Dr. Kevin Kam Fung So joined the OSU School of Hospitality and Tourism Management as William E. Davis Professor and associate professor in hospitality and tourism management in fall 2020. A native of southern China, So enrolled at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, in 2006 where he received a bachelor’s degree in business management majoring in hotel management, and in December 2013 was awarded a doctorate in hospitality and tourism management.
Jerry Rackley, longtime marketing faculty member in OSU’s Spears School of Business, has been named assistant head and assistant professor of professional practice in the School of Marketing and International Business.
Dr. Ajay Sukhdial is the Spears School of Business Global Faculty of the Month honoree for December, as selected by the Center for Advanced Global Leadership and Engagement (CAGLE).
Oklahoma State participated in the Baylor Ethics Case Competition in November. It was the first national case competition OSU competed in during the 2020-21 academic year.
Oklahoma State’s Business Analytics and Data Science (BAnDS) program held its annual case competition Oct. 30. Fifteen teams of the program’s graduate students competed against each other using a case featuring an international hotel chain.
Our Undergraduate Global Student of the Month is Alex Moreau. A native of France, Alex is currently a Human Resource Management Major graduating in December!
Our November Graduate Global Student of the Month is Emmanuella Takyiwah Obeng. A native of Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, Emmanuella is currently pursuing her Masters in Quantitative Financial Economics.
Oklahoma State University students from the Spears School of Business master’s in business analytics program scored in the top 50 of more than 500 teams competing at the Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition sponsored by the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.
OSU alumnus Carlos Johnson was presented the William H. Van Rensselaer Public Service Award for his leadership and efforts to advance the accounting profession.
Oklahoma State University School of Accounting graduate Katie McKnight will talk to an OSU accounting class Monday, Nov. 16, at 4 p.m. as part of the business ethics speaker series, “Three Stories and Some Q&A” sponsored by the Center for Legal Studies and Business Ethics in the Spears School of Business and the OSU Student Center for the Public Trust.
Oklahoma State announced the addition of two new MBA concentrations in early October. Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) and Finance and Investment Banking join the 11 concentrations already in place.
Oklahoma State’s Case Competition team was finalized Oct. 9. Six teams of current MBA candidates competed against each other using a case from Apache Corporation.
Oklahoma State hosted five prestigious companies for an MBA networking event, via Zoom, on Sept 8. Recruiters from Exxon Mobil, Heartland, Hilti, ISNetworld and Sandia National Laboratories each briefly highlighted their respective companies.
Our Undergraduate Global Student of the Month is Maria Simon. Maria is from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She is currently in the second semester of her Junior year pursuing a degree in Management with an emphasis in Human Resources and a minor in Business Sustainability.
The Accounting Collaborative for Excellence (ACE) Lab in the Spears School of Business has a new lead sponsor in ConocoPhillips, which has pledged $200,000 in support.
A group of five Oklahoma State University master’s in business analytics students recently received the best analytics and visualization award at the 2020 Teradata Analytics Challenge competition.
The Tobias Leadership Center at Indiana University, the Center for Legal Studies & Business Ethics in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University and the American Business Law Journal to Cohost 2021 Symposium: Ethical Leadership and Legal Strategies for Post-2020 Organizations.