t 8:10 on a cold January morning — the second day of the spring semester — about 30 freshmen file into room 200 in McMahon Hall. Fresh from winter break, some are moving slowly as they adjust to the earlyA hour. Their professor, Andreas Widmer, director of the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at the Tim and Steph and Economics, is handing out In the pre-printed name cards. He wants to be able to call on each student by name. He’s got some “housekeeping” to get out of the way. Attendance. Grading. Office hours. Weekly reading and quizzes. No sitting in the back row. He motions to three young men who grab their backpacks and reluctantly find places up front. About 20 minutes into class, with his checklist complete, Widmer pulls a compass out of his pocket. “This compass saved Business my life,” he says. With those five words, the students lean in with a new focus. In riveting detail, Widmer tells the story of being an 18-year- old — blindfolded in the middle of the night, thrown in the back of a truck, and dropped off in the mountains of Switzerland with only that compass and a map. As part of his training for the Swiss Army, he had one week to get from point A to point B of Human without getting “caught.” The map provided his end point, but didn’t tell him where he was. That’s where the compass came in. The professor walks around the room allowing students to find north on the compass. The magnetic draw of some of their computers gives a few students a “false” north. Widmer explains that can happen in nature too. “The compass shows you north by default,” he says. “Something as a simple as a rock formation can throw off the magnetic earth points, deflecting the needle.” Flourishing Once Widmer found his true north in the mountains of By Ellen N. Woods Switzerland, he charted his course and, moving under cover of night to avoid being seen, made it to his destination. Widmer’s story of militia training, he tells the students, is an analogy for life. “There is something in all of us that points to our true north,” he says. This is the first lesson in Management 118: Tools and Found- ations for the Vocation of Business. At the Tim and Steph Busch School of Business and Economics, Widmer says it is a “privilege to teach this course to freshmen. a rigorous curriculum in management, accounting, and finance To make an impact on them at such a pivotal time in their lives, when they are just starting to consider their calling, is an honor.” is taught in concert with Catholic social doctrine. The school is “Each one of you was created for something special,” he tells them. “What is your vocation? What is God calling you to do? In changing the conversation about business education, and people this class you will write a mission statement for your life, you will consider your goals, and the path to achieving them,” says Widmer. are listening. “And you will start your own business.” Faculty in the Busch School see business as a vocation; in fact they consider it a “noble vocation,” to borrow a term from Pope Francis. They believe business people, when operating with a set of moral and ethical principles and with a devotion to individual dignity, can solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.

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Later that day, at 5:10 p.m., seniors take their in God’s likeness. Every person in a company A New School is Launched Abela enlisted Engelland, now associate dean, and they developed a seats for their first class in Management 499: is important.” On Jan. 8, 2013, The Wall Street Journal announced Catholic University’s proposal that would set their school apart. The two marketing professors Business in Life taught by William Bowman, “Subsidiarity,” says another student, “refers new school with a banner headline, “B-School Mixes Faith, Finance: had no trouble establishing product differentiation. dean of the Busch School. Bowman is new to to human freedom. Employees should be able Catholic University’s New Program Will Infuse Courses With Instruction “We began an in-depth analysis of the competition. There are hundreds the University. He was appointed dean in spring to make decisions.” in Virtues.” of business schools in this country alone. These schools are doing a 2016, taking over the helm of a school that is “Amazing things happen when organizations The school is a “start-up” with the benefit of a strong foundation and great job of preparing business technicians. Ethics courses are part of growing by leaps and bounds. practice this principle,” says Bowman. “Decisions rich history. The University’s Department of Business and Economics the curriculum,” says Engelland. The students in this class are one semester are better and more efficient. Senior manage- dates back to 1895, not long after the University’s “Ethics teaches us right from wrong. But the away from graduation. They were freshmen ment doesn’t spend time on issues that can be founding in 1887. corruption we read about in the newspapers isn’t when the University’s Board of Trustees better handled by employees. Employees feel Catholic University’s current provost, Andrew because business people didn’t know right from approved the elevation of the Department of valued and empowered, and that’s the key to Abela, was the founding dean of the School of wrong. It’s because they hadn’t been formed in Business and Economics, housed within the innovation.” Business and Economics. He arrived at the virtue, the habit of making the right decision to School of Arts and Sciences, to a distinct In a discussion of human dignity, Bowman University in 2001 as a marketing professor with the point where it is second nature. That’s what’s school within the University. As freshmen shares his experience instituting a virtues train- a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia’s Darden missing from conventional business education.” they explored their calling in Widmer’s ing program when he was CEO of US Inspect, School of Business and more than ten years of The detailed plan to establish a business school Vocation of Business course. They are the first a nationwide home inspection company. experience as a successful marketing executive. based on the principles of integrity found in cohort to have studied at the business school “Together, every employee focused on the In 2008 he was named chair of the depart- Catholic social doctrine, the practice of virtue, for all four of their college years. They have virtues of diligence, honesty, perseverance, and ment. Abela believed that virtue should be a and the idea of business as a noble vocation was embraced the school’s unique Catholic mission charity. These were the virtues we identified theme underlying all business and economics overwhelmingly approved by the University’s and were witnesses to history last spring as being most important to our customers. It classes, not just addressed separately in ethics Board of Trustees. The department became a when the school received a landmark gift and was an amazing way to affirm the dignity of courses. He made it a priority to recruit faculty school in January 2013. was renamed the Tim and Steph Busch our employees and customers, and in the end who shared that vision. The timing couldn’t have been better. As School of Business and Economics. it proved to be really good for business.” “Our business and economics faculty members Catholic University was launching a virtues- This course is aimed at launching seniors “There’s nothing wrong with making a — who have grown in numbers since our based business school, the Vatican was affirming into the real world. Through case studies and profit, but we should share the wealth,” says department became a school — are a special the need for such an education. guest speakers they will consider what lies one student during the discussion of the group. They are all united in a common mission Andrew Abela In 2012, when Abela and Engelland were ahead with regard to such topics as salary . “That’s a hard one for a lot of and vision to bring the wisdom of Catholic working on their proposal for a business school, negotiation, the basics of employee benefits, business people,” says Bowman. “Sure, as social doctrine to bear on the practice and theory the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace released and balancing career and family. capitalists we love the free market system. But of business and economics,” says Abela. “In Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection. The Bowman asks the seniors how they are feel- we are stewards of the wealth we create, not the looking for faculty throughout the past decade, document draws from 130 years of business- ing as they begin their last semester of college. owners. God created all the goods of the earth we looked for people who shared an interest in related doctrine dating back to Rerum Novarum, They share excitement mixed with a hint of for everyone. It’s OK to make a nice living for this vision, were proven or potentially great Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 writings on capital and labor. trepidation. Bowman tells them they have just you and your family. But at the end of the teachers and/or scholars, and ideally, had lots Shortly after the School of Business and Eco- what the business world wants and needs. day, excess wealth should be shared. You get to of senior-level experience as business executives nomics was approved, Pope Francis was elected “CEOs are looking for people of integrity,” he decide how to distribute that wealth. That’s the or entrepreneurs.” by the College of Cardinals. He placed an em- says. “They are looking for young people who difference between socialism and capitalism.” Brian Engelland, a marketing scholar, was phasis from the start of his papacy on living in are well rounded, who play by the rules, who are one of them. He had 22 years in the corporate solidarity with the poor and on the role of business critical thinkers, passionate, team players. Your sector as a product development executive for in lifting people out of poverty. In his apostolic degree from the Busch School sets you apart.”  two Fortune 500 companies. And he had nearly exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the That leads to a discussion of school mission. 20 years in academia when he joined the faculty Gospel”) and then in his encyclical Laudato Si’: On Bowman asks, “What are the four principles Widmer and Bowman have a few things in in 2010, leaving his position as director of the Care for Our Common Home, the Holy Father from Catholic social doctrine that have been common. Both of them were successful entre- marketing program at a state university. “I longed presented to the world the concept of business the cornerstone to your education as business preneurs before joining the faculty. Neither to talk about Catholic social doctrine in my as a noble vocation and a force for good. and economics students?” one of them envisioned a career in academia. courses. I always felt I wasn’t telling my students Abela and his colleague Joseph Capizzi, pro- Every student raises a hand. “That’s a relief,” But both say it was the mission of the Busch the complete story,” says Engelland, who has an fessor of moral theology and ethics, proved there he says. “Glad to see you’re paying attention.” School that drew them to The Catholic M.B.A. and a doctorate in marketing strategy, Brian Engelland was a thirst for this kind of thinking with the The answers come easily: human University of America. and is a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus. release in 2014 of A Catechism for Business: dignity, solidarity, subsidiarity, They are not alone. The school’s mission, Under John Garvey, who became President in 2010, a strategic plan Tough Ethical Questions and Insights from Catholic Teaching. In the book, the and the common good. putting human flourishing above wealth, has for the University was developed. Abela was on the 2011 steering com- two professors distilled more than 100 years of Catholic social doctrine that A discussion follows. “Solidarity,” says one become a beacon for new faculty members (both mittee and says the President and Jim Brennan, the provost at the time, provides guidance to business people and presented it in a question-and- student, “means all for all. Businesses need to be academics and business leaders), for students, encouraged him to investigate the need and potential for a business answer format. The book is now in its second edition and has been concerned about all people. We are all created and for philanthropists. school as part of the strategic plan. translated into several languages.

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The School Takes Off sponsors Wall Street and Madison Avenue In addition to supporting the Maloney Hall renovation, the gifts A New Home for the Busch School “In this young century alone, many businesses networking programs. support academic programs at the Busch School and the new inter- Maloney Hall, located on the southeast corner of the University’s main have already brought forth marvelous innova- The Busch School is establishing itself as a disciplinary Institute for Human Ecology, which takes up Pope Francis’s campus, will be the future home for the Tim and Steph Busch School tions which have cured disease, brought people leading intellectual center for business pro- call in Laudato Si’ to study the relationship of human beings to one of Business and Economics. The 100-year-old Martin Maloney Chemical closer together through technology and created fessionals, offering an eight-week certificate another and the world around them. Laboratory was named in honor of a Philadelphia philanthropist and prosperity in countless ways. Unfortunately, course on Catholic social doctrine for pro- “We were all kind of shocked and then really excited when we heard Catholic University benefactor. The University closed the hall in 2015 this century has also brought business scandals fessionals, and sponsoring two international about the donation,” says Lissette Escobar, a senior international econo- due to aging infrastructure. The framework of the 61,000 square-foot and serious economic disturbances, and an conferences in conjunction with the Napa mics and finance major. “It’s nice to have a named school. I think that building is strong and will be preserved in the renovation. Its fieldstone erosion of trust in business organizations and in Institute on “Liberty and Solidarity: Living enhances our reputation. For those donors to make a donation of this construction and collegiate Gothic architecture make it one of the most free-market institutions generally,” states Vocation the Vocation to Business,” and “Human Ecology: size really says they have faith in what we are doing here.” stunning buildings on campus. The renovation will preserve its of the Business Leader. “For Christian business Integrating 125 Years of Catholic Social The gifts were not just big news on campus — they caught the architectural integrity while the interior will reflect the latest style in leaders, this is a time that calls for the witness of Doctrine.” attention of the higher education and business worlds, reported in modern office building design. faith, the confidence of hope, and the practice Business leaders are taking notice of the such media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of The building will have a chapel allowing for 24-hour visitation of the of love.” school’s mission and growth. Many are seeking Philanthropy, USA Today, Forbes, National Catholic Register, The Blessed Sacrament and daily Mass. “Having a chapel integrated within the The growth of the business school over the to support the school through mentoring Washington Post, and National Review. academic space will help to illustrate the unity of life we are hoping to past four years indicates that future business students, joining the Busch School Board of “The people who have put their money behind the Busch School teach the students,” says Phil Brach, assistant dean for development. leaders are ready to answer that call. Today’s Visitors, and by becoming donors. are a special group,” says Phil Brach, assistant dean for development at the Maloney Hall is scheduled to re-open as the school’s new home at the business and economics students may not re- school. “They are friends to us and champions of the school and its end of 2018. member Enron, but they grew up with the back- Landmark Gift Reinforces mission. In their own business ventures they are operating with virtue, drop of the AIG bailout, the Madoff invest- morals, and ethics, and a respect for human dignity. They are the ideal Ciocca Center Launches Program to Aid the Mission ment scandal, the subprime mortgage crisis, our students aspire to.” Inner City Small Business and the Occupy Wall Street movement. In spring of 2016, a group of six donors “The donations to the Busch School have been transformational,” “Students and their parents are attracted to came together to make a combined $47 million says Scott Rembold, vice president for University advancement. “The The Busch School’s Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship has the mission,” says Bowman. “We talk to prospec- gift to the School of Business and Economics gifts from this extraordinary group of donors allow the school to put partnered with the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) to launch tive students at open houses and school visits and the University. its vision into action; to attract the best students and faculty, to build the Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) program in Washington, and they tell us they were drawn to our mission The lead gift of $15 million from the Busch a state-of-the-art home for the school, and to become the leading D.C. ICCC is a national program designed to help small businesses in because they want to be part of an honorable Family Foundation, established by Tim and center for a new direction not just in business education, but in the way economically distressed areas build capacity for sustainable growth in profession. They want to change the negative Steph Busch, is funding the renovation of business is conducted throughout the United States and internationally.” revenue, profitability, and employment. This is the group’s first partnership connotation of pursuing a business career.” Maloney Hall and future operating support World-class business and economics scholars and executives with a university. A February program launch attracted more than 200 Undergraduate students in the school account for the school. This is the largest single gift in recognize that potential. D.C. area business and community leaders to the University’s campus. for 23% of the University’s total undergrad- University history. The school was renamed in “This is a place where I wanted to contribute my intellectual capital,” “This initiative highlights the idea of subsidiarity by building on what uate population. In the year before the depart- their honor. says Pakaluk, a renowned expert on accounting ethics and ancient is already there and enhancing it. It empowers people where they are and ment became a school, business and econo- A select group of leadership donors also philosophy. He joined the faculty in 2016. “This is The Catholic encourages personal initiative,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, University mics students comprised about 7% of the made major financial commitments to the University of America. It is a pontifical university in the capital of the chancellor and archbishop of Washington, a featured speaker at the event. undergrad population. In 2016, 93% of Busch school: $10 million from the Arthur and United States. It is the best place to test this idea of a Catholic vision School graduates had jobs within six months Carlyse Ciocca Charitable Foundation, of a business school. The proper role of regulation, the sense of the of graduation, with 5% pursuing graduate which includes the establishment of the common good, the importance of work, the dignity of the human education. Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for person, an inclusive economy — all of these issues converge here at the The Busch School offers undergraduate Principled Entrepreneurship; $10 million Busch School and in the nation’s capital.” degrees in accounting, economics, finance, from the Charles Koch Foundation, which international business, international economics supports hundreds of colleges and and finance, management, and marketing, as universities across the country; $5 million  well as graduate degrees in integral economic from Joe Della Ratta, B.A. 1953, founder development, accounting, business analysis, and owner of Della Ratta, Inc. and benefactor and management. An array of student-run of the Centesimus Annus Della Ratta Family “Business is a vocation, and a noble vocation, organizations, a CEO lecture series, career Endowed Professorship; $5 million from an provided that those engaged in it see planning, internships, and networking programs anonymous donor; and $2 million from the complement the rigorous academic program- Blanford Charitable Gift Fund through the themselves challenged by a greater meaning ming. The school takes advantage of its D.C. recommendation of Larry Blanford, a member in life. …” location to bring in mentors and lecturers of the school’s Board of Visitors and the from federal agencies, Congress, NGOs, and University’s Board of Trustees, and his wife, — Pope Francis The Busch School’s Bob Keith, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Hyacinth Vassell of Fortune 500 companies. In addition it Lynn. Evangelii Gaudium ICCC, and ICCC alumnus Pedro Alfonso at the partnership launch.

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William Bowman Art Ciocca Dean, Busch School Philanthropist A New Dean Brings Real-World A Principled Entrepreneur Experience to Students Art Ciocca says the best advice he ever wineries owned by the Coca-Cola Bottling received was from his grandfather, an Italian Company of New York. When word came that As dean of the Busch School, William Bowman is Lynch trader now living in Houston. Father immigrant who worked as a blacksmith. “He the company was planning to divest its wine well versed in Catholic social doctrine. He can Michael asked me what I was doing to incor- always told me, ‘In America, if you work hard holdings, Ciocca put together a management quote with ease from Centesimus Annus (“The porate ethics into the companies I ran. I told and stay out of trouble, anything is possible.’” team and a group of outside investors to Hundredth Year”), Rerum Novarum (On him faith is at work in all aspects of my life. “Pretty simple, but it makes a lot of sense,” purchase the wineries through a leveraged Lissette Escobar Capital and Labor), Laudato Si’: On Care for But when he asked if I was guided by Catholic says Ciocca, who grew up in Tarrytown, N.Y., buyout. International Economics and Finance 2017 Our Common Home, and the Catechism of the social doctrine, I didn’t have a clue. Frankly, all in an Italian Catholic family during the post- “It was a risk,” says Ciocca, “but a calculated Catholic Church, offering passages that provide of my education had focused on the dollar as Depression era. His father worked his way risk given my wine business experience and “Finding My guidance to business people. the central purpose of business,” says Bowman. through school to fulfill his dream of being a the strong team we put together.” He doesn’t mind admitting that for a large Father Barrett sent Bowman some reading doctor. The Wine Group (TWG) has grown steadily part of his career he was unaware of these great material and asked him to come down to Even though he had strong role models, he since its founding in 1981. Today it produces Vocation” writings. “My faith guides my life, both at home Houston to run a few workshops with him. says, when he left home to attend the College more than 50 wine brands. The company is and in the workplace. But I didn’t know the “I started reading the encyclicals and it was of the Holy Cross at age 17 he didn’t have a known for quality, affordability, and inno- uring her four years at Catholic Church had this rich body of teaching on a light bulb moment for me,” says Bowman. career path in mind. It was a series of chance vation. It pioneered the wine tap for Franzia, University, Lissette Escobar has taken commerce,” says Bowman, who has an engi- “But these thick complex documents are not events and entrepreneurial spirit that led now the largest wine brand in the world. Dadvantage of the internship oppor- neering degree from Northwestern University everyday reading. So in our workshops we used Ciocca, a Busch School Ciocca says the keys tunities that abound in Washington, D.C. She and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. case studies with the appropriate citations from benefactor, to become to TWG’s success have has interned at the Organization of American In 1982, Bowman, the father of nine, co- the doctrine. Business leaders couldn’t get enough founder and CEO of the We hire the best been almost as simple States, on Capitol Hill and at the Inter- founded one of the first educational software of it.” third largest winery in as the advice his grand- American Development Bank. She has also companies in the United States. “I was working The success of the business workshops led the United States. “people and empower father gave him. “We served as a research assistant for two professors, at a high-tech company and I had the sixth to the formation of Core Values Group, a con- Ciocca joined the have a clear vision of Martha Cruz Zuniga, associate clinical professor IBM PC to come to Boston,” he says. “I was just sulting firm headed by Bowman that works ROTC while in college. them to make deci- what we want to accom- and director of economics, and Maria Sophia amazed watching my kids play on it. And that with employees to grow in virtue. He says he will never plish, and a strategy to Aguirre, professor of economics, on economic was the inspiration for the Spinnaker Software By 2014, Bowman was using A Catechism forget standing on the sions and take risks get that done. We hire development studies in Guatemala and Paraguay. Company.” for Business by Catholic University faculty deck of an aircraft carrier the best people and “My time at the Busch School has been all Bowman’s career as an entrepreneur and members Andrew Abela and Joseph Capizzi in the summer of 1958 and have fun.” empower them to make about finding my vocation. And for me that CEO took him in many directions, including in his workshops. He didn’t realize he would and catching his first decisions and take risks means pursuing development projects in co-founding the Montrose School, a Boston- soon be joining them as colleagues. sight of the Golden Gate Bridge and the city and have fun. And we have a culture based on Latin America,” says Escobar, who speaks both area Catholic independent school for girls. “For so long my mission was to educate of San Francisco. That’s when he set his first key values and principles that hold the organ- Spanish and English at home. In 2001 when the collapse of Houston- business leaders about virtue in the major goal in life — to make that city his home. ization together.” “My father, who is professionally involved in based energy giant Enron ruled the headlines, workplace,” says Bowman. “But nothing has After graduating in 1959 as a commissioned One of the rewards of Ciocca’s success has development in Latin America, is from Bolivia Bowman got a phone call from a good friend, compared to the joy I am finding in bringing ensign, he set sail for the Mediterranean Sea. been the ability to create a foundation with and my mom is from Nicaragua. So I grew up Rev. Michael Barrett. “He was a former Merrill this message to our future business leaders.” “The Navy taught me great leadership skills,” his wife, Carlyse. They met just 30 days after exposed to diversity and international in- he says. The Navy also afforded him the oppor- the leveraged buyout. She is, coincidentally, center. But once he learned more about the fluences,” says Escobar. tunity to earn an M.B.A and discover his love the granddaughter of the founders of Franzia mission of the school, he came to “love the Her immediate plan is to attend graduate of marketing. Winery — one of the three wineries he people and what they are creating. The school at Columbia University. And then she His Navy career fostered a love of travel. So purchased from Coca-Cola. school has the potential to become the world- wants to effect change in education after he was discharged and before embarking “She is my partner in philanthropy and that class center for business education reinforced development in economically disadvantaged on a career, he hitchhiked around the world, has brought us much joy,” says Ciocca. by Catholic social doctrine.” communities in Latin America. In that then took a job with General Foods simply The Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for His fellow donors were part of the draw to endeavor, she says, she will consider what she because they offered him a position in San Principled Entrepreneurship at the Busch School the University as well. “I am a friend and great has learned about subsidiarity and solidarity. Francisco. is funded by the Cioccas’ gift. As to what admirer of Charles Koch. He introduced me “I don’t just want to be a voice for those The future wine magnate charted a career as a attracted them to the school, Ciocca says to Tim Busch, who has become a friend. I was living in poverty. I want to show them how to marketing executive known for building brands. initially it was his friendship with Andreas happy to be part of this whole group of really use their own strength and abilities so that their In 1975, he was in charge of a group of three Widmer, the director of the entrepreneurship wonderful philanthropists.” voices are heard.”

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Catherine Pakaluk Kesly Felizor, M.A 2013 Assistant Professor of Economics Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, German Red Cross

Teaching with a Q. As an economics teacher, what is the most important lesson you have for your “A Way for Me to Control Humanistic Approach students? A. Economics is a little like the philosophical My Own Destiny” Michael Hernandez big brother for a business program. Econo- Finance 2017 Catherine Pakaluk and her husband Michael Pakaluk joined the Busch School faculty at the start mists aim to impart certain habits of mind of the fall 2016 semester. She is the former chair of the economics department at Ave Maria University. to business students. Some would call it “Every He is a world-renowned expert on accounting ethics and ancient philosophy. In her relatively young ‘thinking like an economist’ but I prefer academic career, Catherine Pakaluk has earned attention for her writing and speaking in the area of to say that we want to teach our students Voice Matters” economics studied within the Catholic intellectual tradition. to observe various laws or rules that govern human behavior as it relates to markets Q. How did you find your calling to academia? and institutions. Of course in all things ichael Hernandez came to Catholic A. University life is a beautiful thing. I fell in love with it while I was in college. I felt like this we take a humanistic approach that is University as a pre-med biology major. is where I want to be forever. consistent with the Catholic intellectual MSince he was five, he wanted to follow At the end of college, I had a spiritual awakening and became more serious about my tradition. in his grandfather’s footsteps and become a faith. I began to read the great classics of Catholic thought, especially John Henry Newman, doctor as a way to help people. Aquinas, and St. Augustine. That led me to ask harder questions about the relationship Q. How do you manage an academic career But then he started to pay attention to between faith and the idea of a great university. while being mom to eight children? what some of his friends were up to. They were I had the conviction in my heart that there must be a place where scholars could be truly A. Having a big family forces me to pick and creating market-affiliated blogs for Andreas Catholic and also embrace what it means to be a great university. After I finished my doctoral choose what I think is most important to Widmer’s Vocation of Business course. “I was work, Michael and I were looking for such a place. That led us to Ave Maria, a young, small work on. Trying to choose quality over fascinated. That was the first time I realized I university. It was a very special place for us and provided a lot of what we were looking for. quantity. I hope that will be enough at the Kesly Felizor, right, in Haiti could help people through a business vocation.” end of the day. Also, of course, practically When Hernandez changed his major to Q. What brought you to Catholic University? speaking, I do a lot of work at night, during economics during his sophomore year, it was A. We looked at CUA and President Garvey’s leadership and it seemed to us that this University nap times, and whenever I can squeeze it rowing up in rural Haiti, Kesly Felizor, Felizor went to Port-au-Prince to volunteer in like going home. “We all have this kinship of embodies so much of the vision we have of a great Catholic university. There is a phenomenal in. Sometimes I go on a marathon and M.A. 2013, says he knew from a young the relief effort. “It was devastating to realize being part of a new enterprise. My classmates amount of research taking place here, and great conversations across arts and sciences, and get a lot done in a few days when I have Gage that education was his best option many casualties happened because of lack of and I push each other to learn more, work among faculty of various disciplines. extra help. Academic life is flexible in for a better life. education, weak institutions, and lack of rule. harder, and find new opportunities,” he says. The mission of the Busch School was also very appealing. There is an attention to the way some ways that other professions are not. “Getting an education was a way for me to That’s when I decided I wanted to be involved “The faculty inspire us. They have tremendous business can provide solutions to poverty and foster inclusion for the disconnected. The team But still, some things just take longer. For control my own destiny without anyone telling in community development and institutional backgrounds and they are so willing to share of people at the school is extraordinary. They are just getting started and there is an excitement instance, it took me 12 years to finish the me what I am going to be based on my family strengthening.” their experience, knowledge, and contacts. to being here on the ground floor of something with such great potential. Ph.D.! background,” he says. “My mother sacrificed That led him to pursue a master’s degree And as with any start-up, every voice matters. In many ways, I believe my work makes a lot for me to attend school.” from the Busch School’s Integral Economic They want to hear what we think including me a better mom because the more I can As a child, his only contact with the world Development program. He received a our ideas for making the school even better.” develop my God-given gifts, the more I beyond his rural village was through text- University scholarship to attend, and he says it Donors, too, are part of the school’s can give to my children. The balance is not books and radio. “I remember when I got my was “a true revelation” to study Catholic social community, Hernandez says. “They are role always easy, but since my husband and I first radio and built an antenna out of alum- doctrine and learn the Church’s approach to models for the kind of business leaders we are both academics we have some ability to inum and bamboo to pick up radio frequency integral economic development. seek to be. My goal is to reach a level of success trade off time at home and time at work. from Port-au-Prince. I followed the 1998 The program, he says, “provided all the at which I could one day have a philan- We both often work at night with the Soccer World Cup,” Felizor says. “Being able to necessary steps and tools to make develop- thropic foundation, and the people I would older children — all doing our home- listen to broadcasts from stations such as Radio ment human centered.” put on the board would be my former class- work together. France International changed my view on Since 2015, he has been working as a moni- mates and professors.” There is a lot of joy and happiness politics, science, economics, and the world.” toring and evaluation manager for a German With graduation just around the corner, among our children and in our day-to- He says it was through the support of many Red Cross food security project in Arcahaie, Hernandez says he can’t wait to get into the day life, and this is the point of all that who believed in him, including his mother in the rural mountains of western Haiti. marketplace. “I’ve been taught to look beyond we are doing, to live in a community of and a priest from the Congregation of the “Whenever I see a kid on top of a mountain the numbers, to look at who is affected by the love and try to transmit that witness to Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission, that he walking long hours to get to school, I have numbers, and I believe that will set me apart others. It’s not easy, but with grace all was able to complete a college degree. hope that child will have the means to change in the workplace.” things are possible. When the 2010 earthquake hit his country, the course of his life,” says Felizor.

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Editor’s Note: Michael Novak, distinguished visiting fellow at the Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center formation of small businesses. That’s where you for Principled Entrepreneurship, passed away on Feb. 17, 2017, at the age of 83. University find the dynamism of capitalism. The best President John Garvey remembered him as a “man of great intellectual honesty.” The following article Courtney Burke, B.S.B.A 2016 instrument of social justice in this century was written prior to his death. He was interviewed for the story in December. Account Manager, immixGroup will be the innovation and enterprise of small Michael Novak business.” Philosopher, Diplomat, Theologian Novak, who was awarded the Templeton “We Put the Prize for Progress in Religion in 1994, served as ambassador to the U.N. Commission on Novak Found a Human Rights in 1981 and 1982. He held 26 Home honorary degrees and taught at Harvard, Customer at the Busch School Stanford, Syracuse, Notre Dame, and Ave First” Maria universities. He considered his greatest honor to be that Pope John Paul II called him a Michael Novak wrote the book on democratic capitalism. Literally. friend, as did Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher When Courtney Burke crossed the stage on Cahlia Walton When he published The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism in 1982, he was a philosopher ahead and President Ronald Reagan. graduation day last May, she tells people she International Business 2017 of his time. “I was a lone voice,” he said. “Hundreds of books had been written on how capitalism When the invitation came to join the Busch had a diploma in one hand and a job in the evolves into socialism, but none had been written on how socialism evolves into capitalism.” School faculty, Novak said he consulted his other. That was her goal as a marketing major In his groundbreaking book, Novak wrote about “three dynamic and converging systems good friend and “chief guru,” Mary Ann at the Busch School. “I had the job offer in “All About functioning as one.” Namely, “a predominantly market economy; a polity respectful of the rights of Glendon, a Harvard Law professor and former April and it made for a relaxing end to my individuals to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and a system of cultural institutions moved U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. “She said, senior year,” she says. Cultural by ideals of liberty and justice for all.” ‘Michael, you have an obligation to do this. “The faculty have such great connections Of the nearly 50 books he wrote, this one remains the crown jewel, forever changing the It’s important to the Church,’” he recalled. and they are committed to helping with the conversation about the benefits of capitalism. Novak, who wrote speeches for presidential job search,” says Burke. She credits Mark Differences” Novak, who joined the faculty of the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship in fall 2016 candidates and presidents dating back to the Weber, executive in residence at the Busch in what he called the “twilight of his career,” said, “I like that the school is oriented around the 1960s, said the draw of Washington, D.C., School who teaches selling and sales ahlia Walton says it was a scholarship was an added benefit. “My feet started moving management, with helping her “polish my that brought her to Catholic University, like the Budweiser horses. I wanted to get back resume and steer me in the direction” that led Cand it is the faculty in the Busch School in the parade,” he said. to a job offer prior to graduation. that has kept her there. “The professors make Perhaps the biggest draw was the faculty at Burke is an account manager at sure you are succeeding, that you are reaching the Busch School. “Oh I love them and they immixGroup in McLean, Va., where she your full potential,” she says. love their students. It’s sometimes hard to get a helps technology companies work with the She enjoys sharing her experience with new hold of them because they are always with their government. students through her work as an Orientation students. They are building a new intellectual Although just getting started in her career, Advisor and as a member of the Busch School project. Those outside the school haven’t realized Burke says she can already see how the admission team. “I love helping freshmen feel it yet. Yes, other schools are employing Catholic unique focus of the Busch School pays off in welcome here.” thought, but they are not tackling it with so the workplace. “An understanding of sound, Walton plans to pursue a career in inter- much originality. ethical business practices is ingrained in you, national marketing. “It’s a field that is all about “Catholic social thought advances when you it’s second nature.” cultural differences. It’s fascinating. Products have intellectual centers asking, what new While at Catholic University, Burke was a that we like here may not be appealing in principles, concepts are we going to need that special events intern with the Make-A-Wish other countries,” says Walton, who speaks we hadn’t thought about before? Increasingly, Foundation, a two-year varsity athlete, a English, Spanish, French, and a bit of French I see the school becoming a leader not just in member of Custos Utique Antiquitatis, and Creole, learned from her mom, who grew up the United States, but in Rome.” served as a freshmen retreat leader. in Haiti. Her first job, she says is “very team- She had a summer marketing internship on oriented. We work together to get the job Broadway, where she helped promote shows. done, we trust each other. We have a culture She also interned for the U.S. Department of I like that the that encourages fun, but we are serious when Commerce, helping to prepare manuals for we need to be. We put the customer first.” U.S. exporters. “My mom worked for the “school is oriented “The focus on ethics and integrity is what government at the U.S. Agency for makes me proud to have a degree from the International Development. So it’s been fun around the formation Busch School,” she says. to share stories with her,” says Walton. of small businesses.”

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Patty Fabijanczyk, B.A. 2014, M.S.B.A. 2015 Andreas Widmer Tayler Falvey Consultant, Infinitive Director, Ciocca Center Marketing 2017 “All about dignity and respect” His Students “We All

Patty Fabijanczyk, B.A. 2014, M.S.B.A 2015, the program with and they become part of are “Made for Benefit” completed her politics degree a semester early your network as well.” in December 2013. That gave her time to think As a consultant for Infinitive, a management about what she wanted to do next. She explored consulting firm, she is currently working with a Greatness” As the chair of the Busch School’s Major graduate school programs and when she met client on new IT projects. “The skills I learned Mentor Program, Tayler Falvey has developed with Stewart McHie, director of the Busch in the M.S.B.A. program are so important in her matchmaking skills. “We pair upper- School’s Master of Science in Business Analysis consulting work — things like flexibility, team classmen with freshmen who have the same Sam Galvin program, she applied almost on the spot. leadership, analysis of business practices all In spring 2012, Andreas Widmer, director of force, but through attraction. He didn’t preach major. I try to find other things they have in Finance 2018 “I liked that the program was just one year come into play.” Entrepreneurship Programs, received a call from to me, he simply believed in me,” says Widmer. common as well,” says Falvey. and that it was geared toward the non-business Fabijanczyk, who attended Catholic school his publisher to let him know that a professor “He thought the world of me and he told me “The transition to college can be challenging. “Values major,” says Fabijanczyk. “It was intensive. I’m from kindergarten through college, says the at Catholic University wanted to get in touch I could achieve great things. I didn’t believe it It’s very rewarding to be able to answer not sure I fully appreciated that until I started mission of the Busch School resonated with with him. Andrew Abela, then chair of the at first, but I was attracted to the idea that I was questions and provide peer support and the program. They pack a lot into one year.” her. “I spent my entire education aware of the Department of Business and Economics, had made for greatness. We give that gift to our guidance to new students. In the end, we all You Can Live By” The basic structure of the program, which Golden Rule, which is all about respect and started using Widmer’s 2011 book, The Pope young people here. It’s true, they are going to benefit from the program because it makes boasts nearly 100% job placement, has students dignity. Studying business in an environment & the CEO: John Paul II’s Leadership Lessons to do great things. All we do is give them the the Busch School community all the more am Galvin says when he visited the in morning internships and afternoon classes. that emphasizes human dignity and sound a Young Swiss Guard, in his teaching. Abela principles and ideas and show them the way. cohesive,” says Falvey. University as a high school student he “I enjoyed the field study course and all of morals and ethics made it clear to me at what wanted to meet the author and invite him to We can’t force them. But we are attracting them Entering Catholic University as an Swas drawn to its Washington, D.C., the seminars and networking opportunities with kind of company I wanted to start my career. be a guest lecturer in his classes. to this idea of finding a job not because you “exploratory” major, Falvey says some of her location and the size of the classes. “I’m not a so many business leaders from a variety of back- Work is much more enjoyable when you share That meeting led to a full-time position for will make a lot of money, but because it is your softball teammates suggested marketing might number here. Everyone has an opportunity grounds,” says Fabijanczyk. “You develop a the same core values with your employer and Widmer, who is the founder of the Arthur passion — because you will be excellent at it.” be a good fit for her. “I enrolled in the Vocation to get involved, to lead, and to be friends bond with the cohort of students you complete your coworkers.” and Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled of Business class where I was challenged to with their professors.” Entrepreneurship at the Busch School. Did you know? think about what God was calling me to do. Galvin is a member of the Busch Admission “It so happened that we were both in Rome Andreas Widmer is not the only former Swiss It turns out my teammates were right. That Team and the Dean’s Advisory Council. He is when I emailed Andrew. So we met for a beer Guard on the Busch School team. Mario Enzler led me to a marketing major which I love. It also president of the student-run Investment in the barracks of the Swiss Guard. He shared joined the faculty in 2016. He served as a brings out my creative side.” Club. “We’ve got a good mix of majors, in- with me his vision for a business school based guard under St. John Paul II in the double cluding non-business. We start our meetings on Catholic social doctrine — a place where capacity of soldier and conductor of the Swiss by talking about markets and financial news,” good business and good faith work together Guard Band. Following his service at the says Galvin. “Right now we have a paper trading — and I told him I wanted to be part of that,” Vatican, he worked for 18 years in investment competition going. We’ve each got $1 million says Widmer, whose passion is finding enter- banking and corporate finance for UBS and in simulated money. It’s a great way to test prise solutions to poverty. then started a classical education school rooted your skills in analysis and investing.” For two years, beginning when he was 20, in Catholic tradition in New Hampshire. In the summer after his sophomore year, Widmer served as a member of the Swiss Guard, Enzler is currently developing a master’s Galvin had an internship at Merrill Lynch, the Pope’s team of bodyguards. In The Pope program in ecclesial administration and man- working as a client associate on a D.C. wealth & the CEO he relates the lessons he learned agement for the Busch School. “This is such an management team. The internship led to his from Pope John Paul II during the years he important way for us to contribute to the mission current part-time job there. spent protecting him, and how he has applied of the Church,” says Enzler. “In my job every day I see how important those lessons as a successful entrepreneur, “Throughout my years in banking, I knew it is to approach our work with ethics and CEO, and philanthropist. I would only be successful if I remained focused morals,” he says. “Our decisions affect people’s Widmer says he was an insecure 20-year-old on the truth of my faith,” says Enzler. “As I life savings. They trust us and we have an hiding behind a “tough guy” persona when he considered this opportunity (to join the Busch obligation not to let them down. It isn’t hard joined the Swiss Guard after a required year in School faculty), I prayed to Saint John Paul. to get on board with the values inherent in the Swiss military. “That’s the student I teach I said, ‘OK, I served you for three years, now Catholic social teaching. The mission of the to,” says Widmer. “I teach to that vulnerability please show me the way.’ He answered me with school is universal; it affects daily life, family by showing the students where I came from. the kind of peace that only comes when you life, work life. These are values you can live by.” “Pope John Paul changed me, not through know the way.”

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