Business Matters
News, articles, and interesting stuff from the College of Business
January 3, 2019
Center for Marketing and Consumer Insights (CMCI) taps new director
Dr. Johnny Chen joins the Oregon State University College of Business as the new director of the Center for Marketing and Consumer Insights (CMCI).
December 24, 2018
Impact at Work 2018
More than 200 guests came together in The Nines, including the 70 College of Business students who made the trip to Portland to express their thanks in person, and share details of their own life experiences to celebrate the power of people and actions.
December 20, 2018
Building in Portland
With expanded Portland offerings, the College of Business delivers hybrid education that meets workforce demand.
October 20, 2018
For Regan Mott, determination and hard work pay off
As freshman year gets underway at Oregon State, Mott isn’t worried about how she’ll pay for college. Instead, she was busy picking out things for her dorm room.
October 20, 2018
Game changer: The path to college isn’t the one he expected. It’s better.
“One guy came in high. One came in low. My ankle got caught in the turf.” And that was the end of Nick Hoddevik's football scholarship, but not his college dream.
October 15, 2018
Molly Switzer, AKBD: On the yin and yang of design and business
Mindful of what she saw as the economic condition of the industry and the need for survival, Switzer worked a few positions after that first job collapsed. All brought necessary tools to her toolbox to eventually build her own business.
September 9, 2018
Born in the ’00s: Gen Z Comes to College
Consider this: here is a generation born with broadband internet. Wifi is ubiquitous; it always has been. They’ll likely never have a newspaper delivered to their dwelling, or perhaps not a cable TV package on their own dime.
September 6, 2018
The Terminator Among the Angels
Angel investors sound so nice, don’t they? So what happens when that group – who’ll cull through 30 to 40 applications per investment cycle to find their diamonds in the rough – gets caught up in their own niceness?
September 1, 2018
It Gets Real: Mental health anti-stigma campaign receives $60k in funds to replicate across Pac-12 schools
Dam Worth It – times twelve – will work to end the stigma around mental health through three pillars: education, resources and peer-based support.
September 1, 2018
Baseball pitcher Max Engelbrekt closes in on his goals
Max Engelbrekt understands the iterative, methodical exploration of organization's data. He is, after all, a baseball player and a pitcher. A closing pitcher, to be precise.
