Archives
October 2005
Message from acting director Cyndy Tkachuck '93: Taking diversity to the next level
This month I would like to introduce a new member of the Johnson School's Corporate Relations team and to report on our expanding initiatives in diversity and inclusion. Deniqua Crichlow has been appointed the director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) at the Johnson School. ODI is the outgrowth of the Office for Women and Minorities in Business (OWMB), which was established in 1999 with a mission of working in partnership with corporate friends, alumni, students, faculty, and staff to increase the availability of women and minority executive talent available to business. [more]
Good news from the hurricane front
We received some interesting and uplifting news from one of our recent alumni, Tom Strobel, MBA '05, who lives in Houston, TX. He volunteered to assist with relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in Houston. Tom worked in a facility called the Reliant Center, which is adjacent to the Astrodome. He said that overall, the people of New Orleans were well treated and satisfied with their accommodations in Houston, given the circumstances. "It was quite ironic," he said, "that just a few weeks later, my family and I were also 'evacuees' when Hurricane Rita brushed by Houston." Tom added that he and his family are now back in their home and enjoying a normal life.
Alumna to keynote case competition
Irene Rosenfeld '75, MS '77, PhD '80, chair and CEO of Frito-Lay, will keynote the 2005 HABLA Case Competition, co-sponsored by the Hispanic American Business Leaders Association and Marketing Association of the Johnson School on October 21-22 at Sage Hall. The case for the competition will be developed by PepsiCo, the platinum sponsor of the event. The grand prize is $6,000 with a second prize of $3,000. More information on the competition.
Student challenge raises nearly $17,000
The MBA Charity Challenge, an "Apprentice-style" business competition that raises money for St. Jude's Children's Hospital, collected $16,426.22 in its inaugural year. Eleven top business schools competed to raise the most money by selling one thousand pink and blue bracelets embossed with the phrase "Helping Kids See Tomorrow." For 10 days, from September 21-30, 2005, students from these MBA programs put their business savvy to the test as they competed to see who could raise the most money for St. Jude's.
Final dollars raised are:
- The Johnson School, Cornell: $6069.87
- University of Chicago: $2,230
- Wharton, UPenn: $2,100
- Columbia: $2,067
- Tuck, Dartmouth: $1,001
- Sloan, MIT: $904
- Yale: $800
- Kellogg, Northwestern: $368
- Darden, UVa: $350
- Fuqua, Duke: $339.35
- Ross, U of Michigan: $197
All of the money raised will be donated to the hospital in order to help in its continued fight against childhood cancer. For more information on St. Jude's, visit their Web site at www.stjude.org.
Featured alumni
Felix A. Rouse, MBA '03, was recently hired to be the CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark, NJ after spending almost two years with McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals as an Associate Marketing Manager on the popular Tylenol brand. [more]
Gautam Chandra, MBA '94, was elected vice president, performance improvement and non-utility operations for WGL Holdings, Inc., and vice president, performance improvement for Washington Gas Light Company. [more]
Kimberly S. Stevenson, MBA '01, has been named vice president of Portfolio Management-Infrastructure Portfolio at EDS Global Communications. [more]
Charles F. Knight, MBA '59, a celebrated business leader who was CEO of Emerson for 27 of its consistently profitable years, has released a new book entitled, "Performance Without Compromise: How Emerson Consistently Achieves Winning Results." [more]
Recent media hits
This month, Robert Frank, Stuart Hart, Dan Huttenlocher, Elizabeth Mannix, Kevin Baradet, and Zach Shulman can be found in The New York Times, the Financial Times, Business Week, eWeek, The Deal, Mobile Enterprise, and Linux Electrons.
