MBA

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.

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.

Restructuring of the Simmons Balance Sheet
Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
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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.

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.

Nine Elon Law students and nine MBA students from Elon's Martha and Spencer Love School of Business participated in a first-time collaboration through an international business course that included meetings with top business and law leaders in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.

The Love School of Business is sponsoring a Supply Chain Management panel on Tuesday, February 23, at 6 pm in LaRose Digital Theatre. The panel will address current challenges in supply chain management approaches and practices.

More than 60 Elon MBA students, alums and faculty came out to the third annual Cocktails & A Musical event on Saturday, February 13, at the McCrary Theatre. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres were followed a performance of the musical “110 in the Shade.” The evening was sponsored by the Elon MBA Student-Alumni Association.

A fundraising effort by the Elon University men’s golf team and spearheaded by an MBA student debuts next month with “Eagles for Haiti,” a pledge drive that asks sponsors to donate money toward recovery efforts in the battered Caribbean nation for every eagle scored this season by male golfers in the Southern Conference.