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Dean's Blog - Posner
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 Day 4,242 : February 9, 2009
Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 10:07 AM
I joined over 400 AACSB Deans from around the world gathered this past week for a conference in San Francisco. Most of the plenary sessions were about globalization - pro and con, and what's working, or not. At a minimum most schools are looking at strategies that take their own local value proposition to a larger geographical area while hopefully becoming stronger locally in the process. We've been taking baby-steps in this direction and will need to consider quite carefully where in the world we want to be and with whom in the very near future.
Many of my colleagues were also quite curious about who would be our next Dean!
On other fronts, this past week we held our annual Economic Forecast (#39) with Mario Belotti, and our annual Crab and Pasta Feed (#41). The Advisory Board meets with us on Thursday.
ECONOMIC FORECAST Mario Belotti, W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Economics, was once again dazzling in providing us with his views of the economic landscape (battle zone) for the year ahead. In his clear and comprehensive style he told over 100 alumni and business executives, meting in Lucas Hall, that the key to economic recovery would be driven by consumer spending. He envisioned some stability by the fourth quarter as a result of such factors as: (1) scheduled increases in pension benefits; (2) stable gasoline prices; increases in (3) real earnings and (4) home re-financing; (5) the government's economic stimulus package; (6) goodwill and consumer confidence in the new President; and (7) low interest rates. Mario repeats his forecast on Tuesday night in San Francisco to another sold-out audience.
CRAB FEAST Over 250 alumni, students, faculty, staff and guests (including a number of Advisory Board members) helped us consume over 500 pounds of crab (and I'll keep confidential the amount of wine needed to wash it down!). The silent auction raised around $3,000 in support of student immersions and global learning experiences. "Dine with the Dean" was the most popular item and so we'll be cooking dinner at our home for a group of alumni later this spring! Should be fun.
ADVISORY BOARD meets this Thursday morning. President Michael Engh, S.J. makes the opening remarks. New members include Debora Shoquist, '76 (Sr. VP, NVIDIA) and Peter Healy, '73 (Partner, O'Melveny & Myers).
Finally, a few KUDOS to pass along:
(1) MSIS student capstone projects have been outstanding on several fronts. For one, they are providing solutions to actual corporate problems and we have several companies that are providing honoraria for these projects as a testament to their importance. Secondly, so far six of these projects have resulted in published manuscripts in such journals as International Journal of Forecasting, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and International Journal of Knowledge Management. Congratulations to both Manoochehr Ghiassi (OMIS) and Terri Griffith (MGMT).
(2) Mary Furlong, Dean's Executive Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, won the American Society on Aging Leadership Award. She was recently interviewed on NPR, and by the New York Times and USA Today.
(3) Kris Mitchener (ECON) was recently in Asia presenting a paper which examined whether there is a historical antecedent for an Asian currency union. This conference had participants from aid agencies, central banks, and universities and was sponsored by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Asian Development Bank. Later this month Kris travels to Beijing to join an international group of experts on financial crises to advise the Chinese government. His invited talk ("Lessons from the Great Depression for China Today") will discuss how China might be thinking about whether it should extend its social safety net, as the U.S. did in response to the Great Depression, as exports decline and its economy contracts in response to the financial crisis.
Hope all is well.
Barry
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Day 4,213 : January 8, 2009
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 8:30 AM
Welcome to 2009 and to the start of the Winter Quarter. Hope it is getting off to a great start for you.
Congratulations to both the Management and Marketing Department for completing their faculty searches, resulting in the hiring of two new super colleagues:
Kumar Sarangee (Marketing) will be completing his PhD at the University of Illinois at Champaign. At UIUC he has won several teaching awards, as well as several research grants from the Product Development and Management Association.
Nydia MacGregor (Management) will be completing her PhD at UC Berkeley. Nydia has managerial experience in the retailing sector and received a UCB Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Award.
The Washington Post recently started a weekly column "On Leadership." The editors send out a question each week to a panel of leadership scholars (count me in!) and executives for their responses. This week, they asked us about what we thought George Bush's strengths as a leader were and my opinions earned me both a "thanks for the insight" from one reader as well as being labeled by another as a "pseudo-intellectual left-wing wacko." To the latter, another reader said about that person's characterization of me and their comments: "that's better than being an anti-intellectual right-wing wacko." I skipped the opportunity to comment on Santa as a leader, but did add my two cents on what I thought the auto executives could have done as leaders and what Obama should do about his Biagojevich problem. (View the website at http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/index.html)
Hoping to enjoy your company at our New Year's Brunch on Sunday. Next week we are back with "Thursdays at Three on the Terrace for Thirty minutes" (4T) and I've some biscuits (cookies) from Australia to share.
All the best,
Barry
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Day 4,243 : November 3, 2008
Monday, Nov. 3, 2008 8:48 AM
Saturday night was a special evening as we held our 2nd Annual Leader's Legacy Celebration sponsored by the LSB Advisory Board. More than 200 people (Advisory Board members, faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends) filled up the Bank of America Commons to enjoy a lavish buffet and recognize several people who have made a difference. (Cheryl Breetwor-Evans, Dan Reddy, Jan and Bill Terry, and George Sollman). Thanks to AnaKarina White for organizing the event and making it a success.
As I pointed out in my opening remarks: "We also join our Advisory Board in hoping that this event becomes another way to help Silicon Valley sit up and take notice that the core competency of Santa Clara University and the Business School in particular, is leadership. We educate men and women with the competence, conscience and compassion to lead effectively. We help them develop the ethical character required of all leaders, and especially so in difficult and rapidly changing times. For us, leadership has never been simply about position but about an attitude of personal responsibility and a willingness to take the initiative to make a difference."
A couple of other special recognitions go to:
Meir Statman (Finance) who received last week the 2008 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing. The prize was launched in 1996 by the Social Investment Forum - the national trade association for the socially and environmentally responsible investing industry - to recognize the best research in this field.
Kevin Holmes, director of our Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), gave a presentation last month at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Center's annual conference. The recent CIE Founders Club Banquet was a great success and Founder's Awards were presented to MBA alumni Bob Goff (founder and chairman of the Sierra Angels and member of Nevada's High Tech Hall of Fame) and Brad Mattson (founder of Novellus and Mattson Technology). This quarter's CIE Speaker Series, held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, features SCU alum Chris Malachowsky (co-founder of NVidia) on Tuesday, November 18, at 7:00 p.m.
On another front, be sure to vote and encourage your students and friends to do the same. I'm currently in one of those battleground states helping on the elections. Whatever your affiliation, be sure to exercise this important right. Every vote counts.
Barry
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Day 4,212 : October 3, 2008
Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 9:45 AM
Dean's Blog: Day # 4,212
October 3, 2008
Isn't it great when your first email of the day is one like the
following:
"My daughter, Christine, is a freshman in the Leavey School and I wanted to send you a note about Lucas Hall. My wife, Christine and I spent about 30 minutes during Welcome Weekend looking around Lucas Hall, and I must say we were very impressed. Everything you would want in a top flight school seems to be there, reinforcing our decision that SCU
was a great choice for our daughter. She has begun taking classes in Lucas Hall (Business 70, Italian) and she raves about it.
So I wanted to say congratulations on building a state of the art school where students will flourish in an environment built for learning. We are very proud to say that Christine attends Santa Clara University."
And I certainly hope that this same feeling is being shared by others--students, their parents, alumni, friends, faculty and staff.
Just think about how we've been using and leveraging the new building just this week:
* Wednesday was our first Santa Clara Leadership Lecture of the Fall Quarter with Dan Perez (CEO, OnCore) and we held it in the Forbes Family Conference Center where about 100 students attended, and the accommodations worked splendidly. Dinner with Dan and our students was
held upstairs, around a grand conference table, in the Barsema Conference Room.
* Thursday was our first-ever LSB "Just-in-Time" Event, also held in the Forbes Family Conference Center with 120 faculty, staff and students in attendance for a panel discussion focused on "What's happening with the economy? What does it mean for me?" Professor Sanjiv Das (Finance) joined us on the panel from New York, and told us that the streaming video he received was terrific (we didn't promise anyone else access via this medium because we didn't know how it would work,
and now we do!). Because we had this facility, we were able to respond quite quickly to organizing a response from our faculty (also Professor Alex Field, Economics) and business colleagues (Jason Bogardus, from Morgan Stanley courtesy of Advisory Board member Greg Vaughan; and Corey Cronin and EMBA alum Mark Delucia from BNY Mellon Wealth Management) to an important issue of the day. We can do more of these, serving our students and faculty, and extending our reach and visibility to alumni and businesses across Silicon Valley, and the globe.
* Monday through Friday mornings the 16 participants in our new Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship are meeting with the faculty in the Menard Conference Room.
* Thursday afternoons we are hosting a community-building refreshment break up on the Kouzes Posner Terrace. We call this 4T (Thursdays at Three on the Terrace for Thirty Minutes) and we*ve had about 50 different folks spend a few minutes with one another these past two weeks. It's a great way to catch up and network.
* Wednesday afternoon we even had a baby shower for Xiaojing Dong (Marketing)--due next week --and we had it in the Barsema Conference Room, a convenient place for people to stop by, celebrate, congregate, and remember the joys of parenthood (mostly first person recollections, but even some second-person ones as well).
* Friday (tonight) we're having a reception in the Kriens Mendez
Executive Lounge, followed by dinner for 27 people in the Forbes Family Conference Center.
And next weekend (Saturday) we host a dinner celebration in the Bank of America Commons recognizing the Accounting Department Advisory Board in its 25th year of operation. We're expecting about 150-200 people!
So, my point: Many thanks to all of you for your hard work and
efforts, emotional and financial support, in making our "building for the future" happen.
All the best,
Barry
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Day 4,185 : September 6, 2008
Saturday, Sep. 6, 2008 7:59 PM
Dean's Blog: Day 4,185
September 6, 2008
Okay, so maybe my Blog earlier this week as a bit too pensive, but it did elicit some nice notes, like the one from MBA alum and Advisory Board member Chuck Berger, reacting to the news about MBA orientations and our global study abroad experiences, reported (tongue-in-cheek): "Cheez, I just got to go to classes every night for two years straight, no Pajaro Dunes, no Switzerland, no Singapore.....!" We have come a long way in what we are now able to offer our students, no doubt.
Here's more news:
Elizabeth Ford has been promoted to from Assistant Dean to Senior Assistant Dean. This is in recognition of the overall scope of her responsibilities for the graduate program, especially as we have added several new options over the past years, and continued to achieve our enrollment targets and national rankings.
Les Spencer, VP and CIO at Lam Research, recently sent a note to Manoochehr Ghaissi with appreciation for the project our MSIS students completed for them as part of their capstone project. He exclaimed: "The SCU students demonstrated competence in the subject matter, drew on their industry experience and brought forward new insights that contributed significantly to the success of the project. It was a pleasure to have them on the team and I trust we will have an opportunity to work with you and your students in the future. Thanks again for your contribution to Lam's success."
Congratulations to Richard Trevisan (MGMT) who had his manuscript "Building Effective Teams that Support and Retain Volunteers" published in The International Journal of Volunteer Administration. Fred Folvary (ECON) presented several lectures this past month at the Economic and Social Policy Institute in Belgrade (Serbia) and did you know that Gail Kirby (MKTG) climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro?
Orientation begins September 17 for the 15 scientists and engineers coming over from Italy to participate in our six-month Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship program. Be on the lookout for them! Some of the faculty who will be working with them this Fall include: Al Bruno (MKTG), Michael Fern (MGMT), Mary Furlong (MKTG/MGMT), Bob Hendershott (FNCE), Tammy Madsen (MGMT), Dal Mank (MGMT), and Jennifer Woolley (MGMT); along with several LSB Advisory Board members (Michele Libraro, Alex Mendez, Bryan Neider).
Dedication of Lucas Hall is Sunday, September 14, so this should be a busy week getting everything (hopefully) finished!
Barry
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Day 4,183 : September 3, 2008
Wednesday, Sep. 3, 2008 7:54 PM
Deans Blog: Day 4,183
September 3, 2008
Well, the start of another school year is just around the corner, and the proverbial sigh is "Where did the summer go?" I sing this same refrain, myself.
This past week we bade fond adieu to long-time staff colleagues and friends Laurie Ferguson (Budget Manager; 8 years) and Leanna Christie (Sr. Director, Alumni and External Relations; 13 years). They will both be missed.
In meeting with another colleague, she began our conversation with "So this is the first day of our last year to work with you!" I hadn't really thought about this year in that regard, but assured her - and to everyone else, let me say - that I'm fired up about the opportunities and challenges ahead this year and it won't be until this Spring that I start to seriously turn my own attentions to "what's next for me?" The School Retreat (Sept 18-19) will give us a great chance to identify opportunities for leveraging our new environment for building our brand and reputation. If you haven't yet had opportunity to complete the survey, please visit www.scu.edu/survey/?s=62 (and if this link doesn't work; please contact Donna Perry for assistance).
Later this Fall, I'm off to meetings of the Western Association of Business School Deans and the Jesuit Business School Deans. It's my chance to brag about all the great things happening at the Leavey School of Business and continue to get the word out. This year and these next few years we should be able to play host to a variety of professional and corporate programs. For example, just next week we (Drew Starbird, OMIS) are hosting the Hunger Issues Forum (What does hunger look like in our communities?) and I'm hosting the judges meeting for the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal's CFO-of-the-Year selection and the Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley/Monterey Bay selection committee for their Business Hall of Fame. Last week, AnaKarina White (GBPO) hosted a well-attended "Top Employers" reception for recruiters, and this event, like all of the others above could not have been held in our old facility.
Although undergraduate and evening MBA classes don't begin until September 22, this doesn't mean that we don't have programs already underway. Last week, I facilitated the new overnight residential orientation session for the Weekend Accelerated MBA Program (35 students), and was joined by Dennis Moberg (MGMT), Advisory Board members Sharon Winston and Sherry McVicar, and Victoria Wilson, AnaKarina White and Alex Paulin from the Graduate Business Programs Office. Homa Zaghamee (ECON), Yongtae Kim (ACTG), and David Palmer (MGMT) all joined us for dinner the second evening, and had a chance to introduce themselves and their particular courses which began this past weekend.
Meanwhile, the new EMBA 2009 cohort group completed their Foundation courses in August with Jim Sepe (ACTG) and Andy Tsay (OMIS). I take them down to Pajaro Dunes next Thursday - Saturday for the opening residential module which focuses on leadership. The Saturday MBA students (22), along with Tom Russell (ECON), are currently studying in Switzerland (St. Gallen University). Andy Tsay (OMIS) and John Toppel (MGMT) return this Sunday from their Global Study Abroad Experience with 20 MBA students (stops in Seoul, Singapore and Hanoi). Manny Velasquez (MGMT) and Kirthi Kalyanam (MKTG) take our current EMBA students to Beijing and Shanghai at the end of October, and will visit with a number of our alumni as part of their study abroad experience (including Max Yang, CEO of Agilent China and Arthur Wei, SVP of Lenova; both of whom I had dinner with recently while in Beijing).
Finally, Lucas Hall is coming together. The last pieces of furniture should be arriving shortly, fire permits should be issued this week along with occupancy permits for all the classrooms, offices should be completed (chairs, shelves, and other misc. needs identified), and so on. Please note the acknowledgement in the second floor faculty/staff lounge of all the LSB faculty and staff who invested in making the new building possible.
Looking forward to seeing everyone back together again shortly.
Barry
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Day 4,103 : June 16, 2008
Monday, Jun. 16, 2008 6:25 PM
Graduation this past weekend was great. Seeing all of our students excited to have their studies completed, we're somewhat like their parents beaming with pride for what they've become since entering Santa Clara -- and ahead of them are unlimited possibilities.
A whopping (record!) 42% of the graduates this year received a degree from the Leavey School of Business (N=593). There were 427 Bachelor of Science candidates listed in the program (30%), 300 Bachelor of Arts students (21%) and 100 engineering graduates (7%).
No surprise, given the number of business school graduates, that the top three majors this year were Finance (199), followed by Accounting (147) and Marketing (143). In the College of Arts and Science the most popular majors were Psychology (100), Political Science (98), Communications (88), English (60) and Biology (59). We had 34 students graduate in Management, nine in Economics (another 36 were CAS majors), eight in OMIS and one in our new Accounting and Information Sciences major.
At the graduate level, we had 406 complete their studies, with most of them in our MBA program (354). The Executive MBA program had 29 graduates and the MSIS program had 23 graduates. In comparison, the Engineering School had a total of 175 graduates and there were 188 graduates from the School of Education, Counseling Psychology and Pastoral Ministries.
Congratulations, as well, to Randall Bambrough (Finance), who received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University this month.
Finally, I trust you are packing (and discarding) and generally getting ready to move, as just one week from today the process begins. Answers to your questions about the move can be found at www.scu.edu/business/building/move-faqs.cfm. It will be wonderful for all of us to be in the new building, even though it will take a few weeks, most likely, to get everything settled, up and running.
Enjoy the break.
Barry
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Day 4,100 : June 13, 2008
Friday, Jun. 13, 2008 12:14 PM
Yesterday, President Bush participated in a round table on business exchanges in Rome and our program is mentioned in the 8th paragraph of the White House press release.
The story has been picked up by a lot of the Italian media and some U.S. media organizations. In the attached photographs, the two women and the man sitting next to the President are three of the five students who were on campus in our inaugural Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship program. We have 15 students joining us this Fall and Winter and the Italian Ambassador says that he hopes it will grow to 25 next year and more into the future.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Barry
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Day 4,091 : June 4, 2008
Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2008 8:11 AM
We're closing in on the end of the quarter and this academic year, and I hope you are riding this wave successfully! In addition to these good wishes, let me share with you some additional exciting news:
1. Congratulations to Kirthi Kalyanam (Marketing) who has been awarded promotion from Associate to Full Professor!
2. Congratulations to Kris Mitchener (Economics) who will be the first recipient of the new Finocchio Professorship!
3. Congratulations to the following faculty as recipients of the new Dean's Research Fellowships:
Michael Kevane (Economics)
Suzanne Luttman (Accounting)
Tammy Madsen (Management)
Susan Parker (Accounting)
Dongsoo Shin (Economics)
4. Congratulations to the Accounting Department for their very successful, and fun, Accounting Awards Dinner and Celebration last Wednesday. Ahmad Hosseini and Remy Hernandez did a superb job with the program and details, and Jim Sepe was a delightful master of ceremonies. I also enjoyed the opportunity to interact with their Advisory Board just this afternoon. They were quite engaged and dedicated to the department, and to the School!
5. A round of applause for Michael Calegari (Accounting) and Chaiho Kim (OMIS) for their terrific service and leadership of their departments over these past few years. They added perspective, insight, and energy to the Chairs Council and enabled their departments and colleagues to be more successful.
6. Finally, another round of applause, please for all of the wonderful colleagues who "staff" the School of Business. Collectively they are a great group, and it was with pleasure that we recognized and honored at our recent Town Hall meeting the accomplishments and commitment of:
Alex Paulin (Dean's Award for Extraordinary Leadership)
Laurie Ferguson (Dean's Award for Extraordinary Service)
Sonia Gonzales and Victoria Wilson (Dean's Award for Extraordinary Team Service and Leadership)
We should have more information about the details next week about our move to Lucas Hall , so stay tuned!
All the best,
Barry
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Looking forward to another 411 days!
Wednesday, May. 14, 2008 5:41 PM
Colleagues:
Tomorrow the Provost will make an official announcement about my intention to step down as the Dean at the end of the next academic year. Lucia will also outline the process for selecting faculty to serve on a Dean’s Search Committee, to be formed before the month is completed.
This seems like as good a time as any to finish up a dozen years as the Dean, and then take a sabbatical leave of absence. Rest assured that we’ve got another 411 days to work together and make great things!
We have much that still needs to be accomplished, and I, for one, intend to continue leading and I hope you will remain excited about joining me. For example, at our Fall Retreat we’ll be conducting some strategic planning about how to best take advantage of our new building, increased visibility, and enhanced educational technology capabilities.
There is no reason to defer our agenda to some future time period when a new Dean is selected, and collectively we (faculty and staff) are well informed, equipped and engaged to move ahead, so let’s plan on doing just that.
Barry
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Day 4,033 : April 7, 2008
Monday, Apr. 7, 2008 3:51 PM
Congratuations to our colleagues who have learned their scholarship is receiving attention from colleagues around the world:
Kudos to Judith White (Management) who received the BEST PAPER award from the Journal of Management Education (2007) for her co-authored manuscript entitled: "Ethics education: using inductive reasoning to develop individual, group, organizational, and global perspectives."
Kudos to Ahmad Hosseini (Accounting) who had his manuscript accepted for publication in the International Journal of Business. Ahmad has another paper that he will be presenting at the Global Finance Conference this May in Hangzhou, China.
Kudos to Yongtae Kim (Accounting) who had his manuscript accepted by the Journal of Accounting Research, one of the most prestigious journals in the accounting discipline.
Kudos to Michael Munson (Marketing) who had his paper accepted to Research-Technology Management, which is a top ranking journal in the management of technology field.
If we missed mentioning any of your recent scholarly achievements, drop me a note and we can send 'kudos' your way in the next Dean's Log/Blog.
Hope you will be joining us this Friday (April 11) as we celebrate and appreciate the many contributions of David Palmer (Management) upon his retirement. Let us know if you can stop by and enjoy the food and camaraderie at Nobili Hall (3:30 - 5:30 PM).
All the best,
Barry
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Day 3,898 : March 4, 2008
Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2008 10:38 AM
Each year the graduating students in our ACE Program get together and talk about the faculty who have made a difference in their academic careers. At the ACE 'graduation' dinner the other evening, the students honored Mario Belotti, Steve Corio, Henry Demmert, and Steve Wade in this regard. They were selected as outstanding teachers who had each gone the extra mile to ensure student learning, and who had paid attention to developing students' competence, conscience, and compassion. Congratulations to these colleagues for what they do, who they are, and for representing all of us so well.
Meanwhile, this 2008 ACE cohort (13 men and 10 women) are quite special in themselves, with an average GPA of 3.71. A third of them are double majors, and another nice completed minors outside the business school. Among their many co-curricular activities were Student Senate (chair), Multicultural Center (director), peer advising, chamber choir, Greek officers, Arrupe Center, Leavey Scholars, Campus Ministry, intercollegiate athletics, SCAAP, Admissions Ambassadors, CF, and the like.
As announced at the Faculty Meeting last week, congratulations to the Marketing Department for their successful recruiting and hiring of Desmond Lo. Desmond will join us this Fall from the University of Michigan. He has a masters degree in Economics (UCSB), and an undergraduate degree in Economics (with honors) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and spent several years working in sales management in China with HP, Agfa, LG Electronics, and Toshiba.
We signed an agreement this week with Polycom for over $650,000 worth of equipment for the new building. This equipment will enable us to provide complete video conferencing capabilities throughout the building, and usher in a new era of enhancing our educational experiences through the use of technology. We should be able to connect with speakers and sites around the world, and vice versa. We are most appreciative of the leadership provided by alumni and Advisory Board member Mike Kourey in making this happen.
Leanna Christie, Larry Donatoni, Donna Perry, and I are off to Chicago tomorrow for an AACSB-International Conference on Building B-Schools: Development and Communications. We are presenting a session "Foundations for the Future: Integrating Communications and Development Efforts" which provides lessons from our efforts over these past seven years from raising friends and funds for the new building, and setting the stage for program support and development in the future. Temperatures are forecast to be in the high 30s when we arrive, and down in the teens by the time we depart!
Hoping your classes and projects are going well,
Barry
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Day 3,857 : January 22, 2008
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 8:47 AM
It was great fun last Thursday to be with Mario Belotti as he shared his perspectives on the American economy in this year ahead. We had over 80 people for breakfast at the morning Leadership Briefing (held in the Adobe Lodge) and another 75 that evening for dinner at the Golden Gate Yacht Club in San Francisco (where '74 alum Jeanette Garretty, Wells Fargo Bank, also offered her perpectives).
This was his 39th Economic Forecast, and Mario was as engaging and informative as I'm sure he was for his first. In fact, with had an alumnus that morning (Class of 1963) who had attended all of the first 30!. Meanwhile, if you were paying attention, the Dow Jones IA dropped over 300 points, so by evening, everyone was so engaged that it took me several attempts before I could stop the program and let all of us from SCU make our way back home by 11:00 PM.
We also had a terrific turnout for the Leavey Lecture, with nearly 300 students in attendance, to hear Juniper Network's Scott Kriens. Scott was quite engaging as he spoke about his personal involvement in leadership education at Juniper, and the company's efforts to create a corporate culture that fosters a sense of community. You can find comments from me on Scott's remarks and those of other leadership speakers at www.scu.edu/business/leadership/ .
Meanwhile, a lot has been happening in our Executive Development Center.
- Check out the KGO Radio website where Jim Sepe's Finance and Financial Reporting for Non-Financial Managers is featured with a podcast.
- The new "academic year" version of the CAAP program is moving forward with 35 students, and EDC and the Accounting Department are busy recruiting for the 'Summer' version.
- Planning for the 8th annual St. Gallen University program is underway and it looks like they'll be sending us about 40 Swiss Executive MBA students this summer. In turn, we'll be taking our WAMBA students to St. Gallen in September (led by Economics professor Tom Russell). Al Bruno was at Oxford University just before Thanksgiving and we're exploring a possible joint program with the Said Business School.
- Finally, the Certified Equity Professional Institute had a record number of equity professionals taking the Fall examinations in over 30 U.S. and international locations. CEPI is moving into its second year of funded research, with a focus on restricted stock awards. The research is supported by Fidelity, e*Trade, Smith-Barney, Computershare, Merrill Lynch, and Charles Schwab.
Finally, I hope you've been keeping up--at least visually--with the progress of the new business school building. (Check out the webcam at www.scu.edu/business/building/construction-live.cfm). You can see the roof tiles being laid, and some of the outside facing beginning to be assembled, but inside they have nearly finished framing up all the interior office spaces. We move into the new building by the end of June, with more specific details still to be determined. Looks like the official dedication will be Sunday, September 14.
Hope your quarter is off to a grand start.
Barry
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Day 3,818 December 14, 2007
Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 8:34 AM
Congratulations to the following faculty members who were recognized for their extraordinary achievements this past academic year across all three areas of teaching, scholarship and service:
Greg Baker Sanjiv Das
Andre Delbecq Kirthi Kalyanam
Edward McQuarrie Dennis Moberg
Barry Posner Dongsoo Shin
Drew Starbird Manny Velasquez
and Jan Strockis was also recognized as extraordinary for her outstanding teaching and service.
Additional faculty were acknowledged for their excellence (a merit review score of 8) in teaching performance:
Naren Agrawal David Armstrong
Al Bruno Steve Corio
Wendy Donohoe Donna Johnston-Blair
Manoochehr Ghiassi Tammy Madsen
Chris Paisley Andy Tsay
Faculty recognized for excellence in scholarship were:
George Chacko Hoje Jo
Yongtae Kim Susan Parker
Mark Seasholes Meir Statman
Excellence in service was noted for these faculty members:
Naren Agrawal Michael Eames
Alex Field Manoochehr Ghiassi
Terri Griffith Michael Kevane
Suzanne Luttman Tammy Madsen
Shelby McIntyre Susan Parker
Tyzoon Tyebjee Andy Tsay
If you are around campus on Tuesday (December 18) hope you will join us for Breakfast with Barry in the MBA Conference Room (Kenna Hall 110). I and others on the Dean's team will be preparing pancakes, sausage, coffee cake, juice and coffee for everyone in the LSB that morning from 8:15 9:15 a.m. Stop by for a bite or cup of coffee and wish one another a great ending to 2007.
Dont forget that you need to RSVP for the New Years Brunch by noon on Friday, December 21 to either Ellen or Barry. This years brunch for faculty and staff (and families) is scheduled for Sunday, January 6 in the Bronco (Benson Student Center) from 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Well need to confirm food and supplies by the end of that day when the campus closes down for the holidays.
Again, congratulations to all of our exceptional faculty. They make all of us look good, and proud to be part of the Leavey School of Business.
Barry
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Day 3,782 : November 8, 2007
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007 7:07 AM
Here are three recent accomplishments from our undergraduate students, MBAs, alumni and friends. Lots to be proud about.
1. This past weekend, a team of our undergraduate students (John Burke, Patrick Flanagan, Rob Harding and Scott Kirk) finished second in the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce, International Business College Competition, which was held at LMU.
The team demonstrated terrific business skills, teamwork, enthusiasm and passion in their participation in the contest, as long, focused hours of investigation, preparation and delivery of a complete business plan to solve the case was required. The problem was a difficult case that required the students to be resourceful and creative.
Their dedication and hard work paid off with 2nd place position over the University of Southern California, the University of South Carolina and Loyola Marymount University and just behind Villanova University, who won overall. John Toppel, executive-in-residence, who served as the faculty advisor for the team said that this competition provided a real world opportunity for the students to apply what they have learned at Santa Clara clearly they were well prepared!
2. At the MBA level, our team (Galen Davis, Seth Byers, Kris Philippe, and Grace Chu) garnered 12th place in the 2007 MBA Innovative Challenge. This year 285 teams from 25 different countries participated.
They were given a real company challenge (How can Lexmark encourage Millennials mobile consumers--consumers 30 and under--to use more Lexmark printing products and services?) and asked to provide an innovative solution within one week. The judging panel consisted of 204 judges from 138 leading companies and organizations.
MBA Grace Chu wrote: "This experience really helped my team apply important MBA concepts to a real company challenge. The challenge not only utilizes the core concepts of business but drives key innovative ideas that help companies compete and grow in today's competitive environment. Reflecting back on what I've done so far in the program, studying abroad and participating in the challenge have been the best experiences. I think it would be fantastic to see more teams next year from SCU!"
3. Our first annual Leader's Legacy Celebration was held this past Thursday evening in the California Mission Room and was attended by over 125 alumni, faculty, and friends who have all invested in the our Building for the Future.
Indeed, we celebrated the leadership of everyone in attendance who had helped to make the new building a reality, and in this way creating a legacy for the continued education of leaders of competence, conscience and compassion. Don Lucas, our lead investor, for whom the building will be named, remarked to the group about the important role that the Leavey School of Business plays in the vitality of Silicon Valley, and beyond. President Paul Locatelli, S.J., offered the invocation and also thanked everyone present for their remarkable vision and support of the Business School and University.
Hope you will join us for the second annual Leader's Legacy Celebration which will be held in the new building (on the first Thursday in November).
Just another week of accomplishments in the Leavey School of Business. Hoping much is getting accomplished with you and yours as well.
Barry
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Day 3,759 : October 16, 2007
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007 8:10 PM
Is this quarter off to a fast start, or is it only me?
Here is just a sample of some things going on:
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Recruiting for new faculty is off the ground, as well. We've already had multiple candidates visiting in the areas of Marketing, Accounting, and Management.
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Undergraduate and MBA Leadership Teams are off and running, both having already met on two occasions; and working on substantive issues under the leadership of Drew Starbird and Michael Eames.
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Also busy recruiting students to represent us in the International Case Competition (at LMU next month), VC Investment Competition (held at SCU in February), immersion experience to El Salvador (spring break) and Beta Gamma Sigma Leadership Conference (in November).
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Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's (CIE) Fall Entrepreneur Speaker series filled up the Dance and Recital Hall (nearly 300 people) to hear about Tim Westergren of Pandora*s 7+ year startup saga. CIE Director Kevin Holmes also worked with several faculty members to make this a supplemental learning experience for their classes. For a recap of Tim*s talk, here's a blog post by one of the event's co-sponsors, Eric Goldman of the High Tech Law Institute(http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2007/10/pandora_founder.htm).
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Global Women's Leadership Network (GWLN), under the direction of Linda Alepin, hosted nearly 100 students, faculty, alumni and community partners to listen and interact with Anne Firth Murray, author of Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change, and the founding president of the Global Fund for Women. View student assessments at our Thinking About Leadership blog www.scu.edu/business/leadership/)
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A terrific TGIW was hosted by the Undergraduate Business Programs Office. The scientific estimates and analyses performed by the faculty in determining the number of candy corns in a jar came in second place to the 'wisdom of the crowds' in the form of RMI Associate Director Cynthia Gamage's guess! Next TGIW is scheduled for November 7 and will be hosted by the Economics Department.
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Faculty meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 31 at 3:00 p.m.in the MBA Conference Room for the purpose of discussing the University and LSB core curriculum revisions, which our school-wide task force on this issue is busy preparing for our input.
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Our first-ever, hopefully annual, LSB Leadership Legacy Celebration(first Thursday of November) is a sell-out. This year we are honoring all those whose leadership has made possible the new business school building.
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Kudos to Tom Russell who was honored by the American Risk and Insurance Association in recognition of the lasting impact of his research on the industry. Read more at our News Blog (www.scu.edu/business/news/news-blog.cfm)
And these items just fill up the first page, and don*t capture all the wonderful things that are going on around the School as this academic year gets launched. So, hang in there and keep up the good work.
Barry
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Day 3,731 : September 17, 2007
Monday, Sep. 17, 2007 10:59 AM
Colleagues,
Welcome to the beginning of another academic year, and away we go. Does anyone wonder, like me, what happened with all the time we imagined we had back in mid-June?
We had a really terrific, and memorable, retreat last week and my personal thanks to everyone who attended and participated with energy and imagination. This email from one faculty member was echoed by a number of others:
"Barry: Thank you for an excellent two days at the Faculty Retreat. It was not only productive, informative and interesting but really first class. Great eats. Thanks to Ellen for making it all happen. I particularly enjoyed the bonding part and getting to know what our colleagues are working on. Not surprising I talked with a lot of very smart people, great place to learn and test ideas."
I've attached the powerpoint slides with my remarks for those of you who were unable to attend. Some important highlights were the introduction of our new faculty, awarding of Breetwor Fellowships, determination of faculty office assignments, and the announced distribution of $2,500 to every tenure-track faculty member's PDA. Another $50,000 has been set aside to support the professional development of our non-tenure track faculty. Take a look and mark your calendar for some important events upcoming, like the Faculty Meeting to discuss the revised core curriculum, Leadership Legacy Celebration, Town Hall meetings, TGIW, and the like.
Don't forget to complete your Activity Reports.
Thanks.
Barry
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Day 3,674 : July 23, 2007
Monday, Jul. 23, 2007 4:08 PM
The new business school building is beginning to take shape! Take a look at the site on the new webcam (www.scu.edu/business/building/construction-live.cfm) and you can see the giant crane on the site lifting girders of steel for the frame of the building. I could see about a dozen vertical steel frames as I drove into campus this morning. Toward the end of this week you should begin to be able to see the building coming into shape as outlined by the steel framing.
And we still need to raise another $6 million, so if you have any prospects (large or small) that might be interested in making an investment, I’d be mighty grateful for the introduction.
We have the final new student (and their parent’s) orientations this week and it has been terrific to see all the energy and excitement they have for Santa Clara and the launch of their own collegiate careers. I marvel about how strong business school’s reputation is in the eyes of these parents. I’ve told them that their sons and daughters are in good hands, and that in these next four years we would make them smarter (and how I suspected that in this same time period that their children would come to view them as also smarter and less of an embarrassment!).
The EMBA students from St. Gallen University arrived this week, for their four-week intensive exploration of innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. The Executive Development Center hosts this program.
As well, our third annual Women Leaders for the World Program commenced on Sunday, involving women leaders from 10 different countries. Sponsored by the Global Women’s Leadership Network this program sparks innovation, fosters global citizenship, and aims to expand the capacity and network of women leaders.
Nineteen MBA students recently returned from France and Belgium where they participated in Kevin Walsh’s Global Business Perspectives course. One highlight was sitting in as the EU President addressed the European Parliament. Spencer Clark, Leanna Christie and I are off to Korea and China at the end of August with 30 MBA students, and Naren Agrawal, Mario Belotti and Drew Starbird lead another group of students to India the first two weeks of September.
Hope you are having a wonderful summer.
Barry
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Day 3,548 : March 19, 2007
Monday, Mar. 19, 2007 10:03 AM
Had a great end for last week and we've a great beginning to this week, so just a short note to let you know that weve received another $1.605 million investment in our Building for the Future! This brings our total to nearly $40 million, and with a number of efforts on a number of fronts we are definitely getting closer to scheduling the ground-breaking!
Friday evening was the Celebration for Santa Clara, which officially marked the end of the capital campaign. More than $404 million was raised against a $350 million target (against the last campaign target of $125 million). There were only two students who spoke at this event.... and they were both from the School of Business, and represented us proudly.
We are pleased to announce that the Management Department has successfully recruited Jennifer Wooley (PhD. Candidate, UC Irvine), who will join us this Fall. Jennifers teaching interests are international business, entrepreneurship and organization theory, and shes made a great start in her scholarship and publishing agenda.
All the best,
Barry
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Day 3,545 : March 16, 2007
Friday, Mar. 16, 2007 10:03 AM
Another productive week and hoping the same was true for you.
Highlights from this week's Town Hall meeting were:
1. Moving ahead on the Peer Advising Program: Connie Rice explained our plans for expanding the Peer Advising Program and the positive impact this should have on our students, and in our roles as faculty mentors.
2. Moving forward on the Accelerated Weekend Program: Ed McQuarrie reviewed the logic and rationale behind the program, and outlined the intended curriculum. Most of the first-year core faculty have been identified (volunteered) and well provide more information as this becomes more formalized. By the way, we received a deposit from our first official student in this program just yesterday! Feedback from potential applicants at this week's Open House were quite positive and encouraging.
3. Feedback from the Undergraduate Leadership Team on the proposed core curriculum revision, was shared by Henry Demmert, Jim Hall, Jim Sepe, and Drew Starbird. Lets hope that some of these items can be addressed in their next revision.
Meanwhile, I know that these are busy times for everyone, but you missed a pretty good conference last weekend on Business Ethics in a Global World that our colleagues Dennis Moberg and Shawn Berman provided great leadership for. This was sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Also in attendance were Naren Agrawal, Mario Belotti, advisory board member Spencer Clark, and myself.
Some comings and goings. At the Town Hall meeting we welcomed Molly Hall (assistant director, academic support and records in the Graduate Business Programs Office). We also noted the departure of Ramie Fernandez, who is leaving the Finance Department and going over to the Environmental Studies Department. Her replacement, Susan Canora (now with UC Santa Cruz) will join us next quarter. We appreciate all that Ramie has contributed to the Finance Department and the LSB and wish her well over in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Please join us for the upcoming Leavey Lecture, on Monday evening (April 2) at 6:30 p.m. in Mayer Theater. Were delighted to feature Bo Burlingham, Editor-at-Large for Inc . magazine and author of the recent best-seller: Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big . It should be quite a stimulating presentation.
Finally, as I mentioned at our Town Hall meeting, our ability to work together in ways that make us responsive and imaginative, as well as thoughtful, respectful and deliberate, has a broader impact than just within our Business School community. As a School, we lead the University by our examples of innovation, civil debate, and achievement that serves our students. Thank you for your leadership in this process.
Good luck with grading final exams, and enjoy your Spring Break.
Barry
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