2018 Portfolio Magazine

VOLUME 33, FALL 2018

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EXTRAORDINARY How Lindner is embracing innovation and shaping business education

Co-op to CEO Enerfab's Scott Anderson shares his success story that began at Lindner Our New Home Preparations are in full swing for the fall 2019 opening of the new Lindner College of Business building

portfolio V O LUM E 3 3 , FAL L 2 01 8 University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business LEADERSHIP Nicolas Williams, PhD Interim Dean nicolas.williams@uc.edu Daniel Gruber, PhD Associate Dean for Innovation and New Ventures daniel.gruber@uc.edu Susan P. Mantel, PhD Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs susan.mantel@uc.edu Suzanne Masterson, PhD Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs suzanne.masterson@uc.edu BJ Zirger, PhD Associate Dean of Online Education bj.zirger@uc.edu

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Judy Ashton Ethan Burgmann Daniel Gruber, PhD Leighanne Toole CONTRIBUTORS

Rachel Bednar Lauren Kremer Lindner Career Services Center Lindner International Programs Robert Marton Julie Menchen Dave Rapien UC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTORS

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UC FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTORS

Lauren Jacquot Scott Schuster

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Interim Dean Nick Williams signing his name on the final steel beam for the new Carl H. Lindner College of Business building.

Message from the Interim Dean It is an exciting time at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business.

Of course, we are eager to move into our new building, scheduled to open next fall 2019. Targeted as LEED Gold, the building will be a stunning addition to an already amazing campus. Equally as important, the building will effectively transform what we offer our students, faculty, staff, alumni and business partners. We will have cutting-edge, interactive classrooms that will amplify student engagement and learning. Numerous team spaces will allow for collaboration among students, faculty and the corporate community — both in person and remotely.

Together, our world-renowned faculty and outstanding staff are exploring ways to reinvent the student experience to enhance critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Year after year, we are excited by our amazing students and the success they continue to achieve during and after their college careers.

We are also developing inventive approaches to increase the awareness and impact of our scholarly endeavors and exploring innovative ways to increase engagement with our alumni, business partners and the Greater Cincinnati community.

It is important to acknowledge that so much of the momentum for our college was fostered under the tremendous leadership of former Dean David Szymanski, who left the University of Cincinnati after eight years as dean to join the University of North Florida as president.

Finally, we are excited about the many opportunities there are for the college to collaborate with President Neville Pinto’s Next Lives Here strategic direction. The University of Cincinnati is committed to helping lead other urban public universities into a new era of innovation and impact, and we are excited to partner in this vision.

As interim dean, I am proud to be leading Cincinnati’s extraordinary college of business and am looking forward to connecting with our alumni, partners and supporters over the coming year.

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"Lindner Rising" — With the exterior wall system now fully enclosed, the new home of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business continues to take shape.

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Building Manager for the Carl H. Lindner College of Business

The best is yet to come in 2019 when the Carl H. Lindner College of Business will celebrate the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art building that promises to firmly position the college as one of the best business schools in the nation.

Below, the north façade shimmers in the morning sunlight as construction of the new building continues to evolve.

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Deloitte's Diana O'Brien and Lindner Associate Dean Suzanne Masterson weigh-in on the theoretical and practical implications of new educational spaces, such as Lindner's new state-of-the-art building.

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Connecting Classroom with the Real World Lindner Economics students explored the marketability of the invasive lionfish species, but could selling this fish in stores make the problem worse?

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The Events that Shaped Lindner

In honor of the University of Cincinnati's bicentennial celebration, let's take a walk down memory lane and reflect on the college's 112-year history.

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Alumni Spotlight

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Experience Counts

As one of Enerfab’s first-ever co-op students, CEO Scott Anderson never thought that one day he would be leading the company.

Impressive statistics collected

by Lindner Career Services show the immense value of experiential learning.

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12 | Executive Insights 13 | Business Partnerships 14 | Student Perspectives 17 | Lindner By the Numbers 18 | Doctoral Notes 19 | Faculty Highlights 20 | Research and Collaboration

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EXTRAORDINARY How Lindner is embracing innovation and shaping business education The opportunity to move into a new stateof-the art facility is a momentous milestone for our college. I have been working with the Lindner College of Business community to reinvent the student experience as we make this move. Two of the most inspiring thinkers I have collaborated with here in Cincinnati who can share wisdom on the theoretical and practical implications of our new space are Diana O’Brien, Global Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte, and Suzanne Masterson, Professor of Management and Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. In this Q&A, they offer their insights and advice based on a wide range of experience and scholarship.

DANIEL GRUBER

Associate Dean for Innovation and New Ventures Carl H. Lindner College of Business

Why is it important for business schools and organizations to consider the impact of spatial design on students’ learning capabilities?

Albert Einstein said he never DIANA O'BRIEN taught his Global Chief Marketing Officer students—he Deloitte only tried to provide the conditions where they could learn. Providing the right conditions means considering all aspects of the experience— the content and the skills of the teacher, of course—but also the design of the physical space, the visual and other sense stimulation, the acoustics, the temperature, etc.

We take cues from our environment. We’re passive and insular. Learning, innovation and big ideas are more likely to happen when people can connect and engage with each other.

SUZANNE MASTERSON

Professor of Management Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Carl H. Lindner College of Business READ ABOUT SUZANNE MASTERSON'S INTERIM ASSOCIATE DEAN ROLE:

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While my research to date has focused more on workspace issues in organizations, there are lessons for spatial design in educational spaces as well. For one, it is important to consider the overall space design and the different activities in which we engage our

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be relevant twenty, or even ten, years from now. Students must continue to learn well beyond the time they spend on our campus, and we need to give them the tools they need to do so.

One of the themes I try to weave through my courses is having the skill of learning in your toolkit.

Construction on the new Lindner College of Business building will wrap up this summer 2019. Left: an architectural rendering of the building's expansive atrium area.

Right: a photo of the atrium area currently under construction in August of 2018.

students. Even today, we still need traditional lecture spaces: areas in which speakers or professors can deliver information to groups of students—hopefully in an engaging manner! But beyond that, we need spaces for collaborative and interactive learning—both for classroom learning and out-of-class student team use—as well as spaces for individual study and reflection.

How do collaborative spaces impact learning experiences and how are these experiences carried forward into the real world?

Collaborative spaces foster connection and dialogue. It changes your mindset from ‘I am alone and need to have the answer’ to ‘we are in this together and we can rely on one another.’ This opens up the opportunity to engage with different people with diverse thoughts and styles. When working in these spaces, you can build upon communication and teaming skills and they can practice what it is like to ideate with a team.

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Collaborative spaces provide a significant opportunity to increase the transfer of learning from the academic setting to the real-world setting. On the hard skills side, giving students the chance to work together on a real problem helps them to directly apply the knowledge and skills they are learning in the academic context. Beyond this, collaborative spaces help students to practice the soft skills we are also trying to develop.

How should business schools and organizations reinvent the educational experience and reconfigure their physical learning environments to attract more technologically savvy students?

Embedding innovative tools and technologies in all aspects of the learning environment and in the work can foster collaboration, innovation and ideation. Technology is going to change more and more quickly, and organizations should focus on creating spaces that encourage human-to-human interaction. Technology should enhance connection and collaboration rather than isolate individuals away from each other.

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I believe that hybrid models of knowledge delivery—partly via face-to-face encounters and partly via technology—are a potential win-win for business schools and students.

We need to be forward-thinking in terms of how we use technology to bring the world to our campus and how we use technology to connect our students to the larger world. We also need to innovate how we bring technology into the learning experience.

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What do you perceive as essential steps in advancing education in today’s innovative space?

When focusing on designing education and innovation spaces, be clear on your desired outcomes. When designing Deloitte University, we wanted to enable our people and clients to step away from the day-to-day and into immersive learning experiences where they could engage creatively with each other. We focused on creating learning environments specific to that result, spaces that were infinitely flexible and encouraged collaboration and engagement.

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What are the challenges that business schools and organizations face in educating today’s 21st century students?

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STE(A)M-related skills are important in the 4th industrial revolution economy, but more important will be the softer, more human skills that allow us to relate to one another. Future leaders need to build empathy, listening and storytelling skills. Inclusive leadership will be critical. Organizations are focusing on diversity and inclusion to cultivate a successful workplace. Expanding to include belonging so that people feel welcome and confident to share their ideas, experiences and expertise will be useful.

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I think a major challenge we face is helping students learn and appreciate the importance of critical thinking and continuous learning. The world is constantly changing, and specific methods and techniques learned today may not

I think we need to engage in “yes-and” thinking.

Yes = we need to do the fundamentals well; for example, professors who conduct leading-edge research and translate it into the classroom. And = we need to go beyond those fundamentals, in terms innovating the learning experience; for example, immersing students in collaboratives across disciplines and programs to apply their learning to real world problems. 

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* References: • www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/deloitte-review/issue-22/industry-4-0-technology manufacturing-revolution.html?icid=dcom_promo_featured|global;en • www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/evolutionof-work-seven-new-realities.html?icid=dcom_promo_featured|global;en

Left: an architectural rendering of the building's two-story 250-person auditorium.

Right: a photo showing the auditorium currently being framed by construction crews in August of 2018.

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Lindner Hall Room 215 is a pilot space for innovative teaching and learning. Assistant Professor-Educator Michael Neugent interacts with undergraduate finance students collaborating in pods.

Multimedia specialist Danielle Calhoun works with Professor Ed Winkofsky to film an online instructional video using the college's new state-of-the-art lightboard technology.

Innovation in action

Lindner continues to reinvent the student experience through interactive idea sharing and cutting-edge technology Jazz music plays softly in the background as Lindner faculty, staff and students huddle in teams to jam about innovation.

Welcome to the Lindner Jam Sessions, where the task at hand is to "bring people together to share ideas and start jamming with those ideas," says Daniel Gruber, associate dean for Innovation and New Ventures at Lindner faculty, staff and students unite to share Lindner. "It’s a great opportuinnovative ideas in college jam sessions. nity to build collaboration and to foster innovation," he says.

Gruber has been spearheading the jam sessions as a way to reshape the future of business education in the new Lindner College of Business building — a 225,000-square-foot, $120 million facility scheduled to open in the fall of 2019. The new state-of-the-art building will offer collaborative work spaces and new technology to facilitate student engagement. Mobile furnishings, a 150-seat two-story lecture hall and 250-seat auditorium, research labs, exam and tutoring areas, huddle and breakout rooms and plenty of open workspaces will foster teamwork.

Meanwhile, Gruber is busy creating and enacting an innovation strategy and looking for ways to implement shared ideas.

WATCH: Come jam with us! Visit our YouTube channel for a closer look at Lindner's interactive jam sessions.

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New technology piloted in the classroom

A peek inside room 215 at the University of Cincinnati's Lindner Hall is like a glimpse into the future. There, inside the traditional classroom, is a pilot project for innovative teaching. The pilot will parlay into the collaborative spaces when students, staff and faculty transition into the new building in the fall of 2019.

Six monitors allow for groups of up to eight students to collaborate together in pods. Students can share their ideas on any one of these monitors through smartphone, tablet or laptop screensharing technology.

From an instructional perspective, the enhanced technology allows faculty to not only witness how students are problem-solving and collaborating on case studies, but also helps them transform the classroom environment to be more active and engaging for student learning.

Learn how you can contribute to #BuildingLindner at business.uc.edu/newbuilding

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Career Services Center gets boost from benefactor Elroy Bourgraf, BBA '54

The Johnson Investment lab in the new Lindner College of Business building will feature a simulated trading floor and 30 Bloomberg trading terminals, more than any other school in the region.

Johnson Investment Lab first of its kind in Greater Cincinnati

The forthcoming Johnson Investment Lab space will be a focal point of innovation in Lindner's new building opening in the fall of 2019.

A $5 million gift from Timothy (Tim) Johnson, PhD, founder of Cincinnati-based Johnson Investment Counsel, and his wife, Janet, will establish a named institute and interactive investment lab equipped with innovative hardware and software systems, a simulated “trading floor” where students can hone their financial skills, and roughly 30 Bloomberg computer terminals—more than any other school in the region.

Johnson serves on Lindner's Business Advisory Council and is a longtime professor of finance at Lindner.

The investment lab promises to be a cutting-edge space and provide critical experiential learning tools to educate and train future business leaders for Cincinnati and beyond.

"Equipping the new building with experiencebased, leading-edge tools helps position the college and university for even greater success."

Tim Johnson, PhD

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Good as (LEED) gold

Excerpt from April 20, 2018 UC Magazine article written by Melanie Schefft

When it opens in 2019, the newest Lindner College of Business building is anticipated to earn "gold" LEED certification for sustainability, helping to propel UC’s campus as one of the most ecologically conscious and energy efficient campuses in the nation.

This new structure includes sustainable wood products throughout and a lighting conservation system that adjusts to the amount of light outside of the building using daylight harvesting sensors.

“The building will also possess an intensive green roof,” says Daniel Hart, sustainability coordinator in UC's Department of Planning+Design+Construction. Green roofs have multifunctional benefits; as Hart explains, they reduce the amount of stormwater runoff and therefore lessen the probability of combined sewer/stormwater overflow events. They also reduce the urban heat island effect, or the absorption of heat by the concrete and buildings, saving heating and cooling energy costs and adding to the aesthetic beauty of the buildings.

"A beautiful thing about sustainability is that it is so transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary,” Hart adds. “It requires knowledge from ecology, biology, geography, planning, history, business and sociology and in the way that you and I relate to each other.”

When the new home of the Lindner College of Business opens its doors in the fall of 2019, the Lindner Career Services Center will aptly bear the name of Elroy Bourgraf, BBA '54.

The Lindner alum generously donated $1 million to the college because of the significant impact UC's cooperative education programs had on his life.

Bourgraf's hope is to make that same career impact on the lives of future business leaders.

"Our new career services center will allow for more collaboration and more partnership opportunities," says Lindner Career Services Director Kevin J. Hardy.

The new space will include a recruiter room and boast nine interview rooms to allow students and employers to discuss employment opportunities on campus.

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LEED Certified Buildings on UC's Campus

The new Lindner College of Business building is anticipated to earn "gold" LEED certification and will have a green roof.

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Michael Jones

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Lindner Economics students met with local fishermen in Costa Rica to learn about the supply chain.

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retty to look at, but the invasive lionfish species is wreaking havoc in the Atlantic Ocean.

Native to Indo-Pacific waters, the lionfish is thought to have been released in the Caribbean by individuals owning home aquariums. As fast breeders, voracious eaters and with no known predators, they are causing damage to the natural habitat of coral reefs, sea grasses and mangroves.

The problem is one that Lindner Economics Professor Michael Jones presented to his students: can a market for this tasty fish be created?

As part of an Economic Development course in Costa Rica, 18 Lindner students partnered with a nonprofit organization, Asociacion De Pescadores Artesanales Del Caribe Sur (ASOPACS), to better understand the economic impact of the invasive species on the local fishing industry. The ASOPACS partnership allowed students to travel to the Central American country to explore whether lionfish could be caught and sold as food.

Prior to the trip, Jones invited a local Cincinnati chef, Jaime Carmody, to prepare lionfish dishes for students to sample. After the feast, students then developed a marketing research survey to analyze the consumer demand for lionfish.

"Students discovered that the dish is similar in taste and texture to tilapia, but can be priced within one to two dollars of salmon," Jones says of the market research.

Students also learned that Whole Foods Market began offering lionfish in 2016, thereby creating a market for the tasty species.

Economic Lessons Learned Could the same be done in Costa Rica?

Upon arrival in Costa Rica, students quickly went to work. They used economic tools and interviewed locals in the fishing industry to learn more about the supply chain for lionfish. Students spent a day on the water for a first-hand look at the fishing traps. They discovered that the presence of lionfish meant that less red snapper, a popular local fish, was being caught in the traps.

Photo by Jens Petersen, Wikimedia Commons

"Students discovered that promoting consumer demand may lead to unintended consequences in a global economy. If a lionfish market were created, people may breed more lionfish to meet that demand.�

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IMPACTFUL LESSONS ABROAD This past year, 706 Lindner students traveled to six continents and 37 countries to expand their knowledge of business abroad.

Here's just a sampling of what they experienced.

Cape Town, South Africa Lindner students designed marketing plans for a small business owner to bring more customers to his coffee shop. Students supplied the owner with business cards, signs and social media aid.

Dubai, UAE A visit to GE Aviation offered a close-up look at the cultural and environmental challenges of operating a business in the Middle East, where every 30 seconds an aircraft with GE technology takes off.

Geneva, Switzerland Lindner Honors-PLUS students, accompanied by Daniel Gruber, the program's new director, learned about Procter & Gamble's Cincinnati heritage and wide-ranging impact in the global marketplace from Swiss IT execs.

As part of the economics lesson on creating a market for lionfish, local chef Jaime Carmody prepared various dishes for students to sample.

Students learned a worthwhile lesson in economic markets.

"We focused on how a local environmental problem can be solved by applying economic principles to analyze the marketability of this invasive fish," says Rachel Harrison, an International Business and English major, reflecting on her first study abroad experience.

Over a lionfish feast, Lindner students proposed creative ideas to the fishermen to increase the demand for lionfish.

Ideas ranged from selling the lionfish meat, which tastes like sweet tilapia, Harrison says, to making frozen fish sticks, marketing the fish as exotic and selling to high-end American restaurants, or marketing the fish as an exotic pet for fish collectors or aquariums.

However, Jones says, markets can be powerful tools in solving environmental and business challenges, but sometimes come with unintended consequences.

"If we proposed stimulating consumer demand and building out the supply chain for the lionfish, then we might only make the problem worse because more people may breed them to keep up with demand." ď‚Ł

Montreal, Canada Freshmen in the Kolodzik Business Scholars program toured Fabrik8 — a fully-equipped work environment offering rental space for startups such as Guru Organic Energy.

Mumbai, India Hollywood meets Bollywood with a visit to Prana Studios in Mumbai. The special effects animator offered a tour and a behind-the-scenes look at visual effects for popular American feature films.

Shanghai, China MBA students experienced business abroad in China. The first-time trip offered students an opportunity to consult on a project with Nike and Cintas.

The Lindner College of Business is the only college at the University of Cincinnati with a dedicated international programs office.

Lindner also sends more students abroad than any other college at UC.

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THE EVENTS THAT SHAPED

LINDNER

This is a remarkable time to be a This 2018-19 academic year marks the University of Cincinnati's “Boldly Bearcat” Bicentennial, an extraordinary milestone that comes only once in a lifetime and bonds all Bearcats across the centuries.

The University of Cincinnati traces its origins to 1819 when both Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio were chartered.

Join your fellow classmates, alumni and colleagues in celebrating these past 200 years of groundbreaking moments and help us boldly propel the university toward our next 200 years of innovation and achievement.

We are Boldly Bearcat!

Mark your calendar and join UC for the following bicentennial events: Bicentennial Charter Week and Celebration January 15-19, 2019 Bicentennial Community Week April 1-6, 2019 Bicentennial Alumni Celebration April 4, 2019 Homecoming October 2019 Bicentennial Signature Celebration November 9, 2019

Although the Lindner College of Business hasn't been around for 200 years, we've certainly celebrated a number of momentous milestones within our 112-year history. Let's take a walk down memory lane.

1906

— College of Finance, Commerce & Accounts established — Inaugural business co-op student

1919

— AACSB accreditation awarded

1946

— College of Business Administration established

1958

— Inaugural MBA class

1966

— Inaugural PhD class

1976

— Inaugural Master of Science class

1981

— UC Real Estate Center established

1986

— Carl H. Lindner Hall is built

1989

— Goering Center for Family and Private Business established

1997

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UC business alumnus and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, Oscar Robertson

— Inaugural Carl H. Lindner Honors-PLUS class — UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research established — Inaugural Project Fast Track

2004

— Inaugural Business Scholars class

2010

— Broke into the Top 100 U.S. News & World Report rankings for both the full-time and part-time MBA

UC business students in the 1950's

Carl H. Lindner Jr. exchanging notes with a Lindner Honors-PLUS student in 1997

2003

Freshman experiential learning model

Named after Marvin P. Kolodzik, BBA ’59 in 2008 Marvin P. Kolodzik commending Drew Harmon, BBA '14, a former Kolodzik Business Scholar and finance alumnus

— College named in honor of Carl H. Lindner Jr. for his extraordinary support of the university and his legacy of entrepreneurship and excellence in business

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UC business students in the early 1900's

Photo by Madison Schmidt, The News Record

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2011

— Carl H. Lindner III Center for Insurance and Risk Management established — UC Center for Business Analytics established — Business Fellows program established to support underrepresented undergraduate students

2013

— Bearcat Launchpad, one of the nation’s first student-led business accelerator programs, takes off

2014

— 100% online MBA program launched — Inaugural Circle of Excellence class

2015

— Dedicated co-op services within Lindner Career Services debuted

2016

— UC Board of Trustees approved a new building for the Lindner College of Business. The new building is supported by an $11 million gift by the family of the late Carl H. Lindner Jr. and American Financial Group, Inc.

2017

— Groundbreaking held for the new four story, 225,000-sq. ft. Lindner College of Business building

2018

— Final steel beam placed on the new building, marked by a beam signing celebration

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Circle of Excellence students

The Lindner family at the March 2010 Cincinnati Business Achievement Awards

The final steel beam for the new Lindner College of Business building being hoisted into position by construction crews

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The annual Business Fellows celebration recognized the achievements of this diverse and vibrant community and inducted 24 graduating seniors into the program's alumni society.

The annual Lindner Women in Business Leadership Conference featured presentations by female business leaders and alumni.

More than 625 guests gathered to honor industry professionals at the UC Real Estate Center and program's annual flagship event.

Achievement Awards

Cincinnati’s longest-standing event recognized exceptional business achievements and service to the community.

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| 7th annual Analytics Summit

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| Where Passion & Career Unite: FC Cincinnati

The three-day event drew in more than 400 attendees and featured top speakers from companies such as Amazon, Ford Motor Company, NBC Universal, Procter & Gamble and Verizon.

For the third straight year, the college was proud to partner with one of Major League Soccer's newest expansion teams, FC Cincinnati, by sponsoring "The Bailey" section.

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s you venture around Enerfab’s shop floor immediately adjacent to the company’s Spring Grove Avenue corporate offices, just a few miles from the University of Cincinnati campus, you can’t help but be overwhelmed — by the precision of the work being done, the sheer scale of the product they’re turning out, and the obvious culture permeating the operation.

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Enerfab’s environment reflects recent work with MillerValentine and Kolar Design to modernize its facilities. CEO Scott Anderson, right, loves how the changes speak to the company’s history, culture, values and brand while strategically supporting a new generation of workers.

gles, you’re surrounded by 50-foot cranes, brilliantly bright welding arcs, and under-construction tanks half as long as a football field and heavy as a house.

Railroad tracks under foot move pieces in and out. The plant can be alternately as loud as a rock concert and quiet as a church. It’s the orderly, gritty, focused domain of a team of tough, smart, dedicated craftspersons who take great pride in manufacturing the kinds of precision products that almost no one ever thinks about yet virtually everyone depends on.

Carefully walking his visitors around massive vessels, pipes and tanks in various stages of painstaking assembly, tour guide Scott Anderson, Enerfab’s gregarious and relentlessly positive CEO, pauses from his latest detailed description of a mind-boggling fabrication project, smiles widely and says, “I love this stuff!”

The notion of leading such a company and “loving this stuff” was nowhere near Anderson’s radar as he grew up in the center of the northeast Ohio triangle created by Canton, Akron and Youngstown. He credits his unlikely yet happy career path to one thing — UC’s cooperative education program. And largely because he’s living proof of its immense value, co-op has become an essential part of Enerfab’s corporate DNA. Enerfab is one of the region’s fastest growing privately held companies, with fabrication businesses at its headquarters and in Sharonville, plus construction and maintenance offices in Cincinnati; Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, PA; Kansas City, MO; Paducah, KY; and New London, WI. Its origins date to 1901 and Cincinnati’s brewery roots. Bishopric, as it was then known, made the linings inside of beer barrels. Gradually expanding its services

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UC’s co-op program is fully integrated with Enerfab’s operations and identity, thanks to a rich history of hiring co-ops and enabling them to rise in the company.

Below, about two-thirds of Enerfab’s approximately 30 Bearcats unite in the company’s boardroom.

"When I interact with Lindner students, they talk about the experiences they’re receiving at school and you can see that carry over as they bring it to our workplace."

Scott Anderson CEO ENERFAB

over the years and eventually changing its name to Enerfab in 1984, the company found its sweet spot in the heavy industrial marketplace providing fabrication, construction and maintenance services.

When it comes to fabricating large tanks or containers for industrial or commercial liquids from herbicides to ethanol to champagne, if it flows and needs to be securely stored or transported, Enerfab can build and install the system to do it — often on an enormous scale, with single vessels weighing as much as 200 tons.

Co-op is the ‘Real Deal’ By contrast, Anderson’s origins go back to growing up in a farming community, expecting to go to college but not knowing where or what he would study. It just needed to pay off in meaningful employment.

“My dad heard some people at work talking about the University of Cincinnati and their co-op program, and he told me to ask my high school counselor about it,” Scott recalls. “The counselor told me the school had never sent anyone to UC, so we needed to look into it. Later we got a packet in the mail and discussed it as a family.”

The prospect of going to Cincinnati was a bit daunting. None of Anderson’s friends were leaving the area, including his high school sweetheart who would later become his wife.

“But my dad said, ‘Scott, you need to take a chance. This co-op program is the real deal. From everything I’ve seen and heard, that’s where you need to go.’”

Anderson majored in Marketing and Finance, which led to exploring potential co-op jobs. Being a fairly typical college student, he was intrigued when he saw Enerfab on the employer list.

“The description had something to do

with beer vats, and I thought, ‘OK, where do I sign?’” Scott laughs. But during his interview, he learned the company’s story, saw the complexity of its operations, and was promised plenty of opportunity if he was willing to work really hard.

“I said half my childhood was spent on a farm — work ethic was a given. So it was a fit. And to this day, I still work really hard here. We all do. It’s the kind of business we’re in — there’s nothing easy about it.”

Anderson’s co-op assignments coincided with the company getting into the business of custom manufacturing steel tank heads. He learned the business quickly through his work in this new “startup” within Enerfab, and the company’s decision to hire him full-time following his 1992 graduation from UC's College of Business was a no-brainer. His capabilities continued to grow, as did his opportunities; eventually he found himself leading the company in 2017. Notably, Anderson’s co-op-to-CEO success story isn’t particularly unusual in Enerfab’s world. The current president and several vice presidents are former UC co-ops, too. And while other schools also supply co-ops, UC is far and away the leader, with the quantity and quality generating a “feeder system,” he says.

“At any given time, we have at least eight UC co-ops from various business programs plus construction management, filling engineering, data analytics, sales and marketing roles here. We truly believe that’s our best talent pool. We get to know each other and can determine if it’s a good fit. If they have co-oped with us throughout their time in school, all that value we’ve gained together is realized — they can be placed in a productive role and come out of the gates running. And if they go else-

where, the experience they received with us will still greatly benefit them.”

Enerfab’s Co-op Pipeline Sarah Becker, a Marketing and International Business double-major, has been an Enerfab co-op for nearly two years and envisions staying with the company after she graduates this December.

“I’ve been involved in many aspects of our operations, providing tons of realworld experience,” she says. “I began working on social media, then created content for our new website, and have helped design videos, sales collateral and presentations for potential customers.

Every day I see new things being fabricated in the shop, or visit job sites and meet with different craftspeople.

“Enerfab’s work may seem ‘old school’ to some,” Sarah says with a nod to the tough projects executed on the shop floor and out in the field. “But once you begin to learn more about it, you understand its importance in keeping everyday life moving, and our company culture reflects that.”

Providing life-changing opportunities to people like Sarah is Scott Anderson's favorite part of his job. Well, that and nurturing the culture she references — which is all endlessly intertwined anyway.

“As an employee, that’s really all you can ask for — ‘just give me a shot,’” Scott says. “When people are given opportunities and embrace them, it just fuels the momentum. And Enerfab has a lot of momentum. We’re a team, and I’m just one of the employees. We all come in, we do our jobs with safety and quality uppermost in our minds, we learn a lot, and we celebrate together. That’s what makes it work, and it’s been that way since I came here for my first co-op job.”  BUSINESS.UC .EDU

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Alumnus Myron "Mike" Ullman named Starbucks chairman

Myron "Mike" Ullman, BS '69

This past June 2018, alumnus, Myron "Mike" Ullman, BS '69, took over as chairman of Starbucks after the coffee chain’s former leader Howard Schultz announced his resignation as executive chairman and member of the Board of Directors.

Ullman has served twice as the CEO of JC Penney, where he was credited for turning the company around, according to news sources. He has also led top global companies such as Liz Claiborne, Louis Vuitton, Macy’s and Ralph Lauren.

Ullman’s ties to UC go beyond graduating in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial management. From 1976 to 1981, he served as UC’s vice president for business affairs and then joined the UC Foundation Board of Trustees. In 2007, Ullman and his wife Cathy made a $10 million gift to the College of Design, which was renamed the Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design in honor of his father. 

Young alumna combines world travel and volunteerism Through her non-profit organization Peace Stamps, alumna Katelyn Jarvis, BBA '15 hopes to do her part to nudge humanity a bit closer to global harmony.

She is currently in the midst of visiting all 193 United Nationsrecognized countries plus three sovereign nations, doing volunteer work in each. To call A Honduran boy living in an orphanage was introduced to attention to her mission, she Katelyn’s favorite sport, lacrosse. is attempting to capture a pair of Guinness World Records — to be both the fastest and youngest female to visit those 196 countries. She is on pace to finish her tour in about 16 months at age 26; that schedule equates to an average of about two and a half days per country and would put her in the record books.

“I’m always so inspired by the people I meet, and any lingering second thoughts about my decision to do all of this are immediately put to rest whenever I enter the next country … I can’t stop smiling when I visit a new place! It’s one of the ways I know I’m doing what I’m supposed to do.”  R E A D M O R E O F K AT E LY N ' S S T O RY

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Executive Insights

Members of our Business Advisory Council reflect on their careers and offer advice for aspiring business professionals.

READ THE EX TENDED Q& A ONLINE

business.uc.edu/Portfolio Josef Allen GENER A L ELEC T R IC

General Manager, Americas; Global Operations Center

What advice do you have for aspiring business professionals? My advice for the past

20 years to new team members is to never assume what we do is the best way nor the correct way to do it. Bring fresh eyes to every process and find a better solution.

Always think about how your role fits in to the value stream of an operation. Who is upstream from you that potentially impacts your work, as well as, who is downstream that you may be impacting?

Understanding this will increase your productivity and solutions.

Bill Davis, BBA '91 PAYCOR

Chief Financial Officer

What is one characteristic that you believe every leader should possess?

Empathy — it serves as the foundation for building trust with the individuals you lead.

Anil Hinduja, MBA '86 FR EDDIE M AC

EVP and Chief Enterprise Risk Officer

What is the best career advice you’ve received? A professional career is a marathon

not a sprint. Rather than be disappointed, it is important to use short term setbacks as a learning opportunity and pace yourself for the long road.

Clarissa A. Niese, BBA '03 T IR E DI S COUN T ER S , INC .

Chief Marketing Officer; EVP, Chief Customer Officer; SVP Sales, Operations, Marketing and Business Development

What’s the biggest career or business risk you’ve ever taken? I like to take calculated

risks every day. What makes business exciting is taking risks! If I had to name just one, I would say my decision to leave P&G was a hard one. Such amazing co-workers and partners, in many ways what molded me into the businesswoman I am today. Then, I find myself in another amazing place at Tire Discounters, leading teams and individuals that are the hardest working bunch around. Our collective pride in our high growth, unmatched work ethic, wild-and-crazy creativity, and impeccable customer service is really something to write home about.

Douglas W. Roeder, BBA '79 PR ICE WAT ER HOUSECOOPER S LLP Managing Director Financial Services Regulatory Practice

What is one characteristic that you believe every leader should possess?

Integrity — a leader who is believable, walks the talk and is transparent about the truth (good or bad) is essential to gaining the support and confidence of any group (large or small).

2018-19 Business Advisory Council Mr. Josef Allen General Manager, Americas Global Operations Center General Electric Mr. Peter A. Alpaugh Chairman Cincinnati Equitable Life Insurance Co. Mr. Edward J. Babbitt Vice President and Senior Counsel Western & Southern Financial Group Mr. Walter W. Becky II Chairman Emeritus (Retired) Morton International/ Morton Salt

Mr. Marvin P. Kolodzik Emerson Electric (Retired) Mr. Dean Kuroff Managing Director, Communications, Media & Technology (Midwest) Accenture Leadership Team Mr. David M. Lance Restaurant Management, Inc. (Retired) Mr. Louis H. Lauch Jr. President KBM, Inc. and Moo Technologies LLC

Mr. Tony L. Shipley Chair Queen City Angels

Mr. Gary F. Simmons Gerber Childrenswear LLC (Retired) Mr. Kenneth W. Stecher Chairman of the Board Cincinnati Financial Corporation Mr. Richard E. Thornburgh Vice Chairman Corsair Capital

Ms. Lori A. Beer Chief Information Officer JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Mr. Craig S. Lewis Ironshore Pharmaceuticals America (Retired)

Mr. Woodrow H. Uible Senior Portfolio Manager Bartlett & Company

Mr. John B. Berding President American Money Management Corporation

Mr. Kevin R. McDonnell President and Chief Executive Officer Skyline Chili

Mr. Steve Valerius President, Individual Division Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.

Mr. Elroy E. Bourgraf Chairman Ferno Washington Inc.

Mr. Thomas E. Mischell American Financial Group (Retired)

Mr. Robert R. Buck Chairman Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.

Mr. Jerome P. Montopoli Andersen Worldwide (Retired) Mr. Steven D. Mullinger Senior Vice President, Commercial Banking Team Lead U.S. Bank

Mr. Philip D. Collins Managing Director Orchard Holdings Group, LLC

Mr. Rick Naber President LOTH, Inc.

Mr. William J. Davis Chief Financial Officer Paycor

Mr. W. Troy Neat First Vice President, Investments Merrill Lynch

Mr. Howard D. Elliott President Elliot Management Group Mr. Robert L. Fealy The Duchossois Group (Retired) Mr. Timothy J. Fogarty Chief Executive Officer West Chester Protective Gear Mr. Jerry L. Fritz Co-Chairman Kent Precision Foods Group Mr. John B. Goering Retired Mr. Paul D. Green Partner, Tax Services Ernst & Young LLP Mr. Arnold C. Hanish Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Retired) Eli Lilly and Company Mr. Anil Hinduja Executive Vice President and Chief Enterprise Risk Officer Freddie Mac Mr. Steven P. Hube Managing Director Barnes, Dennig & Company, LTD Mr. Harlan D. Jackson Senior Director of Commercial Sales KOST USA, Inc. Dr. Timothy E. Johnson Chairman Johnson Investment Counsel, Inc. Mr. Laurence F. Jones III President RiskVersity Mr. Robert J. King Jr. Senior Advisor FNC Corp.

Ms. Jacqueline C. Neumann Deloitte LLP (Retired) Mr. Roger K. Newport Chief Executive Officer and Director AK Steel Holding Corporation Ms. Clarissa A. Niese Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Tire Discounters

Mr. Warren F. Weber Executive Vice President and Marketing Manager Corporate Banking The PNC Financial Services Group Mr. Mark R. White SAP AG (Retired) Mr. Steven A. Wilson VNU Advisory Services (Retired)

E X OFFICIO MEMBER S Nicolas Williams, PhD Interim Dean Daniel Gruber, PhD Associate Dean for Innovation and New Ventures Susan Mantel, PhD Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs Suzanne Masterson, PhD Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Programs BJ Zirger, PhD Associate Dean of Online Education

Mr. William C. Ogle CEO Koupon Media

Mr. Scott Schuster Senior Director of Development

Dr. Terrance J. O’Hara Strategic Consultant, Author, Speaker, Political Commentator

Mr. JaMarcus Hampton Director of Development

Mr. Michael J. Paxton Founder and CEO MJP Growth Partners Mr. David C. Phillips Co-Founder Cincinnati Works Mr. Bryan Preston Senior Vice President Fifth Third Bank Mr. Douglas W. Roeder Managing Director & Leader, Financial Services Regulatory Practice PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Mr. Carl P. Satterwhite President and Chief Executive Officer The RCF Group Mr. Wilbert F. Schwartz Consultant Ms. Kathleen Selker President and Chief Executive Officer Northlich

Philanthropy at Work

Ms. Erin Hunter Sills CEO and Founder Hunter Sills Racing

Mr. Jerry P. Leamon Deloitte (Retired)

Mr. Kerry R. Byrne President Total Quality Logistics

B U S I N E S S PA R T N E R S H I P S

Mrs. Lauren Jacquot Associate Director of Development

Scott Schuster, BBA '10, MS '12 Senior Director of Development 513-556-3610 scott.schuster@uc.edu

The Carl H. Lindner College of Business has seen historic growth over the last few years. Alumni, donors, corporate partners, faculty and staff have made significant investments in advancing the college, contributing more than $9.9 million in new commitments between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.

Noteworthy commitments were made to Lindner’s new building campaign, the Business Fellows program, student scholarships and the Center of Excellence. The college is grateful for the ongoing support and continued commitment and investment.

Since 2015, our generous alumni and supporters have cumulatively provided $41 million in philanthropic investments, positioning the college for increased growth in its final year before moving into the new building in the fall of 2019.

We invite you to join us as we enter a new era and continue on our path to preeminence by focusing our collective efforts on strategic priorities that will have an immense impact on the college and the greater community. Investments in our scholarships, outstanding faculty, academic programs and our transformative new home will help continue this important mission.

Many opportunities exist to make a difference at Lindner.

To learn more about our critical priorities and view a complete listing of our donors, please visit business.uc.edu/give.

T O M A K E A G I F T, P L E A S E V I S I T

business.uc.edu/give

Ms. Debora Myree Business Officer Mr. Kevin Hardy Director of Career Services Margaret Reed, PhD Head, Dept. of Accounting Debashis Pal, PhD Head, Dept. of Economics Brian Hatch, PhD Head, Dept. of Finance, Real Estate, and Insurance and Risk Management Elaine Hollensbe, PhD Head, Dept. of Management Karen Machleit, PhD Head, Dept. of Marketing Craig Froehle, PhD Head, Dept. of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems

Construction taking place on the north and east façades of the new Lindner College of Business building with UC's Main Campus in the distance.

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Student

PERSPECTIVES in their own words

The 2018 Rhinegeist Brewery MBA Capstone team. From left to right: MBA students Joey Kappen and Abby Burdon, Rhinegeist Director of Culture Dennis Kramer-Wine, and MBA students Jonathan Lee, Bianca Catibog and Jon Vincent.

A sampling of our top students reveal how the Lindner College of Business has impacted them, both personally and professionally.

Bianca Catibog MBA '18, MS '18 linkedin.com/in/bianca-catibog

Mitchell Phelps, BBA '18 linkedin.com/in/mitchell-phelps

About 10 weeks into my full-time job, it had finally hit me that I was not a co-op student and that I would not be returning to another semester of classes. Usually, I would be ready to head back to the classroom after this small duration of rigorous professional work, but now I can confidently say that I am excited and more than prepared to conquer all that post-graduation has to bring!

After five years of personal and professional exploration within the Lindner College of Business, I had gained clarity on what my next steps in life might bring. In July 2018, I began working at LinkedIn as a Business Leadership Program Associate within the Global Sales Organization. While in this role, I spend time interfacing with clients from all around the world and assisting them with their talent acquisition needs.

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less hours spent interacting with the diverse UC student body in student groups like student government and associations within the African American Culture and Resource Center. Also, I think about the handful of international experiences aided by the Business Fellows program, Lindner HonorsPLUS program and UC International.

Lastly, the “real-world” experience gained from numerous co-ops and internships afforded me a wonderful sneak-peek into what I could expect for life after college.

As a recent graduate, I can say that I am confident in my preparation and take pride in telling all that I am a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. This school has molded me into a well-rounded professional but most importantly an ambitious individual with good character who is ready to tackle this next stage in life.

After spending nearly five years working in the entertainment industry and more recently, at a B2B ad agency in Cincinnati, I found myself wanting to grow but simply didn’t know how. Coming from a non-business background, I lacked the foundation in business that I knew I needed in order to develop as a marketing professional. So, I left my job to pursue the full-time Master of Science in Marketing and MBA programs at the University of Cincinnati.

I was intimidated. It’d been a while since I’d been a student, and I kept questioning if my professional experience would be enough to contribute meaningfully to the classroom. To my surprise, I learned quickly that many of the other students were in the same boat. There were varying levels of work experience, but we were all working toward honing our business expertise. Despite the similarities, our professional backgrounds were very diverse, which led to enriching discussions in and out of the classroom.

During my time at Lindner, my classmates and professors challenged me — something that I’m truly grateful for now.

Both programs exposed me to different disciplines that were completely foreign to me before. Above all, they instilled in me the importance of perpetually learning and continually striving for more.

Now, I walk into work every day knowing that I’m well-equipped to handle anything that comes my way. And if by some chance I’m not? I know challenge is worth the experience and growth.

S TUDENT PER SPEC TIVES

Angela Brown, BBA '20 linkedin.com/in/angelabrown16

I think it’s very important to help students younger than me reach their goals.

If I could provide any advice to prospective students, I would encourage them to talk to their advisors and make sure they are on track. I would also encourage students to take advantage of the networking opportunities that the University of Cincinnati has to offer. These experiences have been instrumental in getting me to where I am today.

As a transfer student from another university, I found comfort in the numer-

ous programs offered by the University of Cincinnati’s Lindner College of Business, particularly Business Fellows. This program has equipped me with the tools, knowledge and resources to succeed after college.

Business Fellows has also led me to a program I have grown to love: Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) — a national career preparatory program for high-achieving students.

Outside of Business Fellows, the Lindner College of Business has prepared me for a successful career by pushing me to take advantage of study abroad opportunities and co-op programs to enhance my cultural competence. By engaging in those experiences, I have been able to solve problems that are applicable to the real world.

Recently, I was selected as a Forbes Under 30 Scholar and will be attending a national summit in Boston, MA with some of the top innovators in business. This is an amazing opportunity and I’m thankful to be given the chance to put the Lindner College of Business on the map!

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Claire Binford BBA '19 linkedin.com/in/clairebinford

Rachel Kimura BBA '20 linkedin.com/in/rachelkimura

Jonathan Lee MBA '18 linkedin.com/in/jondlee27

Harshad Puranik PhD '19 researchgate.net/profile/ Harshad_Puranik

It has been an eventful and exciting journey since joining the Lindner College of Business in 2014! As a fifth-year doctoral student, I've been given the unique opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best researchers and teachers in management. My adviser, Heather Vough, as well as the other Management faculty, have played a key role in helping me grow as an academician and supporting my work.

My research is focused on understanding how daily workplace interactions and employee emotions shape employee well-being and workplace relationships. My work examines how

different emotions (i.e., envy, guilt, embarrassment, annoyance and happiness) experienced in the course of daily workplace interactions (i.e., work interruptions, social undermining, prosocial behaviors or social gaffes) affect employees and their behavior towards others. My work has been accepted for publication in the Academy of Management Review as well as the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and this past year, I received the University of Cincinnati Graduate School Dean's Fellowship as well as the Lindner Outstanding Doctoral Student Research Award.

Teaching is also a passion of mine, and I consider it an important part of my identity as a management scholar. I’ve made the Dean’s List of Teaching Excellence for four consecutive years and also received the Lindner Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Students this past year.

Nonso Okonji BBA '22 linkedin.com/in/nonsookonji

Kyle Quinn BBA '13, MS '15 linkedin.com/in/kyle m-quinn-51795956

Paul Staudigel MBA '18 linkedin.com/in/ paul-staudigel

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Experience COUNTS

BY MATT KOESTERS

PUBLISHED ONLINE BY UC MAGAZINE ON JANUARY 26, 2018

Lindner students with co-op or internship experience more likely to find jobs, earn more after graduating You can’t get experience without a job, but you can’t get the job without experience. That’s the tough reality college graduates often face when looking for their first full-time job.

Data collected from the 2016-17 graduating class of the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business provide new evidence of the importance of professional experience.

The numbers, collected by Lindner Career Services (LCS), show that 81 percent of graduates with at least one co-op or internship experience found work within three months of graduation, compared to 62 percent of graduates that didn’t co-op or intern during their undergraduate work.

Students with four or more professional experiences were not only more likely to find work within three months of graduation, they also earn more. Such students had an average starting salary of $53,514, compared to $42,490 earned by students with none. “They may be more likely to negotiate salary,” explains Angie Lucas, LCS associate director. “They may just be more confident with the experience that they have and be more likely to ask for more. They’re also applying for jobs that require more experience.”

Another possibility is that students are forming relationships with their future employers through their co-op experiences.

Although Lucas says that’s not something LCS has dug into yet, it’s certainly the case for recent Lindner marketing graduate, Emily Bleuher, BBA '17.

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Emily Bleuher’s networking skills helped her land a job with Nielsen, but she also credits Lindner's dedicated Career Services team for helping her prepare for the real world.

willing to give her advice and answer her questions about the industry. She interned at a rival market research firm in her native Chicago during the summer between her sophomore and junior years, but Nielsen remained her goal. “That whole period of time, I stayed in touch with my interviewer from Nielsen and just stayed on good terms with him,” Bleuher says.

“I applied again last fall and received the internship.”

Despite a relationship that goes back more than a year, Bleuher’s relationship with the Nielsen Company is just getting started; they extended her a full-time job offer well before she graduated from UC, with an annual starting salary in the mid$50,000 range.

Bleuher’s networking skills helped her land the job, but she also credits LCS for helping her prepare for life after college.

That’s where she got help with perfecting her resume and polishing her interview skills. “I think it’s a great service that everyone should utilize,” she says.

The Lindner College of Business has placed an increased emphasis on getting students prepared for the workplace. Lindner Career Services now has 11 full-time staff members that work directly with students and employers, and the college now requires all freshmen and transfer students to take a class called Career Success Strategies, which is taught by LCS staff.  The Lindner College of Business is the only college at the University of Cincinnati that has its own dedicated in-house Career Services Center

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5,224

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#41 Undergraduate

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#1 Online MBA

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DOCTORAL

Research in motion Daniel Grossman

MARKETING

FINANCE

Pai's research documents an unstable relation between stock market prices and variance. Her work shows that this evidence poses a challenge to extant risk-based asset pricing theories. To address the puzzle, she has developed a consumption-based asset pricing model with two (good and bad) variances: the stock market price correlates positively with good variance but negatively with bad variance. Consistent with the model's predictions, Pai found that the two variances jointly explain the unstable stock market price-variance relation, stock market return predictability and the cross-section of stock returns. Pai is currently preparing a manuscript for submission to a top economics or finance journal, and her work has been accepted for publication in Real Estate Economics.

Rui Sundrup

OPER ATIONS, BUSINESS ANALY TICS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Sundrup's research, "Getting Away from Them All: Managing Exhaustion from Social Interaction from Telework" in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, looks at how a part-time telework intervention provides relief from social interaction fatigue, which is prevalent due to the highly-connected and interactive nature of IT development work. The research aims to help balance telework practices in light of multiple job characteristics and their opposing effects on work exhaustion.

Ruomeng Wu

MARKETING

Detecting missing attributes, features, options, issues or possibilities is surprisingly difficult. Although people often recognize that there must be information not shown in a context (e.g., ad campaign or political speech), they still rely heavily on available information at the expense of other information not mentioned. Wu's research examines the effects of belief about one’s age and about one’s knowledge on omission neglect and how it may lead people to form extreme judgments or make poor decisions. Wu’s work is currently under second and third review/revision at the Journal of Business Research and Marketing Letters. Her other work on pricing is under revision at the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

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Nan Zhou, PhD

At the crossroads of death and consumer behavior, Grossman explores the process of bequeathing possessed objects through generations. In his research, he focuses on the type of sentimental associations that lead an object to be passed down as an heirloom. His data suggests that people prefer passing down items associated with memories of achievements and they do this to motivate subsequent generations to strive for accomplishments in their own lives. Grossman is currently preparing this manuscript for submission at the Journal of Consumer Psychology and has other work currently under review at the Journal of Consumer Research.

Yu-Jou "Abby" Pai

Lindner Welcomes New Faculty Professor, Norwood and Marjorie Geis Chair of Accounting; Director of the Accounting PhD Program Research Interests: auditing, financial reporting, corporate governance and accounting regulation PhD: University of Minnesota M A N AGEMEN T

Eli Awtrey, PhD

Assistant Professor Research Interests: teams, networks and emotions PhD: University of Washington

Rhett Brymer, PhD

Assistant Professor Research Interests: organizational antecedents and outcomes of employee mobility, hiring pipelines, acquisitions and strategic human capital PhD: Texas A&M University

Eni Gambeta, PhD

Assistant Professor Research Interests: strategic human capital, firm-specific investment, innovation and patenting, and theories of the firm PhD: Rice University

Michael Wagner, PhD

Assistant Professor, Annual Adjunct and Director, Master of Arts in Human Resources Program Teaching Interests: organizational behavior, business professionalism, ethics and character Other Interests: compensation, employee engagement, HR strategy and employee surveys PhD: Columbia University OPER ATIONS, BUSINESS ANALY TICS AND INFORMATION S YS TEMS

Yiwei Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor Research Interests: revenue management and pricing, sharing economy and innovative marketplaces PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Eric Webb, PhD

Assistant Professor Research Interests: energy operations management, behavioral operations and sports analytics PhD: Indiana University

F A C U LT Y H I G H L I G H T S

Wendy and Drew Boyd

Professor Dave Rapien demonstrates the Microsoft HoloLens to a group of Lindner graduate students.

Innovation in the Classroom Receives New Accolade Lindner Professor Drew Boyd epitomizes creative thinking. As the co-author of Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results, Drew literally wrote the book on offering basic building blocks to spark creativity.

Boyd, executive director of the Master of Science in Marketing program and associate professor-educator of Marketing and Innovation at Lindner, instills these principles in his daily lectures.

Needless to say, he and his wife Wendy are passionate about creativity. This passion led to the creation of the "Breakthrough in Innovative Teaching Excellence Award" to support faculty who have made a sustained effort in providing education that is consistently exceptional in training students to think differently.

The award is designed to encourage all faculty to include breakthroughs in teaching into their curriculum as it could be applied to their topic of expertise. By establishing this award, the Boyds hope to promote best practices in higher education, enhance student learning experiences and integrate new pedagogies and/or technologies and techniques into teaching practices.

Marketing Professor, Drew Boyd, and wife, Wendy, establish new award for innovative teaching.

First Recipients of the Drew and Wendy Boyd Breakthrough in Innovative Teaching Excellence Award DAVE RAPIEN

Rapien, assistant professor-educator of information systems, loves technology. When new "toys" come to market, he acquires the latest and shares them with students. His use of live, hands-on interactions with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality devices like Google Glass and the Microsoft HoloLens have been an impactful breakthrough.

ELLIOTT MANZON

Manzon, assistant professor-educator of marketing, began a kickstarter project that has had a meaningful impact as many of his students enter his course having never built a website or a product.

Within weeks, students created a new product, put together a Kickstarter webpage to market their product and have been inspired by his teaching, Drew Boyd says of his reason for selecting Manzon.

"Students are regularly challenged by Dave in the classroom and are excited to see this new technology, experience it and learn about how it will shape the business world.­"

Drew Boyd

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Elliott Manzon took first place to win the Axcess-Capon Teaching Innovation Award from the Marketing Management Association for his advertising eye-tracking project.

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Certain Antidepressants More Effective in Treating Youth Anxiety Disorder Lindner researchers partner with UC's College of Medicine to build a data model that proves the most effective antidepressant treatment

BY ALISON SAMPSON

For children and adolescents who require medication to treat anxiety, there are two primary classes of antidepressants that are prescribed: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and selective serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).

Now, University of Cincinnati research, published online ahead of the April issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry shows for the first time that SSRIs may be the more effective option.

"For a long time there had been this sense that SSRIs work better than the SNRIs in treating anxious youth, but there wasn’t clear evidence to back this up, so we wanted to put that notion to the test,” says Jeffrey Strawn, MD, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the UC of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and lead author on the study.

"What we found is that with the SSRIs, compared to SNRIs, people get better faster and see greater improvement overall.

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some individual studies, but this is the first to evaluate the magnitude and trajectory of treatment, or in other words, how much and how quickly people get better.”

For the meta-analysis, UC researchers compiled the data from nine randomized controlled trials. Strawn partnered with Jeffrey Welge, PhD, research associate professor of psychiatry, and econometricians Jeffrey Mills and Beau Sauley at the Lindner College of Business who created a model to examine two things: how quickly the patients got better and by how much.

The models showed that patients started to see improvements from medication around two weeks, with the more significant improvement occurring in the fourth week of treatment. Strawn says it was also important to look at medication dosage to find out whether the dose of the medication affected improvement.

"We saw that [dosage] didn’t necessarily affect how much the patients improve, but it did affect how quickly they get better,” says Strawn, indicating that a higher dosage helped this.

Jeffrey Mills, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the Lindner College of Business, and

Sauley, a doctoral student, used statistical analysis common in economic modeling to apply it to the clinical data.

"We have very complementary skill sets, so interdisciplinary research of this nature is a great example of work that could not be accomplished by any one author,” says Mills. "Everyone’s contributions results in more robust research that none of us would be able to produce alone.”

Mills’ particular expertise is in Bayesian statistical inference and modeling.

"As an econometrician, I have mostly applied these tools to analyzing economic data, so it is refreshing and exciting to get to apply my expertise to a different field like psychopharmacology,” he says.

Strawn says one significant aspect of this study lies in the fact that it may be immediately applicable to clinical practice.

"In research, many findings impact our work in the clinic years down the road, but this type of work potentially changes how we select medications to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders today,” he adds.  Left to right: Lindner doctoral student Beau Sauley with Associate Economics Professor Jeffrey Mills, PhD, and lead researcher Jeffrey Strawn, MD, College of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience.

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P&G Grants Support Big Data Research

The Lindner College of Business received a oneyear Higher Education Grant from Procter & Gamble to support phase two of a big data initiative in the Department of Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems (OBAIS).

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, there is a growing interest for big data solutions in the business world and the U.S. will need to increase the number of graduates with data science skills by 60% to meet this demand. As a solution, the OBAIS department launched the Big Data Initiative with support from an initial P&G grant in 2015, which has grown into a robust research collaboration amongst several faculty, including Roger Chiang, Michael Fry, Andrew Harrison, Michael Magazine, Binny Samuel, Zhe (Jay) Shan, Yichen Qin and Yan Yu. Building upon the current OBAIS Big Data Initiative, the new 2018 Big Data Curriculum aims to develop the next generation of big data professionals—Lindner students who will become cutting-edge data experts and will go on to work at Fortune 500 companies.

Additionally, this new platform will provide faculty the necessary research infrastructure to conduct high-performance analysis on largescale data sets. 

Departmental Research Highlights Jorge Pena Marín, PhD A S SI S TA NT PROFES SOR OF M A R K E TING

When it comes to negotiations, Marin found that if you're looking to close a sales deal, a round price versus a precise number is more likely to be accepted.

His research “Round Off the Bargaining: The Effects of Offer Roundness on Willingness to Accept” is forthcoming in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Suzanne Masterson, PhD INTERIM ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR GR ADUATE PROGR AMS & PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT

Masterson has been at the forefront of researching work relationships and the impact of workplace design. Her latest joint work: “A Spatial Model of Work Relationships: The Relationship-Building and Relationship-Straining Effects of Workspace Design” is published in the Academy of Management Review.

Mehmet Sağlam, PhD J O H N S O N A S S I S TA N T PRO FE S S O R O F FI N A N C E

Sağlam's research, "Liquidity Regimes and Optimal Dynamic Asset Allocation," examines the optimal dynamic asset allocation decision in different market states. It argues why it may be preferable to overweight government bonds in both recession and expansion periods by illustrating that corporate bonds may be too costly to trade out of in a crisis state. His work is currently under peerreview for publication in a top-tier finance journal.

Rene Saran, PhD A S S O C I AT E PRO FE S S O R O F ECO N O M I C S

As a behavioral economist interested in mechanism design, Saran's research, “Eliciting and Aggregating Information by Sortition in Collective Choice,” proposes that a company can improve strategic planning and decision-making by tweaking the hierarchical organizational structure by adding random selection (sortition) of top-level decision-makers in the company in order to elicit dispersed information across departments. His research is forthcoming in the Economic Journal.

Changjiang "John" Wang, PhD A S S O C I AT E PRO F E S S O R O F ACCO U N T I N G

Wang's research, "Does Accounting Quality Change Following a Switch from U.S. GAAP to IFRS? Evidence from Germany,” reveals the need for establishing a single set of accounting standards for international use and is published in the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. His work "Relative Benefits of IFRS Adoption Convergence on Financial Statement Comparability" is also forthcoming in Contemporary Accounting Research.

Jaime Windeler, PhD ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OPER ATIONS, BUSINESS ANALY TICS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Windeler’s research, “Shaping First Impressions in Virtual Teams,” explores first impressions between employees who do not share physical workspaces or have in-person interactions. She designed a social media application that captured and displayed employees' personal similarities and differences. Her experiment with the application demonstrated that teams exposed to member similarities achieved better performance than teams where member differences were highlighted. Her research suggests that diversity offers many benefits including creativity and innovation, but teams must first find common ground to create cohesion and foster a productive atmosphere. Her findings have implications for classrooms, organizational onboarding procedures and project launches.

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