Events

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Hear from Leslie O’Harrow, Partner at PwC during our Women’s History Month Speaker Series.

About Leslie O’Harrow

Leslie is a tax partner within PwC’s Specialized Tax Services (STS) practice. STS is dedicated to implementing large, complex tax planning strategies for companies across a multitude of industries. Leslie has spent 15 years providing tax consulting services to both private and public companies in PwC’s London, New York, and Los Angeles offices. She manages a diverse team of accountants, attorneys, and technologists.

Leslie also serves as STS’ Diversity and Inclusion Leader, as well as the Southwest market’s Tax Lead Diversity Champion. In these roles, she collaborates with practice leaders to create and implement diversity and inclusion strategies that allow the most talented people to feel welcomed, valued, respected, and heard.

Leslie received her undergraduate and Master in Taxation graduate degrees from the University of Alabama. She is a certified public accountant in California, New York, and Georgia. Leslie currently resides in Los Angeles, where she cheers on the Crimson Tide from afar.

Four to five companies are invited to participate. Company representatives will talk about what it’s like for young professionals to live in the city, (cost of living, what areas most young professionals try to live in), and the fun things there are to do. Finally, and most importantly, we’ll discuss jobs and opportunities within the represented companies for that city.  The event will last an hour.

Companies attending:

• 84.51
• P&G
• and more!

Students who attend will receive a T-shirt, information from the local Chambers of Commerce, and a full list of jobs for that city from Handshake.  Students must register via Handshake events to receive the Zoom link for the event.

Hear from David Schweidel, Professor of Marketing at Emory University at his talk “Opportunities with Text Data” during our Research Speaker Series

Abstract

Companies are increasingly investing resources in content marketing, trying to attract and retain customers by generating engaging content. The majority of data produced by both consumers and firms is unstructured. The availability of such data offers marketers with new opportunities that will be explored in this talk. First, a mixed method investigation of what makes content appealing will be presented. Using data from more than 600,000 reading sessions of more than 35,000 articles, we investigate the language that is associated with content that sustains readers’ attention. The results from this multi-method approach suggest that emotion plays an important role; but rather than simply being driven by emotionality, or valence, they are driven by the particular appraisal and action tendencies associated with different emotions, with anger and anxiety related language encouraging sustained attention while sad language discourages it. Second, an empirical investigation will be presented into the role of audience composition on social media engagement, using Twitter activity from U.S. Senators at the start of the Trump administration as our empirical context. Taken together, this talk aims to highlight the opportunities for researchers in leveraging textual data.

About Dr. Schweidel

David A. Schweidel is a Professor of Marketing at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Schweidel received his B.A. in mathematics, M.A. in statistics, and Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously on the faculty of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Schweidel is an expert in the areas of customer relationship management and social media analytics. His research has appeared in leading business journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science and Management Science. Schweidel is the author of Social Media Intelligence (Cambridge University Press) in which he and his co-author discuss how organizations can leverage social media data to inform their marketing strategies. He is also the author of Profiting from the Data Economy (Pearson FT Press), in which he details the value of businesses tapping into consumer data for both individuals and companies.

The “Give Me a Break” initiative will feature events intended to help students, faculty, and staff recharge their cognitive batteries. It will include a range of activities including featured speakers, recreational events, and community service opportunities; all with appropriate social distancing.

More info to come.

Hear from Stephanie Hill Alexander, External Relations and Diversity & Inclusion Manager at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama during our Women’s History Month Speaker Series.

Join Steve Buchheit for his SEiR-F Talk.

The Summer Excellence in Research Program for Faculty (SEiR-F) promotes high-quality research efforts for Culverhouse faculty by providing funding for their summer research. Funds may be taken as a summer stipend and/or used to reduce the costs of the proposed research.

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Hear from Wendy Boyd, Senior Vice President, Head of the ABGA & Co-Lead of LFS at Lincoln Financial Network during our Women’s History Month Speaker Series.

About Wendy Boyd

Wendy Boyd is currently Senior Vice President, Head of the ABGA, and Co-Lead of LFS for Lincoln Financial Network, where she focuses on continued channel growth and driving strategic initiatives to support Lincoln’s ABGA agency managers, producers/financial professionals, and their businesses. She joined Lincoln in September of 2014 to lead an innovative sales initiative to grow and sustain Lincoln Enterprise Life and MoneyGuard sales. Wendy has demonstrated experience in sales growth and development, recruiting, service excellence, strategic planning, fiscal and budgetary results, and overall operational processing efficiencies.

Prior to joining Lincoln, Wendy was the Senior Vice President of Sales, and Learning Development for Crump Group, Inc. (a subsidiary of BB&T Bank). While at Crump, she led various sales initiatives, including pioneering a new business channel that grew new sales by 128% of plan and 209% of EBITDA performance. Wendy was with Automatic Data Processing (ADP) as Vice President of Sales & Operations for nine years prior to joining Crump. She has demonstrated solid sales and operational performance in multiple roles and markets, consistently achieving year-over-year sales growth. Wendy has also been instrumental in developing and implementing learning and educational platforms comprising training of sales, service, presentation skills, and leadership development.

Wendy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama and is a proud native Alabamian (Southern Belle). She has also attended the Wharton’s Securities Industry Institute and is on the WISE Board, supporting Lincoln’s female financial professionals. She currently lives in Philadelphia, PA, with her dog Miller.

The University of Alabama Executive MBA Alumni Network and Manderson Graduate School of Business invite you to attend the Women’s Initiative With Allyson Witherspoon, on Wednesday, March 24, noon-1:15 pm, virtual session.

Allyson Witherspoon is vice president, and chief marketing officer of Nissan U.S. An influential and impactful leader in the automotive industry, Allyson shares her breakthrough branding and leadership strategies, as well as the responsibility of being a role model to help other women.

Witherspoon is responsible for marketing communications and media, data innovation, and customer experience, enhancing brand value, customer trust, and insights, and brand and product marketing.

In 2020 Witherspoon was named to the 100 Leading Women in North America by Automotive News. She was also named Female Frontier: Breaking Brand Barriers by Campaign US, and to Adweek’s Executive Mentor Program, and Twitter’s Influence Council, and Brand Innovators Marketing Leadership Council.

Join Peter Brummund for his SEiR-F Talk.

The Summer Excellence in Research Program for Faculty (SEiR-F) promotes high-quality research efforts for Culverhouse faculty by providing funding for their summer research. Funds may be taken as a summer stipend and/or used to reduce the costs of the proposed research.

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This is an exclusive event for women interested in a career in investment banking! Join and meet with female executives from PJ Solomon to learn more about their roles and successes in this field.