Love School of Business

Christina Benson, assistant professor of business law in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had her paper, “Industry Bailouts: Will Protectionist Potholes Put a Dent in Trade and Competitiveness?” published in Competition Forum, a Cabell's peer-reviewed publication of the American Society for Competitiveness. The article appears in Vol. 7, Number 1 (2009).

Demand for oil will continue to climb as nations like China and India grow in the coming decade, and according to a top oil executive on campus Tuesday as part of International Education Week, companies must make additional investments in petroleum production to meet that crucial need.

Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting and finance honorary society, is kicking off its Fall Food Drive today in the second floor atrium of the Koury Business Center.
Beta Alpha Psi members will be staffing a table on the second floor from 10 am to 5 pm today through Friday. Donations of canned goods and non-perishable food items will benefit The Caring Kitchen in Burlington.

BusinessWeek magazine ranked Elon University the #1 school in the South, and the sixth best school in the nation, in a list of top part-time MBA programs released Thursday afternoon during a live online chat hosted by magazine staff.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published Nov. 15, 2009, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

David Noer, professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has received the Best Practice Institute’s 2009 "Leading Thinker Award" at the institute’s Nov. 11 Senior Executive Board meeting.

The Elon University Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Wake Forest University Angell Center for Entrepreneurship co-hosted the 2nd annual University Entrepreneurship Summit of North Carolina in the Winston-Salem, N.C. on November 4.

R. Casey Olson, executive vice president of Occidental Petroleum, will discuss his experience working in the Middle East during a presentation on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 4:15 p.m. in the LaRose Digital Theatre of the Koury Business Center.

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."