Beyond the Ordinary

Farmer School students, faculty, and staff are never satisfied with the status quo . They seek opportunities to go beyond, and we are delighted to share some of their most recent accomplishments .

Farmer School of Business again ranked in the top 15 public schools by Poets and Quants .

The school also ranked in top 10 for career outcomes and academic experience .

STUDENTS:

• Cameron Tiefenthaler, a junior Honors College student majoring in Business Analytics and Political Science has been named a 2023 Harry S . Truman Scholar . She is the only recipient from Ohio, and Miami’s second Truman Scholar in six years (Sara Al-Zubi, also an FSB grad, won in 2018) .

• The Farmer School’s chapter of the Pi Sigma Epsilon co-ed business fraternity won the national award for top chapter and placed first or second in 10 competition categories . The Lewis F . Gordon Top Chapter win was the 17th in the last 25 years, and the fifth in the last six years for the chapter

• The John W . Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship’s venture capital investment team competed in the Global Finals of the 2023 Undergraduate Venture Capital Investment Competition for the seventh consecutive year, finishing second overall this weekend . This is the sixth time a venture capital investment team from Miami University has finished in the Top 3 of the global finals since it began competing in 2017 and the second time Miami has finished as the runner-up in the finals . 12

• Finance major Abigail Bartlett and Accountancy major Anthony Patrick were chosen for Poets & Quants for Undergrads 100 Best & Brightest Business Majors Of 2023 .

• A group of Farmer School students, Katelyn Hartings, Jessica Motley, Dan Weingart, and Nick Weseman won the General Motors supply chain case competition .

• Alpha Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Pi learned recently that it had received the Outstanding Service Award, presented to a chapter that plans and implements the most effective and comprehensive program of service to others

• Dawson Cosgrove and Brittney Rivelli were recognized with the 2023 President’s Distinguished Service Award .

• A team of four Farmer School students, Ross Ziegler, Logan Ziegler, Dylan Forche, and David Staub won the Cleveland Research Company stock pitch competition, beating students from Ohio University, Ohio State, Dayton, Indiana University, and the University of Texas

• Supply Chain and Operations Management majors

Katelyn Hartings and Emily McAtee were awarded 2023 AWESOME (Achieving Women’s Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management, and Education) Scholarships . They will have the opportunity to attend the AWESOME Symposium and the CSCMP EDGE Conference and have each been awarded a $5,000 financial award toward tuition .

• Accountancy sophomore Ava Nagy has been selected as a PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) Scholar and will receive a scholarship in the amount of $10,000 for the 2023-2024 academic year .

Student Academic Achievement Awards

The Farmer School of Business recognizes the most academically talented seniors in the graduating class . The number of students recognized represents a proportion of the graduates in each area of study .

Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key

Liam Glass

Luke Knopf

Lidia Marusic

Accountancy Academic Achievement Award

Dylan Boone

Abigail Larson

William J. McKinstry Award

To honor the top School of Business Economics majors

Liam Glass

Jacob Daignault

Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship

Scott Graumlich

Olson Finance Achievement Award

Luke Knopf

Robert Hammett

J. Belden Dennison Award

John Keifer

Ben Skapura

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Human Capital Management & Leadership

Lidia Marursic

Roy Sandquist Family Award

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Information Systems & Analytics

BA Best Major: Aidan K McGaughy

IS Best Major: Madeline Grace Begalke

Marketing Academic Excellence Award

Lidia Marusic

Marketing Student Achievement Award

Aidan McGaughy

Mark Decile

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Supply Chain & Operations Management

Madeline Begalke

Dongshou Mei

MAD RABBIT VALUATION TRIPLES, INKS DEAL WITH WALMART

Mad Rabbit Tattoo, founded by 2019 FSB grads Oliver Zak and Selom Agbitor, recently closed a $10 million Series A funding round, quadrupling its valuation to $56 million. The funds will be leveraged to expand the brand’s product line, increase its marketing efforts and grow its team. The company is currently growing 138% year-over-year.

In 2022, it launched in 1,200 GNC locations. And now, Mad Rabbit will expand into more than 1,800 Walmart locations nationwide this summer.

Mad Rabbit sells one tattoo balm every 90 seconds and has helped preserve more than three million tattoos to date.

For more on the company and its founders, see the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of The Journey or read the story in the April edition of Forbes.

FACULTY:

Lisa Ellram, University Distinguished Professor and James Evans Rees Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management and Professor was awarded the university’s Benjamin Harrison Medallion Award .

Brett Smith, Cintas Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, was awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor . University Distinguished Professors have national and international stature with demonstrated recognition and projected high level of scholarly productivity in the future . They must be a teacher of demonstrated excellence and a contributor to the life and mission of Miami University .

Fadel Megahed, Endres Associate Professor and Associate Professor was a Faculty Scholar Award Recipient .

Chuck Moul, Professor of Economics was recognized with the Excellence in Career Development Award .

Jan Taylor, Senior Lecturer and Director of FSB Honors and Scholars Program was named to Poets & Quants’ Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors

21 Farmer School faculty members were among the 100 most commended faculty at Miami University . Each year Miami asks graduating students (undergraduate and graduate students) to complete a survey regarding their experience at Miami . Students are specifically asked about faculty or staff members who made a positive impact on their learning and development while at Miami .

Lee Biggerstaff, Finance

Thomas Boulton, Finance

Debbie Coleman, Marketing

Michael Conger, Entrepreneurship

Daniel Docherty, Management

Gina Dutro, Marketing

David Eyman, Entrepreneurship

Megan Gerhardt, Management

Tyler Henry, Finance

Jing Li, Economics

Xi Liu, Finance

Rocco Manzo, Management

Fadel Megahed, Information Systems and Analytics

Norman Miller, Economics

Peter Nguyen, Marketing

Terry Nixon, Finance

Joseph Nwankpa, Information Systems and Analytics

Jan Taylor, Marketing

Beth Troy, Entrepreneurship

Maria Weese, Information Systems and Analytics

Jonathan Wolff, Economics

Senior Faculty Award for Research Excellence – Xi Liu

Ohio Casualty Professor and Associate Professor of Finance and Scott Friend Associate Professor Marketing

James Robeson Junior Faculty Research Excellence

Award – Darryl Rice

Assistant Professor of Management

Farmer School Faculty Service Excellence Award –

Thomas Boulton Jack R . Anderson Professor in Finance and Professor of Finance

RICHARD K. SMUCKER TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS

Outstanding Professor – Michael Conger Affiliate in the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Outstanding Junior Professor – Joseph Nwankpa

Assistant Professor & FSB Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives Information Systems & Analytics

Outstanding Teaching Professor – Wei (Vivian) Chen Assistant Teaching Professor of Information Systems & Analytics

Jim Friedman, the White Family Associate Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, won the John E . Dolibois Faculty Award for Innovation in Global Programming for his work with Prodesse Scholars Interdisciplinary Creativity & Innovation Experience and World Creativity & Innovation Week/Day .

Darryl Rice, Associate Professor of Management, was presented with the Ray of Light Award which recognizes members of the Miami community who have demonstrated, advanced, or promoted activities, programs, or actions supporting campus efforts to help enrich the experiences for faculty, staff, and students .