As part of a universitywide women’s initiative, the Business Week Team has partnered with the registered student organization Women in Business to offer a fifth day, titled INSPIRE: A Women’s Exchange of Knowledge, that is full of events.
Unit: College of Business
Reactions: Episcopal Church’s identity stretched, but not broken
Associate Professor and Assistant Chair for the Department of Management and Quantitative Methods Mathew Sheep, who studied the changing identity of the Episcopal Church, talks about the church’s loss of voting rights.
COB announces 2016 Business Week mentors
The Business Week Mentor Program is designed to help younger students learn the necessary professional skills to take full advantage of Business Week.
President’s Spring 2016 Speaker Series announced
The President’s Speaker Series will include an artist, a screenwriter, a cyber security expert, a freedom fighter, historians, and a former CEO looking for a sustainable future for business.
Entrepreneurial Support Fund fosters students’ ambitions
The William and Nancy Yarger Entrepreneurial Support Fund helps students who demonstrate a viable business model and possess the initiative and passion to make their business thrive.
Wisdom’s Torch Award ignites student learning in College of Business
The Wisdom’s Torch Teaching and Learning Award has paid for Illinois State University business professors to attend training, acquire technology, and buy equipment.
New Means Center Accelerator to support ISU’s aspiring entrepreneurs
Means Center Associate Director Terry Noel announced that the Means Center Accelerator is a new program that will be offered year-round to engage students from all majors in entrepreneurial savvy.
Insurance insures prosperity: ISU researchers work to protect Ghanaian farmers
Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services faculty and students are working to create microinsurance products (low-cost insurance designed for individuals with low incomes) that would provide support and peace of mind for Ghanaian farmers.
ISU Sales Team places 3rd at National Sales Challenge
Illinois State’s Sales Team had its highest finish ever at the National Sales Challenge.
Reactions: The Fed hikes interest rates after nearly seven years
The Federal Reserve increased interest rates for the first time since the financial crisis. Professor and Chair for the Department of Finance, Insurance and Law Gary Koppenhaver talks about what this means, what happens next, who will win, and who will lose.