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CONTENTS
Dean's
Welcome
Happy,
Passionate Employees Key to Good Business
M.A.
Wright Investment Fund Wins National Title
Students
Head To Big Apple
Digital
Technology Revolution
Third
Annual Wine Tasting
Southwest
Business Plan Competition
Class
Gift Challenge
Perspectives
on Women in Leadership
Employment
Prospects in
Silicon Valley
Student
Club Updates
ALP
Profiled in Continental Airlines Magazine
Second
Annual All Class Reunion
Schuler's
Mission at Enron
Getting
the Word Out About the Jones School
Patrick
Van Pelt: Paving His Own Path
Diary
of an MBA: A First-Year Student Writes Journal for Business Week
International
Trip: Singapore and Vietnam
Serving
Unique Corporate Educational Needs
Life-long
Learning
Offshore
Technology Conference
Faculty
News
Rice
MBA 2001 Placement Report
Alumni
Association President's Letter
Class
Notes
Alumni
Leadership Challenge
2001-02
Alumni Association Board
Please send
comments to:
Deanna Sheaffer, Editor
Director of Alumni Affairs
Jones School of Management - MS 531 Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892
e-mail:JGSalum@rice.edu
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ALP Profiled in Continental Airlines Magazine
– By Maileen Hamto, Assistant Director of
Public Relations
"Although many MBA programs offer some type of field experience,
the [Jones School] Action Learning Project is one of only a handful
that places its students in full-fledged consulting engagements
with organizations large and small,” wrote Neal Learner in
the Continental Airlines’s inflight magazine article “Taking
Action,” April 2001.
Learner’s five-page profile of the ALP was culled from interviews
with students, ALP company representatives, faculty, and staff who
spoke about the many different ways ALP benefit everyone involved.
“ALP students not only have to solve complex business problems
in a dynamic environment, they have to present their solutions in
ways that are listened to, and potentially acted on, by top management,”
wrote Learner.
ALP offers students the chance to work with a wide variety of companies
to test and adjust their business skills. “I was really, really
impressed,” said Bill Keough, a senior consultant at IBM about
his company’s ALP experience. “It was like having an outside
consultant who comes in to help you address and solve a tangible
business problem.”
As successful and productive ALPs multiply each year, convincing
companies to submit proposals is a “pretty easy sell”
Carrie Miller, Director of the MBA Program, told Learner. “It’s
become fairly competitive,” she said. Last year, students tapped
30 projects out of more than 40 submissions.
Read
the entire article.
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