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CONTENTS
Dean's
Welcome
Astros
Owner Opens the Fall Season of Dean's Lectures
MBA
Students Lead MBA Jungle Portfolio Management Contest
Jones
Partners Golf Tournament
El
Paso Energy Donates $2.5 Million to the Jones School
Enron
and Lay Family Give $8 Million
Enthusiastic
Students Organize Student Clubs
Jones
School Welcomes Murray Weidenbaum as Visiting Scholar
Maya
Houston (MBA '99) Is New Director of Development
GWIB
Means Business: Rice Graduate Women in Business Off to a Strong
Start
Action
Learning Program
ExxonMobil
Donation to Benefit Academic Programs
Keep
Your Eye on the Rice Alliance
First
Annual MBA Marketing Case Competition Puts Jones School on the Map
David
Ikenberry: A Testament to Teaching Excellence
Jim
Turley, Chairman-Elect of Ernst&Young -- His Community Has Become
the Entire Globe
Diary
of an MBA: A First-Year Student Writes Journal for Business Week
Jones
School Receives Brillante Award
Faculty
News
Alumni
Association President's Letter
Class
Notes
Annual
Alumni Career Forum
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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Enron And Lay Family Give $8 Million
– By Maala Rao, Class of 2002
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| Traci
Warner (MBA ’95), a director at Enron Broadband, and Dean Whitaker
share the podium at the November 30 Rice MBA Corporate Partners
Reception, hosted by the Enron Corporation and sponsored by
Booz.Allen & Hamilton, Chase, Compaq, Continental Airlines,
Credit Suisse First Boston, El Paso Energy, ExxonMobil, and
Morgan Stanley. |
Enron Corp. gave the school $5 million and the Lay Family Foundation
an additional $3 milion.
The Enron Corp. gift will fund two new chairs, one in e-commerce
and the other in risk management at the Jones School. The Lay family
contribution, given by Linda and Ken Lay, chief executive officer
and chairman of Enron Corp., will initiate Rice’s development of
a research and teaching center focused on the study of markets in
transition.
The Center for Market Study will be a joint undertaking between
the Jones School and the Economics Department at Rice University.
It will examine issues raised by the evolution of markets such as
energy, bandwidth, and water, as well as privatization, regulation,
and new forms of global competition.
Enron Broadband Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp.,
and Rice have also formed an alliance to explore joint development
opportunities for educational communication services and network
applications. Enron will locate equipment at Rice for connection
to Enron’s fiberoptic network and will participate in the Jones
School’s e-commerce and broadband technology research and development
projects.
Enron will also provide a platform for streaming broadband applications,
including distance learning, webcasting, and electronic marketing
initiatives.
Traci Warner (MBA ’95), a director at Enron Broadband, believes
that the alliance is beneficial for both parties in more ways than
one. In her words, “The alliance is more than a business transaction.
The alliance is extremely valuable not only from a technological
standpoint, but because it allows the sharing of ideas between Enron
and the Jones school. Enron was looking for ways to support the
business school and the alliance provided the perfect opportunity
to do so.”
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