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March 12, 2014
Richard White Jr. Named Dean
   
LSU has named Richard D. White Jr. as the new dean of the E. J. Ourso College of Business. White, who has served as interim dean since June 8, 2012, is the Marjory B. Ourso Professor and associate dean, a professor in the Public Administration Institute and a professor for the LSU Flores MBA Program. His appointment as dean begins April 1.
 
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2014 Hall of Distinction Inductees Announced
 
The LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business has announced the members of its 2014 Hall of Distinction class are Gregory Hamer Sr., Rose Hudson and John Landon. This year's class will be inducted at the Hall of Distinction Banquet, which the college will host at the Business Education Complex on Friday, March 28.
 
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ABR Accepts Marketing Instructor's Manuscript 
 
Monica Santaella, an instructor in the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business Department of Marketing, had a manuscript recently accepted for publication in the Academy of Business Research Journal. "Involvement in Fashion Advertisement: Image versus Text," coauthored with Jenna Kuttruff and Teresa Summers, is set to appear in Volume 1, 2014 of the publication.
 
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Finance's Lin and Stephens Co-Author Paper 
 
Finance professor Ji-Chai Lin and instructor Clifford Stephens co-authored a paper that the Journal of Banking and Finance has published. "Limited Attention, Share Repurchases, and Takeover Risk" focuses on hypotheses relating to unintentional bidding on undervalues targets and risk factors related to announcing open market share repurchases to counter undervaluation.
 
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LSU Flores MBA Program Remains in U.S. News Top 40
   After making a significant jump in U.S. News & World Report's rankings last year, the LSU Flores MBA Program retained most of the ground it gained and is 37 among public institutions in the "Best Business Schools" ranking for 2015. More than half of this year's top 50 schools are public institutions. The LSU Flores MBA Program's overall ranking of 65 is only a slight change from last year.

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LSU SEI Holding
 Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities This Week
   The Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute has welcomed its third class of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities at LSU program to campus. This spring's bootcamp will run through March 15.

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A Look Ahead
March 14 

Keep the Pace  5K 

  

March 19

Flores MBA Info Session  

 

March 26

LSUCIA Info Session 

 

March 28

Spring DAC Meeting

Hall of Distinction Banquet 

Flores MBAA Golf Tourney