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@Jones: News and Information from the Jones School
March 13, 2001 Forbes Magazine Survey Alumni Association Reception -- New York: March 15 Conference -- Perspectives on Women in Business: March 16 Southwest Business Plan Competition -- March 30-31 Rice Alliance Business Presentation Forum -- March 30 Cancelled -- Neuhaus Lecture: March 19 Dean's Lecture -- Ralph Eads, Executive Vice President, El Paso Corp.: Apri= l 11 Black Leadership Conference: April 27 Prof. Stephen Zeff Publishes New Book on Henry Rand Hatfield, Accounting Historian Rice Alliance Continues Expansion of Network, Enhances Services Jones School Campaign Visit Construction Site ----------------------- Announcement ----------------------- If those of you in the class of 1996 haven't received the Forbes magazine survey, please do fill it out when it comes. Forbes is looking at return o= n investment. Your names and addresses will not be used for any other purpos= e beyond this one -page questionnaire and your responses will remain confidential. As you know, rankings are influenced by the percentage of the class which returns the survey. This is true for all rankings. We greatly appreciate your taking your time to do this and thank you for supporting th= e Jones School. ----------------------- News ----------------------- The Jones Graduate School Alumni Association will host a Dean's Reception o= n Thursday, March 15, in New York City. You and your guest are invited to joi= n Gil Whitaker, Dean and Professor of Business Economics, for cocktails and hors d=01,oeuvres from 6 to 8 p.m. on March 15 at the 50th floor, J.P. Morg= an Chase & Co. building, 270 Park Avenue, New York, NY. Please RSVP to Deanna Sheaffer, Director of Finance and Alumni Affairs, at sheaffer@rice.edu or 713-348-6222. Managers and business owners will address issues related to women in leadership in the March 16 conference "Grace Under Pressure: Perspectives o= n Women in Leadership" in Herring Hall. The conference, sponsored by Enron Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and the Jones School, will feature keynote speaker Helen Vollmer, Chief Executive Officer of Vollmer, a Houston-based public relations firm, along with a panel of prominent women leaders. Panelists include: Dr. Judith Craven, retired President of the Texas Gulf Coast United Way; Monika Drake, Assistant Director of Career Planning, Jone= s School; Marla Hutchison, Principal, Deloitte Consulting; Christie Patrick, Vice President, Public Affairs, Enron Corp.; and Bette Wickline, Director, Women=01,s Business Initiative, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/content/content.cfm?PageID=3D104&;AnnounID=3D127. The March 19 Neuhaus Lecture featuring C.K. Prahalad, Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan Graduate Schoo= l of Business Administration, Ann Arbor, has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled at a later date. The Jones School and the Rice Alliance will welcome aspiring entrepreneurs at the first Southwest Business Plan Competition, scheduled for March 30-31= , at Herring Hall. Nine teams from schools in the southwest region of the U.S= . will compete for the opportunity to enter the international MOOT CORPc Competition held each year at the University of Texas, Austin. http://www.alliance.rice.edu/swbpc/ The Rice Alliance hosts the second annual Business Plan Presentation Forum from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, Duncan Hall. The forum is intended to provide presenters with candid and constructive coaching on the components of their business plans. http://www.alliance.rice.edu/news/pastnews.cfm?AnnounID=3D31 Ralph Eads, Group Executive Vice President of Merchant Energy and Productio= n for El Paso Corp., will speak at the Dean's Lecture Series scheduled for 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday, April 11 at 124 Herring Hall. http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/news/calendar/index.cfm?EventRecord=3D1735&;DD=3D80= . This year's Black Leadership Conference, scheduled for April 27, brings together MBAs, lawyers, accountants, engineers, healthcare professionals, educators, and entrepreneurs from Houston to discuss key issues facing blac= k professionals. Keynote speakers include Houston Mayor Lee Brown; author and Financial Advisor Brooke Stevens; Shell Oil Company Chairman Steve Miller; Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary; and Federal Reserve Board Member Samuel Golden. http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/content/content.cfm?PageID= =3D60 Stephen Zeff, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting and professor o= f managerial studies, was profiled in the March 1 edition of Rice News for th= e successful release of his book on accounting historian Henry Rand Hatfield, the first first full-time accounting professor in a U.S. university. http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/reno/rn/20010301/Templates/zeff.html In its 2001 rankings of the top full-time MBA programs in the world, the Financial Times ranked the Jones School among the ten best in four categories: value for money; employed at three months; finance; entrepreneurship. Overall, the Jones was ranked 35th of 51 U.S. schools and 54th among the world's best 100 graduate business schools. http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/content/content.cfm?PageID=3D104&;AnnounID=3D125. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship enters its second yea= r determined to enhance services that have promoted the entrepreneurial spiri= t in the Rice community and in Houston. The Alliance brings together students= , faculty, alumni and other Rice-associated parties as collaborators, mentors and investors in engineering, science, software, or e-commerce innovations. http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/content/content.cfm?PageID=3D104&;AnnounID=3D128. -------------------------------- Online: -------------------------------- Visit the construction web cam URL for up-to-the-minute live feeds of the new Jones School building construction. http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/campaign/Jonescam. Learn about new and upcoming initiatives and programs at the school, and view artist renderings of the new $60 million building, currently under construction. http://jonesgsm.rice.edu/campaign/campaign.html --------------------------------------------------------- @Jones: News and Information from the Jones School, the Jones School e-newsletter, is published monthly by the Public Relations Department of th= e Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management. The Jones School website http://jonesgsm.rice.edu is updated frequently and we encourage you to visit the site regularly to get the latest news and information about new initiatives and programs at the Jones School. To submit items to be posted on the Jones School website, please e-mail JGSMNews@rice.edu or call 713-348-6364.
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