Love School of Business

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?"

Business ethics speaker David Childers advised Elon students to move beyond a sense of ethics as a set of hard and fast rules and toward a life of integrity governed by a sense of personal accountability. Childers, president and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based EthicsPoint, Inc., spoke on campus March 11 as the 2010 Business Ethics Speaker for the Love School of Business.

The Financial Times of London published a “Soapbox” opinion column by David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, in its April 12 higher education online edition.

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.

Forty students were inducted into Elon’s Pi chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) during the Spring Initiation Banquet, held April 6 in the Isabella Canon Room.

ODE is one of the world’s largest academic honor societies, with more than 640 chapters worldwide. Membership is open to high-achieving students studying economics.

Tom Tiemann presented a paper "What Do Soccer Moms Do All Day," written with Steve DeLoach, at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meeting in St. Louis on April 3.

Hit the road with Career Services to visit Wells Fargo Securities and Bank of America in Charlotte! Through a set itinerary, you will learn about the banking/finance industry and gain career insights from senior executives, associates and recruiters.

Allen E. Gant Jr., chief executive officer of Burlington, N.C.-based Glen Raven, Inc., a global provider of innovative fabric-based solutions, was honored at a March 30 campus luncheon with the Frank S. Holt, Jr. Business Leadership Award, Elon University’s highest honor for business leadership.