Lindner sponsors 2024 Women Who Mean Business awards
Marketing professor Roseann Hassey speaks at function that honors Greater Cincinnati businesswomen
The University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business was a silver sponsor for the 2024 Cincinnati Business Courier’s Women Who Mean Business luncheon event, which was held Dec. 10 at Cincinnati Music Hall.
This was the ninth year for — and the college's sixth year sponsoring — the event, which honors Greater Cincinnati businesswomen who have achieved notable accomplishments throughout their career.
The 2024 class of honorees includes:
- Jennifer Blatz, StriveTogether
- Julie Calvert, Visit Cincy
- Tina Cheng, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
- Holly Christmann, Hamilton County
- Julie Kirkpatrick, MeetNKY
- Bernita McCann Hightower, Next General Fuel
- Erin Mignano, Turner Construction
- Ann Reed, Kroger Co.
- Christy Samad, BBA ’06, Cincinnati Center City Development Corp.
- Siobhan Taylor, DePaul Cristo Rey High School
Roseann Hassey speaks from the podium at the Women Who Mean Business event. Photo/David Stephen
Associate Professor-Educator of Marketing Roseann Hassey, PhD, was one of the event’s speakers. In addition to congratulating the day’s honorees and celebrating the Lindner students, faculty, staff and alumni in attendance, she spoke on the importance of the college’s partnerships with Greater Cincinnati’s companies in building the region’s talent pipeline.
“We are striving to become the No. 1 co-op university and business school in the country,” Hassey said. “Partnering with you is how we get there.”
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Featured image at top: Assistant Professor-Educator of Management Melinda Hubbard, Lindner students and Lindner Women in Business student leaders Taylor Schlinger, BBA ’26, and Kayla Niklaus, BBA ’25, and Associate Professor-Educator of Marketing Roseann Hassey, PhD at the Women Who Mean Business reception on Dec. 10. Photo/Haley Fite
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