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Volume 15, No. 3, Fall 1992 Bryant University Bryant Digital Repository Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Special Bryant Review (1978-1997) Collections Fall 1992 volume 15, no. 3, Fall 1992 Bryant University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/bryant_review Recommended Citation Bryant University, "volume 15, no. 3, Fall 1992" (1992). Bryant Review (1978-1997). Paper 43. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/bryant_review/43 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Special Collections at Bryant Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bryant Review (1978-1997) by an authorized administrator of Bryant Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PRESIDENT'S PERSPECTIVE At Bryant we do an outstanding job authorities - our trustees - of preparing young men and wom­ have helped us examine the topic. en for their careers. Whether they Chair Greg Parkos '50, '88H talks choose business, government, education, or anyone about his brand of leadership, Alan Hassenfeld '85H of many other fields , our students leave Bryant poised leads by example at Hasbro, and Patricia Sawyer and to become leaders. Arthur White give advice on how to choose the right job. Successful alumni offer their points of view; .As alumni, our students go on to more than jobs, they faculty from different disciplines engage in a lively begin careers. They become more than employees, discussion; and students tell us what they are looking they join organizational cultures. Some will choose for in a company. the company and culture that is best for them right away, others may engage in a cultural trial-and-error Changing demographics, economic pressures, global that lasts throughout their careers. competitiveness, and advanced technologies are among the forces affecting change in corporate society world­ This issue of Bryant Review is about corporate cul­ wide. Bryant's students and alumni are well situated ture: what it means, what works and why, and how to face these challenges and more. Theirs is an edu ­ to affect change. Some of Bryant's greatest business cation for the long term . Sincerely, William E. Trueheart For more information BryantFALL Review1992 about educational opportunities available CORPORATE CULTURE at Bryant College, return the card WHO CARES? 10 inside the back cover. FACULlY PERSPECTIVES Professors from management, marketing, and psychology share their thoughts. 15 PAGE 2 THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIMENSION "People are the catalyst that enables an organization to achieve its objectives," says Mary Dupont Decelles '68. THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP 6 PLEASANTRIES AND PROFITS AT HASBRO ''You can only be as good as the people you have around you," asserts CEO Alan Hassenfeld. PAGES 14 "-..) THE FUTURE BELONGS TO WOMEN The Women's Leadership style is the wave of the future, say the authors of the bestselling Megatrends for Women. 5 LEADERSHIp, PARKOS SlYLE Bryant's new chair of the Board of Trustees talks about what motivates him . MAKING A CHOICE, AND A CHANGE PAGE 19 16 ON THE COVERS: THE RIGHT FIT Front: Bryant alumni show fun and games When is it the right job and when is it wrong? are not just fo r kids at Hasbro. Shown en­ joying the company's research and devel­ 19 opment FunLab are: (front) Queenie Phan WHAT 'S NEXT? '90, internal auditor; Kevin England 'S3MBA, "First I just want to get a job," say today's seniors. Then what? environmental engineer; Mary-Anne Pan­ ciotti '85, compensation analyst; (rear) HELPING COMPANIES ADJUST Michael Rutter 'S2, senior international "Many companies are in a state of transition," says the analyst; and Barry O'Brien '72 , import/ director of Bryant's Center for Management Development. export director. 14 Back: Showing off some of the products ALUMNAE ON THEIR WAY that make Hasbro number one are: Barry Bryant's new Women in Business student recruitment bro­ O'Brien '72, import/export director; Robert Oliveira '62, manager of national sales; chure highlights nine alumnae taking different roads to success. Teresa Burke-Dederian 'SOAS , '90MBA, senior accountant; Richard D'Amato '71, manager of financial planning; Michael REGULARS Rutter 'S2, senior international analyst; Steven Marco lini 'S3MBA, MIS project man­ ager; Queenie Ph an '90, internal auditor; 2 Kenneth Bray 76, director of Playskool fore­ TAKING STOCK casting; Mary-Anne Panciotti 'S5, compen­ TICKER TAPE sation analyst; and Kevin England '83MBA, 20 environmental engineer. ALUMNI NEWSMAKERS TAKING STOCK PRESIDENT REVIEWS STATE OF THE COLLEGE The folloWing are highlights of • We are reaching beyond our President Trueheart's annual traditional recruitment markets. State of the College address, The Northeast's college-age pool delivered to the College com­ is shrinking rapidly and the area CKERTAPE munity on October 15. has been hard-hit by the linger­ "Students at Work: The So­ ing recession. To counterbalance, cialization of Interns to Bus­ • Every year at this time we come we are seeking students nation­ iness," a paper by Professor together to assess how well we wide and worldwide. Hinda Pollard, was present­ are doing. My judgement is that ed at and published in the we are doing quite well, and we're • Bryant alumni have been proceedings of the 1992 International Academy of going to be doing even better in enthusiastic in their assistance Business Disciplines. the weeks and months ahead. in enrollment management. Through the Bryant Enrollment The National Association • Despite demographic pres- President Trueheart, after the Support Team (BEST Network) , of Women in Construction heard a presentation about sure, we are not lowering our S tate of the College address. 125 young alumni represent resume writing from Assist­ admission standards. We are making a long-term Bryant. Our alumni are our finest ambassadors ant Career Services Director choice to maintain our standards to ensure the and their help is proving invaluable. Barbara Gregory. Gregory value, and reputation, of the Bryant degree. also spoke to accounting • Financial aid to students has increased 43 per­ students at Mount St. Charles academy on pre­ • Developing the new Bachelor of Arts degree cent over the past two years. This year, 62 percent paring resumes and devel­ in five concentrations was a strategic move. This of our new students receive some form of aid. The oping Interviewing skills. diversification should bolster our admissions average aid package is $8,960. "Maximum Likelihood Esti­ efforts and our retention rates . mates for Interval-Censored • We created a Trustee Scholarship program to at­ Data Using a Weilbull-based • We have also implemented a full-time MBA pro­ tract the strongest student scholars possible; 54 Accelerated Failure Time gram that, with 37 students, has far exceeded our trustee undergraduate scholars enrolled this fall. Model," a paper by Profes­ hopes for its pilot year. sor Patricia Odell, has been accepted for publication by Biometrics. ONEOFTHEBEST Bryant College has again been recognized as a leader among business Center for Management Development Director Rose­ schools. For the third consecutive year, US News & World Report has mary D'Arcy served as a named Bryant one of the top three business specialty schools in the panelist at the New Eng­ country and Barron 's has recognized Bryant as the best buy in the land regional conference of Financial Women Inter­ same category. national. The conference theme was "Empowered Notes Barron's: "It's not just the buildings that are up with the times ; Work Force: Myth or Reality." the curriculum also reflects modern trends. All Bryant students must compete a liberal arts core as well as a general business core designed Professor Jack Rubens to ensure that they are ready to face a rapidly changing world. As a presented two papers at the American Real Estate student has observed, 'Here you have the means to achieve a suc­ Society national meeting cessful future. All you have to do is utilize them. '" In San Diego. His titles • Dr. William Sweeney Jr., were "Appraisal Policies professor of economics, and Practices" and "Real was recognized at Convo­ Estate and Inflation: Does cation as the Distinguished P-Star Improve Investment Faculty Member of the Year Performance?" for 1992. A member of Bry­ ant's faculty for 27 years, he was chosen by his peers for the award. Sweeney is a noted economist who has been cited for precision in his forecasts, which have been carried nationally by Associated Press and Uni­ ted Press International. 2 BRYANT REVIEW· FALL 1992 TAKING STOCK NEW TRUSTEES ON BOARD GETAJOB Seven new members have joined Bryant's Board of Trustees, bring­ ing the total number of active trustees to 36. Robert M. Bennett '87H, 1 Joseph T Duffy '69, Michael E. Fisher '67, Bernard G. Mondor '91H, interview Richard M. Oster '91H, Kenneth N. Pontikes, and Donald F. Walsh '51 joined the board on August 1. A paper by Professors Ar­ Bennett is chair and CEO of Intertel Communications and also the thur Gudikunst and Joseph owner and chair of the board of Trans Atlantic Entertainment in Los MacCarthy, "Determinants Angeles . He is the former president of Metromedia Broadcasting, of Bond Mutual Fund Per­ the largest division of Metromedia, Inc. ; and past president of Boston formance," was accepted for publlcatlon In the Jour­ Broadcasters Inc. (BBI) , the parent company ofWCVB-TY. Bennett nal of Fixed Income. received an honorary degree from Bryant in 1987. Professor Ronald Deluga Duffy is the managing director of Chase Manhattan Private Bank, presented his paper, "The Relationship Between Up­ Chase Manhattan Trust Company of California. He has also held ward Influencing Behavior executive banking positions with First Interstate Bancorp, Fleet Bank and Quality of Leader Mem­ in Providence, and the State Street Bank of Boston. He is a 1969 ber Exchanges," at the six­ Results are not in yet for the graduate of Bryant.
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