The following article lifts highlights from The Idaho Business Review dated January 13, 2012. “Following a path made at other universities, Northwest Nazarene University School of Business Dean Steve Mountjoy is teaching a class on social ventures, where students create business plans with a financial and social bottom line. “’Business really should be meeting the needs [...]
The SIFE Business Club recently conducted an Ethics Panel debate featuring both professors and students as panelists. Communication Professor Dr. Donna Allen monitored the event and the panel was made up of Professors Mollie Sweet, Bill Campton and James Cresswell, as well as students Nipher Malika, Nathaniel Leslie and Rob Uhland. This event was open [...]
Northwest Nazarene University senior sales-management students recently surveyed Treasure Valley business operators about whether and how they use social media sites and other online tools. Many businesses are using, or at least showing interest in using, social networking sites and online tools such as search engine optimization, the students found. The late 2009 survey also [...]
Drs. Ron Galloway and Bill Russell attended the Region 7 Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) held at Point Loma Nazarene University on January 21 and 22. Region 7 is an international Region which is comprised of all ACBSP two-year and four-year schools in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, [...]
Dr. Janet Yellen, President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, video-conferenced with NNU students and faculty on September 15. Nearly 65 persons, including local business people and members of the community, attended the live conference held in Harter Lecture Hall. “Janet L. Yellen took office as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve [...]
Northwest Nazarene University’s President David Alexander announced the appointment of Dr. Stephen Mountjoy as acting dean and professor of the School of Business, which took effect August 1. Mountjoy brings strong academic credentials and a background in business leadership to the new appointment. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University [...]
June 28th at the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) conference in San Antonio, Texas, NNU business student Ashley Morman was awarded the Delta Mu Delta Pat & Tony Jablonsky scholarship award. Ron Galloway, NNU School of Business Dean at that time, said this speaks highly to Ashley’s abilities to be recognized by [...]
More often than not, you get what you pay for. According to economist John Taylor of Stanford University, the Federal Reserve got us the financial instability we see today by buying its way out of the 2001 recession. Taylor is most famously known for recommending a rules-based economic policy, appropriately called the Taylor Rule. The [...]
In the 1960s were heard the rally cry of “give peace a chance”. As was also true in that decade, the rally cry today is to give government spending more of a chance. Apparently, we are all Keynesians once again. To be a Keynesian suggests support for a theory that has never been fully tested. [...]
02.12Dueling Professors
Drs. Steven Van Der Ploeg and Peter Crabb are debating the stimulus bill, and dueling it out in the Idaho Statesmen. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives recently passed their own versions of a stimulus bill, and Congress is now working for a compromise to place before President Obama. Our own two professors of [...]