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Reunion 2003 set an all-time Johnson School attendance record with 269 participants (including guests) from 23 different classes. In addition, the class of '93 smashed the 10th Reunion record with 66 returning classmates. Johnson School Reunion participants distinguished themselves in the athletic arena, with James Eisenhaure, MBA '93, Dorothy Brill, MBA '93, and Tom Cleary '67 taking prizes in the university's Reunion Golf Tournament, and Sherri Williams, MBA '98, and Mario Carneiro, MBA '98, besting the field in the Cornell University Reunion Run.
The Reunion program featured some classic Johnson School favorites, such as the barbecue at the home of Rich Marin '75, MBA '76, where Professor Bhaskaran "Swami" Swaminathan received the Stephen Russell ('60, MBA '61) Distinguished Teaching Award from the class of '98 and the Faculty Follies Players provided entertainment. The ever-popular Reunion wine tasting was again hosted by resident oenophile, Dean Joe Thomas, and this year featured "Best Budget Bets," including some fine offerings from Johnson Estate Winery, which were generously donated by Fred Johnson, MBA '77, and Jennifer Schroeder Johnson, MBA '79.
An alumni panel on "Leading in a Challenging Business Environment" was moderated by Professor Jerry Hass and featured Dr. Andrew Kim, MBA '63, of Sit Kim International Advisory, Neal Shear, MBA '78, managing director at Morgan Stanley, and Del Bisha, MBA '78, business development manager at Cisco Systems. A lively discussion followed regarding the pros and cons of increased government regulation of businesses, future investment opportunities in Asia, and how Cisco consultants approach the process of knowledge management, strategy execution, and refining information technology support.
New events this year included:
- Sage Hall Cinema, at which we screened "Two Family House," the Sundance Award Winning feature film produced by Al Klingenstein, MBA '82, of Filbert Steps Productions
- A guided tour of the Cornell Plantations
- A presentation on "Getting Organized to Lead Effectively," by Dr. Marilyn Paul, author of It's Hard To Make A Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys and
- An Executive Education presentation on Leadership Development, given by Associate Dean Michael Hostetler.
If you attended Reunion this year, and would like to relive these highlights, or if you missed Reunion and would like to see and hear a sampling of what you missed, please visit the following web links:
Marilyn Paul, PhD: Getting Organized to Lead Effectively
Dean Swieringa: State of the School
Alumni Panel: Leading in a Challenging Business Environment
To join us for Reunion 2004, please mark June 10-13, 2004, on your calendars today! We look forward to having you celebrate with us.
Risa
M. Mish '85, JD '88
Director, Alumni Relations
Alumni Appointed to Cornell Council Administrative Board
Four Johnson School alumni have been appointed to the Administrative Board of the Cornell University Council. Board members manage the council and are selected by university administrators, trustees, faculty, council members-at-large, alumni officers, and Council Committee chairs. Kelly J. Brown, MBA '92, and Frank J. Quirk, MBA '64, were appointed vice chairs and Jeffrey F. Berg, MBA '81, and Christine A. Miller, MBA '89, were appointed members-at-large. The mission of the Cornell University Council is to provide an opportunity to exchange information between the university and the communities represented by its members, to mobilize alumni in focused efforts that benefit the university, and to provide the university with a source of expertise.
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| Professor Joe Thomas, host of this year's "Best Budget Bets" wine tasting, catches up with alumnus John Sweeney, MBA '93. |
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| Professor Jerry Hass poses with Jennifer Schroeder Johnson, MBA '79, and Fred Johnson, MBA '77. |
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| Two members of the class of 1948, Peter Miller and George Wagstaff, catch up on old times. |
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| Katie and Bob Metcalf, MBA '61, enjoy listening to Dean Robert Swieringa during his annual State of the School address. |
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| Alumni from the class of 2002 celebrate the milestone of the one-year anniversary of their graduation from the Johnson School with dinners held around the world. Bunya Fujiwara, MBA '02, organized the gathering in Tokyo, and Kim Jones '98, MBA '02 organized the Washington, D.C., celebration. |
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| Wendy Libby, MBA '77, Named New President at Stephen's College |
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| Dr. Wendy B. Libby, MBA '77, was elected the 23rd president of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. She will take office on July 1. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Libby served as vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., for eight years. The chair of the Stephens College presidential search committee said of Dr. Libby, "We saw in [her] a visionary leader who has had experience in a small school environment and whom colleagues, students, and faculty at Furman laud as a collaborative manager who is inclusive, decisive, and action oriented." Dr. Libby, who earned her B.S. in biology from Cornell in 1972, her MBA from the Johnson School in 1977, and her PhD in educational administration from the University of Connecticut in 1994, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers, is a member and past chair of the investment committee of the Southern Athletics Conference, and is a member of the founding board of directors of the Caribbean Institute of Technology and the Tuition Plan Consortium. |
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| In March, Michael Hopsicker, MBA '89, was named CEO of Agway, Inc. Hopsicker joined the company in 1989, became president of Agway Energy in 1996, and served as Agway's chief operating officer and executive vice president of agriculture and energy before being named CEO. In an interview in the Syracuse Post-Standard, Hopsicker said, "I like to lead people and I enjoy dealing with people. I also like solving problems, and it's something I've frequently been asked to do. I'm a fairly detailed kind of guy, and I believe in understanding the business and the numbers behind it." |
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Mark W. Nelson has been appointed the Johnson School's Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Management. George Landew, MBA '57, was a principal organization consultant at Chevron. The professorship pays tribute to his Cornell experience and to his wife Eleanora. Professor Nelson joined the faculty of the Johnson School in 1990 and became professor of accounting in 2002. His research interests are in the psychological and economic factors that influence how people interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations and conduct trade in financial markets. His recent research efforts have focused on the methods used to manage reported earnings and the effectiveness of auditing in preventing earnings manipulation. He also has focused on how biases and heuristics lead to predictable security mispricing. Professor Nelson was a Whitcomb Fellow in 1995 and received the 1998 Stephen Russell (MBA '61) Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Jerome E. Hass has been appointed the James B. Rubin Professor of Finance for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2003. James Rubin, BS ENGR '75, is an expert on investing in distressed corporations and he led a course on that topic (NBA 521) in the school in the fall of 2002. He is the founder and chief investment officer of Resurgence Asset Management, LLC. The intent of the professorship is to support classes or courses that focus on reorganizations of distressed corporations. Professor Hass joined the faculty of the Johnson School in 1967 and became professor of finance and business strategy in 1977. His interests are in corporate and capital-market finance, business strategy, and the economics of energy and regulation. His publications have focused on transfer pricing, capital budgeting, the pricing of natural gas and electricity, financing the energy industry, natural resource allocation, and merger and acquisition decisions. He was chief of the Division of Economic Studies at the Federal Power Commission and has been a consultant to the Executive Office of the President of the United States, the Department of Energy, the State of Alaska, the New York State Public Service Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and many corporations and organizations. Professor Hass was a Mobil Corporation Fellow in 1991, a Whitcomb Fellow in 1993, and has been the Alan Krause Fellow in Real Estate since 2000. Hass initially developed a computerized management simulation that is, perhaps the most inclusive and sophisticated of its kind. The simulation is the basis of a MBA course currently taught by Professor Seymour Smidt (who has also contributed to the simulation's development) and by Professor Hass in the EMBA curriculum as a capstone course. The simulation has also been used internationally in business strategy courses.
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Bhaskaran "Swami" Swaminathan received the Stephen Russell ('60, MBA '61) Distinguished Teaching Award from the class of '98. The award, which was presented during Reunion weekend by the class of 1998, is in Special Recognition of Excellence in Teaching.
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Stuart L. Hart has accepted the offer to become the Samuel Curtis Johnson Professor of Sustainable Global Enterprise effective July 1, 2003. Professor Hart works in the arena of strategy, innovation, and change. He is particularly interested in implications of environmentalism and sustainable development for corporate and competitive strategy. He is the leading scholar in the area of sustainable global enterprise and is an outstanding and gifted teacher. He currently is the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar, the Hans Zulliger Sustainability Distinguished Professor of Management Strategy, and Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. He received his BA from the University of Rochester, his MFS from Yale University, and his PhD from the University of Michigan. |
Got Ethics? Need Your Help...
As recent events have demonstrated, making ethical business decisions is fundamental to long-term professional and organizational success. To that end, the Johnson School is developing a new ethics program across all core subjects, an initiative being underwritten by a grant from Citicorp. The goal of this program is to teach effective decision-making strategies when confronting ethical dilemmas.
In keeping with the Johnson School's philosophy of reality-based education, we are looking for examples of ethical dilemmas that you have encountered throughout your career to serve as the basis of mini case discussions. Please e-mail us at ethics@johnson.cornell.edu with a summary of the ethical dilemma you faced and your decision. Our research team will follow up with you to get more detail as necessary. All references to specific individuals and companies will, of course, be omitted, and we will ensure that there is no other way to trace the incident. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your support.
Do You Speak Russian?
If so, Sergei Likharev, MBA '00, external relations VP of the Association of Russian-Speaking MBAs, invites you to join this organization. The association, founded in 1999, "unites about 75 percent of all Russian-speaking MBA graduates from 29 leading U.S. and European business schools (800 plus members)." The group's mission is to encourage the professional development of Russian-speaking business executives; to increase enrollment in U.S. graduate business programs by Russian-speaking professionals; to enhance awareness and appreciation of the MBA credential among the Russian speaking businesses and public; and to promote the employment of Russian-speaking professionals holding an MBA degree. For more information, see www.clumba.com.
New CyberTower Feature
New for CyberTower—Cornell's virtual learning environment, free to alumni—is the Views and Reviews section. Join Cornell faculty members as they discuss current books, films, visual and performing arts, breaking news, and anything else that intrigues or inflames them. We open with Daniel Schwarz's reviewing Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture. Also at CyberTower, we offer the June Faculty Forum: "Iraq and After: A Military Historian Looks at the War" with military historian Barry Strauss. Our new study room topic is "Antigone," with Professors Jeffrey Rusten and David Feldshuh, and President Hunter Rawlings. Just visit http://cybertower.cornell.edu to investigate these new offerings. The faculty is eagerly awaiting your next visit to the Tower. Hope you'll visit soon (and often)!
Recent Media Hits
The tight job market for MBAs continues to be a focus of media coverage, as does last March's Just about Jobs event. Karin Ash, CMC director, was interviewed as part of the larger story on The Marketplace, a nationally syndicated radio program. Karin also notes the JAJ event has generated a total of 24 offers to date (from a pool of 25 participating companies.) For details and other recent media hits, see Johnson School in the News.
June 18
CEN of Boston presents "Lessons Learned by an Entrepreneur" by Steve Belkin, CU '69, founder of Trans National Group. Cost is $35 (includes buffet reception, presentation, dessert, and coffee). Location: Sheraton Boston, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, please visit www.cen.cornell.edu.
June 21
Help build a house with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell! The day begins at 8:30 a.m. and lasts until 3:00 p.m. Please dress for construction work and bring your own bug spray and sunscreen. You must also have a signed, witnessed copy of the medical waiver form, which you can find at www.lowellhabitat.org. For questions, please contact Gul Yanmaz, MBA '95.
June 21
MIT Sloan All-Day Course, "Frontiers of Internet E-Business: Intro to the Semantic Web" by Sloan faculty. Location: MIT Sloan School of Management, 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Cost: $125. For more information, see the MIT Sloan web site: www.mitsloanevents.com, or contact Lindsey Anderson.
New York, NY
July 22
"Night Out
at Yankee Stadium" sponsored by CEN. Cost is $50 per person (includes
reception and game ticket). Time is 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Reception in the
Great Moments Room, Yankee Stadium; 7:05 p.m. NY Yankees vs. Toronto Blue
Jays. For more information or to RSVP, please visit www.cen.cornell.edu.
June 23-25
Cornell's Mars Exploration Rover Launch
Join Cornell astronomers, alumni, and hundreds of scientists and engineers, to watch the launch of the Mars Exploration Rovers and the Athena science payload. You can read more about the launch at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/. For more details on these three launch events or to RSVP, please contact Diane Bollen, 607 255-5284.
Various Dates
Red Sox Games at Fenway Park with the Cornell Club of Boston. June 25, July 17 (double-header), and August 7. To order tickets, contact Tom Pasniewski at 617 413-9263.
July 30
Join the newly revived New York Johnson School Alumni Club at its official golf tournament. Location: White Beeches Golf & Country Club, Haworth, NJ (about 15 minutes from GW Bridge); July 30, 2:30 p.m. shotgun start. Cost: $120, includes greens fees, cart, range balls, hors d'ouevres and two drinks. The course is the home of Scott Carter '95. The sole request is that those interested have at least a passing understanding of the game of golf. Space is limited to 60 players, so please reply in the next five business days to David Kelsey '95 to reserve a spot. Details regarding payment arrangements will follow.
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