As an academic unit within a comprehensive research university, the College of Business has a strong commitment to making intellectual contributions. The faculty are required to engage in a continuing pattern of scholarship in their areas of interest and expertise and to share scholarship with academic peers and business practitioners. The College values faculty scholarship for a number of reasons. Primary among these is the enrichment of classroom instruction. It prepares faculty to bring the excitement of scholarship and knowledge of contemporary topics to the classroom. It keeps faculty active and current in their disciplines, and enhances the academic reputation of the institution. The academic reputation, in turn, enhances the College's ability to attract students, to place graduates in jobs, and to attract additional well-qualified faculty. The College encourages faculty to publish in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings, to make presentations at academic conferences, to write teaching cases, to develop new computer software applications, and to write textbooks and other pedagogical material.

Accounting, Finance, and Management Information Systems	Management, Marketing, and International Business
Austin Entrepreneurship Program	Austin Family Business Program
Business Solutions Group	Close To The Customer

	DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING, FINANCE, AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS http://bus.oregonstate.edu

The AFIM department has three areas of ongoing research.

• Accounting faculty are currently active in share repurchases, option compensation programs, artificial intelligence and accounting technologies, auditing issues on outsourcing and office size, and regulations, accounting disclosures, and market reactions.
• Finance faculty are currently active in analysts and their impact on prices, when-issued trading, bankruptcy emergence, price limits and trading halts, credit unions, and electricity options.
• Information Management faculty are currently active in data base management, distant learning, digital libraries, regulated pathway relationships, criminal jurisdiction with active networks.

The faculty of AFIM are also very active in development of new instructional material, innovative learning environments, and advancements in business education.

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS http://bus.oregonstate.edu

The Management, Marketing, and International Business faculty are engaged in a wide range of research activities. Management faculty are involved in studying the innovation process, best practices in project management, creative problem solving, leadership dynamics, and incentive/performance evaluation systems. Marketing faculty examine consumer subcultures, behavioral relationships between channels of distribution, and marketing activities of service providers. Other faculty examine the evolution of constitutional rights in environmental and safety laws, statistical methods for risk analysis, supply partnerships, and out sourcing of critical functions. Most international research in the department applies to Pacific Rim countries. Faculty are also active in developing and testing new instructional methods and contributing to the advancement of management education.

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AUSTIN ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

Christopher Klemm, Director
Weatherford Hall
OSU, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
(541) 713-8042
http://www.bus.oregonstate.edu/programs/austin_entrep.htm

Oregon State University has set a strategic goal of encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation in all areas of campus. OSU has one of the largest engineering colleges on the West Coast, as well as top-ranked programs in biochemistry, forestry, public health, and food science. To help students and faculty build on the innovation arising out of these programs, the OSU College of Business, in partnership with the College of Engineering, launched the Austin Entrepreneurship Program in 2004.

The Austin Entrepreneurship Program offers an undergraduate entrepreneurship minor for non-business majors and a residential program at Weatherford Hall which provides students an array of formal and informal learning opportunities. Successful business leaders regularly stay in the hall’s two executive suites as “Weatherford Fellows.” These Fellows include entrepreneurs in high-tech fields, inventors, executives, legal experts, and venture capitalists. The curriculum at Weatherford Hall includes weekly presentations and meetings with Weatherford Fellows and faculty from business, engineering, and other departments on campus. Weatherford Hall, which was recently renovated with public and private funds, also has numerous resources including case rooms, incubator spaces, an entrepreneurship library, a board room, wireless internet connections, and research and development space.

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AUSTIN FAMILY BUSINESS PROGRAM

Robin Klemm, Interim Director
201 Bexell Hall, College of Business
Corvallis, OR 97331
(541) 737-3326
www.familybusinessonline.org

The Austin Family Business Program (AFBP) is named for Ken and Joan Austin, owners of A-dec, Inc. in Newberg, Oregon. Their generous gift of $1 million means that OSU will assist family businesses long into the future. They are joined by over one hundred donors who have contributed to our endowment and through annual gifts. The Program, which is self-sustaining, continues to exist because of the support of the family business community. Since its inception in 1985, the Austin Family Business Program has been fortunate to receive funding from individuals, family businesses, foundations, and corporate sponsors. The AFBP is proud to be 2nd oldest family business program in the country, dedicated to fostering healthy family businesses. As demonstrated by the website, www.familybusinessonline.org, both students and family business owners/managers are served as clients.

The AFBP excels as a pacesetting family business resource. We prepare our clients to balance the well-being of the business, the family and individuals, as they address and manage the challenges and opportunities which inevitably arise, day to day, and plan for future generations. Succession, communication, growth, and home/business balance are important topics. Current issues, such as tax law, are addressed in a general manner. We foster healthy family businesses -- through innovative tools, hands-on learning opportunities and honest talk.

Additionally we offer workshops to business owners and their family members, providing them with a chance to discuss issues critical to the future of the business. Local family businesses host these workshops, the tour, and often the entire event. With hands-on exercises, participant discussions and a workbook useful in family meetings, families are assured a step in the right direction.

We are pleased to have strategic and financial partnerships, allowing enhanced services to a greater number of family businesses. The AFBP recently completed the campaign to fund the Coleman Chair. The Program is continuing its fund raising efforts through the Directors' Campaign.

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BUSINESS SOLUTIONS GROUP

Mark Van Patten, Director (541) 737-6009
100 Bexell Hall, College of Business
Corvallis, OR 97331
www.bus.oregonstate.edu/programs/bsg.htm

The Business Solutions Group, within the College of Business, is an experiential learning program providing professional, custom product testing and software development solutions for our clients. The program provides more than 50 student interns a year a competitive advantage when seeking jobs upon graduation. The BSG is self-sustaining and operates as a break-even proposition. Companies outsourcing work to the group benefit from competitive rates and the knowledge that they are investing in their future work force by supporting student learning. The BSG leverages strategic industry relationships, a flexible and reliable infrastructure, solid security measures and competitive pricing to provide optimum customer satisfaction and a high quality experience for the student interns. The program continually integrates new technologies while looking for opportunities with new business partners.
The Business Solutions Group’s customers, including Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups, the Oregon Department of Transportation, and Oregon State University, leverage the group’s product testing and custom application development services. Whether it be testing the latest wireless technologies, updating software for compatibility with a new operating system, or designing a new database information system, the Business Solutions Group is equipped to make it happen while preparing students for the business community of tomorrow.

CLOSE TO THE CUSTOMER

Jim McAlexander, Director (541) 737-3182
408 Bexell Hall, College of Business
Corvallis, OR 97331
www.bus.oregonstate.edu/programs/c2c.htm

The Close to the Customer Project (C2C) conducts applied market research and can help you find the answers. Through appropriate research methods, the C2C Project creates insights and understanding of markets and customers while providing an experiential learning environment for students. We assist your organization with identification and assessment of business opportunities. We seek, through market research, to improve the quality of the opportunities your organization chooses to pursue, improve your decision-making and reduce risk inherent in the business enterprise.