Love School of Business

Martin “Marty” Blevins was presented with the Richard H. Behrman Award on May 19 at a dinner to celebrate Elon’s 25th graduating MBA class.

Elon University senior economics major Kaylyn Swankoski was awarded the 2011 Allen Starling Johnson Jr. Outstanding Symposium Presentation Prize for the April 29 presentation of her senior thesis at the Duke Economics Department 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a presenter at the 2011 Joint Triad HR Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference held at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday, May 17. The conference theme was "What's Next? HR & the New Frontier."

The 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of top undergraduate business schools by specialty rates Elon #19 in the nation for entrepreneurship and #22 for sustainability.

John J. Burbridge, a professor of operations and supply chain management, and Coleman R. Rich, senior lecturer of operations and supply chain management, recently had their case on VF Corporation accepted for publication in the upcoming 14th edition of Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases to be published by Prentice Hall on December 31, 2011.

Coleman R. Rich, Senior Lecturer of Operations and Supply Chain Management was recently interviewed by the High Point Enterprise newspaper about job growth prospects after the merger of three main showrooms at the High Point Market and the World Market Center in Las Vegas.

David Stephens, a 2008 graduate of Elon's master of business administration program, recently completed his law degree at Elon University School of Law, becoming the first person to earn three different degrees from the institution. His experiences were the basis of an article in the spring 2011 issue of The Magazine of Elon. Continue reading this post to learn more about Stephens' story.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, presented at a March 24 panel discussion in the 2011 MIT Global Startup Workshop in Seoul, South Korea.

Elon University's Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership has been selected as an entrant endorser for the 2011 MassChallenge because of its deep involvement in the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. MassChallenge is running the largest global startup competition to catalyze the launch and success of high-growth, high-impact new businesses. The $1 million competition will launch on March 7, 2011.

Alexa Carlin, vice president of finance for the Elon student entrepreneurship club Student Entrepreneurial Enterprise Development (SEED) and a freshman entrepreneurship major, addressed an audience of more than 100 participants on Feb. 11 at the 3rd annual University Entrepreneurship Summit of North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C.