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ALUMNI
SUCCESS
University of Washington
The annual alumni event of the University of Washington Executive MBA
Program, the Celebration of Leaders reunites alumni with their classmates
and faculty and recognizes outstanding Executive MBA alumni.
In March 2004, the event attracted 135 participants and featured Orin
Smith, president and CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company, as the keynote
speaker. It also honored the achievements of the following alumni:
- Alice Ray (Community Leadership), ’87,
CEO and co-founder of Ripple Effects,
a San Francisco company that uses educational technology
to prevent violence and social injury
- Jens Saakvitne (Community Leadership), ’00,
CEO, RTI Donor Services, a Montana
non-profit that donates organ tissue
- Michael Fancher (Business Leadership), ’86,
executive editor and senior vice
president, The
Seattle Times
- Dennis Weston (Entrepreneurial Leadership), ‘87,
senior managing director, Fluke
Venture Partners, a venture fund that provided
early stage financing for Aldus, Coinstar, Eagle
Hardware and Garden, Innova, Starbucks, and Tegic
Communications
Baruch College
The Zicklin School of Business at Baruch
College recently partnered with OnePIN, Inc., to
create an online directory and a process to update
and maintain better contact information with former
students.
Initial results show an almost 35 percent increase in alumni who activated
their account and provided information. The college plans a follow-up
mail campaign to bring more alumni into the online directory and is
considering adding another group of alumni from a previous Executive
MBA Program that focused on taxation to the directory.
“What is remarkable is hearing from older alumni and re-connecting with
them,” says Chris Koutsoutis, administrative director of executive programs
at Baruch College. “The bottom line for our program was to
show that Baruch cares about its alumni and wants to include them
in our program and not just treat them as alumni in the traditional
sense of only a fund-raising source. CURRICULUM
CHANGES
Ashridge
Business School, United Kingdom
Ashridge Business
School in the United
Kingdom has redesigned
its full-time MBA to
provide an integrated,
leadership-based program
that incorporates strategy
formulation and implementation.
The
thematic modules of the
MBA address issues such as change, the global
business environment,
value, business in society,
and organizational life
cycle. The integrated
focus closely resembles
the realities and complexity of business life.
The MBA Program builds on the open and custom
executive education experience at Ashridge
and includes coaching,
mentoring, and leadership
development.
For additional information, visit www.ashridge.com/mba.
Chapman University
The George L. Argyros School
of Business and Economics at Chapman
University plans the following initiatives for
its Executive MBA Program as the 2004-2005 school
year kicks off.
- Once again, Executive MBA
students will participate in three residential
trips to San Diego/Mexico, China, and Washington,
D.C., during their 21-month long course of
study. In each case, students will learn about
key global business issues related to the location.
- The Distinguished
Speaker Series continues
with extraordinary speakers who have made a
significant impact in the business
world and who will address topics
strongly related
to the program’s
subject matter.
- The program will introduce
other opportunities
for students to regularly meet alumni and
business leaders this fall. As
part of “Dinners for 8,” local
business people host eight MBA students for
dinner. ‘Business 101s’ involves
presentations
by alumni, faculty,
and friends of
the Argyros School
who will discuss
business topics
that concern Orange County.
Rutgers
Each year, Rutgers re-engineers its
Executive MBA course materials to reflect changes
in the global business environment. Changes
for 2005 include:
- In spring 2005, Dean Howard
Tuckman, author of seven books
and more than 150 publications, will present
a three-session course on Topics in Business
and Government Policy to the graduating class.
- Jacob Mathew, professor
and former director of strategy
development, worldwide, Proctor and Gamble, will
restructure the Executive Leadership course to
include cases on leadership to turn companies
around in trying times.
- Claire Calandra, professor
and former deputy attorney general for New Jersey,
will co-teach the 10-module business strategy course
with Professor Barry Karafin. Calandra previously
practiced business law at AT&T in a variety of positions and
served as chief of staff for the vice chairman’s
office and director
of international operations.
She subsequently become
executive vice president
and chief operating
officer of TyCom Ltd,
- Taught by Professor Suresh
Govindaraj, winner
of two Paul Nadler Teaching Excellence Awards,
the managerial accounting course focuses on financial
statement analysis and forensic accounting.
University of San Francisco
The Masagung Graduate School of Management
at the University of San Francisco will participate
in an academic partners program with the Wall Street
Journal to include the print and online
versions as part of the learning environment.
This summer the Executive Lecture Series of the Professional MBA for Executives
Program, welcomed Karen Rose, retired group vice president and CFO of The
Clorox Company, and George Pasha III, chair and CEO of the Pasha Group. The
series offers students and alumni an opportunity to hear business leaders
talk about current issues that impact their organizations and industry.
The University also opened the newly constructed School of Business and Management
Building in August. The building houses five business center for research
and advanced education: the Gellert Family Foundation Business Center, the
Chiuchiarelli New Venture Center, the Telecommunications Management and Policy
Program, the Center for Principled Leadership (currently under development),
and the Research Publications Center.
GLOBAL
INNOVATIONS
St.
Mary's University,
Canada
 When a team from
the Executive MBA Class
of 2004 at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, traveled to Prague and Budapest,
they proposed a several hundred thousand
dollars’ business
deal.
Each year, Executive MBA students make a 10-day international trip with the aim
of selling a Nova Scotia product. In past trips, students opened the doors for
companies, who succeeded in obtaining contracts as a result of the groundwork
of the students. But in 2004, the students succeeded in closing the deal.
One of the five students on the team
heard about Flo N’ Glo, a tool for
filling gas tanks made by Scotia Innovators. The company wanted to enter the
European market and welcomed the students’ assistance.
Scotia already tried to do business in the German
market, but had not yet succeeded.
The team researched the product and prepared an export plan. Through Canadian
embassies in Prague and Budapest and trade and investment commissions in both
countries, the team scheduled a series of meetings with two Hungarian firms and
three firms in the Czech Republic.
Mol, a Hungarian gas station operator
with 1,000 outlets, liked the team’s
presentation and its board of directors quickly approved
the proposal. Where it usually takes months to establish
a relationship in Europe, the students succeeded
in moving it forward in lighting speed.
“I wasn’t optimistic the students would do it (with Mol), but am
delighted with them, a really professional team of highly qualified people,” says
Ron Chisholm, company vice president. “We still have details to work out
but we’re off to a good start.”
Business School São
Paulo
Business School São Paulo (BSP)
recently announced
two new initiatives that support its
status as a truly international business
school program.
For five years, BSP has welcomed groups from the United States, Canada, and Europe.
BSP recently formalized its programs for groups of Executive MBA, MBA, and undergraduate
business students who number 15 or more.
BSP can tailor programs for visitors with offerings that include the following:
- Classes in doing business in Brazil and South America,
based on the interests and experience of visiting students
- Series of company visits, based on the school’s
broad range of corporate
contacts with a variety of national and multinational
companies, which gives students a practical understanding
of the unique challenges to managing in the Brazilian
economy
- Arrangements of leisure time, making sure that visitors
see some of beautiful Brazil, including of course, Rio de Janeiro.
BSP also offers similar courses to foreign companies interested
in exploring the Brazilian market. Visitors also may vary the program length,
based on their needs.
BSP also serves as one of the
host schools for students in
the OMNIUM Global MBA. Students
will study in immersion modules.
Each module lasts three weeks
in countries representing the four main economic regions
of the world – Canada,
Brazil, Switzerland, and China. This program is run in
partnership with the Rotman
School of Management at the
University of Toronto, Canada,
and St. Gallen University,
Switzerland.
University of Minnesota
In his first international trade mission, Minnesota Governor Tim
Pawlenty visited the Warsaw School of Economics, which partners with the
University of Minnesota Carlson School, to speak about economic progress
and opportunity.
The Carlson School and the Warsaw School jointly offer the Warsaw Executive
MBA (WEMBA), which awards an American MBA through the University of Minnesota. BusinessWeek
Polska ranked WEMBA the number one such program in Poland.
The governor delivered a lecture on economic development, spoke with Warsaw
School of Economics Rector Marek Rocki and Vice-Rector Marcin Nowakowski,
and met with WEMBA program administrators.
In his lecture, Pawlenty emphasized the need for innovative outlooks and
entrepreneurial initiative to achieve economic success. Poland needs to develop
and attract those types of big thinkers who look for new ways of doing things,
he says.
Governor Pawlenty, First Lady Mary
Pawlenty, and a party of Minnesota
business people arrived in Warsaw
on June 20, and spent four days there
and in Prague, Czech Republic. As
countries of the former Soviet eastern
bloc—sometimes
referred to as the “New Europe”—they
stand on the brink of great economic development
and challenges, says Pawlenty, and Minnesota
business is eager to help.
University of Southern California
In May, the Marshall Business School at the University of Southern
California inaugurated the first class of its Global Executive MBA (GEMBA)
in Shanghai.
Based on Marshall’s top-ranked
Executive MBA Program in Los Angeles,
the GEMBA features the same senior faculty
and integrated curriculum, taught in
English at Shanghai every six weeks
in five-day modules. The program also
involves two trips to the U.S., as well as
an international trip in Asia.
The first class includes a large number
of senior managers, average age 37,
from a wide range of companies, such as GE,
Johnson & Johnson, Cisco,
Northrop-Grumman, and Siemens. The class includes 14 who fly in from Hong
Kong, Japan, and Taiwan, and even two who fly from the U.S. Two German students
and four U.S. students live in Shanghai. This diversity enriches the classroom
experience, offers a wider Asia focus, and contributes to the University’s
already strong Pacific Rim alumni network.
The program resulted from planning and a strategic partnership.
Two years ago, the Marshall School
set its sights on developing a degree
program in Asia to support the university’s
overall strategy of becoming an educational
leader in the Pacific Rim. Shanghai seemed
the obvious choice for location because of
its dynamic business environment and large
diverse market.
In Shanghai the school formed a partnership
with the Antai School of Business at
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one
of China’s top 10 universities.
Their faculty members help to arrange field
visits and provide lectures about applications
to China and the region.
MILESTONES
University of Alabama
In October, the University of Alabama will celebrate the 20-year anniversary
of its Executive MBA Program with a weekend reunion.
The event will involve a formal dinner for alumni and families that features
keynote speakers, an all-day tailgating party to prepare for the football
game against the University of South Carolina, and reserved block seating
for the game.
The weekend reunion is one of many
events that will take place before
the program’s 20th Executive
MBA class graduates in May 2005.
“We are excited about the recent Innovations in our program and the opportunity
to continue to share our success stories with many noted alumni,” says
Susan Carver West, director, Executive MBA Program–Executive
Education at the University of Alabama.
Ashridge Business School, United Kingdom
Ashridge appointed Keith Milmer as
program director for the Ashridge Leadership
Process, one of the business school’s
most sought-after executive education programs.
Milmer has worked 13 years for Ashridge, as intake director for the two-year
Executive MBA and program director for the Introduction to Management and
Developing Business and Leadership Programs. Before joining Ashridge, he
led international product development programs in the pharmaceutical industry.
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