Welcome Message from 
the Department Chair, Dr. Doug Lincoln

The goal of the Department of Marketing and Finance is to help prepare graduates to identify opportunities, assess risk relative to returns, and gather the resources necessary to capitalize on opportunities!

 

Course Changes

If you can't find a listing for one of your business courses on BroncoWeb, it may be because the course number or prefix has changed.  List of Changes

 

Department News

Outstanding Business Graduates Honored

The College of Business and Economics honored outstanding graduates at a dinner on May 6, 2008. Among those honored was Robin Zimmerman, marketing.  Thirteen graduates, representing their respective majors, were awarded a certificate by a faculty member selected by the student. More than 80 faculty, parents and guests were in attendance.  For more information, see BSU Update, May 15, 2008

 

Marketing Professor Doug Lincoln
Re-appointed as Journal Editor 

 Doug Lincoln, Department of Marketing, was re-appointed to serve as editor for the Journal of Marketing Education through 2011. The JME is published by Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and was recently recognized by the Journal of Marketing as the most influential journal in its field.

Business Alumnus Makes $100,000
Investment in Finance Program 

 A Boise State alum has given $100,000 to help current and future students apply investment management knowledge and to provide funds for scholarships and program support for the Finance Department in the College of Business and Economics.

Ryan Relyea (BBA, finance, 2000) has established the Boise State Student Managed Investment Fund, to be managed by finance professor Harry White and his students.

 Students in upper-division financial portfolio management classes will research and recommend investment strategy and asset selections for the fund. White will make trades on the students’ behalf and the earnings on the investment will be used to fund scholarships and purchase investment tools for the department, as needed.

 Relyea co-founded Harbor Capital Partners near Salt Lake City in 1999, where he currently oversees underwriting and portfolio allocation for Harbor and its related entities.  BSU Focus, Winter 2008, p. 26  

 

 

 

Sarin Awarded Smith Professorship

Shikhar Sarin, marketing, has been awarded the Kirk and Marsha Smith Professorship. The professorship was recently established through the generosity of Kirk and Marsha Smith. Kirk is the president of CTI Foods, LLC, located in Wilder, and has been a long-time supporter of the College of Business and Economics. He is an active member of the COBE advisory board. The new professorship adds to a number of similar awards that have been established for COBE faculty.  (BSU Update, Feb. 5, 2008)

Ray Named to Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has named Nina M. Ray, professor of marketing, a member of the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster. Listing on the roster will allow Ray to be matched with incoming program requests from overseas academic institutions for Fulbright Senior Specialists with expertise in her field.

 

 

Ray Co-authors Article on the Commercial
Importance of the Basque Language

Nina M. Ray, professor of marketing, and Nere Lete, modern languages and literatures, co-authored an article in the current issue of Global Business Languages titled, "Basque Studies: Commerce, Heritage, and a Language Less Commonly Taught, but Whole-Heartedly Celebrated." The authors discuss the commercial importance of Basque as one of the world's less commonly taught languages and report the results of a survey taken during the First International Basque Studies Conference held at Boise State in April 2007. (BSU Update, Jan. 31, 2008)