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Ralph de la Vega
NIU alumnus Ralph de La Vega (M.B.A. 1989) recently negotiated one of the largest telecom mergers in industry history. As the CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, de la vega engineered a merger of his company and T-Mobile — with a $39 billion price tag. The deal, which will create one of the largest wireless telecommunications companies...
Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, will be honored Friday, May 6, as the NIU College of Business Distinguished Alumnus at the College of Business Annual Alumni Luncheon. The luncheon will take place at Harry Caray’s Italian Steak House, 70 Yorktown Center in Lombard, Ill. Corporate tables and individual reservations are...
A photo of employees dressed for success
Kohl’s will sponsor a business-attire fashion show at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the large auditorium (Room 200) of Barsema Hall. NIU students will demonstrate how to “dress to succeed,” be fashionable and stay on a budget. Men and women will model interview attire, everyday professional clothing and apparel for casual Fridays. Members of the Fashion Industries Organization will lead the event with support...
Northern Illinois University has named Jeffrey Chown, John Hartmann and Gerald Jensen as its 2011 Board of Trustees Professors — an honor that recognizes international prominence in research as well as excellence in all facets of teaching. Chown is a professor and documentary filmmaker in the Department of Communication. Hartmann is a professor in the...
Christine Cortina, winner of the 2010 scholarship
Leaders of the NIU Executive Club announced today that their Executive Club Scholarship has jumped from $5,000 to $7,500 per year. Since establishing the scholarship in 1999, the NIU Executive Club has awarded nearly $100,000 in scholarship dollars to 17 exceptional NIU students. These significant scholarship awards have had a direct impact on the lives of the award...
The Northern Illinois University College of Business has once again secured a position on Bloomberg-Businessweek’s list of best undergraduate business schools. The college moved up 10 spots from last year to No. 84. Only 139 of 579 accredited business schools in the country were invited to participate in the ranking process. This is the fifth year of...
Barsema Hall, home of the NIU College of Business
Professors across the nation have once again rated NIU’s Department of Accountancy among the elite in the nation. The Public Accounting Report’s 29th Annual Professor’s Survey, ranked NIU’s undergraduate program eighth (up 12 spots from last year) and its graduate program 10th (up 10 spots from last year) in the nation. Inclusion in the rankings places...
The NIU College of Business fared extremely well in a recent BusinessWeek magazine story citing a 2010 survey of senior-level students across the country ranking how well their business school integrated ethics into the curriculum. An overwhelming majority of NIU business students gave the college’s BELIEF Initiative an “A.” That level of satisfaction ranked second only...
The NIU College of Business is celebrating its 50th birthday, but the first present will go to the winner of the contest to officially name the year-long celebration of that milestone. Suggestions for the theme can be submitted online through Friday, Feb. 18. The winning slogan will be included on all materials promoting the anniversary....
BELIEF (Building Ethical Leaders using an Integrated Ethical Framework), NIU’s College of Business ethics program, has provided an ethics framework to thousands of students over the past four years. The impact the program has had on students was evident in Business Week’s 2010 survey of senior level students across the country.  Students in business schools were...
If you had a time machine, you might go back and make smarter decisions to improve your financial future. We’re not talking about picking winning lottery numbers or inventing Facebook before Mark Zuckerberg, but about everyday decisions that would safeguard you against recession — spending responsibly, understanding the stock market, avoiding credit traps and foreclosures....
NIU Huskie football team huddles up
On the heels of a record-breaking 2010 Northern Illinois football season on the field, a record-tying five Northern Illinois football student-athletes have been named to the Mid-American Conference’s Academic All-MAC football squad as selected by the league’s faculty representatives. Northern Illinois and Western Michigan led all MAC schools with five selections each to the 29-man...
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