Haile/US Bank College of Business

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Location: Business Academic Center 305
Telephone: 859-572-5165
Email Address: cob@nku.edu
Web Address: http://cob.nku.edu
Dean: Rebecca Porterfield
Other Key Personnel:

Associate Dean: Greg Martin
Business Officer: Josh Neumeyer
Assistant Dean and Director of the Advising Center: Leslie Kyle
Projects and Events Manager: Jill Wallace-Cooper
Director of Development: Jerome (Jey) Marks

The Haile/US Bank College of Business is a vibrant academic community of faculty and staff dedicated to delivering globally relevant and innovative academic programs that prepare our graduates for successful careers as effective and ethical business leaders. We’re developing tomorrow’s leaders with a comprehensive, rigorous curriculum providing learning opportunities spanning sophisticated analytical to “people” skills that are ​valued by all organizations from business to not-for-profits.

Our faculty produces a strong mix of research contributions, focusing on discipline-based, pedagogical, and applied scholarship and connecting our students with that scholarship in our classrooms. We encourage our students to join us in meaningful and impactful professional engagement with the business community through experiential projects for external clients and high quality internship opportunities. We emphasize the development of a global mindset by faculty, staff, and students through our active international programs and study abroad opportunities. We value broad-based participation by our faculty, staff, and students in public engagement activities that foster altruism and civic-mindedness.

At the undergraduate level, the College offers the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.) degree with nine alternative majors (accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, general business, global supply chain management, human resources management, management, marketing, and sports business), as well as Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree programs in construction management and economics. The College is also home to three graduate professional degree programs.

All of our B.S.B.A. and graduate programs are accredited by AACSB-International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a high distinction earned by fewer than five percent of the more than 16,000 business schools worldwide. Our AACSB accreditation makes our students eligible for membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, the world’s premier collegiate business honor society. Our construction management program is accredited by the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE), a distinction earned by only a third of all construction management programs in the US.

College Advising Center

Location: Business Academic Center 206
Telephone: 859-572-6134
Email Address: cobadvising@nku.edu
Director: Leslie Kyle

The advising center provides academic advising and internship and career planning assistance for all students with undergraduate majors and minors in the Haile/U.S. Bank College of Business.

Accreditations

All business programs are accredited by AACSB - International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Construction management programs are accredited by the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE).

Centers

Alternative Dispute Resolution Center

Location: Business Academic Center 311
Telephone: 859-572-5114
Email Address: carrellm@nku.edu
Web Address: http://adr.nku.edu
Director: Michael R. Carrell

The primary mission of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Center is to provide for the peaceful, effective resolution of disputes. This mission is accomplished by utilizing negotiation, mediation, and arbitration processes in classes, training programs and professional conferences. The ADR Center uses the professional experience of full-time faculty from all colleges within NKU. Students are involved directly and indirectly through their participation in one of the largest labor-management conferences in the U.S. as well as their participation in courses that focus on negotiation and conflict resolution, human resource management, and labor relations. When appropriate, students may observe dispute resolution activities and participate in role plays based on actual cases.

Center for Economic Analysis and Development

Location: 2622 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076
Telephone: 859-392-2413
Email Address: harrahj1@nku.edu
Web Address: http://cead.nku.edu
Senior Director: Janet Harrah

The Center for Economic Analysis and Development (CEAD) engages in applied business and economic research. It collects, analyzes, and disseminates information on demographic and economic conditions in the region. Other research includes population forecasts; cost-benefit studies; regional economic and industry forecasts; fiscal impact analysis; etc. CEAD’s mission is to conduct high-quality, objective research on issues related to the region’s current and future economic well being.

Center for Economic Education

Location: Business Academic Center 340
Telephone: 859-572-5155
Email Address: lang@nku.edu
Web Address: http://cee.nku.edu
Director: Nancy A. Lang

The goal of the Center for Economic Education is to improve the quality and quantity of economic instruction at all grade levels in order to promote economic and financial literacy in the community. As the primary service provider for economic education in northern Kentucky, the NKU center serves all teachers and youth in Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Grant, Gallatin, Kenton, Pendleton and Owen counties. This is accomplished by conducting professional development and graduate programs for teachers, consulting with individuals and schools on curriculum issues, providing resources to schools and individuals, and offering programs for youth. The center also serves as a resource and partner to the university community in offering and promoting financial literacy and supports the university’s outreach efforts. The NKU center is an integral part of a statewide network of centers within the Kentucky Council on Economic Education and is affiliated with the Council for Economic Education.

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Location: Business Academic Center 350
Telephone: 859-572-5931
Email: dsouzar@nku.edu
Web Address: http://ei.nku.edu
Director: Rodney R. D’Souza

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIO) at NKU is a driver of educational and professional development opportunities to all NKU students. The center has a transdisciplinary focus and seeks to advance the university’s strategy by fostering cross-campus applied learning and embedding innovative thinking more deeply in the university culture. The center is built on the belief that students from the arts and sciences, engineering, nursing, business, informatics, and law can all learn from one another how to become more well-rounded innovative and creative thinkers. The center fosters opportunities for this transdisciplinary applied learning to occur. We design our programs to ignite passion for an entrepreneurial mindset, fuel desires by providing students with the resources and education to make their dreams a reality, and fan the spirit and culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across campus and the region.

Marketing Research Partnership Program

Location: Business Academic Center 312
Telephone: 859-572-6409
Email Address: levina@nku.edu
Web Address: http://mrpp.nku.edu
Director: Aron Levin

The mission of the Marketing Research Partnership Program (MRPP) is to educate undergraduate students in how to perform effectively and ethically as professionals who use or supply marketing research. We also seek to create excitement and provide opportunities for students to learn from market research professionals in the Greater Cincinnati area. Students in the MRPP interact with and network with the MRPP’s corporate partners, which are composed of some of the world’s most successful marketing research supplier companies. In addition, via service-learning courses, our students provide marketing research consultation services to nonprofits and small businesses in the region.

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