The average junior in college is better known for ridiculous behavior or pulling all-nighters to finish a paper put off until the last minute, not running a successful business that ... read more about The BruCrew: EMU junior spins demand for odd jobs into business employing his classmates
You’re probably familiar with the rich subgenre of editorial cartoon art lampooning “fat-cat” bankers, whose status as public punching bags has only grown over the past several years as “mortgage-backed securities” ... read more about Alumni bankers emphasize community service and stewardship
Everence is a rarity in the financial world. It is the only full-service financial institution founded by one of the historic peace churches, and it continues to be a ministry of ... read more about Everence takes values of the church into the marketplace
After Hurricane Sandy tore along the East Coast in the fall of 2012, employees at Lacher & Associates in Souderton, Pennsylvania, went into overdrive to assist clients whose homes and property ... read more about Lightening someone’s load through insurance
A century or more ago, “insurance” was something of a bad word for Mennonites. Buying an insurance policy implied value on worldly treasure and represented departure from the traditional practice ... read more about Insurance and the Mennonite church
You know how Americans picture the CIA combing the world to collect data, keeping careful tabs on which political faction is rising or falling in what country, and which dealer is ... read more about Six grads contribute to SNL financial’s data-collection work
They all have last names that flag them as possibly having Swiss-German-Mennonite roots – Buckwalter, Kauffman and Yoder – and they all majored in business administration. What else do John Buckwalter ... read more about Business administration alumni move from small towns to the major leagues
If you want to understand the passion of Ronald L. Stoltzfus for accounting – notably getting the numbers right, providing complete and transparent information, and putting the public good first – ... read more about Ronald L. Stoltzfus teaches accounting for the ‘public good’
Among the 150 alumni contacted for this Crossroads, this note was struck often: the importance of the integrity of the individual financial expert and, by extension, the company represented by that ... read more about Graduates and their committment to integrity as an individual financial expert
When Devon C. Anders ’88 was finishing his bachelor’s degree at EMU and heading into a career as a certified public accountant with a well-established firm, he probably would have ... read more about Devon C. Anders ’88 named Business Person of the Year in January 2014