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Carey Business School News and Events Carey Business School ONE Magazine Dean Yash Gupta's Washington Post Blog | In This Issue:
Message From The DeanAs we enter the dog days of summer, I hope you'll have an opportunity to enjoy a well-earned break from our usual labors. For some, that might mean a week at the beach or in the mountains. And for others, it's something as uncomplicated as sipping a cool drink on the patio and appreciating novelist Henry James's observation that "summer afternoon [are] the two most beautiful words in the English language." This particular summer has given me an opportunity to reflect on what we have accomplished over the past few months and to look forward to meeting new challenges and opportunities. While we have been heavily engaged in designing the curriculum for the new Global MBA, I am continually impressed by the remarkable accomplishments of our current students. In May, I had the privilege of participating in two of the most uplifting events in the School's life, the first annual Honors and Awards Ceremony and, a few days later, graduation. Four-hundred-and-fifty members of the graduating class of 749 took part in the School's Diploma Ceremony. Richard Parsons, the Chairman of Citigroup and the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner, addressed the graduates. Our friend and benefactor, Bill Carey, also joined faculty and board members onstage at the ceremony. The second issue of the School's new magazine, ONE, has just been published. Among the topics it examines are the collision between the crises in healthcare and the economy; the challenges of technology transfer; and the alarming scarcity of water in many parts of the world. I think you'll find this second issue as engaging as the first. In addition to developing the new Global MBA, we have spent the past few months reviewing the current MBA and MS curricula and recently announced some significant revisions to the structure of both degrees, which provide new opportunities for alumni who may be interested in adding to their degrees from Hopkins. More details can be found in this newsletter and on the School's Web site. We continue to add to our outstanding faculty, and I am delighted to announce the recent appointments of Professor Federico Bandi, who joins us from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he was an Associate Professor of economometrics and statistics; and Xian Sun, Assistant Professor, who joins the full-time faculty after serving as a Senior Financial Economist in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. As the School continues to enhance and develop its curricula, we are also working to improve our facilities. Renovations have begun at our center in Washington, D.C. The improvements include state-of-the art audiovisual technology in each classroom, refurbished lounge and meeting spaces for students, an executive conference room with high-definition video conferencing, and study rooms equipped with large LCD screens that will enable students to share laptop displays. In all our endeavors, we are always focused on building a business school that can be counted among the best in the world. Most important, in the transformative spirit of Johns Hopkins University, we aspire to be the best for the world. I'm extremely grateful for your role in helping to make ours a School in which we can all take pride. Enjoy the rest of the summer, and please stay in touch. Warmest regards, Yash Gupta, Dean
Inside CareyCarey Faculty Member Explores Chicago Ad World as a Visiting Professor Weiss spent two weeks at the advertising boutique Energy BBDO in Chicago, where he was exposed to the agency's many departments and disciplines, including creative, account work, media planning and buying, and production. As a quid pro quo,Weiss also presented a lunch-and-learn lecture for the agency, providing it with some of his own teaching expertise. Weiss says he enjoyed seeing the cutting-edge, alternative-media experimentation that goes on at Energy BBDO, in addition to returning with an enriched perspective on the industry, and a whole new batch of "war stories" for his students. Traylor and Nuryan are interested in examining EMRI from two angles. First, as business students, they plan to assess the Institute's financial sustainability. Second, as public health students, they will investigate the organization's success in terms of health outcomes and value to the community. The pair will spend two weeks collecting data and conducting interviews at the Institute. They hope to discover, based on the sustainablity of the EMRI model and the effectiveness of its service, whether or not similar programs could be installed in other Indian cities currently lacking emergency response systems. The students' trip is being jointly funded by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. Graduation 2009 This year's graduation ceremony took place May 19 at Baltimore's Myerhoff Symphony Hall. Dean Yash Gupta presided and Richard D. Parsons, Chairman of Citigroup and former Chairman and Chief Executive of Time Warner, addressed the graduates. Other guests included Geraldine Peterson, President of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, who welcomed the class of 2009 into the Hopkins Alumni community; William M. Ginder BS '54, who was awarded the prestigious Heritage Award by the alumni association; Morris Offit, A&S '57, Chair of the School's Board of Overseers and Trustee Emeritus; Bryan McMillan BS '00, MBA '02, Chair of the School's Dean's Alumni Advisory Board; and William P. Carey, the School's benefactor. The School welcomes its newest members to the growing ranks of Carey School alumni worldwide. Alumnus ProfileJason McKitrick, MBA 2006 Jason McKitrick is a Government Relations Advisor in King & Spalding's Government Advocacy and Public Policy Practice Group. After graduating with a BA in Political Science from the College of William and Mary in 1994, McKitrick became a health policy legislative aide for House Budget Committee Chairman John R. Kasich, and later served as a professional committee staff member for Medicare, Health Care, and Social Security for the House of Representatives Committee on the Budget. McKitrick's decision to enter the Carey Business School's Business of Medicine program was inspired in large part by these experiences. Having spent, at that point, eight years on Capitol Hill working to understand health policy from a legislative and legal perspective, McKitrick began to think another point of view would be useful. "I felt I really needed a better understanding of the business side of things if I wanted to help improve the system," he says. In 2006 McKitrick received an MBA in Medical Services Management from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; the degree has served him in good stead ever since. McKitrick remains an active member of the School's alumni community. He is involved in the mentoring program, has given a number of talks to prospective and current students about the School and about healthcare, and is currently slated to participate in a health roundtable in the fall. Of his continued support for and involvement with the School, McKitrick points out that health care reforms are dependent on the kinds of people and products that emerge from programs like the Carey Business School's Business of Medicine. "It's important to me to make this program as strong as possible," he says. Looking Back: Snapshots of The School's HistoryPeter B. Petersen Professor Emeritus Peter B. "Pete" Petersen began teaching at Hopkins in 1971, long before the Carey Business School came into being; indeed, before many of its current students were even born. Although retired for three years, Petersen remains a seminal figure in the long, rich history of the School's several predecessors, having played a pivotal role in the teaching of business at Hopkins. When business programs were offered through Hopkins' Evening College, Petersen served as the school's first full-time business faculty member, and he continued to teach through subsequent incarnations of business education in the School of Continuing Studies and the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education (SPSBE). Petersen, who served as director of SPSBE's Division of Business three separate times over the course of his tenure, retired in 2006 to Florida, but his interest in the School didn't end there. For the last few years, Petersen, who taught approximately 6,000 students, has devoted much of his free time interviewing many faculty and staff with whom he worked in his 27 years at Hopkins. His recently published book, From Inkwell to Internet, is the result of that research, providing a detailed history of business education at Hopkins from its beginnings in1916 to the present. Of his continuing interest in business education at Hopkins, Petersen says, "Sometimes people really get into a subject and they identify with it. I mean, I didn't retire until age 73. Why would someone keep working that long? They're into what they're doing, they love what they're doing, and they just keep on chugging away." A lot has changed since 1916. As Petersen pointed out, many of the tools and strategies being used in business today were developed over the course of the 20th century. As an expert on the School's history, he also sees a bright future. "I'd be willing to forecast that in time we'll become one of the leading business schools in America and the world," he predicts. Events and Networking OpportunitiesThe Dean's Lecture Series A quarterly lecture series focused on business education Carolyn Woo September 10, 2009 Johns Hopkins University Mason Hall Additional information to follow. Leaders + Legends A monthly lecture series featuring influential business and public policy leaders addressing topics of global interest and importance George Chavel September 17, 2009 Tickets $35 Future Leaders + Legends Speakers: Dan Mudd Greg Lucier MBA Career Quest 2009 Career Quest 2009 partner schools bring together corporate recruiters, students, and alumni to provide a world-class resource that no single university can provide. This career fair is open to students and alumni seeking internships or full-time positions. In addition to the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, some of the participating schools include the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and Wake Forest University. Friday, October 2, 2009 Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center For more information, email careerservices@jhu.edu The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School's Office of Alumni Relations is planning to host Alumni Networking Events in several cities around the country this fall. Please visit our website at www.carey.jhu.edu for more information. Career FocusAre you ONLINE? Internal Referral Networks Here is how you can help:
Contact Career Services, careerservices@jhu.edu, or Patrick Madsen, Director of Career Services, pmadsen@jhu.edu, to learn more. PCS Network
For more information, please visit pcsnetwork.groupsite.com. Have you joined? If not, email careerservices@jhu.edu for an invitation. Career Services Welcomes Two New Staff Members Lauren and Allison may be reached at lklentak@jhu.edu, and akapner@jhu.edu, respectively. Volunteer OpportunitiesAlumni Mentor Program Career Services The Sims Program Admissions The Carey Business School Office of Admissions is also seeking volunteers for its 2009 World MBA Tour. If you live in one of the following locations and are interested in helping to recruit students for the new Global MBA program, please contact Sondra Smith at sondra@jhu.edu. 2009 Carey Business School World MBA Tour Dates
Johns Hopkins Alumni AssociationDistinguished Alumni Awards The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association recently honored several exceptional graduates of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. William M. Ginder (BS, '54) received the prestigious Heritage Award in honor of his outstanding contributions to the Carey Business School and Alumni Association. Ginder and his wife Katherine established the William M. and Katherine B. Ginder Lecture Fund, which brings prominent figures to speak at the school. The Ginders, through an additional pledge, have also established the William M. and Katherine B. Ginder Visiting Professorship, which allows high-level faculty from around the world to spend several months teaching and collaborating with Carey School faculty without having to resign from their current positions. In addition, for many years, Ginder has played an extremely active role in alumni events and in his community. Other awardees include Bryan McMillan (BS '00, MBA '02), and Manisha Bharti (MBA/MPH '05), who received Outstanding Recent Graduate awards. McMillan, a manager with Northrop Grumman, has served in a multitude of volunteer leadership roles for the University and the Carey School, while Bharti was a member of the first cohort in the school's Master of Business Administration Master of Public Health program offered jointly by the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. Additionally, Andrew Klein, MD (MD '79, MBA '02), the Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplant Medicine and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center in Los Angeles, California; Michelle Singletary (MS '93), a nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post and Regular Personal Finance Contributor for National Public Radio; and Dr. Denice Cora-Bramble (MBA '03), Executive Director of the Diana L. and Stephen A. Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health at the Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington, DC; all received Distinguished Alumni awards in recognition of their having typified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence by virtue of their personal and professional accomplishments. Excellence in Teaching Awards Fred Katz, now a management and information technology consultant to IT, food service, and other industries nationwide, began teaching marketing and business courses part-time at the University of Maryland and the University of Baltimore in 1979. He holds a bachelor's degree and an MBA from the University of Maryland, has taught for the Carey Business School's Master of Science in Marketing program since 2002, and recently began instructing students of the school's MBA fellows program. "My number one goal," Katz says, "is that my students become strategic thinkers, that they walk away with the ability to make good decisions based on proper analysis of the data and try to remove any type of emotional spectrum from it." He sees a blending of creative and analytical discipline as the key to a student's success. Thomas Crain began his professional career teaching high school English literature, and serves as a lecturer and faculty member for the Carey Business School, teaching such courses as Foundations of Moral Leadership and Managerial Communications. Given the foundation of his teaching career in the realm of the literary arts, he naturally views writing as the linchpin of not just academic but cultural and professional success and personal growth, and sees it as a conduit leading to an intimate and unequalled understanding of his students. This fall will mark his 15th anniversary teaching at the Carey School. Join the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association JHU inCircle: A New Online Community. Are You in?
Carey School groups are forming – Login now using your online alumni ID for FREE access. To join please visit http://alumni.jhu.edu/JHUincircle. Go ShoppingThe School is delighted to announce that you may now purchase Johns Hopkins Carey Business School apparel and gift items using our new online shopping site. Please visit www.carey.jhu.edu/shopcarey to access the site, which includes photos and descriptions of all available items. You will be guided through a simple registration, password selection, and ordering process. You may contact Kim Anderson at kander47@jhu.edu with any questions. We hope you enjoy your shopping experience and purchases. Being GreenThe Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, in its efforts to stay in touch with all alumni, is working hard to be a greener and more sustainable organization. To minimize duplicate and misdirected mailings, please be sure to keep your email address up to date with us and please share this e-newsletter with other alumni for whom we might not have a current email address. Please send any changes to your contact information to carey.alumni@jhu.edu. |
