Love School of Business

Members of the Elon chapter of Beta Alpha Psi attended the organization’s annual meeting, held August 6-8th in Brooklyn, NY. Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) is the national accounting and finance honorary.

Tameika Sizoo and chapter president Todd Cash, both seniors, participated in BAP’s Project Run With It, a competition in which students from chapters across the country team up to develop solutions for real-life business problems of actual not-for-profit agencies. Todd Cash was on a winning team and won $1000 for the Elon chapter. Seniors Jennifer Bornhofen and Michele Robbins and faculty advisor Dr. Patty Cox also attended the annual meeting.

Love School of Business Career Center Open Houses for Business Administration, Accounting, and Economics majors:
When: August 31 & September 1, 9 am to 4 pm
Where: KOBC 106. Meet the staff, enjoy refreshments and door prizes, and learn how the LSB Career Center can help you explore careers, prepare for your job search, conduct company and job research, improve interviewing and resume-writing skills, and locate internships and jobs. For additional information contact Kehaya Wescott at kwescott@elon.edu or Teresa Walker at twalker@elon.edu

Christina Benson, business law professor in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, presented a paper at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) conference, held Aug. 4-8 in Denver. Benson’s paper, “US Automotive Industry Bailout Programs: Avoiding WTO Potholes on the Road to Economic Recovery,” is part of a larger project in which she is looking at how US stimulus and bailout programs include provisions that may violate the country’s commitments under World Trade Organization agreements, and whether or not aid to ailing US industries is likely to succeed in making them more globally competitive. Benson’s paper will be published in the 2009 ALSB proceedings.

President Leo M. Lambert, Love School of Business Dean Mary Gowan, five business students and other friends of the university sounded the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on March 9 on a day when Wall Street celebrated Elon's academic achievements.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had a column published in BusinessWeek this month in which he offers company executives ways to manage stress when they are forced to make layoffs.

The Love School of Business and Elon Career Services are co-hosting a recruiting event for employers on Friday, August 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Koury Business Center. Representatives from regional firms will tour the campus and the Koury Business Center, meet faculty and staff, and learn more about the benefits of forming recruiting partnerships with Elon University and the Love School of Business. For more info contact Elon Career Services or Teresa Walker, Assistant Director of Career Services for the Love School of Business, at twalker@elon.edu.

Support for community nonprofits is something many people feel is a moral imperative. Kelly King, the top executive at North Carolina-based BB&T, believes corporate and individual giving makes good business sense, too. King spoke at Elon University on July 22, offering his economic outlook and explaining why support for agencies like the United Way is crucial in the current era.