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School of Business News

Alumni earn high distinction
Upcoming lecture focuses on ethics
Telling the ‘KU story’
Staff award winners announced

 

Alumni earn high distinction
The School of Business honored two successful business executives and KU alumni with outstanding alumni awards. The honorees were William (Bill) Docking, c’73, l’77, g,’77, and Robert Kaplan, b’79.

The award was created in 1998 to honor exceptional alumni from the School of Business. Recipients are chosen from nominations by fellow alumni and also the School’s Board of Advisors. Candidates are nominated based on their leadership, their business contributions and their involvement with the community and the School.

Docking is chairman and CEO of Union State Bank in Arkansas City, Kan., and chairman of City National Bank & Trust Company in Guymon, Okla. He also serves as managing member of Docking Development LLC, an oil production company based in Oxford, Kan., and as president of Cowley County Broadcasting Inc., which owns two radio stations. Docking has three degrees from KU, including a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973, a Master of Business Administration degree in 1977 and a Juris Doctorate degree in 1977.

Kaplan is a senior lecturer in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and is also a senior director of The Goldman Sachs Group. He was previously a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs. Kaplan moved through the ranks of Goldman, eventually becoming a partner in 1990. He has been appointed by the Governor of Kansas as a member of the newly created Kansas Healthcare Policy Authority Board. Kaplan received a Bachelor of Science degree from KU in 1979 and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard in 1983.

 

Upcoming lecture focuses on ethics
The KU School of Business will host a public lecture on April 27. The Sutton Ethics Lecture will feature Peter Eigen, ’63, founder and chairman of the Advisory Council of Transparency International, a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting transparency and accountability in international development. The lecture will be held in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.

Eigen has worked in economic development for 25 years, primarily as a World Bank manager of programs in Africa and Latin America. In those capacities he analyzed economic conditions, coordinated sources of financing and development and managed work programs.

Through two Ford Foundation sponsorships, Eigen provided technical and legal support for the governments of Botswana and Namibia in 1973 and 1991, respectively. In both instances he provided policy advice for economic development and offered expertise in international negotiations, including mining and water projects, taxation and currency and trade. Eigen studied political science and economics at KU on a Fulbright Fellowship from 1963 to ’64.

The Sutton Lecture Series began in 1993 and is made possible by Betsey G. Sutton in memory of her husband, Walter Sutton, b’39. The lecture is sponsored by the KU International Center for Ethics in Business, a cooperative effort of the School of Business and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

 

Telling the ‘KU story’
The School of Business participated in this year’s KU in the Capitol event on March 14. The School set up a booth and offered material to legislators about its programs, students and faculty.

KU in the Capitol is an annual event that allows KU to tell its story to legislators and other influential external audiences. More than 25 groups from KU, representing various schools and entities, set up shop for this year’s event at the state capitol in Topeka.

The School’s Events Coordinator Monica Lemmons represented the School of Business, along with Academic Advisors Abigail Coffin and Karen Heintzen.

 

Staff award winners announced
The School of Business presented its 2007 Staff Appreciation Award, and because of a tie in votes, two staff members received the award.

Brett Gerstenberger, c’04, technology support technician, and Jennifer Jordan, director of the Business Career Services Center, were this year’s winners. Gerstenberger joined the School in 2005 and Jordan in 2002. A two-time winner, Jordan also received the Staff Appreciation Award in 2003.

The Staff Appreciation Award is voted on by fellow staff members. It was created in 1995 to recognize hard work and helpfulness throughout the year and is presented annually at the Staff Appreciation Luncheon.

 

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