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The third annual Elon MBA Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, June 26, at Mill Creek Golf Club in Mebane. The tournament is sponsored by the Elon MBA Student-Alumni Association. All proceeds will go to the Elon Academy, a college-access program for academically talented high-school students in Alamance County with financial need.

The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business will offer four new majors starting this fall - finance, marketing, management and entrepreneurship - as well as a new degree and two new minors. The new degree is a bachelor of science in business administration.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

Tina Das, professor of economics, and Casey DiRienzo, associate dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and associate professor of economics, have published an article, “Is Ethnic Diversity Good for the Environment? A cross country analysis,” in the Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 19(1): 91-113.