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FACULTY/STAFF NEWS

ARRIVALS

Sarah Tueting, MBA ’05, is returning to the Center for Brand and Product Management. and will serve as the center’s co-director with Amy Schmidt.  Both will work 60 percent and report to Professor Tom O’Guinn, the center’s executive director. Schmidt will continue to lead admissions, recruiting and marketing while Tueting will be responsible for job placement, career development and advising and employer development. Tueting’s work experience includes strategic consulting, e-commerce and traditional project management. She completed a brand management internship at Kraft Foods and worked briefly as the assistant director of the Center for Brand and Product Management before moving to Buffalo, N.Y.  

Jennifer Laack  has joined the Family Business Center as center coordinator to handle administrative operations and program coordination.

Elesha Belke has joined the Wisconsin School of Business as a marketing specialist with Alumni Relations. Belke previously worked as the events and communications coordinator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science Career Services. She has a B.A. from UW-Madison in Communication Arts and Afro-American Studies, with a certificate in Women’s Studies.

Lorraine Bose has joined the business school as an LTE in the MBA Program office. Bose previously worked for American Girl and holds an associate degree in visual communications.

DEPARTURES

Roger Maclean, associate dean for Executive Educations since 2006,  is retiring from UW-Madison and the Wisconsin School of Business in April. He is joining Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville as the executive director of educational outreach, managing outreach education and summer sessions for the university. 

Betsy Kacizak, director of graduate administration and financial aid, is leaving the business school after almost 10 years. She is joining the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), where she will work with a variety of MBA programs. Kacizak first joined the business school working in the area of MBA career services. Although GMAC is based in McLean, Va., she will continue to be based in the Madison area. Kacizak will be working with Sandra Keltzenberg, formerly assistant dean of the Wisconsin MBA.

Two individuals have announced they will be retiring soon from Executive Education: Carol Birkholz and  Terry Thompson.

Other familiar faces in Grainger Hall and the Fluno Center who have resigned recently from the Wisconsin School of Business are: 

• Mike Van Roo, Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship
• Gail Henslin, Small Business Development Center
• Abigail Sanford Capper, Executive Education, who is joining the UW Foundation
• Mary Brost, Graaskamp Center for Real Estate.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Real Estate Professor Steve Malpezzi recently returned from several weeks at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad were he team-taught a course in Property Finance and Investments with former UW Professor Richard Green and met with
a number of academics and practitioners.  Although ISB is less than a decade old, it is  India's leading business school and is ranked in the Financial Times global Top 20.     

A recent survey of global real estate investors carried out by Wisconsin MBAs under Real Estate Professor François Ortalo-Magné's direction ranked India among the top three prospective markets for real estate appreciation in 2008.

Glass art by Pamela Cremer, a graphic designer with Executive Education, will be among the work featured at the Overture Center for the Arts April 2 through June 11.   An opening reception will be held Wednesday, April 2 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.