NUBS 2007

Nubs 2007

March 29 - March 30
Hosted by Goizueta Business School
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

 

We are very pleased to extend to you an invitation to attend this year’s National Undergraduate Business Symposium, at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. We are extremely excited about this conference and hope that you will plan to attend. This website contains information about the theme and content of this year’s symposium and material regarding conference logistics. You may register online by clicking on this link.

We invite you to contact us at any time with questions, thoughts or comments. A list of names and contact information can be found by clicking on the Contact Us link. We are eagerly anticipating a terrific event!

Within this site you will find the details pertaining to the NUBS 2007 schedule, travel and lodging, the optional Saturday excursions, and an updated list of registered attendees.

Conference Theme:
EDUCATING THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION

During the conference, we will make use of both the most current outside research and our own collective experiences in examining the motivations, attitudes and behaviors of the generational cohort born between 1982 and 2001. We will be devoting breakout and group sessions to a collaborative exploration of the ways in which some of our undergraduate business programs, communications, and services might be modified or enhanced in light of millennial insights. Our goal is to provide a forum during which NUBS participants can create and articulate best practices related to educating the millennial generation.

Breakouts:

On Friday morning, we will form teams according to specific topics of interest. Each team will design a Millennial-inspired initiative or modification that relates to a particular component of the undergraduate business program. In the afternoon, the teams will present their finding to the larger group so that we can flush these ideas out together. Each team will be assisted by a millennial facilitator.

Keynote Presentation:

We are particularly excited to bring you generational and Millennial expert William Strauss as the conference keynote speaker. Mr. Strauss studies and writes about generational change in American history and is the co-founder of LifeCourse Associates, a marketing, HR, and strategic planning consultancy. He and his co-author Neil Howe are arguably the world’s foremost experts on the Millennial generation. Together they have co-authored six books, Generations (1991), 13th Gen (1993), The Fourth Turning (1997), Millennials Rising (2000), Millennials Go to College (2003), and Millennials and the Pop Culture (2006). We are delighted that Mr. Strauss will be speaking at our Friday luncheon. We are inviting a few colleagues from Emory University to join us for lunch so that they too may benefit from this extraordinary resource. While the rest of the NUBS conference is limited to our attending members, if you would like to extend a luncheon invitation to one of your academic colleagues, please let us know and we will be delighted to do so.

Schedule at a Glance:

 
Thursday, March 29, 2007

  • 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Registration and check-in at Emory Conference Center and Hotel (ECCH)
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Opening Program
  • 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM Cocktails and dinner at GBS

Friday, March 30, 2007

  • 7:00 AM – 8:45 AM: Continental breakfast at ECCH
  • 8:45 AM – 11:45 AM: Morning sessions at ECCH
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch and keynote presentation at ECCH
  • 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Afternoon sessions at GBS
  • 4:300 PM – 5:00 PM: Business meeting
  • 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM: Dinner at Michael C. Carlos Museum
  • 8:30 PM: Martinis and Imax at Fernbank Science Center

Saturday, March 31, 2007
For those attendees who would like to use this occasion to explore Atlanta, we will be offering an optional City excursion on Saturday.

  • Breakfast at ECCH
  • 10:00 AM: Shuttles depart for MLK Center, CNN center and Georgia Aquarium
  • 1:30 PM: Bus #1 departs from excursion sites for airport
    • Bus #2 departs from excursion site for ECCH