Category Archives: News

Human Resource association will meet in a few weeks

Faculty Development

Meredith A. Taylor Black, Director of the College of Business & Economic’s International Business Program, recently returned from a faculty development intensive at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.  Selected from an international pool of applicants, Taylor Black earned a full scholarship to participate in the program.  Taylor Black [...]

Latvia Keynote

Gundars Kaupins delivered the keynote address and presented two papers at the “Current Issues in Management of Business and Society Development” in Riga, Latvia May 6-8, 2011.  The photo shown was taken during the keynote.  He also delivered a doctoral seminar.  All presentations were related to the presence, ethics, and organization [...]

Selected End of Year News Items

1.  Two new refereed journal publications:
Perceptions of organizational surveys within employee engagement efforts.  (by Gundars Kaupins, Jeff Sugheir and Malcolm Coco), International Journal of Business and Public Administration, Winter 2011, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 48-61 (refereed).
Domestic partner benefit policies in North Texas (by James Wanek, Gundars Kaupins, and Malcolm Coco), International Journal of Business [...]

David S. Taylor Service to Students Award

Congrats to Dusty Bodie who is this years recipient of the David S. Taylor Service to Students Award.

Aqua Vitae (The Water of Life) Project

Matt Jost, a former Entrepreneurship student is beginning to live his dream as a
social entrepreneur. This fall Matt and an expedition team will travel to Nepal to venture deep into the Himalaya to help victims of Cholera while rafting through some of the most beautiful rivers in the world. He will also study how Nepalese [...]

Heidelberg-Boise Project

Dr. Meredith A. Taylor Black recently returned from Heidelberg, Germany as part of the annual Heidelberg-Boise Project of the International Business Programs for the College of Business and Economics (COBE). Through participation in the Project, Idaho firms are able to assess and develop a strategy for entering the German/EU market. Dr. Taylor Black first [...]

Presentation

Wednesday March 9, Dusty Bodie presented at one of the concurrent sessions of Serve Idaho: The Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism’s annual conference 2011, Service in the New Decade.  (Serve Idaho is a division of the Idaho Department of Labor).  She was an invited speaker on Communication Skills in the Nonprofit [...]

Faculty Development Selection

Dr. Meredith Taylor Black, Director of International Business Programs, was recently selected by the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research at The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania to participate in its Faculty Development in International Business Conference this May. The objective of the [...]

Taylor’s International Management Course Guest Speaker

Duane Grant presented a speech to Meredith Taylor’s International Management course February 3rd.  He discussed  The Political, Legal and Technological Environments of Managing Internationally: A Case Study on Agricultural Biotechnology

Human Resource Association Competition

The Human Resource Association, affiliated with the Society for Human Resource Management, is planning to send a team to the HR Collegiate Competition in Seattle in early March.  The competition focuses on human resource case studies.  Decateur Reed is the coach.