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Department News
Outstanding Students & Scholarship Recipients
Partnering to Enhance the Student Experience
Murphy Enterprise Center Activities
Center Achieves National Recognition
Green Mountain and the Murphy Enterprise Center
Chair's Update -- Dr. Lynn Johnson
Greetings!
The 2003/04 academic year was a rich and full year for the Department
of Management. Students continue to enroll in our Department at record
levels. Our graduation rates follow those record enrollments by sending
students into the work place prepared to build careers. While our
central mission remains to provide quality management education leading
to baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees, our techniques and
methods often do change.
One of our themes in this edition of Management Momentum
is “changing techniques and methods.” As you read, you will see that we
are experimenting with an online delivery of our Department’s
newsletter this year. Will you take a minute and give us your reaction
to our new format, design, and delivery of the Management Momentum?
Let me end by pointing out one or two other changes in our Department.
Please read about our new initiative to deliver our MBA program in Administrative
Management using online, WebCT.
We are moving forward with online delivery of our courses while
maintaining our traditional face-to-face, lecture delivery. Our
students and faculty will have a choice of how content is delivered. Of
course, we will expect our new methods of online delivery to meet or
exceed our expectations for quality education achieved with more
traditional methods.
Our Department is delighted to welcome “one of our
own” as our new dean for the College of Business Administration. I know
you have read that Dr. Mary Thibodeaux,
Professor of Management, has been selected to serve as the Interim Dean
of the College. While we are sad to be losing Dr. Thibodeaux from our
Department’s faculty, we are glad to loan her to the College. As one
famous marketing line reads, “the College is in good hands.”
Please use the menu links to the left to navigate through articles in the newsletter.
- Robert Insley, Editor
- Lynn Johnson
- Virginia Jones
- Sheila McWilliams
- Justin Estes, Webmaster
For the eleventh year, the Department of Management is conducting the Summer Study Abroad in Europe. This program provides students the opportunity to
study European culture and business practices while gaining course credit. For Summer 2004, Dr. Derrick D’Souza led our classes and students during Summer I.
These students visited Munich, Paris, London, and Edinburgh. Professor Don Powell will lead Summer II students in their study of Business Policy & Strategy and Europeon
Business Practices while visiting London, Venice, Munich, and Croatia-Slovenia.
Case studies with site visits are planned for such organizations as
Lloyd’s of London, The Body Shop, and Parliament. The Parliament visit
allows the students to focus on the common currency, merging economies,
and the economic centralization that is being debated within the
Europeon communities.
The Department is hoping to expand the Study
Abroad Program by using the time period between the end of the Fall
term and the start of Spring this coming academic year to allow
courses, faculty, and students to investigate Latin America. Professors Dick White and Eileen Resnik have announced dates, times, etc., to travel and
study in Costa Rica during December 2004 and January 2005.
For details concerning our Summer (or Winter) Study Abroad, contact Don
Powell at (940) 565-3153. Details for all programs are also available
now. The two courses we offer in our Study Abroad program are MGMT 4660 -- International Management Perspectives, and BUSI 4940 -- Business Policy.
Online MBA in Administrative Management
There
is much to be said about recent and ongoing curriculum enhancement
efforts. After reviewing competitive proposals from departments across
campus, the University awarded our Department a major
Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) grant to assist faculty in
redesigning our MBA curriculum to allow online, web delivery. The
Department’s award winning proposal received the largest dollar award
from the University. Our Faculty has made great use of this grant
award. Because of this grant and our Faculty determination to serve our
students, our Department is ready to announce the first online delivered MBA program in the College.
Our Administrative Management MBA will soon be receiving a new name
(i.e. Strategic Management MBA) along with delivery online. Students
may complete up to 95% of the content of the MBA from their home or
office computers. Please check out our website that announces this
exciting news at www.coba.unt.edu/mgmt/onlinemba.
We will be enrolling our first cohort class in January 2005. If you would like to pursue your education with an MBA degree, check out our website or give us a call at (940) 535-1106.
Outstanding Students & Scholarship Recipients
At the 2003 Department of Management Spring Banquet, the following students were recognized as outstanding students in their respective professional fields: Wayne Rickard, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management; Stephanie Riggins, Entrepreneurial Achievement; Rachelle Krogman, MBA in Administrative Management; Raffi Avakian, Operations Management Science; Andrew Schreyer, MBA in Operations Management Science; Jessica Brothers & Jenna Sutherland, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Rebecca Karatzis, MBA in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; and Eric Huffman, MBA in Health Services Management.
Scholarship winners were also honored at the 2003 Spring Banquet. Departmental scholarship winners honored were Pamela Vining, Stephanie L. Riggins, Kasey Goslin, William “Bill” McDowell, Francisco Zamarripa, April D. Bailey, Banu Goktan, Mohamad Orgalli, Wanda King, and Choyu Chung. President’s Scholarship winners honored were Johnny D. Stanfield, Sandra Geigenmiller, Rick Oestricher, Pamela Rogers, Stacey Smith, and Chelsea Riggs.
At the 2004 Department of Management Spring Banquet, the following students were recognized as outstanding students in their respective professional fields: Nirav Bahkta & Robert Lawrence, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management; Robert H. Mondore, Jr., MBA in Administrative Management; Cheri McIntyre, Operations Management Science; Kristy Hanks, MBA in Operations Management Science; Melissa Schindler, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Rhonda Davis Essington, MBA in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; and John Garcia, MBA in Health Services Management.
Scholarship winners were also honored at the 2004 Spring Banquet.
Departmental scholarship winners honored were: (Jeff) Kuei-Hsien Niu, Robert Lawrence, Becky Gamboa, Amanda Gardner, Arun Madapusi, Beatrice Kuria, Wanda King,
Patti Collett, Brian Sykes, Alicia Merkel, Nirav Bhakta, Kristy Hanks, and April Lewis. President’s Scholarship winners honored were: Alysha
Bryant, Pamela Rogers, Rebecca Sizemore, Christina Brown, Alyson Crum,
Tanaka Ruzvidzo, Allison Frerich, Michael Gallia, Matthew Lindsay, and
Melissa Young.
During the Department of Management’s 2004 Annual Spring Banquet 22 scholarships, totaling $24,000, were awarded to outstanding students at all levels. A photo of these students is shown above. Please click it for the full picture.
In addition, three new scholarships were made available to our students this year. These include The Richard and Julie Jurek Scholarship, The William O. Hunt Scholarship, and The Maureen F. Moore Scholarship.
For additional information about Department of Management scholarships, please visit the scholarship website or contact Ching-Chung Kuo, Scholarship Committee Chair, at (940) 565-4749 or kuoc@unt.edu or stop by his office at BA 317D in the College of Business Administration at the University of North Texas.
Partnering to Enhance the Student Experience
Management Department professors teaching the capstone Business Policy course work to enhance the student experience through the Integrated Case Competition. Enterprise Rent-A-Car serves as the sponsor of the case competition, having given more than $40,000 over the past three years to provide prize money and awards to the students. The competition puts students in the role of consultants advising a real company on appropriate actions to take to improve performance. Executives from the company under study, along with other business people from the DFW area, serve as judges to determine the competition winners.
Since we last reported on the competition, students have looked at three different companies. In the Spring of 2003, we took a little different approach and looked at our first non-profit organization, The Frank Buck Zoo in Gainesville, Texas. Kathryn Voris, the zoo curator, and Paul King, head zoo keeper, represented the zoo. Please click here for the other judges and winning student teams for Spring 2003.
For the Fall of 2003, the students worked on a small local financial firm, Grunden Financial. Mr. Ricky Grunden, owner of the firm and a past UNT student, represented the company. Please click here for the judges and the winning student teams for Fall 2003.
Most recently, in the spring of this year, we turned the students' attention to larger local company – Service King Collision Repair. Service King was represented by Mr. Eddie Lennox, founder and owner, his daughter Jennifer (a recent UNT alum) and two of the top Service King managers. Also serving as a judge was John Laplante, now the director of IT Development for Accor Hotels North America, but also a UNT alum and a member of the 2nd place team when the competition was first held in 1997! Please click here to see pictures for the judges and the winning student teams of Spring 2004.
The competition continues to be a great learning tool for the students and always provides a number of new ideas for the companies who are involved. We are also very thankful for the continued support of Enterprise Rent-A Car which allows us to let the students finish off their college careers with a wonderful experience that lets them see how the knowledge they have accumulated applies in a real world setting.
If you would be interested in having your company involved as either a sponsor or a potential subject of study, we would love to talk with you. You can contact Dr. Grant Miles, co-course coordinator, by email to miles@unt.edu or by phone at (940) 565-3469.
YET – Young Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
is an organization for students interested in entrepreneurship. YET was
founded in Spring 2004 through the sponsorship of the Department of
Management and the Murphy Enterprise Center. YET focuses on events and
activities that highlight the different facets of entrepreneurship by
inviting entrepreneurs to share their personal stories with YET
members, inviting experts that conduct professional workshops, visiting
local businesses, and engaging in various community-oriented
activities.
Among the entrepreneurs who shared their stories with YET members are Jane Boyle of The Candy Haven, Lloyd Banks of Club Reign, and Jim Fite of Century 21 Judge Fite
Co. Others who shared their professional expertise by speaking at YET events include Cynthia Miller of the Ft. Worth Chamber of Commerce, Rob Mosley of Acclivus,
Tom Burgett of Trinity River Capital Ventures, Virginia Hammerle of Hammerle Finley Law Firm, and Neil Resnik
of Creative Financial Professionals.
YET members also participated in community-oriented events such as Boo Bash, a UNT sponsored Halloween event for Denton children; The Great American Cleanup, sponsored by
Keep Denton Beautiful, and Camp Enterprise, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Dallas.
Membership in YET is open to students of all majors who are interested
in entrepreneurship. To learn more about YET, membership criteria, and
activities, please visit the YET website. If you are interested in serving as a guest speaker for YET, please contact the YET faculty advisor Dr. Anat BarNir.
SHRM is the Society for Human Resource Management. For additional information on SHRM, please visit: orgs.unt.edu/shrm
APICS is the American Production and Inventory Control Society, and NAPM is the National Association of Purchasing Management. For more information, see www.coba.unt.edu/mgmt/apics_napm
A new class of students will begin work toward the Ph.D. in Management this fall. Dwight Hite of Plano, Texas earned his M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington. Troy Voelker of Conroe, Texas has an M.B.A. from Sam Houston State University. Finally, Tip Robertson comes to UNT from Houston, Texas where he earned an M.B.A. degree at the University of Houston. These newcomers join a fine group of doctoral students who continue to make progress toward their doctoral degree. Jeff Niu (Strategic Management) and Patti Collette (Operations Management) recently finished their first year of study. Bill McDowell (Strategic Management) and Tommy Nichols (Organizational Behavior) have successfully completed their coursework. Both students are busy preparing for qualifying examinations, which are scheduled for this fall. Our three remaining "veterans" are Arun Madapusi (Operations Management), Pam Rogers (Operations Management), and Banu Goktan (Strategic Management).
Dr. Henry H. Hays,
retired dean of the College of Business Administration and a member of
the Department of Management’s faculty, retires from teaching this
year. Dr. Hays served as dean of the COBA from 1995 until he retired in
1999 after having taught 35 years. He then taught an additional five
years on modified service for the Department of Management.
Dr. Hays, a North Texas alumnus, concurrently chaired the
UNT Department of Management and Decision Sciences and the Department
of Administrative Sciences and Marketing from 1973 to 1976. He also
served as associate dean of the business college for 14 years.
Through the generosity of Byron and Marilyn Baird of Mrs. Baird’s Bakeries, a funded professorship, the Dean Henry Hays Professorship in Exemplary Service at UNT,
was created in recognition of Dr. Hays’ long and distinguished service
as a university administrator and professor. When fully funded, this
professorship will be awarded to a Management faculty member whose work
and career supports exemplary service to UNT. For more details on how
you can support this professorship, contact Dr. Lynn Johnson, Chair of the Department of Management.
We are grateful to Dr. Hays for his many years of loyal service to the
Department, the College, and UNT and we wish him and his wife, Sue, a
very happy retirement.
Alumni Appreciation Day 2004
Charlie Bond, Department of Management’s Distinguished Alumnus
Charlie Bond, CEO of Elliott’s Hardware, Inc.,
was honored as the Department of Management’s 2004 Distinguished
Alumnus. A reception was held in his honor in the Murphy Enterprise
Center on April 16, UNT Alumni Appreciation Day. Mr. Bond received his
B.B.A. from the University of North Texas in January 1959. Click here to learn more about Charlie Bond.
Murphy Enterprise Center Achieves National Recognition
The Murphy Enterprise Center’s entrepreneurship program was recently ranked as a Tier 1 Regional University by Entrepreneur Magazine. This is the first time for the entrepreneurship program to receive national ranking. To view the entire listing, visit Entrepreneur.com's rankings of the Top 50 Regional Programs. Take the opportunity to see the tuition rates too! UNT provides not only a great program, but an outstanding value for students!
Green Mountain and the Murphy Enterprise Center
Green Mountain Dallas hosted a reception and viewing of a private American art collection at the office of Sam Wyly, Dallas billionaire and founder of Green Mountain Energy. The event recognized the efforts of the Murphy Center and announced Green Mountain as the title sponsor for the 2004 Leadership Luncheon. We were pleased to have UNT Provost Howard Johnson and his wife Denice, UNT Regent Marjorie Craft, and over 100 other special guests attend. For event pictures and information on Green Mountain Energy, visit the website: MurphyCenter.unt.edu
The Murphy Center recently was awarded a continuing grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. The funds will be used to support the entrepreneurship internship program at UNT. Students work directly with entrepreneurs and get to learn about entrepreneurship from the inside out. The $10,000 goes directly to students who receive stipends in addition to the monies received from employment through the program. Companies who have employed interns during 2004 are Twelve Oaks Catering, Tut Services, Beneficial Merchant Services, Adoption Access, PharmaFab, Peak Performance Solutions, Passports to Success, Gary Hoskins CPA, CFJ Manufacturing, Backyard Mansions, and Lombardo’s Custom Apparel.
Murphy Enterprise Center Advisory Council member, Bill Winspear, has agreed to match donations of up to $30,000 for the development of a new database for the Murphy Center. The new database will be used to assist with fund-raising efforts and to track entrepreneurial students as they begin their business careers. If you would like to support the Center with a contribution, this is a great way to double your financial giving! So far $7,000 in matching funds have been received. If you'd like to help, checks can be made to The Murphy Enterprise Center, P.O. Box 305429, Denton, TX 76203.
The
2004 Green Mountain Dallas Leadership Luncheon in cooperation with the
Murphy Enterprise Center is scheduled for November 12, 2004 at the
Hotel Inter-Continental in Addison. Highlights of this year’s luncheon
are keynote speaker, George Foreman, and 2004 Murphy Award Winner Ebby Halliday.
We’ll also be recognizing winners of the Shirley Murphy Business Plan contest, the Entrepreneurship Interns and there are sure to be additional surprises! You won’t want to miss it! For tickets, tables or sponsorship, contact the Murphy Center at (940) 565-2848 or MurphyCenter@unt.edu.
The 2003 Leadership Luncheon was a huge success and great fundraiser for the Murphy Center. The 2003 title sponsor was The Jerry Durant Family of Dealerships. Here are the highlights:
2004 Murphy Award Winner, Sam Wyly,
was honored, Kauffman interns and their employers were recognized, and
winners of the Shirley Murphy Business Plan Competition were announced.
First Place winner receiving $25,000 was Advanced Laser Composites, Inc.—a team from the University of Texas at Austin. Using a proprietary technology licensed from UT and ongoing research efforts, Advanced Laser Composites will manufacture tools and dyes for the metal casting industry that are superior to current industry standards.
Second Place received $15,000 and went to Cooking in College, a joint team from UNT and TCU. A puzzled college student who did not know how to cook spaghetti for dinner one evening sparked the creative idea for creating the company “Cooking in College.” A student was helping his roommate cook dinner one night while the two were off at college. The confused look that his roommate had on his face when asked how to brown some meat, caused a light bulb to immediately go off. Shortly thereafter, this student came home from college and shared his idea for teaching other college students to cook with his longtime best friend and now business partner. Their company concept is to teach other college students how to save money by cooking simple recipes on their own. Their product?—an instructional DVD complete with costumed cooks and a live rock band background and a cooking recipe book sold together in a gift pack.
Third Place and $10,000 went to Chipotle Business Group, a joint team from UT Austin and UT Arlington. Addressing the issue of quick, easy, economical, accurate, and comprehensive safe testing of water quality, CBG uses a unique electronic chemical sensor technology developed and patented at UT. Often referred to as the “lab on a chip” or “taste chip,” the technology can be packaged as a disposable cartridge and processed with a hand held device for purposes of water testing.
Other event sponsors were:
Gold Sponsor: Wells Fargo BankSilver Sponsors: Eddie and Virginia Gilmore of Gilmore Investments, Fort Worth Business Press, KRLD Radio, SmarteSolutions, Inc., State Farm Insurance, UNT Department of Management, and WPI Productions, Inc.
Bronze Sponsors: Denton Record-Chronicle, DocuCorp, Humana, NorthStar Bank of Texas, Pinnacle Graphics, Southwest Securities, UNT Office of the President and Provost, and UNT Office of Development.
Partnering with the Rotary Club of Dallas, entrepreneurship students have the opportunity to give back to others. Camp Enterprise is a three day camp for students of Dallas Independent School District about the free enterprise system. Students from UNT work with Rotarians to serve as co-facilitators of high school students. The benefits to UNT students? Sharing what they’ve learned about entrepreneurship, great networking with business professionals, and giving back to their community.
UNT Student Business Plan Competition
The UNT Murphy Enterprise Center Business Plan Contest winners were announced Saturday, May 3, 2004. Prize money totalling $3,000 was awarded to competing teams and each of the finalists also won the right to a member of SCORE serving as a finalist for their project. SCORE (The Service Corp of Retired Executives) has partnered with the Murphy Enterprise Center to provide mentors to each of the teams to assist them in getting their business operational.
First place and $1500 was awarded to Indoor Athletics and Training Center—a family oriented indoor soccer arena that will include a snack bar, pro shop, and arcade. It will be located in NE Tarrant County. Location and experience of their management team are the strengths of this company. Team members are from the Department of Management Department and are Jason Burbach, Scott Gaulen, and Jorge Rengfio.
Winning second place and $1000 was GRS3. They provide a solution the problem of tracking stolen vehicles. The product is necessary because existing alarm systems and theft deterrents do not deter theft. What this company provides is an alarm that is silent, immediately notifies the owner of attempted theft, and provides a means of locating the stolen property. Team members are from the College of Engineering. Team members are George Poulcherios, Lance Sandmann, Josh Stohl, Sean Vreeland, and Robert Wilson.
The third place team and $500 was awarded to Vinny’s Laundry Service. Vinny’s picks up customers’ dirty laundry at their doorstep, cleans and folds it, and then drops it off again at their door the next business day for virtually the same price that it would take them to do it themselves. The target market is Denton college students living in dorms and large area apartment complexes. Team members are from the Department of Management and are Vincent Ferttita and James Gebhart, Jr.
The contest was open to all UNT students. Other finalists were The Side Clothing Company and Shooters. Plans were evaluated based on the written plan, the presentation to a panel of judges, and the viability of the project.