Clemson College of Business

Wendy York extends family as she takes business education reins

As she begins her transition from the Bay area to the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills, Dean York squeezed in time to share some thoughts on family, leadership, caring and personal interests with her new family at Clemson.
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Entrepreneur’s vision rewarded by MBAe EnterPrize competition

Judges in the 6th Annual MBAe EnterPrize competition rewarded Virgil Platt’s vision for a business start-up that will sell fashionable, military-approved glasses to service men and women. As winner of the Shark Tank-like competition, Platt won $15,000, which he will use to purchase inventory for his business, Armed Eyewear.
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Faculty measure impact of underreported activity of political Twitter trolls

Clemson faculty members Patrick Warren (economics) and Darren Linvill (communications) have spent months studying the activities of social media accounts created by Russian agencies to negatively influence elections and political discourse. They’ve studied how these “trolls” achieve their goals and what the timing and frequency of posts say about their intentions. Check out the articles featuring their research in The Washington Post and Wired.
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Kelly Roy is right at home as intern for PGA Tour

Senior marketing major Kelly Roy would have been right at home commuting to her summer internship in a golf cart. That’s because the home of the PGA Tour, her summer employer, is little more than a driver and a pitching wedge from her backyard. Kelly was one of 24 interns from around the world that the PGA Tour hired this summer.
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Clemson’s MBAe competition inspires Innovation at Work

The Innovation at Work contest empowers MBAe working professionals to take what they learned in the classroom and apply it to real-world problems in their businesses. Lauren McCarter saw an innovative opportunity for her young outsourcing employee solution company and seized on it. That foresight earned her first place in the MBA program’s annual competition.
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Katie Hildebrand to lead Erwin Center for Brand Communications

Clemson’s Erwin Center for Brand Communications has named advertising and digital marketing professional Katie Hildebrand as its new executive director. Hildebrand brings a wealth of agency advertising and marketing experience to her new role. The center’s curriculum combines traditional academic coursework with hands-on instruction from industry professionals.
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Economics study probes ups, downs of U.S. fertility rates

Many factors have led to the decline in U.S. fertility rates over the last 200 years, but education and its influence on lifestyles is among today’s leading contributors, according to Clemson economics professors Robert Tamura and Curtis Simon.
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Erwin Center Summer Scholars branding program promotes inclusive excellence

Students representing nine colleges and universities in both Carolinas learned about the impact of effective communication during the Erwin Center for Brand Communications' inaugural summer program. The objective was to give students access to industry professionals and provide hands-on training and advance diversity in the world of brand communication.
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Accounting alumna wins award for CPA examination score

Ali MacKay, who received undergraduate ’16 and graduate ’17 degrees in accounting, has won an award from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) for being among the nation’s top CPA test scorers. MacKay, who is employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, was one of only 58 out of 95,858 CPA candidates who averaged 95.50 across all four sections of the CPA exam.
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HR society cites Clemson chapter for superior achievements

The world’s largest human resources professional society has awarded Clemson’s student chapter its Superior Merit Award for providing growth and development to its management students in the College of Business.
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Sonoco Institute announces fall seminar and workshop lineup

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