May 2012 Commencement
On May 5, 2012 the Brennan School of Business added 103 individuals to its growing list of alumni. Congratulations to all!
On Thursday, May 3, 2012 the Brennan School of Business held a reception for graduate students who participated in the summer Commencement ceremony. In addition to celebrating the achievement of all of our graduates, we presented the Outstanding Graduate Student Award to Laura Acchione and the Excellence in Teaching Award to Professor Dan Condon.
Career Formation Series: Insights From a Job Search Coach
On Thursday, April 19 the Brennan School of Business hosted the Career Formation Series event. Mike Harvey, Job Coach for Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. talked about learning how to deliver value based messages in your job search campaign to connect with the employer and to improve your chances of landing the job. A networking reception followed.
Mike is an accomplished sales and marketing professional whose past challenges have included leading, developing and creating winning sales strategies for Caterpillar, Ford and Western Star Trucks. His expertise includes motivation and teambuilding. Currently, Mike is a Job Coach for Challenger, Gray & Christmas in Chicago where he assists corporate clients in transitioning to new career opportunities.
The event was sponsored by the Brennan School of Business, Office of Career Development.
Corporate Governance Forum
On Wednesday, April 18 the Brennan School of Business hosted the 7th annual Edward A. Brennan Business Forum on Corporate Governance at the University Club of Chicago.
The topic of this year's panel, moderated by Charles M. Elson, was "The $10 Million Question: A Discussion on Executive Compensation."
Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance Lerner College of Business and Law, University of Delaware, has moderated the forum for the past seven years. This year's panelists were: Christine A. Edwards, Partner, Winston & Strawn; board member, BMO Financial Group; Eileen Kamerick, Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Houlihan Lokey; board member, Associated Bancorp and Westell Technologies, Inc.; Michael Kesner, Principal at Deloitte Consulting; and Collin E. Roche, Principal at GTCR; board member, PrivateBancorp, Aligned Asset Management and BNY ConvergEx.
The Brennan School of Business hosted a luncheon on April 2 for the 2012-2012 Schmitt Scholars: Portia Anderson, Megan Graves, Dumitru Lupou, Edgar Nieto, Cynthia Velasquez, Jamie Visser. The Scholars were joined by members of the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation Board of Trustees, Dominican University President Donna Carroll, Brennan School of Business Dean Arvid Johnson, and other members of the Dominican faculty and staff who served as mentors to the Schmitt Scholars during the year. All Scholars gave presentations regarding their individual service projects, which they developed and implemented over the course of the year.
On March 23, 2012 thirty two students were inducted into Sigma Iota Epsilon (SIE), an honorary and professional organization, the purpose of which is to encourage and recognize scholastic excellence and to promote cooperation between the academic and practical aspects of management. Each spring, undergraduate and graduate business students who have met the Brennan School's high academic standards for induction are invited to join SIE. Congratulations to this year's new members: Jonathan Acosta, Jennifer Alcantara, Oluwarotimi Daramola, Tina DeBenedictis, Elizabeth Dunn, Daniel Dziarkowski, Christine Hamman, Jarvis Hudson, Maja Jeftic, Viki Katris, Allison Kolman, Brianna Kucera, Matthew Kuzniar, Timothy Little, Lisa Machtemes, Jessi-Lynn McCarroll, Kvitoslava Modrytska, Alexandra Mooney, Jaclyn Moran, Natalie Paliferro, Alyssa Picone, Amber Rettke, Stacy Reynolds, Jessica Rosales, Justin Roy, Dianna Sciaraffa, Prabal Singh, Holly Sostock, Stamatia Soumbasis, Cary Thereon, Giovanna Valenti, Valerie Williams.
Christopher Chair in Business Ethics Lecture
Advancing Human Rights in Developing Countries: A Voluntary Opportunity or a Moral Obligation
for Business?
Over 100 people attended the 2011 Brennan School of Business Christopher Chair in Business
Ethics Lecture-
Advancing Human Rights in Developing Countries: A Voluntary Opportunity or a Moral Obligation
for Business? presented by Oliver Williams, C.S.C. on Wednesday,
February 1.
As a director at the United Nations Global Compact Foundation, Fr. Williams stated he’s encouraged to see how many companies are involved in projects that are advancing human rights around the world. The question he addressed is whether such projects should be considered a moral obligation, or are they to be viewed as simply examples of corporate philanthropy? Fr. Williams offered several studies and principles for guidance in addressing this issue and engaged the audience in a lively discussion following his lecture.
In addition to serving as Christopher Chair in Business Ethics, Rev. Oliver F. Williams is an Associate Professor of Management at University of Notre Dame, the director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business, the editor of Peace Through Commerce (Notre Dame Press, 2008) and is a director at the United Nations Global Compact Foundation, the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative addressing human rights, conflict prevention and contributions to world peace. Williams is a Catholic priest and former Naval officer. He earned his doctorate from Vanderbilt University.
The Christopher Chair in Business Ethics was established by Doris and Jay Christopher to focus on ethical business practices through lectures, workshops and faculty and student initiatives.
Watch the lecture here.
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here.
On January 14, 2012 the Brennan School of Business added 23 individuals to its growing list of alumni. We also recognized 15 August 2011 graduates and 46 graduates of the Brennan School MBA programs in Europe. Congratulations to all!
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