Where We Are 
Spotlight Archive
- October 19, 2009 - Social Networks Thrive By Linking: Faculty members Devi Gnyawali and Patrick Fan investigate how social media companies compete and how such actions affect overall firm performance. Read the cover story of the fall issue of Pamplin magazine.
- October 19, 2009 - D'Angelo on service: Wells Fargo Securities Vice President Nick D'Angelo (FIN ’00, MGT ’00) discussed the importance of service in a recent Wachovia Distinguished Lecture.
- October 6, 2009 - Nielsen employees and interns sit on panel: Recent graduates and current students discussed their work experiences at the Nielsen company during a panel discussion last month in Pamplin Hall.
- September 18, 2009 - Outperforming the Market: Despite economic conditions, student investors in fixed-income securities have produced very favorable returns for the Virginia Tech Foundation. Read about how BASIS has outperformed the market and learn more about BASIS and SEED, which together manage more than $8 million for the Foundation.
- September 4, 2009 - Pamplin professors discuss economic crisis: Finance professors Raman Kumar, George Morgan, and Randy Billingsley discuss the economic crisis and the government’s responses, in the latest Virginia Tech Research Magazine. Read also Dean Richard E. Sorensen’s recent op-ed on TARP’s unintended consequences in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
- August 19, 2009 - EMBA students visit Finland and Russia: Executive MBA students learn about doing business in Finland and Russia during a program abroad to complete their studies.
- August 4, 2009 - Business IT in the top 10: Pamplin’s business information technology program is considered among the top 10 IT programs in the country. Employer demand for such graduates is strong, yet enrollments remain low.
- July 20, 2009 - Tourism Scholars in Top 50: The world’s top 50 tourism scholars include members of Pamplin’s hospitality and tourism management faculty, says a study in Tourism Management journal.
- July 6, 2009 - Laura Haskins: MBA student Laura Haskins, of Alexandria, Va., received national scholar-athlete honors this past spring. Read about her Kay Yow and ESPN awards.
- June 26, 2009 - Robert B. Pamplin Sr.: “In addition to my education, I received three things from Virginia Tech that have meant more to me in my life and in the business world than anything else,” Robert B. Pamplin once said. “They are honesty, discipline, and humility.” Pamplin died June 25 at age 97 after a long illness.
- June 15, 2009 - EMBA International Residency: Google’s office in Buenos Aires was among the companies Executive MBA students visited during their recent international residency program in Chile and Argentina.
- June 3, 2009 - Diversity Workshop: Pamplin students work on an exercise during the Pamplin Multicultural Diversity Council’s (PMDC) recent fourth annual Diversity Conference.
- May 19, 2009 - Online Business Guidebook Debuts: Students, faculty, and staff celebrated the publication of the Online Business Guidebook by Professor Alan Abrahams and his business information technology students at a recent launch party in Pamplin Hall.
- May 4, 2009 - Commencement 2009: At commencement ceremonies this spring, 802 Pamplin undergraduates and more than 100 graduate students received their diplomas.
- April 20, 2009 - The slippery slope of unethical behavior: Patrick Kuhse, a successful stockbroker before his involvement in financial fraud made him an international fugitive and sent him to prison, gave the guest lecture at the recent 18th Annual Symposium on Business Ethics.
- April 6, 2009 - A step-by-step guide to online business, written by Pamplin’s business information technology students for entrepreneurship-minded students, is the cover story of the spring Pamplin magazine.
- March 23, 2009 - Understanding the financial crisis: Finance professor George Morgan recently moderated a regional public forum "Understanding the financial crisis: our region’s perspective," that featured presentations from area business professionals.
- March 9, 2009 - Meeting of the Minds: Pamplin undergraduates Aaron Kroll and Michelle Klassen are among the Virginia Tech students selected to present their research at the ACC Meeting of the Minds conference in April at North Carolina State University.
- February 16, 2009 - Hospitality and tourism management professor Mahmood Khan visited Armenia recently to help faculty members and industry workers improve food safety and security in the hospitality business.
- January 27, 2009 - Business Diversity Minor and Center With a new business diversity minor and center, the college expands its teaching and research programs on workplace diversity and multiculturalism. Learn more at the program’s web site.
- January 13, 2009 - Post-Doctoral "Bridge-to-Business" Program Considering a new career as a business faculty member? Pamplin’s post-doctoral "bridge-to-business" program, for students with Ph.D.s in non-business but related fields, is accepting students for the 2009 summer session. Learn more at the program’s web site and read about last summer’s inaugural class in the fall Pamplin magazine.
- December 19, 2008 - What you can and can't learn from the world's greatest investor. Pamplin alumnus Vahan Janjigian tells what you can and can’t learn from the world’s greatest investor in his book, Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect. Janjigian is VP and executive director of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute.
- October 15, 2008 - Building a mortgage industry from scratch in Russia. James Cook (FIN ’87) helped start Russia’s first mortgage bank, led an initiative to offer the first instant credit cards in Russia, and launched his own company with 75 million pounds raised in an IPO on the London Stock Exchange.
- October 01, 2008 - Business Horizons Draws Students and Recruiters. More than 1,700 students attended Business Horizons last month.
- September 20, 2008 - New MBA Students Tackle Quest. First-year MBA students at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business will undergo the traditional Quest orientation of outdoor problem-solving and team-building exercises on Friday, August 22nd.
- July 10, 2008 - EMBA Students Take Trip to Europe. Executive MBA students in the Commonwealth cohort wound up their studies with a trip to Europe in May.
- June 12, 2008 - Bridge-to-Business Program Launched. Finance professor Dilip Shome discusses the modules in the finance track of the Bridge-to-Business program the college launched this summer to prepare Ph.D.s in non-business, but related, disciplines for new careers as business faculty members.
- May 12, 2008 - Pamplin 2008 Spring Commencement - At commencement ceremonies this spring, 802 Pamplin undergraduates and 124 graduate students (69 MBAs, 45 MACIS, and 10 Ph.D.s) received their degrees.
- April 22, 2008 - Undergraduate Courses Offered in Northern Virginia - Pamplin undergraduates now have the opportunity to enroll in summer school courses at Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia Center in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
- March 26, 2008 - Dial Corporation CEO Brad Casper (FIN ’82) gave presentations to classes and spoke to Pamplin magazine during his visit last fall. Get the full story in this spring’s Pamplin magazine.
- February, 02, 2008 - Pamplin Welcomes New Executive MBA Students - Pamplin welcomed its newest executive MBA students during orientation exercises in Blacksburg this month.
- January 31, 2008 - The college’s international programs office organized a study-abroad fair in the atrium of Pamplin Hall last fall to promote its offerings for this summer. Six programs are offered in Asia and Europe for the first summer session; another two programs are scheduled for the second summer session.
- November 19, 2007 - MBA Students Visit Roanoke Businesses - MBA students recently visited several companies in Roanoke to learn more about business operations and management.
- October 30, 2007 - "Leadership: Managing for Success in Challenging Times" - Excerpts from Wachovia Distinguished Lecture, October 23, 2007 by Shirley Edwards
- September 24, 2007 - Pamplin College Launches Innovative Program to Address Business-Ph.D. Faculty Shortage - Responding to critical doctoral faculty shortages and rising enrollments in management education, Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business has launched an innovative program to prepare individuals with non-business doctorates for faculty positions in business.
- September 11, 2007 - National Association of Black Accountants Organized - Pamplin students and faculty member Lynette Wood have established the Virginia Tech student chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA).
- August 27, 2007 - New MBAs get USB Flash Drives - Students offered admission to the MBA program received a small welcome gift in their information packets this spring: a 128 MB USB flash drive containing information about the MBA program and graduate student life at Virginia Tech.
- August 13, 2007 - MBA Quest - First-year MBAs participate in a series of exercises during the MBA program’s annual orientation known as Quest. The outdoor challenges are designed to allow students to get to know one another in a fun atmosphere while promoting problem-solving and team-building skills.
- August 3, 2007 - How Can Business Schools Do Well By Doing Good? - Join Pamplin management professor Michael Badawy and others for a live and free webcast of this topic in a session chaired by Badawy at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Philadelphia.
- May 25 , 2007 - Pamplin Summer Study Abroad Programs - The Pamplin College of Business offers students eight faculty-led study-abroad programs this summer that explore business and culture in Asia, Europe, and Africa.
- May 6, 2007 - Pamplin May 2007 Graduation - A total of 786 Pamplin undergraduates will receive their diplomas at the Pamplin College of Business undergraduate commencement ceremony this Saturday, May 12, at 2 p.m. in Cassell Coliseum.
- April 25, 2007 - Classes Resume - The Pamplin College of Business appreciates the sympathy and support our alumni, friends, and so many others have expressed for the affected families and our faculty and staff in light of the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
- March 23, 2007 - Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin Speaks - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author, and TV commentator Doris Kearns Goodwin gave the Cutchins Distinguished Lecture on campus recently.
- March 20, 2007 - Executive Energy Management Program. Associate professor of management Wanda Smith leads engineers from India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation through a group exercise in a recent campus workshop on advanced leadership organized by Pamplin’s Management and Professional Development office and Department of Finance.
- March 6, 2007 - Professional MBA Launched! The college successfully launched its new Professional Master of Business Administration program last fall, enrolling 27 students in the entering class.