GWSB Ranks Among Top 10 Business Schools Providing the Greatest Opportunity For Women in The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review recently named The George Washington University among the Top 10 business schools to provide the greatest opportunity for women in its “Best 282 Business Schools” report of 2007.

“GW’s top 10 ranking demonstrates the continued progress of our M.B.A. program,” said Susan M. Phillips, dean and professor of finance of GW’s School of Business. “We strive to provide equal opportunities to all of our students, and we’re especially glad that women in our program our making big strides in comparison to other business programs around the country.”

Business school students filled out surveys from which the Review formulated its rankings. The rankings are based on the percentage of female students, the percentage of female faculty, resources for female students, and the schools’ support of female culture. The Review also examined schools’ coursework offerings for female entrepreneurs and whether case-study materials for classes reflected women in business proportionately.

The Review analyzed the benefits of GW’s location in our nation’s capital, and how the Washington scene influences curriculum and faculty quality.

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GWSB Students Learn the Necessary Skills for Working on Wall Street

Over 50 undergraduate and graduate students participated in the Wall Street Prep Course sponsored by the Finance & Investment Club and the Full Time M.B.A. Office. In the course, students learned how to use Excel to create financial models and estimate an investment’s true value.

Jonathan Aiken, M.B.A. candidate, said, “The Wall Street Prep course offers an essential crash course for aspiring finance majors that bridges theory and practice. Modeling cash flows and valuing companies in Excel are practical skills that are expected by the Wall Street community and that no student should be without.”

Taught by a former investment banker, this course showed students how financial analysis is done on Wall Street. Using Proctor & Gamble as an example, students first projected financial statements and then performed a discounted cash flow analysis. A key component of the course was learning how to use Excel’s functions to easily change the many assumptions that go into financial modeling.

Andy Price, M.B.A. candidate and organizer of the event, said, “this course taught me some great skills that have already come up in interviews.” This was the first time GW offered the Wall Street Prep course and the Finance & Investment Club hopes to make it an annual event.

Wall Street Prep is a global full-service financial training firm, providing self-study programs as well as instructor-led training and e-learning services to investment banks, financial institutions, and Fortune 1000 companies. www.wallstreetprep.com

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GW School of Business Professor wins award for Best Paper from the International Association for Business and Society

Professor Ernie Englander and co-author awarded for article

The International Association for Business and Society (IABS) awarded Ernie Englander, associate professor of strategic management and public policy at GW’s School of Business, and co-author Allen Kaufman, University of New Hampshire, it’s “Best Article Award.”

The pair received the honor for their paper “The End of Managerial Ideology: From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Indifference,” published in Enterprise & Society, 5 (3): 404-450, in 2004.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized by one’s peers,” said Englander. “This article is part of our larger work on corporate governance, and I hope this allows my co-author and me to be a continuing part of that public policy discussion.”

IABS, founded in 1990, is a learned society devoted to research and teaching about the relationships between business, government and society. The multidisciplinary association attracts scholars and executives from all disciplines of management.

In the article, Englander and Kaufman talk about the shift in the United States in managerial capitalism during the 1990s. They characterize the change from a “technocratic” form to a “proprietary” one. Previously, top managers functioned as teams to sustain the firm and promote social welfare. Now managers are broken up in tournaments, competing for advancement towards the CEO prize of millions of dollars in stock options and a reserved seat on the corporate board.

Englander has expertise in business and public policy; business-government relations; business and labor history; and corporate governance.

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Powerful e-Marketing Event Hosted on GW Campus
The School of Business Marketing Department, in cooperation with the Direct Marketing Association of Washington, held its 4th Annual E-Marketing Day at the Marvin Center last week. Salah Hassan, marketing department chair, opened the conference to a packed audience of 125 registered participants. In his opening remarks, Hassan said that e-marketing has created profound changes in the way we market products and services.

The Marketing Science Institute (MSI) recently issued its research priority report for 2006/08 with an overarching theme which MSI calls “The Connected Customer.” Communication networks will connect customers, and will facilitate effective marketing programs in B-2-B and B-2-C settings by creating consumer-to-consumer e-communities. These networks are changing the way we think about marketing.

Keynote speakers included representatives from JupiterResearch, Forrester Research, Advertising.com, and NPR Digital Media. This full-day event was attended by practitioners from across the United States, as well as faculty and students from schools throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Attendees heard updates on the hot tools that work for online marketers. They also got a sneak peek at what's on the horizon, including new spam filters, blog applications, podcasting, RSS, and Email Labs. Speakers covered best practices for nonprofit, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer marketers who use email and internet as primary channels or as part of an integrated marketing strategy.

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Intellectual Contributions

Presentations
William C. Handorf, professor of finance, recently worked in Brazil where he was the lead speaker for a conference sponsored by the Brazilian Bovespa (stock market) on housing finance, and the featured speaker for a conference sponsored by the Brazilian Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros (derivative market) on emerging issues for broker/dealers.

Faculty and Ph.D. alumni from the Department of Finance made several presentations at the 2006 Financial Management Association International (FMA) Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. Presentations included:

Classnotes

David Samuels, M.B.A. '85, was named Chief Financial Officer of SunRocket, Inc, an Internet-phone services-provider. Samuels most recently served as financial officer for GTSI Corp. He was also chief financial officer of E-centives, Inc.

Joanna Polinsky Berens, B.B.A. '83, is delighted to announce the opening of her company, Joanna Berens Hospitality, based in Hollywood, FL. Specializing in Conference Site Selection and Contract Negotiation, Joanna guides clients through their hotel search process anywhere in the world. Joanna has over twenty-two years experience in the hospitality, meetings and destination management industry. joannaberens@bellsouth.net

Zeinab Karake Shalhoub, Ph. D. '87, is currently professor of MIS at The American University of Sharjah. Her forthcoming book, "The Diffusion of E-commerce in Developing Economies: A Resource -based Approach", is co-authored with Sheikha Lubna AL Qasimi, UAE Minster of Economy and the UAE's first woman minister.

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