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SBA News

High School Outreach

Undergraduate News

Upcoming Events

Graduate News

Highlights and Upcoming Events

In this issue…

Widener University School of Business News

Quick Takes

Message from the Dean

Special Points of Interest:

Dean ’ s Message SBA Awards Banquet SBA Awards Recipients Academic Workshop for Young Women Clean Water Action Honors Presentations Honors Week Beta Alpha Psi Award Recipients Sports Management Speaker Series Finance Workshop Upcoming Events Hot Topics Graduate Business Association Business Summer Camp Calendar of Events

Volume 22, March 2012

Greetings:

I hope this message finds you all well.

I would like to start with the announcement of two of our long time faculty members’ retirements. One is Dr. Germaine Saad who has been teaching operations management and other quantitative courses for us since 1986, and the other is our former Dean Dr. Eric Brucker. We thank them for their distinguished service to our students and to the university. We also wish them success in their future projects. They will be missed.

Our annual Awards Banquet was held on March 29th at Harrah’s Casino in Chester. More than two hundred students, faculty, alumni, industry partners, and parents attended this year’s event. Our speaker was Mr. David Debuss-chere who spoke on behalf of Mr. Nick Sakiewicz, the President of the Philadelphia Union, our MLS team. This year’s winner for the John Sevier Award for Distinguished Service was Anthony Pontello, alumnus and the chair of the Sport Management Business Advisory Board. Congratulations to Tony for this well deserved award. I also congratulate all of our student awards winners. A complete listing student award winners is on page 3. Four faculty members won faculty awards. Dr. Karen Leppel won the dis-tinguished research faculty award, Professor Lisa Bussom won the William Zahka Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, Dr. Donna McCloskey won the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, and Ms. Anne Servin won the Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award. I congratulate each of them for their accomplishments.

Best wishes.

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School of Business News Widener University

School of Business Administration Awards Banquet

Kenneth and Nancy Miller with Dean and Tom Hoopes

President Harris

Professor Shoemaker with Bob Cavanagh and his

Dean Ozatalay and Mark Gale Alyssa McGill with her Mom and Valeri Boyle

Lucia Piscoglio, Professor Servin and Ron Buckenmyer

Dean Ozatalay with Rose Patton

Gianna Bojazi and her mom

Dean Ozatalay and Professor Bussom

Dean Ozatalay and Lindsay Krakower

To view more pictures from the SBA Banquet, check out the School of Business Administration Facebook page!

On Thursday, March 29, 201, Dean Ozatalay welcomed over 200 guests to our annual Awards Banquet held at Harrah’s Chester. This year our Distinguished Performance in Management Award was given to Nick Sakiewicz who serves as CEO and Chief Operating Officer at Keystone Sports and Entertainment LLC. Accept-ing the award for Nick was Dave Debusschere. Dave gave a moving acceptance speech that detailed the path to success Nick has taken with t he Philadelphia Union. Our alumni, industry partners as well as President Harris mingled with the students and enjoyed the evening which honors our faculty and students as well.

Dean Ozatalay and Professor McCloskey

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School of Business News Widener University

School of Business Administration Award Recipients

SBA Undergraduate Award Recipients Outstanding Accounting Student Award Lindsay Krakower APICS Outstanding Student Award Alison Lake Outstanding Finance Student Award Mark Gale Outstanding Human Resource Management Student Award Brittany Becker Outstanding International Business Student Award Rachel Weller Outstanding Junior Management Student Award Theodore Costa Outstanding Management Information Systems Student Award Gareth Cooper Outstanding Marketing Student Award Simone Conner Outstanding Sport Management Student Award Aimee Wilder Outstanding Accounting Co-op Student Award Edward Thomas Hunter Outstanding University College Student Majoring in Business Award Anthony Bruno Senior Comprehensive Business Exam—Top Performers Rachel Williamson Robert Cavanagh Beta Alpha Psi Award for Academic Excellence Jacqueline Beers Beta Alpha Psi Award for Outstanding Service Jessica Capaldi Pi Sigma Epsilon Award for Academic Excellence Alyssa McGill Pi Sigma Epsilon Award for Outstanding Service Joseph Camacho FEI Medallion Award Mark Gale FEI Scholarship Awards Thomas Ervin Amanda Luz FEI Community Affairs Scholarship Award Thomas Ngateh BNY Mellon Asset Servicing/Hargadon Award Lauren Sorbello Becker CPA Review Course Award Carmen Imbalzano Tax Executive Institute Award Joseph Kirkwood SBA Graduate Award Recipients Outstanding Student in the Master of Business Administration Program William Truitt Outstanding Student in the Master of Business Administration—HCM Program Debra DeMasi Outstanding Student in the Master of Science in Business Process Innovation Award Michael Siegel Outstanding Student in the Master of Science in Taxation and Financial Planning Program Daphne Hu SBA Teaching Awards Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award Donna W. McCloskey William J. Zahka Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award Lisa B. Bussom Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award Anne C. Servin Distinguished Research Professor Award Karen Leppel

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Spotlight on High School Outreach Widener University

Academic Workshop for Young Women

Professor Porter working with the Talluto’s Team

Thursdays panelists: Andrea Ferry, Marcia O’Connor, Roseanne Romeo and Jada Poller

Thursday’s panelists: Donna Marchese, Jada Poller, Lindsey Isler and Jennifer Phillips

Kathleen Hennelly from Cinnaminson with two of her students

Professor Brannen helping students with a leadership and team building activity

Julie Tacchino and Dean Hoopes

Two students enjoying the day’s activities

Two students posing for a picture during the networking activity

Dean Greenberg, Dean Ozatalay, Professor McCloskey, Marcia O’Connor and Roseanne Romeo

Jan Moppert and Andrea Ferry

Widener’s School of Business Administration hosted 2 free academic workshops for high school girls on March 1 and 2. The first day attracted 45 participants, while the second day had 120. The workshop has grown in size over the years, now requiring two days of workshops. Workshop participants had opportunities to interact with School of Business Administration faculty, students, and successful alumni. Jada Poller, ’96, attended both days to give the girls insight into her SBA experience. A native of Chester, Poller spoke of the “engaging professors” who helped motivate her to succeed as an under-graduate and as a professional. She today works at The Boeing Company as a supplier diversity specialist. Marcia O’Connor, ‘90, used her exceptional networking skills to connect with the high school students and made them feel welcome and shared her path to success. In addition to networking, workshop participants enjoyed collegiate-style lectures that addressed different con-centrations within business and took part in interactive activities focused on networking, overcoming adversity in the workplace, and honing leadership skills.

To view more pictures from the camp, check out the School of Business Administration Facebook page!

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Undergraduate News Widener University

Clean Water Action

Professor Miller and Colleen Meehan Students from Professor Miller’s Business Law class presenting

Honors Presentations On March 20, 2012 three Widener University School of Business Administration students represented us at the Honor’s Week presentations. Nick Beaton’s presentation, Statistical Analysis of UFO Sightings, showed the value of data mining. Nick demonstrated using statistics on UFO sightings around the United States how to take a large volume of data and pinpoint an important fact, or statistic. Cassandra Latsios presented on the af-fects of alcohol to Native American tribes. Cassandra spoke about genetic dispositions to alcoholism and the effects alcoholism has on Native American tribes including poverty, suicide and loss of culture. Anna Geeter presented on leadership and how anyone can be a leader. Anna spoke about how leaders don’t need to have an “it” factor, they have to believe in themselves and be willing to keep growing. Anna, who started Northern Star Sports Program, has inspired others to be leaders and become actively involved in programs such as Big Brother Big Sister. All three students did a great job on their presentations and made the School of Business Administration proud.

Nick Beaton Cassandra Latsios Anna Geeter

On February 25, Professor Miller invited Colleen Meehan, Program Organizer at Clean Water Action to speak about the importance of keeping the environment a priority. The discussion centered around the up and coming threats that the Marcellus Shale is causing to the residents of Pennsylvania. This large rock formation is 600 miles long and ranges from New York to West Virginia. It contains the largest deposit of natural gas in the country. Consequently, the governor as well as other politicians have been acutely aware of both the economic benefits as well as the environmental danger. In order to extract the gas from the rock, 1,000 truckloads of wa-ter and chemicals are needed to fracture the rock to reach the natural gas. According to the Clean Water Action group fracking pollutes the land, water and air. Fracking is a very political issue. It has been reported that over the past 10 years $747 million went to elected officials through lobbying from the fracking industry. While boom towns can arise when natural gas is taken out, often the towns dissolve as the crews move on. The di-lemma is to not harm the environment and yet take advantage of this natural gas found in Pennsylvania. For more information and to see how you can help, please visit http://cleanwater.org/pa.

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Undergraduate News Widener University

Beta Alpha Psi

Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) and the Accounting Society hosted the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Annual Student Night on March 15, 2012 in the Webb Room. BAP and Accounting Society officers Jackie Beers and Jessica Capladi did an outstanding job organizing and coordinating the event. There were over 30 students in atten-dance to hear retired DuPont executive and IMA officer Jim Romesberg talk about identity theft and social media implications for businesses. The Greater Philadelphia Chapter graciously do-nated $500.00 to BAP to be used to assist student members in the future.

Brittney Becker, Lindsay Krakower, and Chad Grabinese

Some of the Beta Alpha Psi inductees Charles Waldauer Faculty and alumni faculty

Honors Week On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 faculty members, Professors Hargadon and Lordi as well as Associate Dean Green-berg welcomed the new members to the following Honor Societies: Beta Alpha Psi, International Honors Fraternity for Financial Information Professionals; Justin Blackwell, Jordan Goldstein, Sean Huff, Erika Rosado, and Samuel Wilson. Beta Gamma Sigma, The International Honor Society for Recognizing Business Excellence; Ali Mefger Alyami, Brittney Becker, Anthony Bruno, Chad Gravinese, Edward Thomas Hunter, Lindsay Krakower, Amanda Luz, Betsy Philip, Marc Royo, and Rachel Weller. The highlight of the evening was the Distinguished Service award that was bestowed on Charles Waldauer who spent 37 years at Widener University. His research, publications, teaching and service were recognized as exemplary and his fellow faculty members applauded him for all his contributions and dedication to Widener University. We con-gratulate everyone for their awards.

Award Recipients On March 27, Professor Hargadon accompanied three juniors to the Institute of Management Accountants student night in Christiana, Delaware. The Delaware Chapter of the IMA awarded the following awards to Widener stu-dents:

IMA Scholarship Michael Quinn

IMA Outstanding Student Award Lindsay Krakower

IMA Special Recognition Award Samuel Wilson

Congratulations to all of the students on their great honors!

Michael Quinn, Lindsay Krakower, Professor Hargadon, and Samuel Wilson

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Undergraduate News Widener University

Sports Management Speaker Series

Bill Mattis Alexander Murphy Anthony Jackson The speakers answering audience questions

On Monday, March 26, the Sports Management Network hosted a mini career fair followed by the Sport Man-agement Spring Speaker Series. The topic at the speaker series was Sports and the Law. The speakers in-cluded Bill Mattis, Founder, CEO, Agent at AllStarInc; Alexander Murphy, Jr., Esq.; and Anthony D. Jackson, Esq. Each speaker gave great insight about working in sports management. Bill Mattis talked about how diffi-cult it is to break into the industry. He said, “To be really successful, you need to fail so you can learn from your failures.” Alexander Murphy spoke about his work in the entertainment industry on movies such as “The Mighty Macs.” Anthony Jackson, who works in employment discrimination law, sets up sports programs for children. The speakers were very knowledgeable and provided great advice for those who are looking to work in the sports management industry. Their message to the students was to network, network and network!

On April 2, the School of Business Administration held a Finance Workshop to launch the new major. Dean Ozatalay made opening remarks, followed by Professor Mansur who introduced and outlined the new pro-gram and led a panel discussion about finance. The panelists included Steve Wynne, of BNY Mellon; Paul Adolf, of Vanguard; Maggie Creed, of Wilmington Trust; Mark Lydon, of Merrill Lynch and Tom McKeon, who owns his own firm. They had great insights about the landscape of the finance industry and how stu-dents should position themselves in order to break into the field. Tom McKeon reminded the group that as a financial planner, it is important to remember who you are serving, and not to lose sight of that. After the dis-cussion, Mark Gale spoke about the Money Club and the activities the students are involved in. These in-clude taking a tour of Vanguard and touring the New York Stock Exchange, and managing a student-run in-vestment fund. The rest of the event was designated for networking, which allowed students to gain further insight about finance from the panelists and finance professors.

Finance Workshop

Top Row: Paul Adolf, Professor Mansur and Steve Wynne; Bottom Row: Tom McKeon, Mark Lydon and Maggie Creed

Professor Mansur, Steve Wynne, and Mark Gale networking

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Upcoming Events Widener University

Upcoming Events

Senior Lunch

When: April 23, 2012

12:00a.m.-1:00p.m.

Where: Quick Center 108

Enjoy a free lunch

Taco bar!

Mingle with classmates and faculty

Learn about graduate school

Let us help you with your career

Senior Lunch, 2011

Business Summer Camp

For High School Students

When: July 9-12 or

July 16-19

8:30a.m.-3:30p.m.

Where: Widener University

Trip to TD Bank to learn about banking

Shop and sell products at the University Center

Bowling recreation trip

Tour of PPL Park

Closing ceremony with presentations to parents and guests

Business summer camp, 2011

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Graduate News Widener University

Hot Topics: Adjusting to a Transitional Market

Inventory Sale

The Graduate Business Association is selling hoodies, long-sleeve and short sleeve t-shirts!

The GBA will only keep 40% of the profits. The other 60% will be divided between 2 charities: Clean Water Action and Chester Alliance.

For pricing information or to make an order stop by the graduate office or email John Ksionska at jjksion-ska@mail.widener.edu

Professor Miller and John Ksionska modeling the hoodies

Lindsey Isler and Frank Naylor Jr. Dave Douglas, Neeti Dewan and Chris Farrell

Tom Toner, Frank Naylor Jr., and Michael Bivens

Yoana Koleva, Chao Wang, Craig Loun-das and Caitlin Singer

Graduate Business Association

Hot Topics has become an annual event for the GBA and our graduate students. This year our goal was to provide our students with a more relaxed approach to networking and have them meet with executives from area companies to discuss opportunities. Frank Naylor, executive vice president from TD Bank shared with the group the qualities he looks for in a new hire. Neeti Dewan, Vice President of Tax at Aramark looks for students that can go above and beyond the expected performance. She has hired Widener students and likes their work ethic. Tom Toner, was recently hired by Wawa, and shared with the students how to continue to network and progress in your career. Craig Loundas, from University of Pa Health System, who also teaches our Professional Development courses, is always on the look out for opportunities for our students and has helped many connect with employers on Linked In.

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Highlights and Upcoming Events Widener University

C A L E N D A R

Business Summer Camp

For High School Students

When: July 9-12 or

July 16-19

8:30a.m. to 3:30p.m.

Where: Widener University

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Summer camp, 2011, bowling Summer camp, 2011, at PPL Park Summer camp, 2011, learning business

Date  Event  Location 

Group(s) 

Attending Event 

Apr. 23  Senior Lunch  QC 108  Seniors 

May. 12  Commencement Breakfast 

QC Atrium  Seniors and families 

July 9‐12 and July 16‐19 

Summer Camp  Quick Center  High School students