Speaker on Monday April 27th 12:30 to 1:20

Bill Hammond

Next Monday at 12:30 Bill Hammond of Cardinal Risk Management in Dallas will be speaking in the Dresser Aud (AB). He is a 1966 Bonaventure graduate.

He will be speaking on careers in business (what to expect, how to get started, etc) with particular emphasis on risk management and insurance. Bill has worked in enterprise-wide risk measurement and management. His clients include past presidential candidates and many Fortune 500 firms.

He is a great speaker and easily the most liked alum among BonaRespond members. He has made two trips with us and will be working this Sunday with us as part of the BonaResponds Local Service Weekend.

This trip came out of a talk we had in Bridge City in January. His expertise is impressive as well as his ability to communicate with a wide range of individuals. The presentation will be an excellent opportunity to expose students to an area (insurance) that every business needs but few classes cover.


12:30 Monday Murphy AB

Local Service Weekend April 24-25-26

BonaResponds will be hosting their largest local service weekend to date this weekend.

There will be work at about 20 different sites in the area. All levels of help are needed.

You are not too young, too old, or too anything else to help :)

For more information see BonaResponds.org. Specifically the help page.

Accountants in Residency Day

The Bonaventure Accounting Association and The Department of Accounting presents "Accountants In Residence Day (AIR)." Please join us Monday, April 20th for AIR day in the Doyle Dining Hall. The following speakers will be presenting:

1:30 TBA

2:30 "Applying For the CPA Exam" -Erin Johnson, Deloitte & Touché

3:30 "Making the Transition From College" -Andrew Neyman, Ernst & Young

5:00 Student Reception

Congratulations Courtney Spencer

Courtney Spencer has been awarded the Bennett Scholarship for next year. Congratulations Courtney!

Congratulations Dr. Mahar

Dr. Mahar was honored this past Wednesday with the Book of Golden Deeds Award by the Olean Exchange Club.

"The award recognizes dedicated volunteers who give endless hours of their time and talents towards making their communities better places to live, work and learn," said Brian Snyder, Chairman of the club's Golden Deeds program.

Congrats, Jim!

Keeping up with the Faculty

SBU School of Business faculty have been busy busy.

from Inside SBU

"Dr. Carl J. Case, Darwin L. King, and Kimberly DeSimone presented their paper “Virtual Worlds: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduate Behavior ” at the Allied Academies 2009 Spring International Conference held in New Orleans, La., on April 8-10, 2009.

Two of the authors also collaborated on

"Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of management science, and Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, presented their paper “The Undergraduate Blogosphere: Academic Class Activity and Perceptions” at the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences 16th Annual Conference held in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 19-22, 2009. The paper was also selected as Best Paper for the MIS II Track."

and in other news

" Dr. Kimberly Young, professor of management sciences, had a paper published in the International Journal of Cyber Criminology. The paper, Understanding Deviant Behavior Online from an Addiction Perspective, outlined 22 forensic cases that Young worked on as an expert witness. These were federal or state criminal cases involving traveling or online sex offending that Young evaluated from an addictive or psychological perspective."

Calling all school of business alumni!

We'd like to add a regular article on the blog of "Catching up with SBU School of Business Alumni."

To do this we need some information. So if you graduated from the SBU School of Business, we'd love to here from you!

Some suggestions:

• Name: (including maiden name)
• Email:
  
• Major:
• When you graduated:
• What you are doing now:
• News:
• Most important thing you learned at the SBU School of Business:
• Most memorable event that happened when you were at SBU:
  
• Anything else that you think might be interesting:

Also please specify if you want your contact info (email basically) listed.

Thanks in advance!

For now, email to me (hey my mailbox is already so full I can't reply, what are a few more hundred emails?) lol... jmahar@sbu.edu

Reminder that Vince Volpe will be speaking

From Dean Watson:

"This is a reminder Vince Volpe, President and CEO of Dresser-Rand Group Inc., will discuss Business Strategy in a talk tomorrow (Wednesday) at 3:00 p.m. in the Dresser Auditorium."


Here is a previous link to this along with a brief bio of Mr. Volpe.

Did you ever see our fall 2008 newsletter?

Just realized many of you may not have seen the Fall 2008 newsletter from the SBU School of Business. It is available here.

Catching up with Rodney Paul

As many of you know, Rodney Paul is an associate professor of Economics who has been able to bring his love of sports into his research. Rodney is beyond any shadow of a doubt our most prolific researcher.

Recently some of this work has been referenced in blogs and news stories. We thought you might be interested so here is a handful of such articles.

1. Studies of Addiction - on lottery betting
2. Brandes Institute on Market Efficiency - on Market efficiency using NFL data
3. Blog on Academic Studies of Sports Gambling - on sports gambling
4. SportsInsights on Academic Studies of Football - on football betting
5. Washington Capitals Blue Line Website--does fighting increase hockey attendance? and more on fighting in Hockey.