From MSU Today: Michael Kasavana is an endowed professor in hospitality business at MSU. Mike is the father of v-commerce. He tells us exactly what that is, that the Internet is the world’s largest vending machine and that we’ll soon be able to pay for items at vending machines by using our cell phones. You may soon be ordering sandwiches from vending machines via e-mail, too.
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From MSU Today: Ron Cichy is the director of and a professor in The School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University, a position in which he has served at his alma mater since 1988.
Ron talks about the mission of the nation’s leading hospitality business program, his deep and important ties to his alumni and his own expertise in teaching emotionally intelligent leadership.
Cichy discusses the new specialization in real estate and development The School is offering, the first of its kind in the world offered to undergraduates. He says hospitality students in the future will be encouraged to “think like an owner.”
Ron recently received the Anthony G. Marshall Award, presented by the Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. The award recognizes an individual who has made significant long-term contributions to the hospitality industry in educating future leaders.
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From MSU Today: David J. Frayer is Director of Executive Development Programs in The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University, where he leads a group responsible for design, development and delivery of executive and professional education programs and two executive education and corporate learning facilities -The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development in Lansing, Michigan and the Management Education Center in Troy, Michigan. He received his doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degrees at MSU.
Dave tells us what executive development is and how it differs from the traditional executive MBA. He talks about the mission of The Broad School’s program with its emphasis on custom programs and how that sets MSU apart from many other nationally-renowned B-schools. Frayer talks about trends in executive development and downplays the notion of a “crisis” in B-schools commonly portrayed in some media.
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It’s every journalism student’s dream: Earning an internship at a nationally regarded newspaper and writing so well that you win some serious scholarship money. That dream came true for Melissa Domsic, a Michigan State University Journalism Senior who is finishing up her summer adventures at the San Diego Union Tribune. Melissa earned her beat reporter stripes covering everything from illegal aliens to Naomi Judd. She talks about the people who fired her passion for writing, what it takes to write a prize winning story and how MSU prepared her for a successful career.
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From MSU Today: The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has approved a new program that makes MSU a national leader in financial aid by offering grants and work study to eliminate loans for the neediest Michigan students enrolling this fall.
At its July 17 meeting, the board approved, as part of the university’s 2006-2007 budget, the Spartan Advantage, a program that will ensure grant aid and work study equal to the average tuition, fees, room and board, and books.
President Simon talks about the thinking about the balance between affordability and quality that went into the strategy behind MSU’s budget. She’s also looking forward to the Fall 2007 beginning of MSU’s Residential College in Arts and Humanities.
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Rich Wiggins joins us for his monthly survey of what’s hot in tech. In Michigan, the big news is Google’s announcement of a new presence in Ann Arbor. Rich talks about Google founder Larry Page’s Michigan State University connection, and how the Google move might impact the state’s economy, and the job market for graduating Spartans. He also takes us behind the scenes at Freshman orientation to hear what he tells students and parents about the benefits – and dangers in today’s technologically connected social networking world.
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Victory Enterprises and VictoryStore.com lead the field in incorporating new media in the political messaging arena. Situated on the banks of the Mississippi river, the companies have become preeminent, both in the campaign arena and as one of the top Internet marketing firms in the world. Victory’s track record of successful campaigns would make an NFL coach envious and the on-line entity has reinvented the design and order process to put the creation of everything from T-Shirts to bumper stickers at the client’s fingertips. Victory founder and CEO Steve Grubbs talks about the genesis of his companies, the keys to creating a winning political campaign and how Google Ad Words and other interactive tactics are redefining the paradigms of political marketing and messaging.
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With baseball coming off of the all star break, we revisit our conversation with Spartan J. School grad Dale Petroskey, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY.
It was July, 2005 when we first talked with Dale. The All Star Game was set for Comerica Park in Detroit and Dale discussed his Tiger Memories including the fabled the 68 Tigers, the Mayo Smith Society. He details how he cultivated his passion for Baseball and how MSU prepared him for an uncommon career.
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What are the factors that create an environment for entrepreneurship? Where are the creative people gravitating these days? Are habits of entrepreneurship teachable? We find out from Rich Sloan, one half of the brother team that founded Startup Nation, an organization that provides expert advice on all aspects of starting a business. Fast Company magazine named the Sloan brothers’ brand one of the top 10 and their book, website, radio program and podcast are treasure troves of information for the person who wants to turn their passion into a career.
Rich talks about his varied adventures from raising Arabian horses to the invention of the Battery Buddy. He articulates the winning combination of traits and resources that are part of the successful entrepreneur’s inner circle. He answers the question, “can passion be taught,” talks about how companys like Jet Blue are turning customer service representatives into entrepreneurs, and how “life plan” trumps “business plan” every time.
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From MSU Today: Tom Linsmeier is outgoing chairperson and Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor of Accounting in MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business. Linsmeier is leaving MSU for a prestigious spot on the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
As he prepares to leave East Lansing, Linsmeier talks about his role at the FASB and about the state of corporate accounting in America in the wake of the Enron scandal and the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He also discusses how B-schools have altered their curricula to reflect new accounting standards and about MSU’s strengths in accounting education.
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From MSU Today: Jim Pignataro is in his fifth year as the Associate Athletics Director and Director of Student-Athlete Support Services (SASS) at Michigan State. He provides leadership to 13 full-time employees and three graduate assistants who are responsible for managing academic support programs for student-athletes in each of MSU’s 25 varsity sports.
The SASS mission is to offer an academic support program, integrated with the university that will assist all student-athletes with their transition into college. This all-encompassing support continues throughout each student-athlete’s collegiate career until the day he or she receives a diploma, lands a job or enters graduate school. The SASS program is integrated with the total university to assist student-athletes in all phases of college life.
Jim talks about keeping up with the NCAA guidelines on eligibility, multicultural initiatives within SASS and ten years of MSU being a national leader in helping its student-athletes thrive in all aspects of the college experience.
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From MSU Today: It’s not your father’s college of agriculture, says MSU’s Eunice Foster. The modern version of MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is “more than you imagined,” she says.
The college is home to 23 undergraduate majors in 13 departments, with graduate programs leading to masters and doctoral degrees in every department. The college also offers two-year certificate programs through the Institute of Agricultural Technology.
Foster leads that institute and is the associate dean for undergraduate students and programs in the college. She says the college offers a wide variety of programs that allow its students to pursue numerous careers. The college certainly has disciplines that focus on production agriculture, but far more of its students graduate with degrees in packaging, construction management and other areas that aren’t traditionally thought to be agricultural careers.
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