VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1

  JANUARY 2007


AN ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER ABOUT IMBA STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY, PROJECTS, AND EVENTS

Creating Leaders for Sustainable Development
The Moore School of Business is enhancing its core offerings in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development to create even better, more socially responsible leaders. One elective, International Business and Sustainable Development, introduces students to international and national environmental and social management issues that affect a company's operations and management practices. This course included lectures by corporate representatives of Duke Energy and BMW Manufacturing and a leading academician.

Job Fairs: Adapting to the Recruiting Market
Since 9/11, companies have cut back on the number of schools they visit and the number of new MBA hires. This change has prompted the Moore School of Business Graduate Career Management Office to expand its job fair participation. Their diligent work to develop the best prepared, polished and professional students has impressed employers at job fairs and resulted in success for students. Job fairs held by organizations like the National Association of Hispanic MBAs (photo at left), have proven an excellent place for Moore School IMBAs to market their foreign language skills and international experience.

Doug Quackenbos shared his business experiences with IMBA students through a case discussion

Alumnus Doug Quackenbos Facilitates Case Discussion
Alumnus Doug Quackenbos Facilitates Case Discussion
When Doug Quackenbos, an alumnus of the Moore School, started working on the introduction of the DeWalt power tool line in Italy in 1994, he had no idea he would return to the Moore School to facilitate a Black & Decker case discussion with first-year IMBA students. Currently serving as the business development manager for the Cascades Sonoco Joint Venture at Sonoco Products of Hartsville, SC, Quackenbos' case facilitation at the Moore School not only brought back his DeWalt/Black & Decker experience and his recent experiences in international business, he also tied in his South Carolina industry links to the world.

WMBA Work-Life Balance Panelists

Forum: Female Business Leaders Discuss Balancing Career and Family
A panel of women business leaders spoke to about 60 female graduate students in accounting, human resources, international business at the Moore School and women from the Columbia community. The forum was sponsored by the University of South Carolina chapter of the National Association of Women MBAs and included discussions of how to research companies with a flexible work environment, ways to build a good support network and methods of balancing work and life.

Earl G. Graves Sr., Founder of Black Enterprise Magazine

Black Enterprise Magazine Founder Spoke about Minorities and Business
The fifth year of the Wachovia Executive Lecture Series began with a nationally recognized authority on Black business development. Earl G. Graves, Sr., founder of Black Enterprise magazine and current chairman of Earl G. Graves Publishing Company, spoke about his experiences as a minority entrepreneur, businessman and leader. His numerous awards and achievements reflect his significant contributions to business in America, and served as a high note to start the latest round of Wachovia lectures.

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