It’s hard to believe this semester is coming to an end! This week’s Stetson Showcase shined brightly on many outstanding undergraduate student research projects across the university. As graduating seniors are finalizing plans for Commencement on May 12, all students are completing semester assignments and beginning to study for finals. The following events represent some […]
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The Family Enterprise Center of Stetson University’s School of Business Administration and Family Business Magazine are partnering to offer Transitions East 2012, a conference focusing on the challenges and opportunities of taking family-owned business enterprises from one generation to the next. The conference, April 25-27 in Orlando, Fla., is sold out, with 160 family business […]
Continue ReadingStetson University has received $5.5 million in estate gifts to fund scholarships for students majoring in business or preparing for careers in health care. The major gifts come from the estates of C. Emory and Jeanne Smith, longtime friends of the university who lived in Orlando. Although the Smiths did not attend Stetson, their niece, […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Roland George Investments Program achieved the near-impossible in the financial world this week – winning major national competitions in both the stock and bond categories. The student-run George Program bond portfolio won first-place in the Fixed-Income Category in the world’s largest student investment competition, the R.I.S.E. Forum at the University of Dayton in […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Roland George Investments Program achieved the near-impossible in the financial world this week – winning major national competitions in both the stock and bond categories. The student-run George Program bond portfolio won first-place in the Fixed-Income Category in the world’s largest student investment competition, the R.I.S.E. Forum at the University of Dayton in […]
Continue ReadingStudents returning from international field studies invariably find they have acquired an invisible keepsake of great power – perspective. Fresh perspective is something mentioned by nearly every student describing their Business School class trip to Communist Cuba in early March where they gained new and broader understanding of life on the island nation. Those insights […]
Continue ReadingEnduring subzero temperatures, rain and heavy winds, relentless fatigue and decreasing oxygen levels, Business Professor Rick Copeland and his daughter reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro as dawn broke on New Year’s morning. “The sunrise was gorgeous. You could see the roof of Africa and the curvature of the Earth,” recalled Copeland. “I was so […]
Continue ReadingCultural diversity has defined a distinctive philosophy for the success of alumna Yvonne Chang, a woman who traces her roots to Cuba and her greatest inspiration no further than her Caribbean/Chinese parents. “All that I am and will ever be, I owe to my parents,” said Chang, MBA ’09, director of Operations Integration for Disney […]
Continue ReadingLucas Watson, vice president of global sales and industry marketing for Google’s Video business, which includes YouTube and Google TV Ads, will discuss the future of YouTube in business and sports business at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 22. The presentation will be held in the Rinker Auditorium inside the Lynn Business Center, 345 N. Woodland […]
Continue ReadingStetson University has selected Dr. Thomas V. Schwarz, professor and the Rick Muth Family Endowed Chair in Family Business at California State University Fullerton, as the new dean of Stetson’s School of Business Administration, effective in June. Schwarz has extensive professional experience in both higher education and business. He has held an endowed professorship in […]
Continue ReadingNothing beats knowing pros. Picking their brains. Staying in touch. Nothing. That’s one reason the annual trip to New York City’s financial district is so important for students in the Roland George Investment Program, says Justin Hunter, BBA ’10, an analyst for one of the world’s largest banks, the French giant BNP Paribas. The George […]
Continue ReadingStetson University will hold several upcoming information sessions about the Stetson MBA program, and registration for the info sessions is now being accepted. Information about the university’s Master of Accountancy and Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration will also be available. The School of Business Administration holds information sessions regularly to help prospective applicants learn about […]
Continue ReadingDrawing on a wide range of success stories, including his own, Tony Michaelides easily held the attention of students in November who gathered in the Lynn Business Center’s Rinker Auditorium to hear the renowned music producer and promoter. The British entrepreneur offered distinctly business-related insights inspired by his 37-year career in the music industry. “Never […]
Continue ReadingStetson University has selected Dr. Thomas V. Schwarz, professor and the Rick Muth Family Endowed Chair in Family Business at California State University Fullerton, as the new dean of Stetson’s School of Business Administration, effective this summer. Schwarz has extensive professional experience in both higher education and business. He has held an endowed professorship in […]
Continue ReadingStetson University has named Shelia M. Daniels, associate dean of Human Resources at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, as its new associate vice president for Human Resources, effective in mid-March. Daniels will provide strategic human resources leadership for Stetson’s two campuses and two satellite centers as part of the university’s strategic planning goal […]
Continue ReadingStetson University School of Business Administration online master’s degree programs have been named among the nation’s “Top Online Graduate Business Programs” in U.S. News & World Report’s Top Online Education Programs 2012 rankings. The Stetson School of Business has two online programs – a Master of Accountancy degree and a joint Master of Business Administration degree program […]
Continue ReadingStetson University partnered with Feeding Children Everywhere this month to raise money and pack more than 5,000 meals for hungry children in Guatemala City, Guatemala. About 75 students, alumni, faculty and staff and their family members from the business, education and counseling programs at Stetson’s Center at Celebration in Osceola County worked together in groups […]
Continue ReadingA new era of student-based charitable giving at Stetson University has begun with an invasion by Phil the Pig – as in “Philanthropy” or “fill” the pig! Hundreds of Phil the Pig piggy banks have been distributed this fall by Stetson and its Student Philanthropy Council to students, faculty, staff, and the Alumni Board. And […]
Continue ReadingBuilding on the huge success and energy of the first two family business conferences, Family Business Magazine and Stetson University’s Family Enterprise Center are going national and taking the powerful production to San Francisco, Calif., this week. The winning formula of world-class experts sharing honest, useful information with multiple generations of veteran family business leaders, […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s School of Business Administration has been named one of the nation’s “Best 294 Business Schools” in a new guidebook released Oct. 11 by The Princeton Review. The education services company compiles its guidebook of top business schools annually based on input from more than 19,000 students in Master of Business Administration programs accredited by […]
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