Dean's Blog
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 Day 4,103 : June 16, 2008
Monday, Jun. 16, 2008
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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 : July 13, 2008
Friday, Jun. 13, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Day 3,531 : March 2, 2007
Friday, Mar. 2, 2007
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Wow! Am I the only one that seems to be experiencing this quarter just whizzing on by?
Catching up with you on this past week, starting last night with the ACE 2007 Graduation Celebration. They honored three faculty members who represented the best achievements, and aspirations, of all of us: Dennis Moberg (Management), Neal Ushman (Accounting) and Kevin Walsh (Management). All in all, these outstanding students (cumulative GPA for the group was 3.6+, most were double majors, almost all with at least minors, and involved in clubs, sports, student government, SCCAP, Arupe, community service, and so on) couldn't say enough about the quality of their instructors and the personal attention they had experienced as students at Santa Clara. Kudos to the ACE Leadership Team of Jo-Anne Shibles, Brenda Versteeg, and Tyzoon Tyebjee.
Applied Materials was recognized as the outstanding ACE Business Partner at the dinner, and represented at the dinner by alums John Nunziati and Paul Nelson.
On Wednesday evening we had nearly 300 freshman students attending an executive panel on leadership that I moderated, which was really exciting. Featured were three of our Business 70 faculty members but providing insights from their previous roles as corporate executives: Richard Williams (GE, Ultratech), Theresa Strickland (Macy?s, Cost Plus/World Markets), and John Toppel (Hewlett Packard). On the previous evening, John Toppel presided over a panel that he had organized for our undergraduates on careers in the entertainment industry. Several hundred students attended, listened to, and interacted with alumni from NBC/Universal, NBC, The Recording Academy, CBS, CSI Series and PDI/DreamWorks!
Congratulations to those colleagues awarded Presidential Research Grants:
Michael Calegari (Accounting): "Determinants of Deferred Income Tax Assets and Liabilities"
Yongtae Kim (Accounting): "Change in Information Characteristics around Management Earnings Forecasts"
Dongsoo Shin (Economics): "Monitoring an Information Gathering Agenda: Hidden Action versus Hidden Information"
Judith White (Management): "Leadership in the New Civil Society Organizations Along the Thai-Burma Border"
Pleased to announce that the Economics Department successfully recruited Homa Zarghamee (Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University), who will join us this Fall. In her research, Homa studies voluntary contributions and collective action using both theoretical economics and laboratory experiments. It is well known that people will sometimes sacrifice their immediate self interest to the collective good of an organization or community, but her experiments show that the extent of cooperation can be highly dependent on small changes in the specific context. Homa also has interests in development economics, including such issues as child labor. Her teaching interests include microeconomics, game theory, and econometrics.
At our upcoming Town Hall meeting we've a number of substantive issues to consider:
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ULT recommendations on the proposed University Core Curriculum
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current plans for the new business school building
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a new "accelerated weekend" MBA program option
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the non-use of library databases, and
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opportunities this coming year for "global business perspectives"
Please plan on joining us on Tuesday, March 13 at 3:00 p.m. in the Williman Room.
I was at Fairfield University at the start of the week as part of the Peer Review Team for their AACSB accreditation review. I was impressed with how well they had integrated the tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty in their teaching mission and their use of web-based tools for handling faculty activity reports, classroom syllabi and assignments, and learning outcome assessments. For example, nearly all student assignments were available on-line that could be easily accessed for evaluation against clearly articulated learning objectives.
And just a week ago today I was in New York City presenting another of our Leadership Briefings to an enthusiastic group of alumni, parents, and friends. Earlier that morning Leanna Christie (Alumni Relations Director) and I visited with alum Caroline Vaughan at Bloomberg as part of our preparation for a student trip to Wall Street tentatively planned this Fall.
Have a great weekend.
Barry
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Day 3,500 : January 30, 2007
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007
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Another milestone for all of us....day number three thousand and five hundred with me as the Dean. If I make it beyond this academic year, will pass Andre Delbecq's tenure and become the second longest serving dean of the Leavey School of Business.
Speaking of long-serving, on Friday night I realized that I had attended over 28 annual LSB Crab and Pasta Feasts (Friday night marked the 39th). Jackie and I, along with Carol and Dale Achabal, are some of the veterans of this event (and I still remember Joel Leidecker inviting me to my first one and his coaching about how to maximize my food and beverage consumption!). This event was a sold-out engagement (turning people away), and the evening was great fun (and many thanks to Sheila Dowd and Leanna Christie for all their hard work and leadership in making it happen). We also raised nearly $12,000 from that evening's Silent Auction to support various student (undergraduate and graduate) leadership initiatives.
Another milestone reached this past week was that we nearly tripled the number of MBA students enrolled in our various Study Abroad courses this academic year, with two of them over-subscribed (Asia with 31 students and France with 20, and just a few spaces remaining in the New Zealand and India Global Business Perspectives courses). This means that nearly 10 percent of our graduate student body are participating in a study abroad experience!
Hoping the New Year is off and running in fine fashion for you.
Barry
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Day 3,481 : January 11, 2007
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007
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Mario Belotti kicked off the 2007 LSB Leadership Briefings, before a sell-out crowd at the Adobe Lodge this morning, providing his Economic Outlook for the year ahead. Mario wowed the audience with his insights and his energy. We do this again next Thursday, in San Francisco, and have two seats remaining.
And, since you couldnt be there this morning, let me tell that you that the outlook was fairly good for the year ahead. Mario believes that the United States rate of economic growth (GNP) will be in the 2.7-3.0 percent range (described as very good), with most of this growth coming from increases in consumer spending (primarily) and business spending, with a modest increase in government spending.
According to Mario, we dont have to worry about a U.S. recession this year, as predicted by some because of a downturn in housing prices. Mario explained that consumers have been using a relatively small percentage of the funds received by refinancing mortgages over the past two years for consumer expenses (14%) and have actually been re-investing the vast majority of these funds back into increasing the value of their homes and alternative investment vehicles (even savings). He predicted inflation rates will be around 2.2 percent and didnt expect the Federal Reserve System to be very active in changing the short-term interest rates this coming year (although they will continue to talk and talk about interest rates over the year) and that long-term interest rates may creep up but only slightly.
If you wanted to know more, and there was more, you needed to come to the session! I invited everyone in attendance --- because Mario said they had lots of money in their pockets and that spending on construction needed to increase, and because there were tax advantages (my insight) --- to make additional investments in our Building for the Future (and invited them, in turn, to be our guest at the 2009 Economic Outlook to be presented in that new building).
Shawn Berman (Management) will represent us at the next Leadership Briefing on the topic of Shareholders as Partners and this will be held on campus (February 8 morning). Sanjiv Das (Finance) offers his insights on Picking Winners with Risk Modeling for the next San Francisco Leadership Briefing (February 8 luncheon). Ill be up for the one were doing in New York City on February 23 (What People Look For In Their Leaders and Why You Should Care). For a complete schedule of these Leadership Briefings see www.scu.edu/business/leadership-briefings/index.cfm
Hope you are off to the start of a great new year.
Barry
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Day 3,478 : January 8, 2007
Monday, Jan. 8, 2007
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Happiest of New Years and hoping Santa was good to you and yours.
Welcome back, and great to see so many of you and your families at the
School's annual New Year's Brunch yesterday. Great food and fun, and trust you received the event favor which was supposed to have written on it "Happy New Year" but instead led to comments like: Off with his head! Bite him! and, my personal favorite, Who is this guy? Stop by the Dean's Office if you'd like a "Posner Pop!"
On other fronts (faculty, friends, and fund-raising):
Congratulations to the Finance Department, who successfully recruited Carrie Pan. Carrie is completing her doctoral degree at Ohio State, will join us this Fall, and some of you may remember her as an MBA graduate (2002). Carrie's research and teaching interests are in corporate finance and governance, international finance, investments, and behavioral finance.
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) successfully
developed a "Silicon Valley Immersion Program" that convinced the U.S. State Department to grant Fulbright Scholarships to five Italian
doctoral candidates to participate.
During the winter and spring quarters, these students will be enrolled
in a combination of graduate business courses, conferences and seminars.In addition, members of the CIE Advisory Board will serve as mentors to the scholars, helping them with internship placement and networking opportunities. Gaetano Pellicano, the officer from the U.S. Embassy in Rome, met and greeted the students upon their arrival (and joined us at the New Year's Brunch).
You may have met one or more of these students at the New Year's
Brunch, and if not, hopefully you will see them around over the next six months. We'll introduce them more after they get settled, but briefly (names and interests) are:
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Valentina Coccoli is interested in biomaterials / tissue engineering
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Abramo Barbaresi is interested in non-invasive 3D measurement
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Elisabetta Capezio is interested in biomedical devices for urological disorders and inflammatory diseases
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Micol Macellari is interested in diagnostic genomics
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Emanuele Orgiu is interested in organic semiconductor sensors
Congratulations to Kevin Holmes for putting this all together!
Just before Christmas we received a million dollar investment from the Easley family for the new building. Patriarch Roger is a 1958 graduate, and one daughter, Patrice ('94), and two sons, Chris (MBA '94) and Patrick (MBA '02), are LSB alumni (there are four other children). We are grateful for their support, which moves us still closer to our goal of breaking ground this spring.
Finally, hope we'll see you at tomorrow evening's Leavey Lecture,
featuring Mark Thompson, who is the co-author of the current
best-seller, Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters .
Forbes Magazine listed him as one of America's top venture investors
with the Midas touch. This presentation is being filmed for future
broadcasts by Mark, which will also give some publicity to SCU. The
Leavey Lecture will be held in Mayer Theater at 6:30 p.m.
And....... that's all folks!
Barry
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Day 3,366 : September 18, 2006
Monday, Sep. 18, 2006
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Welcome to the start of another academic year!
With the first day of classes, including the second annual "Celebration of Santa Clara University, and tonight's Leavey Lecture, I think we got off to a good start. Hope your meetings with departmental majors went well, and thanks to those who joined us for the orientation and welcome session we had for first-year business majors. About 25% of our freshman attended, and they seemed to appreciate learning about the Undergraduate Business Programs Office services, meeting some faculty and staff, and enjoying one another's company. Congratulations to Henry Demmert, Jo-Anne Shibles, Connie Rice, Brenda Versteeg, and John Toppel.
In case you didn't attend the Convocation, I was touched by the fairly humble remarks of Steve Nash, '96 (twice named Conference Player of the Year while in college and back-to-back NBA Most Valuable Player). He told the mostly freshman audience about the importance of making the best of every opportunity and appreciating the many life-long relationships they would build while in college. He also, in the Santa Clara tradition, reminded them about the importance of doing your best but doing so in such a way as to make those around you the best that they can be. Words of wisdom from the Broncos all-time leader in assists and last season's NBA leader in assists as well.
Some recent notable achievements for our colleagues as we begin this year:
Congratulations to Andre Delbecq (Mgt), who was named by his faculty colleagues across the campus as this year's "Faculty Senate Professor."
Congratulations to Tammy Madsen (Mgt) who received one of the President's Distinguished Faculty Awards.
Congratulations to Jo-Anne Shibles (Undergraduate Business Programs) who received an Outstanding Staff Award.
Congratulations to Chaiho Kim (OMIS) who was named to the Academic Advisory Board of the newly created KAIST Graduate School of Information & Media Management in Korea. The Ministry of Information and Communication has asked the institute to take the leading role in fostering IT professionals in Korea.
Congratulations to new Breetwor Fellows Naren Agrawal (OMIS), Terri Griffith (Mgt), Hoje Jo (Fin), Linda Kamas (Econ), Drew Starbird (OMIS), and Andy Tsay (OMIS). They join current Breetwor Fellows Sanjiv Das (Fin), Tammy Madsen (Mgt), and Helen Popper (Econ).
Recognition for milestones of years of university service were received by Barry Posner (Mgt - 30) and Manoochehr Ghaissi (OMIS - 25).
Be Part of History! Join us for the Leavey Lecture on Tuesday evening as we take an aerial photograph of the new business school as outlined by our students, faculty and staff. Should be fun.
All the best,
Barry
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