Love School of Business

Elon University hosted its inaugural Summer Business Institute this month for non-business majors seeking additional skills needed in today’s economy to run any organization, whether a business, nonprofit or government agency.

Kevin O'Mara, a professor of management, and Gary Palin, director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, presented their paper "A Cross-National Empirical Study Investigating the Role of Purchasing Purpose has on the Country-of-Origin Effect" on May 30 at the ABWIC Conference in Nashville, Tenn.

Jay Reno ’10, a business administration major who graduated with honors last month, has been selected as a Green Plus Sustainability Fellow by the Green Plus Institute for Sustainable Development.

The Love School of Business at Elon University has established a new scholarship in honor of Peter Tourtellot, immediate past chair of the school’s board of advisors. The Peter L. Tourtellot Scholarship will be awarded beginning in April 2011 to an eligible business student.

Richard Jordan has been named Associate Director of Career Services in the Love School of Business. He joins Elon from Lee Hecht Harrison, where he was consultant with the global career management firm’s Raleigh office.

Tina Das, professor of Economics and Casey DiRienzo, associate professor of Economics and associate dean of the Love School of Business, have had their paper, "Assessing terrorist risk and FDI using relative information measures," published in Applied Economics Letters. The paper was co-authored with Anthony Mancuso of SAS Institute in Cary, NC.

Christina Benson, assistant professor of business law in the Love School of Business, has been selected as a finalist in the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Master Teacher Competition.

Earl Honeycutt, marketing professor and director of the Chandler Family Center for Professional Sales, co-authored an article, “Identifying the Attributes of an Effective Restaurant Chain Endorser,” published Cornell Hospital Quarterly (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2010). Co-authors are Vincent P. Magnini, assistant professor of Hospitality at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, and Cristel Garcia of the Universita della Svizzera italiana.

David Turner, CFO of Thomson Reuters Markets Division, will be the speaker for the Elon MBA commencement, to be held Friday, May 21, at 7 pm in Whitley Auditorium.