Tim Fuller earned his MBA from the College of Business while climbing the corporate ladder at Michelin, squeezing in study time after work from his home in Greenville, S.C. His continual pursuit of new challenges led him to his current role overseeing marketing efforts for aircraft tires in North America, Central America, South America and Great Britain.
Each year, the College of Business honors outstanding staff and faculty for their contributions to our community at the College of Business Awards. These awards recognize colleagues who made notable efforts to embody our shared vision of using education, research and engagement in support of our Business for a Better World vision.
As a first-generation college graduate and a woman who found early success in a male-dominated industry, Barbara Winter credits her career to the people who mentored and supported her along the way. By funding a new scholarship aimed at supporting first-generation students at the College of Business who demonstrate leadership skills, she hopes to “pay it forward.”
Anyone who's been part of any team – be it in sports or business – knows the extra work that comes with losing an integral member. One CSU College of Business faculty member analyzed what happened when English Premier League teams lost their best players and shared lessons for managers in similar situations.
A textbook might try its best, but when it comes to actually learning about what goes into entrepreneurship, nothing beats hearing from an actual entrepreneur.
Colorado State University’s College of Business is proud to announce the winners of the third annual Business for a Better World Dissertation Proposal Competition. The authors of the winning proposals will each receive $6,000 to support their research.
The College of Business has long been a pioneer in developing distance learning technologies, from mailing videotapes to students in decades past to the immersive video technology that makes up today’s innovative Online MBA program.
Fort Collins native Gabi McDonald started her college career as a two-sport athlete: playing goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team and throwing shot put and discus for the track team. Now, in her sixth year at CSU, she’s a record holder for the track team and double majoring in business and computer science.
New research from the marketing department’s Kelly Martin challenges the belief that financial vulnerability only affects low-income consumers, reframing it as a pervasive, dynamic issue that affects people across the socioeconomic spectrum.
The management department’s Rob Mitchell and his collaborators have been researching how successful entrepreneurs communicate for a number of years, focusing on dialogue between startups and potential stakeholders and how successful business pitches rely on literary storytelling techniques. Now, Mitchell and his coauthors find opportunity to connect their theories to other conversations in the burgeoning study of entrepreneurial communication.