December 31, 2008 – 3:06 pm
COBE’s location in the heart of our region’s business center and close relationship with the business community provides unparalleled opportunities for COBE students. The unlimited number of student internships and projects provide a laboratory of action-based learning, real-world experience, a sampling of careers, and a foot in the door. Not only do COBE students benefit [...]
December 29, 2008 – 3:13 pm
UPDATE: We are sorry to inform you that this workshop has been canceled.
Dr. Nancy Napier, Executive Director of the Centre of Creativity & Innovation of the College of Business and Economics is holding a creativity workshop on Febuary 3.
Just in the last few weeks, look at what’s been in our own Idaho Statesman…
HEADLINE: Creativity [...]
December 19, 2008 – 11:02 am
In early December, COBE co-hosted the Keiretsu Forum, Highway 12, and the Boise Angel Alliance at the Sky-Center. These ”angel investor” groups fund start-up companies. The event was coordinated by Jeff Sugheir with help from Kent Neupert, John Mcintosh and Joanie Andersen. A great panel discussion involving investors from Idaho, Seattle and California discussed how the process [...]
December 18, 2008 – 2:47 pm
Boise State University and Idaho Hispanic Chamber Announce Partnership to Help Hispanic Businesses
The Idaho Small Business Development Center at Boise State University and the Idaho Hispanic Chamber of Commerce have announced a partnership to help Hispanic businesses in the Treasure Valley. The goal of the partnership is to enhance the success of existing Hispanic businesses [...]
December 18, 2008 – 2:12 pm
Vietnam MBA Alumni Chapter – Center Prof. Napier
Boise State’s first international alumni chapter has been formed in Vietnam.
The Vietnam alums are graduates of an English language MBA program that Boise State ran in Vietnam from 1990-99, the first ever internationally accredited MBA program conducted in Vietnam. There were 84 graduates of the program, many of [...]
December 16, 2008 – 1:40 pm
Gundars Kaupins, management, was quoted in a full-page article titled “Who’s In Charge Here? Valley Entities Hunt for Top Managers” in the Wood River Journal business section that ran on Dec. 3.
Associate Dean of Graduate studies, Kirk Smith, was publicly acknowledged by MBA graduate, Andrew Artis. Artis won an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and is [...]
December 16, 2008 – 1:27 pm
The Idaho Small Business Development Center, headquartered at Boise State, has been selected as one of four SBDC centers in the country to receive a Small Business Sustainability Initiative grant.
The grants total $500,000 and are to fund projects offering energy efficiency assistance to small businesses, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced.
The SBA selected the grantees [...]
December 15, 2008 – 10:18 am
Andrew Artis, MBA '87
Andrew Artis of the University of South Florida Polytechnic has received one of 12 Universitywide 2007-2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards. The USF system includes nearly 3,000 faculty members across four campuses. An assistant professor of marketing in the Division of Business, Artis received an MBA from Boise State in 1987.
“When you win [...]
December 11, 2008 – 9:40 am
The Idaho Council on Economic Education, hosted jointly by the College of Business and Economics and the College of Education at BSU, conducted 5 “International Economic Summit” programs throughout the state of Idaho this semester, reaching 2,500 high school students and many community supporters. These events involved 150 business and community volunteers from CityGroup, US [...]
December 11, 2008 – 9:31 am
On December 2nd, President Joel Hickman and Key Bank hosted over twenty of their best customers to an event that featured COBE. Dwayne Barney discussed the state of the economy and his views on how we have ended up where we are now and how we got into this situation – providing a macro level [...]
