A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF EMORY University’s GOIZUETA BUSINESS SCHOOL business FALL 2012 HOW POWERFUL IS YOUR NETWORK? ALUMS CHART PATH BBA TREK TO SUPPORT DURING + FROM GOIZUETA TO HOLLYWOOD TOUGH TIMES WALL STREET EMORY PROFESSOR NAMED US POET LAUREATE UNVEILING: Roberto C. Goizueta legacy | Natasha Trethewey, Mural celebrates the nation’s official poet, life, achievements 47 wows audiences at Emory 10 FEATURES Goizueta Network: 16 BEYOND GRADUATION contents sets the Jason E. Wynn Relationships among classmates stay strong stage for 15 04JD/MBA TV sitcom and Kimberly 28 CRISIS MANAGEMENT (Schuster) Alums recall Goizueta community’s generosity Wynn 01BBA in time of need Coffee with . 6 Ramnath Chellappa 34 42 business goizuetabuzz yournetwork + plus FALL 2012 POWERHOUSE 04 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE 40 FOOD FOR THOUGHT 34 SUPPORT FOR CAMPAIGN NETWORK Students, alums, assist Atlanta Lettuce Works Ralph Bower 10EMBA on moving up corporate ladder AS DEADLINE NEARS On cover: 05 ALUMNA HONORED 41 NIELSON RATINGS 46 ADVICE ON Connectivity in action: Meredith R. Farahmand 14BBA, center, The Goizueta network, like a powerhouse Jackie Breiter 01EMBA Liz Yurkevicz 08BBA on creating value through analytics STAYING CONNECTED with Jackie Breiter 01EMBA and Professor Benn Konsynski in server, delivers value to its members Georgia WIT Woman of the Year 44 RISK-TAKING AND SUCCESS 47 What’S new: the Emory Data Center. while creating a competitive advantage for our community 40 07 NEW FACULTY Roger Ares 01EMBA on self-motivation COMMENCEMENT HIGHLIGHTS emory | business fall | 2012 goizuetavision business Senior Associate Dean for Photographers Founded in 1919, Goizueta External Relations and Tony Benner Professor of Marketing Ann Borden Business School provides a Douglas Bowman Kay Hinton world-class business education Scott Housley Lee Kluger that combines functional Magazine Alumni Advisory Board Moses Robinson Atul Agarwal 07MBA; Jeff Booth specialization with a broad Allison Shirreffs 84BBA 94MBA; Rosalie (Sakkas) Susan Stava business perspective to create Collado 05EMBA; Steve Greenfield 04EvMBA; Mara Lapp 97BBA; Contributors principle-based leaders. GOIZUETA MAGAZINE Michael Ryan 07EMBA; Carrie Sarah Banick is published three times a year by Emory University’s Goizueta Business (Simon) Schonberg 97C 03MBA School and is distributed free to all alumni and other friends of the Cynthia Blakeley business school. Emory University is accredited by the Commission on Marty Daks Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Meredith R. Farahmand Assistant Dean for Marketing and Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097; 404-679-4501) to award Michelle Hiskey degrees at the associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels. Send Communications Tim Hyland letters to the editor and other correspondence to Nicole Golston, Angela Lee Bostick 04MBA Managing Editor, Goizueta Business School, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 or Susan Merritt Jordan EMORY ACCESSIBLE INTIMATE NETWORK EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL [email protected] or call 404.727.3434. Lisa Kaminiski Managing Editor Melinda Kougioumtzis © 2012 Goizueta Business School, Emory University. All Rights Reserved. Nicole Golston Eric Rangus Ties to Emory Accessible, World- Intimate & Small- Passionate & Stimulating, Global Articles may be reprinted in full or in part if source is acknowledged. Allison Shirreffs University, a Class Faculty by-Design Learning Engaged Goizueta Experiential Learning Perspective & Chris Snowbeck goizueta.emory.edu/magazine Top-20 Institution Scholars Experience Network Opportunities Understanding Art Director Myra A. Thomas Plus One Media Don’t miss the 3rd Annual EmoryMAC Conference! Recruit Goizueta Join prominent industry speakers and thought leaders from Recruiting at Goizueta Goizueta’s renowned faculty for means engaging with the Emory Marketing Analytics leading talent from the Center 3rd Annual Conference nation’s #1 program for on Friday, March 22, 2013. MBA employment, as ranked by Bloomberg The day-long event will Businessweek. Find qualified, driven graduates combine academic theory with ready to make an impact recent examples of successfully in your organization from applied analytics. day one. For more information, visit To learn more about how EmoryMAC.org. to recruit Goizueta students and fellow alums, visit EmoryMAC Co-directors (L - R): David Schweidel, associate professor of marketing; Doug Bowman, www.goizueta.emory.edu/recruit. professor of marketing and McGreevy Term Chair; Mike Lewis, associate professor of marketing. emory | business fall | 2012 1 dean’smessage Dear alumni & friends, One of the most significant responsibilities of my job as Goizueta’s dean is to build and steward the assets of our school. Many of these assets are tangible in nature, such as our facilities, classrooms, and the academic and technological resources in them. Yet it is the intangible assets encompassed by our human capital, intellectual property, knowledge activities, and collaborations with other scholars, business leaders, and the surrounding community that I find of most value. This distinction between tangible and intangible assets often helps to frame my thinking when I consider those aspects of our school that make us distinctive. One such aspect, the Goizueta network—the theme of this issue of Emory Business—differentiates us in important ways from our competitors. In spite of our size, we enjoy active alumni engagement, strong ties to business and industry, and committed faculty, staff, and students who come together in myriad ways for the good of the school and one another. The commitment and passion of alumni for Goizueta—intangibles that lead to everything from a helpful phone call to a changed career—have helped create our truly outstanding network. One of the greatest benefits of a Goizueta education is membership in one of the best business networks in the world. Broad participation is key to its ever- increasing value. In order to leverage our vibrant community, I encourage you to be an active participant in Goizueta’s diverse network of smart, accomplished, and ambitious business leaders. Lawrence M. Benveniste Dean, Goizueta Business School Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance 2 emory | business fall | 2012 3 goizuetabuzz Social Enterprise@Goizueta designs model for economic development in Atlanta NEW COURSES With a vision to produce and process lettuce in a low-income Atlanta neighborhood while creating jobs and opportunities for residents, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta FALL 2012 and its Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative (AWBI) turned to Social Enterprise@Goizueta (SE@G) for help in researching and designing a sustainable business model. Real Estate Law with Roy Black, professor in the practice of finance, Currently 90% of the lettuce consumed in Georgia travels here from farms in California and provides students in the BBA, MBA, and EvMBA programs with a Arizona, and less than 2% of Atlanta’s lettuce consumption is grown locally. Capitalizing on the background in the nature, sources, and basic principles of modern momentum of the local food movement, AWBI’s Atlanta Lettuce Works project hopes to supply real estate law. Employing legal analytical skills, the course addresses area universities, hospitals and, ultimately, grocery stores with lettuce grown close to home. real property law, sales transaction contracts, general agency law, deeds and titles, methods of transferring title to real estate, Ellen Macht 77BBA, an AWBI consultant and Goizueta Advisory Board member, approached SE@G for assistance in creating a viable business model that would attract the necessary mortgages, liens, land use control, and landlord/tenant relationships. financing from lenders, donors, and investors. “The Goizueta students and alumni that formed Students develop enhanced competencies in creative problem the AWBI team have become an integral part of creating this business,” Macht says. solving, process management, time management, teamwork, and Real estate law students technical learning. They are also required to complete two team The Atlanta Lettuce Works plan proposes using a strategically located property in the use lego blocks to design projects. The first is an urban redevelopment simulation provided Pittsburgh neighborhood of Atlanta (provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation) to grow and neighborhoods. by the Atlanta chapter of the Urban Land Institute and results in a process lettuce by employees hired from the neighborhood. These employees will earn a living redevelopment plan for a blighted section of the city. The second Award winner Jay Shanken wage plus full benefits and will have an opportunity to transition into business owners. The SE@G team projects that Atlanta Lettuce Works can generate annual net income in excess of project engages students in researching a legal topic, culminating $3.5 million within five years. BREITER NAMED in a memorandum outlining the research findings. By the end of the Shanken named one of course students have an advanced understanding of the private and By establishing the facility in a neighborhood where nearly 40% of the residents live below the GEORGIA public regulation of real estate assets, and particularly of the role of world’s best professors poverty line, Atlanta Lettuce Works realizes AWBI’s mission of generating economic growth and common law, courts, statutes, and contracts, and conveyancing in wealth where it currently does not exist. WOMAN OF real estate. The Atlanta Lettuce