News and Events

The Walter E. Heller College of Business wants to enable you to find upcoming events and activities of interest to you as a prospective or current business student. In addition, we want to highlight some of the recently featured events for the college or the business community that may be of interest to you.

Upcoming Events and Activities

Paris - Krakow - Melbourne - Buenos Aires 
Find out more about our upcoming Heller College of Business International Opportunities.

The Young Women’s Leadership Charter School  (YWLCS) has several opportunities for volunteering available. Contact Jessica Wetmore at jwetmore@ywlcs.org.

• May 21-23 and May 28-30  - Promotion Presentation Evaluator
• June 26, July 24, August 7 - Summer Book Club Leaders (please respond by May 15).

HCB Business Incubator GHABIT is co-hosting "Ghaby's Organic Garden", a free event for children of all ages. Kids Zone: Ghaby, the green penguin, from planet Ghabit will be visiting to share her green stories. Perfect way to jumpstart your own organic garden and start eating healthy. Lots of fun and educative activities are planned for parents and kids to participate in – from Storytelling, Making heart seed planters, Yoga, Dancing, Painting and more. Mix n Mingle with Moms and local greenies. 4:00pm-8:00pm Friday, May 17 at the Auditorium Ballroom. Click here for more information.

May 23 HACE will host a Career Conference at the Palmer House 9:00am - 2:00pm. Register here.

Summer 2013 - Turner School of Construction Management Program (TSCM) seven-week training course for minority- and women-business owners in the disciplines practiced in the construction industry. This program is uniquely designed to enhance the technical, administrative and managerial skills of minority and women business owners and students in order to make a profit and build a reputation for efficiently managing construction projects. 

The Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate is proud to be hosting the U.S. Green Building Council-Illinois for a two-part program on developing, leasing and operating buildings according to the latest and best sustainability practices – and understanding the business benefits. Both events will occur on June 5th, in the new LEED GOLD Wabash Building of Roosevelt University. Roosevelt University students and faculty register free by contacting Latosha McKinney.

• Building Better Buildings Green Lease Forum  9:00am-11:30am (light breakfast at 8:30) with a noted panel of local leaders accompanied by two national leaders: Roy Torbert, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute and Richard Kadzis, Editor, LEADER Magazine, CoreNet Global. Register here. 
• Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate: "The Business Case for Sustainability: How To Create Value Added Workplaces and Buildings" led by panelists Dennis Walsh and Richard Kadzis 5:00pm Wednesday, June 5, 2013 WB 418. Register here.

June 16-19 is the 2013 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition in Chicago.

The Chicago City Treasurer’s Office launched of the 2013 Business Plan Competition. The competition is open to start-up and existing small businesses throughout the city. Submit a two-page executive summary and you are automatically entered to win a share of $10,000. The executive summary is due July 8. Finalists go on to submit a business plan by August 26. Or just sign up for the Business Plan Writing Workshops.

The Walter E. Heller College of Business is again offering opportunities for incoming high school juniors and seniors who demonstrate an aptitude in the areas of math, science and technology along with an interest in entrepreneurship: a five-day, green-technology focused Entrepreneurship Academy

• July 14 - July 19, 2013 
• July 28 – August 2, 2013 

The Heller College of Business and the Franklin Publishing Company  are co-sponsoring a conference at our Schaumburg Campus on Saturday, September 21, 2013. Papers in all of the functional areas of business or administration including nonprofit are sought. Click here for Call for Papers.

Register by October 4 for the First International Contest / Festival of Educational Videos on Sustainable Development and Education - FIVE - UNAI FCE UBA.

October 5 is the Small Business Entrepreneur Expo sponsored by the City of Chicago

Save the Date: 2013 Annual Real Estate Gala  - November 7, 2013 – Four Seasons.

Organizations in the Business Community host events which may be of interest to our students, faculty and alumni:

• The HCB incubator resident HandsOn Suburban Chicago / Linked Local Network invites you to join them for a Brown Bag Lunch and Business Networking every third Wednesday of the month 11:45am-1:15pm at Schaumburg's SCH 312. Details and sign up athttp://brownbagschaumburg.eventbrite.com.
• Monitor the web for the latest News and Events from Google Alerts with a subject of "Roosevelt University".
• The Illinois CPA Society hosts special events ranging from breakfast series to webinars to chapter meetings.
• Visit ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com for a list of upcoming events in the Real Estate business.
• World Trade Center Illinois, whose mission is to effect a new type of economic development for the State of Illinois by assisting Illinois companies in engaging global markets will be hosting upcoming international trade events and webinars.
• The New Leaders Development Series hosted by the Executive's Club of Chicago: Each program is preceded by informal networking and cocktail reception.
• The City of Chicago supports Small Business Entrepreneurs with information and events.
• Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Chicago whose mission is to be the premier network in Northern Illinois for experts and decision-making professionals focused on strategies for increasing stakeholder value.
• The Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan focuses on global issues of interest to the mid-Michigan business community. The monthly GB Club luncheons provide outstanding speakers and relaxed networking opportunities.
• The International Trade Association of Greater Chicago ("ITA/GC") is a not-for-profit, voluntary business association dedicated to promoting international commerce in all its forms.
• The Niagara Foundation with a mission to promote global fellowship hosts regularly scheduled and special events in the Chicago area.
• CCIM commercial real estate network events in Illinois.
• HACE, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement.
• Check the current Events Calendar at the Polish American Chamber of Commerce of Chicago.
• Career Transitions Center of Chicago, CTC, offers events to support those seeking a job, looking for meaningful work, or otherwise going through a career transition. Watch this news clip from the December 2, 2011 of First Business News about optimism in the job market featuring CTC and one of its clients. 
•  Boardroom Bound Boardology™ Institute presents Boardology™ 400 -- the Pipeline Seminar "preparing next-generation business leaders as candidates for boardroom service"
  
  

Featured News for the College

The 2013 Heller Signature Luncheon was held at the Palmer House on May 13, 2013. Heller College of Business Professor of Management Tom Head was honored for his achievements in teaching and research. Keynote speaker Jan Fields, Business Leader and Former President, McDonald's, USA spoke on "Diversity at McDonald's and Why It Built Strength and Longevity". Click here for more photos.

Jon DeVries, Director of the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University, and D. Bradford Hunt, Associate Professor of Social Science & History, have co-authored the book Planning Chicago. The book had a launch mid-April at the American Planning Association national convention being held here in Chicago with a book signing event and a presentation session. Crain's Chicago Business writer Greg Hinz comments on the book in his April 29 article What is Chicago Planning? Not Nearly Enough.

Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily published photos of the April 17 event Successful Women in Commercial Real Estate Luncheon.

Congratulations to our Outstanding Students! April 17, the Heller College of Business recognized many of our outstanding students: ACBSP Undergraduate Leadership award was given to Erdenechimeg Naidansambuu. And the ACBSP Graduate Leadership award was given to Gordan Ravasi. Awards for Outstanding Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior were presented to Florencio Vera, Weston Lee, Erin McCaslin and Nicole Farr respectively. The Fall 2012 Dean's List students were recognized as well. Thirty one students were inducted into the Delta Mu Delta Business Honor Society. Click here for more photos.

April 16 was the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Richard M. Killian Bookstore at the Chicago campus. Board member Patrick Woods and Heller College of Business (Bennett Real Estate Institute) alumnus Richard Killian are pictured here at the dedication.

Congratulations to RU MBA candidate Chevonne Woodard Finalist for the Presidential Management Fellows Program. Chevonne will now go on to a virtual job fair with federal agencies and leadership training. 

Congratulations to Roosevelt's Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate, winners (beating out Michigan, DePaul, Indiana University Kelley School and Penn State!) of the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation sponsored the HEEF Case Competition in which real estate schools are challenged to create a complete development plan for a selected site. eNews Park Forest published this article. And read more about their winning project here.

The Heller College of Business organized an International Experience trip to Paris over the 2013 Spring Break. The course is designed to help students appreciate global issues and to better understand cross-cultural challenges. This experience included participation in classes, company tours and interaction with students and the faculty of the host university: La Sorbonne. Click here for more photos.

During summer break, Dean Terri Friel represented Roosevelt University and the Heller College of Business at college recruiting fairs in Lisbon, Istanbul and Paris. She was interviewed at the "Studyrama" in Paris. For more photos, click here.

In addition to the above student fairs, we attended several student fairs in Turkey sponsored by a2 International Education Fairs. For more photos, click here.

Students from the Sorbonne University in Paris visited Roosevelt University March, 2013 and attended an International Management course at Motorola Solutions. See Motorola's article about the visit. Click here for more photos.

The Heller College of Business sponsored the Teen Entrepreurship Academy, an opportunity for incoming high school juniors and seniors who demonstrate an aptitude in the areas of math, science and technology along with an interest in entrepreneurship. Selected students attended the five-day, green-technology focused Entrepreneurship Academy at Roosevelt University at one of the  July 15 - 20, 2012 or July 29 – August 3, 2012 sessions.