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In This Issue
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Business Team Wins
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SAM Team Takes 2nd
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John Brown Speaks at BKBC
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Intern to Singapore
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ACBSP Reaffirmation
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From the Dean
 Spring
is a beautiful time on the Freed-Hardeman campus. As we enjoy the warmer
weather, we all – faculty and students – battle spring fever. With less than
a month remaining in the semester, there is a lot of activity as everyone
scrambles to catch up on or finish various projects.
The School
of Business has
enjoyed an excellent school year. We have been able to launch several new
initiatives as we strive to utilize the Brown-Kopel
Business Center.
Student teams have competed well and come home with significant honors. We
conducted a very successful ACBSP self-study and hosted a visiting team. Our
visitors were especially complimentary regarding our ongoing success in
accomplishing our mission. The business school is blessed to have a
dedicated, well-prepared faculty, and the visiting team recognized this as a
strength of our program. The visiting team also offered several suggestions
for ways we might improve our program. We will be carefully studying how we
can implement these suggestions in the coming months.
We continue to appreciate the support and encouragement we
receive from friends and alumni. You are an important part of the School
of Business
family, and we invite your input and visits.
Jim Edmonds
Dean, FHU
School of Business
SAM Team Takes 2nd in
National Competition
The FHU Society
for Advancement of Management (SAM) chapter was resurrected in the School of Business this past fall after several years of
inactivity. The SAM chapter has been instrumental in bringing business people
to campus and allowing business students to interact and learn more about
management career opportunities from organizations such as Proctor &
Gamble, FedEx, Union Planters, Porter-Cable, Mid-States Electric and others.
For the first
time at FHU, the SAM chapter formed a management case competition team and
over spring break competed with 28 other colleges and universities in the
20th Annual Case Competition held this year in Baltimore, MD. The team won
2nd place for the undergraduate division and was presented the "Joseph
L. Bush" plaque.
The competition
director, Jim E. Stewart, Associate Dean, Francis E. Girard School of Business & International Commerce
at Merrimack College stated "Congratulations go to your
team, very few have made it to the top three in their first time out."
 The team members are: Tiffini Aspden,
Daniel Gooch, Beverly
Means,
Brian Peacock, and Kathleen Richard.
In addition,
Daniel Gooch was one of only ten students selected nationally for the SAM
"Outstanding Student Award" and Kathleen Richard was one of only
four students elected
to serve as student representative to the 2004/05 SAM Board of Directors.
In February the team had been given a real business case
involving cross-border sales of prescription drugs. The group spent six weeks
developing a strategy they would recommend to the company. “All the research
had to be on their own. They had to research the company, the industry, the
legislation, all the current events, and then put together a plan, which they
would present to a panel of judges,” said the team’s faculty sponsor, Ray
Eldridge.
Eldridge
said that following the presentation, judges drilled the team extensively on
such factors as strategy, legal restraints, cost barriers, logistics of
implementing a solution, and real-life issues. “It was very comprehensive in
testing their business management knowledge.”
FHU Business Team Wins in San Diego
For
the second time in only four attempts, the Freed-Hardeman University Business
Team has won The International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition in San
Diego, California. This year’s team consisted of Jenny
Ary (Public Accounting),
Follin  Childs
(Public Accounting), Sarah Decker (Management), Ashley McAdams (Public
Accounting), and Amber Stanfill
(Public Accounting). The team’s
sponsor is Dr. Mike Oliver.
This
year’s team went head-to head with Harding
University, Mount
Vernon Nazarene College, Oklahoma
Christian
University,
Southern Nazarene University, and the University
of Portland. Southern Nazarene and Oklahoma Christian
finished second and third, respectively.
Over the years the number of participating business-student teams has grown
from nine teams in the mid 60s to 30 to 35 teams in recent years. The
geographic scope of the competition has expanded from the Western
United States to include teams from
Asia,
Australia,
Europe,
Latin America,
and the Middle East
as well as from all parts of the USA.
The competition has been hosted by the University
of Nevada,
Reno;
by the University
of Nevada,
Las Vegas;
by San Jose
State
University
and by the University
of San Diego.
Stryker Chief Speaks
 John
Brown, Chairman and CEO of Stryker Corporation, was the featured speaker at
the school’s first Business Forum on February 19. Brown discussed his 27-year
career at Stryker, a Fortune 500 company that develops, manufactures, and
markets specialty surgical and medical products for the global market. Brown
described the remarkable growth experienced by Stryker, which has grown at an
annual rate of more than 25 percent for 20 years. The company’s ethical code
is simple, according to Brown: “Don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t cheat.” Brown’s
final piece of advice for the audience – “Be very good at what you’re doing –
really do a good job because it will lead you to opportunities.”
At the end of the evening’s activities, Jenny
Ary, a senior public accounting major, presented gifts to
John and Rosemary Brown on behalf of the School
of Business in
recognition of their outstanding financial support of the Brown-Kopel
Business Center.
Singapore Intern Kathleen Richard
Kathleen Richard,
a Business Management student, has been selected for the prestigious management
internship program in Singapore. The  program is conducted by Syracuse University, and the student receives six
undergraduate credits for a six-week internship.
Selection is competitive and open to
undergraduate students throughout the U.S. Students are assigned to real
business management projects
in an international and cross cultural environment. Previous business
sponsors have included Singapore Airlines, Kodak, Eli-Lily, Yahoo!, Maybank,
Hyatt, Asian Education Consortium, Hewlett Packard, Chase Manhattan, Federal Express,
and the Port
of Singapore
Authority.
Singapore has been described as the world's most
competitive economy. American companies have substantial operations in Singapore to meet Asian competition in
international markets.
Disney Internship for Nick Bruce
Nick Bruce, an
accounting and management student, has been selected to participate in the Walt Disney World
College Program in Orlando, Florida. The program offers students outstanding
learning opportunities as they gain valuable experience working in one of a
wide variety of roles available with this Fortune 100 company and
service-industry leader. Bruce will complete two college courses while at
Disney, as well as receiving six hours credit for his internship.
ACBSP Reaffirmation Status
The programs in the School
of Business
have been accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools &
Programs (ACBSP) since 1994. During the last year, a self-study was completed
in preparation for our 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation visit. We
hosted a visiting team comprised of three business faculty
members from other ACBSP schools February 22-25. The overall report of the
team was very favorable, and we look forward to the reaffirmation of our
ACBSP accreditation this summer.
MIS Major Approved
Beginning Fall 2004, a new B.B.A. major in Management
Information Systems will be offered. This 24-hour major requires the
following courses:
CIS 171
Computers and Programming I
CIS 267
Visual Applications Programming I
MIS 322
Business Data Communications
MIS 323
Business Systems Analysis and Design
MIS 324
Database Systems
MIS 425
Web Architecture and Development
MIS 426
Systems Implementation
MGT 441
Operations Management
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