Civility in the Workplace

Students of professor Jackie Gilbert, Management and Marketing, presented proposals for a corporate civility policy to Nissan executives. [Read more]

At left, Dr. Jackie Gilbert stands with the winning student team, Hagar & Co. Management Consulting. Team members are, from left, Micah Hull of Murfreesboro; Jordan Hager of Nashville; Travis Brewer of Los Alamos, N.M.; Marlyn Botros of Nashville; and Francisco Melgar of Los Angeles.

Tennessee Housing Market Report

http://capone.mtsu.edu/berc/housingbrief.html 

Job creation accelerated in the 1st quarter, but the housing market did not. Read details in the new report by David Penn, director of the Business and Economic Research Center.

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Alum's Nobel Prize Returns to MTSU

http://www.dnj.com/article/20130508/NEWS07/305080038 

MTSU alum James M. Buchanan's 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is returning to campus in a ceremony honoring his life. [Read more at Daily News Journal ]

BERC Nashville Nonprofit Sector Economic Study

The nonprofit sector contributed $20.9 billion to the regional economy in 2011, according to a study by our Business and Economic Research Center for the Center for Nonprofit Management.

[ See Tennessean article  |  download entire study pdf ]

Tatum Voted Association for Corporate Growth Vice Chair

Doug Tatum, holder of the Wright Travel Chair of Entrepreneurship, was voted vice chairman for 2013-2014 of the Association for Corporate Growth at the group’s annual conference in Orlando, Fla. [Daily News Journal]

Students Dress For Success with Raiders' Closet

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Correction: Midstate Consumers ‘Increasingly Upbeat’

Following a confidence dip at the end of last year, midstate consumers have become even more optimistic about the future of the economy as we head deeper into 2013, according to the latest consumer outlook poll conducted by the Office of Consumer Research (Tim Graeff, director).... [read more at mtsunews.com]

Survey of Graduating Students

The Career Development Center is collecting data. MTSU undergraduate and graduate students who are graduating in May 2013 are encouraged to complete the survey regardless of your employment status. [Take survey.]

Former Economics Prof to Receive Congressional Gold Medal

http://mtsunews.com/yunus-congressional-gold-medal/ 

"Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, will be presented with the Congressional Gold Medal at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, April 17, at a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. From 1969 to 1972, Yunus was an assistant professor of economics at MTSU, where he taught both macroeconomics and microeconomics." [Read more....]

Marketing and Management Boulevard Trivia

How much do you know about management and marketing careers? Management and Marketing students and faculty are invited to play Boulevard Trivia on Tuesday, April 16, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Boulevard restaurant, 2154 Middle Tennessee Blvd. There will be lots of prizes, deals on food, and fun.

Raiders' Closet Dress for Success Fashion Show

The Raiders' Closet Dress for Success 2013 Spring Fashion Show will be May 1 in the State Farm Room, Business Aerospace Building Room S102, from 7 to 9 p.m.  The event is sponsored by Belk, Men's Wearhouse, and Jos. A. Bank.

About Raiders' Closet 

Do you have business clothing you can no longer wear that is taking up closet space? MTSU students often lack the appropriate professional attire needed to create the best impression in an interview or internship setting. Many students simply cannot afford the cost of a business suit. You can donate your gently used, professionally dry-cleaned men’s and women’s business attire (suits, shirts, slacks,  blouses, ties, skirts, jackets, and scarves) to MTSU students in need.

Students who receive your clothing donations will be able to participate in interviews, internships, job fairs, and formal presentations because they will have the necessary professional business attire.

Donated items must be dry cleaned and on hangers. Men’s shirts must be folded for shelf storage. All clothing donations must be professional business attire.

Note: Raiders’ Closet reserves the right to refuse to receive/accept clothing donations that are not professional business attire.

To make a clothing donation, please contact:

• Jaye Kiblinger, Raiders’ Closet Coordinator:  (615) 898-2902
• Dr. Virginia Hemby: (615) 898-2369

Drop off:

BCEN Department
Jones College of Business
BAS N429

Note: Raiders’ Closet now has a Foundation account  for tax‐deductible monetary donations.

Gifts-in-kind donations are handled through MTSU Development and Foundation Office.

• Instructions for Gifts-in-Kind donations 
• Raiders' Closet
• Business Communication and Entrepreneurship

Arik to Present Macroeconomic U.S. Outlook

Business and Economic Research Center Associate Director Murat Arik will give a macroeconomic U.S. outlook presentation at the C2ER (Council for Community and Economic Research) conference in Nashville on May 22. [conference registration information]

MTSU Enactus Team Named Regional Champions

Congratulations to MTSU's Enactus team members, named Regional Champions in Atlanta competition April 2. They will compete in May at the national competition in Kansas City.

Students on the Enactus team are: Eric Brinson, Jijin Deng, Ashley Garth, Sarah Hamilton, Rajan Khurana, Brittany Page, Raquel Pulecio, Jessica Scott, Wykeesha Sims, and Eric Wedgworth.

Laura Buckner and Jean Wilson (Management and Marketing) are faculty sponsors. 

Enactus was formerly named SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise). The name change highlights its longstanding commitment to using entrepreneurial actual as a catalyst for progress. 

New American Marketing Association Chapter

A chapter of the American Marketing Association will launch at MTSU this fall. Information sessions about the benefits of joining AMA will be in BAS S273 at these times:

• Thursday, April 4, 2:30 p.m.; 
• Monday, April 8, 5 p.m.; 
• Wednesday, April 17, 11 a.m.; 
• Tuesday, April 23, 5 p.m. 

Senate Joint Resolution Honors Dean Burton

Dean Jim Burton receives a framed copy of Senate Joint Resolution 139, sponsored by State Senator Jim Tracy and State Representative Joe Carr, in the Senate Chambers of the Tennessee State Capitol on April 2. The resolution honors and commends Dr. Burton "for his contributions to Middle Tennessee State University,  as dean of the Jennings A Jones College of Business." [complete text]

Pictured from left to right are State Senator Bill Ketron; Dr. Burton's wife, Nancy; Dr. Burton; Senator Tracy; and Dr. Burton's granddaughter, Reese Wrather, grandson Gavin Wrather; daughter, Robin Wrather; and son-in-law, Jason Wrather. Speaker of the Senate and Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey is on the dais.

Marketing Charity Golf Scramble

The Modern Woodmen Fraternal Student Chapter of MTSU and MTSU's Marketing Senior Seminar students invite you to their 2013 Charity Golf Scramble on Sunday, April 21, at 1:30 p.m.

• Shotgun Start 4-man Scramble: $300 per team* or $75 per person*
  (Fee includes lunch, cart fee, range balls, goody bag.) 
• Cash prizes for the winning teams! Mulligans available for purchase. 
• Prizes, Prizes, Prizes: Long Drive, Closest to the Pin, Putting Contest
  (First 36 PAID teams will be registered. )

Hole Sponsorships are available for $50 each, and customized sponsorship packages are available upon request.

All proceeds go to the support of a local non-profit child care facility, Wee Care Day Care, which serves the Murfreesboro community.

Wee Care Day Care provides affordable childcare services to families in need with children between six months and five years of age. The center relies on donations from the community to help provide their valuable service. The center is in need of renovations for their facility, updated central heat and air, and new equipment for learning activities. It is located at 510 S. Hancock Street, Murfreesboro.

For information:

• Weston Beckwith
  Executive Project Manager
  (615) 653-6369
  westonbeckwith@gmail.com
• Jean Wilson
  MTSU Faculty Advisor
  (615) 898-2436
  Jean.Wilson@mtsu.edu

[Department of Management and Marketing]

Urban Chosen New Dean

David J. Urban will be the next dean of the Jones College of Business. Urban, who starts on July 1, is currently executive associate dean and a marketing professor at the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. [more at Daily News Journal]

MTSU Modern Woodmen Fraternal Chapter Silent Auction for Wee Care Day Care

Modern Woodman Fraternal Chapter of MTSU is cosponsoring a silent auction to benefit Wee Care Day Care. Items range from an autographed The Band Perry poster to a night out at a Predators' game along with all the gear.

The auction will be held at MTSU in the Suntrust Room N127 of the Business and Aerospace Building on March 28 from 4 to 6 p.m. and on March 29 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All proceeds go to benefit Wee Care Day Care.

For more information, contact Jean Wilson, faculty advisor (jean.wilson@mtsu.edu).

 

Workforce Development Rutherford

http://capone.mtsu.edu/berc/tennbusiness.html 

Tennessee's Business features initiatives by:

• Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce
• Business Education Partnership
• State Collaborative on Reforming Education
• Destination Rutherford
• MTSU Engineering Technology Advisory Committee
• Tennessee Department of Education

Tennessee's Business is published by the Business and Economic Research Center.

MTSU Spring Alumni Weekend

MTSU Alumni Spring Weekend is April 19-21! [agenda]