff. A reception will follow.

Elon’s Lambda Xi chapter of Beta Alpha Psi hosted its annual Meet and Greet for finance and accounting students in McKinnon Hall on September 13. More than 100 students met with representatives from 24 firms, including IBM Corp, Credit Suisse, Ernst & Young, LabCorp, and KPMG.

Tina Das, professor of economics, and Casey Dirienzo, associate professor of economics and Associate Dean of the Love School of Business, have published a paper titled “Tourism Competitiveness and Corruption: A Cross Country Analysis” in Tourism Economics, 16(3): 477-492.

C. Catherine Chiang, assistant professor of accounting in the Love School of Business, recently published an article, “Measuring the Usefulness of Information for Investors’ Inference – the Case of Quarterly Earnings Announcements,” in the July 2010 issue of Journal of Business and Economic Research.

Anthony Amoruso, assistant accounting professor, and Neeraj Gupta, assistant finance professor in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, compiled a list of the top 75 public companies in North Carolina by market capitalization for a feature article in the August 2010 edition of Business North Carolina.

Conventional wisdom has it that a professional baseball player reaches his peak batting performance at age 27. Research by two Elon University alumni, whose work in a general studies seminar last spring led to a presentation for the Society for American Baseball Research, shows otherwise, with what they hope is potential for changing the way Major League Baseball teams structure future contracts.

Mark Kurt, assistant professor of economics, was interviewed by the High Point Enterprise for an article about the impact of corporate earning on the job market.

The Elon chapter of Beta Alpha Psi is hosting a Meet and Greet on Monday, September 13 from 6 to 8 p.m in McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center. The Meet and Greet brings together accounting and finance students and accounting firms to network in a professional and social setting. The annual event is organized by members of Beta Alpha Psi, the international honorary organization for financial professionals. Representatives from firms including KPMG, RSM McGladrey, Credit Suisse and IBM will be on hand to talk to students about internship and job opportunities.