Category Archives: Faculty/Staff in Action

Samia Islam, a professor of economics at Boise State, to speak about “Our Great Recession”

Samia Islam
November’s Fettuccine Forum will feature two local economists and their take on “Our Great Recession.”
David Eberle, Boise city councilman and economist, will host the discussion with Samia Islam, a professor of economics at Boise State, on Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Rose Room at 718 W. Idaho Street in downtown Boise. Doors open at [...]

Professor Minch to Speak at Future Tech Idaho 2009

[ October 13, 2009; ] Robert Minch, Senior Professor in COBE’s Information Technology and Supply Chain Management Department, will be presenting October 13 at the Future Tech Idaho 2009. His presentation is titled, The Role Of Classical IT In Education Today and will be held at 10:00 AM.

This all day seminar will be held at Boise State University, Student Union Building – [...]

Sandy Gough Selected for Master Professor

Sandy Gough was unanimously selected for induction into The Business Strategy Game Hall of Fame as a Master Professor. Out of more than 4,000 registered BSG instructors, Sandy and 13 others have achieved Master Professor status by having one or more Grand Champion teams in the Best-Strategy Invitational competition for August of 2009.

Professor Tom Gattiker‘s Publication Wins Best Paper Award

Craig Carter, Tom Gattiker and Lisa Ellram
The Journal of Supply Chain Management recently announced the winner of the 2008 Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award. Tom Gattiker’s winning paper is titled: ‘‘Structure-Infrastructure Alignment: The Relationship between TQM Orientation and the Adoption of Supplier-Facing Electronic Commerce among Manufacturers.” Xiaowen Huang and Roger Schroeder were co-authors on [...]

COBE MBA Team Leads Special Project for Idaho National Lab (INL)

The MBA Team took a leadership role in the 2008-2009 Idaho Ideas to Market Program (I2M). Stephanie Wicks’ (MBA’2008) presentation at Idaho TechLaunch 6.0, in late May, was the culmination of a special project opportunity created and administered by the Idaho National Lab (INL) and Idaho TechConnect.
Beginning in the fall of 2008, Idaho Universities have been eligible [...]

Faculty Spotlight – Gundars Kaupins

Gundars Kaupins, Malcolm Coco, and James Wanek just published “HR PRofessional Perceptions of Human Resource Information Systems in the International Journal of Business and Public Administration  Volume 6 No. 1 Spring 2009 Pages 100-112.

Professor Paul Bahnson Wins Literary Award

Professor of Accountancy Paul Bahnson’s co-authored article “A New Day for Business Combinations,” which ran in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of Accountancy, is the winner of the Journal of Accountancy 2008 literary award.
The award, established in honor of John Lawler, former Journal editor and AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) Senior [...]

Meredith Taylor Presents

Meredith A. Taylor, a special lecturer with the College of Business and Economics, presented the International Law Section of the Idaho State Bar Association’s April continuing legal education lecture on “US-Upland Cotton: Lessons in the Political and Legal Frameworks of the World Trade Organization.” Taylor now plans to attend the British Institute of International and [...]

COBE Student Team Takes Third in HR Competition

The Boise State Human Resource Association (HRA) hosted the Pacific West Human Resource Collegiate Competition and Conference that occurred April 3-4 on campus. This regional competition associated with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) featured games that test knowledge of human resource management.
A Boise State team of Jacob Donahoo, Rachel Alverson, and Heleena Burton [...]

Faculty and Staff Update – April 2

Denise English, chair and professor of accountancy, is a member of the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) national committee to select the 2009 recipient of the AAA’s “Innovation in Accounting Education” award. The committee is reviewing 30 nominations this spring and will select the recipient and present the award at the AAA’s national meeting in August [...]