Leading by example: A passion for service beyond health care
John Tolmie (MGT ’80), CEO and president of St. Joseph Medical Center, talks about the healthcare industry and service to others.
Spring 2009
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A Guide to e-Business: For Students By Students
A step-by-step guide to online business, written by Pamplin’s business information technology students for entrepreneurship-minded students.
Outperforming the Market
Despite economic conditions, the university's student investors in fixed-income securities have produced very favorable returns for the Virginia Tech Foundation.
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Licensing, joint venture, or acquisition: which mode should firms use when going international?
Anju Seth, management professor, explores how firms expanding their businesses into foreign countries should determine their methods of expansion.
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New York vs Delaware: Stricter state laws lead to higher corporate credit ratings
Finance associate professor Sattar Mansi asks how state laws on payments from accumulated earnings affect corporate credit ratings.
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A repetitive voice can sound like a chorus
People tend to misjudge the popularity of an opinion when they hear it repeatedly, even from a single person, finds marketing assistant professor Kimberlee Weaver.
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Voluntourism: More harm than good?
Nancy McGehee, associate professor of hospitality and tourism management, studies the phenomenon of “volunteer tourism” or “voluntourism.”
From rural Virginia to around the world: Diplomacy as a career
Life in the U.S. Foreign Service and a Pamplin education: we talk with Alexander Lipscomb (MBA ’02), vice consul at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras.
Look who's talking
Recent speakers at the College have included Markel Corporation senior vice president and CFO Richard R. Whitt (ACCT ’87), Qatalyst group co-founder Brian Slingerland (FIN ’00), Forbes newsletter editor Vahan Janjigian (MBA ’82, Ph.D./FIN ’85), and Earl Cox (COMM ’78), partner and director of strategic planning at the Martin Agency.
Dean discusses recession's impact on business schools
At a recent workshop at the AACSB Deans Conference, Pamplin Dean Richard E. Sorenson discussed how the recession is affecting business schools.
Exploring engineering ethics
The NSF is funding a program in the College of Engineering to establish a curriculum of ethics integrated with the 18-year program of business ethics in the Pamplin College. Richard Wokutch, professor of management, codeveloped the proposal with professors from the engineering and philosophy faculty.
MBA students meet Washington-area execs
The MBA office at Pamplin recently organized an outreach program in which Pamplin MBA students travelled to the Washington, D.C. area to meet with employers.
