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The Summer Business Institute provides rising juniors, seniors, and May graduates in non-business majors with the opportunity to enhance their marketability. The four-week program provides participants with broad knowledge of business principles and practices.

It’s not how a company fares at the beginning of a recession that determines its future, a North Carolina business leader told Elon students this week, it’s whether that company takes advantage of opportunities during the downturn. Dr. James A. Tompkins, founder of a global supply chain consulting firm, on Feb. 24 shared stories of what he says are the promises of globalization in the 21st century.

Dr. James A. Tompkins, founder and CEO of a global supply chain consulting firm that has worked with hundreds of companies worldwide, will share facts about globalization and advice for students gleaned over three decades at the helm of his company during a Feb. 24 talk in the LaRose Digital Theatre.

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has had two columns published in February - one in the latest edition of Business Coaching Worldwide, and the other in the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Keeping customers happy may cost money, but for the president and CEO of a highly regarded New England food retailer, “it’s worth it in the long run.” Stew Leonard Jr. shared wisdom with more than 100 students this week in a campus visit co-sponsored by the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Elon Career Services.