Stanford Business School confers degrees
BY CATHY CASTILLO
Charles E. Glew Jr., a Harvard undergraduate who had
worked for venture capital and software product
management firms before enrolling in the MBA program, was
named the top student among the 347 classmates who
received their degrees from Stanford Business School June
15.
In addition, 47 participants earned Master of Science
degrees as graduates of the year-long Sloan program for
mid-level managers, and five Ph.D. graduates received
their ceremonial academic hoods.
Grades are not posted at the Business School. The only
formal indication of academic standing in the MBA class
is at graduation when the names of the top 10 percent of
the class are read and the top student is identified as
the Henry Ford II Scholar. The top students collectively
are known as Arjay Miller Scholars, in honor of Dean
Emeritus Miller. As Glew's name was announced, he was
mobbed briefly by his fellow Arjays who had each received
a handshake and a certificate from Miller.
The list of Arjay Scholars included a husband and wife
team, Sharon and David Gross, of Durham, N.C. Yonathan
Epelbaum, from Mexico City, who holds a doctorate in
mathematics from Yale, received the Alexander Robichek
Achievement Award in Finance as the outstanding student
in this field. The award honors the memory of Robichek, a
member of the school's finance faculty in the 1960s and
1970s.
Members of each MBA class select a classmate to
receive the Ernest C. Arbuckle Award, named for the late
Business School dean to recognize "participation,
initiative, leadership and personal integrity" of a
classmate. The Class of 1997 honored two members - Carrie
Culp of Charlotte, N.C., and Eric Mulkowsky of New York
City. Both students were active in the school's Public
Management Program. Culp also worked with the student
show and the yearbook. Mulkowsky chaired the student
Academic Committee, was active in the Challenge for
Charity fundraising program for the Special Olympics, and
served as humor editor for the student newspaper.
"The notion of community is of critical
importance to our experience at the GSB as well as for
society as a whole," wrote one classmate in
nominating Culp. "For me, no one better embodies
multiple levels of community than Carrie."
"Eric Mulkowsky lives each day seeing the good in
others," said one of his nominators. "He's the
one in the study group who understands option pricing
theory (and can explain it). The one who remembers your
name after meeting you once - and the name of your
significant other and where you're from and what you like
and what you dream."
In addition to the MBA degrees, three members of the
class received law degrees as well. Nine other students
had received MBA degrees earlier in the academic year and
four other doctorates were awarded.
Twenty-one members of the Class of '97 earned Public
Management Certificates, signifying that in addition to
the work required for the MBA, they had taken a specific
set of electives relating to the not-for-profit sector.
Another 26 students completed the extra course work
required to earn certificates in the Global Management
Program in addition to their degrees.
Arjay Miller Scholars
Manisha Agrawal, Mills College
Christopher P. Aguas, Stanford
John A. Bartholdson, Duke
Scott A. Berney, Harvard
Sean M. Brown, Notre Dame
Anne M. Chard, Texas A&M
Scott R. Davidson, Harvard
Joseph S. Derringer, University of
Colorado-Boulder
James R. Dodd, Brown
Kevin A. Epstein, Brown
Kenneth M. Fine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Eugenio Garza y Garza, ITESM, Mexico
Charles E. Glew, Harvard
Susan P. Graham, Stanford
David H. Gross, Princeton
Sharon C. Gross, Princeton
Alexander B. Guettel, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
Thomas M. Hughes, Imperial College, London
Steven Kan, Harvard
David E. Kroner, University of Pennsylvania
Michael J. Laub, University of California-Berkeley
Thomas P. Lenehan, Georgetown
Kristi L. Mitchem, Davidson College
Robert L. Monkmeyer, Yale
Eric S. Mulkowsky, Brandeis
Bradley T. Olander, Cornell
Lucy C. O'Malley, University of Pennsylvania
Warren J. Packard, Stanford
James Paton, Cambridge
Theodore A. Roselund, Dartmouth
Michael L. Ross, Princeton
Joshua G. Silverman, Brown
Glenn B. Solomon, Stanford
Alexander Tauber, Carleton College
Jason M. Zajac, Stanford
Arbuckle Award
Carrie Culp, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
Eric Mulkowsky, Brandeis SR
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