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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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David Ikenberry: A Testament to Teaching Excellence
– By Adam Goldenberg, Class of 2001
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he is well known around the country for his research work, Ikenberry
loves being in the classroom. |
Over the past ten years, the Jones School has undergone tremendous
change. Gil Whitaker took over the reins as dean, the school achieved
national accreditation, and construction has begun on the new home
for the Jones School. However, one constant remains through all
this change: Associate Professor David Ikenberry. He continues to
lead one of the finest finance faculties in the country.
Today, Ikenberry teaches both investments and corporate finance
in the MBA and MBA for Executives programs. He has received several
awards for his work in the classroom, and in 1997, Business Week
magazine named him one of the top instructors in the United
States.
“Ikenberry laid a firm financial foundation on which I now build
at Coral. His interactive teaching style continually challenged
me, and he is truly part of what makes the Jones School so special,”
says Coral Energy associate and former student, Chuck Matthews (MBA
’00). Although he is well known around the country for his research
work, Ikenberry loves being in the classroom. He commented, “I enjoy
the opportunity to teach at Rice. I am both flattered and gratified
that I am able to have an impact on the lives of some of my students.”
Ikenberry is also responsible for starting the Jones School’s Student
Managed Investment Fund in 1996. Today, twenty-five students manage
the M.A Wright Fund, and the total portfolio value is now just under
$800,000. Begun as a small portfolio, the Wright Fund now has more
than forty holdings, with performance that continues to outpace
the benchmark S&P 500. The Wright Fund is a perfect complement to
the classroom teaching experience at the Jones School. It allows
students to use the evaluative and quantitative skills learned in
Ikenberry’s investments class and translate them into real-world
buy and sell decisions for the M.A. Wright Fund.
Ikenberry remains a favorite professor of Jones School students.
In 1999, he was awarded the Jones Graduate School Award for Excellence
in Teaching, the school’s highest award for teaching. Todd Litton
(’01) said, “By communicating the stories behind complicated financial
formulas and theories, Dave gives his students a true understanding
of the tools and theories that makes them easier to apply in the
real world.”
Ikenberry is among the media’s most often quoted experts on stock
repurchases and stock splits. His work is regularly mentioned in
popular publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes,
Fortune, Barrons, and Business Week. He is also a frequent guest
on various television programs, including CNBC, Bloomberg Television,
and Nightly Business Report.
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