Spears School of Business News

Robert Baron: “Why Entrepreneurs Often Experience Low, Not High, Stress: Joint Effects of Selection and Psychological Capital,” published in the Journal of Management

Spears School News Staff — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:37:40 +0000

While creating and running new ventures, entrepreneurs are exposed to conditions known to generate high levels of stress (e.g., rapidly changing, unpredictable environments, work overload, personal responsibility for others). Thus, it has been assumed that they often experience intense stress. A markedly different possibility, however, is suggested by Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) Theory. This perspective suggests that [...]

Spears School of Business organizes program in Moscow for entrepreneurship educators

Spears School News Staff — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:40:10 +0000

The demand for entrepreneurship education is a global phenomenon that Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business is helping solve. In an effort to address the need for faculty who can teach entrepreneurship, the Spears School’s Michael Morris, Malone Mitchell Chair in Entrepreneurship, recently helped deliver a program called the Dynamic Entrepreneurship Classroom (DEC) in [...]

CEPD seminar aims to teach powerful business tools

Spears School News Staff — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:52:19 +0000

Oklahoma State University’s Department of Management and the Center for Executive and Professional Development will host “Improving Your Business Processes & Project Management” on June 26-27 at the OSU-Oklahoma City campus. This two-day seminar covers the basics of Business Process Improvement including: terminology, identifying and selecting projects, planning, management and execution, analysis and measurement. The [...]

Center for Executive and Professional Development celebrates 60 years of serving Oklahoma

Dollie Mitchell — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:38:41 +0000

The Center for Executive and Professional Development (CEPD) in the Spears School of Business is marking 60 years of service and outreach to students and Oklahoma’s business community this year. CEPD fulfills a vital role by providing quality executive, management and professional development programs and services for business, industry and government. The center also provides [...]

Sgt. Chris Upshaw of the U.S. Army flew to Stillwater from Guam to surprise his sister, Lauren Reid, prior to her graduation from Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business.

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:48:57 +0000

Oklahoma State University student receives graduation surprise from military brother

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:35:53 +0000

Sgt. Chris Upshaw of the U.S. Army flew to Stillwater from Guam to surprise his sister, Lauren Reid, prior to her graduation from Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business on Saturday morning. Reid, from Perry, Okla., graduated with a general business degree. Sgt. Upshaw, who serves with the 523rd Horizontal Engineer Company out of [...]

The Business Plan: May 2013

Dollie Mitchell — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:45:47 +0000

Ramesh Rao (OSU), Andrew Prevost (Ohio University) and Erik Devos (University of Texas-El Paso): “The Effects of Relative Changes in CEO Equity Incentives on the Cost of Corporate Debt,” published in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Spears School News Staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:19:31 +0000

We examine how effort and risk incentives embedded in CEO equity incentives are related to the cost of debt and the role credit worthinessplays in this relationship. Our empirical approach addresses a number of unanswered questions in the literature by examining the sources and effects of co-movements in CEO incentives, whether the proportionality of these [...]

Ali Nejadmalayeri and Ramesh Rao: “Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Corporate Credit Spreads,” published in the Journal of Banking and Finance

Spears School News Staff — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:47:36 +0000

Stock market reaction suggests that despite improved disclosure and increased accountability, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is too costly and not beneficial. Noting that bondholders are likely to reap the many potential benefits of SOX without bearing the brunt of costs, we examine how SOX affected corporate credit spreads to better assess its benefits. SOX has led to [...]

Chakraborty Named 2013 SAS Distinguished Professor Award winner

Dollie Mitchell — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:54:58 +0000

Oklahoma State University marketing professor Goutam Chakraborty was honored Monday with the 2013 SAS Distinguished Professor Award at the SAS Global Forum in San Francisco. Chakraborty earned the prestigious Distinguished Professor Award for using SAS (originally known as Statistical Analysis Systems) in teaching and/or research and supporting successful students use of SAS, a leader in [...]

Headline News: Week of April 29, 2013

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:56:59 +0000

OSU’s entrepreneurship program receives U.S. News & World Report top-25 ranking

Spears School News Staff — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:27:36 +0000

The School of Entrepreneurship and the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship have placed Oklahoma State University’s program on the map in recent years. OSU’s program recently received another prestigious honor when it was named one of the top 25 business schools for entrepreneurship by U.S. News and World Report. The OSU entrepreneurship program tied for No. [...]

Spears School to offer graduate certificates in Nonprofit Management, Sustainable Business

Spears School News Staff — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:45:01 +0000

For more than 100 years the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University has been at the forefront in offering classes and degrees that are applicable to the business world. In keeping with that standard, the Spears School will begin offering this fall new graduate certificate programs in nonprofit management and sustainable business. Graduate [...]

Justin Webb: “Family Ties in Entrepreneurs’ Social Networks and New Venture Growth,” published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Spears School News Staff — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:15:08 +0000

Family ties serve as an important conduit of resources for entrepreneurs’ new venture activities. However, research suggests that family ties can create both positive and negative entrepreneurial outcomes. Building upon a family embeddedness perspective, we develop hypotheses about curvilinear relationships between the degree of family embeddedness (defined as the percentage of family ties) in entrepreneurs’ [...]

Bryan Edwards and Craig Wallace: “Change the Referent? A Meta-analytic Investigation of Direct and Referent-shift Consensus Models for Organizational Climate,” published in the Journal of Management

Spears School News Staff — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:11:50 +0000

Companies often measure perceptions from members of work groups such as climate for safety, fairness, or high involvement. Climate surveys concerned with differences among departments, offices, locations, or supervisor work groups add a new element to measurement. Mainly, should the questions ask about members’ individual perceptions (e.g., I am concerned with safety compliance) or the [...]

Justin Webb: “Entrepreneurs’ Response to Semi-Formal Illegitimate Institutional Arrangements,” published in the Journal of Business Venturing

Spears School News Staff — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:02:23 +0000

While prior research has discussed how entrepreneurs deal with formal institutional voids and informal institutional environments, little is known about how entrepreneurs respond to institutional arrangements involving illegitimate actors. We define such arrangements as semi-formal illegitimate institutions. Using an exploratory study, we examine one such arrangement in Guatemala City, where organized crime dominates the institutional [...]

Three teams of OSU students win top prizesin Riata Business Plan Competition

Dollie Mitchell — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:06:47 +0000

The fifth annual Riata Business Plan Competition awarded more than $43,000 in prize money on Saturday to help winning student teams finance their plans and turn them into viable business ventures. The Riata Business Plan Competition is facilitated by the Oklahoma State University School of Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business. R2R Technologies, a [...]

Headline News: Week of April 22, 2013

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:02:45 +0000

OSU students capture fourth place at TCU’s Values and Ventures competition

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:53:23 +0000

Virtue and Veneration, a two-man team of Oklahoma State University students Nick Cain and Flint Holbrook, placed fourth against 27 other universities last weekend at the Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures™ Business Plan Competition at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Cain, a mechanical engineering major, and Holbrook, a biosystems engineering major, presented Virtue and [...]

School of Entrepreneurship students, teams win more than $27,000 at Governor’s Cup

Spears School News Staff — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:53:21 +0000

A number of Oklahoma State University students and several teams from the Stillwater campus were among the winners during the 2013 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Competition. The OSU students and teams won more than $27,000 in cash awards and scholarships. In addition, the R2R Technologies group of students qualified to travel to Las Vegas [...]

Inside the Walls of SSB: April 19, 2013

Dollie Mitchell — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:12:30 +0000

OSU students will compete in TCU’s Values and Ventures competition

Dollie Mitchell — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:41:46 +0000

A two-man team of Oklahoma State University undergraduate students will compete against students from 27 other universities Friday and Saturday at the Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures™ Business Plan Competition at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. OSU students Nick Cain, a mechanical engineering major, and Flint Holbrook, a biosystems engineering major, will present [...]

OSU’s Online Master’s in Entrepreneurship program is No. 1 in the U.S. in the rankings of the 10 Best Online MBA Entrepreneurship Programs, published in February of 2013.

Spears School News Staff — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:30:40 +0000

The Spears School is one of only four schools in the U.S. in which 100 percent of full-time MBA students received jobs within three months after graduation, reports U.S. News & World Report.

Spears School News Staff — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:19:56 +0000

Headline News: Week of April 15, 2013

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:50:14 +0000

Students bring innovative, renewable Off-Grid Box to United States, OSU

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:46:41 +0000

Oklahoma State University’s student-led organization Sustainability, Energy, and Resources Collaborative (SERC) is responsible for bringing to the United States and OSU the first ever Off-Grid Box™, an onsite renewable energy and water harvesting system. The innovative system arrived on campus Tuesday and will be on display in the parking lot east of the Classroom Building [...]

Spears School of Business will host economists from around the world

Terry Tush — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:36:13 +0000

The Department of Economics and Legal Studies at Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business will host Gretl Conference 2013 this summer in which participants from all around the world will travel to Oklahoma. The Gretl Conference 2013 is for econometricians who are devoted users and developers of Gretl, an open-source statistical package used worldwide. [...]

Five Spears School students qualify for FBLA-PBL National Leadership Conference

Spears School News Staff — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:36:35 +0000

Five Spears School of Business students have qualified to attend the FBLA-PBL (Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda) National Leadership Conference after award-winning performances at the Oklahoma Leadership Conference earlier this month. The five students – Aaron Barker, Reilee Berger, Drew Burkhart, Nicholas Keen and Morgan Melot – earned the opportunity to represent Oklahoma [...]

OSU hosts Energy Conference on April 23

Spears School News Staff — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:23:41 +0000

The 7th Annual Oklahoma State University Energy Conference will be held on April 23 from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Cox Business Convention Center in Oklahoma City. The event is offered by the Department of Finance and the Center for Executive and Professional Development in the Spears School of Business at OSU. This [...]

Headline News: Week of April 8, 2013

Dollie Mitchell — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:01:51 +0000

Inside the Walls of SSB: April 5, 2013

Dollie Mitchell — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:10:19 +0000

Kylie Roper receives Raymond D. Thomas Award, several other prestigious honors from OSU

Spears School News Staff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:20:35 +0000

Kylie Roper grew up in Edmond, Okla., in a house that bled crimson and cream. Her father was an ecstatic University of Oklahoma fan. But when it came time to decide what to do with her life and where to focus her studies, Roper contemplated a decision between OU and Oklahoma State University After visiting [...]

OSU students to host Honda marketing campaign on Stillwater campus

Dollie Mitchell — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:26:04 +0000

Orange Innovations, a student-run marketing agency consisting of Spears School of Business students at Oklahoma State University, has developed a marketing campaign to introduce the 2013 Honda Civic Sedan to the Stillwater campus. The Honda Street Fest will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, April 8, on the southeast lawn of the [...]

Spears School students earn top-20 finish in prestigious Rotman Trading Competition

Spears School News Staff — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:02:52 +0000

Six graduate students of the Spears School of Business in the Master’s of Science Quantitative Financial Economics program competed in the Rotman International Trading Competition in Toronto, Canada, in February. The group placed 19th out of 48 schools around the world andsixth among other universities in the United States. Representing the Spears School were Alex [...]

Longtime television journalist Tom Brokaw embraces ‘big ideas’ during visit to Oklahoma

Spears School News Staff — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:57:54 +0000

A man whom America is accustomed to seeing behind a television anchor’s desk chose to stand in front of a podium Tuesday. Tom Brokaw, who United States citizens are accustomed to listening to during his longtime journalistic career with NBC News, chose to have a “conversation” on who Americans are in the 21st century and where [...]