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As he addressed a standing-room-only crowd during the School of Business’ annual Lewis Golub Executive Lecture on socially responsible business practices, Lewis Steverson ’87 shared the secret to conducting business ethically. “Live it,” he said.

Siena College Professor of Management and Sociology Andrea Smith-Hunter, Ph.D. dreamed of running a program to educate girls about starting their own businesses while they are young, as opposed to waiting until after they graduated from college to teach them about it.

The Snow Queen is a new play with music based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story about a girl who travels barefoot in search of her childhood friend who has been abducted by the Snow Queen. The story is told in seven episodes, each detailing a different part of the young girl’s journey. Her journey will unfold on stage for the first time at Siena College.

Col. Denise (Fitzgerald) Lind ’82, a military judge in the Army JAG Corps, gave the keynote address at the 3rd annual Veterans Recognition Dinner, which celebrates Siena’s veterans and ROTC cadets.

Since its inception in 2009, the Albany Business Review’s CFO of the Year awards have continually honored Siena College alumni. Six of the 10 winners from this year and 12 out of 60 since the awards began are Siena alumni.

There is a new economics class at Siena this semester, bringing to life real issues of crime and employment in the Capital Region. The elective, Economics of Crime, is taught by Assistant Professor of Economics Ashley Provencher, Ph.D.

The Siena College team is once again leading the investment competition during which groups of students from 18 colleges and universities manage a hypothetical small cap stock portfolio worth $1 million. During the 26-week competition, students spend time researching and analyzing stocks and ultimately decide how best to manage their portfolios.

A commitment to building a more just world is central to the Siena College mission. To support that mission, students are getting behind the Fair Trade movement and making people think about what they’re buying.

In honor of his upcoming retirement, the Siena College community celebrated the legacy and achievements of the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany The Most Reverend Howard J. Hubbard, D.D. H ’77 with an academic symposium titled “Social Justice, Lay Leadership and Interfaith Dialogue.”

On ABC’s critically-acclaimed reality show Shark Tank, a panel consisting of highly successful business people known as the “sharks,” listens to pitches from entrepreneurs who want help financing and developing their money-making ideas. The sharks ultimately decide if the products and businesses are worth their investment. Siena students with the entrepreneurial spirit recently participated in the College’s version of the show, a contest called Spark Tank.