Smoke words: Mining media to find vehicle defects
Pamplin researchers created a decision support system to discover automobile defects by monitoring online forums for "smoke words."
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Putting IT to work
Apex Systems’ Jeff Veatch knows the finer points of Information Technology staffing.
Career advice
Students create virtual you
Student entrepreneur Caroline Pugh is helping online shoppers find the right fit with body-scanning technology.
Chocolate cake, please
Are you more likely to ditch your diet when paying with cash than credit card? Rajesh Bagchi studies the ways that consumer behavior is unconsciously influenced.
Color consumption
A well-oiled machine
Debra Emory creates “branding blueprints” to define ExxonMobil's products and guide decision-making processes across the organization.
Going green while staying in the black
Self-professed former energy hog Randy Lucas found an unexpected career as an entrepreneur in the niche field of “green accounting.”
Moving Mom
Susan Phillips Bari drew from personal experience and professional input to author a new advice book on relocating aging loved ones.
Preparing for business teaching
Three graduates of the post-doctoral bridge-to-business program are prepared for new careers as finance professors.
Marketing advisory board links the academic and the applied
Members of the marketing advisory board use their experience in the field to provide feedback to faculty members and career coaching to students.
Ranked among the best schools
Pamplin’s undergraduate business program and evening MBA program both moved up in the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings.
Look who's talking
Recent speakers at Pamplin included former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge; retired Brig. Gen. Jack Grubbs; Kevin A. Hassett, of the American Enterprise Institute; and Randy Lucas, founder of Lucas Tax + Energy.
Search for new dean heats up
A search committee comprising university leaders and Pamplin faculty members will look for Dean Richard E. Sorensen’s successor.
