Category Archives: Spotlights

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 [...]

Fall 09 Student Spotlights

Congratulations to the following students for being selected for the Fall 2009 Student Spotlight.

Jarrod Stevens, Acct Finance
Kija Hanson, Economics
David Andrews, Marketing

Jason Smart, Management
Shawn Phillips, International Business
Sheila Fredericksen, MBA Graduate Program

Ethan Poulsen, MSAT Graduate Program
James Bird, Accountancy
Eric Dalling – Information Technology Management

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 [...]

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 [...]

Student Spotlight – David Rush

Heat 2 Optimize (H2O), a team of Boise State University MBA students, bested teams from Germany, France and China to win the Benchmark Capital Challenge at the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition earlier this month in Austin, Texas. Boise State’s team was one of only 38 teams from around the world to compete.
The [...]

Alumni Spotlight – Jon Munkers

Executive MBA Graduate Jon Munkers Honored by the Idaho Business Review
TerraGraphics’ Environmental Scientist and Boise Office Manager Jon Munkers is featured as an honoree for the Idaho Business Review’s 2009 “Accomplished Under Forty” Awards.
This year, the program’s 10th, was the most competitive to date. More than 140 young movers and shakers across the state were nominated [...]

2009 Outstanding Graduates

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, Master of Business Administration
Maria Shimel, Management
Daniel Simenc, Management
Erin Taylor, Information Technology
Steve Wargo, Accountancy
Mark Woychick, Master of Business Administration

Bonners Ferry

Johanna Farrell, International Business

Meridian

Melissa Warwick, Finance

Idaho Falls

Jake Davis, Entrepreneurship
Jason Davis, Supply [...]

Faculty Spotlight: Dusty Bodie

Bodie Chosen as Faculty of the Year for Service-Learning

Dusty Bodie was honored as the Boise State Service-Learning Faculty of the Year at the Celebration of Service on April
 30. Bodie has taught with service-learning for six years in four different courses: Nonprofit Management (MBA), Human Resource Management, Managing in the Nonprofit Sector, and Leadership Skills.
Students consistently [...]