Category Archives: Faculty/Staff in Action

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 [...]

Faculty in Action 2/5/2009

Michael Bixby, Department of Management, gave an invited lecture to the College of International Business and Management at Shanghai University in China in December, on the last day of his semester there. The presentation was titled “The Enron Scandal: What Lessons Did We Learn?”
Bill Lathen, Department of Accountancy, recently had an article accepted for publication [...]

Economic Outlook Workshop – Feb. 18

BOISE STATE EXECUTIVE MBA PROGRAM, IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO PRESENT ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR BOISE FEB. 18
Boise State University’s Executive MBA Program is collaborating with the Idaho Department of Commerce to provide insights on the current economy, perspectives for the future and strategies for tapping opportunities.
The two entities will present the Economic Outlook for the [...]

Faculty in Action Update

Regis Terpend, Supply Chain Management, co-authored an article with his colleague from Miami University in Ohio, Bryan Ashenbaum. The article is titled “The Purchasing-Logistics Interface: A Scope or Responsibility Taxonomy.” The paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Logistics later this year.
Denise English, chair of the Department of Accountancy, is serving [...]

Center News Release

CENTER NEWS RELEASE / January 9, 2009
Online at: http://news.boisestate.edu
BOISE STATE PRESENTS 5TH ANNUAL CREATIVITY CONFERENCE, CLIMATE CHANGE SYMPOSIUM FOR BUSINESSES
Boise State University’s College of Business and Economics will present two events on Tuesday, Feb. 3, designed to help local businesses gain a competitive edge.
Boise’s fifth annual creativity workshop will be presented by the college’s Centre [...]

Creativity Workshop

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 [...]

Keiretsu Forum

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 [...]

Faculty Update – December

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 [...]

The Idaho Council on Economic Education Update

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 [...]

Community Engagement – Update

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 [...]