Spending the summer developing training modules and dashboards for a new business intelligence tool may not sound like an ideal summer break for most people, but for Austin Benner it's perfect. Benner, a University of the Ozarks senior business administration major from Houston, is spending 12 weeks this summer interning at the AT&T corporate headquarters […]
University of the Ozarks' Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) took home the overall Collegiate Level Sweepstakes title for the second consecutive year in the 2015 Arkansas FBLA-PBL State Leadership Conference, held April 10-11 in Little Rock. University of the Ozarks’ students Catalina Chen (right), PBL chapter president; and Josephine Compton, state treasurer for PBL; hold up […]
It was at a young age that Emily Black first realized that her interests in sports and marketing might one day lead to her future profession. "When I was in junior high I wrote a letter to my favorite WNBA team telling them how I thought their poor marketing efforts were leading to low attendance […]
Several University of the Ozarks business students recently used their emerging knowledge in statistical and mathematical techniques to tackle a pair of campus issues: cafeteria food waste and class registration. Associate Professor of Economics and Business Robert Wofford explains the campus projects that students in his Econometrics class worked on during the semester. The students […]
Several business students at University Ozarks recently got the unique experience of developing a marketing plan for one of the oldest businesses in Arkansas. Students in Deborah Sisson’s Promotion Strategies class spent the Fall Semester developing a marketing strategy for the Oark General Store, a restaurant located in northern Johnson County, about 20 miles northwest […]
Johnson County native Rebecca "Becky" Jones, who has spent more than 30 years in senior management positions for numerous retail companies, was named the University of the Ozarks' 2014 Business Leader of the Year by the University's Division of Business, Communication and Government. Jones, a native of Clarksville, recently retired as senior vice president for […]
Dr. Rickey Casey, professor of management and business, has been selected as the incoming president of the Arkansas College Teachers of Economics and Business (ACTEB). Casey will begin his one-year term on Oct. 1. Casey, who served as vice president of the organization this past year, was elected president during the 63rd annual ACTEB meeting, […]
Alex Smith learned a little bit about baseball this summer, but he learned even more about himself. The sophomore marketing and management major from Springdale, Ark., spent eight weeks this summer serving an internship at Camp Pontiac, a summer sports camp in upper New York state. Smith, an outfielder on the Eagles baseball team, served […]
University of the Ozarks senior Jose O'Connor believes his summer 2014 internship with an elite global company will serve as a springboard to a successful career in international business. O’Connor, an international business and economics major from Honduras, served a five-week internship this summer in Panama City, Panama, at the Universal Company for French Perfumes […]
Kurt Shemanske, 2014 University of the Ozarks graduate, recently secured a position working with the executive vice president of Dillard's, Inc. in Little Rock, Ark. as part of the Arkansas Fellowship. The Arkansas Fellowship is a two-year fellowship program designed to keep Arkansas’ best business graduates in the state by pairing a select group of […]