Corporate Cleanup
Are new corporate accountability measures making a difference or making a mess? Finance faculty and a Wall Street investigative journalist debate their impact.
MBA Grads Raise the Bar for Giving
The Wisconsin MBA graduating class of 2007 made a clear statement on the value they place on giving back to the School of Business. The full-time Wisconsin MBA Class of 2007 led a campaign that asked their fellow classmates to make a gift to the School of Business.
As of May, 99 percent of the graduating class had made a gift, raising more than $90,000. This is the third year this campaign has been held, led by Wisconsin MBA graduates. Each year, the participation rate has skyrocketed.
Every gift of $150 by a student will be matched with a gift of $300, generously provided by members of the Dean’s Advisory Board, making this campaign truly a collective effort. The money raised, along with other annual gifts, will be used to meet the most pressing needs of the School of Business.
Thanks (and congratulations) are due to the following graduates:
| Legacy ($500 for 5+ years) Swetha Balla William Dyer J. Patrick Hammes Nicholas Horsfield Allison Hurd Kurt Kober Shawana McGee Nicholas Rauer Matthew Reese Bradford Rowe Marshall Scallan Adam Trigg William Wait Scott Elwell Jennifer Post Tyler |
Executive ($500+) Jane Bills Kai Kang Kirsten Leppert Alejandro Martinez Del Castillo Charles Rawls Todd Tourand Christina Zwicky Sung Jun Kwon |
| Booster ($150-$499) Brendan Adams Supriya Amar Jennifer Becker David Biel John Boldt Carrie Breisach Alison Brewer Duane Burton Andrei Cervoneascii Sarah Condella Melanie Connolly Robert Creighton Brad Elmer Anne Fahrendorff Pablo Fuenzalida Deba Ghosh Thomas Godfrey Jennifer Hackett John Halter Andrew Hibbard Chauncey Holder Jung-Eun Hong Yan Jin Matthew Kading Pranay Kapadia Jonathan Kern Josh Klaetsch Kelene Knutzen Andrew Kotila Derek Kwan Zheng Li Jason Loughrin Mafaz Maharoof Cailin Mani Maggie Marquardt Bridget Marquis Rastislav Martos Joseph Miller Agnieszka Nasalska David Nuelle Eric Olson Jaime Padilla Scott Peck Dan Pfannenstiel Daniel Pickerel Kyle Ramey Colleen Scheibel Adam Sweet Erin Syth Rich Vanden Boogard Jessica Viesselmann Todd Wendrick Xiaoyan Zuo |
Donor ($20 - $149) John Bradley Pei-Ru Chao Alexis Cohen Benjamin Collier Scott Daigger Anthony Dapp Jennifer Dombkowski Angela Han Sean Hart Leigh Henderson Yuko Iwata Joanne Jacobson Justin Karnes Robert Kilzer Jason LaPorte Nadia Lazaro Ching-Chieh Liao Keven Lofty Saqib Mustafa James Olson Asutosh Pathak Jas Ritzema Scott Sullivan William Surles Liwei Wang Mark Stuart Andy Strunk Melissa Wychocki Eugene Yang Kerri Yarbrough |
Update Magazine June 2007
Feature Stories
Jumping on the Brandwagon:
Why companies are paying handsomely to make sure you see their brands more and more in movies, TV shows, even in the books you read.
Keeping Pay at Bay
Soaring CEO salaries are the target of increasing controversy. Will Congress step in to set limits?
Should it?
Why Don't We Have Better Bosses?
Even with good intentions on both sides, supervisor-employee relations can be fraught. A look at what keeps us from having (and being) better bosses.
Departments
JUNE 2007 VOLUME 25 NUMBER 1
EDITOR: Lari Fanlund
DESIGN: Lori Strelow, Anna Dulmes
EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE: Jennifer Asselin and Scott Voss
EDITORIAL BOARD: Alisa Robertson, Melissa Amos-Landgraf, Tina Frailey, Jim Kubek, Richard Lee, Mark Matosian, Deborah Mitchell, Kayleen Reilly, Steve Schroeder and Charlie Trevor
COVER: Product placement is all around, in places you may or may not expect, and it’s not happening by accident—as Marjani Coffey, a second-year Wisconsin MBA student in Brand and Product Management, helps illustrate.
Cover photo for UPDATE
by Bob Rashid.
UPDATE is published in print and online each June and December by Wisconsin Business Alumni to inform alumni and friends about programs and activities of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business and its alumni. Printing is paid for with private contributions. This issue, and previous ones, are available online. Correspondence should be sent to lfanlund@bus.wisc.edu or mailed to:
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