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- Hi everyone, welcome to Dividends,
the show for and about your College of Business.
A great show today, two great guests.
And we start with Dr. Laura Marler.
She is in the College of Business,
but also in management specifically.
- [Laura] Yes.
- And,
actually that's one of our
more well known programs because you guys
have received a lot of accolades right?
- We've really received a lot of attention for our
strategic focus on family farm research.
And so we're lucky enough to have a center
for family enterprise research
housed in the College of Business.
And so-- - And ranked number one.
- It is, we have-- - And we are number
- [Jeffrey] one in something.
- We are!
And we do have one of the number one researchers
in the world doing family farm research.
So we are all really excited to have opportunities
to work with him.
- Dr. Chrisman.
- That's Dr. Jim Chrisman who's also our department head.
- He's been a guest on this show.
- Oh has he? - Mm-hm.
Well,
you're in a real nice successful department and
that I think is also reflected a bit
in the fact that you are hosting the
MidSouth Management Research Consortium,
you had it for the second time!
- Right, we were able to host the
MidSouth Management Research Consortium,
which really just means, it's a long name.
But it really just means we have PhD students
and management faculty from different universities
in the MidSouth coming
to really have opportunities to network with each other.
And to do some research presentations.
So we're really excited to have not hosted it just once,
but also twice.
- You were telling me there's 90 some people,
so obviously there's a tremendous amount of working
and planning all this and you know
getting the hotel room blocks and the venues and all that.
So why do you do it?
- Right.
I just think it's such an excellent opportunity
to showcase all of the excellent things
that we have going on in the College of Business.
So we're including things like our
family farm research focus.
We're including the E-Center,
some of our student entrepreneurs.
We have resident experts in family farm research,
so that will be highlighted at the conference.
And I have to say I didn't do this alone.
I did have a co-coordinator, Dr. James Vardaman,
who's also in the Department of Management.
So definitely helps to have a team
to put together a conference like this.
- Well and we'll get James on the program here
and let him talk about the things that he's involved with.
Both of you have really been helpful to the E-Center
and it's just great to have young, aggressive,
smart, well respected professors on the staff here,
so that's really good.
I told you I wanted to start out by
talking about your background and I jumped
immediately over that.
So. - Sure.
- Give folks a sense of who you are,
where you're from, - Okay.
- how you landed at State.
- All right.
Well I'm originally from
a small place called Pineville, Louisiana.
And I came to Starkville for
the job that I still have
as a professor in management.
- [Jeffrey] And your expertise area is?
- My expertise area would be human resources
and organizational behavior.
So I look at how people can be managed in the workplace
and how they can be more motivated.
And how you can do some good hiring on the front end
to have people who will engage in those behaviors
once they are in your workplace.
- What drew you to that,
that specific area of study?
- You know I was someone who
didn't always know what I would do with my life.
And I did realize I always like to learn.
But I was approached in graduate school
by another professor in management
when I was working on my masters in business.
And he said, "Have you ever thought about
"being a professor?"
And then I realized I've really tried to understand
behavior my whole entire life
and have always been in interested observer
and thinking about what people are doing
and why they are doing it?
And so this career has enabled me
to do research in that area
and answer some of those questions.
- Well and I think I want to have you back on
a future episode to specifically bore down into that more
and talk about motivation and motivation between
Gen X'ers and Millennials and things like that.
Because I think that folks would be fascinated
to hear about that. - Absolutely.
Absolutely.
- All right so you also are involved with the
Undergraduate Women in Business.
- Right!
So I was really excited to get an opportunity
to work with a group of highly motivated
young women who are undergraduates
at Mississippi State University.
And my role as an advisor has been so fulfilling
because these women are very much self starters
and on the ball.
And it's nice for them to just come and bounce
ideas off of me, I meet with the leadership
of the organization from time to time.
This is a new organization that's grown very quickly.
And I think we have now over 100 members.
And we're so proud of that. - Wow.
- And I know Shelby Baldwin will be able to tell you
more about that later.
She's our VP of Marketing for the organization.
But they've already hosted quite a few guest speakers.
And she'll tell you a little bit more about
a guest speaker we're really excited to have this Spring.
- That's great, you're doing my job for me,
I don't have to do anything else.
(Laura laughs) Well look.
Thanks for being a part of the College of Business family.
Thanks for sharing part of the story.
But we're gonna take this up some more
at a later date, okay?
- Wonderful.
- All right, we're gonna take a break,
be back with more in just a moment.
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- Welcome back everyone.
My next guest is Shelby Baldwin
and she is a student in the College of Business.
Good to have you here.
- Thank you,
it's good to be here. - Also, part of the leadership
team with the Undergraduate Women in Business program
at the College of Business.
- Yes.
I'm the Vice President of Marketing
for the Undergraduate Women in Business.
It's a relatively new organization
within the College of Business.
We just had our first full semester this semester.
The organization was founded about halfway through
the fall semester last year.
- And,
what's the purpose, what are the goals,
outcomes that you're looking for with this group?
I know you just had the Mayor of Starkville,
- Yes. - Lynn Spruill
come in and speak.
- Yeah, she was incredible.
I was reached out to by a fellow student
about starting this organization.
The main goal in mind being just to
provide an environment for women
in the College of Business that are undergraduate students
and are passionate about
their career after college.
And just corporate America and entering that work force.
Just to give them a place to network
and meet each other, and empower each other.
You know be confident about entering
a industry that's very male dominated.
We do a lot of resume workshops, interview workshops,
just networking events, bringing in guest speakers
from companies, guest speakers that are successful.
CEOs and founders that are female.
And like you said we had the mayor come in
and we're having another cool guest speaker
coming in later this semester.
We just kind of want to equip women
that are at Mississippi State for success after college.
- Well tell us who the speaker coming in is,
because she's really fascinating and what a story.
- Yes, so
on March 27th we have Lilly Ledbetter coming in.
She was born in Alabama.
She was one of the first female managers at Goodyear,
which was her dream job.
And she works there for I think about 19 years
before finding out that she was getting paid
thousands of dollars less than a man doing her same job.
And so she took it to court and got denied
and then it got all the way up to the Supreme Court
and got denied again.
But then she became the namesake of President Obama's
Fair Pay Act in 2009.
So it's called the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
- And she really just found out I think
arbitrarily from a co-worker that,
- Yeah. - "You know by the way
"you've been doing this for all these years
"and these guys doing the exact same thing
"are making considerably more money."
- Yeah.
It was an anonymous note that she got
and that's one reason why it got overturned
at the Supreme Court is because they said,
"Well you should have filed a complaint
"right when it was happened."
And she was like, "Well I didn't know
"for 19 years, so." - Right, wow.
- Yeah. - Wow.
Well let's back up a little bit and tell folks about you
and where you grew up and why you choose Mississippi State.
- Yeah, so I'm from Ridgeland, Mississippi
and I'm a junior this year.
I'm a business administration major.
I chose Mississippi State 'cause I've always kind of been
in like a Bulldog family.
My dad went here, my grandfather went here,
my dad's brother went here, so.
- [Jeffrey] That's what we like to hear.
- Yeah. (laughs)
It's kind of been like a little Bulldog legacy
in my family, so.
I grew up around this campus coming to
the football games every weekend.
I kind of thought I wanted to get out of Mississippi
when I was in high school, but I ended up touring here
and falling in love with it.
And so I was like, "I can't stay away, gotta come here."
- Well and you're also involved just not in your classes,
but you've got this Undergraduate Women in Business
organization and I see you
in the Entrepreneurship Center as well.
- Yeah.
I have a good bit of friends that have companies.
So I like to go in there.
I think it's a really cool place
just for students to kind of come and hang out.
It has a sense of innovation and creativity,
and so I like the environment in there.
- So where do you see your career path taking you?
I mean in a perfect world where do you see yourself
in three, five, 10 years?
- Eh, in a perfect world, maybe not the most realistic world
but in the perfect world I'd love to work for
a large company as like a marketing specialist,
or maybe even work at a marketing firm
and work for several different companies.
Marketing is definitely my area
that I'm most passionate about.
I worked as the marketing intern for Glow Drinks.
Which was you know out of the E-Center,
and so that's kind of where I found that love for marketing.
I helped them a lot with their social media and stuff.
I kind of fell in love with marketing that way.
So I want to do marketing for a company after college.
It just kind of depends on where the wind takes me I guess.
- Well how has State helped prepare you for that?
- Yeah, so Mississippi State has been wonderful.
I've had so many opportunities to grow in my
course work as well like you said, involvement on campus.
For example, with Undergraduate Women in Business
organization actually took a group of students to
the Harvard Intercollegiate Business Convention in Boston.
So that was one opportunity that I was able to go to
where I was able to learn a lot about
being in the real world and working,
not only as an employee of a big company,
but as a manager or as a more executive position.
And so that's kind of been one thing that
Mississippi State has given me to help prepare me for
that dream role, kind of, so yeah.
- Well we want to thank you for bringing
your energy and your talents to Mississippi State
and we wish you a lot of success.
And thanks for being with us today.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you for being with us as well.
That's gonna do it for this edition of Dividends.
We'll see you next time.
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