School of Business Administration, Portland State University

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At a Glance : The School
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Vision, Goal and Strategies

Vision

To be a nationally renowned school of business

Goal

To develop a national reputation for excellence and innovation in business research and education among our academic peers, current and prospective students, and the business community.

How will we get there?

Programs of National Distinction:

Accounting

  • Bachelor’s, Post-baccalaureate Accounting Certificate and Graduate (Master’s of Science in Financial Analysis) degrees offered
  • Faculty of note, including H. Thomas Johnson, Ph.D. author of Relevance Regained
  • Jesse Dillard, Retzlaff Chair in Accounting, is one of the nation's lead authorities on ethical accounting practices and course correcting businesses toward civic responsibility.  Dillard is Editor of the national publication Accounting and the Public Interest and is Executive Director of SBA's Center for Professional Integrity and Accountability.

Management of Innovation and Technology

  • Offered as an area of concentration within the MBA program
  • Ames Professorship provides support to faculty in Management of Innovation and Technology
  • SBA joins with Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark to offer business formation support through Interdisciplinary Center for Law & Entrepreneurship beginning Spring 03

Food Industry Management

  • Undergraduate and Graduate Certificates in Food Industry Management offered
  • One of only 6 programs nationwide that concentrates on management in the food industry   
  • Annual Food Management Industry Executive Development Program Today’s Managers/Tomorrow’s Leaders, as well as industry Connections conference, annually attracts more than 500 food industry managers.
  • 100 percent placement of Food Industry Management students, including Proctor & Gamble, Wal-Mart, Albertson’s

Students of Distinction:

  • Mean GPA of students admitted to the undergraduate School of Business = 3.20
  • 75 percent of all undergraduates pursue double majors in business
  • Average GMAT score for full-time MBA class of 2004 = 620 out of 800
  • Mean years of work experience (full-time MBA class of 2004) = 5
  • Mean UG GPA for full-time MBA class of 2004 = 3.38
  • Highly selective MBA program, with only 23% of applicants admitted to full-time MBA class of 2004

Faculty of Distinction:

39 Tenure track faculty contributed 68 articles to refereed publications during 2001-2002

100% of the faculty have Ph.D.’s.

Cameron Professor John Bizjak, Ph.D. named SEC Fellow for 2002-2003 to continue his noted work in the area of executive compensation.

Accounting Professor Elizabeth Almer, Ph.D. named Charles Rawlinson/PriceWaterhouseCoopers Faculty Fellow

Accounting Professor H. Thomas Johnson, Ph.D. cited in June issue of Strategy & Business (Booz, Allen monthly publication) as “the guru of managerial accounting.”

Accounting Professor Kristi Yuthas, Ph.D. was named the Swigert Professorship in Information Systems.

Finance Professor Shafiq Rahman , Ph.D. has published five research articles in the last year on topics including options trading and stock volatility.

Management professor Scott Marshall, Ph.D. and Sully Taylor, Ph.D. and accounting professor Darrell Brown recently began “Sustainability Conversations,” a roundtable discussion of issues of sustainability in business.

SBA's Retzlaff Chair in Accounting and nationally noted business ethicist Jesse Dillard, Ph.D. directs the Center for Professional Integrity and Accountability.

For more information about the School of Business at Portland State and its goals for the future, contact Dean Scott Dawson at scottd@sba.pdx.edu.

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