Leavey Students Share First Quarter Experience
Three Leavey School of Business students shared their experiences over the first quarter at the business school with the Leavey Business Blog. All three of these students are recipients of the Santa Clara University’s Johnson Scholarship. The Johnson Scholarship awards full, renewable academic scholarships to up to 10 of SCU’s most academically accomplished, leadership-minded applicants.
Amy Lutfi shared how comfortable she became at the school and around the other students and staff. She also comments on the benefits she has received already from her education.
Leavey Holds MBA Information Session
The Leavey School of Business is holding an information session for its MBA program. The event will be held Dec. 11, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will be held at the Santa Clara University campus.
The evening MBA program at the Leavey School of Business has a newly revised curriculum and program structure. This new curriculum gives students coursework that integrates with other courses across disciplines. Developed in consultation with Silicon Valley executives, the new concentrations (now a required component of the Evening MBA) are focused with specific career paths in mind.
Leavey Creates New Council of Grad. Students in Biz
The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University has created a new Council of Graduate Students in Business (CGSB). This council is made up of student representatives from all graduate programs. These representatives will work with faculty and staff in order to provide graduate students with an outstanding experience.
The council will meet monthly in order to address and discuss areas such as communication, community building, career support, teaching, and technology. Current students are encouraged to contact the council (cgsb@scu.edu) or any representative with questions, concerns, ideas or kudos.
Meet the council:
Leavey Students Selected for Hackworth Fellowship
Two Leavey School of Business school students have been chosen for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Hackworth Fellowship. These fellowships are awarded to rising seniors who are charged with the task of pursuing a unique program or project of ethical significance focused on engagement with their fellow Santa Clara University students.
Krishan Allen is an economics major from Emerald Hills, Calif. He will research methods of integrating ethical goals into investment practice, and aims to explain how students can attain both social and financial returns within their investment portfolios. Logan Peterson is a finance major from Scottsdale, Ariz., will focus on the Big Q, the Center’s social media campaign to involve undergraduates in discussion about the ethical issues in the everyday lives of undergraduates.
Leavey Offers Custom Exec. MBA Programs
The Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business offers unique custom designed programs for companies. The programs are designed to deliver custom executive or management programs, structured to help business leaders drive organizational success.
The Executive Development Center works closely with managers to create custom programs to fit companies needs. The center works with companies to identify the critical challenges to be addressed, the target audiences and appropriate faculty resources. The center will also find the appropriate design and instructional approaches as well as educational and performance outcomes of the program.
Leavey Dean to Return to Faculty
Drew Starbird, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, announced his decision not to seek an additional term after completing his five-year term as dean in summer 2015. Starbird, who served as interim dean of the business school in 2009–10, was appointed dean in fall 2010. He looks forward to returning to the classroom as professor of operations management and information systems after a sabbatical in the 2015–2016 academic year.
As a member of the business school faculty since 1987, Starbird has served in many leadership capacities, including director of the Food and Agribusiness Institute, a multidisciplinary research program at Santa Clara University.
“Drew Starbird has introduced many innovative programs within the Leavey School of Business that support young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch new enterprises,” said Michael Engh, S.J., SCU president. “I am very grateful for Drew’s leadership in strengthening the organizational structure of the business school and in extending its professional accreditation.
