News for and about the NC State College of Management MBA community. Submit MBA ENEWS items to Adrienne Jablonski by Friday of each week.
Please remember that the e-newsletter is the MBA Program’s primary method of communication with students. Therefore, it is very important for you to read and absorb the weekly e-newsletter.
Please mark the following dates on your calendar for summer pizza socials.
Monday, June 16th – RTP Campus
Thursday, July 17th – Main Campus
Ryan Draughn, a student in the MBA Program at the NC State College of Management’s Jenkins Graduate School of Management, has been named a Triangle Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Leadership Award recipient for 2008. More…
Club 466: FREE Networking Opportunity
Saturday, June 7, at 10:30am—Eaton, 8609 Six Forks Road, Forum 1 Bldg.
Contact Mr. Joe Pirozzi if you plan to attend.
Purpose: An opportunity to meet students of Bus 466 (Personal Selling):
Participants: Invite those who are in the early development of their career and include existing 466 and MBA Students.
Meeting Schedule: Second Saturday of every month at 10:30am
Tentative Agenda: Each session is to consist of two parts: – First half to be structured (introductions: name, employer, position title, job description, ‘company info’, swap business cards).
Possibly invite Guest Speaker once established. – Second half to be social interaction
Still looking for a job? See the Carolina Photonics Job Bank.
The mission of the Carolinas Photonics Consortium is to provide resources and to proactively interface between key stakeholders in the region (universities, companies, economic development, government agencies, investment groups) to commercialize CPC university photonic technologies.
Students, please be aware that Career Resources will be open and operating this summer! Be sure to take advantage of all these resources during the summer too!
Career Coaching
Individual coaching is available by appointment. To schedule an appointment, send an e-mail request to Shelly Hoover-Plonk, assistant director of career resources for the MBA program.
John Hutchings provides executive coaching services for MBA working professionals (part-time students).
We hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable summer!
Your Career Resources Team
Be sure to check out our updated list of recruiting eventsfor the Spring 2008 semester. To RSVP for any of the events, log onto the JobLinkand click on the events tab. If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Borrego.
A new club, the Future Executives Association (FEA) has recently been formed with the academic sponsorship of Dr. Steve Markham. There are already 12 active members (both part-time and full-time MBA students) and they will be recruiting both local executives and student members throughout the summer. Official meetings and events will begin in August. The Future Executives Association (FEA) of North Carolina State University endeavors to increase our understanding of all facets of executive-level leadership.
2008 Officers
Tim Tucker, President
Ryan Draughn, Vice-President
Justin Paul, Secretary
Gary Hoke, Treasurer
Rajesh Nadipalli, Events Manager
For more information, please contact Tim Tucker
New Net Impact Officers
The new officers of Net Impact have been selected. Please congratuate the following students: Tim Armstrong, Jeff Vaughn, Thomas Pash and Karen Bell!
The goal of the inaugural Carolinas Photonics & Optics Investor Conference is to provide a forum where a select number of photonics-based technology companies at various stages of growth will present to potential investors.
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Location: Duke University, Schiciano Auditorium
The conference is free, but preregistration is required for attendance and lunch. Please contact Jeff Conley for registration and additional questions at 864-325-4700
The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Roundtables are a series of presentations by company leaders involved in enterprise risk management. The ERM Roundtable series provides risk management professionals a forum where they can discuss and exchange ideas about effective ERM practices and techniques. Presentations are made by practitioners who share their best practices in working through the challenges of managing risk across the enterprise, as well as by faculty who present their related research.
For more details and to register, please see ERM Initiative.