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 [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Student Projects Add Value
December 31, 2008 – 3:06 pm
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Creativity Workshop
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… [...]
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Keiretsu Forum
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 [...]
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COBE's Business Help Center, ISBDC, Makes Partnership to Help Hispanic Businesses
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 [...]
Vietnam MBA program forms Alumni Chapter
December 18, 2008 – 2:12 pm
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 who now run their own successful [...]
Faculty Update – December
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 [...]
SBA Awards Energy Efficiency Grant to Idaho SBDC
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 [...]
Alumni Spotlight – Andrew Artis
December 15, 2008 – 10:18 am
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 an award [...]
The Idaho Council on Economic Education Update
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 [...]
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Community Engagement – Update
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 [...]
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Northwest Energy Innovation Summit
December 8, 2008 – 12:17 pm
The College of Business and Economics at Boise State University is a co-sponsor of the Northwest Energy Innovation Summit. This national conference will be held in Boise, Idaho January 12-14, and will cover global issues related to energy. (The following are excerpts taken from the Northwest Energy Innovation Summit packet- Boise 2009: NWEIS Packet) Dates and Locations January 12-13, [...]
Google Opportunities
December 5, 2008 – 3:00 pm
Boise State Student Team Named Finalist in National Google Online Marketing Contest A Boise State University student team has been named a finalist, placing in the top three out of 700 competitors, in the Americas region of the 2008 Google Online Marketing Challenge. As regional finalist, Team AdHype — Lisa Chipman, Trevor Herbst, Kasey [...]
Faculty Update Oct/Nov 2008
December 5, 2008 – 1:32 pm
November 2008 Sandy Gough and co-inventor Professor Uwe Reischl of the COHS have received a provisional patent on their discovery – A Pandemic Business-Continuity Management Tool. HR professional perceptions of human resource information systems. (with Gundars Kaupins, Malcolm Coco and James Wanek), International Journal of Business and Public Administration, Forthcoming. Countervailing forces affecting Japanese [...]
Heidelberg Project
December 4, 2008 – 12:21 pm
Update: 2/6/2009 The Heidelberg Project is now full. Please call 20… to find out how else COBE can fill your needs. Idaho Companies Invited to Participate in Heidelberg Project Boise State invites Idaho companies to participate in its fifth annual Heidelberg Project. Selected firms will receive a marketing study, analysis and plan related to the [...]
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23andMe Update
December 1, 2008 – 4:27 pm
In October the Executive MBA class had the pleasure of listening to guest lecturer, Linda Avey, speak about starting up 23andMe. Just recently, 23andMe’s DNA-testing service was named Time Magazine 2008 Invention of the Year. Click to view Time’s article.
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