At the end of this month two great faculty members, Carol Brown and Jack Drexler, will be retiring. Carol started as an instructor of accounting in 1978, she’s currently Dean for Academic Programs, and Jack began as an associate professor of management in 1985, currently serving as Associate Dean for Faculty.
Each had a unique path to Oregon State — Jack holds a Ph.D. in psychology from The University of Michigan and Carol a Ph.D. in computer science (which she earned while teaching at Oregon State) — and each had a tremendous impact while part of the College of Business. Congratulations to both.
Stop what you’re doing and watch College of Business graduate and all-American gymnast Leslie Mak be awesome in slowmotion.
The video is part of a new Intel marketing campaign and was shot at Oregon State a few weeks ago. Mak, who won almostevery award a female athlete at Oregon State can, graduated this month and is working at E & J Gallo Wines soon.
Oregon State College of Business student Dale McCauley is a technological monster, in the very best sense.
McCauley is a key member of the OSU SIFE team and the community at Weatherford Hall and the Austin Entrepreneurship program. He’s well known for creating a number of remarkable machines, including a line of mobile photo booths.
McCauley talks about his creation and shows it off in this video from the 2012 COB Graduation Celebration June 15.
UPDATE 9/27/12
If you’d like to rent the photo booth for your next party or event, you can now go to CorvallisPhotoBooth.com and secure it for yourself.
Michelle Obama’s Commencement address this past Sunday was one of the biggest events in recent memory at Oregon State University.
While many were able to watch in person, if you happened to have missed her speech you can now see the address in its entirety on YouTube.
And by the way, congratulations again to all our graduates (also a major part of commencement, in case anyone forgot). We have a photo album up on Facebook from the event. Please tag yourself if you see any photos of yourself or friends.
So this Sunday Oregon State will host it’s annual Commencement celebration. Maybe you’ve heard of it?
Amidst all the excitement for the university, a few College of Business students will be featured in short videos during the program.
Angelic Lara (Marketing) and brother Alex talk about pushing each other and graduating together.
The OSU SIFE group talks about their work combating hunger and other projects.
Those videos and more are all up on the OSU Commencement site so you can get a sneak preview of the program. Hope everyone has fun on Sunday and congratulations to all the graduates.
As Oregon State College of Business Dean Ilene Kleinsorge addressed the school’s 2012 MBA class for the final time at Thursday’s graduation celebration at the La Sells Stewart Center on campus, she reminded the new graduates they’d earned much more than a degree.
“Some of you will venture far beyond OSU after today,” Kleinsorge said. “Some of you will start new businesses, some of you will seek higher level positions with your current employer and all of you will always be Oregon State University and College of Business alumni.”
Overall OSU saw 51 students graduate, with 11 teams completing an Integrated Business Project, developing business plans for companies such as Intel, Hewlett Packard and for the OSU Office for Commercialization and Corporate Development.
The new Beaver MBAs will be taking many different paths with different goals — documentaries in Central America, restaurants in Thailand and many advancing with employers in Oregon — but each is connected to a network of past and future Oregon State grads, Kleinsorge said.
Bob Mayes, an OSU alumnus and CEO of companies such as DMB realty and the Madison Companies, gave the celebration address Thursday. He stressed that grads need to pay attention to more than just career milestones as they continue on in the business world.
The former Oregon State football player showed the grads a wheel made up of slices not only for job and salary, but family, personal growth and passion.
“If any part of your wheel is too big it won’t roll,” Mayes said.
Jay Killen was presented the Target Leadership Award, recognizing a student who demonstrated outstanding leadership and scholarship during their time at the College of Business and Oregon State University.
MBA Association President Holli Ogle and Vice President Alexander Ritzman gave the evening a little levity, recounting the past year from the prospective of an MBA Integrated Business Plan team member (Hint: Including Photoshops of MBA IBP Director and Thesis Advisor Tom Dowling as Gandalf will get laughs at your next College of Business function).
Congratulations to all the graduates and the family and friends who came out to celebrate Thursday.
The 2012 MBA Graduation Celebration stage.
Bob Mayes speaks at the 2012 MBA Graduation Celebration.
The 2012 MBA class photo on the stage following the MBA Graduation Celebration.
The 2012 MBA class photo on the stage following the MBA Graduation Celebration.
Nancy King (left) talks to MBA Graduation Celebration speaker Bob Mayes (center) following the ceremony.
Reception following the MBA Graduation Celebration.
Grads get photos at the reception following the MBA Graduation Celebration.
Brittney Yeskie (eated, right) sits with her family at the reception following the MBA Graduation Celebration
MBA graduate Corey Bramlet (left) at the reception following the MBA Graduation Celebration
Members of the Oregon State SIFE team mob MBA graduate Jennifer Villalobos at the MBA Graduation Celebration.
Members of the Oregon State SIFE team mob MBA graduate Jennifer Villalobos at the MBA Graduation Celebration.
Target's Angelina Lusetti stands with Lidia Kusnadi, Leslie Mak and Daniel Changkuon at the Target Leadership Awards lunch.
The three finalists for this year’s Target Leadership Award proved there’s no template for a successful Oregon State College of Business student.
The trio all has different majors and even come from different countries, but each found a home at Oregon State and caught the attention of Target in the company’s annual award for OSU senior business students.
“I’m so impressed with the students and what they do on campus, the leadership they display, they’re just very impressive,” said Angelina Lusseti, Target Albany store team leader. “At Target when we talk about the caliber of students OSU always stands out.”
Daniel Changkuon, an accounting and business information systems major from Ecuador, Lidia Kusnadi, a finance major from Beaverton, and Leslie Mak, a marketing major from Toronto, were honored at a private lunch at the Big River Restaurant in Corvallis on Tuesday.
Changkuon was recognized as the Target Leadership Award winner, with Kusnadi and Mak finalists.
“They all did such a phenomenal job and it was such a great pool of candidates we wanted them all to be celebrated and recognized together,” Lusetti said.
Changkuon, who originally came to OSU on a study abroad trip and later decided to stay, will intern at Nike this summer. He said the diversity at OSU was a major reasons he decided to remain in Corvallis.
“I like diversity,” he said. “When I came over here I said I want to stay here even though I don’t know where I’m going to be. I like to know a lot of people.”
Kusnadi will be starting her second internship with Intel this summer. She said just being included with Mak and Changkuon was special.
“I was really excited to be a finalist because I was able to see the caliber of students who applied,” she said. “Just knowing Leslie and Daniel from the Dean’s Leadership Circle, I was honored to be chosen among them and sit down with Angelina.”
Mak, who will be starting a job with E & J Gallo Wines soon, said being honored by Target was significant because of the role the company has played in her time at OSU.
“For me it was a really nice award because it’s solidifying Target’s role in my education,” Mak said. “They’ve kind of been visiting my classes and helping us with these projects where we get real-life experience working with a company instead of just learning it in a classroom. And just earning this award is a huge honor because I know how incredibly accomplished all the seniors in the College of Business are.”
In addition to the lunch reception and award plaque each honoree received a Target gift card.
Lusetti, an OSU grad herself and frequent campus recruiter for Target, said the award helps the company strengthen its role with the university and its support of students in the College of Business.
“It’s just another piece to show we’re invested in their education and especially leadership,” Lusetti said. “ We want to show them we recognize the leadership they’ve had on campus. Since all our positions are leadership based, we truly value the leadership and scholastic abilities of the students who are at OSU.”
Target Leadership Awards lunch.
Target Leadership Awards winner Daniel Changkuon.
Target Leadership Awards finalist Lidia Kusnadi
The Target Leadership Awards lunch.
The Target Leadership Awards lunch.
The Target Leadership Awards lunch.
The Target Leadership Awards lunch.
Angelina Lusetti hands out the 2012 Target Leadership Awards.
Target’s Angelina Lusetti stands with Lidia Kusnadi, Leslie Mak and Daniel Changkuon at the Target Leadership Awards lunch.
The College of Business hosted its annual Celebration of Achievement Friday, recognizing a number of faculty and staff members who contributed to the success of the college over the past year.
Before the first awards were handed out, Dean Ilene Kleinsorge took a moment to honor Jack Drexler and Carol Brown, who are retiring at the end of the year. The pair take nearly 60 years of experience at OSU with them.
Carol Brown is recognized at the Celebration of AchievementRetiring professor Jack Drexler MCs the Celebration of Achievement
The dean also recognized Leslie Burns, chair of the Department of Human Environment, which will become part of the College of Business next school year. A number of DHE faculty and staff attended the celebration this year to start off the process.
Of course, the purpose of the night was a chance for everyone in the college to get together, celebrate another great year and especially the award recipients. Here are the honorees for 2011-12
Celebration of Achievement
Betty and Forrest Simmons Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award: Nancy King.
This award was established two years ago by a generous gift from Betty and Forrest Simmons who wanted to ensure a strong MBA program in the college
Graduate students called Nancy King “an outstanding professor of business law.” King teaches Law and Ethics for New Ventures and Emerging Technologies and understands how the industry and technologies change to create relevant class projects and prepare students for their Integrated Business Project within their MBA program.
Byron L. Newton Award – Excellence in Teaching: René Reitsma
Established by the faculty in 1976, the award honors excellence in classroom teaching. The award is named in honor of a professor who was a member of the faculty from 1947 to 1975.
Rene Reitsma provides experiential learning opportunities to students through the system analysis and design courses. He’s worked with Byron Marshall to secure a COE and COB grant to design an IT bootcamp, which will launch in fall 2013.
Excellence in Scholarship Award: Michelle Barnhart
Since joining the faculty in 2009, Michelle has garnered three publications including two in the Journal of Consumer Research and one in the Journal of Business Research.
Outstanding Professional Faculty & Staff Service Award: Alan Sprague
In addition to being an invaluable technical resource to the College of Business, Alan Sprague implemented the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology in the computer lab, classroom and among office users.
Experiential Learning Award – Carrie Kolstad- Hertel
As the manager for the Business Solutions Group testing group, Carrie Kolstad-Hertel represents the best of the experiential learning opportunities available through BSG. She has worked through the full-cycle of the BSG experiential learning process from student worker to professional faculty to manager with responsibility of hiring and training student workers and other professional faculty.
College Service Award Recipient: Byron Marshall
As the faculty advisor for the BIS student organization, SIM Club, Byron Marshall has spent countless hours assisting students with IT skills and projects. More than that, Byron organized field trips, meetings with IT professionals, BIS events and even identified student volunteers for BIS presentations in Corvallis high schools.
Byron took the lead in having the Accounting Information System program endorsed by leading organizations and recertified. It’s now one of only 18 such programs world wide to have this recognition.
College Service Outreach Award: Mark Van Patten
As the founder and chair of the Willamette Innovators Network, Mark Van Patten has helped foster leadership and cooperation within an expanding network of entrepreneurs, business leaders and government organizations.
Mark also serves on the Advisor Council for the Portland Chapter of the Society of Information Managers and is part of National Engineering and IT month and a Board Member for the BIS Advisory Council.
Newcomb Faculty Endowment Awards:Newcomb Fellows
The Newcomb Fellowships were established by Bernie Newcomb, Class of ’65, and co-founder of E*Trade. His generous endowment makes it possible for us to recognize outstanding contributions to the mission, vision, and strategic development of the College of Business.
John Becker-Blease
In the fall John Becker-Blease received the Aspen Institute’s Rising Star Award. John’s curriculum development has made a significant impact in the way that students are taught how finance impacts business and the integration of social, environmental and economic issues.
Kim Calder
Kim Calder, the college’s faculty services coordinator, is the person who keeps Bexell Hall standing every day. From ordering text books, to copying exams to assisting with research projects and from data collection processing for accreditation to having students move offices, put together furniture and paint our dear Bexell Hall, Kim makes sure that tasks are completed and the environment we work is as accommodating and functioning as it can be.
Jared Moore
Jared Moore was instrumental in mentoring accounting teams to top-two finishes at the Berntson Porter/University of Washington Tax Competition and this year leading a team of accounting students to a first place finish in the 2012 Foster School of Business Master of Professional Accounting Tax Case Competition.
The Oregon State Model United Nations team at Seattle University. From left: Rodney Snyder, Jessica Kim, Violetta Iakovenko, Dan Edwards, Lisa Nelson, Justin Zhang, Riley Kinser, Artem Ulyukin, Kevin Wiencek, Stephen Nguyen, Svea Larson, Charles Wong, Rayeed Ibtesum, Ben Fairgrieve, and Tori Cole.
While College of Business students are really good at, well, business, they also excel at many other activities on and off campus.
This month the Oregon State Model United Nations team competed at a conference at the University of Seattle. Members were split between the United Nations Security Council and three national cabinet committees; the Chinese, the Indian and Pakistani. The 60 delegates from five schools sat down to figure out a solution to the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.
Oregon State students sat on the cabinets for France, India, Morocco, Pakistan, and Togo.
The day played out true to life. India and Pakistan argued over the area, eventually moving to war.
India eventually won the conflict, but took much longer than hoped following a United Nations no-fly-zone.
Within that, though, College of Business student Riley Kinser took home an award for OSU, earning Most Diplomatic in the Security Council as a member of the French cabinet. Kinser is also the founder of the International Affairs Club, a student group dedicated to the general subjects of international business and politics.
Lisa Nelson, OSU IAC Model UN Vice President, said that while war isn’t necessarily the best conclusion, the day was instructive for everyone involved.
While waging war is never a good outcome, the results of this simulation conference were fairly realistic in that not everything can be solved through conversations, let alone in only one day.
We all experienced the frustration of inefficient governments, the trouble of dealing with those who refuse to cooperate, and the confusion of complexity that is characteristic of any international conflict; patience was definitely a must.
