News and Notes

MBA student Bill Vikander named David C. Olson Scholarship Recipient

The David C. Olson scholarship is awarded to an MBA student each year. In addition to $9,000 toward the cost of their education, recipients are granted an internship with a Minnesota Chamber of Commerce member organization. This year’s recipient, Bill Vikander, worked as a research assistant to Jennifer Byers, Executive Director of the Minnesota Chamber Foundation, the 501c3 partner of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.

“It is widely known the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and its local area partners play an important role in the state’s economy and business environment. I was proud to be involved in developing the latest publication highlighting the state of entrepreneurship in Minnesota,” says Vikander.

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All American Business Scholars

Trevor Turriff (Finance) and Cooper Siebrecht (Accounting) are among five Minnesota State Mankato student wrestlers named National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholar All Americans in 2022.

A total of 314 student-athletes from 57 institutions were honored individually. Of the 314 honorees, 95 wrestled at the 2022 NCAA DII national championships this year. Including Turriff, seven of this year's national champions were named Scholar All-Americans.

In order for a student-athlete to be nominated to the Division II Scholar All-American Team, he must have a minimum 3.4 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale, with that benchmark at 3.2 for those who qualified for the 2020 NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships. The athlete must also have competed in a minimum of five dates of competition.

Minnesota State finished its 2021-22 wrestling season with a seventh-place finish at this year’s national tournament.

Source: MSUMavericks.com

Shane Bowyer Honored by Greater Mankato Growth

Dr. Shane Bowyer is the recipient of Greater Mankato Growth 2022 GreenSeam’s Seamed in Success award. The award honors an “outstanding business, organization, community, or individual which has made a large impact and added value to the community and region. This award recognizes those who have highlighted the importance of agriculture, with an emphasis on rural vitality building upon our agricultural roots.”

College of Business Professors Present at Minnesota State Mankato Scholars at Work Conference

The Scholars At Work Conference allows faculty to share their passions, research, and innovations with peers and colleagues from around our institution. Three COB faculty members joined faculty, staff and students for the October, 2021 conference.

• Dr. Kristin Scott (Marketing): Teaching

Equity 2030: Integrating the First Year

Seminar and Investigating the New

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

Level Outcome Requirements • Dr. Maria Kalyvaki (Marketing):

Compassion in Online Teaching and Learning: Before and After the

Declaration of the Global Covid-19

Pandemic

• Dr. Chandu Valluri (Marketing):

Ushering a New Age of Rapid Innovation:

Stabilizing and Transformative Responses to the COVID Crisis

Faculty and Staff Highlights

Dr. Chris Brown Mahoney’s paper, “Predictors of Burnout, Job Satisfaction and Turnover among CRNAs during COVID-19 Surging,” has been accepted for publication in the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Journal.

Professor Jon Gallop’s recent book publications include: The CIDER Method: A Human Resource Approach to Handling Employee Complaints and A.S.P.I.R.E to Ethics: An Analytical Approach to Solving Ethical Dilemmas.

Dr. Anaam Hashmi presented at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Kessel Peace Institute roundtable teaching discussion on the current conflict in Ukraine on March 23. He also presented his paper, “Conceptual Foundations and Importance of Service Quality Innovation in Global Business Organizations” at the 2022 Clute Institute Academic Conference in January.

Dr. Daniel Hiebert presented in October at the MN FPA annual conference on the topic of family business owner succession planning and help seeking decision-making. He was also featured as an expert on KEYC concerning financial aspects of the Ukrainian crisis.

Drs. Maria Kalyvaki, DQ Spencer and Shane Bowyer’s paper, “Preparing Gen Z for a Career in Agribusiness: What Industry Wants Amid the COVID crisis,” was accepted for the 2022 IFAMA World Conference in Costa Rica.

Two papers co-authored by Dr. Ishuan Li Simonson, “Financial Literacy” and “Pilot Course on Financial Literacy” were presented at the Midwest Economic Association in March 2022 and the Annual Conference on Financial Education, in April 2022, respectively.

Dr. Byron Pike’s co-authored paper, “How Does an Audit or a Forensic Perspective Influence Auditors’ Fraud-Risk Assessment and Subsequent Risk Response,” has been accepted in the elite journal Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.

Dr. Kathy Richie will present “Emotional Intelligence: Implementing an Inclusive Post-COVID Resilience Strategy,” at the 2022 Forum on Workplace Inclusion Conference.

Dr. Chandu Valluri presented “A Credit Union That Cares: The Application of the Integrative Justice Model (IJM) to the Customer Churn Problem” at the MBAA International Conference in March; and “A Conceptual Review of Churn in Business” at Western Decision Sciences Institute’s 50th Annual Conference in April. Valluri’s paper “A Conceptual Review of Churn in Business” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Management and Marketing Research.

Dr. Ishuan Li Simonson will assume the Presidency of Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE), the International Honor Society for Economics and one of the world’s largest academic honor societies. Dr. Nguyen Nguyen was approved by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) to be an advisor for the 2022 CSBS Bank Case Study Competition for the Minnesota State Mankato team.

Dr. DQ Spencer received a 2022 DEI Champion award at an event hosted by the Minnesota State Mankato Multicultural Center on April 19.

Thank you and best wishes to retiring faculty and staff

Dr. Dooyoung Shin Professor of Management

Dr. Stephen E. Wilcox Professor of Finance

Dr. Paul J. Brennan Associate Professor of Accounting

Kathryn J. Wilcox Curriculum and Office Assistant