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Mark Buchanan |
April 1, 2008 - (Quotes from CSR
Wire--The Corporate Responsibility Newswire): Through the
help of Mark Buchanan, Boise State University undergraduates
helped a company a hemisphere away, Natura Cosmeticos of Brazil,
prepare its 2006 annual report - which innovatively integrates
financial with social and environmental information. Student
teams scoured the report to assess its implementation of
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting
Guidelines indicators, a process that benefited them as
learners, as well as Natura, which received a pro bono review of
its report.
Such win-win situations are the goal of
GRI's Matchmaker Program, which pairs universities and companies
- with sustainability reporting functioning as a "living
laboratory." Boise State also collaborated with Boise
Cascade, performing a "gap analysis" on the forestry company's
first-ever GRI report to benchmark it against competitor
Weyerhaeuser's GRI-based report. Boise State Professor Mark
Buchanan has
written case studies of these examples, which GRI is publishing
in conjunction with its restructure and relaunch of the
Matchmaker Program in advance of the
GRI Sustainability and Transparency Conference in Amsterdam this
May.
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James Wanek, professor in the Management Department, COBE,
presented a paper, "Virtually Settled: Tips for Online Labor Negotiation
Projects", at the Fifth Innovative Teaching in HRIR Conference late
April 2008.
Dusty Bodie, assistant professor, and Gundars Kaupins,
professor, also in Management, presented a paper, "Strengths and
Weaknesses of HRM Live Case Projects" and participated in a panel
discussion on Service and Experiential Learning at the Fifth Innovative
Teaching in HRIR Conference late April 2008. The Conference was hosted by the HRIR
faculty at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis, and sponsored by the HR Division of
the Academy of Management, The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM),
and the SHRM Foundation.
James Wanek and Gundars Kaupins (professors at BSU) along with Malcolm
Coco (professor at Abilene Christian University) received a research award for
"HR Professional Perceptions of Human Resource Information Systems" at the
International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines in
Dallas late April 2008.
New General
Business Major!!!
The General Business Management
Major will change to "General Business" Fall 2008. The new major will provide
greater upper division course flexibility so students can specialize in a
subtopic of their choice or fit their schedules. The change is shown in the
Degree Requirements Checklist.
WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE BRONCO VENTURE CHALLENGE™ 2008
RLH Technologies and R2EV each took home the top prize of $1250
dollars with an invitation to the Northwest Venture Championship® on
March 6-8 at Boise State University. The Bronco Venture Challenge™
brings Boise State University student entrepreneurship teams together
with business executives and investors. The event features student team
presentations, feedback from judges, written plan evaluation and
additional networking activities. Idaho TechConnect is this year's
premier sponsor with their contribution of the prize money. The awards
are:
• Graduate Team 1st Place: $1,000
• Graduate Team 2nd Place: $500
• Undergraduate Team 1st Place: $1,000
• Teams accepting these awards will participate in TechLaunch 5.0
business competition, May 28-29, 2008 (see
www.idahotechconnect.com).Additional
cash awards were provided by Treasure Valley SCORE (www.idahotvscore.org).
These awards will be presented at the Treasure Valley SCORE Annual
Meeting this spring. The SCORE awards are:
• Graduate Team 1st Place: $250
• Undergraduate Team 1st Place: $250
Graduate Team 1st Place: RLH Technologies (Jonathon Hill, Jenna Strong
and Craig Johnson)Graduate Team 2nd Place: Pronetos (Chris Blanchard and
Wyatt Werner)
Undergraduate Team 1st Place: R2EV (Alex Livingston)
The Bronco Venture Challenge® would also like to thank Norm Beckert,
Jim Meldrum, Russ Sloan and Jeff Sugheir for their sponsorship, support,
and guidance in helping to make the competition a success.
For more information, contact Dr. Kent Neupert, Director, Bronco
Venture Challenge™ at 208-426-2397 or
kneupert@boisestate.edu
Additional information on the Northwest Venture Championship® taking
place March 6-8, 2008 may be found at:
www.norhwestventurechampionship.org.
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Chris Baughn |
Chris
Baughn received the Provost's Excellence in Advising Award February 20
in the Bishop Barnwell Room of the
Student Union. The purpose of the award is to recognize members of
the university community who demonstrate excellence in advising
undergraduate students. Nominations are solicited from current students,
faculty and staff. The awards are given annually to one faculty advisor
in each college. Award winners are selected based on the evidence of
effective advising qualities and distinguishing advising practices.
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Stuart Clark Venture Challenge.
Boise
State University has been selected to receive an automatic berth to the
2008 Stuart Clark Venture Challenge. Only 11 schools will be invited to
participate in this year’s competition that will take place in Winnipeg,
Manitoba from April 3-5, 2008. This year’s first place prize is $40,000
CAD.
Management Department Student of the Month (November): Sarah Birchfield,
Management, Entrepreneurial Option
Dusty Bodie
has been nominated for the 2007 Division of Student Affairs Faculty
Partner Award for faculty who have provided support and service to
students beyond classroom teaching and research responsibilities.
Sandy Gough
presented "A Practical Tool for Business Continuity During a Flu
Pandemic" to the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice on
September 18, 2007. (University of Washington School of Public
Health and Community Medicine copresenter was Uwe Reischi).
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) confirmed in August 2007
that Boise State University's BBA Human Resource Management degree program
fully aligns with SHRM's HR curriculum guidebook. The guidebook
identifies 13 minimum core HR topics that should be required curriculum in
every HR degree program, as well as 11 elective HR topics to complement the
required core. SHRM has gained the support of AACSB International in
an effort to bring a level of commonality to HR degree programs that is
required of AACSB accredited schools of business and economics such as Boise
State.
Updated April 29, 2008 by Kaupins
