Leavey Students Selected for Hackworth Fellowship
Two Leavey School of Business school students have been chosen for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Hackworth Fellowship. These fellowships are awarded to rising seniors who are charged with the task of pursuing a unique program or project of ethical significance focused on engagement with their fellow Santa Clara University students.
Krishan Allen is an economics major from Emerald Hills, Calif. He will research methods of integrating ethical goals into investment practice, and aims to explain how students can attain both social and financial returns within their investment portfolios. Logan Peterson is a finance major from Scottsdale, Ariz., will focus on the Big Q, the Center’s social media campaign to involve undergraduates in discussion about the ethical issues in the everyday lives of undergraduates.
Leavey Offers Custom Exec. MBA Programs
The Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business offers unique custom designed programs for companies. The programs are designed to deliver custom executive or management programs, structured to help business leaders drive organizational success.
The Executive Development Center works closely with managers to create custom programs to fit companies needs. The center works with companies to identify the critical challenges to be addressed, the target audiences and appropriate faculty resources. The center will also find the appropriate design and instructional approaches as well as educational and performance outcomes of the program.
Leavey Dean to Return to Faculty
Drew Starbird, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, announced his decision not to seek an additional term after completing his five-year term as dean in summer 2015. Starbird, who served as interim dean of the business school in 2009–10, was appointed dean in fall 2010. He looks forward to returning to the classroom as professor of operations management and information systems after a sabbatical in the 2015–2016 academic year.
As a member of the business school faculty since 1987, Starbird has served in many leadership capacities, including director of the Food and Agribusiness Institute, a multidisciplinary research program at Santa Clara University.
“Drew Starbird has introduced many innovative programs within the Leavey School of Business that support young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch new enterprises,” said Michael Engh, S.J., SCU president. “I am very grateful for Drew’s leadership in strengthening the organizational structure of the business school and in extending its professional accreditation.
Leavey Alum. Named VP of Marketing at RiseSmart
Karin Bootsma Leavey School of Business MBA ’89 alumnus, has been named the new vice president of marketing at RiseSmart, a leading company in enterprise career management solutions. In this position, Bootsma will build upon RiseSmart’s market leadership and focus on creating marketing programs that grow the foundation for ongoing customer, sales and channel success in each of the company’s markets.
Bootsma brings over 20 years of high-tech, HCM and SaaS marketing experience, including seven years as vice president of marketing at public and private companies. She joins RiseSmart from Monster Worldwide, where she led Product Marketing, HR Alliances and Monster’s Talent Management Suite. Bootsma also drove product marketing for several new products, such as Monster’s semantic resume search products.
Leavey Student Leaders Elected
Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business recently held elections to designate student leaders for the 2014-2015 Inter-Network Council (INC) and its various graduate student networks.
Leavey Executive Professor Retires
Linda Alepin, Dean’s Executive Professor and member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Leavey School of Business has officially retired. Alepin joined the Leavey School Dean’s Advisory Board in February 1996 where her impact on the business school has made a world of difference.In partnership with the Business School, Alepin founded the Global Women’s Leadership Network, bringing the ideals of Santa Clara University to an international forum as she recruited women leaders locally and abroad to discover their skills and abilities to make change in their communities. In the 10 years since its founding, the Global Women’s Leadership Network has grown to become a separate non-profit organization supporting and developing women leaders around the world. Continue reading…
