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Bell's Brewery partners with WMU, KVCC to offer internship
WMU News
We sincerely appreciate Bell's support of our award-winning program and students." Nationally, craft beer accounts for more than 12 percent of beer sales, and the industry is becoming a significant generator of jobs and revenues. Craft brewing contributed $2.09 billion to Michigan's economy in 2016 according to the Brewers' Association, making it ninth on the list of states in which the industry has the greatest economic impact.
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/12/44258
Workshops offer international students business knowledge
Haworth College of Business
Yousef Samkari, who attended several workshops in Erie, Pennsylvania, says the skills he learned from the workshops he attended—in particular, the Six Sigma workshop—helped him secure a new job with Schlumberger. He adds that benefits of the workshops are due to the quality of the WMU programs and professors who lead the workshops. Following its successful first year, the program launched its 2015-16 series in September, adding more locations and topics, and is exploring international offerings.
https://wmich.edu/business/workshops
Supplying Leaders
Haworth College of Business
(Kalamazoo, Michigan) Command Electronics (Schoolcraft, Michigan) Poly-Wood (Syracuse, Indiana Sigma Machine (Kalamazoo, Michigan) The Next Wave—Joined in 2015 Stryker Medical (Portage, Michigan) Flow-Rite (Byron Center, Michigan) Dunkley International (Kalamazoo, Michigan) X-L Machine (Three Rivers, Michigan) Bronco Force 3.0 - Joined in 2016 Weber Specialties (Schoolcraft, Michigan) CED/All-Phase Electric (Grand Rapids, Michigan) Metal Mechanics (Schoolcraft, Michigan) Tenneco Automotive (Marshall, Michigan) Flexfab (Hastings, Michigan) Mann-Hummel Automotive (Portage, Michigan) Students
https://wmich.edu/business/2016broncoforce
MLK Day Teach-In on campus expected to draw hundreds
WMU News
. , Welcome message given by Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell. 9:05 a.m. , Shared Prosperity Kalamazoo, a community collaborative initiated by the Kalamazoo City Commission to promote increased access to well-paying jobs, strong and economically secure families and healthy growth, development and learning for children; Dr. Don Cooney, Kalamazoo City commissioner, WMU associate professor of social work and associate director of the WMU Walker Institute; and Walker Institute Director Dr.
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/01/44656
Nursing Assembly Day and Skills Day take over CHHS
College of Health and Human Services
The event included presentations, training events and networking with professional nursing employers. Dozens of health care vendors filled the atrium at the CHHS building. Nursing students were able to speak with the vendors about potential job and extern opportunities in addition to learning about their products and services. "There's always a lot of excitement around these events," said Tina Keeler , Coordinator of Nursing Clinical Operations at the Bronson School of Nursing.
https://wmich.edu/hhs/08-2017-nursing
Finance Students Pitch Stocks At International Competition
Haworth College of Business
WMU Team 2 pitched Starbucks stock and included Jacob Adams, Davisburg, Michigan and Eric Reynolds, Delton, Michigan For the semi-final round, teams presented to a panel of judges during the conference. “The experience brought my education full circle,” says Deabreu. “WMU does a great job ensuring that its students learn the fundamentals of finance, and being able to apply them in a real life scenario during the competition was wonderful.”
https://wmich.edu/business/engage2015
Employee Treatment, Innovation and the Bottom Line
Haworth College of Business
Weathers’ research looks at employee treatment within organizations and measures innovative activity using patents related to a firm’s core business, citations and innovative focus, which previous research indicates does correlate to increased firm value. Weathers’ research supports three practical premises: Failure tolerance represents job security, layoff policy and longer employee tenure. Innovative projects often involve many failures before success. Job security promotes a failure tolerant working environment, which in turn provides motivation for
https://wmich.edu/business/weathers2017
Behind the Design: From the Designer's Perspective
Global Engagement
When I was given the job of designing this poster I will admit I was a little overwhelmed with the task. How can I make everyone feel welcome? There were a lot of different drafts before the finished product. I never imagined that it would be as big as it is now. I guess that just means I did my job well. We used the different languages to adhere to international students and student from different backgrounds, the rainbow “Welcome” to speak to our LGBTQ community, and the hands to represent people of color.
https://wmich.edu/global/welcomedesign
Alumni Update Form
Lee Honors College
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https://wmich.edu/honors/alumni/update
The Bottom Line on Venture Capital
Haworth College of Business
If you are in the life sciences, do not pursue a fund that avoids investing in that sector. You will get an automatic no. Do not come in cold unless you have to—referrals are a good thing. Remember, a venture capitalist’s job is to ask questions and be very skeptical, seeking a few optimal businesses for their firm to invest in, so keep that in mind no matter which side of the table you are on—entrepreneur or potential funder.
https://wmich.edu/business/rinvelt-2018