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 McIntire
congratulates Matt Poskay (McIntire ’06) and Matt Ward
(McIntire ’06) for their outstanding performances in the 2006
NCAA men’s lacrosse championship game, held May 29, 2006, at Lincoln
Financial Field, in Philadelphia. Playing in front of a record crowd
of 47,062, Poskay and Ward scored five goals apiece to lead the Cavs
in a 15-7 romp over the University of Massachusetts Minutemen. The
victory meant a 17-0 season for the Cavaliers—a record that has been
achieved only once before in NCAA Division I lacrosse history.
Team captain Ward was named the NCAA tournament’s most outstanding
player, after scoring an all-time tournament-best 16 goals in four
games. He then went on to receive the 2006 Tewaarton Trophy, given
annually to the top lacrosse player in the country. With 42 goals,
25 assists, and 67 total points, Ward led the Cavaliers in terms of
both goals and total points for the third consecutive year.
Both Ward and Poskay were named to the 2006 All-America lacrosse
team.
“This is a group of thoughtful, respectful, hard-working young men
who I think accomplished something quite remarkable and hopefully
created the kind of impression that we’ll all walk away from this
season with,” said U.Va. Coach Dom Starsia. “That might be the
greatest accomplishment of all.” (Photo by Jim Daves) |
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Professors Roger Martin and Craig Lefanowicz help make sense of new accounting and tax regulations:
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McIntire congratulates Bill Kehoe, Rob Cross, and Lucien
Bass, all of whom were honored this spring for their outstanding
contributions to the University community. “Bill, Rob, and Lucien
are superb members of the McIntire faculty, and they also demonstrate their commitment to the University, its
institutions, and the community at large,” says Dean Carl
Zeithaml. “They are certainly deserving of recognition.”
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Professor
Peter Maillet lays out the primary aims of the M.S. in MIT Program’s
final, integrative project, known as the Capstone Strategic Project.
In past years, the project has been an exercise in developing a
start-up business plan—coming up with “the next new thing.” This
year, the project involved creating a business case around an
important strategic objective at a real company.
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Wachovia Funds Career Services Adviser
Position with Five-Year Grant
Thanks to a donation from Wachovia Corporation, Commerce
Career Services is providing even more advising and career
development assistance to McIntire students. The funding is
supporting a new CCS assistant director’s position, the Wachovia
Career Adviser, filled by Jeannine Parisi (Master’s in Education
’02).
As the Wachovia Career Adviser, Parisi is dedicated to one-on-one
advising for the Commerce student body, with a particular focus on
providing advisory services to women, minority, and international
students.
With this change, CCS’ Sarah Isham has been promoted to Associate
Director of Commerce Career Services and will oversee all student
contact and programming.
HSBC Gift Provides Scholarships to Four
Commerce Students
 Four
McIntire students—Morgan Crawford (McIntire ’07), Edmond
Darmawan (McIntire ’07), Anjali Merchant (McIntire ’07),
and Nayut Sitachitt (McIntire ’07)—are the recipients of
$2,500 scholarships made possible by a $10,000 gift from
HSBC.
The scholarships were awarded during the spring semester to rising
fourth-year McIntire students under the age of 25 with a minimum 3.0
GPA. The awards are given to two marketing and two management
concentrators.
“HSBC’s generous donation is an exciting opportunity for marketing
and management concentrators at McIntire,” says McIntire’s Director
of Corporate and Foundation Relations Allison Teweles. “Receiving a
scholarship is a mark of accomplishment that recognizes individual
students and their achievements. We are proud to work with HSBC and
our many corporate partners to develop opportunities that expand and
enhance the Commerce experience.”
Corporate Partners Program
McIntire thanks the many companies who have partnered with the
School for the 2006-2007 academic year. Click
here to view the list of Corporate Partners.
More Corporate Events
See photos of more School/corporate events
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 Phil
Jackson (McIntire ’06) didn’t find what he wanted at U.Va., so
he created it.
Jackson first started producing CDs in 10th grade, recording himself
and a friend using a microphone and computer. He produced several
CDs of these performances in his hometown of Yardley, Pa., outside
of Philadelphia. When he arrived at U.Va., he sought out people
recording live music.
Finding none, he created his own recording group in 2003. With
several friends from his dorm floor, he started Oluponya, a
contracted independent organization. The group’s two-fold mission is
to record different musical groups on Grounds and seek out new
artists. The organization has 20 to 25 members, studio/office space
in Newcomb Hall, and, with all the founders graduating this year, a
new set of officers. (From UVA News, by Matt Kelly)
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Student teams
compete in wild and wooly hedge fund tourney. |
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 How
well would you manage a multimillion dollar hedge fund? Sixteen
teams of McIntire students had the opportunity to answer that
question, if only for a day last May, during the Fourth Annual
McIntire Hedging Tournament, partially sponsored by Wachovia.
Using state-of-the-art technologies and algorithms that the
students built themselves in Professor Stefano Grazioli’s
“Financial Systems Engineering” class, investment teams bought and
sold options to hedge their portfolios, cashed dividends, exercised
options, and kept their books in order.
To top all that complexity, the financial markets moved at a brisk
pace. The prices of securities traded in the tournament changed
every 60 seconds—enough to keep trading algorithms humming and the
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McIntire alum keeps the beat alive with a thriving live
entertainment booking agency. |
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 When
Hank Wells (McIntire ’96) was booking rock bands for frat
parties from his dorm room, few could have envisioned that his
client list would grow to include the likes of Anheuser Busch,
Capital One, DuPont, American Online, and thousands of happy
newlyweds. Now, after more than 10 years as the founder and head of
Sam Hill Entertainment, a Charlottesville-based live entertainment
booking agency, Wells can point to five employees and thousands of
corporate and individual customers up and down the East Coast.
“Sam Hill Entertainment works with all kinds of musicians, for every
kind of event,” says Wells. “Artists we work with range from rock to
reggae, swing to bluegrass, acoustic acts to funk bands, national
acts to local coffee shop artists, bands perfect for a black-tie
reception at the Ritz to the hottest new acts on the college and
club circuit.”
Much credit for the success of the business belongs with Andy
Jaspen (McIntire ’99). “He’s my right-hand man and has been with
us since 2001,” says Wells. Together, Wells and Jaspen blended the
business skills they acquired at McIntire with an abiding love of
music to create a unique model for success.
Looking back, Wells says, “I remember being scared out of my wits
taking Larry Pettit’s class, but it was worth it. The Comm School
gave me the confidence to know that I could manage the books, deal
with employees, and do all the large and small things it takes to
run a business.”
The Sam Hill Web site
offers audio and video clips from the dozens of bands the agency
represents. |
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Sky Alland Scholarship Competition
Andrew Paradis (McIntire ’07) is this year’s recipient of the
Sky Alland Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a rising
fourth-year McIntire student who exemplifies leadership,
achievement, enterprising spirit, humility, and devotion to the
University.
McIntire also congratulates Sky Alland Scholarship finalists
Andrew Forch (McIntire ’07), Kaci Hinkel (McIntire ’07),
Ramin Mohammad (McIntire ’07), Michelle Nguyen (McIntire
’07), and Mike Wakefield (McIntire ’07).
Sky Alland (McIntire ’79) died in 1992. Those who knew and
loved him established the scholarship as a way to honor and
celebrate his life and values.
Madhu Chopra Writing Contest
The McIntire School congratulates the winners of the 2006 Madhu
Chopra Writing Contest. First-place winner was Erika Pearson
(McIntire ’06) for her poem, “Lipstick.”
Spencer Cummings (McIntire ’06) won the second-place prize
for his poem, “Quiet
Monday,” and Fiona Foxon (McIntire ’06) placed third for
her poem, “Courage
is Contagious.” (Click on the title to read the poem.)
Commerce students were invited to reflect on a special person or
experience at McIntire that has increased their responsibility and
concern for others. Entries were judged on originality, creativity,
self-awareness, and use of language. The winners received cash
prizes: first place, $300; second place, $150; and third place, $75.
Madhu Chopra (McIntire ’89) was a dedicated, spiritual
Commerce student tragically killed in the summer of 1988. Madhu’s
parents annually sponsor a writing contest in her memory.
Many thanks to the Commerce students who creatively shared their
experiences; to the Chopra family for making the contest possible;
to Student Services’ Jeannine Fields for her valuable help with the
contest; and to faculty judges Gib Akin, Lynn Hamilton, Bill Kehoe,
Janette Martin, Marcia Pentz-Harris, and Susan Perry.
Ginny Rettig Award
Marsha and Darrell Rettig, parents of Virginia “Ginny” Rettig
(McIntire ’00), who died in an automobile accident the summer after
her graduation from McIntire, returned to McIntire in April 2006 to
honor Laura Berman (McIntire ’06) with the Ginny Rettig Award. The
Ginny Rettig Fund established the award to ensure that Ginny’s
determined optimism and spirited leadership live on at McIntire.
Laura was nominated by her “Advertising Campaigns” classmates and
selected by Ginny’s parents and members of the McIntire faculty.
Net Impact Case Competition
 Congratulations
to the team of Spencer Cummings (McIntire ’06), Danny
Donado (McIntire ’06), Matt Miller (McIntire ’06), and
Joe Scavongelli (McIntire ’06), winners of the 2006 Net Impact
at McIntire Case Competition, held March 23-24, 2006. The event was
made possible through generous funding from McIntire Corporate
Partner Hantzmon Wiebel, one of the fastest-growing public
accounting firms in Virginia.
Five student teams were challenged to identify a for-profit business
that could support a nonprofit agency. They used strategy, finance,
marketing, communication, information technology, and other core
business concepts and skills to develop a solution.
Members of first-place team Xtreme Consulting, which presented their
business model at Hantzmon Wiebel’s offices, were awarded $1,000 for
their idea of an eco-friendly business that matched the core
values of Teens Live, a Charlottesville area resource center for
at-risk youth.
Second-place winners Amrita Mukhopadhyay (Engineering ’07),
Sharmeen Noor (McIntire ’07), Farzana Parpia (McIntire
’07), and Jessica Rekhi (McIntire ’07) developed
Deliver2U, a grocery delivery service employing at-risk teens and
their parents. Third-place winners Anand Kanoria (McIntire ’06),
Vinh Nguyen (McIntire ’06), Daneton Rivera (McIntire ’06),
and James Weber (McIntire ’06) presented an arts and literary
publishing concept.
Many thanks to Professors Bill Kehoe,
Marcia Pentz-Harris, and Lynn Hamilton; Carolyn Frazier (A&S ’75),
of Hantzmon Wiebel; Cathy Smith-Train (McIntire ’83), of the
United Way; Wendy Brown (Darden ’91), of the Center for
Nonprofit Excellence; and Frank Conley (Education ’77, Darden
’86), of Tiger Fuel, who served as competition judges.
Annual Beta Gamma Sigma Speech Contest
Phil Jackson (McIntire ’06) is this year’s winner of the
Annual Beta Gamma Sigma Speech Contest, which took place March 31,
2006. Leslie Ann Brooks (McIntire ’06) was the second-place
winner; Emily Brown (McIntire ’06) placed third.
Contestants were asked to present a four- to five-minute speech on
the topic “What is the role of corporate responsibility during a
national/international crisis?” No PowerPoint or other visual aids
were allowed.
McIntire thanks John C. “Jack” Williams (McIntire ’62),
who won first place in the contest when he was a student, and
his wife, Norma, for sponsoring the contest’s first-place prize. The
couple has given an outright gift for the
first-place winner for the past seven years. The School also thanks
all speech contest participants; speech contest co-chair Allison
Peltier (McIntire ’06); and faculty judges Brad Brown, Marcia
Pentz-Harris, and Bill Wilkerson. Thank you also to Rebecca Leonard,
Judy Cash, Jane Pace, Troy Buer, and the McIntire Student Services office
staff, who provided their generous help and support.
Rolls-Royce/McIntire Essay Contest
An essay by Melanie Stephens (McIntire ’07) has been selected
from 12 submissions for the top prize in the first
Rolls-Royce/McIntire Essay Contest, held April 25, 2006. All
third-year McIntire students were invited to write a 1,000-word
essay on why business ethics matter. Rolls-Royce plc Chairman Simon
Robertson presented Stephens, whose essay discussed the
interconnected realms of business and life, with a first-place prize
of a $1,000 Visa gift card.
Rolls-Royce also awarded Kimberly Han (McIntire ’07) a
runner-up prize of a $500 Visa gift card for her essay titled
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McIntire students
Krystal Kovalick (McIntire ’07), Chip Miller (McIntire ’07),
and Wade Reishman (McIntire ’07) recently competed with teams
from the University of Michigan, The University of Texas at Austin,
New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania to represent
the United States in the international finals of L’Oréal Brandstorm.
The L’Oréal Brandstorm competition offers undergraduates in their
last two years of study the opportunity to assume the role of a
“brand manager” for one of L’Oréal’s signature lines. This year,
students developed a marketing strategy for Lancôme Bodycare.
To qualify for the L’Oréal Brandstorm national finals, held in New
York City May 5, 2006, teams first had to answer a pre-case
question: What would you propose as a winning body care strategy in
the luxury goods market? Propose a range of products.
Students then used their marketing knowledge and creativity to
develop an international strategy, design new packaging, and put
together a real communications campaign for the selected product
line.
The winning team, The University of Texas at Austin, participated in
the international finals, held at L’Oréal’s headquarters in Paris in
June. |
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