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Case Studies In Sustainability Management - The Oikos Collection Vol. 3, Jordi Vives Gabriel, A. Erin Bass, R. J. Morris

Faculty Books and Monographs

Editor: Jordi Vives Gabriel

Chapter 9, Lululemon’s commitment to the environment: A tangle of seaweed, suppliers & social responsibility, co-authored by A. Erin Bass, UNO faculty member.

With the rapidly growing importance of sustainability and corporate responsibility in a globalised world, management schools are increasingly integrating long-term economic, environmental and social issues into their teaching and research. Climate change, poverty, labour standards and human rights are among the many topics that future decision-makers will need to face in their careers. Business education needs to reflect this new reality and provide a broadened understanding of value creation in order to create …

Multi-Million Dollar Gift Supports Usu Business School, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Standard-Examiner

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

LOGAN — Utah State University on Wednesday announced a $6 million anchor gift made to the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.

Biztech Fall 2013, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The fall 2013 edition of BizTech features articles on summer internships, meeting the firms, the VITA income tax program, and ENACTUS.

Huntsman Business Intelligence Group Gains Valuable Experience Mining Big Data, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Steve Eaton

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

With the news that the National Security Agency has been sifting through massive amounts of phone data to try to thwart potential terrorist plots, more people are becoming aware of a term frequently being used in the IT industry – “big data.”

Huntsman Business Intelligence Group Gains Valuable Experience Mining Big Data, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Steve Eaton

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

With the news that the National Security Agency has been sifting through massive amounts of phone data to try to thwart potential terrorist plots, more people are becoming aware of a term frequently being used in the IT industry – “big data.”

Business Professor Makes Student Success Priority, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Stacey Worster

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

From his career beginnings working as a technical engineer to raising a family and going back to school for his MBA, Dan Holland's life has been full of unexpected turns. However, students won't find him complaining.

Logan Ranked Number One Small U.S. City For Technology And Business, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Steve Eaton

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

For the second year in a row, Logan was named as the best-performing small city in the country by the nonprofit Milken Institute. The prize is calling attention to the growing number of international high-tech firms attracted to Logan and Cache Valley.

Students Create 'Flash Marketing' Business Model, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Cale Patterson

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

Some business students hope to succeed in their eventual careers and have little real-world experience before graduating. Three students from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business have experienced success in business long before their degrees at USU are finished.

Partners In Business Conference To Also Feature Gail Miller, Owner Of Larry H. Miller Companies, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Nadiah Johari

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

Frank Belatti, a former CEO who helped turn around Popeyes Chicken and Church’s Chicken, will deliver a keynote speech at an upcoming Partners In Business conference at Utah State University.

Logan Metro Ranked No. 1 Small City For Technology, Business, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Charles Geraci

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

The Logan metropolitan area has — for the second straight year — been ranked No. 1 in the Milken Institute’s best-performing small cities list. A nonprofit, nonpartisan economic think tank, the institute notes that the 2012 results in general were driven by “better performance in short-term technology output and wage increases.”

Business School Top Of The Class, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University is one of just 22 schools in the United States now recognized by the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute for the work it is doing to prepare students to earn the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Biztech Winter 2013, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The winter 2013 edition of BizTech features articles on internships, auditing, ENACTUS, and a message from the dean.

Researcher From The University Of Chicago Comes To Huntsman School Of Business, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Klydi Heywood

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

Devon Gorry took her first economics class at Dartmouth College simply because her brother majored in the subject.Having always had a passion for math and science, Dr. Gorry found she enjoyed the application of mathematical reasoning to real-world problems.

Biztech Summer 2012, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The Summer 2012 Edition of BizTech features articles on the SIFE team, alumni, and a message from the dean.

Biztech Winter 2012, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The winter 2012 edition of BizTech features articles on the business society, visiting accounting firms, and the marketing club's trip to New York.

Federal Income Taxation Of Business Enterprises 4th Ed., Richard A. Westin, Richard C.E. Beck, Sergio Pareja

Books

This book provides teaching materials for a basic income taxation course dealing with the taxation of partnerships, corporations, S corporations, and limited liability companies. In addition, it alludes to a short list of other business enterprises. It can definitely be completed in the usual three hours assigned to such courses, on the assumption that students will spend two hours of preparation for each hour in the classroom.

The book begins with the study of partnerships, moves to C corporations, then to S corporations, then to limited liability companies. In general, the authors take a cradle-to-grave approach to each subject. Their …

Biztech Summer 2011, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The summer 2011 edition of BizTech features articles on integrating faith and business, serving in Tanzania, and the business department's trip to China.

Biztech Winter 2011, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The winter 2011 edition of BizTech features articles on the Marketing Club's trip to Manhattan, Business Society's Christmas party, and the Alumni weekend luncheon.

Biztech Summer 2010, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The summer 2010 Edition of BizTech features articles on Entrepreneurship in Africa, the new admissions process, and SIFE.

Biztech Winter 2010, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The winter 2010 edition of BizTech features articles on the NYC trip, the Summer trip to Africa, and internships.

Handbook For Promoting Foreign Direct Investment In Medium-Size, Low-Budget Cities In Emerging Markets, Vale Columbia Center On Sustainable International Investment, Millennium Cities Initiative

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Books

In November 2009, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment and the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) released the Handbook for Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Medium-size, Low-Budget Cities in Emerging Markets. With foreign direct investment (FDI) flows declining worldwide by an estimated 40-50% this year (following a decline of over 10% in 2008), investment promotion has become more important than ever: in a highly competitive world FDI market, promotion can make all the difference.

Investment promotion is particularly important for cities other than capital cities, as investors in manufacturing and services often locate primarily in a country’s capital …

Biztech Winter 2009, Southern Adventist University

BizTech – School of Business Newsletter

The winter 2009 edition of BizTech features articles on ADRA, what the three keys to resiliency are, and a message welcoming Lisa Goolsby.

Entrepreneurship: Venture Initiation, Management, And Development, George S. Vozikis, Timothy Mescon, Howard Feldman

KSU Press Legacy Project

Twenty years ago, Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. hired over seventy percent of college graduates. Today, Fortune 500 companies hire less than seven percent of college graduates and the entrepreneurial enterprises hire over 80 percent. More than forty percent of students start a business within one year of graduation. These businesses employ 55% of the total American work force. When we think of the entrepreneur, we often visualize the small business. While most, if not all, business ideas begin "small," a great deal of focus in placed upon entrepreneurial ideas that have grown into sizable corporations. In examining the …

Ethics In Business And Government, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Ethics

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Helping Small Business Succeed, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Business/Economics

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Fulfilling Our Obligation: Perspectives On Teaching Business Ethics, Sheb L. True, Linda Ferrell, O.C. Ferrell

KSU Press Legacy Project

This anthology offers a myriad of perspectives on teaching business ethics. The authors are business and philosophy faculty, business school deans, industry practitioners, and a representative of AACSB International. Most chapters were inspired by presentations taking place at the 2004 Teaching Business Ethics Conference, which was sponsored by AACSB International, University of Colorado, Colorado State University, and University of Wyoming.

The intent of Fulfilling Our Obligation: Perspectives on Teaching Business Ethics is not to offer a definitive answer demanding allegiance by all educators and academic institutions; rather, the goal is to provide a means of furthering exploratory discourse on the …

Re-Visioning The Way We Work: A Heroic Journey, Ginger Grant

Books & Chapters

The tools of business are dynamic - capital, people, markets and ideas - all are living entities in a constant state of flux. To take these tools - to work with them and reorganize them in new and different ways to produce a positive effect in your life and your organization - is the essence of the creative process.

Based in archetypal psychology, this book provides a working methodology of personal individuation and corporate cultural transformation using the Hero's Journey Model developed by Joseph Campbell.

Taming The Sharks: Towards A Cure For The High Cost Credit Market, Christopher L. Peterson

University of Akron Press Publications

Taming the Sharks: Towards a Cure for the High Cost Credit Market chronicles the historic, economic, legal, and political factors breeding America’s feverish high cost debt industry. The ideas presented are novel, progressive, and controversial. Historians have long argued that interest rates provide a sort of economic and political health of nations. If true, the contemporary American market for credit shows troubling signs of distress. While Federal Reserve Board monetary policy has kept commercial and prime consumer interest rates low, the past two decades have seen explosive growth in an industry specializing in high-cost consumer debt. Payday loan outlet chains, …

Foresight - "Profiles Of Success" - Fall 1999, Nova Southeastern University

Foresight Magazine

CONTENTS

• Page 3 - Leading SBE into the future: A conversation with Dean Randolph A. Pohlman
• Page 6 - Management in the next millennium: The challenges and the opportunities
• Page 8 - Motivating employees: How will managers boost employee productivity in the 21st century?
• Page 9 - Business success in the year 2000: Three entrepreneurs named to the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame discuss the principles that guide them and how they will apply them in the years ahead.
• Page 16 - Educating managers in the 21st century: The key role for business schools.
• Page 18 - Doctoral highlights
• Page 20 …

Foresight Special Edition - "A Gift Of Learning" - [1999], Nova Southeastern University

Foresight Magazine

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