As part of CSU's annual Homecoming Week activities, the CSU Alumni Association will bestow its top alumni awards during an awards dinner on Thursday, October 24. The annual awards dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Elizabeth Bradley Turner Center on the university’s main campus. The recipient of the 2024 Thomas Y. Whitley Distinguished Alumni Award will be Tim Money. After beginning his career with the Exxon Corporation, Money founded The Money Advisor Group in 2001 to serve families' and small businesses' retirement planning and investment management needs. In 2024, Atlanta-based BIP Wealth acquired his firm, and he retained the title of president. He chairs the CSU Foundation Board and previously served on the Honors College Advisory Board. A 1986 Turner College graduate with a BBA in marketing, he received the university’s Alumni Service Award in 2016. Since 1980, the Thomas Y. Whitley Distinguished Alumnus Award has recognized graduates who live up to the high standards set by its namesake and Columbus State’s first president. It is considered the university’s most prestigious alumni award. Money will be recognized at the October 24 dinner. Individual tickets and tables of eight are available for purchase.
Former Turner College student Tamara Todorova , now an associate professor of economics at American University in Bulgaria (AUB), recently published a study on corporate culture and strategy. Todorova earned an MBA from the Turner College in 1996 and then went on to earn a doctorate in international economics from the University of Economics - Varna in 2001. She has been on the faculty at AUB since August of 2000. Todorova's study, which appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Business Performance Management , investigates how corporate culture helps to economize on the transaction costs of internal organization. As she explains, the dimensions of corporate culture that assist in this task include increasing trust and reducing intrafirm opportunism. Todorova's study demonstrates that setting common goals and a common direction reduces the sizeable costs of internal organization. Tamara's prior research appears in Economics of Transition , International
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