George M. Fenton was the student speaker at Boise State’s 90th Commencement ceremony on May 12, where students and guests responded to his remarks with a standing ovation. During the ceremony, the largest ever for the university, a record 11 doctoral degrees and more than 2,400 bachelor’s and master’s degrees were awarded in front of [...]
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“Caught in the Act: Visiting Illicit Web Sites While on the Job,” by Mark Johnson from Idaho State University and Gundars Kaupins, Management Department Chair, will be published in the Journal of Case Studies in May-June of 2012. This is a refereed journal listed in Cabell’s.
“New Media Usage and Privacy Policies in Baltic States’ Newspaper Websites” by Gundars Kaupins, Management Chair and Decateur Reed, Management, has been formally accepted in the refereed journal listed in Cabell’s Current Issues in Business and Law. The journal article will be published in late June or early July, 2012.
Nancy Napier, Director of The Centre for Creativity and Innovation, talks about what you can do about creativity when it comes to your workplace with KTVB.
2012 Accomplished Under 40 – COBE Grads: Cody B. Barney, D.B. Fitzpatrick and Co., Inc. Jason Coronado, Deloitte Lance Fenton, Cooper Norman Certified Public Accountants Travis B. Hawkes, Sports Fan Corporation Travis L. Higgins, UCI Wealth Advisors Terence Alan Longhurst, Scentsy, Inc. Bernadette Madarieta, Boise Inc. Jarred McKenzie, Dykman Electrical, Inc. Kristine Mitchell, Origin, Inc. [...]
The 10th annual Boise ISSA InfoSec Conference was held Wednesday, May 2 at the Boise State Conference Center. Security and IT professionals from across the valley gathered to hear nationally recognized speakers in the security space discuss current issues and trends related to the growing challenges to securing organizational data. Dr. Sharon Tabor, CISSP and [...]
The Management Department gives out faculty awards each year to its most outstanding faculty. Gundars Kaupins, department chair, selected these winners based on research, teaching, internal service, and community service evaluations. Management Department Faculty Awards Outstanding Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Research: Chris Baughn Outstanding Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Undergraduate Teaching: Brian McNatt Outstanding Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Internal [...]
Ambassador Siddiqui is the Agriculture Negotiator for the Office of the United States Trade Representative in bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and representative to the WTO. The annual World Trade Day event draws U.S. companies from across the Northwest who export their goods or services to foreign markets, and offers insight on the most pressing [...]
Brian Greber, adjunct professor of economics, was quoted in a front-page Idaho Statesman story about the large numbers of baby boomers headed into retirement and the need to train replacement workers. Read the story here.
Napier’s latest blog brings a spring to the step and smile to the face.
The COBE Advisory Council (COBEAC) awarded the annual COBEAC Faculty Awards to Paul Bahson for excellence in research and Dwayne Barney for excellence in teaching. The COBEAC is made up of business leaders who counsel COBE administration on a wide range of strategic issues central to the College’s mission. The COBEAC reveiew team had high [...]
COBE Director of International Business, Meredith Taylor Black, was featured in Update article about the annual Idaho World Trade Day and Taylor Black’s work developing an International Trade Certificate Program and more. Read the complete story here.
9th Annual Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Conference was held on April 16. The following are the recipients of the COBE Dean’s Choice Awards: Podium Presentation: “A Modern Look at the Black-White Income Gap,” by Adam Wolfe; faculty sponsor: Dr. Samia Islam Poster Presentations: “The Efficacy of Drug Treatment Programs with a Criminal Justice Component, ” [...]
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Allen D. Dykman, COBE economics graduate, will be awarded an honorary doctorate at Boise State University’s spring Commencement Saturday, May 12. Dykman grew up in Pocatello and came to Boise State on a football scholarship. After earning a bachelor’s degree in 1974, he joined the family electrical supply business before founding his own company, Dykman [...]
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The following projects have been accepted for funding for summer 2012: Research Proposals “The Carbon Footprint of Higher Education,” Tom Gattiker, Scott Lowe and Regis Terpend “The Adoption and Use of Mobile Learning Strategies by Business Faculty Members to Support Blended Learning Environments,” Doug Lincoln “Challenging the Foundations of Stakeholder Theory: Does Urgency Moderate the [...]
Gundars Kaupins (Boise State, left), Malcolm Coco (Abilene Christian), Andrew Little (Abilene Christian), and Decateur Reed (Boise State, right) received a best paper research award for their “Human Resource Professional Ethical Perceptions of Organizational Online Monitoring” at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines, Dallas, Texas, April 21, 2012.
A blog by Nancy Napier, director of the Centre for Creativity and Innovation, on the Psychology Today website focused on creativity in Vietnam. Napier has worked for two decades training Vietnamese faculty in western business practices. Read the blog here. This blog titled “Vietnam, Version 2.0?” has been chosen as an “Essential Read” in Creativity. The [...]
Mark Cowan (Accountancy department) has been promoted to Professor. Congratulations, Mark, on achieving the highest academic rank.
