Business & Hospitality Articles

Pennsylvania College of Technology students once again have proved to be worldly-wise players in the Business Strategy Game, a Web-based competition that pits simulated corporations against one another in the fickle global marketplace. The co-managers of the fictitious Delphi athletic-footwear company Jennie E. Mull, a technology management student from Huntingdon; Amy M.

Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Hospitality will travel to State College and The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in February to help prepare meals for participants in the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's 15th annual "Farming for the Future" conference. The students are members of a catering course taught by Michael J.

A member of Pennsylvania College of Technology's business faculty was honored during a recent conference for "outstanding leadership in the field of business creativity and entrepreneurship." Dennis R.

An associate professor of business administration/human resources management at Pennsylvania College of Technology presented a paper titled "Think Lean for HR of the Future" at the 26th annual Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resource Conference. Robert B.

A professor of business administration/business law at Pennsylvania College of Technology presented a paper at the Conference on Emerging Issues in Business & Technology, held Nov. 3-5 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Irwin H. Siegel's paper, titled "Applying Organizational Theory Concepts: The Studebaker Case," also was published in the conference proceedings.

Shawn Sidey, a 1996 Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate and a supervisor at Starbucks Coffee's York roasting plant, returned to campus Monday to talk to classes in the School of Hospitality. Sidey joined Starbucks almost two years ago and works in Automated Coffee Roasting Systems, for which he supervises roasting for the third shift.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology seniors' recent performance makes them eligible for year-end participation in the Business Strategy Game, an online exercise in which teams run fictitious companies in head-to-head competition with their counterparts from around the world. The team of Tina L. Brownson, a business administration-management major from Howard, and Dustin S.

An associate professor of business administration at Pennsylvania College of Technology was a presenter at a recent Pennsylvania Economic Association conference, during which he also was elected to the organization's board of directors. Gerald D.

Visions of chocolate houses are dancing in the heads of Pennsylvania College of Technology students ... and these visions will help dreams come true for needy families. In conjunction with the School of Hospitality's annual food show, the sixth annual "A House for a House" auction will be held Friday, Dec. 5, in Penn's Inn, located in the College's Bush Campus Center.