Until now, legal requirements for corporations focused on one goal: profits. For CNBC, Michael Crooke writes how the new “benefit corporation” legal entity aims to balance both socially-minded business principles and profits.
In an op-ed for Bloomberg Businessweek, Deans Linda A. Livingstone and Michael Williams wrote that college for many students is not where they lose their faith — it is where they find it. And B-school needn’t be an exception.
From our point of view, the college experience provides a unique—and critical—opportunity for students to reflect upon, question, and strengthen their personal faith. Even in the fields viewed as most “secular,” like graduate management education, we believe students are best served by exposure to state-of-the-art thinking about contemporary practice along with moral grounding from deeply held values. At Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School, we refer to this as “values-centered leadership,” and it is core to our institutional mission.
Kevin Streeter, director of the Ambulatory Surgery Center at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., has been selected to deliver the graduating student speech at commencement ceremony on April 21 for the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University.
“Kevin has demonstrated outstanding academic performance and his character honors the Graziadio School’s core values of integrity, stewardship, courage, and compassion,” said Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., dean of the business school.
Streeter will graduate in April with a master of business administration degree and an emphasis in leadership and organizational change. He completed Pepperdine’s Bachelor of Science in Management program cum laude, in which he earned a 3.7 grade point average and was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. He was recognized for “personal excellence and outstanding student leadership” with the George Award, Graziadio School’s most prestigious honor.
Streeter is a veteran of the United States Navy, having served six years as a medic for the Marines. Upon completion of his service, he began working as a registered nurse in surgery. For the past five years he has served as director of surgical services, most recently at Verdugo Hills Hospital. He joined Saint John’s Health Center last August.
The Graziadio School’s graduation will take place at Pepperdine University’s Firestone Fieldhouse on the Malibu campus beginning at 10:30 a.m. Streeter will be joined on stage by keynote speaker and Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient Lore Harp McGovern (MBA ’81), director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and GoFish Technologies Inc.
Why aren’t all corporations great? Political economist Sean D. Jasso, Ph.D., a member of the practitioner faculty of economics at the Graziadio School, asks this question in the first of three essays that seeks to “challenge both the intellectual and practical authenticity of the corporation’s purpose in the 21st Century and to strengthen our knowledge of the requirements and consequences of the firm that ascends to preeminence in 2020 and beyond.” Continue reading
LOS ANGELES — Rajan Bansi of RBC Dominion Securities, Jim Emerick of Bank of America, Cynthia Holland of Robert Half International, and Steve Milovich of Disney/ABC Television Group have been recognized with the inaugural Golden Torch Award as outstanding engaged MBA alumni by the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University.
The Golden Torch Awards honors excellence by business alumni who have made significant contributions to the Graziadio School of Business and Management with program support and student development. Each recipient has lent their time and expertise, serving as ambassadors for the Graziadio School by facilitating the career development of students and strengthening the alumni network.
“Through their noteworthy investment, our alumni have truly ‘passed the torch’ to the next group of emerging Graziadio leaders,” said Dean Linda A. Livingstone. Continue reading
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