Love School of Business

Associate professor Brian Nienhaus has been selected as the first Periclean Faculty Leader at Elon for his “Business and Sustainability” course, part of the new Periclean Faculty Leadership Program to champion civic engagement in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community.

Twenty rising juniors and seniors traveled to Charlotte on April 23 to visit Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America for an exclusive banking/finance industry trip sponsored by Elon Career Services and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

The best and brightest of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business were honored April 29 in an afternoon awards ceremony that highlighted the achievements of both students and faculty.

Restructuring of the Simmons Balance Sheet
Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
KOBC 242

Bill Creekmuir, Simmons Bedding Company CFO and incoming chair of the Love School of Business Board of Advisors, will discuss the Simmons company bankruptcy.

A feature article by David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, appeared in the April edition of Training Journal, a widely read publication based in the United Kingdom.

Sharon Hodge, associate professor of Marketing and chair of the Marketing department in the Love School of Business, is a recent recipient of the 2010 Hormel Meritorious Teaching Award.

Amid the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, Clayton Winkelvoss ’10 found a perfect topic for his Honors thesis: executive compensation on Wall Street. Did banks receiving funds from the Troubled Assets Relief Program offer their employees larger or smaller compensation packages in 2008 than they did in 2007, before the financial crisis? Winkelvoss' work is the first in a series of E-net profiles that showcase Elon undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.

Seniors in Professor Christy Benson’s Business Law and Accounting Ethics got a first-hand look at how companies employ responsible business practices in a class assignment that allowed them to consult local firms competing for the 2010 Piedmont Business Ethics Award (PBEA).

Guest speaker Susan Richardson will be giving a presentation on business etiquette Thursday, April 29, 4:15 pm in KOBC 346.