Love School of Business

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.

The Summer Business Institute provides rising juniors, seniors, and May graduates in non-business majors with the opportunity to enhance their marketability. Spots remain open for the program from June 2-19, 2010, which provides participants with broad knowledge of business principles and practices.

Job search expert and author Orville Pierson will talk about the best ways to network and search jobs during a presentation on Thursday, April 22, at 4:30 pm in LaRose Digital Theatre.

Maribeth Hudgins, wardrobe consultant and owner of Dress Code, will be offering individual consultations to female undergraduate business students this THURSDAY, APRIL 15, starting at 11 am. Appointments are limited; call x6091 or email cyoung16@elon.edu to reserve a spot. This is a great opportunity to get expert advice on wardrobe and creating a professional appearance! Maribeth Hudgins will also be giving a Professional Presence Seminar at 5 pm in LaRose Digital Theatre. This event is open to all female undergraduate and MBA students.

Love School of Business professors Earl Honeycutt and Michael Rodriguez were major participants in the National Conference in Sales Management (NCSM) Conference, held in conjunction with the Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE) Conference in Milwaukee, WI, April 7-9. Honeycutt and Rodriguez, representing the Chandler Family Center for Professional Sales, presented a competitive paper, "CRM's Impact on the Collaboration of Sales Professionals," and led a special session titled "Should We Teach Our Students How to Manage Alcohol?"

Business ethics speaker David Childers advised Elon students to move beyond a sense of ethics as a set of hard and fast rules and toward a life of integrity governed by a sense of personal accountability. Childers, president and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based EthicsPoint, Inc., spoke on campus March 11 as the 2010 Business Ethics Speaker for the Love School of Business.

The Financial Times of London published a “Soapbox” opinion column by David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, in its April 12 higher education online edition.