March 2008
'Stock Market Madness' Offers High School Students A Taste Of Finance
The Trading Room at Penn State's Smeal College of Business will play host this summer to a weeklong resident and day camp for high school students interested in learning more about the stock market and the world of finance.
Smeal Team Wins International Trading Competition Held In Toronto
A team of four finance students from Penn State's Smeal College of Business defeated teams from 33 other universities to win the 2008 Rotman International Trading Competition hosted by the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
Smeal Up One Spot Among Public Schools In BusinessWeek Rankings
Penn State’s Smeal College of Business rose one spot to No. 13 among public business schools according to BusinessWeek’s 2008 ranking of U.S. undergraduate business programs.
Op-Ed: Helping Road Warriors Take Stress Out Of Travel
When Dorothy hit the Yellow Brick Road in Munchkin Land, she had one goal: Get home. Happily, she had those ruby slippers that took her there.
Booyah! CNBC's 'Mad Money' Comes To Penn State's Smeal College of Business
"Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer," CNBC's hit investing show, is coming to Penn State's Smeal College of Business on March 26 as part of its 2008 "Back to School Tour." The show will tape at the Milton S. Eisenhower Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus and air on CNBC at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET on March 26.
KPMG Partners And The KPMG Foundation Endow Smeal Accounting Professorship
A recent gift of about $460,000 from the KPMG Partners and The KPMG Foundation has permanently endowed the KPMG Professorship in Accounting in Penn State's Smeal College of Business. The professorship had previously been funded on an annual basis for more than 20 years.
Bangkok, Dubai Programs Highlight Growing Global Reach Of Penn State Executive Programs
With recent programs and planning meetings held in China, Dubai, and Thailand, Penn State Executive Programs is expanding its international reach, bringing its top-rated leadership, executive development, and supply chain executive education programs to companies around the world.
MBA Students To Hold Annual THON Auction
The MBA Association (MBAA) at Penn State's Smeal College of Business will hold its annual Charity Auction and Cultural Expression benefiting the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) at 7 p.m. on April 12 in the Atrium of Smeal's Business Building.
Smeal Professor Appointed To Turkish Central Bank Committee
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey has appointed Abdullah Yavas, Elliott Professor of Business Administration at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, to its Monetary Policy Committee, the Turkish equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee.
CNBC's Jim Cramer To Hold Book Signing At Smeal
im Cramer, host of the hit CNBC show "Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer," will hold a book signing at Penn State's Smeal College of Business on March 26.
Study: Wall Street Analysts Still Exuberant In Their Earnings Projections
Wall Street analysts still forecast earnings per share (EPS) growth two times the level of historic GDP growth even after a landmark billion-dollar settlement aimed at rooting out analyst bias, according to new research co-authored by a professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
Smeal Welcomes Executives From PricewaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble
Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host executives from PricewaterhouseCoopers and Procter & Gamble in April as part of the college's guest speaker program, Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights.
Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney To Speak At Smeal
The Center for Sports Business & Research at Penn State's Smeal College of Business will co-host Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney on April 7 for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the sports industry.
