Category Archives: Spotlights

Executive MBA Participants Spearhead Statewide Effort

Two participants in Boise State’s Executive MBA program are behind a statewide effort to explore the hurdles that businesses face in Idaho and develop solutions through research.
Jared Bauer and Jenni Herberg, who will receive their Executive MBA degrees in May 2012, have formed the Idaho Business Council. They have gathered a good deal of support [...]

Faculty Spotlight – Don Holly

Don Holley, professor of economics, was quoted in a StateImpact story about the three Rs: recession, recovery and relevance. Holley states that signs of economic recovery are there, including a leveling off in unemployment and improved home and auto sales. However, Holley points out that Idaho is not yet back to its 2007 economic productivity [...]

Faculty Spotlight – Sian Mooney

Sian Mooney, Department of Economics, is co-chair on a report released last week called “Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture.” The team of scientists also includes Ron Follett and Jack Morgan, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Keith Paustian, Colorado State University. In addition to a focus on agriculture’s role in climate change, the [...]

COBE Student Spotlights for September – October

Congratulations to the following students for being selected for COBE’s Student Spotlights for the months of September and October.

Matthew Campbell – MBA
Tyson Weekes – MSAT
Thomas Golden – Accountancy
Steve Canty – Economics
Joseph Danes –  Finance
James Simpson – Information Technology Management
Mallory Douraghi – International Business
Ryan Loveday – Management
Cornelia Sprung – Marketing

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Faculty Spotlight – Kent Neupert

Kent Neupert, Mary Givens and Jared Everett all were quoted in the Idaho Business Review regarding the development and construction of Venture Lab at Boise State. Read the story, called “Boise State looks to ‘innovation kitchen’ to cook faculty inventions.”
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Faculty Spotlight – Sian Mooney

A report on carbon sequestration co-chaired by Sian Mooney, Department of Economics, was released this week by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology. “Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities” looks at the research behind the climate change controversy. Click here to read more.
CAST is an international consortium of scientific [...]

COBE Advisory Council Member and Former HP exec Mulhern new CEO at CradlePoint

Source: Idaho Business Review 9/29/2011
CradlePoint, a Boise-based wireless router company, is naming former HP executive George Mulhern its new CEO, with founder and former CEO Pat Sewall making the transition to chief technological officer. Mulhern was a partner with venture capital firm Highway 12 Ventures, which invested in CradlePoint.
CradlePoint board member Jerry Langeler said it [...]

Faculty Spotlight – Bixby & Park

Michael Bixby and Susan Park, of the Management Department in the College of Business and Economics, recently published the textbook “The Legal Environment of Business,” 5th edition, available through Pearson Custom Publishing. Their co-authors are Patrick Cihon, associate professor at Syracuse University, and Caryn Beck-Dudley, dean of the College of Business at Florida State University.
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Faculty Spotlight – Meredith Taylor Black

Meredith Taylor Black, director of International Business Programs in the College of Business and Economics, was selected to join the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office’s (TECO) Young Scholar and Expert Delegation to Taiwan this October. As a member of the delegation, she has been invited to visit various governmental agencies of Taiwan in the areas [...]

Faculty Spotlight – Trina Sego

Marketing professor Trina Sego has been appointed associate editor for the International Journal of Advertising. The journal publishes original contributions on all aspects of marketing communications from the academic, practitioner and public policy perspectives.
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