School of Business

Business students Julia Hill, Brian Guo and Michael Recchia join senior classmates from across the majors, discussing their post-graduation plans. Watch this video to find out where these 17 seniors are headed this summer and fall.

The School of Business – with help from Professor Buddy Mayo and alumus Eric Szabo ’97 – presented the College’s first-ever College-wide “Mayo Business Plan Competition.” Team “Mashup” – economics major Davis Craig, management major Ryan Dolan and biology major Frankie Nwafili – competed alongside two other student teams in the finals on April 4, and ultimately won the top prize of $12,000 with their proposal for an online community where users can create personal online magazines. Read more here.

Business students have numerous opportunities to present their research at national conferences such as ECA & NCUR as well as TCNJ’s Celebration of Student Achievement. Marketing senior Meagan Germain is pictured here at the 103rd Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association in Cambridge, MA.

On April 18th, alumnus Tom Sabroe ’88 of Broadridge Financial Solutions, hosted a group of 19 first-year TCNJ business students on a tour of the New York Stock Exchange. Read more here.

TCNJ Beta Gamma Sigma members are working with the Bonner Center to help the East Trenton Habitat for Humanity facility to diversify its revenue streams and analyze the feasibility of operating a store that could receive donated items–such as power tools or furniture–and selling them in their own retail store for a profit. This April, a BGS team volunteered their service at Habitat’s Trenton area Re-Store. Read more here.

On April 13th, graduating seniors from the Economics Department presented their senior theses capstone projects at Ursinus College to fellow undergraduate economists. Read about the senior thesis in Economics here.

Several accounting and finance majors from the SOB are completing six month internships at various J&J locations.  As part of their internship, these students attend three seminars that are presented by a combination of SOB faculty and J&J  managers.  The TCNJ presenters are Dr. Nancy Lasher, Dr. Hossein Nouri and Dr. Tom Patrick.  The picture (above or below or to the right or left) is of these interns and Dr. Patrick.  It was taken at the J&J facility at Skillman, New Jersey.

 In April, 67 students were inducted into 4 business honor societies at the joint induction ceremony for Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma, the Financial Management Association’s National Honor Society, and Omicron Delta Epsilon. Economics junior Kristen Duke was awarded the Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship for 2012-2013.  Read about the honor society inductees here.

In Febrruary 2012, TCNJ’s Collegiate Chamber of Commerce hosted a Speed Networking Event for TCNJ & Rider University members with the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. The CCC is a network of emerging business leaders seeking to expand their education and workforce opportunities through activities that support the objectives of the MRCC, provide real world business experiences and ultimately, create and sustain a superior pool of talent in the Mercer region. Senior Adam Schumer, TCNJ’s CCC Executive Director, organized the event, which opened with remarks from Robert Prunetti, MRCC President & CEO. The CCC works with the Chamber’s Young Professionals Connective.  View photos of this event on the the YPC’s FaceBook page.

Sixteen TCNJ accounting students who had taken Professor LaFond’s Federal Income Taxation course last semester participated in the IRS-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program this tax season. Read more in TCNJ Magazine.

TCNJ marketing students scored extremely well on March 17th, at the Pi Sigma Epsilon national conference in Indianapolis. Junior Jenny Green won the $1000 ADP scholarship and took 1st place in the “Sell-a-Thon” role play selling competition. This is the second year in a row that TCNJ took 1st place. Read more here.

In Feb. 2012, TCNJ members of Phi Beta Lambda competed in the NJ PBL State Leadership Conference at Mercer County Community College, competing against 7 other schools, including Rutgers University New Brunswick and Newark campuses, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Ocean County College. TCNJ did a fantastic job and walked away with 2 chapter awards for membership equalization and expansion, as well 15 individual awards. Read more here.

In a first for TCNJ, finance majors (pictured left to right with their faculty advisor) Alex Varghese ’13,  Tom Defrancesco ’12, Professor Susan Hume, Samantha Drofiak ’12, James Puglia ’12 and Rick Guardino ’12 apprenticed as financial analysts in a top-level competition with over 20 area schools. The team developed and presented a financial buy recommendation on $ 1 billion technology firm Micros to high-profile Wall Street experts. The Research Challenge gave the team apprentice-style learning experience in analyst research, report writing, and ethics. As analysts-in-training, the five students received intensive training during the fall, winter and spring sessions, connected with a professional research analyst mentor, analyzed a public company using the techniques and tools of financial analysis and valuation, and traveled to New York to present and defend their recommendations to a panel of experts. Each student found the competition a dynamic, important learning experience.

Maggie Lee, class of 2015, is from Flanders, New Jersey and majoring in marketing and minoring in psychology. She was president of her high school chapter of DECA, an organization for students interested in business and was also captain of her school’s Softball team for two years.  View the video TCNJ Class of 2015: Maggie Lee here.

Economics junior Matt Carlson (3rd from right) is pictured with Dr. Subarna Samanta and TCNJ’s 2011 Fed Challenge team. Matt has been awarded a prestigious full tuition and housing scholarship to the American University in Dubai (AUD) for spring 2012 by the William J. Clinton Foundation. Read more here. 

Darrel Frater, class of 2015, is a resident of Ewing, NJ and majoring in Accounting. He’s part of the TCNJ Bonner Scholars program and worked with Trenton Teen Leadership Corps in high school. Click here to view the video:  TCNJ Class of 2015: Darrel Frater. 

During the fall 2011, School of Business alumnus Tom Sabroe ’88 of Broadridge Financial Solutions, took 25 business students on a tour of the New York Stock Exchange. They are pictured at left with Dean Keep and Andy Carver, Associate Professor of Finance. View more photos here.

In October 2011, seven TCNJ students attended the 21st Annual Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Convention Expo & Career Fair in Teaneck, NJ. Thousands of people attended this exciting business networking experience, geared to put small businesses and Inner City residents on the Fast Track to success.  The event culminated in the aptly named “Gastronomic Festival.”

Management senior Kaitlyn Koennemann said her summer (2011) internship in London was an incredible experience. “I have no doubt the confidence I gained learning I could travel and live so far away on my own will prove to be a huge asset. It’s amazing how something so fun and exciting left me feeling exponentially more prepared for life after college.”  Read more about business students studying abroad here.     

According to junior Kristen Duke, “Studying abroad in Paris has taught me to appreciate, absorb, and truly become part of a vastly different culture, while simultaneously embracing my place as an American. It has been the most consequential event of my life, motivating me to alter my career and life goals.” Read more about business students studying abroad here.  

Senior economics major Lauren Rittenbach is shown above, at the 2011 MUSE presentations. This summer she researched “The Consequences of TANF time limits for NJ’s poor: Evidence from Service Providers” with Dr. Michele Naples. Read about MUSE here. 

Finance junior Charles Gutch spent the first part of summer 2011 at Oxford University, through the Oxford Study Abroad Programme and returned to complete an internship in the legal department on the NJ Turnpike. Read more.  

Junior economics major Katelyn Klinck (left) completed a summer 2011 internship with Isango, a travel.com company in London, through the Foundation for International Education and earned second prize in FIE’s summer internship photo contest. According to Katelyn, “working and living in London allowed me to experience a global work environment within a distinctly British culture. This facilitated an enhanced awareness that helped me to grow as a student, an employee, and a person.” Read more study abroad stories here. 

James Shaw ’12, Daniel Campbell ’13 and Zachary Sollitto ’12 received national recognition at the PBL Awards of Excellence on June 26th in Orlando. Campbell ranked seventh in Financial Analysis and Decision Making, Shaw competed in Financial Concepts and brought home ninth place, and Sollitto was recognized as a national finalist in Marketing Concepts.  Read more.

  

This summer, twelve TCNJ students toured Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou China as part of “Doing Business in China” with Drs. Shao and Tang. Read about their journey here. Check out their photo gallery. See the press release. Read more study abroad stories here.  

 

Sophomore interdisciplinary business major Kaitlynn Zolnay was a third-grader when she started baking dog biscuits and selling them to local pet stores. In high school she started her second business and both initiatives are still going strong. Read more about her entrepreneurship in NJBIZ.

 

Business students don’t always go directly into business. Marketing graduate Marisa Gonzalez begins training in June for Teach For America, to teach bilingual elementary school in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She remarked “It’s certainly a departure from the business environment that I’ve been in for the past few years, but I can’t wait to work with kids and tap into a different side of myself!” Learn about Teach For America.

Brian Guo, Amy Moroz, Danielle Reilly and Michelle Szumloz were inducted into the New Jersey Collegiate Business Administration Association Honor Society in 2011. Read about the New Jersey Collegiate Business Administration Association Honor Society. 

Accounting seniors Melanie Palm, Karen Nici, and Megan Ho are pictured above with Dean Keep at the 2011 President’s Private Donor Scholarship Reception.  Read more here. 

 

 TCNJ’s Athletics Department honored Scholar-Athletes including 52 business students who have maintained excellence both academically and athletically, at the 24th Annual Academic Honors Brunch. Read more here. 

On April 27th, over 70 business students exhibited their research & scholarship in the Celebration of Student Achievement. See photos of various business student presentations here.

Tom Sabroe ’88 (l-r) gave business students Roger Shan, Dave Destefano, George Gonzalez, Annabelle Vintayen and Samantha Drofiak a tour of the New York Stock Exchange. Read more here.

  

Adam Schumer ’12 (marketing) won first place and TCNJ’s chapter won the Top Chapter Award at the 2011 Pi Sigma Epsilon National Sales Competition in Orlando, in April. Read the press release here. Read more in The Signal. 

Seniors Andrea Ortu (political science) and Meaghan Vitale (economics & secondary ed) were among the TCNJ students presenting their original research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at Ithaca College in early April. Read more. 

 

Seniors Dave Goodmark (left) and Brent Keyes (right) recently competed against students from large sales programs across the country, in this annual competition. Read more at: 2011 NCSC Competition. 

The 35th NJ Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference was held on Feb. 26th, at Mercer County Community College. The TCNJ team won 12 awards & Kristen De Lorenzo ’12 was elected NJ State Vice President for the 2011-2012 term.  This is the third year in a row a TCNJ student has held the NJ State Vice President position. Students who earned 1st & 2nd Honors qualified for the National Leadership Conference. Dr. Patricia Wallace is advisor to TCNJ’s PBL Chapter.

 

In February, seniors Stephanie Chan, Kaitlin Cisero, and Sara Hanson attended the Beta Gamma Sigma Leadership Forum in Tampa. Hanson, an accounting major, commented “The SLF was not only about leadership, but it challenged me to think about who I am, who I want to be, and what I need to do to become it. It was a life changing experience in more ways than one.” See more on the BGS website. 

Business seniors Christopher Gibson and Ethan Sooy represented The College of New Jersey Society for Parliamentary Debate at the World University Debate Championships in Botswana. Read more. 

This past winter break, Jennifer Barillas — a junior, international business major — and Gary Stenftennagel – a freshman, management major, joined 20 fellow Bonner Scholars in New Orleans for an annual service trip. Read about this extremely rewarding experience in their New Orleans Service trip blog and in The Signal. 

The Student Investment Fund at TCNJ is a student run value oriented fund focusing on equities and fixed income instruments. The fund currently has 35 positions, some donated and the rest purchased by the fund. View their website here. 

For the Fernandez twins, the similarities end when they step on the court. Read more about business juniors Stewart and Steven Fernandez in the November 2010 issue of TCNJ Magazine.

On September 9, 2010 Mike Karas – senior interdisciplinary business major & psychology minor – gave a brief presentation to MKT 310-01, about his experience in Johnson & Johnson’s Co-Op program. Watch a video clip. 

Junior international business major David DeStefano traveled to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan on a summer 2010 study tour focused on history, culture, and economic development. Read more.

Marketing senior Kathy O’Reilly spent the summer of 2010 in London where she had the opportunity to study at the Foundation for International Education (FIE) while completing a public relations internship. Read more.

Follow Accounting senior Colette Shalhoub’s blog about her 2010 summer tax internship at Ernst & Young here: Inside the Ernst & Young Internship. 

In July 29 2010, business students who participated in the Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience collaboration presented their research at TCNJ’s annual MUSE banquet. For specific information about their projects, and the MUSE Program, read more. 

Business Open Options major Stephen Gadda ’11 (above), and Finance Professor Susan Hume attended the June 2010 Global Banking Conference hosted by Fitch Ratings in NYC. Expert panel presentations on the post-crisis outlook for banking and countries’ economies in the US and Europe was the catalyst to jump start their research for their Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience collaboration.  Their MUSE project: Changes in Microfinance after the Global Financial Meltdown: What Models Can Explain Performance?

Colette Shalhoub, Accounting ’11 (center), is a member of Beta Alpha Psi, a 2010 NJSCPA Scholarship recipient and serves on the editorial board of NJSCPA’s newsletter Tomorrow’s CPA.  Her recent article “Shattering the Glass Ceiling in Accounting,” appeared in the April 2010 issue. Read full article; Read previous article from June, 2009.

TCNJ My Way: William Morris – William Morris is a senior marketing major at TCNJ. He is also president of Gospel United Ministries. He plans to pursue a masters degree in fine arts and motion media.

TCNJ business students captured a new prize on Nov. 20, 2009 earning an honorable mention and a $5,000 cash reward at the Second District College Fed Challenge in New York City. Read Press Release. 

 

If college is a time for stamping out one’s identity, what does that mean for students who are always paired with someone else? Find out what these six identical twins have to say about it. Read Full Article.

Religion and Health in the U.S.: An Economic Perspective – Economics Professor Donka Mirtcheva and Marcelo Rivera ’11 studied the relationship between different factors of religion and health in the US by age group, during Summer 2009, through the Mentored Undergraduate Summer Research Program (MUSE.) View video here.

 

TCNJ My Way: Lloyd Woods – Lloyd Woods ’10 is studying international business administration and Japanese. He is also president of TCNJ’s Aikido club.

TCNJ My Way: Charles Hatch IV – Charles Hatch ’09 is studying Accounting and Finance. He is also part of the Sophomore Leadership Program and the United Vision Project with Ernst & Young, and helps run the business building coffee cart.

 

 

 

See business student organization 2009 highlights here.

 

Read about business student accomplishments in 2007-2008 in TCNJ magazine: TCNJ Students Shine in Business Competitions