UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
INSIDE CBA
April 2010
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EVENTS
April:
6 “Leader-Member
Exchange: An Eye from a
Peer” presented by
Dr. Hui Wang
CBA 114
RSVP - skeener@
unlnotes.unl.edu
Lunch will be provided
8
Distinguished
Entrepreneur Awards
& New Ventures World
Competition Preview
Embassy Suites 5:30-7:30
Cost: $10
RSVP - entprenshp@
unlnotes.unl.edu
16 CBA Advisory Board
Awards Luncheon
11:30am
Champion’s Club
18 CBA Honors
Convocation
3:30pm
Centennial Room, City
Campus Union
23 Lecture by Nobel Laureate
in Economics
Dr. Douglass North
6:00pm
Embassy Suites Conference
Center in LaVista, NE
Contact Jennifer
Davidson at jdavidson@
nebraskacouncil.org for
your complimentary tickets
NEWS
Congratulations to CBA Faculty!
Warren Luckner received the 2010 UNL Student Foundation/
Builder’s Award for Outstanding Academic Advising.
Deb Cosgrove and Carlos Asarta were honored by the Alpha Xi
Delta sorority as Outstanding Faculty.
Les Carlson received two awards at the American Academy of
Advertising Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Carlson
took away the Kim Rotzoll Award for Advertising Ethics and
Social Responsibility along with a Best Reviewer Award for the
Journal of Advertising.
Carol Rogers was honored with a “Project Award,” a community
award, a from the Great Plains Trails Network for her work
with the Market-to-Market Relay.
The CBA Honors Convocation will be held Sunday, April 18
beginning at 3:30 PM in the Centennial Room at the City
Campus Union, the following students, faculty and graduate
students will be awarded:
Distinguished Teaching Award - John Geppert
Teaching Excellence Award - Tammie Fischer
College Research Award - Yijia Lin
Distance Teaching Award - Marc Schniederjans
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Sam Nelson
Graduate Research Assistant - Sang Heui Lee
Todd Weber’s article, co-authored with Bill Gentry, Lize Booysen,
and Kelly Hannum, “Leadership responses to gender-based
tension: A comparison of responses between the US and South
Africa” was accepted for publication in the International
Journal of Cross-Cultural Management and will appear in vol
10, issue 3.
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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
INSIDE CBA
April 2010
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NEWS
Arthur Allen’s article, co-authored with Angela Woodland,
“Education Requirements, Audit Fees, and Audit Quality,” has
been accepted for publication in Auditing: A Journal of Practice
and Theory.
The Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship in partnership with
the Southeast Community College Entrepreneurship Center
and the Entrepreneurship Focus Program High School were the
hosts for the 1st Annual Make it Happen -- Student Quick Pitch
Competition held on February 25th, 2010. The competition
gave Nebraska students an opportunity to showcase their
entrepreneurial, communication, and presentation skills through
a short “quick pitch” proposal for a new business venture. A
total of over 200 judges, students, and interested community
members attended the event.
5 CBA students represented the College of Business Administration
at the 2010 US Naval Academy Leadership Conference. The
conference theme was “Leadership Under Stress: Transforming
Crises into Opportunities” and included speakers, Mr. Tom
Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent; Mr. William W.
George, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business
School and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Medtronic, Inc., among others. Students selected to represent
CBA at the conference were Katie Bauer, Allison Bentley, Ben
Boeselager, Lindsey Dykman, Reed Janousek.
Warren Luckner and 11 actuarial science students traveled to Drake
University for a joint meeting with the Drake Actuarial Student
Society in March. The students heard Jeff Kucera, Fellow of
the Casualty Actuarial Society and actuarial consultant, give a
presentation on Predictive Modeling, a new approach to casualty
actuarial work.
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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
INSIDE CBA
April 2010
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NEWS
Management Development Seminars
April 7
Leader as a Coach
by Jane Weddle
Ferguson Center in Lincoln
April 14
Delegation
by Janet Walker
Gallup University in Omaha
April 19 & 21
Personal Financial Planning
by Certified Financial Educator
UNL City Union in Lincoln
April 21
Preserving and Building Nebraska’s
Most Precious Asset-- The Family
Business
by Dave Specht
Ferguson Center in Lincoln
April 27
Communication for Workplace
Dignity
by Kristen Lucas
Ferguson Center in Lincoln
The Nebraska Council on Economic Education hosted the 2010
Economics Challenge State Finals in March bringing over
100 high school students and their teachers to campus to see
who would be crowned state champions. Over 800 students
competed in a preliminary online competition. The top 10 teams
in two divisions were then invited to compete for the top spot at
the state finals.