Darla Moore School of Business | University of South Carolina | Winter 2013
Darla Moore School of Business | University of South Carolina
Features
4 No books, no paper
8 Catalyzing new business
12 Running with the mouse
15 In Sync
Moore News
18 The latest on faculty, students and programs, including Moore School student athletes; MACC and MTAX program anniversaries; new format for accounting course; CASE awards and Page Prize winners; new Accelerated MBA program; the Center for Business Communication; and Darla Moore joins Augusta National.
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24 IMBA photo contest winners and the 2012 Business Leadership and Awards Dinner.
Volume 29 | Winter 2013 MOORE is a publication for alumni and friends of the Darla Moore School of Business. Published by: Office of Alumni Relations Darla Moore School of Business University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 USA www.moore.sc.edu
Moore Giving
28 Neal brothers establish scholarship; Building Moore campaign; photos of new building; and naming opportunities.
Moore Giving Back
32 Alumnus cycles for a cause and accounting students assist low-income clients.
Moore Alumni
34 Class notes, alumni news and information
Know Moore
44 The difference between good and excellent
Hildy J. Teegen | Dean Robert Appel | Marketing Director Gabriele Clark | Alumni Director Anne Creed | Managing Editor Leslie Haynsworth | Contributing Writer Magazine layout and design by University Creative Services Michelle Hindle Riley and Philip Caoile | Designers MOORE is published entirely through private donations. The University of South Carolina is committed to sustainability in all facets of operation, including the production of publications such as this one printed on paper containing 10 percent postconsumer waste, and FSC and SFI Chain of Custody certifications. One hundred percent of the electricity used to manufacture this paper is generated with Green-e certified renewable energy. Environmentally friendly mailing bags are 100% recyclable and compostable.
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For address changes and alumni news, please contact us at alumni@moore.sc.edu or call 803-777-7602. Illustrations on cover and pages 9, 16, 19 and 21 by Robert Ariail About Robert Ariail: USC graduate and winner of the university’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, Columbia native Robert Ariail is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the 2012 Verner Award and many other awards. Ariail’s cartoons are syndicated in more than 600 papers nationwide.
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As you may have already heard, this will be my last message to you as dean of the Darla Moore School of Business. After many years working in university administration — most recently as your dean — I’ve decided to return to the research and teaching that I love. The university has launched an international search for my successor, and I will stay on as dean until a replacement is named later this academic year. After a sabbatical next year, I plan to continue to serve the school as a member of our international business faculty. It has been an honor being your dean, and the past five years have been the most gratifying of my career. With your help, and despite very challenging economic realities, we’ve made tremendous strides to improve our already strong reputation. We’re building the world’s first academically based telepresence network to connect our classrooms with academic and business partners all over the world. We’re developing novel collaborations that blend theory and practice in global supply chain management, risk and uncertainty management, entrepreneurship and other fields. We’re launching a new accelerated MBA program that allows students to select a specialized track of study in one of several fields. We are also continuing to cement our reputation in undergraduate education with an incoming freshman class that has the highest average SAT score of any class in our history. We are taking a leading role in the Innovista research campus. Our new building, quickly rising at the gateway to the Innovista, will bring new jobs to the state and allow us to partner with industry and the community even more effectively. Faculty and students in every
department on campus will be able to work with business researchers to commercialize their inventions and ideas. These kinds of unique partnerships hold the key to a new economy in South Carolina: an economy that is researchbased, entrepreneurial and cooperative. Transitions like this present important opportunities for organizations to open new chapters and access new insights, and timing is always essential to their success. The timing is right for this transition. Right now, the Moore School is stronger than ever, with an unrivaled reputation in our core field of international business, a strong commitment to undergraduate education, and emerging research and partnerships. I am proud to report that U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Moore School No. 1 in undergraduate international business for the 16th consecutive year, has placed our undergraduate insurance degree in the top 10 for the third consecutive year, and has listed us in the top 40 for overall undergraduate business education. We continue to grow and succeed in large part because we are fortunate to have an alumni community that is invested in our success. These investments take many forms, inspiring us to continue to strive for excellence and challenging us not to become complacent
with our success. As I move back to the faculty, I am as optimistic as I have ever been about the Darla Moore School of Business and the University of South Carolina. With your continued help, our future looks very, very bright. With sincere appreciation for your support,
Hildy Teegen, Dean teegen@moore.sc.edu 803-777-3176
Hildy Teegen is a USC Educational Foundation Chaired Professor of International Business at the Darla Moore School of Business. She is member of the boards of directors of the Palmetto Institute, the United Way of the Midlands, and the Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Private Enterprise and a founding board member of the Women of the Academy of International Business. She holds a Ph.D. in business from the University of Texas at Austin. She is fluent in Spanish and has taught in the United States and Mexico. She is the author of two books and dozens of refereed journal articles. Prior to being named dean of the Moore School, Teegen directed the Center for International Business Education and Research at George Washington University.
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“One reason we’ve shifted to having more electronic resources is that that’s the direction in which business research has shifted. A lot of key business resources aren’t even available in print anymore.” Emily Doyle
No books, no paper Business library pioneering all-digital approach in new building By Leslie Haynsworth
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Who could imagine a library without books? Librarians at the Darla Moore School of Business Elliott White Springs Business Library have envisioned one, and when the school’s new building opens in December 2013, a virtual, paperless library will open, too. It’s a reality that reflects the changing needs of Moore School students and faculty, said business librarian Emily Doyle. “Unlike many other careers, business is a field where people will typically do more research on the job than they did as students,” Doyle noted. “So it really helps students if we can model the research experience they’re likely to have after graduation.” In the business world, more research is conducted online, where data and other information can be updated frequently to reflect a rapidly changing environment, and can be accessed with ease from anywhere. And, Doyle said, today’s tech-savvy students are eager to make the shift to online research too. “All of our students want to use electronic resources these days. Our physical book circulation is very low and dropping all the time,” she said. “Usually when students call us looking for something, they want it electronically and instantly. So a paperless library will allow us to even better meet their needs by focusing on the resources they need most.”
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When the new library opens next year, it will not look like a traditional academic library — and that, in many respects, will enhance students’ research experiences even further. Instead of endless rows of bookshelves, the library will have a lot of open space where students can study, research or just catch up on the latest business news between classes. It will not have copy machines, but it will feature classroom space where librarians can provide instruction on how to conduct research, not only for students but also for the business community at large. “Librarians currently provide instruction and subject expertise, but we haven’t had classroom space before,” Doyle said. “We think it will allow us to do a lot more to help people do advanced and specialized kinds of research.” That kind of assistance is something the business librarians will have more time for in their new facility. Maintaining a physical collection of books — checking them in and out, shelving them, keeping them in good condition — is more time-consuming than curating an electronic collection. So the paperless library will free up library staff to offer more of the help they’re uniquely qualified to provide, such as subject matter expertise and specialized help using information resources. Because most of its resources will be virtual, the new library will also be open around the clock so students will have access to quiet study space and advanced research tools at any time. While 8 | Darla Moore School of Business
research librarians will still be available to provide assistance, their presence will no longer be required to keep the library open. And while books won’t be a visible presence in the new space, they won’t be entirely absent either. With more books available electronically, plans are in the works to allow students to check out e-readers on which they can download the books they need. Students and faculty will also be able to order books from any of the university’s libraries, or from the off-site library annex, where most of the books formerly housed in the Springs Library will be stored. Those books will be delivered to the business library within 24 hours and can be returned there, too. In making the shift to a paperless library, the Moore School might well be following the lead of the business community. But among business school libraries, Springs is a pioneer — as it has been for much of its history. When it was founded in 1973, Springs was one of the nation’s earlier free-standing academic business libraries. That status has allowed it to evolve in ways that make it particularly well suited to the needs of business students and the business community. “Business resources are different from traditional scholarly resources in several ways,” Doyle said. “For one thing, while the academic community is the target audience for most of the research materials in other disciplines, industry is usually the primary audience for our research materials. That means we need to think differently from other
kinds of academic libraries about how we build our collections and about how our patrons use them. “One reason we’ve shifted to having more electronic resources is that that’s the direction in which business research has shifted. A lot of key business resources aren’t even available in print anymore.” Springs is also farther along in the transition from print to online resources than most business school libraries. In fact, Doyle said, “None of the top 10 business schools are currently fully digital. They all still have substantial print collections. So we have the potential to be a real trailblazer in that regard. The leadership of the Moore School and the University Libraries have made electronic resources a priority in the past few years, and Springs has become a showcase for what those resources can do for people.” The new library is also pioneering a more sustainable model for academic research — and in that regard, it’s in keeping with the new building in which it will be housed. “The digital evolution of libraries saves trees, reduces hazardous waste and shrinks the carbon footprint that comes from the production and shipping of books,” Doyle said. “So the library will be very much in line with Moore’s sustainability initiatives.” In preparation for the shift to digital, the librarians at Springs have already begun a big push to boost their online resources. The challenge
is that electronic texts and databases are often significantly more expensive than their print counterparts. The upside, though, is that the information that’s available to Moore School faculty and students is rapidly becoming more comprehensive and up to date than ever. “We have some amazing new resources,” Doyle said, “such as IBIS World, a database of industry reports that’s recently been expanded to include niche industries like nail salons and coffee shops, so students can really drill down and find out just about anything they want to know.” But will a library without books — and without that musty, old-book smell — seem strange? Maybe so to those who are most accustomed to traditional academic research facilities. If electronic research is the wave of the future, however, it’s clear that Moore School students are already on board. “We do still get requests for print resources,” Doyle said. “But the students seem very excited about our expanded online capacities. And we’re excited that the new library will offer them such a comfortable, inviting space in which to research and learn.”
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By Leslie Haynsworth
Catalyzing new business Faber Center for Entrepreneurship fostering vibrant start-up culture Timing, as all business leaders know, can be everything. And the timing for the Faber Center for Entrepreneurship’s newly expanded role in helping members of the USC community launch business start-ups couldn’t be more perfect. Thanks to a strategic vision that capitalizes on the Darla Moore School of Business’s existing strengths in key areas such as international business, intellectual property and global supply chain management, the Faber Center is poised to dramatically accelerate its capacity to catalyze new business ventures. That, in turn, will position it to become a model for entrepreneurship centers everywhere. First established in 1997 with a gift from alumni Tim and Karen Faber, who, as founders of U.S. Personnel, are themselves successful entrepreneurs, the Faber Center has provided Moore School students with hands-on exposure to entrepreneurial concepts and practices.
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“I came here because I see an opportunity for the University of South Carolina to really leapfrog what other programs have done.” Dirk Brown
The center has also assisted members of the USC community with the business start-up process. The center’s core goal, Tim Faber said, is to “create a formalized mechanism for perpetuating an entrepreneurial culture in this state.” Or, as Richard Robinson, distinguished professor emeritus of management and Faber Center founding director, put it: “To foster a more vibrant entrepreneurial climate in South Carolina by identifying and nurturing those among us who will be tomorrow’s Tim and Karen Faber.” Entrepreneurship centers are not uncommon at major universities, and many, like the Faber Center, have a solid track record of helping to transform innovative ideas that come out of a university environment into thriving companies with high-paying jobs. When Silicon Valleybased entrepreneur Dirk Brown looked at the Faber Center in 2011, he saw something that set it apart from other academic entrepreneurship centers: its relationship to the Moore School. More specifically, Brown saw that the Moore School’s existing strengths in international business and intellectual property positioned the Faber Center to provide precisely the kind of expertise today’s entrepreneurs need most. It was the Moore School’s strong reputation in international business and its tradition of teaching intellectual property as part of the business curriculum that sparked Brown’s decision to relocate to Columbia a year ago from Silicon Valley, where he had been CEO of electronic technology company Neoconix and founding CEO of Pandoodle, a digital media technology company. Now executive director of the Faber Center, Brown said the decision was easy. “When I looked at what the Faber Center had already accomplished and at the Moore School’s expertise in international business, I could tell there were a lot of good pieces in place that put the Faber Center on the cusp of really being able to crank out new ventures,” Brown said. Ideas for those new ventures come from faculty and students across campus, not only at the Moore School but also in the College of Engineering and Computing and the University’s Innovista Research District. That’s why the Faber Center has developed an interdisciplinary presence and established partnerships with the Technology Incubator and the Office of Research and a host of other programs such as the Small Business Development Center, the S.C. Manufacturing Extension 12 | Darla Moore School of Business
Partnership, the S.C. Council on Economic Education, Engenuity South Carolina and NewCarolina, an organization that helps to build South Carolina’s economic competitiveness. Through the Faber Center, members of the USC community have access to a very comprehensive menu of business services and opportunities that can accelerate the growth of any entrepreneurial endeavor. It’s also through the Faber Center that Moore School students find unique opportunities for hands-on entrepreneurial experience. In addition to sponsoring a business plan competition for USC students each year, the center sets up and supervises in-depth consulting projects that allow student teams to offer business solutions to local companies. Those have been and will continue to be important ways in which the Faber Center fosters an entrepreneurial culture on campus and in South Carolina, Brown said. But in today’s business environment, he believes the Faber Center is particularly well positioned to do much more. “I came here because I see an opportunity for the University of South Carolina to really leapfrog what other programs have done,” he said. “So many other good academic entrepreneurship programs established their operating model before international business savvy and a strong understanding of intellectual property were as important as they are today. “Things have really changed over the last decade, and as a result, all start-ups are now effectively competing in a global environment. That means entrepreneurs can really leverage the kinds of international connections the Moore School has.” Just as global supply chains and global customer bases have created a more international business landscape, growth of the knowledge economy has also made intellectual property more important than ever. In the 1970s, intellectual property represented, on average, 20 percent of an American company’s assets. Today, that figure is closer to 75 percent. That means “companies in which the leadership has a strong grasp on intellectual property issues have a tremendous competitive advantage,” Brown said. By teaching intellectual property (IP) in the business school instead of only in the law school, Brown said, USC is training business leaders to be able to maximize the value of their intangible assets.
“When business leaders really understand IP, instead of being reliant on their legal teams to deal with it, they can more effectively integrate IP-related issues into their overall business strategies,” Brown noted. “And that’s particularly critical for entrepreneurs. In early-stage ventures, it’s so important to make the right decisions about intellectual property because it is, in many cases, your only real asset. “But it’s also harder to make good decisions about how to manage intellectual property when your business is new. So a strong understanding of IP puts fledgling entrepreneurs in a much better position to make the right decisions from the start.” In fact, Brown said, start-ups that have a strong intellectual property strategy have been proven to outperform those that do not. And the Faber Center is singular in offering entrepreneurship training that emphasizes both international business and intellectual property. Although it’s only been in the past year that the Faber Center has formally begun to emphasize issues like intellectual property, the larger entrepreneurship community has already taken notice. In June, the Moore School was invited to partner with the National Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Taskforce in hosting a conference called “Business Power: The Effects of Intellectual Property on Corporate Performance.” The taskforce’s goal is to facilitate economic growth by helping business leaders to more effectively leverage their intellectual property. The Moore School’s partnership on projects like the conference positions the Faber Center as a thought leader in this emerging area of critical importance for all entrepreneurs — which is nothing less than the role and the reputation it deserves, Brown said. “All start-ups will always need many of the same basic things such as a good management team, adequate funding and a solid technology infrastructure,” he said. “But the business environment is always changing too, and our goal at the Faber Center is to provide truly leading-edge training that gives entrepreneurs the best possible chance to succeed.”
From left, Anosh Baxter, Brandon Gottschall, Kevin Dugan and Kinjalk Saikia.
Faber Center interns get value-added education IMBA students Anosh Baxter and Kinjalk Saikia both came halfway around the world to study at the Darla Moore School of Business because of the Moore School’s strong reputation in international business. Since arriving, both have also found that the Moore School’s focus on intellectual property and the opportunities available to them at the Faber Center have added even more value to their degrees. That added value is exemplified, they said, by their experience assisting with the Business Power conference that the Moore School cosponsored with the National Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Task Force this past June. Baxter and Saikia were interning at the Faber Center when executive director Dirk Brown offered them the opportunity to help with the conference and attend it for free. Both jumped at the chance to hone their IP skills, which they had already recognized as providing a competitive advantage to business leaders in the international marketplace. “Intellectual property was not something I knew a lot about,” Saikia said. “But we both felt it was very interesting, and it’s clear that business strategy and IP strategy need to complement one another.” At the conference, “We got to learn a lot from experts in the field, many of whom shared stories from personal experience about IP issues. That was especially helpful and will be of value to me when I advise companies as a consultant,” Baxter said. For both Baxter, who hails from Mumbai and hopes to work in the United States and elsewhere upon completion of his degree, and Saikia, who is from Guwahati in northeastern India and chose to pursue an IMBA so his business career would not be geographically limited, the conference was typical of the kinds of experiences they’ve had at the Moore School. “I came here because Moore was ranked in the top three in the world in international business,” Baxter said. “But even so, I didn’t realize what an asset it would be to study with classmates who are from all over the world. We’ve learned so much from each other.” The Faber Center itself is another tremendous asset for Moore School students, Saikia said. “Those of us who work there get hands-on experience of how start-ups go about doing their work,” he said. “Plus, it provides a lot of networking opportunities. You’re working with many different companies instead of just doing a traditional internship with one company.” And, Baxter said, “the Faber Center creates a lot of good opportunities for MBA students in their second years. Many students at that point want to work part-time, and companies keep offering great projects to Moore School students via the Faber Center.” University of South Carolina | 13
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Running with the mouse A full marathon through the middle of Disney World? Not a problem, says Chris Prunty. Imagine throwing out the welcome mat for 55,000 runners to race through Disney’s theme parks and resorts while the parks are in full operation — without disturbing the guests. That’s what Chris Prunty (BS ’99) does as sports manager for the Walt Disney Company’s runDisney. Prunty and his team put on marathons, half-marathons and adventure races, with five race weekends in Florida and two race weekends in California every year. “We have a bit of a challenge putting on large-scale events in theme parks, where we’re responsible for delivering a great experience for our race guests with minimal impact on our theme park guests,” Prunty said. He’s on the event management side of the business, with a focus on the operation of the races. In addition to the runners, there are thousands of volunteers who must be recruited, trained and managed. And then there are the Disney cast members, parking lot managers, Disney security, local police, traffic officials and the highway patrol. Prunty and his team go on weekly walk-throughs to be sure nothing is left to chance. “We’re focused on the minute details of each event and are on a year-round planning cycle,” Prunty said. Each race weekend has a different theme, with races and activities to appeal to the whole family — from kids’ races where everybody wins to 26.2 mile marathons that attract competitive runners from all over the world. And, like most things Disney, these aren’t your usual races. The routes feature entertainment and encouragement along the way.
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In Sync Moore School retools its IMBA degree with greater flexibility to meet the new requirements of a changing world By Leslie Haynsworth
“You can high-five with Mickey and get your photo taken with Goofy,” Prunty said. Depending on the race theme, Disney might even issue runners special gear to wear on top of their running clothes, giving these races an even more unique character. Groups of smiling but serious women can be spotted running on course in pink tulle skirts and princess crowns. “We have bands and cheerleaders along the racecourse to take your mind off the fact that you are running and to make it enjoyable for everyone,” Prunty said. Prunty and his team send runners on challenging but fun routes that can take them through Cinderella’s Castle, Epcot, the Animal Kingdom and more. “What is very cool about our races is that we get a lot of first-timers in our events. It’s really rewarding to be near the finish line where you can watch people’s faces as they accomplish their goals,” he said. “You see people who are ecstatic, people running arm-in-arm, people with tears in their eyes.” The runners aren’t the only ones with goals to achieve. Prunty’s Moore School management education put him on the right course to achieve his own goal: sports management. 16 | Darla Moore School of Business
“The biggest help was the real-world application that we did in a lot of our courses,” Prunty said. “A lot of the case studies and group work that we did was very similar to what we do here. We were working in a group setting to tackle challenges. “Additionally, the business background has helped me tremendously with the business decisions we have to make,” said Prunty, who often returns with his family to USC for games and other events. “It’s been helpful from the financial side of things — creating budgets and working with the finance team.” Prunty’s background in marketing has also proved essential: “I’m an event manager so a management background has served me well.” And when Prunty goes home at night, he has yet another event to manage. He and his wife, Kim Hartwell (USC ’99), have two-yearold twins among their four children, who are ages one through five. Kim, who holds a degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, works for Disney in media relations. “Our kids think it is cool that Mommy and Daddy work with Mickey Mouse. They are a perfect age. They love going to theme parks and going on rides,” he said.
In an ever-changing global environment, business education must constantly evolve, too. That’s especially true of leading-edge programs like the International MBA (imba) at the Darla Moore School of Business. As home to one of the top-ranked programs in the world, the school has a responsibility to offer students an education that is up-to-date, relevant and valuable. That’s why, in fall 2013, the Moore School will introduce a significantly enhanced IMBA curriculum, adapted to the most pressing needs of businesses operating in today’s global economy. The new focus is “a continued evolution of the program that retains its eternal verities while adjusting to the current marketplace,” said international business professor Randy Folks, a key architect of the original Masters in International Business Studies (MIBS) program that established the Moore School as a leader in the field almost 40 years ago. Those eternal verities — which will continue to set the Moore School apart from other, more recently developed graduate programs in international business — include a strong emphasis on cross-continent consulting experience and an international perspective that’s embedded in all coursework across the core curriculum. Key goals behind the redesign include giving candidates more flexibility in building a course of study that reflects their professional goals and maximizing graduates’ ability to succeed as business leaders in a complex and competitive global business environment. “We are fortunate to have a stellar faculty with tremendous international business expertise and a leading reputation in the field,” said Moore
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“A fundamentally different global landscape is emerging that requires business schools to rethink how to design an education experience that effectively prepares future international leaders.” Hildy Teegen
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School Dean Hildy Teegen. “This curriculum will keep us at the forefront of international business education and enhance the program’s ability to reflect core Moore School values like experiential learning and a multidisciplinary approach.” The new focus was the result of a yearlong effort that included significant input from alumni, executives, current and prospective students, faculty and education experts. “It was clear,” Teegen said of the impetus for the change, “that a fundamentally different global landscape is emerging that requires business schools to rethink how to design an education experience that effectively prepares future international leaders.” One of the most notable changes is an enhanced experiential learning experience. To begin, there is a re-emphasis on fluency in a foreign language. That, Folks said, reflects emerging trends in a global market that is now demanding greater competence in language. Language immersion has always been a notable feature of the program, but it is currently optional. While some IMBA students have continued to develop fluency in a new language, the re-introduction of language study as a formal requirement more clearly signals the Moore School’s commitment to a truly international outlook. The program will also feature enhanced international corporate experience. All IMBA students will complete a five- to six-month corporate consulting project abroad. That’s longer than most current IMBA internships and significantly longer than the overseas work experience available at most other universities. Between the language immersion and the corporate consulting project, students will spend an average of nine months abroad. More time working in an international environment, said Marcelo Frias, the Moore School’s director of recruitment and market strategy for full-time MBA programs, creates an even more comprehensive immersive experience. “You’re not just seeing how things are different. You’re also learning what gives rise to those differences, which better equips you to add value to the host organization,” Frias explained. The language and corporate consulting experiences are integral parts of a broader academic objective of the International MBA program, which is to develop what Kendall Roth, the Moore School’s senior associate dean for International Programs and Partnerships, calls students’ “business cultural fluency.” “We want to use these in-country experiences to prepare a new generation of business leaders who are ready to work in a complex, uncertain and changing multicultural world,” Roth said. “Therefore, we developed a new international business core curriculum that introduces students to frameworks for understanding economic and sociopolitical systems as well as the forms of corporate governance emerging around the world. We are introducing students to methods for analyzing cross-national differences in local institutions, cultures and norms.” Students will receive much of this training through an innovative “globalization and culture” course that they will take concurrently with their overseas consulting projects. The course will keep students connected to Moore School faculty, who will provide mentoring and support throughout the internship experience. Through the course, “candidates will be continually challenged to think about what skills they’re using on the job and how their experience is different than it would be if they were doing
the same work elsewhere. We want to create a lot of opportunities for that kind of reflection and comparative analysis,” Folks said. It all adds up to an international curriculum that sets a Moore School International MBA apart. “You can get a sound business education at a lot of schools,” Roth said. “But what the Moore School has always done exceptionally well is to put that business education into a comprehensive global perspective. “It’s our belief that you have to see the holistic picture — not just functional systems but also the whole culture, and the way government and the business sector intersect — if you’re going to be successful in today’s international marketplace. The Moore School is distinctive in the degree to which we bring all those considerations to the table, and the new IMBA curriculum will only further our ability to do so.” It’s also a curriculum that resonates with corporate needs. As James Hewitt (MIBS ’94), Citi’s senior vice president and global head of customer acquisition strategy, noted, “At Citi we look for talent that not only has core business skills covered but also possesses a global perspective and preparation to rotate across geographies.” The International MBA is designed to produce just that talent pool. Another key change in the program — a more customizable core curriculum — is designed to meet the needs of International MBA students who have typically already been in the workforce for several years. The traditional one-size-fits-all approach is not always the best strategy, Frias said. “Because our candidates have significant work experience, some are already well-versed in the core competencies we teach.” The program’s ultimate goal, Roth said, is to equip its graduates with the ability to thrive in virtually any environment. “We’re not so much imparting a body of knowledge as imparting a process,” he said. “We want students to know what questions they need to ask when they’re in a new environment and where to find the answers. You may come here and study Spanish and do a consulting project in Mexico — but what you learn from that experience about how to function in an international setting should be transferable no matter where you end up, be it Ghana, India, Vietnam or Germany.”
The recently created international activities office, which is already serving current IMBA candidates, is building expertise on different regions of the world, focusing on corporate consulting projects and final employment opportunities. “It’s our philosophy,” Roth said, “that even as globalization seems to make the world more similar, cultural differences actually continue to matter a great deal, and understanding them gives you a significant competitive advantage. “So while most international MBA programs focus on globalization and the cosmopolitan mindset of doing business anywhere, we’re emphasizing deep contextualization and the localization of business practices. That’s what we’ve always done well, and it’s what continues to set our graduates apart.”
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Major milestones MACC and MTAX programs notch anniversaries
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Keeping score If you keep up with Gamecock sports, you know what the Moore School’s scholarathletes accomplished on the playing field last year. Here’s a list of equally-impressive academic accolades garnered by Moore School student-athletes in 2011-12: • First Team Capital One All-American — Marvin Reitze (BS ’12), track and field, management and international business • SEC’s H. Boyd McWhorter Male ScholarAthlete of the Year — Michael Roth (BS ’12), baseball, international business and marketing • NCAA’s Elite 89 award for the highest GPA in the World Series finals — Erik Payne, baseball, international business and insurance • Twenty-one Moore School student athletes named to SEC’s First Year Academic Honor Roll, helping USC lead the conference in academic achievement by first-year student athletes for the fifth year in a row • Thirty-three Moore School student athletes named to SEC’s spring Academic Honor Roll, helping USC place more students on the list than all but one other SEC university.
Both the Moore School’s Master of Accountancy (MACC) and Master of Taxation (MTAX) degree programs are reaching significant milestones this year. The MACC program, which graduated its first class in 1967, is celebrating its 45th anniversary, while the MTAX degree, whose first alumni finished in 1987, is now 25 years old. Small class sizes, a strong record of job placement and solid preparation for the CPA exam have become hallmarks of the MACC program. That established record of success makes the value of graduate work in accounting at the Moore School apparent to many prospective students today. But what drew those first students to the program in its earlier days? And how has the degree been valuable to them since? For David Smith, a member of the first class of MACC students, graduate work in accounting seemed like the best way to prepare for the CPA exam. A positive experience as an undergraduate accounting major at USC made the newly-minted MACC program an appealing option. “It was just great to be one of the first to participate in a new degree program,” he said. “I believed the degree would improve my career opportunities and it did! It was challenging to study and compete with other highly motivated students. It created a great learning environment.” When Jim Tennyson, senior vice president and CFO of Springfield Industries, joined the first class of MTAX students at the Moore School, he was looking for specialized knowledge in a field he found interesting. The main thing he learned, though, was that the program could never teach him everything he needed to know as a taxation specialist. “Tax is very complicated and is always changing,” he said. “So you can’t learn it all in the classroom. What you have to learn is how to learn, how to find what you need to know and to solve problems as they arise. Those skills — knowledge acquisition and problem-solving — are central to what I do now, and they’re the main things I got out of the MTAX program.” Smith parlayed his MACC degree into a diverse and successful career in accounting, working first for a national CPA firm in Charlotte, then a large firm in Columbia, then in state government, where he was deputy state auditor, and in solo practice in Lake City. “The program greatly increased my basic knowledge of accounting and taught me to make business decisions by analyzing a particular problem and obtaining all the facts before making a final decision,” he said. Tennyson, who found the MTAX program to be so well-organized and well-taught that it never felt like a new program, said he’d recommend the degree to others as a pathway to a particularly interesting and meaningful career. “Tax is ever-changing,” he said. “As a taxation specialist, you get to exercise problem-solving skills all the time, and you have a lot of interaction with people in different industries, and you’re helping them solve very complicated issues.”
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Students who sign on for a Darla Moore School of Business degree know they’ll have to work hard in the classroom. Students who play intercollegiate sports in the SEC know they’ll have to excel on the playing field. Combine the two and it takes not just book smarts and athletic talent but a lot of character — and support from teammates, professors and coaches — to succeed. Every year, many Moore School student athletes do just that. In 2012 their efforts were rewarded with a particularly impressive list of accolades. As they’ve routinely done lately, business majors on the USC baseball team continue to exemplify outstanding academic and athletic performance. While all eyes were on the Gamecocks as they took center stage for their third-consecutive year at the World Series in Omaha, the team’s accomplishments here in the Close-Hipp building were just as impressive. Four of the seven team members who made the SEC’s 2011-12 first-year academic honor roll — Connor Bright, Vince Fiori, Jordan Montgomery and Joel Seddon — are business majors. Teammates and fellow Moore School students Patrick Harrington, Erik Payne and Michael Roth earned berths on the SEC’s spring 2012 academic honor roll. Roth, who graduated in May with a degree in international business and marketing, also earned the SEC’s highest academic honor when he was named the conference’s H. Boyd McWhorter Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In addition he was, for the second year in a row, a first-team Capital One/CoSIDA Academic AllAmerican.
Payne, a sophomore international business major, followed in Roth’s footsteps as this year’s winner of the NCAA’s Elite 89 award for having the highest GPA among all the players in the World Series championship — an award Roth received in 2011. So how do they pull it off? A lot of it has to do with being able to tap into an existing culture of success and with being part of a particularly supportive community, Payne said. “Michael Roth mentored me on how to handle the work load and continue to practice and play at a high level without letting my grades slip,” Payne said. “And most of the professors I’ve had at USC and in the Moore School have been extremely supportive and have worked with me when I have to miss class for games and work around my strenuous baseball schedule.” Being a student athlete, Payne said, can have its drawbacks, but “it also has many advantages.” For one thing, he has found the academic resources USC provides for student athletes to be top-notch. For another, it requires the development of time management skills that will be an asset no matter where his career path takes him. Above all, being a student athlete at the Moore School means Payne is simultaneously getting an outstanding education and living out a lifelong dream. “Playing in the College World Series has been a dream of mine ever since I saw the games on TV at a young age,” he said. “There are really no words for how it feels to be playing there after watching it on TV for so long. I remember thinking to myself after I hit a triple against Florida in Omaha, ‘I can’t believe I’m here playing in a tournament I have watched my whole life.’”
Moore School launches Accelerated MBA program
Accounting for change New course format draws kudos from students It sounds counterintuitive: add an online component to a core course so students can have more quality time with their instructors. That’s what the Darla Moore School of Business has recently done with two introductory accounting classes, and to date, students and faculty alike have been pleased with the results. As required courses for all Moore School students, Accounting 225 and 226 are foundational to a Moore School education. It’s in these classes that students learn the fundamentals of accounting that are essential for almost all business-related careers. But because so many students — about 800 a semester — take the courses, class sizes have tended to be large, making it difficult for students to ask questions or get extra help and for faculty to provide individualized feedback on students’ work. In fall 2011, the school introduced a new hybrid format: instead of attending a crowded lecture twice a week, students now watch a recorded lecture and attend a smaller recitation section, where they work through exercises and can easily ask for the instructor’s help or feedback. The lectures, which are presented by an experienced instructor, are available online and broken into 15-20 minute modules so that students can watch them at their convenience and digest them in smaller chunks or all at once. Students can also watch any given lecture as often as they choose, which helps whenever a student is struggling with a particular concept. That makes the videos a handy study tool before exams. Because the course no longer requires multiple seasoned instructors to deliver live lectures each week, class sizes have shrunk significantly — from up to 130 students to around 40-50 per section. Recitation sections are now led by experienced graduate instructors, and students can also attend optional review sessions led by the professor who delivers the lectures.
Exams, which were previously all multiple-choice, feature a mix of multiple-choice questions and problems that allow students to show in more detail what they’ve learned, and student work is graded individually by instructors. School of Accounting lecturer Janice Fergusson, who coordinates both classes and delivers the lectures for Accounting 226, said the initial goals were to create a classroom environment where students were more comfortable asking questions and to reduce the need for machine grading. But other advantages have emerged. “Students tell us they really like the flexibility of being able to watch lectures whenever they want instead of being locked into a set time each week,” Fergusson said. “And with fewer senior faculty teaching these classes, we’ve also been able to shrink class sizes for some of our upperlevel accounting courses. “Plus, the experience our graduate students gain through leading these recitation sections is sending them out into the workforce with a lot more confidence in their leadership and communication skills. So we think the new format is a win-win for our students and our instructors.” School of Accounting chair Brad Tuttle agreed: “The School of Accounting is very serious about improving the quality of our program and adding value to our students. The changes to our sophomore accounting courses have that goal in mind. We are spending the same amount of money as before but see a 10-fold decrease in the student-to-teacher ratio for some of our instructors. That has got to improve the students’ experience and learning.” For all these reasons, Fergusson said, the new format for Accounting 225 and 226 may be pioneering what’s to come for future generations of business students. “Hybrid approaches to college-level instruction offer a lot of possibilities,” she said. “And we’ve been so pleased with how the redesign of these two classes has gone that we’re already exploring other options.”
A print of Aegean Sea #6, by artist Lynn Manos, is presented to winners of the Page Prize, along with a cash prize.
Page Prize winners announced Winners of the fourth annual Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula were announced earlier this year. The competition encourages and supports the introduction or significant improvement of sustainability courses into business school curricula around the world. Initially, the Moore School’s Page Prize accepted submissions that predominantly explored the topic of environmental sustainability. Starting in 2011, the school expanded its call to include teaching innovations that also explore the social side of sustainability (e.g., poverty alleviation). An ongoing database of winning curricula/syllabi is available on the Moore website for adoption by business faculty around the world to use in their home institutions. Top submissions are also accessible through the Moore School’s Partner Page on the Aspen Institute’s website, http://caseplace.org.
2011 Grand Prize Winners Darden School of Business University of Virginia Course: Innovation for Sustainability Dr. Ted London Ross School of Business University of Michigan Course: Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
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CASE District III 2011-2012 Awards III. Printed Publications - Institutional Publications Special Merit Award University of South Carolina Moore magazine VII. Visual Design - Illustrations Special Merit Award University of South Carolina Moore magazine cover story illustration
Dr. Pascual Berrone, Dr. Fabrizio Ferraro and Dr. Joan Enric Ricart IESE Business School Course: Strategic CSR and Sustainability Dr. Monica Touesnard Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University Course: Creative Design for Affordability Dr. Madhu Viswanathan College of Business University of Illinois Course: Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces
Beginning next summer, students at the Darla Moore School of Business will have a new option for earning an MBA, completing their coursework in just 11 intense months. The Accelerated MBA (AMBA) degree offers a business-driven and highly focused experience designed to prepare students to be leaders in ever-more-challenging business environments. In addition to providing a solid MBA foundation, this dynamic degree will help candidates develop functional expertise in a specialty concentration that best fits their particular interests and career trajectory. Business specialty options include global supply chain and operations management, human resources management, corporate accounting, entrepreneurship and marketing analytics. An additional option allows students to pursue a general business track while earning a joint MBA/JD degree. “This degree takes advantage of the Moore School’s global reputation, while allowing students to specialize in a particular area of business,” Dean Hildy Teegen said. “It’s more career-oriented, more tightly focused and more intensive.” Candidates will spend half of the program taking foundational and global business core courses with some of the world’s top business school faculty who are thought leaders in their respective fields. From there, they’ll move on to specialty courses in the area that most closely aligns with their individual career goals. The program’s accelerated pace means students will get back to work quickly and be prepared to make a big impact. What’s more, because they will only be out of the work force for a year, they greatly reduce the opportunity cost of returning to school. Same world-class quality, faster pace. For more information about the new AMBA degree program, visit the masters program pages at www.moore.sc.edu or contact us at gradinfo@moore.sc.edu.
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“You won’t find a business school on the planet with a better communication faculty.”
The class has changed recently… Oh, yeah. I think if our alumni came back and took Management 250 today, they would find it a bit more challenging. A couple of years ago, we started looking at the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) research — this is, in my view, the best measure of college effectiveness we’ve seen in a long time. The CLA told us that the Moore School had a good model for teaching writing, but that we needed to challenge students more. Now our undergrad class includes more writing, especially more analytical writing, and more reading beyond the basic b-com texts.
A conversation with Brad Stratton, director of the Center for Business Communication
How does communication instruction work at the Moore School? There are two major parts. Every undergraduate business major takes a required business communication class in the sophomore year. We also run the Center for Business Communication (CBC), which is our free consulting service for everyone affiliated with the Moore School. Students, faculty, even alumni can visit us to get expert advice on writing or even some coaching if they have an important speech coming up. So how does the CBC work? Ideally, a student will plan ahead a little and make an appointment a week or so before they have an assignment due. Then they can drop in and we’ll assess their individual situation. Maybe they just need a few minutes with us to generate ideas or clarify how to get started. Or they might need several hours of help over a few days to work out major organizational or textual issues. Whatever they need, we’ll tailor something for them. Sounds painless enough. Well, we try to maintain a studious, but comfortable vibe in the CBC. There is usually some reasonably good coffee brewing and a Pandora station playing in the background. The folks in the CBC are all professional writers. We know it’s difficult — we’ve all been there — so we do our best to help you get moving in the right direction. Who are these “folks” in the CBC? Students will usually work with one of our two graduate assistants. The Department of English sends us some of their best Ph.D. students; each of them is fluent in multiple languages. The CBC consultants who have
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worked with us over the past couple of years have each taught at the college level, either in the United States or internationally. They’ve all been experienced tutors. We even had a consultant who came back for his Ph.D. after a career as a military linguist. Interesting group. We also rotate one faculty member to manage things in the CBC and help with the more complicated projects, faculty projects and articles, things like that. They’re a great group; a diverse group. Lisa Bailey has that role right now, and she practiced law for years before going back to get her Ph.D. in English. The rest (of the faculty) have professional or technical writing experience in addition to their academic credentials. Most have had leadership roles in other university writing centers. You won’t find a business school on the planet with a better communication faculty. These faculty teach the required communication course, right? How does that work? The class is Management 250. It’s the foundational business communication course that every undergraduate business major takes. Students produce business presentations and all kinds of written documents. They also explore emerging communication issues, and, probably most importantly, they get a strong introduction to business research. They learn how to find and analyze research sources. We try to at least introduce them to the idea that they need to be critical consumers of data and information.
What do you mean by analytical writing? Essentially the students are asked to be more critical readers and writers. For example, a student might be assigned to read a case study or a Business Week article and present it to the class. In her written work — and in her oral presentation for that matter — she’d be expected to analyze the data or the claims being made by the writer, make an argument about how effective those claims are, and then apply them in a professional setting. She couldn’t get away with just producing a book report. She can’t just say, “Here’s what Warren Buffet says about investing.” She’d also have to say, “Here are the holes in Mr. Buffet’s argument,” or “Here’s why it makes sense.” She’d have to make her own claims and substantiate them, just like she’ll do at work someday. So what’s next for communication at the Moore School? In the short term, we want to do a better job of getting students into the CBC for the first time. We get a lot of repeat business; we know if we can get somebody in the door that first time, they’ll keep coming back until they graduate. We’ve got to convince students that using the CBC doesn’t mean they’re remedial. It means they’re being smart and proactive. They’re doing what all professional writers and speakers do: getting critical feedback on their work and making it better. We also have to let them know that the CBC is a cool place to study. I mean, we have coffee, music and free professional writing advice. How do you beat that? In the longer term, we’re exploring ways to stress written communication beyond Management 250. There are maybe a handful of schools that do this really well, and we’re going to be one of them. Writing is a skill like playing golf or the piano. The more you do it and the more feedback you get, the better you become. It’s a lifelong process — and we’re here to help.
Breaking the grass ceiling Darla Moore and Condoleezza Rice first women invited to join Augusta National After a career of smashing barriers, Darla Moore knocked down one more when she was one of the first two women invited to join the all-male bastion, Augusta National Golf Club. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Moore Rice was also invited to join the club that’s home of the Masters Golf Tournament. Moore issued a statement that was quoted on August 20, 2012, in The New York Times: “I am honored to have accepted an invitation to join Augusta National Golf Club. Augusta National has always captured my imagination, and is one of the most magically beautiful places anywhere in the world, as everyone gets to see during the Masters each April. “I am fortunate to have many friends who are members at Augusta National, so to be asked to join them as a member represents a very happy and important occasion in my life. Above all, Augusta National and the Masters Tournament have always stood for excellence, and that is what is so important to me. I am extremely grateful for this privilege.” We at the Darla Moore School of Business have always been proud of our namesake and her accomplishments, and we congratulate her on this latest recognition of her extraordinary achievements. University of South Carolina | 25
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Nearly 400 alumni and friends of the Darla Moore School of Business gathered to honor three alumni and one long-time friend of the Moore School on April 19 at the 27th anniversary of the awards. The event also offered sponsorship opportunities to help underwrite student scholarships.
Event Sponsors Cocktail Reception Sponsor: Certus Bank VIP Party Sponsor: AT&T Awards Ceremony Sponsor for Distinguished Alumnus: BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
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Awards Ceremony Sponsor for Distinguished Young Alumni: SAP Awards Ceremony Sponsor for Distinguished Service: BB&T International Food Station Sponsor (China): Cox Industries Inc. International Food Station Sponsor (U.S.): First Citizens Bank Dessert Party Sponsor: Elliott Davis LLC Lounge Sponsor: Big Sky Associates Inc. 4
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With construction well underway on our state-of-the-art new building, this feels like a pivotal moment in the history of the Darla Moore School of Business. But the construction site on the corner of Greene and Assembly streets is only one of the ways we’re Building Moore. Our $100 million fundraising campaign, which is part of the university-wide $1 billion Carolina’s Promise campaign, will also play a decisive role in shaping our future for generations to come. The $100 million we are raising through the Building Moore campaign will support everything that goes on inside the building: faculty and student research, programs and centers that serve the business community, innovative classroom experiences and more. Our strategic goals for the Building Moore campaign are driven by our Academic Blueprint for Success, which includes the following core initiatives: • grow the school’s reputation as a world-class research institution • enhance the school’s reputation as a thought-leader in international business • enhance the reputation of core academic programs • implement an infrastructure that fosters innovation and enhances the school’s reputation and capacity for ongoing revenue growth • continue to develop a robust corporate solutions division that offers valuable services and resources to the business community.
‘We were prepared for leadership and life…’
Neal brothers express their passion for USC and their Moore School education
Growing up in Sumter, S.C., Wilfred Neal never thought about attending USC or studying accounting until an older friend encouraged him to do both. That advice put Neal on a path to professional success in a field he enjoyed, led his younger brother Edwin to follow in his footsteps, and instilled in both of them a love of the university and a deep appreciation for the Moore School’s ability to recognize and nurture future business talent. “Neither of us would be where we are today without our USC education,” said Wilfred Neal, who, after a 28-year career with Duke Energy, is now CFO for the United Way of the Central Carolinas in Charlotte. It was, added Edwin Neal, who is group controller for Community Bank at Wells Fargo, the quality of instruction they received in the business school that really made a difference. “When they saw something in you, they tried to bring it out,” he said. “We were prepared for leadership and life, not just for a job.” Wanting to create similar opportunities for students from the Sumter area and beyond, the Neal brothers have established a generous scholarship fund that will help make a Moore School education possible for qualified undergraduate and graduate students regardless of their financial situation.
“We want others to be able to experience what we did,” Edwin Neal said. “We were raised to see education as a way to better not just yourself but your community. So we don’t want financial concerns to be a barrier to any student’s chance for a good education.” Supporting Moore School students, the Neals believe, offers a particularly good return on investment. “The Moore School prepares leaders,” Edwin Neal said. “It trains students to compete in the business world with graduates from anywhere.” And, he added, alumni, who know the value of a Moore School education, are particularly well positioned to keep that legacy of excellence alive. “To make sure the school can continue to attract the best students and faculty, we should give back,” he said. That, his brother noted, does not necessarily entail making a big up-front commitment. “It doesn’t have to be a large gift. You can start small,” Wilfred Neal said. “Even small contributions can lead to big things. The key is to give to the Moore School so they can keep putting out the quality students they do.”
The campaign will meet these objectives by raising funds in four key areas: • student support — scholarships that will help us attract top students and ensure that all qualified students can afford an exemplary education; funds that will facilitate significant out-of-classroom experiences, like internships and study abroad, for our students • faculty support — endowed chairs and professorships that will allow us to recruit, retains and support the best teachers and researchers • program support — seed money for new centers, institutes, initiatives and other programs that serve our students and the business community • facilities support — physical enhancements like new computer labs or telepresence studios that provide our students and faculty with the resources they need to maximize their productivity. At this critical juncture in our history, contributions to the Building Moore campaign by alumni and friends will have a decisive impact, creating the margin of excellence that will cement our reputation as a world-class center for business education. We’re halfway to our $100 million goal. With your help, we’ll get there and beyond. This is an unprecedented opportunity to play a significant role in scripting the future of the Moore School and shaping the education of future generations of business leaders. To learn more about the Building Moore campaign or to find out about specific giving opportunities, contact Jane Barghothi, senior director of development, at jane.barghothi@ moore.sc.edu or 803-777-7602.
“We’ve always wanted to do this,” said Wilfred Neal, “because we know there are a lot of students who can’t afford college without help.” 30 | Darla Moore School of Business
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Building Moore: Beyond bricks and mortar
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Our alumni and friends will make the critical difference in the success of the Building Moore campaign. There are many ways to get involved and have an impact on the campaign and on the future of Moore. Here are a few key ways you can help: • Volunteer as an alumni ambassador, help with new student recruitment, be a source for student jobs and internships, speak to a class or group of alumni or engage with the Moore School in another way that is meaningful to you.
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• Follow your passion when giving to the Building Moore campaign. What excites you about what’s happening at the Moore School? New programs, student research, faculty development, the new building or something else?
Now, as we begin to finalize construction of our new building, Moore School alumni and friends have a unique opportunity to secure naming rights for classrooms, offices, public spaces — even the rooftop pavilion.
• Tell others about the campaign and why you are inspired to take part. • Connect with other alumni by participating in regional events and by keeping us updated on your career progression and changes in your contact information. Discussion/Recitation Room
• Join our Linkedin and Facebook groups, and contribute your thoughts, news and ideas. Search for Moore School of Business Alumni.
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• Reach out to our Corporate Solutions division for customized executive education, organizational development programs, targeted economic impact research and more. Get in touch with us to find out more. Call Jane Bargothi, senior director of development, at 803-777-7602, email us at alumni@moore.sc.edu or visit www.moore.sc.edu. You can also check out the progress of the Building Moore campaign at http://mooreschool.sc.edu/buildingmoore.aspx.
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Want to make your mark on the Moore School? Or honor a mentor or loved one with a gift that will also help transform the lives of thousands of Moore School students?
Just a few of our naming opportunities are spotlighted below. To see the full list or to explore the possibility of making a gift, contact our advancement office at 803-7777602 or alumni@moore.sc.edu. Performance Hall $5,000,000 Wing $750,000 Grand Staircase (2) $200,000 Deep U Case Room $400,000 Shallow U Case Room $400,000
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Accounting students assist lowincome residents with tax returns Most Americans dread tax season. But thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of Darla Moore School of Business accounting students, completing those 2011 IRS forms was a lot easier for some Columbia-area residents. This year, as in years past, both graduate and undergraduate accounting students participated in the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) outreach program, providing free assistance with standard tax forms to low-income Midlands residents. It’s just one of the many ways Moore School students, faculty and staff volunteer their time and talents to make a difference in the community.
Climb every mountain Michael Hunter’s quest falls short but not his passion
“I wasn’t quite ready to join the real world, and I felt like there was so much I hadn’t seen, and this was the perfect time to do that.”
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“We try to simplify the complicated tax system for people, explaining things such as the difference between deductions and credits or what to do about non-taxable income such as sick pay,” said graduate student Ross Alberghini. If you had just graduated from college and had an opportunity to raise money for a good cause and gain valuable professional training while doing something you loved, would you take it? Even if it meant you had to carry bear repellent and risk getting chased by bison? When Michael Hunter (BS '11) graduated from the Darla Moore School of Business with a degree in marketing and supply chain management, he decided to put both his passion for the outdoors and his marketing education to good use by embarking on an ambitious fundraising project. Over the course of 18 months, he and a friend planned to bicycle more than 25,000 miles and climb to the highest points in all 50 states. Along the way, they would raise money for Big City Mountaineers, a Colorado-based organization that provides mentoring and life-changing outdoor activities to underprivileged urban teens around the country. “At first it was just something we thought would be a cool idea and fun,” Hunter said. “It was a little while later that we realized we would be the first people to ever climb the 50 summits in one trip solely based on human and renewable power.” Things didn’t go quite as planned: Hunter’s cycling partner injured his Achilles tendon a month into the journey and had to call it quits, leaving Hunter to go it alone — which he did until March of this year when he decided it was time to settle down and get a job. He’s now in Denver training as a financial advisor at Edward Jones. But in his seven months on the road, Hunter accomplished a lot: he biked 6,118 miles through 19 states and reached 18 peaks (conditions in New Mexico were too hazardous for an ascent). He was chased by 67 dogs, rode through a herd
of bison and mended six flat tires. He raised more than $5,500 for Big City Mountaineers. Now that he’s no longer spending eight to ten hours a day pedaling across the country, Hunter continues to put his marketing skills and his love of the outdoors to work in support of his favorite charity. This summer, he participated in a Big City Mountaineers fundraiser called Summit for Someone, which gave him the opportunity to reach another state’s high point: Washington’s Mount Rainier. And he has developed an impressive multi-platform campaign to spread the word about his own experiences helping Big City Mountaineers and encourage others to do the same. The website, blog, Twitter feed and Facebook page he created to chronicle his bike trip have generated significant media attention, raising the charity’s profile across the nation. It all started, Hunter said, because “when I graduated, I wasn’t quite ready to join the real world, and I felt like there was so much I hadn’t seen, and this was the perfect time to do that.” By embarking on the life-changing experience of traveling solo across thousands of miles of American roads, Hunter has also been able to make a significant difference in the lives of others, helping Big City Mountaineers provide similar experiences for teens who lack the resources to undertake them on their own. Learn more about Michael Hunter’s 182 days on the road at http://cycleforthesummit.wix.com/cycle-for-the-summit.
For those who availed themselves of VITA’s services, the students’ help often made the difference between a fast, easy filing process and hours and hours of frustration. It also at times resulted in a bigger-than-expected refund. “These forms are too difficult for people to do themselves now,” said Leroy Lewis, an 89-year-old retired employee of the U.S. Forestry Service. “My age and eyesight are catching up with me. The students are very helpful; I’ll come back next year.” Graduate student Matt Stalnaker said he found the opportunity to help people maximize their refunds particularly rewarding. “I chose accounting as a profession because I enjoy being able to help people. Some are desperately in need of the refund,” Stalnaker said. “It makes you feel good when they’re really happy when you tell them the amount. One woman did a dance because she was getting nearly $5,000 back.” Accounting professor Caroline Strobel encourages students to participate in the program and to make time in their professional lives for volunteer work in general. “It’s a very valuable experience for them,” Strobel said. “I want them to see that a community comprises people of all socio-economic levels. “Most of our students will work with large accounting firms. I want them to view this as part of life. It is important to be part of a community and to be involved in service. Firms stress this, and it’s an opportunity for them to perform a real service.” That, said Alberghini, is exactly why his stint with the VITA program has been of value to him. Having initially been drawn to accounting because of his interest in working with numbers, he now feels that helping others is his passion, and he sees his profession as a perfect way to do that. “People are really appreciative,” he said of VITA. “It’s a service they can’t afford. They always thank me for helping them.”
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There’s never been a better time than now to find your Moore School friends and get involved with alumni activities. In the past year we’ve seen a flurry of alumni events in various places around the globe, from as close as Greenville, S.C. and Atlanta, Ga., to as far away as Santiago, Chile; Munich, Germany; and Shanghai, China. Thanks to you, we’re adding alumni chapters at a steady pace. With help from existing chapters in Atlanta, South Florida, New York City and Upstate S.C., we created a framework that will allow existing and future chapters to better serve the alumni and for the Moore School to provide the necessary support. And in the upcoming months, we’ll be launching a chapter in Charlotte. Future chapters will be in cities where there are at least 300 alumni in the area. We especially appreciate the alumni of existing chapters who provided feedback in our annual survey so that your chapter officers can create programming that is of interest to you. We’ve helped chapters find ways to refresh leadership, allowing some alumni to roll off and giving other alumni a chance to get more involved. The reviews have been enthusiastic and excellent, so come join in. If you’re in an area where there is a smaller cluster of alumni, you can certainly still get together and network. Your programming won’t be as formal but we’re here to help you get the word out. Start by posting to our main LinkedIn group: Darla Moore School of Business Alumni. We also invite you to interact with our current students. Through the Graduate Student Association, we’ve launched a webinar series that allows an alumnus/na to speak to the students and to tell them what your day-to-day world is really like and what skills are needed for your specific job or functional area. It’s been a worthwhile exchange for the alumni and the students who have participated. You’ll want to be on the lookout for our new electronic newsletter, which has a new look and a new format, including a regular column offering career advice. Each enewsletter will have a different area of focus and we’ll be able to send them more frequently than in the past. Please let me know if you have any ideas for stories or alumni profiles by sending your suggestions to alumni@moore.sc.edu. Are you looking for other ways to get involved? Check out some options on our web page, http://moore.sc.edu/alumni/getinvolved.aspx. I’m happy to help you stay connected in a meaningful way. Please stay in touch!
Charlie Farrell (BS ’67) has been appointed by the S.C. Department of Commerce to direct the new S.C. Aerospace Task Force, an advisory council to the Secretary of Commerce on the development of a strategic initiative to enhance and grow the state’s aerospace industry.
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Dalton Floyd, Jr. (BA ’60, JD ’63) has been named chairman of the Board of Trustees at Winthrop University. John Gibbons (BA ‘64, MBA ’66) is leaving his position as Irmo, S.C., town mayor after 22 years of service. Robert R. Kurz (BS ’67) has received the International Game Fish Association Conservation Award for his involvement with the Great Marlin Race. Jack Smoke (MBA ’68) of Greenwood, S.C., has been named to the Lander Foundation Board of Trustees. Rick Wallace (BS ’67) has joined the Mike Kelly Law Group, expanding the firm’s business law services in Columbia and Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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Don Tomlin (BS ’71) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.” William Wilkins (BS ’72) has earned the International Compliance and Ethics Award from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.
Robert A. Bates (BS ’84) has been promoted to president and chief executive officer of Southern Mutual Church Insurance Co. He previously was the firm’s executive vice president.
Harrie Copeland (BS ’72) has joined Hopewell Valley Community Bank as a vice president and business development officer at the bank’s new branch in Flemington, N.J.
Bobby Harrell (BS ’78) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.”
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Randy Senn (BS ’78) has been named a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina.
W. Michael Bond (BS ’77) has been elected to the Carolina Alumni Association’s Board of Governors, at-large national.
Harold Chandler (MBA ’72) has been named chairman of the board at Milliken & Co.
Mark E. Khalil (BS ’78) has been named general counsel and executive vice president of New York-based Sony Corp. of America.
Jim Price (MBA ’81) has joined the Greenville, S.C., office of Nexsen Pruet LLC, where he will focus on economic development incentives, lender representation and commercial and industrial real estate. Timothy Cameron Reed (IMBA ’88) has been named to the Board of Trustees of the University Center of Greenville, S.C. Philip Riddle (BS ’80) has joined INDEXX as senior account executive in Greenville, S.C.
Hugh S. Owens (MIBS ’79) has been named vice president of economic development for the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce.
James A. Wright Jr. (BS ’78) has been named vice president for finance and operations at Anderson University.
Rita Bragg Cullum (BS ’77) of Ellis Lawhorne has been recognized in the estate planning and probate field by the 2012 S.C. Super Lawyers magazine. She has also been honored as one of the Midlands’ Legal Elite in the Tax Law category by Columbia Business Monthly.
Anthony H. Pope (BS ’86) of State Farm has received the company’s prestigious Chairman’s Circle Award.
John B. McArthur (BS ’78) of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Columbia office has been elected to serve on the board of the S.C. Business and Industry Political Education Committee. He also has been honored as one of the Midlands’ Legal Elite in the real estate law category by Columbia Business Monthly, and has been appointed vice chairman of City Center Partnership.
John D. Baker (BS ’77) has received the 2011 Humanitarian of the Year Award by United Way of the Midlands.
Randy Halfacre (BS ’70) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.”
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Ernest G. Lawhorne (BS ’76) of Ellis Lawhorne has been recognized in the workers’ compensation field by 2012 S.C. Super Lawyers magazine.
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Mac Bennett (BS ’80) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.” Michael J. Biediger (BS ’80) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.”
Tony Keener (BS ’06) and Lacey McKinley (BS ’07) were married in the Old Sheldon Ruins in Beaufort, S.C., in October 2011.
Richard Sale (BS ’81) has joined Avondale as a managing director in the municipal bond trading department. James D. Samples Jr. (MIBS ’87) has received the 2012 Darla Moore School of Business Distinguished Alumnus Award. Ferol Stroud (BA ’80) of Greenwood, S.C., has been named to the Lander Foundation Board of Trustees.
Katherine L. Jackson (Ph.D. ’88) has been selected by Francis Marion University as the 2012 Morgan B. Coker School of Business Outstanding Alumnus Award recipient.
William M. Wells (IMBA ‘83) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Myriant Corporation.
Boyd B. Jones (BS ’82) has joined the City Center Partnership Board of Directors as chairman.
Katherine Barrantes (MIBS ’96) has been promoted to manager of the pricing strategy team for Latin America and the Caribbean at FedEx.
Thomas E. Lydon III (MS ’84) has been honored as one of the Legal Elite of the Midlands in the business law category by Columbia Business Monthly. Also, he has been recognized in his field by S.C. Super Lawyers magazine. Rick Mendoza (BS ’80) has been honored as one of the Legal Elite of the Midlands in the bankruptcy law category by Greater Columbia Business Monthly. Christopher McCabe (MIBS ’84) has joined Cowen Group as managing director and head of technology, media and telecommunications investment banking.
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Cynthia Durham Blair (MIBS/ JD ’95) of Rogers Townsend & Thomas PC has been named to Greater Columbia Business Monthly’s 2011 Legal Elite. She has also has been named a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina. Travis R. Bogan (BS ’93) of Elliott Davis LLC has earned the designation of Certified Construction Industry Financial Professional.
Bryan J. Carey (MBA ’83) has joined Darton Group as managing director.
Duffie Mckee (BS ’88, MBA ’90) has joined CommunityONE Bank as a commercial banking manager for the bank’s eastern region.
Tracey Bosman (MIBS ’92) has joined Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Company LLC, a Princeton, N.J.-based company, to lead its Midwestern operations in Chicago.
Barry S. Coats (BS ’87) has been named a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina.
Andrew M. Miller (BS ’81) of Polycom Inc. has recently joined the Board of Directors at Bridgent Education Inc.
Julie Godshall Brown (MHR ’94) has been named to the Board of Trustees of the University Center of Greenville, S.C.
Scott Floyd (BS ’85) was sworn in as chief public defender for S.C.’s 12th Judicial Circuit (Florence and Marion counties) in March 2012.
Allen C. Minor Jr. (MS ’80) has been named to the Healthy Northeast Pennsylvania initiative board.
Stewart Harmon Brown III (MIBS ’99) has been promoted to senior vice president by Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels.
Melissa Campbell (BS ’89) has been named chief financial officer for Spartanburg (S.C.) School District 7.
Karen A. Gledhill (MBA ’84), an attorney with Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson PA, has received the 2011-12 Distinguished Service Award from the N.C. Bar Association’s health law section.
Duane N. Parrish (BS ’81) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.”
Thack Brown (MIBS ’96) has received the 2012 Darla Moore School of Business Distinguished Young Alumnus Award.
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Patrick Palmer (BS ’99) of NAI Avant was recognized for 2011 outstanding production and service.
Chad Connelly (MBA ’99) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.”
William B. Quantz (MIBS ’94) has been named vice president, senior relationship manager with TD Bank in Charleston, S.C.
John Dillard (MIBS ’99) has received the 2012 Charlotte Business Journal’s 40 under 40 award. Jason Eckenstein (BS ’96) has been selected as a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina. Ron Gill (MIBS ’91) has been named CFO of NetSuite. Marguerite S. Harrison (BS ’98) and James B. Westbrook were married May 26, 2012, at Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Columbia. Deidra Heyward (BS ’99) and Shea Watts were married Oct. 15, 2011, at the Pine Island Club at Lake Murray. Michael Hill (MBA ’92) recently obtained Six Sigma Black Belt certification. William E. Howard, Jr. (BS ’98) has been named a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina. Charles B. Kennington (BS ’95) has been elected president of the Richmond Association for Business Economics. Felton A. Lowrey (MBA ’90), former chief executive officer of AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, retired June 30, 2012. William T. McGee (BS ’93, MBA ’00), chief information officer of the Augusta-based EDTS, has been named a member of the newly formed TAG Greater Augusta advisory board. J. Stephen McNally (MIBS ’93) has been appointed to a second two-year term on the Institute of Management Accountants’ Global Board of Directors. Sam Moses (MIBS/JD ’98) of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP has been elected partner in the firm.
William A. Clarke (BS ’11) and Jennifer L. Hubbard were married May 12, 2012, at Clarendon Baptist church in Alcolu, S.C.
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Katherine W. Randall (BS ’95, MHR ’96) graduated from Leadership Memphis, a program that has shaped Memphisarea community leaders since 1979. Heather Michelle Ricard (BS ’94) has been promoted to director of risk management services for the Municipal Association of South Carolina. Jay Swearingen (MACC ’91) of Bauknight Pietras & Stormer PA has been named to the Board of Trustees at EdVenture children’s museum in Columbia.
Reggie Browning (BS ’03) has been named controller at Piedmont Municipal Power Agency. Robert Bradley (BS ’09) has been named senior risk officer at the Bank of Tennessee. Emily S. Brannen (MBA ’02) has been named a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina. Cason L. Brewer (BS ’10) and Nicholas I. King were married Dec. 30, 2011, in Columbia. Nicholas G. Brigham (BS ’07) has opened a State Farm insurance office in Clover, S.C. William Bunch (BS ’01, MBA ’03) and Kelly Hayworth were married Sept. 10, 2011, in Cashiers, N.C. John Caldwell Jr. (BS ’02) and Shannon Renee Wilson were married Oct. 22, 2011, at Killian Baptist Church in Columbia.
Steven Taylor (BS ’97) has received the 2012 Charlotte Business Journal’s 40 under 40 award.
Frank Cason (BS ’04) has received the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation.
Austin Thornton (BS ’98) has been named a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina.
Jon M. Chilton (BS ’02) has been appointed a member of the S.C. Economic Developers Association.
Brian D. Till (Ph.D. ’93) was named dean of Xavier University’s Williams College of Business this past summer.
George Crouch Jr. (BS ’02) and Morgan Willard were married July 30, 2011, in Spartanburg, S.C.
John C. Troutman Jr. (BS ’95) has joined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. in the Global Wealth and Investment Management Division as a financial advisor. John Truluck (BS ’93) has been named by Columbia Business Monthly as one of the “50 Most Influential 2011.”
2000s Brittany Renee Adams (BS ’07) and John McGillicuddy were married Sept. 16, 2011, at Stella Maris Catholic Church in Sullivan’s Island, S.C. Danette E. Attaway (BS ’03, MHR ’04) and Matthew Lifsey were married Sept. 17, 2011, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia. Allen R. Brown (BS ’02) has been named a 2012 Leadership Columbia committee member.
Benjamin Newton Damour (BS ’11) and Melissa Ann Joye were married Sept. 24, 2011, at First Baptist Church in Columbia. Harris J. Darver (BS ’09) and Rebecca J. Dulin were married April 28, 2012, at The Farm at Old Edwards Inn in Highlands, N.C. Heather M. Davis (BS ’09) and Gregory T. Whitley were married May 12, 2012, at Rutledge Chapel in Columbia.
Greg B. Foster (BS ’05) has been elected to the Carolina Alumni Association’s Board of Governors, Congressional District Two.
Courtney Mathis Kieslich (BS ’02) has been named by the Business Journal of Tri-Cities Tennessee/Virginia as a 2011 40 under Forty honoree. She has also been promoted to director of graduate and professional studies at Milligan College in northeastern Tennessee.
J. Wilson Gaston (BS ’02) and Sarah G. McLeod were married June 09, 2012, at Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church in West Columbia, S.C. Jeffrey Charles Gee (BS ’03) and Kristin Camp were married Jan. 7, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C.
Mitchell O. Kiser (BS ’08) and Elizabeth S. Jeter (BS ’08) were married May 12, 2012, at Woodland Plantation home in Union, S.C.
Mark Gilleo (MIBS ’00) has had his first novel, “Love Thy Neighbor,” published in March 2012.
Allen Koon (BS ’09) and Ashlynn Asnip were married April 28, 2012, at the First Baptist Church of Charleston, S.C.
Ford Graham (IMBA ’06) will lead the S.C. Department of Commerce’s Europe office in Munich, Germany, which spearheads the department’s international recruitment efforts on the continent. Clay Grayson (MIBS ’00) has received the Charleston Business Review’s 2012 Forty under 40 award. Cedric Green (MBA ’02) has been promoted to general manager of southern electric operations at SCE&G Co. Joseph L. Griffin IV (MTAX ’01) of WebsterRogers has been promoted to senior manager in the firm’s Florence, S.C., office. Heather R. Hackett (BS ‘03) was promoted to senior gift planning manager for the state of Florida at the Nature Conservancy in Hobe Sound, Fla. Lacy M. Harsey (BS ’07) and Wesley J. Melvin were married April 14, 2012, at College Place United Methodist Church in Columbia.
Blake Deane (BS ’06) and Lindsay Rogers were married July 23, 2011, in Greenville, S.C.
Karen B. Henderson (BS ’00) has joined S.C. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. as an agent in its Charleston, S.C., office.
Perrin T. DesPortes Jr. (MBA ’01) and Lucy M. Yarbrough were married May 5, 2012, at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlotte, N.C.
Anne M. Houser (BS ’07) and Jason M. Smallwood were married April 14, 2012, at the Daniel Island Club in Charleston, S.C.
Giampiero P. Diminich (MIBS ’00) has been named a Certified Financial Planner.
Liz Howell (BS ’07) has joined Colliers International at its Columbia office as a brokerage assistant supporting the Retail Services Group.
Cameron T. Edge (BS ’05) and Katherine Bryant were married June 15, 2012, at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Marko Jocic (MBA ’09) has joined Governors America Corp., a provider of engine governing and system controls, as vice president of sales and marketing.
Joshua Epps (BS ’08) has been promoted to assistant vice president at BB&T.
Steven Daniel Johnson (MBA ’04) was selected by The State newspaper for the 2012 class of 20 Under 40 in Columbia.
Bradley Alexander Floyd (BS ’00) of Floyd Law Firm has been named president of the board of Habitat for Humanity in Georgetown County, S.C.
William J. Keenan IV (BS ’09) and Julie A. Richardson were married June 22, 2012, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Columbia.
Barbara J. Wofford-Kanwat (IMBA/JD ’09) was appointed a full-time magistrate judge for Richland County, S.C.
Margaret C. Korn (IMBA ’04) and Brian C. Burton were married May 19, 2012, at the Loft at Falls Park in Greenville, S.C.
MIBS ’77 grads “Czech Out” Prague By Nancy Novotny Corrigan, MIBS ’77
Eight alumni from the MIBS Class of 1977 and their spouses logged their third trip abroad together, this time touring Prague and the Czech Republic. The group previously attended a wedding in India in 2008, hosted by the Shahs, and toured Japan in 2010, a trip hosted by the Sekines. Adolfo Rodriguez and his wife, Susana, were our gracious hosts and tour guides during our venture into central Europe. It was interesting to see Prague from a Colombian point of view. Adolfo and Susana have been expats in Prague for more than four years and have come to know the city and surrounding area very well. Our group included Ted Burgess and his wife, Del; Kevin and Nancy Corrigan; Larry Froelich; Shigeru Sekine and his wife, Toshiko; Bob Stricker and his wife, Lucie; and Rajan Shah and his wife, Mita. Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and we savored the sights as we strolled over the Charles Bridge, saw the entertaining astronomical clock at the Old Town Square and took in the gorgeous castles and medieval monasteries on a cruise of the Vltava River. It was quite a thrill to walk the same paths as King Wenceslaus, Mozart, Dvorak and Kafka. We ate typical Czech cuisine in a medieval restaurant, drank tasty Czech beer al fresco and attended music concerts, catering to all tastes, from classical to Gershwin. Venturing by bus outside of the city, we drank the healing waters of the hot springs of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) and visited the famous Moser crystal works nearby. We toasted (na zdravi!) bitters at the Becherovka Distillery after visiting their museum. Our tour of the old medieval town of Kutna Hora featured the magnificent St. Barbara Cathedral. But perhaps the most unusual and eerie sight was the Sedlec Ossuary, a chapel whose decorations are made from the bones of 14th-century plague and Hussite war victims. Before returning to our respective homes in India, Japan and the United States, we had a stately dinner at the art deco Café Imperial, and afterwards some members of the group took a side excursion to Dresden, Germany. Prague is one of the most visited cities in Europe due to its historic architecture and cultural attractions. Our group was very fortunate to get an insider’s tour thanks to our expat experts, the Rodríguezes!
John Lansche, Jr. (MHR/JD ’01) has been named one of the Midlands’ Legal Elite in the real estate law category by Greater Columbia Business Monthly. Dawn Martin (BS ’01) has been named account executive for the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Michael McCary (BS ’07) and Lindsay McDonald were married Oct. 8, 2011, in Greenwood, S.C. Rebecca McCormack (BS ’10) and Dustin Reynolds were married Aug. 20, 2011, in Chapin, S.C. Mary McDonald (BS ’07) and Jaime E. Cuellar were married June 09, 2012, at Shandon United Methodist Church in Columbia. Leah H. McKee (BS ’06) and Christopher L. Howe were married June 09, 2012, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Columbia. Raphael S. Miolane (MBA ’01) has received the 2012 Darla Moore School of Business Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. Clayton Montgomery (BS ’09) and Ashley Holmgren were married Sept. 4, 2011, at St. Gabriel Church in Saddle River, N.J. Michael P. Morris (BS ’01) of Rogers Townsend & Thomas PC has been elected as a shareholder. Timothy Joseph Moxie (BS ‘02, MACC ’03) has joined A.T. Locke as an accounting analyst. Grant McAnulty (BS ’00) has joined TD Bank as a small business relationship manager in Charleston, S.C. Talah Mahdavi Nikjeh (IMBA ’08) and McClain Goodwin were married Aug. 13, 2011, at Westminister Presbyterian Church in Saint Petersburg, Fla. Lois Lucile Oxner (BS ’07) and Ashley Wannamaker were married Nov. 11, 2011, at the historical Springdale House and Gardens in West Columbia, S.C.
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Brian A. Comer (BS ’95, MIBS/JD ’99) of Collins & Lacy PC has been elected a shareholder of the statewide business defense firm.
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Jeff Palen (MBA ’05) has been named a participant in the 2012 class of Leadership South Carolina. Travis Pietrusza (BS ’06) and Elizabeth Hoefer were married on Sept. 10, 2011, in Sullivans’s Island, S.C. Shane G. Price (BS ’09) and Katelyn Sturkie were married March 31, 2012, at Trinity Baptist Church in Cayce, S.C. Benjamin H. Rex (BS ’03) was selected by The State newspaper for the 2012 class of 20 Under 40 in Columbia. He and Sidney B. Heyward (MBA ’08) were married June 16, 2012, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Columbia. W. Bratton Riley (MIBS/JD ’02) has been named a member of the Liberty Fellowship’s 2014 class. Michael David Roglitz (BS ’10, MACC ‘11) has received an award from the Massachusetts Society of CPAs for having the second highest CPA exam scores in the commonwealth of Massachusetts for 2011. Joshua Scott (IMBA ’06) and Deneka Scott are proud parents of 9-year-old Audrey Scott, who had her first lead role in the feature film premier of “Think of Me” at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011. Mary K. Shuler (BS ’10, MACC ’11) and Matthew B. Pollard were married June 2, 2012, in Boyce Chapel at First Baptist Church in Columbia.
Al B. Schooler (BS ’50) on March 9, 2012, Georgetown, S.C.
Charles B. Woodhurst (BS ’53) on June 12, 2012, Abbeville, S.C.
Allan E. Brock (BS ’57, MACC ’57) on Oct. 22, 2011, Pawleys Island, S.C.
Travis N. Fowler (BS ’61) on June 29, 2012, Waxhaw, N.C.
Robert L. Gaines (BS ’50) on Jan. 03, 2012, Anderson, S.C.
William H. Bragdon, Sr. (BS ’54) on March 17, 2012, Lake City, S.C.
Jack S. Folline (BS ’57) on March 23, 2012, Columbia.
Albert A. Springs III (BS ’62) on Feb. 20, 2012, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Jesse M. Singleton, Jr. (BS ’50) on June 03, 2012, Sumter, S.C.
Charles S. Owens, Jr (BS ’54) on Sept. 23, 2011, Columbia.
C. Lamar Johnson (BS ’57) on Sept. 10, 2011, Charlotte, N.C.
Robin Reid Berry (MBA ’62) on Aug. 8, 2012, Atlanta, Ga.
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Howard E. Wall (BS ’50) on Feb. 7, 2012, North Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Robert Arnold Sineath (BS ’54) on Feb. 24, 2012, Islandton, S.C.
Sammie Owens (BS ’57) on Oct. 29, 2011, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Donald J. Barbare (BS ’63) on May 10, 2012, Simpsonville, S.C.
Margaret Ussery Goldsmith (BS ’34) on June 19, 2012, Lancaster, S.C.
Richard W. Edens (BS ’51) on Dec. 20, 2011, Pinehurst, N.C.
Bruce R. Templeton (BS ’54) on March 28, 2012, West Columbia, S.C.
John Payne (BS ’57) on June 19, 2012, Carrollton, Texas.
Richard Binns, Sr. (BS ’63) on Jan. 11, 2012, Lexington, S.C.
Daniel Colie Craft (BS ’40) on July 6, 2012, West Columbia, S.C.
Forrest K. Abbott (BS ’51) on Nov. 26, 2011, Cayce, S.C.
Dr. W. Jeff Aiken (BS ’55) on April 7, 2012, Rockingham, N.C.
Roger Shepard Jr. (BS ’57) on Oct. 3, 2011, Macon, Ga.
William W. Hodge, Jr. (BS ’63) on Oct. 5, 2011, Greenville, S.C.
Ruth M. Brown (BS ’42) on June 11, 2012, Greenville, S.C.
Richard W. Edens (BS ’51) on Dec. 20, 2011, Pinehurst, N.C.
Jewel T. Cobb, Jr. (BS ’55) on Oct. 6, 2011, Marietta, Ga.
Elizabeth W. Bizzell (BS ’58) on Dec. 08, 2011, Hartsville, S.C.
Emmet N. Howle, Jr. (BS ’63) on May 11, 2012, Charlotte, N.C.
Alice Cormack Jowers (BS ’42) on Feb. 19, 2012, Columbia.
Frank Wiles (BS ’51) on Sept. 6, 2011, Columbia.
Gene Epting (BS ’55) on Nov. 1, 2011, Columbia.
Larry W. Blair (BS ’58) on July 07, 2012, Blair, S.C.
Samuel B. King Jr. (BS ’43, BS’48) on Sept. 22, 2011, Columbia.
Leon L. Gaulin (BS ’52) on Jan. 11, 2012, Columbia. George Lail (BS ’52) on Nov. 30, 2011, Irmo, S.C.
Alice M. Garvin (BS ’55) on Oct. 31, 2011, Columbia.
James F. Keasler (BS ’58) on Feb. 27, 2012, Greer, S.C.
Blaine McCants (BS ’63) on Dec. 3, 2011, Florence, S.C.
H.E. Tisdell (BS ’53) on November 5, 2011, Lexington, S.C.
Nicholas E. Scarborough, Sr. (BS ’55) on March 23, 2012, Camden, S.C.
Milton Alva Mills (BS ’58) on Aug. 15, 2012, Wilmington, N.C.
Robert Wilson (IMBA/JD ’09) and Annie Wessinger were married Oct. 1, 2011, at the historic Seibels House and Garden in Columbia. Christopher Young (BS ’02) has received the Charleston Business Review’s 2012 Forty under 40 award.
Abner N. Smith (BS ’43) on Sept. 3, 2011, West Columbia, S.C. W. P. Austin Jr. (MBA ’45) on Feb. 28, 2012, Hickory, N.C.
Nick Stomski (BS ’06) of NAI Avant has been named one of the Top 5 Producing Brokers for 2011 for the Columbia office.
Fred Wilson Felkel Jr. (BS ’48) on Sept. 6, 2011, Columbia.
Erin Whitaker (IMBA ’08) of Whitaker Funeral Home was one of 50 young funeral directors selected from across the United States to participate in the National Funeral Directors’ Association Meet the Mentors program. John D. Williams, Jr. (BS ’05) and Caroline Wood Steadman were married May 19, 2012, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Charleston, S.C. Kelsey Williams (BS ’12) has joined CMG Marketing and Events as vice president and director of business development.
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Jerry D. Tarlton (BS ’59) on April 19, 2012, Lexington, S.C.
George H. Dieter Jr. (BS ’47) on April 21, 2012, Lexington, S.C. Wade F. Franklin Jr. (BS ’47) on Dec. 31, 2011, Columbia.
Robert Michael Watson III (BS ’10) and Sarah Elizabeth Collins were married July 16, 2011, at First United Methodist Church in Mocksville, N.C.
Roland L. Lackey (BS ’59) on Oct. 21, 2011, Camden, S.C.
Caroline R. Turner (BS ’46) on Oct. 24, 2011, York, S.C.
Joseph P. Sobieralski (BS ’01, MACC ’03) was named vice chancellor for business and finance/DFO at the University of South Carolina Aiken in December 2011.
Telissa Trujillo (BS ’08) and James Ervin McElveen were married Oct. 15, 2011, at Riverbanks Botanical Gardens in Columbia.
Emmet N. Howle, Jr. (BS ’59) on May 14, 2012, Charlotte, N.C.
Charles S. Vaughn (BS ’59) on Jan. 17, 2011, Hartsville, S.C. Hugh J. Wessinger (BS ’59) on Aug. 28, 2012, Chapin, S.C.
Edwin Motte Griffin (BS ’47) on Feb. 27, 2012, Spartanburg, S.C.
Daniel P. Bacot (BS ’60) on Dec. 15, 2011, West Columbia, S.C.
Lauriston Keith Whittle (BS ’47) on Nov. 4, 2011, Columbia.
Charles W. Banks (BS ’60) on June 12, 2012, Charlotte, N.C. Earl H. Moore (BS ’60) on Oct. 24, 2011, Columbia.
Eugene Dex Goodwin Jr. (BS ’48) on Jan. 14, 2012, West Columbia, S.C. Rufus Everett Hendrix (BS ’48) on April 2, 2012, Columbia.
Emmet N. Howle, Jr. (BS ’63) on May 11, 2012, Charlotte, N.C. Wayne H. Golden (BS ’64) on April 27, 2012, Columbia. W. Herbert Hucks (BS ’64) on June 13, 2012, Georgetown, S.C. John Robert Jordan (BS ’64) on Sept. 1, 2011, Columbia. Marion Saulsbury (MBA ’64) on Jan. 08, 2012, Columbia. Robert E. Lamb (BS ’65) on Oct. 11, 2011, Bogalusa, La. William L. McIlwain (BS ’65) on April 19, 2012, Lexington, S.C. Sigmund Stoudenmire (BS ’65) on Nov. 23, 2011, Charleston, S.C.
Robert E. Cooper III (BS ’66) on May 6, 2012, Dunwoody, Ga.
William B. Estridge, Jr. (BS ’68) on July 23, 2012, Bethune, S.C.
Carl E. Kauffmann (MBA ’66) on April 15, 2012, Seminole, Fla.
Horace P. Ford (BS ’68) on June 01, 2012, Mount Pleasant, S.C.
William S. Kleckley (BS ’66, MBA ’72) on Sept. 20, 2011, Columbia.
Jan Frederick Kennerly (BS ’68) on March 7, 2012, West Columbia, S.C
James Wilson Beasley (BS ’67) on March 21, 2012, Chapin, S.C.
Henry K. Purdy III (BS ’68) on July 26, 2012, Ridgeland, S.C.
Joseph K. Eddleman, Jr. (BS ’67) on March 24, 2012, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
Cleveland Baker Jones (BS ’69) on Sept. 11, 2011, Florence, S.C.
Cecil Glenn Ford (MBA ’67) on Jan. 09, 2012, Columbia.
Charles S. Mustard (BS ’69) on Dec. 11, 2011, Columbia.
Larry V. Millwood (BS ’67) on Jan. 06, 2012, Lexington, S.C.
Judith Baker (BS ’70) on June 18, 2012, Lexington, S.C.
Adrienne D. Moore (BS ’67) on Dec. 2, 2011, Columbia.
John N. Campbell (BS ’70) on Oct. 5, 2011, Lexington, S.C.
Russell Munn, Sr. (BS ’67) on Sept. 6, 2011, Columbia.
George Manning Mahaffee (BS ’70) on Oct. 12, 2011, Columbia.
Mildred C. Starr (BS ’67) on Oct. 10, 2011, Columbia.
Eugene F. Palmer (BS ’70) on Oct. 4, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C.
Horace P. Ford (BS ’68) on June 01, 2012, Mount Pleasant, S.C.
Steven Watt (BS ’71) on Oct. 16, 2011, Richmond, V.A.
Moore School mourns loss of distinguished alumna Mary M. Kennemur, former VP of Merrill Lynch
Major James Jackson Kilgore (BS ’48) on Nov. 28, 2011, Columbia. Donald B. McKellar (BS ’48) on Mar. 2, 2012, Simpsonville, S.C. The Honorable Henry G. Yonce (BS ’48) on Mar. 30, 2012, Columbia. Henry B. Armstrong, Sr. (BS ’49) on Feb. 5, 2012, Greenville, S.C. William H. Jackson (BS ’49) on July 14, 2012, Columbia. Allie Fay Fillingim (BS ’50) on Oct. 14, 2011, Monroeville, Ala. Dayton H. Floyd (BS ’50) on Sept. 20, 2011, Laurens, S.C. Robert L. Gaines (BS ’50) on Jan. 03, 2012, Anderson, S.C.
William C. Powell III (BS ’63) on Dec. 25, 2011, Columbia.
Richard A. Jones III (BS ’08) and Caroline L. Ellzey (BS ’08) were married June 02, 2012, at Eastminister Presbyterian Church in Columbia.
Amelia Nicole Burrell (BS ’08) and Andrew Moran Smith were married June 2, 2012, at RiverOaks in Awendaw, S.C.
Darla Moore School of Business alumna Mary M. Kennemur (BS ’75), a former executive director of the University of South Carolina Business Partnership Foundation (BPF) as well as an active member of the BPF Board of Trustees, died Nov. 11, 2012, at her home in Columbia, S.C. She was 59. A 1975 presidential honors graduate of the business school, Kennemur was named Distinguished Alumna in 2001. In 1998, she established the Mary M. Kennemur Scholarship at the Moore School. Kennemur was a first vice president and regional managing director for Merrill Lynch, where she managed $90 billion in assets during her tenure. She was one of nine regional directors nationwide and the only female at that time. Kennemur believed that “business education should foster personal responsibility,” and that “leaders should pursue goals of environmental sustainability and economic inclusion.” Through her work and professional associations, she laid the groundwork for women to enter a profession long dominated by men. She worked with the Women Advisors Forum, which
encouraged young women to take up financial advising as a career. Earlier in her career, she worked for South Carolina National Bank, Petro Lewis Corporation and Merrill Lynch. She joined JHS Capital Advisors as president of the Wealth Management Group. She was elected a trustee of the BPF in 2005. As its executive director, Kennemur spearheaded the successful $45 million Darla Moore Match Campaign. Kennemur was the first female member of the S.C. Retirement Systems Investment Panel. She was a board member of the Regional Board of First National Bank of South Carolina, the United Way of the Midlands and the Advisory Treasury Services Committee of Palmetto Health. She worked with the university’s Development Foundation, the Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics, the Coastal Conservation League and the University’s Women’s Basketball Mentor Program. She chaired the United Way of the Midland’s most successful fundraising campaign. “Mary Kennemur was a devoted Moore School distinguished alumna, former executive director of the BPF and an active member of the BPF Board of Trustees,” said Hildy Teegen, dean of the Moore School. “We are deeply saddened to lose this friend who has been such a part of our continued growth and success.”
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DeKay Moore, Jr. (BS ’81) on Feb. 13, 2012, Columbia.
Steven Watt (BS ’71) on Oct. 16, 2011, Richmond, Va.
Norman P. Jacobs (BS ’82) on Feb. 1, 2012, Columbia.
David C. Alderman, Sr. (BS ’72) on Feb. 27, 2012, Georgetown, S.C.
Forrest D. McKerley (MS ’82) on April 29, 2012, Concord, N.H.
Bruce S. Cook (MBA ’72) on May 18, 2012, Columbia.
Henry Ritmeester, Jr. (MBA ’82) on Oct. 27, 2011, Columbia.
Thomas Crossley (MBA ’72) on Oct. 30, 2011, Sun City Center, Fla.
Norris Randolph Scott (BS ’82) on Jan. 07, 2012, Columbia.
Joseph Reeves (BS ’72) on Sept. 14, 2011, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Rosemary Heagney (BS ’83) on Oct. 23, 2011, Bradenton, Fla.
Billy Stokes Sarvis (BS ’72) on May 13, 2012, Asheville, N.C.
James Otis Hale (MBA ’84) on Feb. 02, 2012, Charleston, S.C.
Michael Senterfeit (BS ’72) on April 4, 2012, West Columbia, S.C.
Cindy B. Moore (BS ’84) on June 11, 2012, West Columbia, S.C.
Ben Martin Wilson Jr. (BS ’72) on April 02, 2012, Columbia.
Gary A. Schraibman (BS ’85) on Aug. 12, 2012, Columbia.
Donald Howard Thomas (MBA ’73) on Oct. 29, 2011, Aiken, S.C.
Thomas Donald Soltau (BS ’85) on July 08, 2012, Moore, S.C.
Walter R. Creighton, Jr. (MACC ’74) on Feb. 13, 2012, Surfside Beach, S.C.
Monye M. Connolly (MBA ’86) on July 10, 2012, Atlanta, Ga.
Deborah J. Dudley (BS ’74) on Aug. 15, 2012, Sumter, S.C.
Thomas Herbkersman (BS ’86) on Nov. 14, 2011, Clearwater, Fla.
Colie L. Dyson, Jr. (BS ’74) on March 01, 2012, Columbia.
David D. Yates (BS ’87) on Aug. 26, 2012, Blythewood, S.C.
Steve E. Grantham (BS ’74) on Jan. 14, 2012, Jacksonville, Fla.
Cecil C. Hamer, Jr. (BS ’88) on April 16, 2012, Chapin, S.C.
Jerry B. Grigsby (BS ’74) on Oct. 15, 2011, Augusta, Ga.
Thomas M. McCarthy (MBA ’89) on Dec. 11, 2011, Walnut Creek, Calif.
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Steve E. Grantham (BS ’74) on Jan. 14, 2012, Jacksonville, Fla.
James M. Taylor (BS ’89) on July 6, 2012, Pawleys Island, S.C.
4 Kate Robertson (MHR ’12) with Cocky
James Largen III (BS ’74) on Nov. 15, 2011, Wilmington, N.C.
Kimberly A. Smoak (BS ’90) on Aug. 29, 2012, Lexington, S.C.
Robert Hayes (BS ’76) on Oct. 20, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C.
Tina LaRae Hair (BS ’91) on Oct. 02, 2011, Chicago, Ill.
Travis Casey (BS ’77) on Oct. 1, 2011, Mauldin, S.C.
Amy Frye (MIBS ’93) on Oct. 28, 2011, Columbia.
Thomas S. Knotts (BS ’77) on Aug. 15, 2012, Columbia.
Lindsay Michelle Donnell (MHR ’04) on July 02, 2012, Orlando, Fla.
Lindsay Carter-Tidwell, Esq.
Felix Perez (BS ’78) on July 22, 2012, West Columbia, S.C.
Amanda H. Smith (MBA ’04) on Dec. 15, 2011, Irmo, S.C.
Director of Gift Planning 803-777-4092 ltidwell@mailbox.sc.edu
Garnet D. Aitchison (BS ’79) on May 30, 2012, Columbia.
Jay Allan Gresham (BS ’06) on June 17, 2012, Columbia.
Marsha Lynn Curry (BS ’79) on Sept. 29, 2011, Greenville, S.C
Hetali Pinakin Patel (BS ’11) on Dec. 19, 2012, Kosamba, Gujarat, India.
Douglas D. Wilhelm (MBA ’79) on Sept. 26, 2011, Aiken, S.C.
Richard Paul Taylor (BS ’12) on March 17, 2012, Lugoff, S.C.
Robert L. Fraysse (BS ’80) on Aug. 19, 2012, Columbia.
Allyson M. Walker (BS ’12) on July 5, 2012, Charlotte, N.C.
Estate planning is today’s gift for tomorrow’s generation. Become a member of the University of South Carolina’s Carolina Guardian Society and discover the benefits of giving wisely. To learn more about including the Moore School in your estate plans, visit www.sc.planyourlegacy.org or contact one of our planned giving experts. Bequests Retirement Plan Designations Charitable Gift Annuities Charitable Trusts Insurance
Eleanor Foster Swarat, Esq. Executive Director of Gift Planning & Legal Liaison to University Foundations 803-777-3300 efswarat@mailbox.sc.edu
Mark R. Seeley Director of Gift Planning 803-777-2569 seeleym@mailbox.sc.edu
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A. Wayne Lane (BS ’71) on Aug. 20, 2012, Florence, S.C.
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Homecoming 2011 Alumni and friends who attended the Moore School’s 3rd annual Homecoming BBQ enjoyed some balloon art, fun with Cocky and winning fabulous door prizes. 1 A udrey McCall (MBA ’10) helps Cocky chow down on the Tiger 2 Ann Liles shows her Gamecock spirit
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Lynne T. D’Eredita (BS ’81) on Aug. 13, 2012, Tucson, Ariz. Gary Douglas King (BS ’81) on Dec. 17, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C.
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MIBS ’92 20-Year Reunion Napa, Calif. June 15-17
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The School of Accounting celebrated 30 years of FAD (Friends of Accounting) on Sept. 13 with alumni, friends, faculty and students
1 The class relives old times and shares exquisite wine at the grounds of Quintessa Winery
1 Past FAD presidents 2 F rom left, Tenley Desjardins (BS ’11, MACC ’12), Haley Roberts (BS ’10, MACC ’11), Professor Jimmy Burkett (MTAX ’95) and Ross Alberghini (BS ’11, MACC ’12)
Regional events 1 S outh Florida Alumni 3rd Annual Family Picnic on April 21
3 From left, Sarah Noone (BS ’08, MACC ’09) and Brittany Shook (BS ’09, MACC ’10) check out the program
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MBA ’92 20-Year Reunion Columbia, S.C. Sept. 14-16
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1 F rom left, back row: John Travis, Regan Rickson, Peter Leahy, Michael Graf and Patrick Rayfield From left, front row: Kris Bradsher and Christine Wagner
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The difference between good and excellent “It’s the ability to develop leaders that sets the Darla Moore School of Business apart.”
What would you say if you had the chance to make a real change in the quality of our university and its impact here in South Carolina and around the world? I said, “Yes.” Yes to leading an unprecedented campaign to raise $1 billion for Carolina’s Promise, which will make sweeping improvements in student and faculty support, vital University programs, capital projects and research initiatives. I was pleased to accept the responsibility and am certain that with the leadership efforts and engagement from USC President Harris Pastides, we’ll achieve our goal. In that regard, I was asked to share my story of how my career brought me from this great university to the highest leadership level in the Fluor Corporation, a Fortune 125 company and one of the world’s largest publicly traded engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance and project management companies. While I’m proud of each accomplishment along the way, I’ve never forgotten the support and encouragement I received that helped shape my leadership style — especially my education and experiences at Carolina and the guidance and encouragement I received from the members of the faculty and administration of the university and business school. But it wasn’t all about learning. I made lifelong friends at Carolina, the kind of friends who cheer your accomplishments in the good times and support you when times are
challenging — which we all have had. These interactions, like so many of life’s experiences, were vital in preparing me to enter the business environment confidently and effectively. But the one thing I learned here was leadership. My Fluor career has taken me to all parts of the globe, including leadership assignments here at home, in Europe and in the Middle East. And it’s particularly exciting for me to see the Moore School provide today’s future business leaders with exceptional insight into the complexities of managing and competing on a global scale. Leadership is the difference between good performance and excellent performance. It’s that trait, and the university’s ability to develop leaders, that sets USC and the Darla Moore School of Business apart. We have a tremendous capability to drive economic value globally, which greatly enhances the development of the state of South Carolina. For these reasons, I’m dedicated to the continuing growth of Carolina and very pleased to lead the Carolina’s Promise campaign. It was a personal commitment that was an honor for me to accept and a responsibility that I willingly enjoy. I’m pleased to work closely with President Pastides to build a stronger, more capable University of South Carolina. But we need your help. I want to encourage you to make a promise to support our university in every way you can. There is a great future ahead for all of us.
David Seaton, ’84, is chairman and CEO of Fluor Corporation, a Fortune 125 engineering, construction and project management company that operates a network of 52 offices in 28 countries across six continents. He is also Campaign Committee chair for USC’s Carolina’s Promise fundraising campaign.
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Save-the-Date Business Leadership Dinner & Awards Ceremony Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center The awards for Distinguished Alumni, Distinguished Young Alumni and Distinguished Service are the highest honors that the Darla Moore School of Business bestows. The Distinguished Alumni and Distinguished Young Alumni awards are presented to alumni of the Moore School with outstanding achievements in business, academia, government or not-for-profit organizations and/or outstanding service to the business school. The Distinguished Young Alumni award recipients must be 40 years of age or younger in the year the award is presented. The Distinguished Service award is presented to a non-alumnus or nonalumna who has rendered extraordinary service to the Moore School. If you would like to nominate someone, please contact the alumni office at alumni@moore.sc.edu or 803-777-7602.
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