Z Welcome Xon behalf of the Department of management and entrepreneurship, it is my pleasure to share with you the accomplishments of our students and faculty. As disciplines, both management and entrepreneurship describe ways to create value. In the context of an existing corporation, value creation involves doing business better, faster or more effectively to advance the goals of the organization. When confronted with unsolved problems, entrepreneurs start companies focused on the creation of social or commercial ventures to address these problems. As you will see, whether they are involved in management, entrepreneurship, or both, our faculty and students create value for the department, the School of Business, the college of charleston, and the community at large. For more information, please visit us at sb.cofc.edu/mgmtent. – Dr. Kelly Shaver, chair

What We did over the summer

■OBTC — This past June, Dr. Gordon Dehler (pictured above) served as site coordinator for the 36th OBTC Teaching Conference for Management Educators hosted by the School of Business and College of Charleston. More than 250 academics (representing 37 states and 11 countries ) who teach in the management disciplines attended the three-day conference. Dr. Carrie Blair served as assistant site coordinator. We are grateful to those faculty members in the School of Business who changed the locations of their summer classes for two days so that the OBTC meeting could be housed in a single building complex.

■ReseaRCh COnfeRenCes — Two of the most important professional meetings for management and entrepreneurship faculty occur in the summer. The Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference draws participants from several continents, as does the Academy of Management. As usual, our faculty members were presenters at both conferences.

Babson presenters included Dr. amy Davis and Dr. David hansen.

Academy of Management presenters included Dr. Carrie Blair, Dr. David hansen and Dr. Kelly shaver.

in the spotlight

■Dr. John Clarkin featured on local TV show — Dr. John Clarkin was recently featured on Carolina Business Review, taped September 11, 2009. He was selected as a panelist and offered insights on small business and entrepreneurship.

Carolina Business Review is the longest running and most widely watched program about business in North and South Carolina. This 30-minute weekly program, distributed to 22 ETV outlets, features executives as special guests as well as panelists from diverse industries throughout North and South Carolina. Discussion is centered on current business activity in the Carolinas and its impact on economic development and commerce.

ManageMent/Leadership | Jessica Gibadlo

If you sat with Jessica Gibadlo in the Beatty center School of Business conference room, you would be amazed at this widely successful business professional who

has such an impressive résumé that it takes a 10pt.-font to include all of her accomplishments on one page. Then as soon as she starts talking, it is more than clear that this college of charleston School of Business grad knows what it takes to make it in the business world. “‘Will, drive and energy’ go a long way,” she says. And that’s exactly where she has been. From working the desks of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.c., to walking the graduation line at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business with a master’s in

business administration, to surviving Wall Street during the worst economic crisis we’ve seen in years, Gibadlo proves that “will, drive and energy” do get you were you want to be – especially as a leader and a manager. And her journey began at the college of charleston when she graduated with a business administration degree. Jessica Gibadlo recently relocated to charleston, S.c., after spending seven years in New York city working for lehman Brothers and subsequently Barclays capital – following Barclays’ acquisition of lehman. She has executed approximately $20 billion worth of transactions, including the lBo of Hertz Rental car, the J. crew IPo and several Newell Rubbermaid divestitures. Since her return to charleston, Jessica has shared her experience with today’s college of charleston students, in Dr. Howard Rudd’s management and organizational Behavior class. ■

i n n o v a t i o n | c r e a t i v i t y i n n o v a t i o n | c r e a t i v i t y

each year the management and entrepreneurship faculty select one student they believe to have been the most outstanding student in the department. At the may awards ceremony, this year’s winner was elena Dowin, a leadership, change, and social responsibility concentrator. There are two school–wide awards voted on by all faculty members of the School of Business. The first of these is the Schottland Award, the second is the Wall Street Journal Award. In may, Patrick “PJ” lynch, an economics major with a minor in business administration, won the Schottland Award. Katharine “liz” miller, who double majored in hospitality and tourism management and business administration, won The Wall Street Journal Award. The Blue chip Venture company Awards are presented to one female

and one male South carolina student, who have distinguished themselves in entrepreneurship coursework and entrepreneurial activity. The may winners were Heather Studer and marcus Ford.

schottLand schoLars

The Schottland Scholars program was started in 2009 to recognize exceptional business and economics students who are selected through a rigorous application and interview process. The program is being supervised by assistant professor carrie Blair, of the Department of management and entrepreneurship. The 10 students selected as 2009–2010 Schottland Scholars include six business administration majors, one of whom is a double major in business administration and hospitality and tourism management. ■

awards and schoLarships

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pubLicationsDuring the 2008-2009 academic year, departmental faculty made more than 40 scholarly contributions and submitted seven grant proposals totaling more than $600,000. A complete list of those activities can be found in our annual reports at [www.cofc.edu/~mgmtentrep/annual_reports.html]. Because of space limitations, we are presenting, as a sample, only the six discipline-based peer-reviewed journal articles published by members of the department (whose names are in bold print).

■blair, c. A., Hoffman, B. J., & Helland, K. A. (2008). Narcissism in organizations: An empirical look at managerial integrity and effectiveness. Human Performance, 21, 254.

■clarkin, J. e. (2008). channel changes: An examination of ownership change in franchise firms. Journal of Marketing Channels/Haworth Press, 15(1), 23-41.

■dehler, G.e. (2009). Prospects and possibilities of critical management education: critical beings and a pedagogy of critical action. Management Learning, 40 (1), 31-49.

■ Frash, R e., Antun, J., hodges, H. e., (2008). Family life cycle segmentation: An exploratory case study. Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 11 (4).

■Quesada, G., Gonzalez, m., & Kent, T. W. (2008). A road for achieving an international measure and understanding on leaders’ behaviors. Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, 29 (8), 678 – 692.

■Gartner, W. B., shaver, K. G., & liao, J. (2008). opportunities as attributions: categorizing strategic issues from an attributional perspective. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2 (4), 301-315.

tate center for entrepreneurship

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The Tate center for entrepreneurship conducted the first of a planned series of “creative Town Hall” meetings of the charleston Arts coalition. The coalition unites the creative arts community in the Greater charleston area through advocacy, outreach, promotion and educational programming. The coalition provides a forum and virtual gateway for creative individuals, organizations and businesses to collaborate on projects, exchange ideas, host special events and, in general, promote creative businesses in charleston, which is an essential part of the economic development of our region. As part of its involvement with the creative cluster in charleston, the Tate center for entrepreneurship is now

offering Nxlevel business development training for creative entrepreneurs. Tuition support has been provided by scholarships through the South carolina Arts commission. For the past several years, the Tate center for entrepreneurship has presented a Best Reviewer Award to the most outstanding scholarly reviewer for the entrepreneurship Division of the Academy. This year’s selection was made from among more than 60 reviewers nominated by the scholars whose work had been reviewed. This year’s winner was Pablo martin de Holan of the Instituto de empresa in madrid. ■

student activities

■ students in free enterprise (sIfe) — The College of Charleston Students In Free Enterprise team has kicked off the semester helping King Street go “green” by educating business owners on the importance of recycling. In partnership with Fisher Recycling, The Nature Conservancy and the Department of Natural Resources, SIFE team members are hitting King and Market streets to share information on a pilot project providing curbside pickups of cardboard, cooking oil, cork and oyster shells for Charleston businesses.

■Glo-Bus — The Glo-Bus online strategy simulation, introduced in 2004 by strategy textbook authors Arthur Thompson, Lonnie Strickland and John Gamble, has been played by more than 40,000 students at 150 universities internationally. The simulation allows students to apply strategy-making and analysis concepts presented in the course. Students are active managers running a company in which they have a stake.

One group of Dr. Gordon Dehler’s strategy students achieved a remarkable accomplishment in this simulation during spring semester. Their company, Bluestone Photo, tied for the top score among more than 2,100 teams at 110 institutions worldwide who were doing Glo-Bus. The team also had the best score of all the companies on earnings-per-share.

The department would like to recognize the following students that were part of the team: Shannon Cosgrove, Brett Hancock and Kevin Sterling. In Dr. Dehler’s eight semesters at the College of Charleston, no team had ever achieved what this one has in this simulation. Congratulations!

Faculty updatesCongratulations to Dr. John Clarkin and Dr. Gordon Dehler, both of whom have received tenure and have been recently promoted to associate professor.

Dr. Clarkin teaches Funding New Ventures (ENTR 335), Small Business Management (ENTR 405) and Not-for- Profit Entrepreneurship (ENTR 406).

Dr. Dehler teaches Leading Organizational Change (MGMT 402) and Business Policy (MGMT 408).

To view their complete bios, please visit the faculty page of our department website (sb.cofc.edu/mgmtent).

adjunct FacultyThe department is pleased to welcome Carmen Paz, an adjunct faculty member during fall 2009.

Carmen has a Ph.D. in management from the University of Oviedo (Spain), a bachelor in business administration from the same university, and a management development program from IESE Business School (Madrid, Spain). Just before joining the College of Charleston, she was deputy head of investor relations of Altadis (Imperial Tobacco Group) and associate professor at University Carlos III, Madrid (Spain), where she was teaching Strategic Management and Essentials of Business.

We also want to welcome back our other adjunct faculty members for the fall term – Robert Reese and David Wolter.

Business leaders in residenceThe department is pleased to welcome two new executives in residence – Robert Brinson and Rick Throckmorton – for the fall term. These professional business leaders greatly strengthen our program.

Bob Brinson is the co-founder of Halcyon. He has a B.S. in engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. in finance from University of Chicago. He has served as the U.S. CEO of a Dutch multinational and is a co-founder of a previous “green” start-up company.

Rick Throckmorton is an active business consultant and a retired vice president and lead partner of Booz|Allen|Hamilton. For 11 years as a partner with Booz Allen, he focused on the development and implementation of business strategies empowered by enabling technology. He serves as a trustee for approximately $1.7 billion of Booz Allen retirement funds.

We also want to welcome back Tommy Baker, distinguished entrepreneur in residence, and Ben Lever, executive in residence, for the fall term.

S t a t SSpring 2009

business administration majors ………………………… 307*

entrepreneurship concentration …………………… 47

leadership, change and social responsibility concentration …………………… 24

*unofficial, 2008–2009 academic year

entrepreneurship | Ben Rosen

Ben Rosen entered the college of charleston in 2004 and majored in business administration. “I went into business first because … I knew I wanted to be in

business,” he said. The idea of adding to it “instantly hit” when he learned about the entrepreneurship concentration program during his junior year. He always assumed that by choosing business, he would eventually own a company, so the concentration was the perfect fit. While he knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, he had not realized there was an entrepreneurship concentration he could add to his major. That information was “eye opening and amazing.” Ben

became one of the first students to graduate from the School of Business with a concentration in entrepreneurship. once he was in the program, he felt everything was making sense. “People always say do what you are passionate about. owning a business is what I was passionate about.” While Ben was in the School of Business, he got an idea for an online website for students that adds the convenience of online shopping to the benefit of finding the most cost-effective textbook-purchase option. Thus, his company, “textspotter.com,” was born. Ben is still working diligently to get the business up and running and a school on board. He has just launched a beta site that Ben says is “the first step of many.” But it is definitely underway. Stay tuned for more info and “spottings” of this business administration grad. ■