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February 2008
Maximizing opportunities with students and alumni
Johnson School students hit the road for the Student Treks in January and, as in years past, we partnered with alumni and faculty as well as students in order to connect our constituents and offer value-added programming to our regional alumni clubs.
We crisscrossed the globe from Boston to Hong Kong in January with a total of twelve alumni events ranging from student/alumni receptions (to go hand-in-hand with the Student Treks) and an expanded series of our annual Predictions Dinners. More...
Announcing our Johnson School Board of Alumni Leaders
Alumni Recognition Awards - Call for Nominations
Invitation and Request from the Career Management Center
The Parker Series: Designed to educate, stimulate, and broaden perspectives
The Business of Asset Management
CQEMBA Program expands to Texas and Georgia
Introducing this year's Fried Fellows
Entrepreneurship@Cornell
Entrepreneurs discuss "Pains and Gains"
Calling All Bloggers
Featured Alumni
News Highlights
Alumni in the News
Events
Announcing our Johnson School Board of Alumni Leaders
Join us in welcoming our new Board of Alumni Leaders, who will hold their first meeting in April 2008. This board will provide the leadership to foster a close connection between the Johnson School and its alumni. Their primary focus will be to strengthen the class officer and regional clubs programs and to serve as a collective voice for our alumni. They will be responsible for evaluating the current regional club program activities and class officer structure as well as partnering with the Alumni Affairs office in developing the strategic annual plan. The Board of Alumni Leaders will focus on "practice sharing" among alumni groups by convening annual meetings of constituencies to share success stories and challenges in order to help strengthen all constituencies. The board will serve in an advisory capacity to the Johnson School's dean, staff, and Advisory Council.
Johnson School Board of Alumni Leaders Spring 2008 Members
- Erin Balet, MBA '03 (New York, N.Y.)
- Sam Flowers '90, MBA '93 (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- Chris Marchell '75, MBA '81 (Phoenix, Ariz.)
- Meredith Ryan-Reid MBA '07 (New York, N.Y.)
- Stanley Sun '00, MBA '05 (Hong Kong)
- Timothy Takacs MBA '99 (London)
- Michael Walsh MBA '75 (Winnetka, Ill.)
- Brett Blumenthal Wax '96, MBA '04 (Cambridge, Mass.)
Alumni Recognition Awards - Call for Nominations
We need your help to recognize fellow alumni who go above and beyond for the Johnson School. We invite you to nominate any deserving alumni for one of the two prestigious alumni recognition awards: The Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Service Award and the Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award. I encourage you to review the award criteria and nominate anyone you think meets the description by March 20, 2008.
In addition, we encourage you to view the 2007 recipients of the Johnson School Alumni Recognition Awards:.
Reunion Awards
Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Service Award
Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award
Henry P. Renard Regional Club of the Year Award
Invitation and Request from the Career Management Center
- The CMC initiated a Johnson School Group on LinkedIn so that alumni can more easily connect with each other and for students to learn about alumni careers. You are invited to join the group.
- Approximately 60 percent of the Class of 2008 have job offers. Please consider posting full-time and internship job postings to: https://career.johnson.cornell.edu/career-user/JobPosting.tap
- Finally, the CMC is sponsoring 2 Just About Jobs Events this semester: Day in the Back Bay took place in Boston on February 15. Day in the Bay will take place in the Bay area on March 18. If you are on the West Coast and would like to interview current students for either full-time or internship positions, contact Kim Alexander at kka3@cornell.edu.
The Parker Series: Designed to educate, stimulate, and broaden perspectives
Jeffrey P. Parker '65, MEng '66, MBA '70, managing director of The Parker Family Limited Partnership, founder of FirstCall and cofounder of both CCBN and StreetEvents, does not do things by halves. After moderating a panel discussion in Boston last year, "Asset Management Revisited: Strategies in a Newly Competitive Era," Parker decided to sponsor a number of similar events in cities around the world. The new Parker Series brings authoritative business experts to locations around the United States as well as London and Hong Kong. Jeff's goal is to make these "networking events designed to educate, stimulate, and broaden your perspective on timely business issues as well as what is going on at the Johnson School." More...
The Johnson School took its "Business of..." series to New York City on January 17, 2008, for the Business of Asset Management, hosted by Morgan Stanley and co-sponsored by the Johnson Club of New York. The event brought together three panelists to discuss issues in asset management, each with a unique perspective. Sanjeev Bhojraj, associate professor of accounting and faculty director of the Parker Center for Investment Research, moderated the panel.
CQEMBA Program expands to Texas and Georgia
The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program has received approval to expand into Texas and Georgia, and will soon begin recruiting in Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston for the Class of 2010, which begins in late June. The CQEMBA program currently has sites located in New York State, Ohio, Washington, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and throughout Canada. "The addition of Georgia and Texas will allow us to expand further the reach of the Johnson School," says Program Director Danny Szpiro. "We have been pleased with the steady growth of the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA Program, and our expansion into three new cities will give us renewed momentum as we recruit the Class of 2010."
The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA Program is offered in partnership with Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Approximately 110 participants are expected to enroll in the Class of 2010.
Introducing this year's Fried Fellows
Established in 1989 by a generous endowment gift by a distinguished Cornell Alumnus, Albert Fried Jr., MBA '53, the Fried Fellowships are awarded to five second-year students each year solely on the basis of academic achievement and leadership demonstrated in the first year. The award includes a stipend and requires that the recipient work with a faculty or senior staff member on a project of mutual academic or professional interest.
Entrepreneurship@Cornell
Make plans to join us in Ithaca for the Entrepreneurship@Cornell 2008 Celebration on April 10-11! This two-day event for alumni, students, faculty and staff will include: a speech by Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year Howard Milstein '73; a Celebration Banquet honoring Milstein and announcing the winners of the BR Ventures Business Idea Competition (BIC); Symposia from six colleges on the topics of Entrepreneurship in (1) Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences, (2) Engineering, (3) Health Care, (4) Hospitality, (5) Real Estate, and (6) Venture Capital and Sustainability; a university-wide Technology and Entrepreneurship Expo; Showcase presentations from the Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise, and Commercialization (CCTEC) and Student Agencies; and a Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) Event featuring Will Rosenzweig '81, Managing Director of PHYSIC Ventures, speaking on "The Convergence of Life Science and Lifestyle: Where are the Business Opportunities?"
For more information, a detailed schedule of events, and to register, visit www.eship.cornell.edu/events/celebration08 or contact Entrepreneurship@Cornell by phone at (607) 255-1576 or email at eship@cornell.edu.
Entrepreneurs discuss "Pains and Gains"
As part of the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration, the Johnson School will host a special session, "Pains and Gains - Business Roundtable," 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on April 10 in the ILR Conference Center, Room 425. This will be a meaningful dialogue between a select group of young entrepreneurs and a select group of seasoned-veteran entrepreneurs who will share their perspectives on the exciting and challenging work of creating and growing startups and early-stage companies, and ultimately, harvesting value. The session will be moderated by Huck O'Connor of Orix Capital. For more information contact Zachary Shulman at zjs2@cornell.edu.
Calling All Bloggers
If you're a blogger, we want to hear from you! Send the URL for your blog and a description of it - why you started it, and what it's about - to us at Enterprise@johnson.cornell.edu by March 1. We'll include a list of blogs by Johnson School alumni and faculty in Cornell Enterprise.
Featured Alumni
A shared vision, best practices, and an innovative advantage
Johnson School alumni Sudeshna Datta, MBA '95, and Anil Kaul, MS '94, PhD '97 are cofounders, along with Suhale Kapoor, of AbsolutData Research and Analytics in Alameda, Calif., a marketing research and analytics company they started in 2001 that now employs 200 and counts several leading companies among its clients, including GM, McKinsey, Kraft, Discover, and Staples. Kaul is AbsolutData's CEO, and Datta is executive vice president, process migration. More...
News Highlights
Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise Awarded $100,000 Grant
Johnson School earns prestigious S.E.VEN grant to study the impact of the U.S. military's work with entrepreneurs in conflict zones - including Afghanistan and Iraq
The Fleecing of the Avatars
Professor Robert Bloomfield is quoted in this article on the failure of Ginko, a bank in Second Life.
Future events are more powerful than memories
Professor Leaf Van Boven's research "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Anticipation Is More Evocative Than Retrospection" is featured.
Faculty panel united by 'the good fight' at Big Apple discussion
Professor Maureen O'Hara comments on the importance of cross-Cornell collaboration during the 'A Meeting of the Minds' panel discussion that was part of the 'Big Red in the Big Apple' celebration on January 25, 2008.
Spotlight on Stuart L. Hart
Professor Stuart Hart talks about how multinational companies can simultaneously profit and help combat poverty in developing countries.
Alumni in the News
Pete Dyke Joins ARCADIS U.S. as EVP and CFO
Pete Dyke, MBA '87, has joined ARCADIS, an international consulting, design and engineering company, as EVP and CFO for its U.S. operations.
Events
For more upcoming events, check out the Alumni Events Calendar
February 21, 2008
The Johnson School Club of Washington, D.C. - "New Risks and Old Uncertainties: Thoughts on Trading and Investing" presented by Maureen O'Hara, PhD, Robert W. Purcell Professor in Management and Professor of Finance
Metropolitan Club of DC, Washington, D.C.
February 28, 2008
The Johnson School - Parker Series: "Asset Management Revisited"
Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago
March 11, 2008
Cornell University Real Estate Council presents: "Real Estate Private Equity:
Opportunities Today & Tomorrow"
The Cornell Club, New York City
March 13, 2008
The Johnson School - Parker Series: "Is Overdiversification Impacting Returns?"
The Landmark Hotel, London
March 20, 2008
The Johnson School - Parker Series: "Asian Decoupling: Is It True This Time Around?"
Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong
