Heider Annual Report 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 2014-2015 HIGHLIGHTS CONT.

Dean Hendrickson’s Welcome 4 New York 33

Where Our Students Go 6 Murphy Cup 34

Enrollment Report 8 FMA Finance Leaders’ Conference 36

Heider Ambassadors 10 CFA Challenge 38

The Flame Dedication 40

ALUMNI

3 Alumni Named to “10 Outstanding Young Omahans”

12 STUDENT & FACULTY SPOTLIGHTS

East Coast Alumni Events 14 Heider Student Scholars 42

Networking In New York 16 Andrew Rogers Wins Award 44

Ben Schaechter’s Portfolio App 18 Heider Faculty In The News 46

Beverly Kracher, PhD, Speaks In Paris 48

2014-2015 HIGHLIGHTS Randy Jorgensen, PhD, CFA, Named CFA Director

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Business Symposium 20

Institute For Economic Inquiry 22 HEIDER IN THE COMMUNITY

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) 24 Financial Hope Wins Award 50

Argy Bargy 26Business, Faith & Common Good Symposium

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Travel Courses 28 Heider Students Volunteer 54

San Francisco 30 TEDxYOUTH@OMAHA 56

South Africa 31 Coming Together To Give Back 58

Las Vegas 32

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DEAN HENDRICKSON’S WELCOMEWELCOMEWELCOME

In the 2013-2014 Year in Review, we shared news of our transformative year. We became the fi rst named college at the University, saw increased enrollment, hired new faculty and moved to the Harper Center. The Heider College continues to build on the successes of this pivotal year. We increased our undergraduate enrollment to 865 students, making signifi cant strides to our goal of 1,000.

A small classroom environment is a Heider College of Business hallmark. We added four new faculty members to maintain our standard this year, and we are excited to welcome nine new faculty in the fall of 2015. As more and more students are attracted to our Jesuit values-driven business education, we will continue to expand programming and add faculty to meet the need.

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As you will see in this Year in Review, it has been a busy and productive year at the Heider College of Business. From travel courses, competitions, symposiums and scholastic pursuits, our students and faculty have used their talents to their full potential. Here are a few outcomes of these efforts:

This April, the University unveiled the latest example of campus art, the sculpture The Flame, thanks to the generosity of the Charles and Mary Heider family. It represents the success of the Ignite the Greatness campaign and the changes it continues to have on our campus as a whole in the Jesuit tradition. An inscription on its base invites us to “Go set the world on fi re.” You have done just this with your generous support of the Heider College of Business. We could not have exceeded our wildest expectations without you - our alumni, our faculty and staff, our students’ employers and our special friends in the business community. We are so thankful.

The next time you are on campus, I hope to see you in the Heider College of Business at the Harper Center.

Gratefully yours,

In 2014, 99% of our undergraduates successfully found full-time employment within their fi eld of study, enrolled in a graduate or professional program or joined a full-time volunteer program within six months of graduation. This is based upon a 90% response rate from our graduates.

Our undergraduate and graduate fi nance programs are ranked 17th and 14th, respectively, by US News & World Report.

Our accounting undergraduate program is ranked 23rd

by US News & World Report.

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WHERE OUR STUDENTS GO

*Map may not represent exact company locations.

Success rate for 2014 graduates

99%

Median starting salary for Heider graduates

$48,000

Return On Your Investment

*Top business schools for Return on Investment by Payscale.com 2013 study

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Winston Churchill said, “Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.” It is through the continuous efforts of the Heider College of Business community that the enrollment trend we established last year continues this year. Now fi rmly rooted, it will continue to grow in the years to come.

In the fall of 2014, we exceeded our freshmen enrollment by 27%, welcoming the largest class - 266 new students - in the Heider College’s history, says Katrina Rieff, MS-NDR, now in her second year as director of business outreach for the Heider College of Business and eighth year at Creighton. The incoming freshman class of 2015 maintains the trend. This is a success everyone shares: faculty who meet with prospective students, alumni who promote Creighton’s Jesuit business education and current students who enthusiastically share their Heider experience. Everyone plays a role in the increasing enrollment numbers.

ENROLLMENTREPORT

Katrina Rie� , MS-NDR, Director of Business Outreach

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ILLINOIS

NEW YORKWISCONSIN

KANSAS

Largest enrollment increase in students from AZ , CA,

IL, KS, NY & WI

CALIFORNIA

ARIZONA

MEDIAN ACT 27

GPA MIDDLE 50%

FROM OUTSIDE OF NEBRASKA

With our continually rising enrollment, we need you – our alumni – more than ever. Your efforts have not only resulted in larger enrollment numbers, but they have also enriched our students’ education, broadened their employment network and, ultimately, transformed the business community through Creighton’s Jesuit, values-driven business leadership. The Heider Ambassadors Program was established for alumni to share their Creighton story and serve as a liaison to the Heider College of Business for recruitment and enrollment efforts.

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HEIDER AMBASSADORS

Give back to the Heider College of Business in the form of service for special campus events, such as the Creighton Business Symposium and the Interview & Competition Weekend

GIVE

Serve as a resource for students, parents, teachers and high school counselors who want to learn more about business careers and the Heider College of Business

SERVE

Share their Heider College of Business experience & their professional expertise

SHARE

THE FACE OF CREIGHTONHeider Ambassadors are alumni, parents and friends throughout the world who represent Creighton University’s Heider College of Business in a variety of outreach activities.

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Host coffees, lunches or dinners with prospective students and families

Serve on a variety of panels

Engage with local high schools

The Heider Ambassadors Program is designed to assist in outreach initiatives with high schools, communities and organizations throughout the nation. Opportunities include:

Attend business events in local area

Attend or host admitted business student events

Serve as guest speakers in local area

Serve as a career mentor

Network with current Heider Business students during travel courses and special events

82nd Annual Ten Outstanding Young Omahans Award RecipientsFor the past 81 years, the Omaha Jaycees have been honoring individuals between the ages of 21 and 40 who show exemplary commitment to improving the community through selfl ess acts of kindness while excelling in their professional careers. The 2014 Ten Outstanding Young Omahans (TOYO) recipients included:

3 ALUMNI NAMED TO “10OUTSTANDING YOUNGOMAHANS”

Luke Christiansen, Union Pacifi c

Angela Cooper, Mutual of Omaha

Michael R. Feilmeier, Midwest Eye Care & UNMC

Joanne (Joey) Gaines, Ridgeview Animal Hospital

Angela Kros Cutler, Children’s Hospital & Medical

Center Foundation

Brandon Mason, Bank of the West

John A. Menicucci, Jr., Husch Blackwell LLP

Ferial Pearson, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Patrick Ricketts, Vintage Financial Group

Lina Traslavina Stover, University of Nebraska at Omaha

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Brandon Mason, BSBA ‘05, MBA ‘08Brandon Mason’s passion for business is equal to his passion for

agriculture. He is assistant vice president and credit products offi cer for Bank of the West’s Corporate Banking Group Agribusiness Division.

But when Mr. Mason is not working with relationship managers at Bank of the West, he operates a commercial cow-calf operation with his father-

in-law in Blair, NE. Since 2011, he has also served as owner of Bulldog Ag, LLC, an agricultural investment company that focuses on cattle and row crop production.

Mr. Mason has volunteered his time with numerous organizations, including Creighton Preparatory High School’s Alumni Council and Creighton’s Recent Alumni Advisory Board, and is an active member in the Association for

Corporate Growth Nebraska and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Council.

Luke Christiansen, MBA ‘11Luke Christiansen is a nine-year veteran with Union Pacifi c’s IT department and has had multiple managerial positions with the railroad.

His latest role involves leading a team of innovators to build a new technology organization, called Valvora, within Union Pacifi c. Mr. Christiansen serves as co-founder of Valvora. For his contributions

of signifi cant innovation to the Omaha community, AIM named him Tech Innovator of the Year in 2014.

An avid volunteer, Mr. Christiansen serves on several boards, including the Business Ethics Alliance, Community Health Charities of Nebraska, Omaha Nexus and the Nebraska/Iowa Chapter of Crohn’s and Colitis

Foundation of America.

Patrick Ricketts, MBA ‘06Patrick Ricketts is president and CFO of Vintage Financial Group. He specializes in assisting business owners, executives and families

with fi nancial and risk management solutions through proactive planning. For four consecutive years, from 2011-2014, his fi rm was recognized

as one of Omaha’s top fi nancial advisory fi rms by NABCAP. Mr. Ricketts was named part of the Million Dollar Roundtable and a member of Top of the Table for his exceptional expertise, ethical conduct and client service.

Mr. Ricketts has served on the Millard Public Schools Board of Education for four years and currently is president of the board. Midlands Business Journal

designated Mr. Ricketts one of Omaha business community’s “40 under 40.”

EAST COAST ALUMNI EVENTS

2015 got o� to a rousing start with two alumni relations events in Washington, D.C. and New York City, further indicating that Creighton’s move to the Big East has generated increased interest on the east coast.

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Glasses clink together in greeting. Guests chat over tables stocked with snacks. The game fl ashes across the big screen. Alumni events are more than just an opportunity for old friends to reconnect. They are also an effective means to recruit the next generation of alumni.

2015 got off to a rousing start with two alumni relations events in Washington, D.C. and New York City, further indicating that Creighton’s move to the Big East has generated increased interest on the east coast.

On Saturday, January 3, over 250 Bluejay fans packed the D.C. area’s popular Redline gastropub to watch the Creighton-Georgetown game, meet with old friends and learn more about Creighton.

Alumni Brian and Tiffany Clemency, who met while attending Creighton and now live in Raleigh, NC, took it on the road with their three children to attend the event. They were there with other east coast and Omaha alums as well as a group of 30 perspective students and their parents who saw the gathering as an opportunity to learn more about Creighton and to prep for their pending visits to campus.

On Thursday, January 8, the University hosted an alumni mix and mingle in Manhattan’s Hudson Station. Similar socials are taking place across the country. To learn of upcoming alumni events in your area, visit alumni.creighton.edu. Join your former classmates, make new friends and share your experience with future Creighton students. And, of course, enjoy the game. Go Jays!

NETWORKING IN NEW YORK

Jeffery King, BSBA ‘14

You never really know when networking opportunities

will reveal themselves.

What was supposed to be a simple night out in the Big Apple turned into an employment opportunity for one Heider College of Business alum.

During the 2014 New York Travel Course to Manhattan, a group of Creighton students were taking in a Knicks game when an executive director in training at JPMorgan Chase & Company mistook the seniors for junior bankers from Chase. Jeffery King, BSBA ‘14, struck up a conversation with the executive about post-graduation job opportunities. When the evening ended, King took the executive’s card and resumed the hectic schedule of the New York travel course.

FAST FORWARD A YEAR LATER.King, who is originally from Plano, TX, traveled extensively after graduation and then relocated to New York City. “The class trip helped solidify my decision to move to and pursue a career in NYC,” states King, who had studied music – violin performance - in New York.

His immediate goal was to just get his foot in the corporate door, which he admits was challenging, even almost depressing at times.

But he persevered and accepted a position with JPMorgan Chase & Company in its Global Compliance Operations as a business analysis and reporting analyst.

“I am tasked with reviewing and affi rming signifi cant decisions from all lines of business, discovering and recommending effi ciencies when they exist, all the while ensuring the bank remains compliant with the law,” explains King.

King will take level one of the CFA exam later this year and hopes to one day transition into asset management and investment banking. Until then, he will learn all he can at JPMorgan, attend as many cultural events that he can, continue to explore his new city and, come next January, meet with HCB senior accounting and fi nance students during their New York trip.

Most Heider College of Business students know the necessity of networking, and the college provides a plethora of opportunities to meet business professionals. But sometimes, as King’s story attests, the path to employment can be unconventional and unexpected, like meeting a business contact at a basketball game.

Says King: “You never really know when networking opportunities will reveal themselves.”

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BEN SCHAECHTER’S PORTFOLIO APP

Portfolio is the best way to keep up with stocks you care about. Input your trades to get live-updating performance on your portfolios.

Ben Schaechter, BSBA ‘10

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Portfolio is the brainchild of Heider College of Business alum, Ben Schaechter, BSBA ‘10. Launched March 19, it saw quick early adoption. But Schaechter knows it is still a work in progress.

Schaechter and co-founder Steven Flory created Mazuma Labs as a corporate entity that would allow the partners to work on fi nance ideas. Portfolio is the fi rst app the two have launched and remains their primary focus. However, Schaechter admits that they have “a passion for fi nance and technology” and have other apps in the works.

As a Creighton student, he created GoPollGo, a real-time polling tool that allows brands and media properties to collect and analyze feedback. He signed on with Yahoo! when it purchased GoPollGo.

Schaechter left Yahoo! to take time off and determine what he wanted to do for the next chapter in his life. While most people’s idea of relaxation is a good book or a round of golf, Schaechter spent his down time listening to earning calls and evaluating public companies as investments. “Mazuma Labs was formed out of this sort of behavior and thinking I could contribute something to the space,” he states. “My personality is also one to take risks, and it is very hard to do that at a big company.”

Schaechter has been removed from the formal classroom for fi ve years now. But as his new app, Portfolio, indicates, he has an intellectual curiosity that will make him life-long learner.

APP FEATURES INCLUDE

Real-time notifi cations for earnings reports & earnings calls

Real-time updating stock tickers and charts, including after hours, with no fee or advertisements

Stock performance reports and ability to add trades

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BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM

The Creighton Business Symposium brings together the Creighton community and business executives to discuss current issues and trends in today’s dynamic business environment. The theme of this year’s conference was “Inspiring Ethical Leadership for a Changing World.”

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“The student planning team develops a new theme each year for the Creighton Business Symposium event,” says Jeremy Fisher, interim director of the Creighton Career Center and advisor to the planning team. “This year’s student team really wanted to incorporate ethical leadership and values into the conference panels, keynotes and workshops as much as possible.”

A team of 14 students from the Anna Tyler Waite Leadership Program in the Heider College of Business is responsible for the success of the Symposium, credits Fisher. The actual event is the culmination of 10 months of planning and coordinating. Students recruit panel participants and keynote speakers, which included this year alumni William Fox, BA ‘84, JD ‘87, and Debra Mortiz, BSBA ‘84; manage the Symposium’s website; fundraise and secure sponsors; market and handle logistics. The team raised over $55,000 in corporate sponsorships from the Omaha area business community.

“More importantly, the coordinators and team members are learning how to run meetings and how to interact with business professionals and executives and ultimately are responsible for the success of the event,” Fisher states.

Connecting classroom learning with real-world business experience is integral to the Symposium. While students excel in the classroom, advancement in careers stems from connections with business leaders and Creighton alums.

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The nation’s largest student-led business symposium continues to grow. The 11th annual Creighton Business Symposium drew over 500 students and 300 business executives and University faculty and staff to the CenturyLink Center on November 7, 2014.

The event brings together the Creighton community and business executives to discuss current issues and trends in today’s dynamic business environment. The theme of this year’s conference was “Inspiring Ethical Leadership for a Changing World.”


INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC INQUIRY

Michael D. Thomas, PhDCo-Director, Institute for Economic Inquiry

The Institute for Economic Inquiry has consistently created a venue where professors,

students, alumni and the community have come together to challenge each other and

explore ideas. I look forward to seeing what the next chapter brings.


promote human wellbeing. To this end, the Institute will partner with other social scientists and practitioners in a cross-disciplinary approach.

The Institute sponsors a student reading group, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, which meets ten times a semester. Facilitated by Michael Thomas, PhD, Institute for Economic Inquiry scholar and assistant professor of economics at the Heider College of Business, it is student-led, allowing students to explore the readings from their own point of view.

Additional student programming includes the Werner-Robertson Research Scholars program, named for Gail Werner-Robertson, a key supporter of the Institute. Participating students conduct research on topics fulfi lling the Institute’s broad directives and produce a white paper.

The question of how our institutions promote human wellbeing isn’t anything new. In fact, it dates as far back as the 18th century with the teachings of Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith and is the “heart of economic inquiry,” states Diana Thomas, PhD, associate director of the Institute for Economic Inquiry and associate professor of economics at the Heider College of Business.

On July 1, 2014, Creighton formalized its part of the debate with the formation of the Institute for Economic Inquiry. The Institute’s mission is to support research and education programs that analyze the institutions that

This fall the Institute hosted two successful inaugural events. On Nov. 12, Roman Catholic priest Fr. Robert Sirico, founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, spoke on his book, Defending the Free Market. Nearly 300 attendees from the Creighton, the Greater Omaha business and Omaha religious communities were present.

On December 5, the Institute welcomed Esther George, president and chief executive offi cer of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, to campus to discuss the future of small-town, community banks in the 21st century. The event was co-hosted with the Business Ethics Alliance.

Of the Institute’s collaborative nature, Dr. Michael Thomas states: “We believe that truth can only be pursued when all perspectives are equally and fairly represented in the debate, which is why we need our colleagues from across the campus to be willing to talk to us. Having such debates and conversations are why we are here and why we are excited to build this institute.”

VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE (VITA)

Tom Purcell, PhD, JD, CPA

Students use their knowledge and skills to serve a population that would

otherwise be underserved or taken advantage of by others.


Service comes in many forms. That’s what accounting students have learned through their involvement with VITA, says Tom Purcell, PhD, JD, CPA, professor of accounting. “They use their knowledge and skills to serve a population that would otherwise be underserved or taken advantage of by others.”

VITA stands for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance. It’s a program initiated by the IRS to provide free income tax assistance for low-income individuals and families.

Student volunteers come from Dr. Purcell’s Accounting 343 and Beta Alpha Psi honor society. Students become certifi ed through a series of online examinations, their preparations beginning in the fi rst semester.

VITA volunteers took their expertise on the road, twice traveling to the Winnebago Indian Reservation to prepare taxes for its residents. Students also met with clients during three campus sessions and at Project Homeless Connect in March.

Fang Zheng, BSBA ‘15, and Brian Kuehner, BSBA ‘15, were the two student coordinators for VITA this year. Zheng says that regardless of income level, most

people are required to fi le yearly taxes. “The look on people’s faces when we are done preparing their returns and let them know the amount of refund (in most cases) they will be getting back from the IRS is heartwarming,” she states. “It is great to know that I am helping someone in need and using my education to better their lives.”

Many VITA clients, Kuehner adds, “look to their returns as means to make ends meet fi nancially.” He says the clients they serve cannot afford to have even a portion of their returns consumed by professional preparers’ fees, which makes the VITA program even more necessary.

Student volunteers are quick to say that benefi ts stemming from the VITA program fl ow in both directions, though. Students hone the skills they’ve learned in the classroom and gain an appreciation for practicing in the real world. “By providing students with experiential learning opportunities like VITA,” says Kuehner, “the Heider College of Business prepares students for the workforce by developing the ‘soft skills’ necessary to succeed as young professionals.”

Zheng calls VITA “service learning.” It adds dimension to what students glean in the classroom and benefi ts those in need. “Everyone is talented in their own way,” says Zheng. “It is especially important to use that talent to do good.”

ARGY BARGY2014

Heidy Polanco, BSBA ‘15

I think that activities such as Argy Bargy give students extra

motivation to excel and put more eff ort than just the required

amount to do well in the class.Heidy Polanco, BSBA ‘15

I think that activities such as Argy Bargy give students extra

motivation to excel and put more eff ort than just the required

amount to do well in the class.

Dec. 12, 2014, Harper Center, Creighton University’s Heider College of Business: A heated argument erupted between Cynthia Corritore’s, PhD, professor of business intelligence and analytics, BIA 375 students. Intervention by campus security was not warranted, however.

That’s because the “heated argument” was part of Dr. Corritore’s third annual Argy Bargy contest. Taken from the British phrase, which means heated, spirited (often noisy) discussion, Argy Bargy is a mobile app competition designed to showcase knowledge students accumulate during the semester-long Business Mobile Application Development course.

Business Mobile Application Development requires students to step outside of their comfort zone. They know how to write papers. They can handle math presented in a spreadsheet. Writing a program code, however, is a new task with which most have had little familiarity. Until Argy Bargy.

Max Crinklaw and Heidy Polanco developed the winning app, Book SwApp. “I had zero prior experience when it came to the development of applications,” admits Crinklaw. “I always had ideas for apps but never knew how to make them.”

Their Book SwApp app is a one-stop shop to buy and sell textbooks between Creighton students, explains Crinklaw, BSBA ‘15. It streamlines the book buying process. Students selling books enter the title, ISBN number, author and price, and those looking for books search by title or ISBN number. When buyers get a match on a title, they can check prices and then contact the seller by email or phone, all via the app. If no student is selling a particular title, the app redirects the search to the Creighton bookstore to check on availability and price there.

Polanco, a double major in accounting and business intelligence and analytics, welcomed the opportunity to approach the subject matter in an active way. The 2015 Heider College of Business graduate from Santiago, DR was also part of the iJay Practicum course and saw projects like the app development contest as an opportunity to “take the learning experience to another, real-world level.”


TOP DEVELOPERS & APPS:

CreighaplikoCatherine Bart, Ishika Sinha

& Colton Schroeder

Oh Baby!Austin Edwards

& Mikayla Genuillis

Book SwAppMax Crinklaw

& Heidy Polanco

SAN FRANCISCO

During Creighton’s spring break, 18 marketing and business intelligence & analytics (BIA) seniors boarded planes as part of the travel course, Business on the Western Frontier. The students and their professors, Matt Seevers, PhD, associate professor of marketing, and Trent Wachner, PhD, associate professor of marketing, explored the retail, technology and service industries in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley.

Marketing major and Livonia, MI native John Walawender, BSBA ‘15, appreciated the access he and his classmates had to these executives: “From what I have heard from friends at big state schools, they may hear CEOs or execs talk but not with the accessibility we had.” Students also develop insights into the unique business culture and practice among leading fi rms in the Bay Area.

The group packed their days with visits to companies that read like a “Who’s Who” of the world’s most cutting-edge tech companies and high-powered retailers: Google, LinkedIn, Lithium Technologies, Airbnb, Seagate Technology, method, William-Sonoma and Timbuk2.

“The Creighton name got us through every door,” BIA and fi nance major, Elizabeth Angus, BSBA ‘15, stated. “All of the employees we met during the trip encouraged us to network with them for positions within their companies, not in the future but now. The Bay Area truly exceeded my expectations.”Four of the 13 Visits Included:

SOUTH AFRICAExpect the unexpected. That is what 10 students - a mix of undergraduate and graduate, business and arts and science – learned during their two weeks in South Africa.

“South Africa has the most diverse and advanced economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, a travel course to South Africa is very different than other travel courses that the HCB offers,” says Ravi Nath, PhD, chair of the business intelligence and analytics department. “It is quite clear that the next business frontier is likely to be Africa.”

Time was split between Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the two weeks were packed with company visits, site seeing and immersion in the unique South African culture. Most memorable for MBA student Ben Pantzlaff was a visit to Johannesburg’s Eskom Holdings, Ltd, the South African state-owned electric company. It illustrated how a reduced educated work force impedes economic progression.

In addition to company visits and a trip to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, students discovered the history and beauty of South Africa, including visits to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated, the Apartheid Museum and Soweto. Contrasting the squalor of Soweto was South Africa’s raw beauty and culture. Students took in a daylong safari, biked down to the Cape of Good Hope and sampled local cuisine like Springbok and Kudu.

South Africa has the most diverse & advanced economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, a travel course to South Africa is very diff erent than other travel courses that the Heider College of Business off ers.

Ravi Nath, PhD

LAS VEGASAndy Gustafson, PhD, associate professor of business ethics and society, is a philosopher who teaches business. When he fi rst joined the Heider College of Business in 2005, he pitched an atypical travel course that married both of his disciplines. He wanted to study business ethics in the city most associated with vice – Las Vegas, “Sin City.”

At the center of this course is the question, “How does business affect a city and change human behavior?”

Students prepared for travel by reading numerous articles and books on Las Vegas and viewing multiple videos and movies to absorb the Vegas vibe. This skeletal knowledge was then fl eshed out with corporate visits, conversations with executives and city leaders and casino tours.

The group stayed at the iconic Golden Nugget on Fremont Street and toured multiple resorts – Wynn, Encore, MGM and Rio. Students also spoke with representatives from the Nevada Gaming Commission, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the city development offi ce and former mayor, Oscar Goodman. They ventured outside the city to tour the engineering marvel, the Hoover Dam.

Alton, IA junior Kristin Probst, a double major in international business and Spanish, believes travel courses are “crucial” to an education. “I learned a lot about the working world, what I want in a job and how my values and ethics will guide my decisions. I was also able to network with employers across the country, meet alumni and create relationships with the other students on the trip whom I have never met before. Having connections like these across the country will only help me further in my career,” Probst adds.

I learned a lot about the working world, what I want in a job and how my values and

ethics will guide my decisions.Kristin Probst, Class of 2017

NEW YORKWhile the rest of campus was relishing the last full week of Christmas break, 16 senior accounting and 21 senior fi nance majors made their way up and down the avenues of New York City and ventured out to New Jersey and Connecticut.

The course allows students to see the theories they have learned in the classroom over the last three and a half years be put into practice, says Lee Dunham, PhD, CFA, associate professor of fi nance. Dr. Dunham teaches the course, along with Tom Shimerda, PhD, CPA, CMA, associate professor of accounting. John Wingender, PhD, professor of fi nance, also accompanied his colleagues and students on the trip.

The group toured the New York Stock Exchange and participated in numerous seminars. Students toured companies collectively and also were able to visit those corporations specifi c to their respective disciplines.

It wasn’t a case of “all work and no play,” though. Their fi rst activity in New York was to visit the 9/11 Memorial and newly opened museum. They also had the chance to take in a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden and attend either Jersey Boys or Les Miserablés on Broadway.

The biggest takeaway from the course for Martin Jow, BSBA ’15, was the “work-fi rst” environment of New York. “The thought of working an average of 100 hours a week is shocking to me but also an enticing challenge,” says Jow. “The lifestyle there is much different than the Midwest, so it is advantageous to taste a sample of it before graduation.”

Four of the 13 Visits Included:

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“We are off to a great start,” contends Matt Seevers, PhD, associate professor of marketing at the Heider College of Business, “and the momentum continues to build.”

The Murphy Cup competition is the brainchild of Omaha businessman, Chris Murphy. Murphy is a Drake University alumnus and Creighton University Board of Trustees member. Chairman and CEO of First Westroads Bank, Murphy wanted to provide students the opportunity to work with a live client to solve a real-world problem with which the client is contending.

Last year Creighton hosted the competition, and NIKE Inc. was the client. This year’s Murphy Cup was hosted by Drake and held at the client’s, Meredith Corporation, offi ce in downtown Des Moines.

Students were tasked with developing a marketing plan to increase readership of Better Homes and Gardens magazine among the millennial (ages 15-34) demographic. They were required to create three different strategies to target millennials: direct mail campaign, digital campaign and a third campaign of their own devising. Jenny Williams, BSBA ‘15, appreciated that the Murphy Cup was not a competition for competition sake. “It was really cool working with a real company and coming up with ideas that it can actually implement. You don’t get

that experience in the classroom,” Williams states. “It really pushed you to be creative and think outside the box.”

John Walawender, BSBA ‘15, winner of Most Knowledgeable Presenter, appreciated the “authenticity of the experience” and the visibility the students had with Meredith Corporation executives. Says Walawender: “We were very much real consultants advising Meredith on how to improve its business.”

Dr. Seevers believes Murphy Cup places students “on a path toward professionalism by connecting them with leading executives in their fi eld and helps students to build confi dence in their abilities.”

24 students – 12 from Creighton’s Heider College of Business and 12 from Drake’s College of Business and Public Administration- and their professors convened in Des Moines for the second annual Murphy Cup marketing strategy competition on February 5-7.

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We were very much real consultants advising Meredith

on how to improve its business.” John Walawender, BSBA ‘15


FMA FINANCE LEADERS’ CONFERENCE


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Alex VanAckeren attended the FMA Finance Leaders’ Conference last year in Chicago. So when Lee Dunham, PhD, CFA, associate professor of fi nance and faculty advisor of Creighton’s Financial Management Association (FMA) chapter, emailed students about the 2015 conference, VanAckeren promptly expressed interest. “I wanted to hear from veterans in the fi nance industry and learn from the experiences they’ve had throughout their careers,” says the junior fi nance and marketing major from Lincoln, NE.

The FMA Finance Leaders’ Conference alternates yearly between Chicago and New York City. This year’s conference was held March 12-13 at Baruch College in New York City. Over 225 students representing nearly 60 chapters attended. Dr. Dunham, who has been taking Creighton students for several years, says it was one of the largest conferences he has attended.

Creighton’s FMA chapter has earned a Superior Chapter designation several years running due to its high level of activity. One of these activities is attending the FMA Finance Leaders’ Conference. “A key reason for students to attend is to prepare for a role as a future offi cer in our local chapter,” says Dr. Dunham. “This trip also allows our younger students to start to visualize the possibility of interning or working in these – Chicago and New York – fi nancial centers.”

Participants spent two days networking, listening to speakers, attending panel discussions and touring local businesses such as Bloomberg and the New York Stock Exchange.

For Charles Strand, BSBA ‘15, trip highlights were plentiful, but touring the NYSE and Bloomberg were top of his list. “We had the opportunity to speak with a market maker on the fl oor as well as take a picture with Jim Cramer while at the NYSE. Bloomberg offered a resume workshop and a speech on the best ways to land a job on Wall Street,” states Strand.

But his biggest takeaway from his time in New York was the importance of networking. Strand recognizes the plethora of networking opportunities Heider students have within Omaha’s corporate environment. He hopes to initiate a concerted effort by Creighton’s FMA chapter to follow up with guest speakers who come on campus and increase participation in meetings and conferences by FMA members.

“Experiential learning opportunities like this trip to NYC really do have an impact on a student’s education,” maintains VanAckeren.

Alex VanAckeren, Class of 2017

I wanted to hear from veterans in the fi nance industry and learn from the experiences

they’ve had throughout their careers.

Lee Dunham, PhD, CFA

This group of students has worked extremely hard since last fall… I think

in some ways they treat this competition as a second job.

CFA CHALLENGE

It’s a “three-peat” for Creighton. On Friday, February 27, team Creighton won the CFA Research Challenge local level competition for the third consecutive year, beating out teams from University of Nebraska Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Bellevue University. The Creighton winners included Scott Slezak, MBA ‘15, Megan Ramsey, MIMFA ‘15, and David Meyers and Justin Hughes, currently in the MIMFA program.

This is the fi fth year Creighton has participated in the competition. Lee Dunham, PhD, CFA, associate professor of fi nance, serves as the team’s faculty moderator and is responsible for assembling the team. The students earned three credits as an elective course for their particular graduate degrees.

“Most of the students I select are about midway through the MIMFA degree program, and I am quite certain their learning outcomes from those classes help put them in a position to have the competency and skill necessary to evaluate a company and estimate the value of a company’s shares,” states Dr. Dunham.

The competition consists of each team analyzing a company, writing a sell-side research report including an appropriate buy/sell recommendation and then making a formal presentation of their report to a group of judges, all of which are CFA charterholders. An intense Q & A session follows. The company that was analyzed in this year’s competition was Cabela’s, Inc.

The Creighton team advanced to the Americas Regional Final in Atlanta, GA on April 15-16. Its presentation captured the attention of Cabela’s offi cials; the team and Dr. Dunham were invited to Cabela’s headquarters to meet with members of its board and executives. “This was a great opportunity for our students to meet and present to the board,” says Dr. Dunham.

“This group of students has worked extremely hard since last fall, with each student likely putting over 100 hours into the written report and presentation,” states Dr. Dunham. “I think in some ways they treat this competition as a second job. As their faculty mentor, I could not be more proud of their efforts.”

Will Creighton’s winning streak continue next year? History does have a tendency to repeat itself.

consecutive year, beating out teams from University of Nebraska Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Bellevue University. The Creighton winners included Scott Slezak, MBA ‘15, Megan Ramsey, MIMFA ‘15, and David Meyers and Justin Hughes, currently in the MIMFA program.

This is the fi fth year Creighton has participated in the competition. Lee Dunham, PhD, CFA, associate professor of fi nance, serves as the team’s faculty


St. Ignatius of Loyola

Go Set The World On Fire.

The Jesuit spirit is felt throughout campus, from St. John’s central presence, St. Ignatius’ statue and “AMDG” inscribed in doorways and entrances. Now the east campus has its own tribute to the Jesuit community: a 20-foot sculpture entitled The Flame.

Through the generosity of Charles and Mary Heider and the talents of Littleton Alston, MFA, associate professor of sculpture of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, The Flame is the newest addition of campus art. “This gift is intended by the Heiders to inspire all members of the Creighton community as it pays tribute to the legacy of the Jesuits – past, present and future,” says J. Chris Bradberry, Pharm.D., interim president at the time of the unveiling. “Every aspect of the University and Creighton community has been affected by the inspiration of the Jesuits, and we are honored to be one of 28 Jesuit universities in the United States.”

Over 150 attended the dedication ceremony on April 23. Present were the Heider family; Dr. Bradberry; Timothy Lannon, SJ, immediate-past president; Daniel Hendrickson, SJ, president; Littleton Alston; Thomas Neitzke, SJ, president of Creighton Prep; Anthony Hendrickson, dean of the Heider College of Business; Jesuits from the Creighton and Creighton Prep communities; faculty and students.

After Dr. Bradberry welcomed those in attendance and Gregory O’Meara, SJ, offered the invocation, Mr. Alston unveiled his work. The white draping was removed to collective sighs and applause, revealing the stainless steel fl ame. Then the fi re inside the fl ame was ignited, fi ttingly, for the statue’s pedestal reads, “Go Set the World on Fire, St. Ignatius of Loyola” in both English and Latin.

It’s a call for all to use his or her God-given gifts to make the world a better place. And it’s a message even the Jesuits need, and want, to hear. Kevin Schneider, SJ, BSBA ‘82, is a member of Creighton Prep’s Jesuit community. He says the statue challenges him to model his fellow Jesuits, and those throughout the order’s history, to “continue shining from the fi re of their example.”

The statue is a daily reminder of Creighton’s values-based Jesuit education, says Dean Hendrickson. “Our students are uniquely prepared to face the challenges of the post-graduation professional world. They do ‘go set the world on fi re.’”

THE FLAME DEDICATION


HEIDER STUDENTSCHOLARSTwo Heider College juniors, Erica Mallette and Breanna Till, received the $2,500 Nebraska Business Hall of Fame Scholarship this year.

Erica Malle� e, Class of 2017

Breanna Till, Class of 2017

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The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry created the Nebraska Business Hall of Fame Scholarship Foundation to ensure strong business growth in the state. The foundation provides yearly scholarship assistance to students in Nebraska colleges and universities who are pursuing business degrees. It’s the Chamber’s way to honor the academic achievements of the state’s future business leaders.

As part of the scholarship application process, students were required to write an essay on future career plans. Mallette, a double major in business intelligence & analytics and marketing, shared her experience working with the Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce and how she plans to use her business degree to work for a non-profi t.

“My time at the Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce not only showed me the power of the Chamber in a community but also how non-profi ts really create a different dynamic for business,”

says Mallette. “I decided that I would like to use my marketing and BIA degrees to bring my creative mind to a non-profi t someday.”

Till demonstrated a similar career goal in her application. The accounting major spent fall break on a service trip in Albuquerque, NM, where she volunteered at a day shelter for the city’s homeless, and happened upon The Coffee Shop. It had a unique business model: its employees were from the local homeless population, and a portion of its profi ts was donated back to the St. Martin Hospitality Center.

“After establishing a career and earning money of my own, I dream of starting up a coffee shop in Omaha with the same idea, partnering with the Siena Francis House,” says Till. “Combining my education with Jesuit values and my passion for the issue of homelessness, I desire to embrace my business degree to help others.”

Breanna Till, Class of 2017

Combining my education with Jesuit values and my passion for the issue

of homelessness, I desire to embrace my business degree to help others.

ANDREW ROGERSWINS AWARD

He has had much practice with this concept. As a Heider College freshman, he co-founded JayClean, a campus dry cleaning service, with two other business students. He is also executive director of Creighton’s 3-Day Start Up program, a nationally recognized entrepreneurial competition.

Now the senior business intelligence & analytics and fi nance major has participated in the International Franchise Association’s 55th annual convention, held in Las Vegas’ MGM Grand on February 15-18, 2015. For establishing JayClean, Rogers was recognized with one of the 50 Next Generation in Franchising awards, presented by the International Franchise Association (IFA) and the IFA Education Foundation. Rogers was also honored as a Grand Prize Finalist, which carries with it a scholarship to continue developing JayClean and pursuing his Creighton education.

“I gained a whole new appreciation for franchising, an industry I knew almost nothing about,” says Rogers. He will take what he gleaned from the convention and apply this knowledge, when the time comes, to franchising Creighton’s JayClean model to other universities.

Attending the IFA conference, maintains Rogers, is another opportunity to learn beyond the traditional classroom setting. It’s a philosophy the Heider College of Business espouses, and it’s one of his favorite things about Creighton. Says Rogers: “The faculty and staff encourage you to continue your education outside the classroom, and the IFA conference was just that: an opportunity to network and apply what I had learned over the past three years to a real-world experience.”

Andrew Rogers believes there are numerous “non-traditional” ways for people who are interested in business to get involved in business.


I gained a whole new appreciation

for franchising, an industry I knew almost

nothing about.Andrew Rogers,

Class of 2016


HEIDER FACULTY IN THE NEWSHeider College of Business faculty members are experts in their respective fi elds who bring their vast work experience to the Heider College of Business classroom. Here are a few highlights of what our faculty have accomplished outside academia in 2014.



Vasant Raval, DBA, published the article “A Disposition-based Fraud Model: Theoretical Integration and Research Agenda” in Fox Business

Diana Thomas, PhD, featured in Paul Ryan’s, Chairman

of the House Budget Committee, report entitled Expanding

Opportunity in America

Chad Storlie, MBA, published “Military Tactics that Matter to Marketing” in Forbes

Kristie Briggs, PhD, and Mary Wade, BA ‘14, co-authored “More is Better: Evidence that Joint Patenting Leads to Quality Innovation” in Applied Economics

Features include:

BEVERLY KRACHER, PhD, SPEAKS IN PARIS


In 2005, the Business Ethics Alliance formed as an institution dedicated to business ethics education. It is housed in the Heider College of Business and builds leadership, strengthens organizations and elevates Greater Omaha through positive, practical business ethics.This past November, Dr. Kracher traveled to Paris, France to experience Europe’s corporate business ethics climate and to share ideas with fellow academics. She met with L’Oreal executives to learn about the company’s international business ethics and with European Business Ethics Network board member Julia Roloff, professor at Rennes University outside Paris, to discuss academic business ethics activities.

Her goal in France was twofold: enhance her understanding of business ethics practices and education in Europe and introduce the Heider College of Business and the Business Ethics Alliance to fellow academics and corporations in Europe.

RANDY JORGENSEN, PhD, CFA,

NAMED CFA DIRECTORCFA Society of Nebraska is an association of local investment professionals consisting of portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisors and other fi nancial professionals. The society promotes ethical and professional standards within the investment industry, encourages professional development through the CFA Program and continuing education, facilitates the exchange of information and opinions among people within the local investment community and beyond and works to further the public’s understanding of the CFA designation and investment industry.

Dr. Randy Jorgensen, associate professor of fi nance, was recently appointed director to the CFA Society of Nebraska 2014-2015 board.


FINANCIAL HOPE WINS AWARD

Julie Kalkowski, Director

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Financial Hope Collaborative (FHC) was founded to help move families toward fi nancial stability with the collaboration of community partners. One of the most successful programs under FHC is its Financial Success Program, which assists low-income, single mothers in achieving fi nancial solvency.

In October 2014 the Women’s Fund of Omaha recognized Financial Hope Collaborative’s efforts with the Excellence in Service Award, which includes a $25,000 grant to help fund the Financial Success Program. The grant also will provide funds for an alternative to payday lending.

“Payday lending is a serious problem in the Omaha metro area. Although we know there is a critical need for small amounts of credit in our community, we need to create viable options for people who need to borrow $200 to $500. The Collaborative plans to use the grant award to create an alternative model to payday lending. We will experiment to fi nd a way that addresses the immediate need for a small loan but also prevents

the need for another small loan in the future,” says Julie Kalkowski, director of Financial Hope Collaborative. So far over 300 women have graduated from the Financial Success Program.

“When you think of all the fabulous work that is being done in Omaha to improve the lives of women and girls, it is very humbling to win the premium award [Excellence in Service Award] presented by the Women’s Fund,” says Kalkowski. “This award also highlights the growing realization about the importance of helping families become more fi nancially stable. Financially stable families create home environments that facilitate health, better outcomes for children and social mobility.”

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In October 2014 the Women’s Fund of Omaha recognized Financial Hope Collaborative’s efforts with the Excellence in Service Award, which includes a $25,000 grant to help fund the Financial Success Program. The grant also will provide funds for an

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Financial Hope Collaborative (FHC) was founded to help move families toward fi nancial stability with the collaboration of community partners. One of the most successful programs under FHC is its Financial Success Program, which assists

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In October 2014 the Women’s Fund of Omaha recognized Financial Hope Collaborative’s efforts with the Excellence in Service Award, which includes a $25,000 grant to help fund the Financial Success

WINS AWARD

Financial Hope Collaborative (FHC) was founded to help move families toward fi nancial stability with the collaboration of community partners. One of the most



In October 2014 the Women’s Fund of Omaha recognized Financial Hope Collaborative’s efforts with the Excellence in Service Award, which includes

WINS AWARD

Financial Hope Collaborative (FHC) was founded to help move families toward

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“Payday lending is a serious problem in the Omaha



In October 2014 the Women’s Fund of Omaha

The Collaborative plans to use the grant award to create an alternative

model to payday lending.Julie Kalkowski, Director


BUSINESS, FAITH & COMMON GOOD SYMPOSIUMCapitalism can have a conscience. That was the premise of the fi rst Business, Faith and Common Good Symposium held Oct. 3, 2014 at the Heider College of Business.

Its co-creators, Thomas Kelly, PhD, professor of systematic theology, and Andrew Gustafson, PhD, associate professor of business ethics and society, were exploring ways “to build bridges between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Heider College of Business” this past summer, says Dr. Gustafson. They landed on the idea of a symposium that probed the concept of business as a vehicle for the common good and secured a grant from Creighton’s Catholic Study Center to fi nance the endeavor.

Ethics, Dr. Gustafson maintains, has always been an integral component of Creighton’s business education. But he wanted to take the concept a step further to include faith.


Luke Buffi ngton, a senior double majoring in business intelligence & analytics and economics and minoring in philosophy, believes students benefi t when thinkers from diverse backgrounds convene to have “powerful conversations.”

“It was really enlightening as well as encouraging to see philosophers, economists, entrepreneurs and theologians engaging in open and honest conversations about big issues,” Buffi ngton states.

The symposium’s keynote speaker was Daniel Finn, PhD, professor of theology and Clemens professor of economics and the liberal arts at St. John’s/St. Ben’s University in Collegeville, MN and

a leading scholar on the intersection of Catholic social thought and business. Participating sponsors included Catholic Relief Services, HomeInstead, Verdis Group, Grain Place Foods, MAX Insurance, Silicon Prairie News, Prairie Plains Institute, Grameen Bank and Creighton’s development offi ce.

“We have a responsibility to be educating future business leaders on the big issues of our time and how business can be a powerful force for addressing those issues,” Buffi ngton believes. “By connecting students and faculty from both the business and humanities, along with local business leaders, we are helping to shape the future of business in Omaha and elsewhere, for the better.”


HEIDER STUDENTS VOLUNTEER

Most college students anticipate their fall and spring breaks as just that – a break from the mental rigors of school. But this past fall, 211 Creighton students traded mental taxation for physical taxation.


Creighton trips are diff erent from other service experiences, because they teach students to not only give back to a community in need but to learn about

why a community is in need in the fi rst place.Rebekah Kornblum, BSBA ‘15

These trips are sponsored by the Creighton Center for Service and Justice and date back to 1983 when a nursing student organized a group of friends to take a service trip to Appalachia. Their experience generated signifi cant interest within the larger student population, and the single trip became two trips the following year and continually gained momentum, morphing into the formal program of today.

Service & Justice trips are student-run, with leaders forming a Core Team. Finance major, Rebekah Kornblum, BSBA ‘15, and economics major, Andrew Roesch, BA ‘15, served as Core Team members this fall.

Kornblum’s service trip to El Paso was her fi fth Service & Justice trip. Each trip has afforded her a new experience, from building houses for Habitat for Humanity to tutoring children in after school programs. Her trip this year

focused on immigration. “As students we try to simply be with the community members and understand their story so we can share it with others and hopefully develop into leaders who create lasting change,” says Kornblum.

“Creighton trips are different from other service experiences,” she continues, “because they teach students to not only give back to a community in need but to learn about why a community is in need in the fi rst place.”

Often the trips have long-lasting effects. Kornblum was particularly gratifi ed when many of her participants said the trip inspired them to continue to volunteer once back in Omaha and even infl uenced their career paths.

“These trips aren’t just about charity or philanthropy,” says Jeff Peak, assistant director of the Creighton Center for Service and Justice. “Students leave thinking they are going to change the world. They certainly do some amazing service, but most of the time they return realizing that it’s their world that’s been changed.”


TEDxYOUTH@OMAHA

TEDxYouth@Omaha Att endee









I’ve learned more today than I have in a whole semester at school. This opened my eyes

to real events going on in our world.

Big ideas aren’t just for “big people.”

The concept of TEDxOmaha was so appealing to high school students that a few local high schools sought guidance in recreating the symposium for their own student populations, indicating a level of interest TEDxOmaha organizers could not ignore.

The youth conference is modeled after its adult counterpart. TED is a non-profi t organization whose mission is to spread ideas worth disseminating. Launched in 1984 and established as an annual occurrence in 1990, the event had mass appeal. TED-style conferences, dubbed TEDx, began popping up across the country. Intended to foster discussion and establish connections, there have been in excess of 10,000 TEDx events to date.

On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the Omaha area’s most inquisitive and forward-thinking high school students gathered at Creighton University’s Harper Center to hear and share “Ideas Worth Spreading,” the tagline for TED conferences. Admission for the teens and their adult chaperones was complimentary, courtesy of Creighton’s Heider College of Business.

“These are the future leaders of Omaha,” says Katrina Rieff, director of business outreach at the Heider College of Business. “It is important to invest in our teens with events like TEDxYouth@Omaha if we want to keep this talent pool in our city once they are adults.”

The theme of TEDxOmaha this year was ‘In/Visible.’ It addressed how we realize our fears and insecurities, our aspirations and beliefs, and how we give them a voice.

This is what education means - and what the Heider College of Business seeks to achieve not only with its own business students but with Omaha high school students as well.

“Experiential learning events like TEDxYouth@Omaha foster discussion and critical thinking on topics that are truly ‘In/Visible,’ as the theme of TEDxOmaha 2014 suggests,” says Rieff. “It is our hope that the high school students who attended TEDxYouth@Omaha learned not what to think but how to think.”



The youth conference is modeled after its adult counterpart. TED is a non-profi t organization whose mission is to spread ideas worth disseminating. Launched in 1984 and established as an annual occurrence in 1990, the event had mass appeal.



On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the Omaha area’s most inquisitive and forward-thinking high school students gathered at Creighton University’s Harper Center to hear and share “Ideas Worth Spreading,” the tagline for TED conferences. Admission




On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the



The youth conference is modeled after its adult counterpart. TED is a non-profi t organization whose mission is to spread ideas worth disseminating. Launched in 1984 and established as an annual



On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the Omaha area’s most inquisitive and forward-thinking high school students gathered at Creighton University’s Harper Center to hear and share “Ideas Worth Spreading,”






The youth conference is modeled after its adult counterpart. TED is a non-profi t organization whose mission is to spread ideas worth disseminating.



On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the Omaha area’s most inquisitive and forward-thinking high school students gathered at Creighton University’s Harper Center






The youth conference is modeled after its adult counterpart. TED is a non-profi t organization whose




On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the Omaha area’s most inquisitive and forward-thinking high school students gathered



The youth conference is modeled after its adult counterpart. TED is a non-profi t organization whose mission is to spread ideas worth disseminating. Launched in 1984 and established as an annual occurrence in 1990, the event had mass appeal. TED-style conferences, dubbed TEDx, began popping up across the country. Intended to foster discussion and establish connections, there have been in excess



The youth conference is modeled after its adult




On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the Omaha area’s most inquisitive and forward-

The concept of TEDxOmaha was so appealing to high school students that a few local high schools sought guidance in recreating the symposium for their own student populations, indicating a level of interest


On Friday, October 24, 2014, 400 of the Omaha area’s most inquisitive and forward-thinking high school students gathered at Creighton University’s Harper Center to hear and share “Ideas Worth Spreading,” the tagline for TED conferences. Admission for the teens and their adult chaperones



The youth conference is modeled after its adult counterpart. TED is a non-profi t organization whose mission is to spread ideas worth disseminating. Launched in 1984 and established as an annual occurrence in 1990, the event had mass appeal. TED-style conferences, dubbed TEDx, began popping


COMING TOGETHER TO GIVE BACK


Tim Bastian, MA, MS

“This will be a wonderful opportunity to work with people who don’t necessarily

share views (just like in real life).”to work with people who don’t necessarily


“It’s just the best Christmas gift ever!” declares Tim Bastian, MA, MS, clinical instructor of economics. Bastian is referring to his students’ selection of Bethlehem House as the recipient of the Heider faculty charitable Christmas donation. This is the second year that Heider faculty and staff have pooled their fi nancial donations to make a big impact on a single organization. They have raised over $5,000 for local charities.

The catch, however, is they do not determine to which organization the money goes. Their students do.

Parameters exist, though. The selected charity receives ALL the money, and four out of the six members of the student selection committee must agree. The charity must be a true 501(c) charity. The donation must take place by the end of the year, and the charity must be local and pertain to a personal or community economic development program. Lastly, the charity cannot violate Catholic Church teachings on moral or social issues.

Committee members come from both the Heider College of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences. “This will be a wonderful opportunity to work with people who don’t necessarily share views (just like in real life),” says Bastian.

Team member and Heider College junior Hank Elbert, found that reaching a consensus was more diffi cult than he originally imagined. “Making the decision to support one charitable organization was also a decision not to support another equally generous organization,” says the fi nance and accounting major and theology minor from Overland Park, KS.

“The discussion brought up many questions, comments and concerns, and not everyone was in agreement. But at the end of the day, we were voting on how we could donate money to benefi t charities in the Omaha area. There is no wrong decision in something like that,” adds James Doyle, BSCHM ‘15, a biochemical and philosophy double major from Topeka, KS.

They chose Bethlehem House, a Catholic residential home supporting mothers during and after their pregnancies so they can choose life for their babies. While with Bethlehem House, women become self-suffi cient, gaining childcare experience and learning personal life skills.

Other committee members included Brenda Kelly and Haley Warren from the College of Arts & Sciences and Heider students Erin McQuillan and Clara Jace. Bastian feels “absolutely blown away” by their choice. “I suppose it was ironic that we chose Bethlehem House during this Advent and Christmas season,” offers Doyle. “The name was a nice fi t.”

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