Category Archives: MBA News

Elevator Pitch Competition and Business Plan Competition Results

Congratulations to the winners of the Elevator Pitch Competition and Business Plan Competition held today! The competitions, organized by the Center for Entrepreneurship as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, were open to all Boise State University students. Awards were $250 for First Place, $100 for Second, and $50 for Third in the Undergraduate and Graduate divisions of [...]

MBA Team Wins at Global Business Plan Competition

Boise State MBA team wins at the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition beating teams from Germany, France and China. Heat 2 Optimize (H2O), the Boise State MBA team competing in the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition, bested teams from Germany, France and China. The team, led by David Rush (MBA candidate Boise State, [...]

Beta Gamma Sigma Inducts Newest Members

The College of Business and Economics (COBE) would like to congratulate the newest COBE  inductees to the highly prestigious International Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS). BGS represents the top 7% of juniors, the top 10% of seniors, and the top 20% of Master students in COBE. To be considered for BGS students must have an overall 3.5 [...]

COBE Marketing Team Takes 2nd Place in National Competition

Boise State competed at the District 11 National Student Advertising Competition in Spokane, WA last Friday, April 17. The team placed second overall, and received awards for “Best Presentation”, “Best PR Program” and “Best Graphics”. Boise State competed with nine other universities from Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana.
The eight student team consisted of: [...]

2009 Boise State Elevator Pitch Competition Results

Big Ideas. Big Money.
Boise State Center for Entrepreneurship held the first annual Elevator Pitch Competition and the results were impressive. The ideas generated by Boise State graduate and undergraduate students impressed the panel of judges with both their innovation and viability. Over $3,500 was awarded for graduate and undergraduate categories in best technology, most green, [...]

BOISE STATE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS TO HONOR TOP GRADUATES AT MAY 8 CEREMONY

Boise State University’s College of Business and Economics will honor its outstanding graduates at a dinner on Friday, May 8. Outstanding graduates are selected by faculty members in each area of study within the college.
This year’s honorees are:
Boise – Denise Buske, Human Resource Management; Amanda Clausen, Accountancy Taxation; Jon Daley, Masters of Business Administration; Maria [...]

Vietnam MBA program forms Alumni Chapter

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 [...]

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 [...]

Alumni Spotlight – Andrew Artis

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 [...]