Love School of Business

Keeping customers happy may cost money, but for the president and CEO of a highly regarded New England food retailer, “it’s worth it in the long run.” Stew Leonard Jr. shared wisdom with more than 100 students this week in a campus visit co-sponsored by the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Elon Career Services.

The president and CEO of one of the most unique food retailers in the world visits Elon on Feb. 10 to speak with faculty, staff and students about ‘intrapreneurship’ opportunities for pending graduates. Stew Leonard Jr. will talk in the LaRose Digital Theate as part of the Entrepreneurship Speakers Series hosted by the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was elected to a three-year term with the Alamance Chamber of Commerce in Alamance County, North Carolina.

Gary R. Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship, was quoted in the Triad Business Journal about opportunities for entrepreneurs in rough economic conditions.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, was one of three judges this month for the 2009 National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at a conference hosted by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published Jan. 4, 2009, in the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. "Use the economic downturn as a wake-up call, not a panic call" uses the tale of Chicken Little to encourage readers not to listen to those whose response to the current financial meltdown as a cry that "the sky is falling."