Economics and Management

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  • Ledbetter: Supreme Court made her case about all Americans

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    ktunheim

      By Amanda DyslinThe Free Press MANKATO — When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Lilly Ledbetter in 2007, undoing about 50 years of precedent in wage discrimination, it was no longer just an issue of Ledbetter vs. Goodyear, she said. “This was your case,” Ledbetter said Tuesday night during the annual Carol Ortman Perkins…

  • “Former Student Refers Kathi Tunheim to Keynote Annual Manager’s Meeting at OATI in Minneapolis”

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    ktunheim

    Amelia Schmid ’12, a former student of Kathi Tunheim’s, referred her to the Selection Committee of Open Access Technology International, Inc., to serve as the Keynote Speaker to the 150 top leaders in the company.  On January 7, 2013, Kathi led a 90 minute interactive seminar on the importance of leadership and team development.  Feedback…

  • Service-learning partners come to campus

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    Kathy

    The OB students did such a GREAT job with their executive summaries! The community partners were in the audience and it was a great networking and sharing session to hear service work and projects. I was really proud of what they accomplished this spring. Thanks to Feeding our Communities Partners and the backpack food program,…

  • Congratulations to Sheng Yang

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    jowen

    At the Honors Day Convocation last Saturday, Sheng Yang was awarded the 2013 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. This is a college-wide award determined solely by students. Sheng is in only his second year at Gustavus, and he has already had a huge impact heading up our finance curriculum. On behalf of the E/M…

  • Management students’ service has immediate impact & long term positive effects

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    Kathy

    In their Organizational Behavior class students are creating value for their community partners. They helped Feeding Our Community Partners’ Backpack food program create a values statement, which will assist in their ability to apply for grant funding. At the Habitat for Humanity groundbreaking on Monday May 6 (thankfully sunny and warm!) Ni helped in the…

  • Warren Beck offers his wisdom

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    Kathy

    Warren and Kari created a really special evening at the networking event.  

  • Trustees help with networking successes

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    Kathy

    Russ Michaletz ’74 talks with Brittany Hancock ’14 about what has to be exciting Accounting stuff…! John Hallberg ’79 also came to support students’ aspirations and offer his experiences as CEO of Children’s Cancer Research Fund.  

  • Gustie networking event — so fun

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    Kathy

    The Minneapolis Club room was full of energy- thanks to all the alumni who came to support Gustie students!   Kent is a member of Econ/Management’s national advisory board. Great to see him that evening. Paul Batz is always available to support our students and is instrumental in the Mentoring Program’s success! Kari Clark will…

  • A new twist to creativity and innovation

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    Kathy

    An energizing gift from those Wellbeing National Advisory Board folks– a design thinking workshop at the Optum Group, part of United Health! Design thinking is the next great innovation methodology inspired by David Kelley and IDEO.. and some Economics and Management students got to work through a ‘boot camp’ with a couple dozen UHG executives.…

  • Who knew they could downgrade us?

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    Kathy

    I am starting to get the feeling folks want us to change here in higher education.  Moody’s (yep, the credit rating agency) downgraded higher education’s outlook in a report from January 16. Here is a summary of the story:  http://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-2013-outlook-for-entire-US-Higher-Education-sector-changed–PR_263866. They essentially said our business models won’t work going forward, and we can’t keep raising…