Thomas G. Vellios, the co-founder and chairman of the board of Five Below, Inc., will share his viewpoints on business and leadership with the Penn State Smeal College of Business on Friday. His visit is part of Smeal’s Executive Insights series.
The Penn State Smeal College of Business MBA program is ranked No. 8 globally in the “value for money” category in the 2019 Financial Times MBA Rankings, propelling the program’s overall rank 12 spots ahead from the previous year.
Haidt will present a lecture on “The Three Terrible Ideas Weakening Gen Z and Damaging Universities and Democracies” Feb. 21 at 5 p.m. in 100 Thomas and on “What Capitalism Does to Us, and For Us” Feb. 22 at 11:10 a.m. in the Struthers Auditorium of the Business Building.
White brokers may charge minority borrowers higher mortgage fees, according to researchers. They also say that minority brokers charge about the same fees for whites and minorities who are seeking loans.
Paul and Beverly Perreault, of Park City, Utah, have made a generous commitment of $1.08 million to establish the Perreault Fellows Program and Scholarship in Global Programs, which will provide international internship opportunities to talented undergraduate students interested in becoming global leaders in their fields.
Seven Penn State alumni selected by the Penn State Board of Trustees will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, which is the University's highest honor presented to its alumni.
Fariborz Ghadar, Penn State Smeal College of Business professor of finance, William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Management, Policies and Planning, and director of the Center for Global Studies, supported Smeal's #GivingTuesday initiatives with what was the biggest gift to the University on that day.
Penn State World Campus is again the most recognized institution in U.S. News' 2019 Best Online Programs rankings.
Mobile money is transforming economies in many areas of the developing world. Chris Parker, assistant professor of supply chain management and Institute for CyberScience associate, studies how technology can change economies.
The Penn State Smeal College of Business is offering two new accelerated master’s programs -- the Master of Science in Real Estate Analysis and Development and the Master of Corporate Finance -- designed to address growing demand in the marketplace.
Ginger Breon, a senior project director for Penn State Information Technology, is retiring from the University.
Marine Corps veteran Jessica Page graduated on Saturday, Dec. 15, with a bachelor’s degree in business that she pursued online through Penn State World Campus.
A team of three undergraduate students from the Penn State Smeal College of Business combined to take first place in the 2018 Colvin Case Study Challenge, a national intercollegiate real estate competition hosted by the University of Maryland’s Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development.
Five MBA students from the Penn State Smeal College of Business teamed up to place first in the Fifth Annual Smeal MBA Sustainability Case Competition. Second-year students Amanda Flecha, Ryan Roach, Sophia Schuster, Anoop Sharma and Sarah “Harvey” Weidman claimed the top prize of $10,000.
Kristin Jantzie, who is graduating this weekend with a bachelor of science in business earned through Penn State World Campus, is in her 14th year as a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall. During the Christmas season, Jantzie performs in as many as four shows a day, six days a week.
