THE FORUM

Making Headlines

• Business Womens Forum now an Official Chapter of the National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA)

• Debra Ringold Named Dean of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management - Statesman Journal Online Video

• Our Willamette MBA - Video Contest Brings Student Experience to Life

• Professor Lisbeth Claus receives "Distinguished Member Award" from the Northwest Human Resource Management Association

• Investments - People. Processes. Possibilities. Read the latest Willamette MBA Dean's Report

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Notable Accomplishments & Milestones

• The Atkinson Graduate School is named as one of the Princeton Review’s “Best Business Schools” for the fourth year in a row. (learn more)

• The Atkinson Graduate School is one of only three programs in the Northwest to have been ranked as one of the nation's best business schools by Business Week and US News & World Report.

• Willamette University is featured as one of the "best business schools" in the Vault.com Business School Buzz Book. (learn more)

• The Atkinson Graduate School was selected as one of the top programs for preparing MBA's for social and environmental stewardship by "Beyond Grey Pinstripes." (learn more)

• Ranked 28th for the specialty of "Public Affairs, Public Finance and Budgeting" by U.S. News & World Reports.

Faculty Accomplishments

• Read our series of Faculty Articles from the Statesman Journal's B2B Magazine. (click here)

• Lisbeth Claus visited China to deliver workshops on Global HR and HR Generalist programs for the Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM).

• Rob Wiltbank's article, "I Like How You Think: The Role of Cognitive Similarity as a Decision Bias" won the Best Empirical Paper Award from the Academy of Management. (read here)

• Fred Thompson serves on United Nations Blue Ribbon Commission on Macedonia (read story)

• Ken Smith, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Science, has been appointed to the steering committee for the Oregon Public Performance Management Association (OPPMA). Dr. Smith gave two recent presentations related to government benchmarking and performance measurement.

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