With the holiday season approaching, it feels appropriate that this issue of eDividend is focused on the myriad ways students and alumni use their business training to give back to their communities.
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Dean Janikowski (‘23, Digi. Tech & Cult.) says he “was never the smartest guy.” And yet, after earning his bachelor’s degree in three years, the WSU kicker has maintained straight As through his first year in the Carson College’s online MBA program, all while leveraging his college football career and social media fame to raise money for people in need.
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The Women in Business networking luncheon this fall brought together 60 students and 20 business professionals including Carson alumni, faculty, and staff to discuss career preparation and goals. The event was the brainchild of the Women in Business Club executive board and Carson Center for Student Success advisors, who designed it to allow students to network in an environment where they felt comfortable but were also asked to step out of their comfort zone a bit.
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Thirty years since visiting Pullman from the USSR to earn his MBA, Taras Ogiychuk is using the skills and experience he earned at WSU and over the course of three decades in international business to start a new venture—humanitarian aid and reconstruction in his native Ukraine.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Tina Zingmark (‘22 EMBA) had the opportunity to realize her dream of earning an Executive MBA. Now, she is giving back to the next generation as a member of the college’s International Business Advisory Board.
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When Bitty Balducci taught students at a Romanian university how to role-play a simple business transaction between two parties, she was surprised to discover they had never participated in a similar classroom activity before.
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It’s not often that students get the chance to arrest their instructors, but by the end of a five-hour exercise led by special agents with the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division in October, WSU accounting students had cuffed a handful of faculty.
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Restaurants can persuade patrons to choose healthier foods by adjusting the font size of numbers attached to nutritional information on menus, according to a study headed by a Washington State University researcher.
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The success of any business often depends on how well it manages information systems to improve productivity and make informed decisions, according to Robert Crossler, chair of the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship in the Carson College. Using this premise, Crossler developed the executive panel for the 2023 Business Technology Symposium, “The Backbone of Business.”
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At the Carson College of Business, there's an engaged community of doctoral students who pride themselves on serving others through their work. One of the program’s shining stars is Pingping Tang, a PhD student in operations management whose professional accounting experience has led her to make a profound impact on her fellow international students and the wider community.
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