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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The College of Business at Colorado State University is providing funding to support Ph.D. students whose dissertation proposals address a variety of business
sustainability topics. Three winners, whose proposals are judged as having the greatest potential for enhancing societal well-being, will each receive $6000 and be invited to participate in a virtual research workshop along with leading scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What:</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Business for a Better
World Dissertation Proposal Competition – Colorado State University, College of Business<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Submission Deadline:</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">June
3, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Complete Details:</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http*3A*2F*2Fcsu.bz*2Fb4bw-dissertation&data=04*7C01*7CKen.Manning*40colostate.edu*7Cce65084973bd4c38bf7f08d9e4fa92dd*7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b*7C0*7C0*7C637792587115779545*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000&sdata=uRUbStaOWyUBr8WwUAiTjiROhnzSxVWF97*2FGAdQ9lJ4*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!IBzWLUs!BWJRqBBgh-mX5sMcFvx--J6JW71wQrnXJlG0xBFmhR5ajwUtg6LxSg0EJ7JT4naCDblMXKM$" originalsrc="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http*3A*2F*2Fcsu.bz*2Fb4bw-dissertation&data=04*7C01*7CKen.Manning*40colostate.edu*7Cce65084973bd4c38bf7f08d9e4fa92dd*7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b*7C0*7C0*7C637792587115779545*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000&sdata=uRUbStaOWyUBr8WwUAiTjiROhnzSxVWF97*2FGAdQ9lJ4*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!IBzWLUs!BWJRqBBgh-mX5sMcFvx--J6JW71wQrnXJlG0xBFmhR5ajwUtg6LxSg0EJ7JT4naCDblMXKM$" shash="CgeM7f0bnQK8xxtbeD7Wt7VQ/bo9AtcXMlOV8yaio0L38osT/SIvawdE8h5tPjZvda1KZxooDKDxzQGgMI0GYtSl/CNupvvbk32s63MSDp+0MBUPzsm4gh59rIDASGj/s2fDok7W8KcFnWmRlgUnl/BjncR91DZJW7JrEN1C4Qo=" target="_blank" title="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fcsu.bz%2fb4bw-dissertation&data=04%7c01%7cken.manning%40colostate.edu%7cce65084973bd4c38bf7f08d9e4fa92dd%7cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7c0%7c0%7c637792587115779545%7cunknown%7ctwfpbgzsb" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: purple;">csu.bz/b4bw-dissertation</span></a>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Competition Co-Chairs:</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
Tiffany Trzebiatowski (<a href="mailto:tiffany.trzebiatowski@colostate.edu" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">tiffany.trzebiatowski@colostate.edu</span></a>) and Jon Zhang (<a href="mailto:jonathan.zhang@colostate.edu" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">jonathan.zhang@colostate.edu</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span><b><font color="#16583a">John R. Macdonald</font></b></span></div>
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