Category Archives: SBE Engagement

From overalls to suits: The business of potato farming

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Wisconsin ranks third in the nation for potato production and includes more than 35,000 jobs in the state. One of the oldest potato growers in the area shared its story with students in the UW-Stevens Point School of Business & Economics on Thursday, Sept. 26. “Exploring Careers in Agri-Business” featured a panel from Bushmans’, Inc. […]

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Accounting alum shares internship experience with students

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Kirk Booher ’86 returned to UW-Stevens Point today to listen to internship presentations and share his own accounting internship story from Clifton Gunderson (now Clifton Larson Allen) in 1986. Booher is currently a senior vice president at BB&T Bank in Chicago. Work History: BB&T Bank – BB&T Real Estate Funding, LLC, Chicago, Ill. Senior Vice President […]

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Taste of NFL founder visits UWSP

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The founder of Taste of the NFL, a non-profit organization dedicated to kicking hunger in America, spoke to business and dietetics students at UW-Stevens Point about ”Giving is Good Business” on Thursday, May 2. Stevens Point native Wayne Kostroski and the Taste of the NFL Foundation has raised over $13 million for hunger relief over […]

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View From the Top: Peter Bushman ’80

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A 1980 Chancellor’s Leadership Award winner and third-generation UW-Stevens Point alum returned to campus to share his “View from the Top” perspective on Tuesday, April 23. Peter Bushman ’80 visited with UWSP School of Business & Economics students and discussed his 30 years of sales and marketing experience and encouraged students to “make an investment […]

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Faculty and Staff Present at Scholarly and Creative Activity Reception

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College of Professional Studies faculty and students presented at the UW-Stevens Point Library’s 6th Annual Scholarly & Creative Activity Reception and Jazz & Poetry Night on Thursday, April 11. [Photo Gallery] Professor Randy Cray presented two issues of Central Wisconsin Economic Research Bureau (CWERB) Economic Indicator Reports Professor Holly Schmies, athletic training education program director, […]

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It’s not just business, it’s personal: Cory Thorson ’12

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Cory Thorson ’12 graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a degree in business administration while taking classes at UW-Marathon County in Wausau. Cory attended school while running his own business–Composite Envisions in the Wausau Industrial Park. UW-Stevens Point and UW-Marathon County are working together to offer a bachelor’s degree with a major in […]

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The Power of Negotiation

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“Ask for it!” That’s what author Sara Laschever told students, faculty, staff and community members as she wrapped up the week-long Portage County Business Council Business | Consumer Marketplace with an informative free lecture on the power of negotiation in at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Friday, March 8. [Photo Gallery] Laschever spoke to over 250 […]

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Redesigning an Organizational Behavior

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Two faculty members from the UW-Stevens Point School of Business & Economics were honored for their paper at the 49th annual Midwest Business Administration Association (MBAA) International Convention, on Friday, March 1 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. C.R. Marshall and Lyna Matesi won the North American Management Society’s Distinguished Paper Award at the convention for […]

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Running Rudy Rack

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What started out as a $6/hour part-time job filing paperwork to make money for Spring Break quickly turned into being named company president and owning 26 percent of the company. That’s the success story alumna Tracie Roberson ’06 shared with UW-Stevens Point business students Friday, Feb. 22. The business administration and communication double major went […]

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