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Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a presenter at the 2011 Joint Triad HR Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference held at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday, May 17. The conference theme was "What's Next? HR & the New Frontier."

The 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of top undergraduate business schools by specialty rates ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ #19 in the nation for entrepreneurship and #22 for sustainability.

John J. Burbridge, a professor of operations and supply chain management, and Coleman R. Rich, senior lecturer of operations and supply chain management, recently had their case on VF Corporation accepted for publication in the upcoming 14th edition of Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases to be published by Prentice Hall on December 31, 2011.

Coleman R. Rich, Senior Lecturer of Operations and Supply Chain Management was recently interviewed by the High Point Enterprise newspaper about job growth prospects after the merger of three main showrooms at the High Point Market and the World Market Center in Las Vegas.

David Stephens, a 2008 graduate of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's master of business administration program, recently completed his law degree at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law, becoming the first person to earn three different degrees from the institution. His experiences were the basis of an article in the spring 2011 issue of The Magazine of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ. Continue reading this post to learn more about Stephens' story.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, presented at a March 24 panel discussion in the 2011 MIT Global Startup Workshop in Seoul, South Korea.

Alexa Carlin, vice president of finance for the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ student entrepreneurship club Student Entrepreneurial Enterprise Development (SEED) and a freshman entrepreneurship major, addressed an audience of more than 100 participants on Feb. 11 at the 3rd annual University Entrepreneurship Summit of North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership has been selected as an entrant endorser for the 2011 MassChallenge because of its deep involvement in the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. MassChallenge is running the largest global startup competition to catalyze the launch and success of high-growth, high-impact new businesses. The $1 million competition will launch on March 7, 2011.

What does it take to sell someone on your idea for a new product or service? A good pitch certainly helps - especially one you can give to a prospective investor in less than a minute, a skill that won ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ junior Brian Serow top prize in a contest at the 2011 MIT Global Startup Workshop in Seoul, South Korea.

Running a lemonade stand can be the first step toward a business career, as hundreds of children will discover Saturday when they set up shop across Alamance County as part of the national ‘Lemonade Day’ project. For Tim Porter, however, Lemonade Day means so much more, and the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior believes what kids have already learned through his efforts will stay with them forever.