Business/SPEA Information Commons

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 30, 2008

EDITORS: The media is invited to attend a presentation Friday (Oct. 3) by Gen. Peter Pace and Clorox Co. CEO Donald R. Knauss, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the IU Auditorium. Pace and Knauss will not be available for interviews. Contact George Vlahakis at 812-855-0846 or gvlahaki@indiana.edu for more information.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Gen. Peter Pace, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Don Knauss, chief executive officer of the Clorox Co., will be visiting Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business this week as part of the school’s leaders-in-residence program. 

Pace, who retired last year from the U.S. Marine Corps after more than 40 years of service, will interact with students and faculty at the Kelley School in Bloomington and Indianapolis. He will be a leader-in-residence for the 2008-2010 tenure. …

Read the entire news release here… http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/8908.html

One quick and easy way to find a list of a company’s merger and acquisition activities is to check the CorporateAffiliations.com database here:

http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/subscriber/quickSearch.asp

First, click on the ‘MergerTrak’ link on the left hand side of the screen.  Then, once on the ‘MergerTrak’ page, type in the name of the company in the middle search box.  The box on the left has merger status options to choose from which include pending, closed, completed, and cancelled.

The ‘MergerTrak’ link also includes detailed information on those companies which have been acquired by or mergered with parent firms.

Many projects focus on the activities and buying habits of college students. The 284 page report “U.S. Youth Market: How 15- to 24-Year-Old Consumers are Transforming the Marketplace, 2nd Edition (2005)” is available through IU’s subscription to MarketResearch.com Academic. The link only works on campus. Chapter 9 focuses on college students. The report covers demographics, media usage,  sports, personal finance, shopping, fashion, food, and more.  For example, “Online buying is more popular with female college students than their male counterparts (51.0% vs. 43.3%). However, male students are more likely to use the Internet to plan shopping trips.” (pg. 199)

Find a summary of the MBA Information Session of Friday, September 12…

…. http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=7246

The IU Libaries has subscribed to the Business & Company Resource Center database.  This database is a comprehensive research tool that meets core curriculum requirements in undergraduate and graduate case study work as well as the business research needs of the job seeker or casual investor.

Locate up-to-date company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodical articles here:

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BCRC?locID=iuclassb

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Students in the Master of Public Affairs degree program at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs can now pursue an academic concentration in sustainable development.

The option is available to students in the MPA program at IU Bloomington. SPEA faculty members believe it is the first sustainable development concentration offered by a university public affairs program.

“Our highly ranked School of Public and Environmental Affairs has unique strengths because of its deep expertise in both public policy and environmental science,” said Karen Hanson, the IU Bloomington provost and executive vice president. “This new graduate degree concentration will draw on those strengths and will offer outstanding opportunities for our students.”  …

For the entire article …. http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/7506.html