RaceSco MBAlog

This site belongs to Scott Sanders, a 2004 graduate of Cornell University's Johnson School of Management. It chronicles two years in a top MBA program -- academic, career, social, and everything in between. Blogging was a way of sharing the MBA experience with colleagues, friends, family, and others who were interested. Scroll through the posts -- there's more than a few interesting tidbits.

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Some great speakers - Swieringa, Farnsworth Riche, Lowi, Reiss, Gates

We've had some fabulous speakers on campus lately.

My Government Regulation class has been responsible for many of them. The Johnson School's dean, Robert Swieringa, talked with us about his days when he was livin' large as a member of FASB. (He didn't talk so much about his current well-paid role on the Board of Directors at General Electric, but he did get Jeff Immelt to agree to come out to the school in April.) Martha Farnsworth Riche spoke with us about demographics. She was the director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the Clinton administration. We've also had Ted Lowi, a famous writer of American government textbooks, from Cornell's Government department and some folks in from the law school. (How 'bout that for some links?!)

Last week, Cornell Hillel had Mike Reiss, producer of The Simpsons, on campus. He was hillarious. Though I don't know if I'd want him as a friend. He was pretty mean with some of his jokes. But still funny.

On Wednesday, Bill Gates will be here. (Yes, no joke.) I got one of 100 tickets that were available to the student body. This should be pretty cool.
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