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Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Charley Costa and junior Stephen Azar won top honors last week in the 2010 Eller Ethics Case Competition, a prestigious national contest hosted by the University of Arizona and featuring many of the top-ranked undergraduate business schools in North America. It is the second time in as many years that Â鶹ÊÓƵ students took first place in the competition.

Love School of Business alumn Hilary Corna '07 will be giving on a presentation titled “How Career Networking Worked For Me” on Tuesday, October 26, 4:15 pm in KOBC Room 353. Her talk is open to ALL LSB students.

In what has become a Homecoming tradition for successful young alumni, graduates of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and the School of Communications shared career tips and life advice Friday in "wisdom sessions" for current students as part of Homecoming 2010. Alumni from the School of Education held a similar program Saturday morning prior to the official start of football festivities around campus.

Gary L. Clinton, former Citigroup Head of Global Relationship Banking in Asia, will give a talk on economic and currency issues associated with China on Monday, October 25, 10:50 am in LaRose Digital Theatre. His talk is open to all LSB students.

Imploring students to follow “their heart’s desire” when deciding how to best advance their communities and country in the years ahead, venture capitalist and former NASA astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. shared stories from his career Wednesday in a ceremony to honor him as the second recipient of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Love School of Business students Gregory "Carl" Hairston and Tyler Reynolds have been named as finalists for the World Collegiate Sales Competition, to be held November 11-13 at Northern Illinois University. Only 16 students nationwide were selected as finalists. Students Priscilla Abad and Lindsay Richardson were named semifinalists for the upcoming competition.

Venture capitalist and former NASA astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. will address students, faculty and students in an Oct. 20, 2010, ceremony to honor him with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Sponsored by the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, the program in Whitley Auditorium is free and open to the public.

The MBA program of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business is ranked as the nation's fourth "best administered" program and fifth in the "best campus facilities" category in The Princeton Review's 2011 edition of the "Best 300 Business Schools."

Kevin O’Mara, a professor of management, assumed the position of president-elect for the Academy of Business Education at the ABE Conference in San Antonio earlier this month.