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Career Initiatives Coordinator Sarah Thompson Diaz on Spring Break in the Big Apple

Over spring break, I have the opportunity to take a group of 24 Eller undergrad students to New York City for a weeklong study tour focusing on company site visits and alumni networking. The students were required to submit an application along with a resume and a letter of interest, and complete an interview. The students range from freshmen to graduating seniors and represent a mixture of all of our majors as well as pre-business. [view full blog entry]

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Eller College Fathauer Lecture in Political Economy: Harvard Professor of Economics David Laibson on Instant Gratification.

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Eller Undergrads Connect with Execs in Los Angeles

In January, the Eller College launched the first offering of its new corporate connections initiative to give current Eller students practical career experience and keep recent grads connected to their alma mater. The January pilot out of L.A. aimed to expose corporations to top Eller talent and provide students with a day in the field.

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Welcome to Jennifer Bublitz, who joined Eller in February as director of MBA career management.
Congrats to marketing alum Nita Umashankar, who is graduating with her Ph.D. in marketing from UT-Austin and just won the 2010 Fisher IMS & AMA SERVSIG Dissertation Proposal Award.
Congrats to Eller MBAs Forrest Branch, Justin Hart, Jeff Child, and Ian Rushton, who will be at Boston University March 25 to compete in an Ericsson-sponsored case competition.

Brent Seebohm Funds Excellence Fund for New Sports Management Minor Program Brent Seebohm Initiates Excellence Fund for New Sports Management Minor Program

February launch party held for student-driven academic option designed for non-business students.

At the launch, Brent A. Seebohm, former UA associate athletic director, announced a multi-year gift commitment to the program.

Eller Zipperman Scholars Pay a Visit to the Phoenix Suns

Last month, 52 pre-business students traveled to Phoenix for a behind-the-scenes look at U·S Airways Center operations, where the Phoenix Suns play. [more]

GoodCat Hotline Empowers Students to Report Academic Dishonesty

Students who observe unethical behavior in the classroom but hesitate to speak up have a new option: an anonymous reporting line, the GoodCat Hotline, developed by EthicsPoint. [more]

McGuire Center Mentor Helps Kyrgzystan Jewelers

Mentor-in-residence Jim Jindrick and a trio of entrepreneurship students recently hosted a workshop for jewelry entrepreneurs from Kyrgyzstan. The goal: to help develop partnerships with local companies and marketing and sales channels in the U.S. [more]

Eller MBAs Visit Emerging Markets All Over the Globe

"The beauty of international travel is that it opens eyes and minds to better understand that, despite politics and culture, we're more similar than we think," says Gabby Cervantes, MBA '10. [more]

McGuire Entrepreneurship Venture Teams Featured at Innovation Day Venture Teams Featured at Innovation Day

This month, McGuire venture teams began chronicling the ups and downs of venture planning on McGuireExperience.com, a new site featuring blogs, videos, and details about the process of going through the top-ranked entrepreneurship program. [more]

Planting the First Seeds: Last Year's Winning Venture Team Launches

After winning the 2009 Venture Competition Showcase with their venture Verdant Earth Technologies, Josh Hottenstein and Myles Lewis seized the opportunity to take the business from idea to reality — joining the Arizona Center for Innovation to refine the business concept and launching in July 2009. [more]

Counteracting Teens' Logo Lust: Supportive Parents and Peers Can Reduce Materialism in Teens

Research by marketing assistant professor Lan Chaplin finds that parents and peers can provide the support and acceptance that teens crave, which reduces their need to focus on expensive material goods as a substitute for self-worth. [more]