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Teams advance to finals of Business Analytics case competition

Thu, Nov 15, 2018

Three groups of Oklahoma State University Master’s in Business Analytics students recently advanced to the finals of the first ever Business Analytics case competition.

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OSU’s entrepreneurship graduate program honored with top 25 national ranking

Tue, Nov 13, 2018

Oklahoma State University’s School of Entrepreneurship was recognized as one of the top schools in the nation for the sixth time since 2012 in rankings published by The Princeton Review and featured in the December issue of Entrepreneur magazine.

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OSU senior named Oklahoma Soldier of the Year

Fri, Nov 09, 2018

Oklahoma State University finance senior Brandon Widman was named the Oklahoma Soldier of the Year and offered a spot in the 2023 class at West Point after the Best Warrior Competitions took him to Liverpool, England.

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Sales sent Spears alum Carl Wiese soaring

Thu, Nov 08, 2018

Spears School of Business alum Carl J. Wiese has carved out a rich career in business, excelling in varied roles with several heavyweight companies: Texas Instruments, Apple, Lucent Technologies, Cisco and now BlackBerry.

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OSU Master’s in Business Analytics students participate in Southeast SAS® Conference

Thu, Nov 08, 2018

A number of Oklahoma State University Master’s in Business Analytics students recently traveled to St. Pete Beach, Fla., to participate in the three-day 2018 Southeast SAS® Users Group (SCSUG) Conference.

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Studying, representing OSU as Pistol Pete keeps MBA student Steven Vekony busy

Tue, Nov 06, 2018

Steven Vekony, a second-semester MBA student, walks into his Business Finance class on a normal Thursday morning dressed in a white, starched button-up shirt, a noticeably flashy belt buckle and orange and black cowboy boots. He is toting with him a bag large enough to carry a body, a large dog or perhaps the head of Pistol Pete.

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Watters to head new Riata Institute

Mon, Nov 05, 2018

Dr. Craig Watters will head the new Riata Institute for Global Social Entrepreneurship.

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OSU student earns best paper honor at conference

Mon, Oct 22, 2018

A group of Oklahoma State University Master’s in Business Analytics students were among those participating in the 2018 MidWest SAS® Users Group (MWSUG) Conference earlier this month in Indianapolis.

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MBA students will receive best student poster award at JMP Discovery Summit

Wed, Oct 17, 2018

A team of two Oklahoma State University Master of Business Administration students, Moumita Sen and Grant Reeves, have won the JMP Discovery Summit student poster competition.

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Spears School’s Ramesh Sharda to receive INFORMS Fellow recognition

Mon, Oct 08, 2018

Longtime Oklahoma State University faculty member Dr. Ramesh Sharda will be inducted Nov. 5 as an INFORMS Fellow for his exemplary research and educational contributions in decision support systems and analytics/data science at the operations research/computer science interface and for outstanding service to INFORMS, especially the INFORMS Computing Society.

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Robert Smith of NPR’s Planet Money to visit OSU for Global Entrepreneurship Week

Mon, Oct 08, 2018

National radio correspondent Robert Smith promises a peek behind the scenes of his popular NPR show Planet Money when he visits Oklahoma State University in November. Smith also promises to bring business and economic news to life, to even make it “sparkle.”

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Master’s in Business Analytics students represent OSU at SAS Software Conference

Mon, Oct 08, 2018

Two Oklahoma State University Master’s in Business Analytics students were participants in September at the three-day 2018 Western Users of SAS Software Conference in Sacramento, Calif.

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