College of Business, News and Events

2010 IBM Faculty Award

Rakshit — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:38:08 +0000

MIS professor Dr. Stephen Kwan received a 2010 IBM faculty award. The IBM Faculty Award is a very competitive worldwide program intended to:

Foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and

Promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.

3rd Annual Bay Area Retail Leadership Center Conference

Rakshit — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:20:20 +0000

3rd Annual Bay Area Retail Leadership Center Conference

September 21, 2010
Student Union/Barrett Ballroom

“Enhancing Productivity Via Innovative Technology and Systems”

For more information, please visit the BARC Retail Leadership Conference page

College of Business Student Scholarships for 2010 Incoming Freshmen

Rakshit — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:29:47 +0000

College of Business offers the following scholarships:
Valla Merit Scholarship, Chizen Merit Scholarship, Donn A. Burch Scholarship and Thayer Scholarship.

For more details please visit http://www.sjsu.edu/cob/Students/opportunities/

Spring 2010 Convocation

Rakshit — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:03:53 +0000

Spirits were high as the jubilation from graduates permeated through out the San José State Event Center at the College of Business’ Spring 2010 convocation ceremony. Graduates tossed around beach balls and participated in the wave during the event to demonstrate their excitement and enthusiasm.

Donning traditional regalia, the College Deans and faculty members participated in the ceremony to honor over 600 graduating students. The event, held on May 28th, was full to near capacity with family and friends gathering to celebrate. The ceremony included both undergraduate and graduate students graduating in the Spring ‘10 and Summer ’10 terms.

During the ceremony, each graduate was individually recognized as they crossed the stage. After hearing their name read, graduates had the opportunity to be photographed with the deans of the College.

For this year’s convocation, Alumna Annette Finsterbusch served as the Alumni Guest Speaker. Annette earned her MBA from San Jose State in 2001 after completing the Charter MBA-One program. She currently works as the Senior Director for Applied Ventures, which is a portion of the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. Annette also serves on the College of Business’ Global Leadership Council.

In her speech, Annette offered three main points of wisdom for business students. First she encouraged students to “operate with integrity,” as well as “develop leadership.” Lastly, Annette stressed the importance of “achieving personal mastery.” Continuing with the concept of personal mastery, the alumnus advised students that “the key is self-awareness.” Annette stated that success comes from, knowing your weaknesses and strengths.

The College of Business would like to extend well wishes and congratulations to its graduating class of 2010.

52nd Annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner

Rakshit — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:25:02 +0000

To promote the theme of student success, the College of Business brought its’ 52nd Distinguished Alumni Dinner Event back to the San José State University campus. The event was held to honor two of its’ prominent alumni, Connie Moore and Ronald VandenBerghe.

As part of the student success motif, the SJSU ballroom was lined with posters exhibiting the many student opportunities provided by the College of Business. The posters showed student education in action, featuring students working in the Gary J. Sbona Honor’s Program as well as student travels in the Thompson Global Internship Program.

David Steele, the College of Business Dean, spoke of the two honorees success in the business community and also presented each of them with a plaque to mark the occasion.

As part of his introduction for honoree Connie Moore, David Steele commended her “entrepreneurial spirit,” calling it an inspiration for female business students. Connie graduated with her business degree in 1977, and since that time she has earned over 30 years of real estate experience, including becoming president and CEO of BRE Properties, Inc.

In her speech, Connie thanked her parents for their support of her education and affirmed that the foundation to her career started at SJSU. Connie stated that she was pleased to be back on campus and sited that the university “serves the Valley in extraordinary ways.”

Class of 1959 graduate, Ronald VandenBerghe also received accolades for his business contributions. Ronald is the founder and President of VandenBerghe Properties Inc. Ronald graduated with his business degree at SJSU in 3 ½ years in 1959. In Ronald’s speech he reminisced about tuition costs being only $29.50 a semester during his time as an undergraduate student. Ronald also called former Business Dean Jack Holland a “tremendous inspiration” to his business career. Ronald spoke of the quality education he received in his business courses and called his return to campus “nostalgic.”

The College of Business is proud to recognize these two distinguished alumni.

52nd Annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner

The 2010 Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition

Rakshit — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:33:37 +0000

The Entrepreneurial Society hosted the 2010 Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition this May. With the help of 10 Business faculty members and 14 external screeners, 56 business plans in total were judged for their various business aspects. The business plans were narrowed down to 16 top semi–finalists who all competed for the top prize of $10,000 to help bring their business plan to life. The final eight competitors included: B2B Cleaning, entered by Michael Picado; Classyfieds.org, entered by Kit Kershner; HealingPod, entered by Leah Tremblay; Hops Beer Bar, entered by Helen Heydeman, Frederic Rouhana, Arash Rahimi and Rita Sader; iJockey, entered by Will Steinberger; Reabl Baby Crane, entered by Todd Gardner, Ed Leslie, Paul Nguyen and Consuelo Polanco; Rota Mobility, entered by Michael Bayne; and The Noise Factory, entered by Lena Jones, Kevin Wick and Brian Orlando. The students-generated projects were judged on their overall plan as well as a presentation of their ideas.

After judging the finalists, Michael Bayne’s Rota Mobility Inc. business plan earned the Wanda Ginner First Prize Award of $10,000. The Larry Boucher Second Prize Award of $5,000 was given to iJockey by Will Steinberger. The Hops Beer Bar business plan earned the Dan Doles Third Prize Award of $2,500. Rota Mobility Inc. also garnered the accolade of Best Written Business Plan Award, sponsored by Dave Hadden, and earned an additional $500.

Experiential Learning Opportunities

Rakshit — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:40:19 +0000

Diane Guerrazzi is leading a group of students to Dubai this summer, and in turn students from Dubai will come to SJSU. Our group will be partnering with students at Zayed University. The group will study how our respective media operate and the role they play in creating impressions of each other’s cultures. For more details about this learning opportunity please contact Diane Guerrazzi.

Student Handout (pdf)
Student Application (pdf)

Global Ties: Entrepreneurial links between the Bay Area and China & India

Rakshit — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:56:34 +0000

The symposium is based on a Report just published by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute on business and other ties linking the Bay Area with India and an earlier Report on the Bay Area and China. The speakers will discuss the changing nature of economic ties and the role of cross-border and immigrant community networks in driving innovation and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and in China and India. They will also share their insights on the future of the relationship between high tech in Silicon Valley and high tech in China and India.
Please visit this page for more details: http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/svce/events/default.asp.

Event Flyer (pdf).

The event is FREE and open to the public.

World-Renowned Economist To Talk About His Latest Book Free Fall

Rakshit — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:59:58 +0000

Joseph Stiglitz, professor at Columbia University, is a global thought leader in the ﬁeld of economics and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Award. A former chief
economist at the World Bank and chairman of Clinton’s President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Stiglitz is a well-known critic of free market economics and the management of globalization who argues for the reform of global institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations.

Feb. 23rd, 5-6:30 pm in Morris Auditorium. We recommend that you (and your students) register as quickly as possible at the link below. You can then print out your admission ticket.
http://tinyurl.com/sjsu-stiglitz

Thompson Global Internship Program

Rakshit — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:25:17 +0000

The pilot team for the Thompson Global Internship Program (TGIP) just returned home from an experiential journey to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For more details please visit http://www.sjsu.edu/cob/Students/tgip