Oklahoma business briefs for March 19

OSU Business program

receives national honor

STILLWATER — Oklahoma State University's Spears School of Business is one of only four schools in the United States in which 100 percent of the full-time MBA students received jobs within three months after graduation, reports U.S. News & World Report. All of the full-time MBA students who graduated in 2012 from Oklahoma State who applied for jobs were hired during the three-month time frame, according to U.S. News Short List, a regular series that provides students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel. OSU is one of 448 schools surveyed by U.S. News for its 2012 survey of business schools and used that data to determine the three-month employment rates of each school's MBA graduates. The others with a 100 percent employment rate are the University of Tulsa's Collins College of Business, Clarkson University and the University of Albany — SUNY.

Pennell Corp. acquires

pipeline conference

TULSA — Pennell Corp., a Tulsa-based media and information company, has acquired the Oil & Gas Pipeline Conference from Willbros Engineers and entered into an agreement with the Geospatial Information & Technology Association to produce the annual energy industry event. The 22nd annual Oil & Gas Pipeline Conference will be Oct. 28-30 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston. Terms of the agreements with Willbros and the association were not disclosed.