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College of Business and Economics

When I became dean of the College of Business and Economics in 2008, my number one goal was to build a great new building for our students, faculty and staff.

The building is done and it is truly impressive. The attention and recognition associated with this building have been amazing, but so many other things have happened along the way. We’ve launched new degree programs, created new centers of excellence, we’ve built an even stronger faculty and we’ve expanded and enhanced great relationships with students and the business community. That’s what this book is about. There is a bit about the building, sure; but more importantly you will read about the activities of our academic departments and our centers, about faculty accomplishments, and student and alumni spotlights. You will see that we’ve been busy – busy building the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University.

I hope that you enjoy this update on the building years and that you will stay in touch with COBE. We are building something great and we want you to be a part of it.

Go Broncos!

Patrick Shannon

We have been building our new building and a whole lot more.

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We dedicate The Building Years to the memory of Steve Appleton,

our student and our friend. His devotion to COBE made

the Micron Business and Economics Building a reality.

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OOur mission is to provide a high-quality learning environment with a faculty and staff dedicated to delivering innovative academic programs, conducting meaningful research and supporting regional economic development.

Our vision is to be among the most respected business schools in the West, known for high-quality graduates, research impact, entrepreneurial spirit and creativity.

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The Building

After countless planning meetings, 275,000 construction work hours and $20.3 million donated, we have a new home.

In 1970 when the old business building was opened, student enrollment in business programs was under 1,500. By 2007 COBE enrollment had grown to nearly 3,000 students. Some faculty and two of our centers were housed else-where. We needed a new home.

Micron kicked off the fundraising with the lead gift of $12.5 million. More than half the $35 million cost was funded by donations from over 1,000 alumni, friends and businesses. The remaining funding came from student facility fees. The building project is a true partnership between alumni, the business community and students.

With funding secured and plans in hand, construction on the Micron Business

and Economics Building began in November 2010. Twenty-one months later, we moved into a fabulous new building. The building on the corner of University Drive and Capitol Boulevard is a four- story, 118,890-square-foot building designed to emphasize student learning, encourage innovative research and enhance community collaboration. It has state-of-the art classrooms, a mag-nificent 250-seat lecture hall, student commons with food service, unique stu-dent work spaces, a financial technology classroom, financial trading room, pro-ductive spaces for research and faculty collaboration and a vibrant courtyard.

During the building years, over 500 COBE students have graduated annually. The building now serves 3,100 undergraduate and 300 graduate students and 75 faculty with room to grow.

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For students, we want a warm and welcoming place that feels like home.

The best thing about the new building is seeing it filled with students.

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Technology in the Building

WIDESCREEN, DUAL PROJECTORS IN 13 CLASSROOMS – Instructors can show a slide presentation on one side and supplemental materials such as videos, assessments of student understanding or a real-time discussion forum on the other.

65" TOUCH PANEL LCD DISPLAYS IN FIVE CONFERENCE ROOMS – Shared documents can be viewed, edited and updated during a meeting, and video can be streamed.

THREE 65" DISPLAYS IN THE TRADING ROOM – Students are exposed to state-of-the-art systems such as Bloomberg stations that allow them to analyze and interact with real-time financial market data.

ADVANCED TEACHING LECTERNS – Every room has digital media switching, controllable from the lectern computer and a wall panel, a first for Boise State. Instructors can connect almost any computer, iPad, Android device, or phone to one or both of the classroom projectors and the room audio system.

LECTURE CAPTURE – Ten classrooms and the Skaggs Hall of Learning are equipped for lecture capture. Students don’t have to miss a lecture because of illness or work commitments. This provides students another way to review for exams and gives international/ESL students a way to review materials where spoken material went by too fast for them to understand on first hearing. We use the Mediasite system which is used by the majority of the top 25 U.S. business schools. It adds valuable features such as real-time streaming, OCR recognition of text on slides for searching content and support of almost any smart mobile device such as Android phones and iPads. We also have a Mediasite lecture capture portable remote unit to stream-cast and record events anywhere on or off campus, such as interviews with executives at their place of business. Mediasite is used to stream COBE Speaker Series events to overflow classrooms when the auditorium is full.

40" LCD DISPLAY IN 25 TEAM ROOMS – COBE emphasizes collaborative work and group projects. Team rooms support that emphasis with technology that allows students to connect their laptop computer to the large screen displays and work jointly on their group projects. Two teams rooms have advanced technology to allow students record classroom presentations as practice, create video materials for multimedia assignments and otherwise use advanced technologies.

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This building has been designed to an energy use standard that is nearly 50% better than current energy code require-ments. Some of our green features are:

The building is heated with 165°F water delivered from the City of Boise’s geother-mal hot water system. By using this natural resource we eliminate over 90% of natural gas use. The heat in the water not used for heating the building is used to melt snow on the main entrances and courtyard.

Magnetic bearing technology in com-pressors eliminates the friction of a traditional chiller, increasing the overall efficiency of the cooling system and eliminating noise.

On the wings of the building, 5,120 sq. feet have a green roof system. Hearty na-tive ground cover grows in trays with 6"

of soil. The green roof reduces the load of storm-water into the drainage system and reduces the amount of energy needed for heating and cooling. The living roof requires little water, is mowed once a year in the fall and is dormant in the winter.

All the heating, ventilating and cooling systems and lighting in the building are controlled and monitored by a build-ing automation system. The system resets temperatures during unoccupied and standby modes, adjusts the central heating and cooling plant for maximum efficiency, and utilizes an adaptive learning function based upon weather patterns for optimal startup of the building.

Other green features like super-insulated walls, window glazing, low-flow plumb-ing fixtures and more are described on an interactive touchscreen on the first floor at the northeast entrance. The display also shows real-time and historical energy use. On this display, you can also find out your own carbon footprint.

Behind the Red Bricks Our Building Is Green

Building Automation Controls

Geothermal Hot Water Heating and Snow Melt

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Building construction webcam photos

Construction began November 2010 and finished 21 months and 270,000 work-hours later.

720 tons of demolition material recycled 950 tons of structural steel 150 tons of metal stud framing

190 tons of concrete reinforcement 1,900 tons of site and building architectural precast concrete

400 tons of sandstone 330,000 bricks 84 miles of electrical wire 74 miles of communication cabling

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Y SSteve was such a great supporter of the College of Business and Economics, not only financially, but also with his time. He loved to come to campus to speak with students and faculty and was an inspiration to us all.

“I was lucky to have had Steve in class in 1979 and even then he stood out as one of those students who loved to learn and wanted to know as much about the sub-ject as possible. Steve carried his love of learning throughout his business career at Micron. For example, in the early ’90s when he was doing business in Japan, he hired a tutor and learned to speak Japanese so he could be more effective in negotiation with Japanese partners and customers.

As CEO of Micron Technology, Steve championed the Boise State University cause through the Micron Foundation. Evidence of this is the Micron Founda-tion’s gift of $12.5 million which made the new Micron Business and Economics Building a reality. Steve will be missed by those of us in the College of Business and Economics for many reasons, but I will miss his friendship most of all.”

– Patrick Shannon, Dean, College of Business and Economics

Steve Appleton1960-2012 – In Memory

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Steve was awarded an honorary doctorate from Boise State University in 2007.

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A timeline of significant COBE events starts on the bottom of page 30 and continues throughout the book.

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The COBE Student Services Center is usually the first contact a student has with the college. Our office does all academic advising for freshmen, sophomores and transfer students.

The past few years have been a time of change and improvement in COBE Student Services. We have started offer-ing a variety of workshops three times a semester. Two of our most popular workshops are “What is an internship and how do I get one” and “The top five interview questions.”

We also have been very involved in the college’s Student Enrichment Week, which is a week of activities involving students and a mix of successful COBE alumni and business leaders from the Boise community.

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SERVICESstudents have applied and are pending or fully admitted to COBE.

Also in fall of 2011, the university implemented mandatory advising for all first-time Boise State students. We offer group advising sessions in one-hour blocks for a two-week period, making it easy and convenient for students to attend. These advising sessions gets stu-dents started in the right direction for a successful college experience.

In fall of 2011, COBE implemented an admission process for students taking up-per division courses. To qualify, students must have completed or be in the process of completing ten courses deemed essential for students in business, and have and maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5. The Student Services Center created the online application and processes all applications that are submitted. Since implementation, approximately 2,000

Student Services professionals participate in the new-student orientations to share key points about COBE and to provide information for incoming students. We have recently implemented an individu-alized class scheduling system that helps each new student develop an appropriate class schedule based on their placement scores and transfer credits. This system has saved students the frustration of try-ing to choose their classes for their first semester. This has worked so well that other colleges on campus have adopted this model and it is being considered for all first-year students university-wide.

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During the building years, the Depart-ment of Accountancy was very busy with strategic and curriculum endeavors. We connected with accounting professionals in the Treasure Valley through our advisory council, Beta Alpha Psi events and our student mentoring program. Our advisory council is composed of 23 accounting professionals, many of whom are Boise State accountancy alumni. The council provides invaluable advice to the faculty regarding curriculum, student placement and issues facing the profession.

The department was re-accredited in fall 2011 by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a distinction shared by only 170 accounting programs. The peer review team visited in October 2011 and affirmed our accreditation after reading our 50-page application and meeting with our faculty, students and supporting professionals.

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AACSB Re-accreditation

Building our program with accreditation, strong community bonds and student-centric tools.

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AACSB Re-accreditation

In conjunction with the Idaho Non-profit Center, the department planned and hosted the IRS Tax Workshop for Small and Medium-Sized 501(c)(3) Organizations on September 27, 2012. The workshop is only offered at selected colleges and universities. The workshop was extremely well received. Over 100 CPAs, attorneys, business managers and nonprofit professionals attended the workshop at Boise State.

We started a mentoring program to help students learn about accounting careers and grow their networks. The program runs each academic year where-in approximately 50 undergraduate and graduate accountancy students are assigned to mentors in approximately twelve different organizations based on their interest. Participating organizations in 2012-2013 include:

In 2010 we joined forces with the University of Idaho College of Law to offer a concurrent juris doctor/master of science in accountancy, taxation program. Under this new program, students earn the JD degree and the MSAT in three or three and a half years rather than the usual four years.

See Graduate Programs (page 38) for information about our masters in science accountancy (MSA) and MSA, taxation (MSAT) programs.

IRS Tax Workshop

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Mark Cowan, Professor of Accountancy, received the 2011 Boise State University Foundation Scholars Award for Teaching. The selection committee highlighted several of his accomplishments by noting, “He clearly cares that students leave the classroom with the knowledge to succeed in their careers and in life; he strikes a balance between theory and applied knowledge, integrating experiential learning with a solid foundation in the underlying structure of his discipline; and, in the true spirit of a teacher-scholar, he inspires students’ commitment to continued learning by linking discovery, exploration, and understanding.”

Scholars Teaching Award

Faculty Phenom Paul Bahnson was awarded the Lybrand medal for an outstanding Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) article titled “Top Ten Reasons to Change the Conceptual Framework.” At the time, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) were working on revisions of both U.S. GAAP and the international frameworks. Paul also received the 2009 Lawler Award for best article published in the Journal of Accountancy during 2008 for his article “A New Day for Business Combinations,” which discusses the conceptual foundation for FASB Statement 141(R) and explains the significant changes created by the revised standard. Paul was one of four professors listed in Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People in 2011. The annual list comprises thought-leaders and change-makers in the profession.

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K In 2010, Smith received the Boise State Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award for his in-dustry leadership. He is a past member of the COBE Advisory Council and has served on two COBE dean search committees, the Boise State Foundation board and the Destination Distinction Campaign steering committee.

Kirk and his wife, Marsha, have given generously. They have funded a marketing professorship and were early donors to the Micron Business and Economics Building, where a 60-seat case room is named for the couple. Their most recent commitment will support COBE students.

his first teaching experience as a graduate assistant by tutoring undergraduate accounting students.

After completing the MSA program, Filzen began working as an accountant at Moss Adams in Spokane, Wash. He left to become a PhD student at the University of Oregon and, in May 2011, successfully defended his dissertation. Afterward, he started his academic career at Michigan Tech.


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Kirk G. Smith BBA Accountancy 1978

Kirk Smith was awarded the Silver Medallion in December 2012, Boise State’s highest recognition of service to the university.

Smith is founder of SSI Foods, a leading supplier of food products to top, quick service restaurant chains in the country. In 1998, Smith started S&S Foods of Los Angeles, a joint venture partnership with J.R. Simplot Company. In 2003 he merged his two companies with partners from Texas to form CTI Foods. Smith was president and CEO of this company until his recent retirement; he remains a member of the board of directors.

Accountancy Alumni Spotlights

Josh FilzenBBA 2004, MSA 2005

After a journey marked with many accomplishments, Josh Filzen now is an assistant professor at Michigan Technological University. As an under-graduate, Filzen obtained his first exposure to public accounting as an intern for Eide Bailly. At the same time, he began considering a career as a professor. He continued his education at Boise State through the MSA program and received

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January 19 – Micron gives lead gift for new building, $12.5 million.

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Launched in 2009 as an organizing struc-ture for entrepreneurship-related programs, classes and activities, the Center has become an important resource for entrepreneurship education and development on campus and in the community. The mission for the Center is to develop, facilitate and encourage entrepreneurship through academic pro-grams, research and community outreach.

The building years were a time of growth and activity for the Center. Entrepreneur-ship Day in Idaho is an annual event orga-nized by the Center. Open to the campus and public, Entrepreneurship Day offers how-to workshops for current and future entrepreneurs on topics such as marketing, funding, franchising and intellectual prop-erty. Notable entrepreneurs are featured as speakers. For example, Ward Parkinson,

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co-founder of Micron, spoke in 2011 and provided insights to the early days of the tech giant, while Steve Hodges, Idaho Technology Council Hall of Fame inductee, in 2012 told us of his challenges and successes as a serial entrepreneur.

Helping students develop the skills and experience to launch their own businesses played an important role during the building years. Students presented their ideas to local entrepreneurs for feed-back and improvement during business plan presentations. Many went on to participate in business plan competitions across the U. S. and Canada. Many students received national recognition for the business plan presentations. Not only did the experience allow them to fine tune their communication skills and business understanding, but also provided networking opportunities.

The Center for Entrepreneurship part-nered with the university’s Division of Research and Economic Development (Office of University and Industry Ventures) to open “The Kitchen” on the corner of University and Capitol, just south of the Micron Business and Economics Building. The Kitchen is purposefully designed to bring together students and faculty from across campus, along with community partners, to develop problem- based solutions that can be commercial-ized as new businesses. The space also is used by Boise area groups involved in the creation of new businesses.

COBE receives $70,000 from 2007 Fiesta Bowl proceeds for the design thinking project.

September – COBE hosts first annual Lessons from Alumni event. Hundreds of alumni have participated.

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sity’s Competitive Strategy game into some our classes, is an important reason. An equally important part of effective teaching is student involvement with applied learning and research. Since the inception of the Boise State University Undergraduate Research Conference competition, economics majors have had the most submissions – and the most winning entries – of any major in COBE. One of our students, accompanied by an economics faculty member, took her in-class research project to the National Economics Insiders Symposium, winning third place in a competition among the best universities in the nation.

The Department of Economics has seen lots of exciting progress that we anticipate will continue into the future. One mea-sure of our success is that the number of economics majors has doubled over the past five years. Some of the reasons for this growth include excellent teaching, applied learning opportunities and in-creasing student involvement in research.

An indication of the great teaching on the part of the economics faculty is the recent awarding of the 25th annual Golden Apple Teaching Awards in which our faculty won all three awards given to COBE faculty. Engaged faculty with a willingness to be innovative, as evidenced by the introduction of Stanford Univer-

One measure of the success of the economics department is that the number of economics majors has doubled over the past five years.

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Faculty and student engagement with projects important to our state and region have been increasing. Some of these, in which student involvement has been, key include:

• Studies for Southwest Idaho planning offices on future trends in population, housing and employment.• Economic importance of facilities from Boise’s Century Link Arena to the Idaho National Laboratory.• Evaluation of the effectiveness of early childhood education in Idaho.• Fiscal and economic effects of renewable energy development in Idaho.

Research projects with a national scope include the effects of Political Action Committee contributions on the finan-cial services and health care industries; the global market potential for small modular nuclear reactors and the impacts of a domestic industry for their manufac-turing and deployment; and an evalua-tion of seat belt effectiveness in the U.S. These projects not only benefited stu-dents by involving them in cutting-edge research, they also contributed nearly $300,000 in funding to the university.

In addition to these projects, several economics faculty participated in the National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Program in Idaho. This five-year, $15 million award focuses on building research capacity at Idaho’s public universities related to Water Resources in a Changing Climate.

G one of the Top Ten Scholars from Boise State in 2012 and his selection as the student speaker at the university’s grad-uation ceremony. He also served as an economics intern for Bradley Wiskirchen, a Director of a Federal Reserve Bank. Upon graduation, Fenton became the second Boise State economics graduate accepted as a research assistant with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Emphasis is on excellence in the classroom, active student engagement and relevant, cutting-edge research.

The funding supports a new faculty member in resource economics and several graduate and undergraduate research assistants and postdoctoral researchers. Several research projects analyzing eco-nomic issues relating to land and water use in Idaho have been under way for the past four years as part of the EPSCoR program and faculty involved in this project are leveraging the program’s investment to win additional funding to examine issues critical to Idaho such as agricultural prac-tices, changing water availability and use, and ecosystem provision.

With its emphasis on excellence in the classroom, active student engagement, and relevant, cutting-edge research, the Department of Economics is well posi-tioned to continue to make vital contri-butions to the university and its students, the College of Business and Economics, and the state.

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George M. FentonBA Economics 2012

George M. Fenton from Post Falls, Idaho, graduated from Boise State in Spring 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in Econom-ics and a minor in Mathematics. Includ-ed among his many achievements are recipient of the Thelma and Dean Brown Honors Scholarship, an award-winning member of the Boise State debate team,

Economics Alumni Spotlight

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The Centre for Creativity and Innovation generates creative collaboration and “aha moments” for people and organizations in Boise and beyond. To do this, the Centre focuses on research, community engagement and bringing new concepts to the classroom. The Centre has just re-ceived support from Boise Inc. for several of its activities, ranging from the CCI Press to a workshop series to facilitation of…(not what you think) gangs!

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CCI Press will disseminate knowledge, through books and beyond, that will help spark insight for leaders and others. The first is called the Business Aha! Tips (or BAT) series – short, snappy, interactive books on topics from creativity to ethics.

Creative Edge WorkshopThe Creative Edge Workshop brings in well-known speakers and authors, including Dan Roam (Back of the Napkin) and Todd Henry (The Accidental Creative), to conduct day-long workshops for organizations in the region.

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May – First cohort of new Executive MBA students graduate.

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January – COBE Business Research and Economic Devel-opment Center created and Economic Turnaround Initiative launched. We help over 600 businesses the first year.

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HOW CREATIVE LEADERS OUT INNOVATE TO OUT PERFORM

A portion of the proceeds from Wise Beyond Your Field will go to Boise State University student scholarships.

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“ Wise Beyond Your Field is a breakthrough work that

demonstrates that there is much to learn by stepping out of our

comfort zone and looking for examples of creativity in all types

of business and disciplines. I’m glad The Gang took the risk and

shared the lessons.”

—RANDY HALES, PRESIDENT AND CEO, ZAGG INC.

Former Utah Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Salt Lake City, Utah

“Boise State University’s Coach Pete holds his cards close to his

coaching vest, but not here, as he lets you inside to see how he

puts the ‘mad scientist’ to work on self improvement.”— JEFF CAvES, TALK SHOW HOST

93.1 FM KTIK “The Ticket,” Boise, Idaho

Beyond Your Field: How Creative Leaders Out Innovate to Out Perform. One of the authors of this book is Boise State’s foot-ball coach, Chris Petersen. All books from CCI Press are available on Amazon.com.

Design Thinking CCI initiated design thinking projects for organizations in the region as well as in the classroom, at the undergrad-uate and graduate levels. This approach to unstructured problem solving, started by IDEO and the Stanford De-sign School, is now available for students and managers alike with faculty members facilitating the process.

The Gang... and More The Centre works with several organi-zations from different sectors that are or want to be high-performing and highly creative and learn from each other. The original Gang includes the arts (Trey McIntyre Project, Idaho Shakespeare Festival), education/sports (the Boise State Football Program), government (The Ada County Sheriff’s Office) and business (Healthwise, WhiteCloud, and Drake Cooper). Several of its members have given talks or interviews nationally (e.g., NASA and USA Today) about The Gang. The message of The Gang’s value for leaders and organizations has sparked demand for more. So the Centre formed The Posse, The Hard Rock Miners, The Wranglers and the Sidewinders (we DO live in Idaho, after all). Lessons from The Gang appear in a CCI Press book, Wise

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While the new Micron Business and Economics Building was being designed and built, we were hard at work creating new and redesigning our current master’s programs to better meet the needs of the business community and our diverse student population.

In 2006, we launched an Executive MBA program for experienced executives – the first of its kind in the state of Idaho.

In the fall of 2012, two new MBA programs debuted with the opening of the new building – a full-time MBA program (Career Start MBA) and a part- time MBA program (Professional MBA). COBE continues to listen and adapt to the dynamic business needs of organizations and students throughout Idaho while designing the format, curriculum and outcomes of all the programs.

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The College of Business and Economics Master of Business Administration program offerings have grown considerably since starting its first MBA program in the early 1970s.

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Professional MBAThe Professional MBA program meets the needs of our local working population – individuals wishing to create career options. This part-time night program emphasizes the skills individuals need to enhance their career path after several years in the work force. This unique program emphasizes the ability to evaluate opportunities and commercialize those with merit using university or INL- developed intellectual property as project material during the course of the program.

Program highlights:

Executive MBA (EMBA)

This one-of-a-kind Executive MBA curriculum integrates business disciplines throughout the entire program rather than being taught in topic-specific courses. This integration helps students better understand the complex relationships between accounting, finance, operations and more while still receiving the necessary fundamentals. This program receives excellent reviews, offers the best value in our region and features one of the most robust executive lecturer programs in the country. Executives are able to apply tomorrow what they learn today to make big impacts on their companies and careers (see EMBA Alumni Spotlight on the next page).

Program highlights:

Career Start MBAAnother first-of-its-kind program, the Career Start MBA is designed for non- business majors with little to no work experience. This full-time day program seeks out hard-working students who are looking for an opportunity to prove themselves. Career Start MBA students will complete a summer internship and work on real projects, graduating with experience on their resumes and business knowledge that employers value. Each cohort accommodates 53 students with classes starting each fall. We seek to admit students with diverse backgrounds and one thing in common – they all have something exceptional about them.

Program highlights:

• This is a program for seasoned executives.

• Students need 6+ years of management experience.

• The focus is on the development of flexible, innovative leaders, vision and business skills.

• Graduate in 2 academic years, meet just a few days each month.

• This is a full-time day program for recent graduates looking to start their career. It is designed for non-business majors.

• Students need no work experience, but are screened for high potential.

• The focus is on real world experience, teamwork, business skills and project management.

• Graduate in 2 academic years of day classes in a cohort, lockstep program.

• This is a part-time night program for working professionals looking to create career options.

• Students need 2+ years of professional experience.

• The focus is on commercializing ideas, project management, teamwork and business modeling.

• Graduate in 3 academic years of night school on the regular 16-week semester.

We continue to listen and adapt to the dynamic business needs of Idaho’s organizations and students.

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Russ BarronThe only graduate from the public sector in the inaugural Executive MBA class of 2008, Russ Barron is applying what he learned from his classroom experiences to his work as an administrator for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

“I believe that a lot of what works in the business world also can work for govern-ment,” he says. “When it comes to taxpayer money, efficiency and maximum produc-tivity really matter.”

He changed processes in the state welfare division, adapting lean manufacturing practices into an office setting. While his employees carry some of the heaviest caseloads in the country as a result of an ailing economy, their performance and

EMBA Alumni Spotlight

efficiency are among the best. They garnered Idaho more than $3 million in federal incentive money earlier this year, reducing the necessary state funds to administer programs. Barron’s department has become a model for other state government agencies and for other states.

In addition to Barron, other Boise State Executive MBA alumni report vast savings or significant additional revenue for their companies. Boise State designed this program to promote strategic or integrated thinking among our graduates and future business leaders. A consortium of local companies helped design the curriculum, which also emphasizes an integrated teaching method and includes personal coaching.

MSA and MSA/Taxation Programs Prepare Students to be CPA ProfessionalsStudents achieving the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation establish themselves as highly credible financial ex-perts in the world of business. Our Mas-ters in Science Accountancy (MSA) and MSA, Taxation (MSAT) programs provide students the academic background to pass the uniform CPA exam and become licensed. The MSA/T programs allow students to select from a menu of courses in accounting that meet their education needs and interests. Courses recently added to the curriculum were interna-tional taxation and international financial reporting. Placement of our MSA/T grad-uates in public accounting firms regionally and nationally was excellent.

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Accountancy faculty member Paul Bahnson nominated Jared and said, “I am elated that

Jared made it through the daunting se-lection process. It speaks volumes about Jared. He is an impressive individual.”

Jared recently completed his FASB internship and is now a staff accountant with KPMG in Dallas, Texas. We are very proud of Jared!

Jared Musick After Jared Musick’s graduation in December 2011 with a second under-graduate degree in accountancy and master of science in accountancy, he was selected for a one-year internship at the Financial Accounting Standards Board in Norwalk, Conn. The program is exceedingly competitive – only a handful of interns are chosen each year from a large pool of nominees submit-ted by accounting programs from many of the leading U.S. business schools.

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COBE Students have a Positive Impact on Boise Community

Students in Dusty Bodie’s Volunteer Management course had the opportunity to complete a service-learning project for the Idaho Foodbank. Cathe Scott, Community Engagement Coordinator for Idaho Foodbank, shared her thoughts,

“The students were really fabulous. We would never have gotten everything done without them.” The students were charged with creating a training manual for Idaho Foodbank’s volunteers.

“They did the most amazing job. We were really impressed with what was accom-plished in such a short period of time,” Scott said.

Not only did the students deliver a remarkable product, The Volunteer How-To Handbook, they went above and beyond, producing such items as warehouse tour maps, information cards, points of interest cue cards, a PowerPoint training manual and signs. According to Scott, even current volunteers learned something new from the information the students put together.

Scott also benefited from a second service-learning project. A student from Bodie’s Advanced Management Topics: Managing in the Nonprofit Sector designed a Food Drive Tool Kit. The

student created posters, brochures and all collateral materials to be distributed to area businesses so they could run a successful food drive independently. Scott noted that the student did an amazing job in creating the materials. This allows the Idaho Foodbank to share the materials with businesses wishing to operate their own food drives.

Scott was pleased with the outcomes and commented, “It was definitely a win-win situation from my perspective.” Scott encourages all of her professional colleagues to engage in the Boise State service-learning programs.

Examples of what COBE students and faculty are doing in the Boise community. By Halleh McCullough.

“The students were really fabulous,” said Scott.

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Net Impact is a graduate student organization that inspires, educates and equips individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.

Jenny Schenk Miro Barac Eric Bergset2012 President 2011 President 2010 President

Net Impact Boise State is an affiliate of the San Francisco-based Net Impact, an international organization with over 280 chapters consisting of 20,000 under-graduate, graduate, and professional individuals. Net Impact Boise State helps COBE graduate students use their skills to positively impact their surroundings, turn beliefs into action, and enlarge their professional network with other

like-minded individuals. Founded in 2010, Net Impact Boise State won the university’s Outstanding New Student Organization that year. Net Impact Boise State hosts six events each year where students can network and learn from local business leaders who excel in sustainability, corporate responsibility, and ethics.

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June 16 – Hummel hired as architect for the new building.

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The Idaho Council on Economic Education has been co-hosted by Boise State’s Col-lege of Business and Economics and the College of Education since 1973. The Coun-cil provides training and materials in economics and finance for the state’s 119 school districts. Tens of thousands of Idaho students and their teachers have received lesson plans, manuals, classroom kits and practical training through the Idaho Council.

The International Economic Summit – Idaho’s Proprietary Economic Education Program The International Economic Summit program has grown in fifteen years from a single high school classroom simulation on international trade into a highly effective and motivational learning experience on globalization, international economics and the free enterprise system. This program has reached approximately 112,000 students across the United States and it now is being implemented in China as well. The mission of the Summit program is to help build a new generation of students, citizens and leaders who have the financial and economic knowledge as well as the skills and passion to compete and prosper in the world’s highly competitive global economy.

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December – Over 1000 donors helped raise $5 million to meet the Micron Match for the new building.

September – TECenter receives $1 million grant to expand and create jobs in the Treasure Valley.

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A recent study funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Council for Economic Education revealed that 34 percent of students can pass a national exam on economics before the Summit program. After the Summit, program, 74 percent pass the exam.

During the building years: • 20,000 high school students have participated in the International Economic Summit.

• 10,000 elementary, middle and high school students have participated in the Stock Market Game.

• 1,000 teachers have attended our economics training courses.

• The International Economic Summit program was introduced in China, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Tennessee, California, Utah, Arizona, Washington and other states.

• 3,000 community volunteers from banks, companies and universities have contributed 18,000 hours of service to schools and students in economic and financial education.


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Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain ManagementPhil Fry, Chair

The Information Technology Management major is growing! After several years of experiencing declining enrollments of IT majors, a nationwide phenomenon, our student numbers for fall are up 27 percent over our low in 2008. We also are attract-ing more female students, with 16.7 percent of our total majors this year. Sec-ond-degree students also are increasing as we welcome home many of our veterans, or current workers come back to enhance their skills. We continue to evaluate and revise our curriculum to meet changing business and technology needs, and this year added a mobile development elective that has proven to be very popular.

KKey IT-SCM faculty and staff worked on the technology pieces, processes and physical design for the new building.

During the building years key IT-SCM faculty and staff worked with architects, contractors, and administration assisting with technology pieces and processes, and physical design details for the new build-ing. We made the transition of technology to the new building practically seamless, all the while continuing to focus on students, teaching, curriculum design, local business interaction and preparing our graduates for leadership positions.

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Supply Chain ManagementThe department’s faculty contributes to the supply chain management field through research that addresses important issues such as:

• “How do project champions advance environmental initiatives in their companies?” • “How do companies efficiently manage a high number of purchases in an increasingly complex business environment?”• “What impact can logistics decisions have on the sustainability of supply chain firms?”

The department is globally recognized for the quality and impact of the work of our faculty. For example, the Journal of Supply Chain Management – the leading journal in the field – named Regis Terpend runner up for its 2011 Outstanding Paper Award; Tom Gattiker won this award in 2008. The highly prestigious Journal of Operations Management named Gattiker to its associate editor board in 2010, it appointed Terpend to its editorial review board in 2012, and it named Jim Kroes as its “Best Reviewer” in 2009.

In 2013, we will begin offering our Master of Operational Excellence in partnership with the Kaizen Institute. During this one-year executive program, students from all over the world will be on campus for four one-week sessions, plus a study trip to Japan.

In addition to master’s and undergraduate classes in operations, process improve-ment, procurement and modeling, we recently have begun offering courses in logistics and in sustainable supply chains. Dean Pat Shannon, David Groebner, Emeriti and department chair Phil Fry’s textbook on business statistics has been adopted by business schools worldwide and now is out in its ninth edition.

While many college graduates struggle to find employment in today’s economy, demand for SCM majors outstrips supply. Companies including Micron, St. Luke’s, Heinz, PKG, Plexus, Coldwater Creek and Ada County have recently snapped up our graduates. Our internship pro-gram for undergraduates includes orga-nizations such as Micron, NYK Logistics and Boise Inc.

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James Kroes joined COBE in fall 2011 as an assistant professor. He teaches the supply chain and operations management overview course for all busi-ness majors and a newly developed course that focuses on distribution and warehousing within supply chains. Kroes’ research interests include projects examining sustainable supply chain management; the relationship between working capital management and supply chain policies; and manufacturing outsourcing. Kroes has authored a number of papers and conference presenta-tions and is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the Decision Sciences Institute, the Production and Operations Management Society and the Institute for Supply Management. Prior to coming to Boise State, Kroes was assistant professor in supply chain management at the University of Rhode Island, where he earned the Outstanding New Teacher Award in 2010. He earned his doctorate and master’s degrees at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his undergraduate degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Spotlight on New Faculty:

Christopher “Kit” Scott joined COBE as an assistant professor of information technology management in fall 2011. Scott teaches systems planning and analysis, and project management. He completed his doctorate in information systems at Washington State University in 2008 and worked at Lamar University before coming to Boise State. Scott’s research focuses on human computer interaction (HCI). Within the HCI domain, he examines individuals’ perceptions, attitudes and psychological factors and how those characteristics influence an individual’s technology adoption and use. Scott also performs research on communication processes and the influence of media on communi-cation effectiveness. His research has appeared in journals such as Communica-tions of the AIS, The DATABASE for Information Systems and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.

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on her Boise State experience, she states, “The SCM faculty at Boise State is well versed in traditional operations theory, but more importantly, is able to translate theory into application. I was extremely impressed by the effort put forth by my professors to build partnerships with local employers to create opportunities for experiential learning. The SCM program instilled in me a solid business foun-dation which has provided credibility amongst my peers in all positions I have held – many of which have been outside traditional operational roles.”

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Courtney KirchnerBBA Supply Chain Management 2007 (summa cum laude), MPA 2010

Courtney Kirchner is the director of Governance and Regulatory Review at St. Luke’s Health System. Her respon-sibilities include implementation of governance best practices throughout the healthcare system, development and coordination of the St. Luke’s Fellowship Program and establishment of organi-zational core competencies based upon Baldrige Quality Award criteria to meet changing industry demands. Reflecting

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Matthew BickettBBA Information Technology Management 2011

Matthew Bickett is an associate consultant in the Application Development depart-ment for Microsoft. Bickett works on a consulting team that helps Enterprise customers deploy Microsoft’s products (Windows 7, Active Directory, Exchange, Server, Sharepoint, Lync, among others) and comprises people with development and infrastructure backgrounds. He feels his ITM program helped him become well suited to his new position.

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International Business Programs Meredith A. Taylor Black, Director

BThe International Business (IB) Program strives to provide the highest value prepara-tion to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, enabling them to compete successfully in the global economy. IB implements an integrated, multi-dimensional strategy, ensuring our graduates gain the international exposure necessary for success in future business endeavors.

Every year, our students interview approximately 150 companies. The results help direct the strategy and content of our program and guide our mission. In the 2012 assessment, we learned:

•When hiring, 80 percent would give preference to a person with expertise in the IB field. •57 percent of those companies do not (yet!) have an employee dedicated to IB functions. •70 percent of companies saw a need within their organization to have one or more employees trained in IB procedures.

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Our Foundation: Preparing Global CitizensHigh contact advising and mentoring have become key characteristics of our IB program. Beyond requiring students to meet and work with the director and an IB peer advisor, three additional oppor-tunities offer guidance and support:

Executive Mentorship Program – The Interna-tional Business Programs currently hosts three mentors, among them Kent Ernest, retired VP of International Sales and Marketing for the J.R. Simplot Compa-ny. In weekly discussions, IB mentors share their experiences with a select group of IB students.

Change is inevitable and our ability to influence and adapt to new business practices and rules is what will distinguish us both as businesspeople and a nation.

Trading Up in Emerging FrontiersThe new International Trade Certificate (ITC) Program provides the opportunity for graduate students, small business owners and local professionals to gain a strong background in international business principles and trade practices. Certificate holders increase their employ-ability and the program also prepares students for the national NASBITE Certified Global Business Profession-al (CGBP) exam – a benchmark for professionals in the international trade field. Participants of the November 2012 ITC Soft Launch included business professionals, Boise State faculty, as well as graduate and undergraduate students (pictured below).

Mile with My Majors – IB seniors discuss their career plans with program direc-tor Black while walking a mile on the Boise Greenbelt.

International Business Organization, (IBO), a historically strong student group on campus, has grown in size and mission. In the past few years IBO students have secured funding to bring speakers to campus and organized international learning trips. In fall of 2012, IBO traveled to Seattle, Wash., and Van-couver, BC where students visited – among others – the sites of Boeing, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Philips and Hanjin Shipping Company.

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Breaking New Ground with Study Abroad, International Internships and Global Partnerships

During the past few years through Study Abroad at Boise State, over sixty IB majors traveled, inter alia, to Heidelberg, Germany; Bilboa, Spain; Lyon, France; Bangkok, Thailand and more. Here are a few voices from abroad:

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Export Excellence. Since 2010 the IB program has been the exclusive provider of interns to Idaho’s Export Excellence Program. Export Excellence matches Idaho companies interested in exporting to a new foreign market with an IB major and Idaho District Export Council coach. These working groups develop a customized export plan, which includes assessments of various markets and risk mitigation strategies.

Heidelberg Project. In collaboration with The Business School of Applied Science University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the Idaho Small Business Develop-ment Center, the International Business Program offers Idaho companies the

ability to investigate market opportu-nities in Germany and Europe. Since 2005, student teams, with oversight from professors at both universities, conduct field research for Idaho companies on po-tential markets and other specific queries from the firms. These firms receive a cus-tomized marketing study, analysis, and plan for exporting products or services to Europe or Germany.

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Hitachi Global in Tokyo, Japan

Makemysolutions Oy in Lapua, Finland,

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“I transferred to Boise State from the Vienna Economics University in Austria and was elated to discover the practical

approach of the in-ternational business classes. I was espe-cially impressed by the level of faculty accessibility and excited by the num-ber of internship opportunities.”

The IB program’s global partnerships create learning experiences and business opportunities for our students and partner firms.

Global Partners. In October 2011, Meredith Black led the national delegation of Global Scholars to Taipei, Taiwan, for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. As a member of the delegation, she visited various govern-mental agencies of Taiwan in the areas of national security, foreign affairs, cross-strait relations, international trade and economic affairs, education, health care, as well as met Taiwan political party leadership and policy-making scholars

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Vera ZdravkovaBBA International Business 2011

Vera Zdravkova completed a number of domestic and international internships while earning her degree. These experi-ences have taken her to Mexico, Taiwan, and Rwanda. Since graduating, she has been accepted to the Masters of Interna-tional Business Program at Tufts Univer-sity’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplo-macy. She was also recently offered a position with the U.S. Department of State and plans to pursue a career as a

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benchmark their program against other member schools and to facilitate the sharing of best practices in International Business education.

IB hosted CUIBE’s Annual Spring Conference “Trading Up in the Great Exchange: Educating for a Global Economy” in February 2013. This conference focused on increasing the effectiveness of IB education. The event featured prominent Idaho figures, including Idaho Lt. Governor Brad Little, Idaho Department of Commerce Director Jeff Sayer, Micron Technology CEO Mark Durcan, and the J.R. Simplot Company CEO Bill Whitacre.

during a related seminar. Since then, the IB program has been committed to hosting MBA students from the Interna-tional Trade Institute of Taiwan every spring and increasing research initiatives on Taiwan and its unique trading relationship with Idaho.

CUIBE. In 2009, IB gained full member-ship in the Consortium of Undergradu-ate International Business Education (CUIBE), a selective group of IB programs (many ranked by U.S. News and World Report in the top 20 IB programs in the U.S.). The primary objectives of CUIBE are to provide members with an opportunity to

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The purpose of the Idaho SBDC is to encourage and assist the development and growth of small businesses by leveraging funding from the U.S. Small Business Administration with higher edu-cation resources. Nationally, and in Idaho, over 80 percent of new jobs are being created by the small business sector.

The Idaho SBDC is a statewide network of business consultants and trainers that op-erates from the state’s colleges and univer-sities. Boise State’s College of Business and Economics serves as the State Office with administrative responsibility for directing the type and quality of services.


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October 7 – Engineered Structures, Inc. (ESI) awarded $32.5 million building contact.

October 26 – Break ground for the new Micron Business and Economics Building. Demolition of University Inn begins.

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The Idaho Small Business Development Center (Idaho SBDC) offers confidential business consulting and training to help small businesses succeed. Idaho SBDC clients consistently outperform their peers.

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In 2010, the SBDC celebrated 25 years of helping Idaho’s entrepreneurs. Since 1986, the Idaho SBDC has helped businesses succeed. Examples of that success have been recognized nationally – in 2011 Mason Fuller was the Nation Young Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2012 Rekluse Motor Sports was the National Exporter of the Year.

The Idaho SBDC is now co-located with the College of Business and Economics, which significantly enhances the visibility and credibility with the business commu-nity. The building is a great environment to provide our coaching and consulting and being able to easily interact with the faculty and students daily is a big plus. This will continue to increase the assistance to entrepreneurs and enhance our students’ learning through real-world business experience.

• Combined recorded SBDC impact for 25 years:• 27,700 clients with no-cost, tailored, confidential consulting• 75,000 attendees at high-impact trainings• 8,225 jobs created•$801 million in sales increases•$61 million in additional state and federal tax revenue•$564 million in capital infusion• A return to the economy of $4 every $1 invested in the program

April – Boise State’s chapter of Net Impact wins Outstanding New Student Organization.

July – Destination Distinction campaign ends $185,416,696.92 raised (goal $175 million) $21,247,625.26 raised by COBE.

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• The management department faculty have helped to expand management theory and practice by publishing over 60 refereed journal articles in academic and professional outlets in the last five years.

• Legal Environment Professor Michael Bixby was awarded the Distinguished Career Faculty Award at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Conference in August 2012.

• Gundy Kaupins and coauthor Nancy Napier wrote Business Aha! Tips on Creativity published fall 2012.

• Several management faculty, such as Mark Buchanan and Mike Bixby, expanded their own understanding of international issues by teaching abroad as part of the University Studies Abroad Consortium in countries such as China and Spain.

• Susan Park and Mike Bixby published the fifth edition of The Legal Environment of Business in 2011.

• Mark Buchanan is a Certified Global Business Professional through the National Association of Small Business International Trade Educators.

Faculty Highlights

The Department of Management had many successes in the Building Years helping students, clients and Idaho by:• Hosting the most majors in the College of Business and Economics at Boise State. •Maintaining accreditation standards in general business, entrepreneurship management, and human resource management degree programs.• Aligning our human resource management major with the Society of Human Resource Management’s HR curriculum standards.• Serving over 500 clients by providing free business plans, compensation and employee handbooks and assisting businesses through the Idaho Small Business Development Center and other organizations.• Supporting publications with specializations in international entrepreneurship, technology transfer, location monitoring, exporting challenges, integrity testing and ethics.• Converting the entrepreneurship emphasis to a full degree program in entrepreneurship.

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The department participated in the development of a new required course for all incoming COBE freshman called Business for the New Generation, which was introduced in fall 2012. This exciting new course features readings from Bloomberg Business Week, clicker technology to survey students, a Micron Technology live case, and numerous guest speakers and is designed to give our beginning students an understanding of how the various business functions are integrated and an overview of many of the issues facing modern businesses.

Professors Jim Wanek and Dusty Bodie included virtual, avatar-based software from Vertical Learning Curve in their team-taught online MBA human resource management and organizational behavior course during the fall 2011 semester. This was the first entirely online course to be offered in the Professional MBA program. Their innovative course was mentioned in an article in U.S. News & World Report August 15, 2012.

The COBE capstone course, GENBUS 450 Business Policies is designed around live business cases that connect graduating students with local business managers and entrepreneurs. Combining traditional strategy-based concepts and frameworks, team-based projects are used to integrate business knowledge and practices from all the functional business areas. The course culminates in team presentations of strategy analysis and recommendations to business clients, together with a written report of findings and conclusions.

Academic Highlights

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the café, and design jobs so that students could gain experience in operating and managing a food service facility. Students working in the café’ learn skills such as inventory control, marketing, account-ing, scheduling and food management.

J.R. Simplot Café on the first floor of the Micron Business and Economics Building gives students hands-on experi-ence operating a small business by taking a general business class. In the months leading up to the café’s opening, students in the COBE Residential College worked alongside campus food service managers to create the menu, write a charter for

Jhas helped organize a community out-reach question-and- answer session with Sustainable Futures, a nonprofit organi-zation in Boise. He

also helped organize a booth at the Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair for veterans. He has worked as a workforce development specialist at Transform Solar.

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James Pendergrass was very active as president of the Human Resource Association while he was a student at Boise State. Through his leadership, Boise State hosted the Human Resource Games, a Jeopardy-style competition among schools from California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada. Since gradua-tion, he has been active with the Human Resource Association of Treasure Valley as its Community Affairs Co-Chair. He

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“The College of Business and Economics is a key driver of Idaho’s economic growth,” said Dean Patrick Shannon. “With the creation of the Business Research and Economic Development (BRED) center, the community has a single contact within COBE to help find appropriate assistance on virtually any business issue. This center provides a clear entry point for civic leaders, businesses and economic development

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Ientities to access, utilize and gain from the college’s wealth of resources.”

BRED enables clients to efficiently identify third-party, creative and viable options to address business, organizational and policy challenges.

BRED’s website includes the Boise State University Idaho Leading Index, the Idaho economic dashboard, the cost of

living calculator as well as a host of papers, articles and presentations developed by the center.

The center is frequently sought by the media throughout Idaho for presen-tations on economics and business development. BRED orchestrated the “Boise State on Business” series for Idaho Statesman’s Business Insider and appearsmonthly on KTVB’s “It’s Your Business.”

BRED has mobilized MBA students through its MBA consultancy program, completing projects as diverse as agricul-tural nutrition, metal fabrication, medical services, motorcycle retailing and flood control. The center also coordinates internships for MBA students.

BRED stands ready to help clients engage students through classroom projects and create ties to faculty research. BRED has completed a number of grants that have dealt with tax and policy, market research, transportation and specific business issues.

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September – Accountancy professor Paul Bahnson is listed among Accounting Today ’s Top 100 Most Influential People.

November – Nancy Napier receives the Vietnam Medal of Honor for contribution to education.

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The TECenter’s 38,000-square-foot facility, located in Nampa, houses innova-tive and scalable businesses in all stages of development. The TECenter Acceleration Process ensures continual improvement and growth for startup companies. The TECenter has worked with more than 100 startup resident entrepreneurs who, since 2008, have generated $37 million in sales, more than $12 million in invest-ed capital and created 295 jobs; many have graduated from the program and grown to see great success.

TThe Boise State Technology and Entrepre-neurial Center or TECenter, is Idaho’s leading business accelerator. In 2012 the TECenter welcomed Denise Dunlap as executive director. Dunlap brings a strong background with more than 20 years of business experience in the Treasure Valley, a majority of that time in managerial and executive roles. She served as a principal and managing member of Loon Creek Capital Group, a business consultant with Areté Advisers and the President/CEO of The Network Group.

In 2011 the TECenter was awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Agency (EDA) to continue creating jobs in the Treasure Valley. The grant funded the addition of 11,000 square feet of new office space for acceleration companies. The funds also were used to renovate the existing office and light industrial space to house many entrepreneurs to come.

January 6 – Newly designed Professional and Career Start MBA programs approved by State Board of Education.

June – COBE Speaker Series Presented by KeyBank is created, eight speakers planned for the academic year.

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Scott Roark, our newest finance professor, is using his real estate background to create a new undergraduate class covering real estate finance topics. He also is ex-ploring possible graduate course offerings in real estate.

With our move to the new building in 2012, finance students now have access to a wealth of technological tools and data-bases that provide hands-on experience in a variety of financial management appli-cations. (See bulleted items at far right.)

Our innovative marketing program has continued to add specialized courses that have generated strong student interest. An example is the special topics sports marketing course first taught in 2012. Guest speakers and outside partici-pants include key executives from local professional sports teams. The students spend a semester partnered with various Boise State club sport programs. They conceptualize and implement marketing strategies aimed at increasing awareness and participation for these lesser known sports on campus.

Department of Marketing and FinanceKeith Harvey, Chair

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The Building Years have been an interesting time in our department. The events surrounding the financial crisis have provided numerous opportunities for application and discussion in our financial institutions and investments-related courses, including risk management and ethical and regulatory issues that have been prominent in the news.

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Student Highlights Recently, our finance students successfully applied their knowledge in regional and national competitions. During 2012, a team of four finance majors won their regional CFA Institute Research Chal-lenge, which included six schools from Idaho and Ohio, and participated in the national competition in New York City. The students assumed the role of research analyst by conducting a valuation and financial performance analysis of Boise Inc. and presented their findings before a panel of CFA judges.

Eight students managing the Student Managed Investments Fund earned the highest portfolio return among a group of 20 schools in the Northwest for 2012. The D.A. Davidson-sponsored program provides schools $50,000 in investment funds annually, and the schools share in the profits to fund scholarships and other opportunities for future students.

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2011-2014 Gary McCain awarded the John Elorriaga Professorship.2009 Dwayne Barney honored as Alpha Kappa Psi Professor of the Year.2008-2011 Harry White awarded the John Elorriaga Professorship.2008 Shikhar Sarin named Kirk and Marsha Smith Professor of the Year.2005-2008 Doug Lincoln awarded the John Elorriaga Professorship.

• Dwayne Barney honored as COBE Advisory Council Teacher of the Year, co-authored a book called Capital Is Money.• Shikhar Sarin named Associate Editor of the Journal of Product Innovation Management.•Trina Sego named Associate Editor of the Journal of Advertising.•Jason MacDonald named COBE Advisory Council Teacher of the Year.

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Brad says, “There is no better university in the northwest than Boise State. My personal development in the four years I was at the College of Business and Economics provided me with the nec-essary skill set to be successful right out of the program. By having an accredited business college in the heart of a city and community, the number of opportunities for students is unmatched.”

Dwayne Barney Doug Lincoln Jason MacDonald

Shikhar Sarin Trina Sego Harry White

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Marketing and Finance Alumni Spotlight

Brad WeigleFinance BBA 2011Marketing BBA 2011

After graduation Brad moved on to Drake Cooper, the largest advertising agency in Idaho, located in downtown Boise. Brad is one of the youngest account executives at the agency. His work spans the north-west in some of the largest metropolitan markets in the United States.

At the agency, Brad manages the Dream Big program where local nonprofits receive free marketing services for a year. His work has helped these companies gain larger footprints in the community and serve their social missions more effectively. Brad has been able to give back to his

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Marketing Alumni Spotlight Sara BahnsonBA Marketing 2011

During her undergraduate career at Boise State University, Sara worked in advertis-ing account management at Oliver Rus-sell in Boise, supporting clients such as Hewlett-Packard and Symantec. Follow-ing graduation in 2008, she leveraged her experience with high tech companies to become an account manager at Balihoo, a Boise-based marketing automation soft-ware company. Sara is currently a PhD candidate in marketing at the University of Oregon and plans to pursue a career in academia.

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August 16 – New Executive Master of Business Operational Excellence program is approved by the Idaho State Board of Education.

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August 21 – Building dedicated by President Kustra and Micron CEO Mark Durcan.

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TechHelp provides consulting assistance and training to manufacturers, food and dairy processors and inventors across Idaho to help them to grow revenues, increase productivity and performance, and strengthen global competitiveness.

Headquartered at Boise State, we deploy university staff, faculty and student re-sources in partnership with Idaho State University and the University of Idaho to act as catalysts for strengthening Amer-ican manufacturing – accelerating inno-vation and driving economic growth and job creation.

TDuring the building years we restructured our team around three manufacturing- focused initiatives. Our Growth and Innovation team delivers innovation, market and engineering consulting to accelerate company growth while reducing risk. Our Food and Dairy Processing team delivers food safety, quality and processing expertise to Idaho’s food and dairy processors. And our E3 (Economy- Energy-Environment) team helps Idaho companies make products more efficiently, profitably and sustainable with less energy and environmental impact.

Since 2008, Idaho manufacturers have reported more than $268 million in economic impact and over 2,000 jobs created and retained as a direct result of TechHelp projects. Our team-based network of experienced staff and proven partners develop trusted and lasting rela-tionships with Idaho company leadership and leaders in surrounding communities. TechHelp consultants have a reputation for developing and delivering innovative processes, products and services that enable Idaho’s medium, small and rural companies to drive down costs and in-crease profitable growth through self-sus-taining, manufacturing best practices.

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August – Hewlett-Packard gives $500,000 in IT products, solutions and services.

August 27 – First day of class in the new Micron Business and Economics Building.

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TechHelp has been Idaho’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) University Center and its Manufacturing Extension Partnership center since 1996.

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As you look through this publication I think you will agree that the building years have been an impressive time for the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University. The new Micron Business and Economics Building is the most visible sign of change and an impressive accomplishment. This state-

of-the-art facility will foster the highest levels of teaching and learning, and our research and outreach with the business community will spur economic growth for our state and our region for years to come.

At the dedication of the new building Dean Patrick Shannon said, “What happens inside this building will prove the private investments worthwhile.” Now, as we look to what is possible with our new facility, we must turn our attention to raising private funds for other critical areas.

Scholarship Support: Boise State is committed to balancing the need for student access and affordability with the goal of providing a quality educational experience. The College of Business and Economics is committed to raising private scholarship funds to attract and retain the best students regardless of their financial circumstance.

Faculty Support: Quality education does not happen without strong faculty. It is challenging to compete with our better-funded peers in other states who seek to hire the same high quality faculty. Private support to enhance faculty compensation and research support is critical to attracting and retaining high quality professors.

Center and Program Support: Experiential learning in real world settings as well as interaction between businesses and our faculty enhance learning, research and economic development in our state and region. Private funding is needed for our centers and programs to ensure the centers of excellence operate at the highest level and that our programs continue to be state-of-the-art.

Dean Shannon and I look forward to working with alumni and friends interested in funding scholarships, faculty and program excellence. With your private investments we can ensure that our students are prepared for the world they face upon graduation and that COBE adds to the critical mission of growing our economy.

Sincerely, Virginia PellegriniDirector of Development

On behalf of everyone at Boise State University and COBE, we thank each and every individual, company and foundation who contributed to the building. We are honored by the investment you made in COBE’s future and give you our assurance that we will leverage it to the fullest going forward.

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Outstanding Graduates

To be among those selected as a COBE Outstanding Graduate is an exceptional honor. These students have been selected by department chairs with input from faculty and staff because of their excellent contribution to their major, outstanding academic achievements and leadership qualities.

Badr Altamimy - Intl BusGrant Band - MSATDrew Bisterfeldt - Info Tech MgmtHeike Brown - SCMBeth Brune - GB MgmtNikolina Dragicevic - HR MgmtNicholas Duncan - Entrep MgmtGeorge Fenton - EconThomas Golden - AcctMatthew Henderson - FinanDustin Klein - MktgPete Roberts - MBAEric Schuler - EconGlenda Smith - MSA

Monica Anders - MBAHumberto Arechiga - FinanAthena Barkdull - Intl BusDebra Bonkoski - EconAndre Dixon - Info Tech MgmtDominique Elliott - AcctJames Hess - MktgKathy Hurley - MSATSkylar Jett - Intl BusCasey Jordan - SCMJenny Josephson - MSARobbie Richards - GB MgmtRyan Warburton - HR MgmtChase Wolfe - Entrep Mgmt

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Kara Ashbaugh - GB MgmtHeather Beaman - ITMJames Bird - AcctKristin Chewning-Bierle - MBAChrist Gonzales - Intl BusKija Dawn Grant - EconQuentin Howard - MSATMichael Lampers - SCMChris Mason - FinanMartha Payne - MSAMichelle Scott - MktgTim Smith - Entrep MgmtMegan Stradley - HR Mgmt

Denise Buske - HR MgmtAmanda Clausen - MSATJon Daley - MBA Jake Davis - Entrep MgmtJason Davis - SCMJohanna Farrel - Intl Bus Maria Shimel - GB MgmtDaniel Simenc - EconJennifer Stemple - MktgErin Taylor - ITMSteve Wargo - AcctMelissa Ann Warwick - FinanJeff Woods - MSAMark Woychick - MBA

Isaac Barrett - CISSarah Birchfield - Intl BusKari Clark - FinanDan Coleman - MSATAaron Dreiling - Entrep MgmtMichael Gibbons - EconMichael Johnston - MSACourtney Kirchner - Ops Mgmt Christine Lemen - AcctCory Sanford - HR MgmtNicholas Schlekeway - GB MgmtChristian Weaver - MBARobin Zimmerman - Mktg

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Chosen by faculty, a COBE Signature Student has a strong knowledge of and an intense interest in business and/or economics, effective communication skills, a passion for learning, problem-solving aptitude, strong leadership abilities and ethical behavior personally and professionally.

Spotlight students are chosen four times a year, one from every department or program, for their exemplary academic achievements and contributions to their department, the college and the university.

William L. Baker - GB MgmtVeronica Baldrica - MgmtMegan Blanchard - Mktg Heike Brown - SCMDale Bowen - AcctKari Cook - AcctKimberlee Corey - SCM Nikolina Dragicevic - MgmtZoeann Greenfield - GB MgmtAlexandria Johnson - Mktg Nicole Katsuki - FinanKay Leigh Knapp - GB MgmtStacey Malek - MktgGregory Puccetti - FinanMichael Seven - AcctJennifer Shelby - EconSteven Thai - ITMBrett Thompson - GB MgmtAmber Vanderschans - AcctAlex Yeggy - AcctKiley Zanecki - Intl Bus

Anis Abduqodirova - GB MgmtRoman Agafonov - SCMChelsee Apple - MktgMelody Armstrong - GB MgmtWilliam Baker - GB MgmtMichael Bergloff - EconJacob Blaylock - ITMZachary Bolduc - MBAAnjanette Call - AcctCoree Carver - MktgErasmo Castro Torres - GB MgmtJoseph Clark - FinanSpencer Cobia - MSATKari Cook - AcctKayla Cuvelier - HR MgmtDagen Downard - HR MgmtToni Galloway - Entrep MgmtMatthew Henderson - Finan Rachel Holt - Intl BusJohn Hunter - SCMChaz Johnson - FinanChristopher Juchau - MBA

Athena Barkdull - Intl BusSusan Bogdanski - ITM Debra Bonkoski - EconAmanda Burnett - GB MgmtJack Dalton - Acct/FinanDonminique Elliott - FinanKelsey French - AcctNathanael Goode - AcctJames Hess - MktgHeather Holloway - AcctDawn Jones - GB MgmtKara Lemons- Acct/FinanEllis Nanney - GB MgmtKeith Nyeki - HRM/MktgJames Percy - FinanRobert Richards - MktgRyan Warburton - GB MgmtVera Zdravkova - Intl Bus

Nicole Katsuki - AcctVictoria Kazimir - Econ Brandon Kelly - Entrep MgmtKarris Kimball - MSATDustin Klein - MktgSanja Lazic - AcctAlexandra Lee - Finan Christopher Lynch - HR MgmtStacey Malek - MktgRyan McMillen - Entrep MgmtGeoffrey Moore - Intl BusBen Mueller - MSAAmelia Null - MBAJennifer Parke - ITMAshley Pignataro - HR MgmtLeonardo Raya - Intl BusAriel Rogers - SCM Jesse Rosenthal - EconKindra Schell - Entrep MgmtDawn Schmidt - ITMAshley Sindlinger - MSATNicholas Stobbe - MBAJoseph Tamasonis - Econ Steven Thai - ITMBurton Williams - SCM Kiley Zanecki - Intl Bus

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David Barry - EconNick Bicandi - MBAKristin Bierle - MBADebra Bonkoski - EconKristina Churikova - MSATBrian Clark - MgmtCody Corbridge - MSAJeremy Cork - AcctJacob Darrington - Acct/FinanShannon Davidson - MktgCharlotte Dhose - MgmtHilary Dovey - Intl BusDominique Elliott - AcctChristopher Forrey - MSATAmanda Gibson - Econ Amanda Gibson - Intl Bus Amanda Hatley - SCMMatthew Henderson - ITMBianca Jochimsen - MktgMaria Luisa Julian - Intl BusChelsey Kent - HR MgmtKara Lemons - Finan Chiaki Mesenbrink - SCMIvan Nanney - GB MgmtColby Norton - ITMKazuma Osugi - Econ Katie Paulson - MktgGabriel Quintero - Intl Bus Colin Redifer - FinanJane Reed - MBAGlenda Smith - Acct Cornelia Sprung - MktgTimothy Taylor - MSATJohn Townsend - MBAJill Young - Finan

David Andrews - MktgDeanna Berry - MSAJames Bird - AcctJulie Bunker - AcctLorna Bushong - FinanJon Daley - MBAEric Dalling - ITM Sonia D’Angelo - ITMJorie Duncan - AcctSheila Fredericksen - MBAAmanda Gibson - FinanKija Hanson - EconHeather Hiatt - ITMEmil Huseynov - EconSkylar Ann Jett - Intl BusChristina King - MBAMichael Lampers - SCMMonte Moore - Acct Andy Morris - EconDuong “Sunny” Nguyen - MktgJustin James Oldenburg - Intl BusShawn Phillips - Intl BusEthan Poulsen - MSATKate Redden - GB MgmtDavid Rush - MBADan Simenc - EconJason Smart - Mgmt and Intl BusMeghan Sorensen - MgmtCornelia Sprung - MktgJennifer Stemple - MktgJarrod Stevens - Acct/FinanMelissa Warwick - FinanAngela Zirschky - GB Mgmt

Amy Aldrich - FinanJody Elizondo - AcctAaron Green - HR MgmtKyler James - EconClara Mitchell - MktgWyatt Parke - Intl BusErin Taylor - ITMKaten Whitaker - MBA

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