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Friday, Aug 20, 2010Alumni Cultivating Community
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The following few articles testify to how graduates are making a difference and contributing to cultivating community, a key objective in the School’s five-year strategic plan Distinctive Leadership 2015. Alumni at the Graziadio School connect and engage with the school, and one another, on many levels and through a variety of opportunities.
Whether it is involvement in the Graziadio Alumni Network or returning to enrich the student experience in the classroom, alumni are actively finding ways to honor the ideals of the school through lives of purpose, service and leadership. These leaders make the Graziadio School more than a place and more than an experience. They make it a community with a life and vitality that continues beyond the day one is awarded a degree. They make it about people.
Alumni take on the role of ambassadors
When a prospective student wants to be part of the School, a business wants to hire a graduate, or an expert wants to join the faculty, they all make a brand choice. The perception of the experience and benefits that come from being part of the School influences those choices. Alumni who have lived the School experience and interact with the outside world directly impact what people know and how they feel about the School
Regional alumni councils leverage relationship
In 2005, the School launched three alumni councils to serve the 24,000 members in the regions with the highest concentration of alumni: Northern California, Orange County and Los Angeles County. “One alumni council to serve everyone did not position us to best meet the unique regional needs of our alumni,” says Nicole Hall, MBA ’05, executive director, Alumni and Career Services.
Captaining the Financial Helm of an Entertainment Empire
After attaining the simultaneous positions asDisney’s CFO and Director of International Business, David Hendler, MBA ’85, became finance chief at Warner Elektra Atlantic. In 2003 he joined Sony and today serves as the Senior Executive Vice President and CFO. In between times, he attained his degree, juggling fulltime employment and international travel – one of the many defining moments in his professional development.
Class Advisors Keep EMBA Students On Track
Larry Hebert, MBA ’92, a 17-year class advisor veteran at the School, is one of 11 advisors who make it their business to enhance students’ experience with Pepperdine and the EMBA program. “My 37 years of practical business experiences have been invaluable in my role as a class advisor,” he says. “When advising students about their professional careers, my experience provides me the foundation from which to make sound recommendations that have been tested over time.”
VIDEO: Summer Graduation Speakers Inspire
At summer commencement ceremonies on Saturday, August 14, graduation speakers Lynn Powers, PKE 83, MBA ’91, and Matthew Brewer, MBA 2010, attested to the transformative and affirming experience that earning their Pepperdine degrees held for them. Watch their address to new graduates.
Membership in the Graziadio Alumni Network is free to all graduates. For more information, call (310) 568-5639 or e-mail gsbmalum@pepperdine.edu
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