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June/July 2008
A Message from Associate Dean Becky Mitchell
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Class of 2008 Employment Statistics
Vithala Rao's Research on Product Preannouncements
Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise Partners with Filene Research Institute
Office of Diversity and Inclusion Names New Director
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A Message from Associate Dean Becky Mitchell
Dear Johnson School Alumni,
Reunion 2008 was a huge success - thank you to everyone who helped make it a memorable weekend. With almost 400 Johnson School alumni, family and friends in attendance, this was truly a remarkable year! This reunion was particularly special because we had the opportunity to recognize and honor the members of the Class of 1948 - the first graduating class of the Johnson School. On Saturday, June 7th president emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes honored the three Class of 1948 members attending: Herb Englehardt, Peter Miller and Jim Vlock.
If you have a reunion coming up in 2009, please mark your calendar to attend June 4-6, 2009. We welcome your suggestions and/or ideas (alumni@johnson.cornell.edu) to make your reunion just as special. We look forward to seeing you at our many alumni outreach events throughout the year around the globe. Enjoy the summer...
Best regards,
Becky Mitchell
Associate Dean, Alumni Affairs and Development
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Newly named dean Joe Thomas and officers of the Class of 2008 all had a variety of subjects on their minds at the Johnson School's 61st commencement. They included alligators, banana wars, and globetrotting. More...
Class of 2008 Employment Statistics
Mean salary accepted by this year's graduates is $101,210, up from last year's mean salary of $98,000.
Vithala Rao Finds New Product Preannouncements Reduce R&D Risks and Increase Future Marketing Success
Corporations Leak Information to Signal Intentions to Customers and Competitors
Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise Partners with Filene Research Institute: New report on sustainability and credit unions suggests going "back to the future"
Stuart Hart, Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise and professor of management, and Monica Touesnard, director of the Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab at the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, collaborated on a year-long project with the Filene Research Institute to develop a new report on sustainability for credit unions, "Back to the Future: Integrating Sustainability into Credit Union Strategy." Hart and Touesnard discuss their report in a podcast for the Filene Research Institute.
Office of Diversity and Inclusion Names New Director
Irma Almirall-Padamsee was named the new director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in July, succeeding Deniqua Crichlow, who left to pursue a graduate degree at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Almirall-Padamsee comes to us with a wealth of experience in advising, recruiting, retaining, mentoring, programming and strategic planning for minorities, women and multicultural students. Most recently, she was a consultant on multicultural competency programming and leadership and development tolerance training workshops. Prior to her role as a consultant she was associate director of Campus Life and director of Student Affairs and Diversity at Cornell.
Are you involved in rebuilding efforts in Iraq or Afghanistan?
We're planning a feature story focused on rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you have been or are now involved in such an effort, please write to the editor of Cornell Enterprise at Enterprise@johnson.cornell.edu by September 1. We would like to interview you to learn about your experiences.
Faculty Honors
Research by Young-Hoon Park Among Year's Best
Associate professor's work nominated for top marketing research honor
Elizabeth Mannix Receives Faculty Research Award Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Management recognized as a top researcher at the Johnson School
Sachin Gupta Wins Best Paper Award for Cornell Hospitality Quarterly Study Examines Revenue Consequences of Satisfied Restaurant Customers
Vishal Gaur Receives $67,000 grant from National Science Foundation Grant to support research on risk management in supply chains
Johnson School's Michael Waldman Wins Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for Best Paper Work on Antitrust Economics Takes Top Honors
Mark Nelson Honored by Recent MBA Graduates MBA Class of '03 selects accounting professor for Russell Distinguished Teaching Award
Young-Hoon Park Named Top Teacher MBA Class of '08 honors assistant professor of marketing for teaching excellence
Thomas Fields Honored for Teaching Excellence
Visiting Lecturer Thomas D. Fields was awarded the Executive MBA Globe Award for teaching excellence. Fields is a lecturer in accounting at the Olin School of Business at Washington University. Before returning to graduate school, he worked as a CPA for Price Waterhouse in St. Louis, performing audit services for a range of clients including Anheuser Busch, Union Electric (now Ameren Corporation), SSM Health Care, and a number of small manufacturers and non-profit organizations. Field's research interests involve the role of accounting information in contracting, particularly in the setting of accounting based covenants in debt contracts.
Marc L. Busch Honored for Outstanding Teaching
Professor of Economics Marc L. Busch was awarded the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA Star Award for outstanding teaching. Busch, who teaches international business in the CQEMBA program, is an Associate Professor at Queen's School of Business, a Queen's National Scholar, and an associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research and teaching focus on the political economy of trade policy. He is currently engaged in research on the economic geography of European trade policy and the "early settlement" of disputes under the GATT/WTO. He is the author of the book Trade Warriors. Busch was previously an associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University, and director of graduate student programs at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
News Highlights
New Twist on B-School Rankings
Inside Higher Ed - 6/20/08
The Johnson School tops this ranking by Vanderbilt economist Mike Schor. This ranking attempts to uncover the "value add" that a business school provides by assessing student GPA and GMAT scores along with the increase in salary that the school appears to provide.
Fall Recruiting Moves into Summer: With an eye on the softening job market, some B-schools are staging career events earlier in the calendar
BusinessWeek.com - 6/8/08
An article about the trend for business schools to hold recruitment drives earlier in the year quotes Johnson School Associate Dean and faculty member Randy Allen and incoming MBA student Jennifer Nicholas.
Why We Spend More Using Credit Versus Cash
NPR's Morning Edition - 7/3/08
Why is it that people seem to spend more when they use credit cards than when they use cash? The answer could be rooted in psychology. Co-host Ari Shapiro talks with economics Professor Robert Frank about how the brain works when it comes to paying for goods, and how people can avoid spending too much of their money.
Staying on Course
CFO Magazine - 6/1/08
Danny Szpiro, director of the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA Program and senior lecturer, comments on how businesses can use capital budgeting in an economic downturn.
Accounting for Second Life
Journal of Accountancy - 6/2/08
Professor Robert Bloomfield's work in Second Life is covered in this look at how the accounting profession is moving into Second Life.
ISS fellowships free Cornell social scientists to pursue research
Cornell Chronicle - 6/10/08
Professor Beta Mannix, Director of the Institute for the Social Sciences, is quoted in this announcement of this year's fellows which include Professor Wes Sine.
Creating business opportunities with the world's poor
Cornell Chronicle - 6/26/08
The Base of the Pyramid Protocol is featured, along with work by co-director Erik Simanis and others on the DuPont Solae project in Hyderabad, India.
Alumni in the News
Michael Chen, CEO of GE's Media, Communications & Entertainment Financing Business, Receives Pinnacle Award from the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC) for Leadership in Business
Marketwatch.com - 6/4/08
Bain's Saenz: Helping Latinos-and Bain-Succeed
Consulting Magazine.com - 6/20/08
Q&A with Hernan Saenz, MILR '98, MBA '98, partner, Bain & Company, on the Latinos@Bain Diversity Network
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