Innovision Spring 2019

4 | INNOVISION MAGAZINE CONTENTS 4 | INNOVISION MAGAZINE FOLLOW US: NOTES FROM THE CHAIRS If you were to sell fish, you would tell buyers your fish are fresh. And we all have enough experience to know that this is often not true. That’s what buyers want to hear, so that’s what sellers say. There’s a gap between the message and the reality. In the Department of Business Administration, we want tomake sure we only sell fresh fish. There is a lot happening in the Department of Business Administration, all of which is in response to our mission, vision and goals. Moving forward, we will have a Human Resourcemajor,anEntrepreneurshipmajorand startinginthefall,aSupplyChainManagement major. By creating these specialized majors, we feel that we are positioning our students to get better jobs in the workplace after they graduate. Someday I would like to hear about our graduates in HR, Entrepreneurship and Supply Chain Management and how they got better jobs right out of KU and how their time here impacted their success. Come with us. We do sell fresh fish. If you stop into the Department of Sport Management &Leadership Studies, you will find a department that is always looking to the future and asking how it can improve the learning experience for its students. We accomplish this through interactive and experiential exercises in the classroom, through modifying curriculum or through the scholarship and research of our faculty. This academic year, we continue our tradition of bringing in speakers who are practicing professionals so students can gain perspective from those outside academia and have an opportunity to network. Speakers who are alumni are always well received by our students and we were thrilled to have two alumni come back this year. We organized field trips to give students an opportunity to talk with professionals and observe both facility and risk management. The faculty continue to present their research at national and international conferences, as well as publish. Our faculty engages students and works with them on research and opportunities to present their findings as well as participate in case competitions. We are proud of our students and their success is what drives us. ROGER HIBBS CHAIR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ELIZABETH ROGOL CHAIR OF SPORT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP STUDIES 8 11 13 14 20 26 29 ELC WEEK FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION BETA GAMMA SIGMA DISCOVERING WHAT WORKS IN SOCIAL MEDIA COB ABROAD RETIRING FACULTY LIQUID INTERACTIVE