Business News
The Ohio Northern University James F. Dicke College of Business Administration Mu Delta chapter of Beta Alpha Psi inducted new members Kevin Blessinger, Patrick Collins, Wilson Wu, and Jace Mills on September 25, 2012. Inducting officers include Emily Shutt, President, Dana Pikovnik, VP of Membership, and Austin Price, VP of Finance. Advisors for the 2012-13 Academic Year include: Dr. Melissa Hickman, Professor Matthew Phillips, and Dr. Dexter Woods (VITA).Beta Alpha Psi, founded in 1919, is an honorary organization for financial information students and professionals. The primary objective of Beta Alpha Psi is to encourage and give recognition to scholastic and professional excellence in the business...
continue reading
Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration honored Oscar J. Mifsud with an Outstanding Service Award on Saturday, Oct. 6.The award, given annually at Homecoming, honors individuals who have provided sustained and outstanding service to, and whose contributions have positively impacted, the College of Business Administration and Ohio Northern. This is the fourth year that an Outstanding Service Award has been presented by the college.James Fenton, dean of The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration, said, “Oscar and his wife, Judy, believe in the saying ‘pay it forward,’ and this comes out not just in their philanthropic work and giving, but in volunteering to do service. He and his wife live by a...
continue reading
Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration will present “Will Health Care Reform Improve Your Health,” a lecture by Brian Smith, as part of the Carroll V. Lovett Distinguished Lecture Series in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m.Smith, who graduated from ONU with a Bachelor of Science in business administration in 1987, is president of Catholic Health Partners (CHP) Northern Division and chief executive officer of St. Rita’s Health Partners (SRHP). He has been with St. Rita’s for more than 20 years. As North Division president, he has responsibility for 11 hospitals, physician joint ventures, and three wholly owned physician practices with 250 providers.In 2004,...
continue reading
The controversial issue and policy of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” will be discussed by a panel in the Ohio Northern University Dicke Forum on Friday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. as part of the 72nd annual meeting of the Ohio Association of Economist and Political Scientist (OAEPS).The panel will debate the pros and cons of fracking and will include Mike Chadsey, campaign manager for Energy In Depth (affiliated organization of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association), Greg Lawson, statehouse liaison and policy analyst with the Buckeye Institute, Janetta King, president and CEO of Innovation Ohio, and Jack Shaner, deputy director and senior director of legislative and public affairs for the Ohio Environmental Council.Fracking...
continue reading
Jason DuffThe Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) at Ohio Northern University opens its entrepreneurship workshop series in the Dicke Forum on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The workshop will be preceded by a networking event at 5:30 p.m. The workshop will follow the networking event and conclude at 7 p.m.The topic of the workshop will be “How to Connect, Position Yourself and Create Success” with Matt Brown and Jason Duff. This event is free and open to the public.Duff is an acclaimed speaker, real estate developer and award-winning entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Community Storage & Properties Ltd. and COMSTOR Outdoor Ltd. Duff also serves in executive capacities with several other businesses and not-for-profit organizations...
continue reading
The Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) at Ohio Northern University is scheduling one-on-one consultations and has planned workshops and classes to support individual and small business owners in Hardin, Hancock, Allen and Wyandot counties.The recently opened CEDC’s mission is to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset and to create opportunities for furthering employment opportunities in the four-county area. The CEDC, located in ONU’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration, was made possible through a Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) to support small business growth and development in the counties surrounding ONU.Kevin Ernst, director of the CEDC, said the goal is to support micro-enterprise development (small...
continue reading
Dr. James Fenton, dean of Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration, has announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Kleine as the new associate dean of the business college. Kleine has also been bestowed with the first James F. Dicke Endowed Professorship.Kleine replaces Dr. Rich Meininger,who served as the college’s associate dean for the past 39 years.“Kleine exemplifies the ‘teacher-scholar’ model,” Fenton said. “He’s an excellent classroom teacher and a productive and published researcher in the areas of consumer behavior and marketing research.” The Marketing Science Institute designated one of Kleine’s articles as one of the “Essential Readings in Marketing.”Kleine joined the ONU faculty in 2002. He...
continue reading
Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration was awarded a grant from the Robert P. Ashlock Memorial Program, funded through Assurex Global and administered by The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation to develop a risk management and insurance (RMI) major.Ohio Northern is planning to introduce the new major to address the increasing demand for jobs in the emerging risk management field. The funds, totaling $5,000 from the foundation, will be used to complete the research associated with specification of the program, for curriculum development, marketing and recruiting materials and for other start-up activities.Dr. James W. Fenton, dean of The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration said, “The...
continue reading
The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded the entrepreneurship program at Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration a Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) to support small business growth and development in a four-county area surrounding ONU. The grant totals $92,000.The grant provides ONU with the funds to develop outreach programs to help develop growth and expansion of microenterprise development (small businesses with less than 50 employees and gross sales less than $1 million) and growth in a four-county area: Allen, Hancock, Hardin and Wyandot. The outreach programs are focused on serving the needs of any individual that may have an interest in starting or expanding a small business...
continue reading
The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN), a collection of 20 colleges and universities that includes Ohio Northern University, was awarded an Edison Gold Medal in the category of Collaborative Networks and Support on Thursday, April 26. The award was announced during the Edison Awards’ 25th anniversary celebration in New York City.The colleges involved with KEEN were recognized for their collaborative work in creating the 21st-century engineer by instilling the entrepreneurial mindset in all of the nearly 19,000 students they collectively teach. In addition to the rigorous technical fundamentals they offer as part of their normal courses, the schools offer experiential opportunities aimed at instilling in the students a set of...
continue reading
