Certificate of Management
SPRING 2006

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A Message from Dean Comeau

Dean Raymond Comeau

Greetings from Harvard and Cambridge! As usual, I am very pleased to be in contact with you once again through the 2006 issue of CM News (previously called CSS News). This issue marks our ninth consecutive year of publication, first in print, now online. My hope is that you will find some food for thought in the three Q & A (question and answer) sessions with CM instructors Ian Agranat and Michael Gordon on starting a new business, with Marya Dantzer on doing business in the global economy, and with Mary Lou Roberts on Internet marketing strategies. I also hope you will enjoy catching up on news from your fellow CM graduates in CM Alumni News.

The academic year 2005–06 was a successful one for the program. We offered another strong curriculum consisting of 71 courses, and our courses attracted more students than last year. Our new courses were MGMT E-148 Crisis Management and Emergency Preparedness (Arnold Howitt); MGMT E-165 Higher Education Management (G. Timothy Bowman); MGMT E-180 Forces of Change: Market Dynamics and Strategies for a Shifting Healthcare Marketplace (David Shore); ACCT E-130 Accounting, Auditing, and Ethical Standard (James White); and ACCT E-140 Tax Factors in Business Decisions (Kevin Wall).

The program has continued its tradition of offering fall and spring receptions for candidates and guests in the Harvard Faculty Club. Edward Marchant, MBA, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and instructor of the CM course FINC E-145 Real Estate Finance and Investment Fundamentals, was the featured speaker on October 21, 2005. He spoke about real estate as an investment. Our spring reception on April 7 features Stephen A. Greyser, DBA, Richard P. Chapman of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School, on the business of sports. Our fall reception attracted a full house, some 80 candidates and guests.

The 2005 Certificate Commencement ceremony on June 9 took place under sunny skies (it never rains on a Harvard Commencement, remember?), and Lowell Hall was again filled to capacity with about 250 certificate graduates and their relatives and guests. The CSS Class of 2005 numbered 142, including 79 international graduates representing 34 countries. The five leading countries were Colombia (11); Brazil (8); Mexico and Indonesia (7 each); and Argentina, Germany, and India (4 each).

The Katie Yang Prize recognizing “the initiative, character, and outstanding academic achievement of an international student in the CSS Program” was awarded to Ryoko Fukumoto from Japan. The Phyllis Strimling Award, which recognizes “the character and achievement of a CSS graduate who has used or is preparing to use the CSS experience for the advancement of women and society,” was awarded to Levani Lipton from Hawaii, who is executive director of the NGO Ananda Foundation. Our newest student award, inaugurated in 2002, the Harold V. Langlois Outstanding Student Award, was given to David Fleming. Paul Tumolo, MBA, CM instructor in courses on project management, operations management, and customer relationship management, was the 2005 recipient of the Joanne Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes exceptional teaching in the CM Program. Tumolo has been on the CM faculty since 1997.

As our Commencement speaker we were honored to have Patricia Deyton, MSW, MDiv, assistant professor and faculty director of the Center for Gender Organizations at the Simmons School of Management and senior advisor to the Council of Women World leaders. She delivered the speech What a Difference a Mission Makes. Deyton is also a CM instructor in the areas of nonprofit management, and gender and leadership.

In closing, I want to remind you that CM News appears online only. If you change your e-mail address, please be sure to send us your updated one immediately at cm@hudce.harvard.edu so we can notify you when the new issue of CM News goes online next year. I also invite you to send us your current professional news, if you haven’t already done so, so we can include it in CM Alumni News. Finally, I join the CM Office staff, Delia Gerraughty and Donna Clark, in wishing you a happy, prosperous, and healthy 2006. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

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