Karen BeiserKaren Beiser

Assistant Professor, Business Administration and Economics
B.S. Western Michigan University
M.B.A. St. Ambrose University
Ph.D. Capella University
406.657.1170
Morledge-Kimball Hall 105
karen.beiser@rocky.edu

Biography

Karen Beiser (aka Dr. Mittens) has been at RMC since 2007. Prior to joining the faculty at RMC, Karen spent most of her professional years working in sales and marketing. For more than 20 years, Karen worked in the office furniture industry in marketing and corporate training. Once she earned her PhD, Karen decided to try her hand in the nonprofit sector and found that running a program for at-risk youth was exciting, challenging, heartbreaking, and exhilarating. As the Executive Director of that program, Karen had a real opportunity to apply the principles of business to the nonprofit world, and she found there was some great synergy to be had. Here at Rocky, Karen continues that new tradition in both the business and nonprofit sectors through community projects, students creating marketing plans for nonprofits, and through SIFE.

Courses taught

  • Principles of Marketing
  • Principles of Management
  • Students in Free Enterprise
  • Business Ethics
  • Human Resource Management
  • Nonprofit Management
  • Economic Decision Making
  • Professional Sales
  • Doing Business In & With China

What advice would you give to a prospective student?

Ask your professors for help before you are in a crisis. And read your text books!

What is your favorite class to teach and why?

I like SIFE the best because it changes students -- those that want to change -- in a very positive way. Once a student has been to our competition they are usually fully engaged and much better prepared for the real world.

What is on your iPod?

All kinds of music… classic rock, classical, jazz, modern country, new age.

Karen in Louisiana What are you currently reading?

Lots about China, light mystery, and comedy.

What do you do outside of class?

Fix up my home, welding funky stuff.

What is your favorite getaway location?

The beaches of Lake Michigan

What is your favorite thing about RMC?

How much we get to know our students.

What activities or campus organizations are you actively involved with?

SIFE and CANstruction

What is your most memorable moment interacting with an RMC student?

I love those moments when a student takes something from a classroom and applies it in real life – a true aha! moment.

What makes RMC stand out from other schools?

We care about our students… a lot.

 

 

 
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