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Managing the Future and honoring the Johnson family
On April 14 and 15, the Johnson School and Cornell University will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the naming of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management — a pivotal development in the history of this institution, made possible by the extraordinary generosity of Sam Johnson, AB '50, chairman emeritus of S.C. Johnson, and his family. To honor and celebrate the contributions of the Johnson family to our school and to business education, we are pleased to present Managing the Future, a symposium showcasing the wisdom and perspective of today's most innovative business leaders, including:
These outstanding business leaders will address a wide array of compelling issues including the impact of technology and sciences on business and business education; the importance of sustainable global enterprise on business and business education; the importance of leading edge research in investment education; and more. We warmly welcome all Johnson School alumni to participate in this seminal event in the history of the Johnson School and to join us as we honor our past and look forward to our future. For program details and to register for this event, visit http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/anniversary. I look forward to seeing you here in Sage Hall.
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Camp $tart-Up (July 3-10, 2004) still needs alumni support
The members of this year's Camp $tart-Up planning team are still
seeking Johnson School alumni to fill the roles of business plan coaches
and entrepreneurship panelists. Please help support this educational camp
that teaches young women about business and entrepreneurship. If you would
like to learn more about how you can help, please e-mail the planning
team at: campstartup@cornell.edu.
In addition, please continue to spread the word about Camp $tart-Up to
all young women you know between the ages of 14 and 19. Our web site contains
more information about this great opportunity: www.johnson.cornell.edu/owmb/campstartup.
Return of Just About Jobs
Thank you from all of us at the Johnson School for the many positive responses
from Johnson School alumni to the dean's request for your participation
in Just About Jobs II, where we welcome New York City- and Boston-based
employers who are recruiting at the school for the first time. Part one
of this year's recruiting effort was on March 18, and part two is scheduled
for March 30. It has been so gratifying to hear from alumni who want to
give back to the Johnson School and from those who have the appropriate
contacts to ensure their companies participate in this recruiting event.
We have received over 100 job listings from alumni!
The goal of the recruiter extravaganza is to connect students from the
Johnson School's pool of high caliber MBAs with companies of choice. NetJet
corporate jets have been provided by the S.C. Johnson Corporation (a valued
corporate partner of the school) and two generous Johnson School alumni,
Peter Meinig and Bruce Waterfall, and will bring nearly 30 recruiters
to Ithaca for the day.
Recruiters maximize their time on campus by spending six hours interviewing
pre-screened and pre-selected students who are potential employees or
summer interns. Students, faculty and staff mingle with recruiters during
coffee hour, lunch and an afternoon reception at Sage Hall. Following
the afternoon reception, recruiters board their planes and return to their
home cities.
The successful 2003 event brought 25 employers to the Johnson School that
resulted in 24 job offers being extended and similar results are expected
this year.
If you are interested in participating in the March 30 event, please contact
Karin Ash at ksa2@cornell.edu.
JS Club of Southern CA launches web site
The Johnson School Club of Southern California proudly announces the launch of its web site,
http://forum.johnson.cornell.edu/alumni/southerncalifornia/Index.htm. The site, designed by Craig Ewing, MBA '72, of Ewing Communications (www.ewingconsulting.com) and implemented by the club's Marketing VP, Mike Kent, MBA '85, describes the club's recent events (including a fabulously successful presentation by Robyn Miller '73, SVP of the Fine Living Network) and upcoming plans. All alumni who live, work, or vacation in Southern California and who are interested in contributing event ideas, organizing events, and/or assisting with club leadership should contact Scott Taylor, MBA '90, (scott@matchagencyservices.com) or Risa Mish '8,5 JD '88, director, Alumni Relations (rmm22@cornell.edu).
Student focus: BGBA to hold fifth annual symposium
The Johnson student organization, Black Graduate Business Association
(BGBA), presents its fifth annual Professional Development Symposium,
October 15-16, 2004, "Leaving a Legacy through Business Leadership." Events
include corporate-sponsored workshops, career fair, alumni-student networking
events, and the second annual Wilbur Parker Alumni Award Presentation.
Details to follow soon. For more information, please contact Marsha Anderson
at mma35@cornell.edu or 703.919.0327.
Second Stock Pitch Competition set for April 1-2
The second annual Stock Pitch Competition is in the final stages of preparation
as the Johnson School gets ready to host eleven three-person teams from
other top MBA schools in a two-day buy/sell pitch extravaganza. Judged
by a blue-ribbon panel of Wall Street stock-analysis experts on the buy
and sell sides, the winning team this year will take home a cash prize
of $3,000 and 12 months worth of bragging rights. Last year's competition,
which was co-sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange, saw NYU place first
and the Johnson School place second.
For the pitches, the teams will be given three scenarios in which they
will be assigned either a specific stock or industry from which to choose
a stock. They have just one evening to do extensive research on their
stock picks. The next morning they will make their pitches and be quizzed
by judges. Six teams will move on to the final round, with a winner selected
from this group. Most of the student participants aspire to be stock analysts
and this competition gives them an opportunity to showcase their stock
picking and presentation skills.
The competition will take place under the auspices of the Parker Center
for Investment Research, a hands-on teaching center for financial analysis
at the Johnson School. FactSet and StockVal software will be used by the
student teams. We hope you'll join us for this great two-day event. For
highlights of last year's event, see these web sites: http://www.mbastockpitch.com
and http://parkercenter.johnson.cornell.edu.
Featured
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Denise Kampf, MBA '00, is director of operations and Client Services at Windward Investment Management in Boston. She joined Windward from J.P. Morgan Securities, where she was an associate in the Global Hedge Fund and Investment Grade Capital Markets Groups. Kampf is responsible for all aspects of the firm's day to day operation, including office administration, human resources, technology, finance and accounting, portfolio trading, compliance and client service. The client service responsibilities include "providing the highest quality service to clients and prospects, developing and implementing processes for responding to client needs, and managing two employees who are responsible for client account and office administration." | |
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John Lauchert, MBA '79, became chief financial officer of Data Ventures Inc., a startup business providing Broadband over Power Line (BPL) high-speed Internet service using electric utility lines to provide a competitive solution to existing broadband facilities such as CATV and DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). Before coming to DVI, Lauchert was vice president of finance and CFO of ECR International, a $110 million multinational manufacturer of HVAC equipment. Lauchert, who is also a CPA, is an active member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and served as a past chairman of the Chautauqua County Chapter of the American Red Cross and past president of the Dunkirk, NY, Rotary Club. | |
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John Miers, AB '66, MBA '68, was selected for the F. Michael Taff Award, presented on January 19, 2004, at the 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration in Rockville, Maryland. Miers is currently the vice chair of the Montgomery County Commission on People with Disabilities in Rockville, Maryland. In that capacity, he has been a staunch advocate and committed leader for the rights of individuals with disabilities. Miers, who is himself disabled, has worked tirelessly to confront barriers to people with disabilities and to ensure equal access in transportation, parking, home care, and all other issues affecting people with disabilities who live in the County, including working on a special initiative with the National Organization on Disability to promote accessibility in places of worship. | |
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Devin D. Thorpe, MBA '93, and Don Rands, MBA '93, are managing directors at Thorpe Capital Group, LLC. Thorpe founded the company in March of 2000. His prior experience included a two-year assignment on the staff of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C., and five years in commercial and mortgage banking. He is active in community development and education, serving as the Chair of the MountainWest Venture Group's Utah 100 program, and on various boards and committees at the University of Utah. For the last several years, he has served as a judge for the statewide Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, a business plan competition organized by the University of Utah. Rands previously worked for almost a decade in capital markets at JP MorganChase and Swiss Re New Markets, and came to Thorpe Capital Group from Legal & General, the U.S. subsidiary of a U.K. insurance company. |  |
Recent media hits
Professor Robert Frank, author of the recently published book, "What Price the Moral High Ground?", was recently a guest on WSKG radio's one hour program, "Off The Page."
CMC Director Karin Ash is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article that focuses on the recent increase in availability of Wall Street internships for MBA students. A portion of the story cites the Johnson School's 2003 landmark recruiting effort, "Just About Jobs," and its return to the school this year.
The Financial Times once again cited the research of Professors Yaniv Grinstein and Paul Hribar in a story about the big deal about big deals-part of which (as Grinstein and Hribar's research shows) in merger and acquisitions is big CEO compensation for powerful CEOs.
An article describing the 2003 success of the Cayuga MBA fund was highlighted in Syracuse's Post Standard in early March. The fund grew by nearly 20 percent last year and its advisor, Lashmi Bhojraj, is quoted in the article.
In a lengthy expose about lying cheating and stealing, a columnist of the St. Petersburg Times uses the findings of Professor Robert Frank's 1995 book "The Winner-Take-All Society," to validate his position of why Americans want to succeed at any cost.
Robert Frank's recently released book, "What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments," was reviewed by the Weekly Standard in mid-February. The nearly 2,000-word book review applauds the work of Frank and indicates the book has some great findings and is worth the read. In fact, the commentator closes the review with, "…for a university treatise that packs a serious academic punch, (the book) is wide-ranging and well written."
For more Johnson
School media hits, see Johnson School in
the News.
London, England
SAVE THE DATE for an Alumni/Student/Admitted student Happy Hour at the Waldorf London Hilton — Aldwych, 7:30 p.m. Please join Laurie Sedgwick, assistant director, Career Management Center. Tube Station: Covent Garden; Train Station: Charing Cross .
March 24
San Francisco, CA
SAVE
THE DATE for an Alumni/Student Happy
Hour at the ThirstyBear Brewing Co., 661 Howard Street, San
Francisco. Join current students involved in the annual Week in Silicon
Valley, Johnson School staff members, and your fellow alumni. Cash bar,
munchies provided!
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
The Johnson School Club of South Florida, the Cornell South Florida Business Network, and the Cornell Entrepreneurial Network (CEN) present "The Unlikely Entrepreneur" by Steve Leveen, MS '79, PhD '82, President and Co-Founder of Levenger (www.levenger.com). Location: The Westin Ft. Lauderdale, 400 Corporate Drive, 954.772.1331. Time: 6:30 — 9:30 p.m. (buffet reception & cash bar). Cost: $35. For more information or to RSVP, please visit www.cen.cornell.edu.
Washington, DC
Women in International Trade Lecture featuring Dr. Raghuram Rajan, the Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. Dr. Rajan will speak about his fascinating new book, Saving Capitalism from Capitalists (Crown Business, New York). Time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Location: Offices of Crowell & Moring LLP and C&M International. For more information or to RSVP (by March 26), please visit www.wiit.org or contact Leslie Downey, WIIT Membership Co-Chair, at 301.589.9791 or lesliedowney@starpower.net.
Dallas, TX
Johnson School Club of Dallas Business Breakfast Series with guest speaker, John Massey, MBA '63, Senior Managing Director, The Crossroads, on "Business in Texas." Location: Park Cities Club (on Sherry Lane between Douglas and the Tollway). Time: 7:00 to 8:30 a.m. Cost: $10. Register securely online at www.johnson.cornell.edu/alumni/events. For more information, please contact Jeff Peterson, MBA '01 at jpeterson@capitalsouthwest.com .
Boston, MA
All B-School Happy Hour! This event is co-hosted by the Johnson School, along with Chicago, Columbia, Haas, Stern, and Wharton. Location: Saint (in the Copley Square Hotel, 90 Exeter St). Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Cash bar, no cover. For more information, please contact Pat Milligan at patrick.Milligan@fmr.com .
April 8
Los Angeles
The Johnson Club of Southern California and the Cornell Entrepreneurial
Network (CEN) present "Hilton's Strategy for Beating
the Internet" by Dave Sherf, Hotel '67, SVP Real Estate/Asset
Management, Hilton Hotels. Location: Regency Club, 10900 Wilshire Blvd.,
17th Floor, Westwood. Time: 6:00 — 9:00 p.m. (buffet and cash bar).
Cost: $35 plus $5.50 parking. For more information or to RSVP, please
visit www.cen.cornell.edu.
Boston, MA
The Johnson School Club of Boston presents a breakfast presentation with Raj Alur, MBA '96, Managing Director of St. Paul Venture Capital. Location: Langham Hotel (formerly, Le Meridien), 215 Franklin Street. Time: 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. RSVPs required by April 7 at alumni@johnson.cornell.edu. For more information, contact us at alumni@johnson.cornell.edu .
April 14
Washington, DC
The Wharton Club of DC Monthly Happy Hour.
The following schools are invited: Georgetown, Thunderbird, Stanford,
Harvard, Chicago, Cornell, Darden, Fuqua, INSEAD, Tuck, Michigan, Stern,
and more! To sign up for this and future events, visit: www.acteva.com/go/whartondc
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