Family businesses--and the specific challenges faced by a younger generation transitioning into leadership roles--were the topics of a Business Leadership Forum presented by the Lundquist College this October. The second in a series of quarterly events hosted by Dean Kees de Kluyver--and aimed at an audience of local business leaders--the forum's feature speaker was Mark T. Green, an internationally known family business consultant.
Starting next summer, students in our Portland-based executive MBA program will have the chance to broaden their perspectives with a stint in Europe, via the UO | Nyenrode international study program, offered in partnership with Nyenrode Business Universiteit in The Netherlands. (In subsequent years the program will be expanded to include undergraduates and other students.) On the U.S.
Launched last year as part of the UO's diversity initiative, the Building Business Leaders project welcomes its second group of incoming students. Catch up with the first cohort in this video. Competing in the elite Venture Labs Investment Competition (formerly Moot Corp.), UO start-up teams won honors in their respective tracks: Sonas for Best Written Plan and Best Presentation, and VisiRay for Best Written Plan.
Our recently announced redesign of the Oregon Executive MBA program in Portland is just one testament to our commitment to re-envisioning how we serve the needs of business.
Let's break it down by numbers: 67 pledges, $37,534 donated (15 percent of UO total), $560.21 average gift. Those figures represent the contributions by Lundquist College of Business faculty and staff to the annual Oregon Charitable Fund Drive. More than half of the college's employees participated, giving part of their paychecks to charities throughout the state. Each year, the Oregon Charitable Fund Drive asks state employees to give to their choice of more than 800 local non-profits. Oh, and for the record, total UO pledges were $248,065.00-$120,000 more than OSU and PSU combined.
Cornelis "Kees" de Kluyver officially assumed leadership of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business on September 1, but he has already been hard at work getting to know students and faculty while outlining his vision for the college. Watch this video to get to know Kees (he owns 150 suspenders and plays the Banjo), and you'll see why the college is thrilled to welcome him as our new dean.
The first partnership executive MBA program in the United States and now one of the oldest, the Oregon Executive MBA is celebrating its twenty-fifth year.
It's been busier than usual around the Lundquist College, with the first significant renovation to Gilbert Hall (to be reborn Anstett Hall) since 1920 beginning this week and the Chiles Center set for a remodel this summer. Find out what's in store in this video with Dean Dennis Howard.
