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Spring 2004 Also inside: A Voice for Students businessBALL STATE Accounting for the Future A Magazine for Miller College of Business Alumni & Friends Knowledge Gained, A Legacy Shared The Miller College of Business honors the life and legacy of Wallace T. Miller Jr. viewpoint BALL STATE business invest well, dream big he last six months have contacting me at (765) 285-8192 or been extraordinary ones for [email protected]. Every idea has Dean: T the Miller College of merit! Lynne Richardson Business. We had just This issue also features terrific stories received the Miller name when the last about our accounting program and our Editors: issue of Ball State Business went to press, newly formed Student Advisory Board. Susan Holloway features so we were able to share the news with Our accounting department has long Layne Cameron 7 you then. In this issue, you can read been known as a place to recruit excel- knowledge gained, a legacy shared Associate Dean, about Wally Miller, the man behind the Wally Miller’s name and legacy endure at the Miller College of Business. lent accounting graduates and we are Instruction and Operations: gift. We are indebted to him for his proud to feature it. Our Student Rodney Davis tremendous legacy. Advisory Board is one of the latest accounting for the future 13 Now the real work begins. Our task advisory boards to be formed in the Associate Dean, How the accounting department built a solid foundation for the future. is to ensure that Wally Miller’s gift is a Miller College. By the end of May, we Research and Outreach: Contact us through wise investment. The last several will have 12 advisory boards supporting Ray Montagno a voice for students 17 months have been spent brainstorming www.bsu.edu/ activities in our college, compared to Student Advisory Board members offer new perspective and vision. how to leverage the gift to improve three just 20 months ago. Each board Director of Development: business/contactus what we do and how we conduct busi- has the enviable task of helping us bet- Suzanne B. Killen ness. We’ve been asked to think “trans- ter prepare our students for business formationally” by Ball State careers in the 21st century. Director of External Relations: University Provost and Alumni involvement is so important Tammy Estep Acting President Beverley to us. From the more formal Miller Phone: Pitts. She has chal- College Alumni Board to ad hoc talks (765) 285-8192 lenged us to plan with students and faculty in classes, we departments beyond immediate covet your time. Last October we host- Fax: needs and to dream ed Dialogue Week, a five-day event in (765) 285-5117 briefs 3 for the longer which alumni “came home to Ball term: Ten years State” to share their career stories in E-mail: from now, what classes. We plan to host Dialogue Days [email protected] bottomline 21 will we have this year on October 6 and 7. Please Web site: done because we mark your calendars and plan to come www.bsu.edu/business received this gift? “dialogue” with us. You’ll have fun and connections 22 To determine make a difference too. Photo Credits: our options, we’re Thanks for all you do for us with John Huffer, Michael Hickey, soliciting input your time, talents, and treasure. We and Don Rogers/Ball State from Miller College couldn’t do it without you! University Photo Services, of Business alumni, friends, and advisory E. Anthony Valainis/ board members, as well as Indianapolis Monthly. faculty, staff, and students. Do Lynne Richardson Member of the AACSB-International: you have an idea? Please share it by Dean and Professor of Marketing The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business © April 2004 Volume 2, Number 2. Ball State Business is published twice a year by the Ball State University Miller College of Business, WB 100, Muncie, Indiana 47306. Printed in the United States. No material may be reproduced without written permission. Send change of address to Wally Miller, 1963 Ball State University Miller College of Business, WB 100, Muncie, Indiana 47306; Phone: (765) 285-8192; Fax (765) 285-5117; E-mail: Spring 2004 [email protected]. The information presented here, correct at the time of publication, is subject to change. Ball State University practices equal opportunity 2in educationBall andState employment business and is stronglyI Spring and actively 2004 committed to diversity within its community. 1966-04 uc briefs new name, new look The new Miller College of Business name marks the center for professional selling expands beginning of an exciting new era in the college and calls for a fresh, new look. The recently introduced Miller College of Business logo reflects the college’s with $1 million H. H. Gregg gift strength, character, and innovative spirit. Lynne Richardson, dean of the college, says, “When you see the logo or hear the name Miller College of A $1 million gift from Indianapolis- Gregg —a leading retailer of home Business, think quality education for tomorrow’s busi- based H. H. Gregg will be used to appliances and consumer electronics— ness leaders.” increase opportunities for students of says the company is proud to be associ- the Center for ated with one of the top professional Professional Selling, a selling programs in the country. nationally recognized “We believe a valuable part of any make a difference at dialogue days sales education program education or career is the ability to Alumni are invited to participate in the Miller College of Business annual in the Miller College of effectively communicate and get credit Dialogue Days, planned for October 6 and 7. Business. for one’s strengths and abilities and Originated by the Miller College of Business Alumni Board, Dialogue Days is The gift includes nam- those of your organization,” he says. “It designed to provide Ball State business undergraduate students with opportunities to ing the center the H. H. is our hope and commitment that the see the current business world through the eyes of professionals. The event brings Gregg Center for H. H. Gregg Center for Professional alumni back to Ball State business classrooms to meet and talk with students. Professional Selling. Selling will become a standard by which Last year 67 alumni provided students in 90 classes with an overview of their Under the direction of all others are measured.” business lives, answered questions about career opportunities, and shared the best Ramon Avila, the In 2002, the center hosted the inau- approaches to entering their professions. George and Frances Ball gural national summit of the University For more information about participating in Dialogue Days, contact Tammy Distinguished Professor Sales Center Alliance, a group dedicat- Estep, director of external relations, at [email protected]. of Marketing, the center ed to furthering sales education, and a has established itself as a team of Ball State students placed third leader in educating stu- at the 2003 National Sales Competition dents for careers in sales. in Atlanta. Avila also has earned Also that year, the Freedom Foundation ball state honors honors for his innovative of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, presented former business dean teaching methods. Avila with a Leavey Award for Excellence Professional Selling Team: “It’s exciting that an Indiana compa- in Private Enterprise Education for his Ball State University celebrated the 80th Scott Inks, Ramon Avila, ny like H. H. Gregg is showing interest project “The Advanced Professional birthday of J.B. Black, former dean of the and Joe Chapman in our efforts to prepare students for the Selling Course,” which improves the skills Miller College of Business, with a roast and sales profession,” Avila says. “The labs of sales professionals. He also received fund-raiser March 4. Black was dean from where we record and critique our stu- Ball State’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 1973 to 1984, and he retired from the univer- dents’ sales presentations will be upgrad- August. sity in 1988. ed with state-of-the-art digital video “Ball State is extremely proud of Proceeds from the event went to the local equipment, and this gift will also allow Ramon’s national reputation, and this chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor us to send more students to sales con- gift gives him greater ability to show- society serving business and administration ventions and contests that are impor- case his work in Indiana and across the programs accredited by AACSB tant in jump-starting their careers.” nation,” says Beverley Pitts, Ball State’s International–the Association to Advance Jerry Throgmartin, chairman of H. H. acting president. Collegiate Schools of Business. Black was dean of the college when the Ball State chapter was formed in 1979. 3 Ball State business I Spring 2004 Spring 2004 I Ball State business 4 briefs entrepreneurship program rises in national rankings hi-tech in high demand Ball State University’s graduate program in entrepreneurship continues alumnus named ceo of the year to rise in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. Computer proficiency is considered not just Miller College of Business Hall of Fame inductee J. Wayne In the magazine’s annual listings of top graduate programs offered by a plus, but an essential skill, in today’s busi- Leonard has been named the energy industry’s “CEO of the business schools, Ball State’s entrepreneurship program ranks 16th, tied ness environment. Year.” Leonard, CEO of Entergy Corporation, was honored in with Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Maryland, and According to a newly updated Miller December at the Platts/Business Week Global Energy Awards in University of Virginia. Over the last three years, Ball State’s program has College of Business study, the majority of New York City, where Entergy was named “Global Energy been ranked 23rd, 20th, and 19th.