KU Business School News

A free online networking option is now available to the KU School of Business community. More than 200 KU School of Business alumni have already joined our group on LinkedIn.com since it was launched this summer.

LinkedIn is an online network of more than 25 million professionals from around the world. Our exclusive “KU School of Business Alumni” group allows members to connect with other alumni, faculty, staff and students. Group members can search LinkedIn’s database for companies and connect with alumni members who work at those companies, as well as search for jobs and accept referrals.

For more information on this group, and to join, visit: www.business.ku.edu/Alumni-socialnetworking

The KU School of Business has a new home on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube.com. Videos posted on YouTube can be searched and viewed by anyone across the world with an Internet connection.

The School plans to use this site to promote our lectures, activities and programs. Our first video posted to the site is a highlight clip from the 2008 Sutton Ethics Lecture with Ray Anderson, environmental entrepreneur and founder of Interface.

Visit our new YouTube Web profile to view this clip and subscribe to future clips: www.youtube.com/KUBusiness

To view the complete video from the Sutton Lecture with Ray Anderson, visit: www.business.ku.edu/news-2008SuttonLecture

A new email newsletter aims to keep parents and family members “in the know” about their students’ time at the KU School of Business.

“On the Same Page” a new email newsletter for family members will include news, events, tips and opportunities from the KU School of Business available to your student. Sign up online to receive the first issue in September.

More information and resources for the parents and families of KU School of Business students can be found at: http://www.business.ku.edu/Undergraduate-ResourceforParents

KU Ph.D. alumna Martina Musteen recently won the 2008 Olympus Emerging Faculty Innovator Award for her dynamic teaching approach and motivational classroom style. Musteen was nominated by a student in her International Entrepreneurship course, a program she developed at San Diego State University where she is an Assistant Professor of Management.

During her time at KU, Musteen received numerous teaching awards from the School of Business. She earned her Ph.D. from KU in 2007 and her master’s degree from CIMBA, Italy.

"To be honored for doing something that I love to do is incredibly gratifying," said Musteen. "More and more, we are seeing that entrepreneurship can contribute to solving global problems - poverty and climate change, for example - so my objective with every lesson plan is to inspire students to make a positive difference in the world through their entrepreneurial activities."

Now in its fourth year, the Olympus Innovation Award Program recognizes individuals who have demonstrated innovative thinking in higher education.