Executive Education is currently accepting registrations for spring programs. Johnson School alumni are entitled to a 50 percent tuition discount on tuition. Review the program details and register online. Also, we encourage you to mention these programs to interested colleagues. Upcoming programs are:

• Executive Development Program
  June 8-20 (two consecutive weeks)
• Leadership Development Program,
  April 27-May 2
• Strategic Decision Making and Critical Thinking, May 11-16
• Marketing Strategy, May 4-9

Silicon Valley Menlo Park, CA
April 22
CEN Presents "Your Healthy Diet: What Your Genes May Someday Tell You" by Dean Patsy Brannon '79 of Cornell's College of Human Ecology. Stanford Park Hotel, 100 El Camino Real, 6:00-9:00 p.m., $35 per person (buffet reception, presentation, dessert, and coffee). Register online at www.cen.cornell.edu.

Boston, MA
April 27
The Boston Philharmonic. The Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. $28 CCOB members, $38 non-members. Contact Maddy McDowell, 617 354-1293.

Pittsburgh, PA
April 29
CAF Speaker Series Event, "Is there Life After Wal-Mark?" by Gene German, The Robert G. Tobin Professor Emeritus of Food Marketing. Edgewood Country Club, 100 Churchill Road, Churchill, PA, 6:00 p.m. cash bar; 7:00 p.m. dinner; 8:00 p.m. dessert and speaker. For more details and costs, please contact Rosalyn Treger at 412 421-6011.

Providence, RI
April 29
CAF Speaker Series Event, "Religion, Politics, and Peace in the Middle East?" by Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and professor and chair of the department of Near Eastern Studies. The Radisson Airport Hotel, 2081 Post Road, Warwick. For more details and costs, please contact Julie Kallfelz,
401 423-3295.

London, England
April 30
"The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing" by Shoshana Zuboff, chaired professor at Harvard Business School. The Commonwealth Club, 18 Northumberland Ave., London WC2; nearest underground: Charing Cross & Embankment. For more details and costs, please contact Christine Incledon.

Hartford, CT
May 1
CAF Speaker Series Event, "Religion, Politics, and Peace in the Middle East?" by Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and professor and chair of the department of Near Eastern Studies. Elizabeth Park Pond House Cafe and Banquet Center, 1555 Asylum Ave., West Hartford. For more details and costs, please contact Brooke Hollis at
860 985-6623.

Long Island, NY
May 10
"You Be the Critic" (a crash course in restaurant evaluation) by Giuseppe Pezzotti, senior lecturer at Cornell's Hotel School, at Maxxel's, 540 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, NY. For more details and costs, please contact Joan Husserl,
516 826-3316.

London, England
May 24
Golf - Open Event. 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Open golf (best ball) with Kellogg Alumni Club, Richmond Golf Course. The second annual event will once again be open to all MBA alumni and guests. Register early! For more information and costs, please contact Audrey Klein.

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An enthusiastic group of alumni and guests gathered at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan on April 5, 2003, to participate in the Johnson School Club of New York kickball event, which was organized by JSCNY vice presidents Drew Pascarella, MBA '01, and Jeff Fenigstein, MBA '01. Director of Alumni Relations Risa Mish '85, JD '88, and Annual Fund Director Marybeth Tarzian were on hand to lend staff support and (in Marybeth's case) athletic prowess. MVP honors (voted upon by Risa and Marybeth) went to JSCNY Chairman Rich Marin, MBA '76, and JSCNY President Ken Gurrolla, MBA '95.

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This is a great time to consolidate your federal student loans. Consolidation allows you to lock in a fixed rate on your federal student loans. The interest rate on a Consolidation Loan is based on the weighted average of the loans you consolidate. The interest rate on the federal loans you borrowed while enrolled at the Johnson School now carry a 4.06 percent interest rate, but that rate is subject to change July 1, 2003. More information about federal loan consolidation can be found at the Department of Education's loan consolidation web site. If you have any questions or would like more detailed information on federal loan consolidation e-mailed to you as an attachment, feel free to contact Associate Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Ann Richards.

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The Alumni Job Bulletin is now provided to you on the web inside Johnson Alumni Connection (it will no longer be sent via e-mail). The bulletin is updated twice a month and provides an easy way to search by industry, job function, and location. If you don't know your personalized username and password for Johnson Alumni Connection, e-mail us at jgsmalum@cornell.edu, and we will send you the information. If you have a posting you would like to share with fellow Johnson alumni, please feel free to send it to: jsjobs@cornell.edu.

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As we await the definitive arrival of spring in Ithaca (never mind what the calendar says; if there has been snow on the ground in the last week, and there has been, it is not yet spring), our thoughts naturally turn toward our favorite summer event - Reunion - which we will celebrate June 5-8.

Our theme for Reunion 2003 is "A Gathering of Leaders," and our new offerings include:

• An inaugural Dean's Welcome Reception at the home of Dean Robert Swieringa
• The first-ever "Sage Hall Cinema" screening of Two Family House, produced by Al Klingenstein, MBA '82, and winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival
• A talk on "Getting Organized to Lead Effectively" by consultant Dr. Marilyn Paul, MBA '78, author of It's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys - The Seven-Step Path to Becoming Truly Organized
• An Executive Education presentation on Leadership Development, by Associate Dean Michael Hostetler
• A special tour of the Cornell Plantations, "a living horticultural museum" and campus gem
• An alumni panel on "Leading in a Challenging Economy" (invited panelists are Andrew Kim, MBA '63, of Sit Kim International; Neal Shear, MBA '78, managing director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; and Delfina Bisha, MBA '98, senior manager of Cisco Systems Internet Business Solutions Group)
• A "Best Budget Bets" wine tasting led by Associate Dean Joe Thomas, who will teach us how to choose wines that will delight the client while still keeping the CFO happy.

If you graduated from the Johnson School in a year ending in a 3 or 8, then you are scheduled to celebrate a reunion this year, and we hope you will make a special effort to be with us. If you are not in a "Reunion year" this year, but would like to become a member of our Continuous Reunion Club, we welcome your attendance at any or all of our Reunion festivities. Summer is, in the opinion of many, the very best time to be in Ithaca, and all of us here would enjoy sharing a piece of the Ithaca summer with you at Reunion 2003.

Finally, I am pleased to announce that the Johnson School Alumni Club of Ithaca/ Finger Lakes has, through a generous donation, made it possible for us to offer up to 20 Reunion Grants to alumni who are seeking work and who wish to attend Reunion. The grants cover all Reunion registration and event fees. For more information, please contact the Alumni Office.

We look forward to having you join us!

Risa M. Mish '85, JD'88
Director, Alumni Relations

For more information on Reunion 2003, please visit our Reunion web site.

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Career Management Center Director Karin Ash sends her appreciation on behalf of the entire staff of the CMC for the wonderful response from alumni concerning the Just About Jobs (JAJ) event on March 28. As a result of alumni alerting the Human Resources functions within their organizations and additional high-growth companies researched by staff and students, the CMC contacted 250 companies to inform them of the JAJ event. Alumni were also instrumental in our ability to attract 25 companies new to the Johnson School aboard the jets generously contributed by S.C. Johnson & Co. It is truly a pleasure to work for a school whose alumni support and collaborate with the CMC in providing career assistance to the Johnson students.

Read Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Alsop's report on the Just About Jobs event.

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The Johnson School took first place in the Leeds School of Business/Net Impact 2003 International Case Competition, which took place on a recent weekend in Boulder, Colorado. The Johnson team was represented by Heather Henyon '03, Michael Ford '04, Roland Springer '03, and Erin McMahon '03. The competition consisted of 15 teams from the United States and Canada. The final round featured a run-off among the Johnson School, Brigham Young, and Case Western Reserve University teams. Congratulations to our team members!

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U.S. News & World Report has released its latest annual ranking of graduate and professional schools. The Johnson School is again ranked #16—the same position we have held the last two years in their ranking of top business schools. In fact there were very few changes among the top 20 schools. The full results are on their web site at www.usnews.com.

The U.S. News formula emphasizes three primary factors: "quality assessment" (40 percent of the total and based on surveys of deans, MBA program directors and recruiters), placement success (35 percent) and student selectivity (25 percent). Compared with last year, our recruiter assessment improved (from 3.8 to 4.2—ninth among the top schools), as did selectivity measures that include GMAT, GPA, and acceptance rate. Not surprisingly, given the current economy, placement measures (including starting salary and employment rates) were lower for all top schools.

At February's State of the School address, Dean Swieringa outlined a number of short-term initiatives and longer-term strategies that are important steps toward strengthening our programs and performance, as well as shaping perceptions of those who do not know us well-a key factor in this particular media ranking.

For more detail on this or other major media rankings, contact Rick Sweeney, director of marketing and communications.

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E. Linn Draper, chairman, president, CEO, American Electric Power. Corporations have a moral and ethical obligation towards customers, community, employees, and the environment, said Durland lecturer Draper, who is a frequent speaker on behalf of the energy industry and holds many leadership positions in engineeing, business, and environmental organizations. While certain recent developments, such as the focus on quarterly earnings and the media's tendency to treat CEOs as either superstars or pariahs, can undermine leaders' efforts to always do the right thing, CEOs set the moral fiber of their organizations and must act as an example for others in the business world. Recent corporate scandals, while wreaking severe damage on the business world and the public's confidence, will have the long-term benefit of clearing out corrupt corporate wrongdoers and allowing ethical companies to eventually flourish, said Draper.

See more details.

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Don't forget to take a look at Johnson School in the News: Angela Noble-Grange, director of the Office for Women and Minorities in Business, is prominently featured in a cover story for Black MBA magazine, and recent stories quote or cite Johnson School faculty—including Beta Mannix, Roni Michaely, Kathleen O'Connor, and others.

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