Congratulations to Zahid Khairullah

The Olean YMCA recognizes individuals on a yearly basis for their contributions to the community. Dr. Zahid Y. Khairullah is a 2010 Honoree and will be recognized at the 25^th annual A Salute to Olean dinner on Thursday March 4, 2010.

BonaResponds Blog: A class project on BonaResponds

BonaResponds Blog: A class project on BonaResponds: "..a group of Freshman 'Pacioli Scholars' put together the following video. It is very cool. :) Has interviews of a few leaders and of Ed and Donna who we helped locally, and video from Galveston.

YouTube - Bona Bubble - BonaResponds:

'Members of the Pacioli scholars at St. Bonaventure conduct interviews about the service organization that has done countless amounts of work in the community."

BonaResponds Blog: Fall Semester Recap

BonaResponds Blog: Fall Semester Recap: "Fall Semester Recap/Newsletter

'BonaResponds WNY: With no major national disaster, the focus this semester was on helping locally. We worked in Olean, Allegany, Hinsdale, Portville, Cuba, Friendship, Little Valley, Salamanca, Gowanda, Jamestown, and Machias.

And remember that is just this semester!'

Read the rest of the newsletter here."

SBU communications with parents

Did you know that SBU periodically sents out newsletters to the parents of students explaining what is happening on campus?

Here is an archive of past newsletters. They are really interesting and even those on campus will learn a great deal from them! I know I did.

Faculty News

Rodney Paul, Ph.D., had the paper "Bettor Biases and Price Setting by Sportsbooks in the NFL: Further Tests of the Levitt Hypothesis of Sportsbook Behavior" accepted for publication in Applied Economics Letters.

A great opportunity for alumni to get involved! Save the day!

On March 27 2010, BonaResponds will be sponsoring the first Bonaventure (inter) national service day. We are asking all alumni (and everyone else) to get involved.

It is really easy. No matter where you are around the world (we have at least one group in Singapore and maybe another in Western China as well). Go out into your local community and volunteer. Then share your experience with the hundreds of other volunteers that will also be volunteering.

It will be great fun and a great way to "change the world!"

For MUCH more information, see the BonaResponds National Service Day site.

Laurie Branch is featured in the Olean Times Herald

An article about Laurie Branch in the OTH. Not only is Ms. Branch the CEO of Iroquois Group, but she is on the SBU Board of Trustees and teaches a couple sections of Finance 301 at SBU.

Lessons in Leadership

"Part in parcel of the changing workplace, Ms. Branch said, is the vision workers have of what their lives can be like. “I think now we do a great job of managing expectations so that women don’t graduate from school thinking ‘Hey, I’m going to be a great mom, a great wife and a great executive.’”

Life facilitates choices.....

She said they have a game room at the office, complete with a Nintendo Wii."

New Journalism course opened up to business majors

Sounds like a good new course! And yet another example of how the distance between all fields is shrinking. As it has been said many times, "we no longer live in a world of silos".


Business Reporting (JMC 401B, M 5:30-8:10)

"Will the Buffalo Bills move to Toronto or Los Angeles? Michael Jackson died — so why was his comeback reincarnated as a movie? How were millionaires stripped of their wealth by an elaborate scam? These are some of the hottest stories of the last year. You’ll find one in the sports section, another in entertainment, and the third on the front page. But each is a business story. Business journalism is telling stories about people — how they create strategy, negotiate deals, take risks and make (or lose) money. That includes Wall Street, of course, and it includes the small shops you’ll find on Main Street in any town. It also includes multibillion-dollar industries like sports and entertainment. In this class, you will learn how to navigate financial statements and ask questions about numbers in a way that’s understandable to the ordinary citizen. This class is vital for anyone who plans work within – sports, entertainment or any field in which big money drives the big decisions. The instructor is Tim O’Shei, managing editor of the Business First newspaper in Buffalo. "

Faculty News

Rodney Paul, Ph.D., had the paper “Sportsbook Pricing and the Behavioral Biases of Bettors in the NHL” accepted for publication by the Journal of Economics and Finance.

Bonas Alum to Speak

Art Roberts, a 1968 graduate and former U.S. Army artillery officer, will draw on his most recent experience as the Vice President of Human Resources for Eastman Kodak on November 10 at 8 p.m., in the Quick Arts Center. The Leadership Center encourages all students in leadership positions or interested in pursuing a business degree to come, interact and engage with the fellow Bonnie!