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North Star is currently in a growth mode and looking to hire recent college graduates to work with North Star Resource Group as Financial Advisors. North Star Financial will be on campus this Wednesday for the Alumni Career EXPO and Networking Event. Next week North Star Financial will be on campus conducting interviews on Thursday, November 19^th. Interview registration will be done directly through Nic Romero. Students may send their resumes directly to Nic.Romero@NorthStarFinancial.com We encourage students to attend the EXPO and hand deliver a resume if they are interested.

Here is a brief overview of North Star Resource Group:

North Star is an independent financial services firm that serves successful individuals and business. We have a 100+ year history, tracing our roots to St. Paul, MN. We specialize in hiring recent college graduates. Over 80% of our advisors started with us right after college. Our training and development has allowed us to have a retention rate nearly four times the industry average. Each new advisor is partnered with a mentor for the first year. We look for people with leadership experience, high integrity, strong work ethic, positive attitude, strong interpersonal skills and an athletic mindset.
Lisa Lindgren, CSB/SJU associate professor of management, has been recognized again by MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Based on her contributions as a peer reviewer last year, Lindgren has been again invited to join the Business Editorial Board.

MERLOT is supported by 24 systems and institutions of higher education as well as the National Science Foundation. MERLOT is also endorsed by the Educational Learning Initiative (ELI) of EDUCAUSE. Over 200 faculty members from these institutions have been performing the peer review of instructional technology, modeled after the peer review process for research and scholarship.
See the Management Department at Homecoming 2009!

CSB/SJU Receives New Phi Beta Kappa Chapter
The College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, and Saint John’s University, Collegeville, will be home to a new chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
"Phi Beta Kappa membership is a validation of College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University's place among the nation's best liberal arts and sciences institutions, and a reflection of our long history of academic excellence,” said CSB President MaryAnn Baenninger and SJU President the Rev. Robert Koopmann, OSB, in a joint statement. “The granting of the chapter both acknowledges the teaching and scholarly accomplishments of our faculty and offers an opportunity for our very best students to become members of this illustrious honor society. “We are thrilled with this news, and we are especially grateful to Professors Richard Albares and Sanford Moskowitz, Assistant Professor of Management, and to CSB administrative staff members Sonja Gidlow and Emily Cook for their leadership during the three-year application process," Baenninger and Koopmann added.
Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America’s leading colleges and universities. The Society sponsors activities to advance these studies – the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences – in higher education and in society at large.
Amy Springer has joined the library staff as Business and Government Information Librarian. Management students are encouraged to contact Amy regarding research needs.

Wendy Klepetar, Professor of management, will be presenting two papers this fall, both of which deal with online experiential instruction. The first one focuses on MGMT 389 and the second deals more with internships. She will present her findings on “Developing Intercultural Competence: Using Electronic Media to Instruct Students Abroad” at the 9th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge, England October 16th and 17th. She will also present a paper on “Integrating Theory and Practice: A Distance Learning Model” at Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference 09 will be held between 2009/12/05 and 2009/12/06 in Boston, MA.
Wendy is also serving on the Gender and Women’s Studies Steering Committee this year, as well as continuing as the President of the CSB and SJU chapters of the AAUP as well as serving as the chair of the management department.
Paul Marsnik, Associate professor of Management, has the following two conference papers accepted for presentation:
'The Entrepreneur Scholars Program: An Experiential Approach to Entrepreneurship Education”, International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference, Edinburgh Scotland, Sept. 2009. Co-authored with Robin Anderson, Brooke Envick, and Terri Barreiro.

“Clemens Perk: A Venture Launch on a College Campus” case submitted to United States Association for Small Business and Entrrepreneurship (USASBE) 2010 Annual Conference, Nashville TN, Jan. 2010.

Paul will also serve on a “Entrepreneurship Case Teaching Panel” at the Midwest Academy of Management, 52nd Annual Meeting, October 22-24, 2009. Chicago, IL
SARAH VANNESTE RECEIVES HONOR’S THESIS SUMMER FELLOWSHIP AND PRESENTS RESEARCH AT UC BERKELY’S 2009 GLOBALIZATION CONFERENCE

Management major Sarah Vanneste (Senior) received an Honor’s Thesis Summer Fellowship for the summer of 2009. The title of her thesis is High Technology Clusters in the Age of Globalization.

Sarah’s thesis compares and contrasts the rise and evolution of cutting edge industrial clusters in the US, UK, China, and Brazil. In doing so, she explores the optimal conditions for advanced clusters to take root and flourish in different countries and also what factors hinder clusters from reaching their potential. Finally, she studies the impact of high-technology clusters on the economic growth and competitiveness of regions and nations. Sarah’s moderator in her project is Dr. Sanford Moskowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Management. Sarah’s research will be incorporated into a book that Prof. Moskowitz is now writing titled “Advanced Technology Creation: Innovation for the 21^st Century (John Wiley & Sons) to be published in late 2010.

Sarah also was awarded a CSBSJU Undergraduate Research Program Grant of $750 in conjunction with her Honor’s Thesis Summer Fellowship for travel to present the results of her research to date at the Berkeley Globalization Conference , UC Berkeley, CA (August 3-6, 2009). As this conference is for professors from around the world and their graduate students, Sarah was the only undergraduate in attendance. Her presentation was very well received by those in attendance. In addition, she made a number of strategic contacts at the conference, including personnel who are looking to arrange lecture possibilities for her and Prof. Moskowitz in Bangkok, Thailand in 2009-2010.