Presented by
Tulane Association of Business Alumni
A. B. Freeman School of Business
Tulane Business Forum
Thursday, October 31, 2002
New Orleans Hilton Riverside
Forum Patron
Bank One Louisiana
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The Companies of
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BellSouth
Brice Building Company
Chevron Texaco
Entergy
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Metairie Bank & Trust
Company
Whitney National Bank
Other Sponsors
· James Hardy · Walter Isaacson · Bobby Jindal · James W. McFarland · David Oreck · E. Peter Urbanowicz ·
J. M. Bernhard, Jr.
Chairman, President and CEO, The Shaw Group Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana
James M. Bernhard, Jr. is the founder of The Shaw Group Inc., the world's only vertically integrated provider of complete piping systems and comprehensive engineering procurement and construction services. The Shaw Group Inc. is a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SGR." Mr. Bernhard serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Mr. Bernhard is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and graduated from Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1976. He was the recipient of the 2001 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was featured as the cover article of Engineering News Record's April 1, 2002, issue. He was the recipient of the LSU College of Education's "Special Recognition" Award. He received the Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana's Corporate Champions for Children Award. He was honored as an Entrepreneur of the Year in Louisiana; he was selected as Marketer of the Year; he has been named a Perpetual Founder of Catholic High School; he received the "Ace" Award from the LSU Golf Program; he received the Tiger Athletic Foundation Augie Cross Memorial "Member of the Year" Award; and he was named as one of the Top Ten Chief Executive Officers by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report. Mr. Bernhard's community services include the Committee of 100 for the State of Louisiana; Chairman of Select Council for Revenues and Expenditures (SECURE) for Louisiana's Future; he is active in the LSU Alumni Association, Tiger Athletic Foundation, Louisiana Tech University Foundation, St. George Catholic Church and School, Ducks Unlimited, and the Krewe of Endymion. Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard are active supporters of United Way, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, St. George Catholic Church, St. George Catholic School, East Baton Rouge Parish Schools, Catholic High School, Southern University, Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, and Louisiana Tech University. In his spare time, Mr. Bernhard enjoys traveling with his wife, Dana, and their children, golfing, duck hunting, horseback riding, bill fishing, and coaching little league sports.
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Scott S. Cowen
President, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Whether conducting a meeting on university finances or joining students to cheer the Green Wave on to victory, Dr. Scott S. Cowen approaches life as Tulane's 14th President with an energetic, open and engaging style.
In addition to his position as president, Dr. Cowen also holds a joint appointment as the Seymour S Goodman Memorial Professor of Business in Tulane's A.B. Freeman School of Business and Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Cowen came to Tulane in 1998 from Case Western Reserve University where he was a member of the faculty for 23 years and Dean and Albert J. Weatherhead, III Professor of Management of its Weatherhead School of Management for 14 years.
At Tulane Dr. Cowen has initiated a strategic plan that encompasses every aspect of the University but has as its single purpose the goal of enhancing Tulane's position as one of the most distinguished research institutions in the country.
The plan focuses on building a distinctive undergraduate experience; strengthening the University's research and graduate programs, especially in the sciences and engineering; expanding the University's community, regional and international partnerships and further developing its technology infrastructure, including its distance learning capabilities and library system.
Since Dr. Cowen's arrival in 1998, the university has realized a 50 percent increase in undergraduate applications, all time highs in student enrollment and quality, a doubling of total private giving to the university and a record level of research awards. The university has implemented a number of innovative academic and research program initiatives and significantly increased its community outreach. In recognition of these efforts, Newsweek magazine listed Tulane University as one of the "hottest" schools in the U.S. in 2001.
Dr. Cowen holds several leadership positions in national academic and professional associations. He is currently a board member of the American Council on Education, a member of its Nominating Committee, Executive Committee and Chair of the Planning Committee for its annual meeting in 2003. He is also a board member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and past president of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. Dr. Cowen is the co-author of four books and has published more than 60 articles in academic and professional journals on issues dealing with corporate governance, strategic planning and the development of financial management systems.
Besides his achievements in the academic world, Dr. Cowen also has extensive experience in business as a corporate director and consultant. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Newell Rubbermaid Inc., American Greetings Corporation, Jo-Ann Stores, Inc. and Forest City Enterprises Inc. He has also consulted with dozens of companies, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, during his professional career. In addition, he sits on several community boards, including the New Orleans Business Council, Committee For A Better New Orleans, New Orleans Regional Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Greater New Orleans.
A recipient of several honors and awards, including the Torch of Learning from Hebrew University and the Torch of Liberty from the Anti-Defamation League, Dr. Cowen is also the only academic inductee into the School of Business Hall of Fame at the University of Connecticut. He was also named The George Washington University Distinguished Alumni Scholar for 1998-99.
Dr. Cowen received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Connecticut and his master's and doctoral degrees in business administration from The George Washington University. He and his wife, Marjorie, are the parents of four adult children.
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The Office of Technology Development is responsible for crafting commercial value from inventions that arise from all Tulane research, both medical and non-medical. In this capacity, she is responsible for the patenting, marketing, and licensing of all university technology, and for fostering industry-sponsored research liaisons. Activities include development and implementation of programs to create a comprehensive inventory of Tulane's intellectual property; identifying promising technological developments and encouraging their disclosure; protection of Tulane's intellectual property, either directly or in cooperation with outside counsel; and commercializing intellectual property through an aggressive licensing program.
Ms. Fishman also has oversight for the administration of Tulane's sponsored research. These responsibilities include grant/contract administration for all campuses, preparation of management information and analyses of research statistics, and oversight for compliance areas such as animal care and human subjects. In addition, she coordinates policy issues and government regulations relating to technology development and research.
Ms. Fishman is active in the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA). She is on the Board of Directors of the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR), an Washington, D.C.-based organization comprised of the nation's top research universities, and also serves on COGR's Contracts and Intellectual Property Committee.
Ms. Fishman has been affiliated with Tulane for over twenty years. Prior to that, she was the Associate Director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, a grant-making organization that is the state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Loyola University.
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Isaacson's background spans more than 25 years of journalism in which he's worked in a variety of roles from newspaper reporter and columnist to magazine editor. Isaacson came to CNN from Time Inc. where he had served as the company's editorial director. In that position, he helped to set the editorial and electronic media strategies for the company's major magazines and served as the liaison to CNN, AOL and other divisions of Time Warner. Isaacson moved into that role in January 2001 after serving as TIME magazine's managing editor for five years.
As editor he oversaw a number of special projects including the TIME 100, an end-of-the-century project involving six special issues and television shows, which culminated with a choice of a Person of the Century. He also expanded TIME's growing franchises, which include a classroom publication called TIME For Kids; a technology publication called On Magazine; and an online site TIME.com. As editor, Isaacson continued to write for the magazine. His work has included cover stories on Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, and Madeleine Albright, as well as an essay on Albert Einstein, Time's choice for Person of the Century. AdWeek Magazine named him Editor of the Year in 1995.
Isaacson joined TIME in 1978 as a national affairs writer in New York and moved to Washington as a political correspondent covering the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and Ted Kennedy. He returned to New York and became the magazine's Nation editor and then assistant managing editor. In 1993, Time Inc. named Isaacson Editor of New Media for Time Inc. In that capacity, he helped develop the company's interactive television, cable and online services.
Born in New Orleans, La., Isaacson began his journalism career as a reporter for The Sunday Times of London and then as a reporter and city hall columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of Kissinger: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1992) and the co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (Simon & Schuster, 1986), a book about American statesmen and the Cold War.
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The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation serves as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Jindal's responsibilities include policy formulation and analysis, the development and review of regulations and/or legislation, budget analysis, strategic planning, as well as the conduct and coordination of policy research and program evaluation. He also heads up the Department's Research Coordination Council, and also the Regulatory Reform Committee.
Prior to joining HHS, Jindal was the President of the University of Louisiana System, one of the largest higher education systems in the nation comprised of eight campuses, 80,000 students and 8,000 faculty and staff. During his tenure, the system raised graduation and retention rates, and increased private donations and the number of endowed chair positions. The system also implemented the state's first teacher guarantees and faculty rotation programs.
In 1998, Jindal was named executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, a panel charged with developing a plan to reform Medicare. Jindal brought with him expertise as Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary, a position he held from 1996 to 1998. As Secretary, Jindal was responsible for a $4 billion budget, and managed to eliminate the department's $400 million deficit while Louisiana improved health outcomes. Jindal began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Jindal was born and raised in Baton Rouge, La. At 20, he graduated from Brown University with honors in biology and public policy. Jindal, a Rhodes scholar, received his graduate degree from Oxford University.
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The A. B. Freeman School of Business is one of 11 schools and colleges within Tulane University, located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Present enrollment includes approximately 650 undergraduates, 180 full-time MBA students, 180 executive MBA students, 200 professional MBA students, 10 master of accounting students, and 80 doctoral students. Founded in 1914, the Freeman School is one of 17 founding members of AACSB International, the premier accrediting agency for business schools.
Dean McFarland received a bachelor of arts in economics and mathematics in 1967 and a doctorate in statistics and economics in 1971 from Texas A&M. A highly regarded scholar in the fields of resource economics and international finance, Dean McFarland worked as an econometrician with the President's Commission on the Nation's Water Resources and as a staff member at the University of California Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has also served on the faculties of Texas A&M University, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of New Mexico. Dr. McFarland has worked on research and educational programs in countries throughout the world.
His research and teaching interests are international finance, resource economics, and econometrics. His research has been published in a number of leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Operations Research.
Dean McFarland is currently a director of Sizeler Property Investors Inc. and Stewart Enterprises Inc. In addition, Dean McFarland has served on the boards and as a consultant to a large number of private and not-for-profit organizations.
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Oreck Corporation began manufacturing upright vacuum cleaners for the hotel industry in the U.S. Its concept was to design a lightweight yet powerful and durable vacuum that hotel maids would prefer to the very heavy models available to them. This idea proved so successful that now over 50,000 hotels throughout the world use Oreck vacuums. After a short time, hotel personnel asked to buy machines for their own use, which gave the Oreck Corporation the idea to sell its unique products to the general public. Oreck is now a leading manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, floor machines and air cleaners, with the reputation of being the manufacturer of the very finest cleaning equipment.
Oreck now sells throughout North America and South America, as well as Europe and Asia, and is a major manufacturer in the cleaning industry.
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Prior to his service in government, Mr. Urbanowicz was a partner in the New Orleans office of the Locke Liddell & Sapp law firm, where he specialized in health care law and corporate issues. He has addressed legal and health care groups on a number of issues including: public health disaster planning, Medicare and Medicaid payment, organ transplantation, medical privacy rules, and federal health care policy. Mr. Urbanowicz received his undergraduate and law degrees from Tulane University. He has served as an officer and director of numerous civic, charitable and professional organizations, including service as Chairman of the Tulane Provost's Council.
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John Crowley
Senior Vice President, Genzyme Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mr. Crowley is currently Senior Vice President, Genzyme Therapeutics. Prior to this he was CEO and President of Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Novazyme was acquired by Genzyme in September 2001 for $225 million. Mr. Crowley and his wife, Aileen, have been tireless advocates for patient rights, having founded "The Children's Pompe Foundation" in 1998 after two of their children were diagnosed with Pompe Disease. He has previously served in several senior management roles with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, most recently as Director of the Executive Committee for the U.S. Medicines Group. He has also served as Director, Business Strategy for the BMS U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group as well as the Director of U.S. Area Marketing for the Neuroscience and Infectious Disease Division. Prior to BMS, Mr. Crowley worked as a business strategy consultant for Marakon Associates, whose practice focuses on helping senior executives of Fortune 200 companies devise value-based management strategies that maximize shareholder value. Mr. Crowley began his professional career as a litigation associate in the Health Care Practice Group of the Indianapolis-based law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman. He earned his B.S. degree in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School and an M.B.A. from The Harvard Business School.
Carla Fishman
Executive Director, Office of Technology Development, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Carla Fishman is the Executive Director of Research Administration and Technology Development at Tulane University and is responsible for the overall management, supervision, and planning of activities of the Tulane offices of Research Administration and Technology Development, promoting
the University's Technology Development operation for the commercialization of intellectual property.
James Hardy
Director of Technology Development, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
James Hardy serves as the Director of Technology Development for the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He is also a graduate of Tulane University with a degree in business management. His professional responsibilities include the recruitment, protection, and marketing of the Intellectual Property assets for the LSU Health Sciences Center, including the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Allied Health, and Graduate Studies. A lifelong resident of the city, he serves on the Board of a number of non-profit organizations including MetroVision, the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, the Historic District Landmarks Commission, and the Idea Village.
Walter Isaacson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNN, Atlanta, Georgia
Walter Isaacson is chairman and CEO of the CNN News Group. Named to this position in July 2001, he has overall responsibility for leading the CNN News Group, which includes CNN/U.S., CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNNfn, CNN Airport Network, CNNRadio, CNNRadio Noticias, CNN en Espaņol, CNN/Sports Illustrated, three out-of-home, place-based networks, 12 Web sites and CNN Newsource, the world's most extensively syndicated news service.
Bobby Jindal
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
Bobby Jindal became Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation for the Department of Health and Human Services on July 9, 2001.
James W. McFarland
Dean, A. B. Freeman School of Business
James McFarland is dean and J. F. Jr. and Jessie Lee Seinsheimer Professor of Business at Tulane's A. B. Freeman School of Business; he has held the former position since 1988. Prior to his appointment at the Freeman School, he was dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Houston.
David Oreck
Chairman and Founder, Oreck Corporation, New Orleans, Louisiana
David Oreck, chairman of the board, founded the Oreck Corporation in the United States in 1963. Its home office is in New Orleans, Louisiana, and its principal manufacturing facility is in Long Beach, Mississippi. This state-of-the-art plant covers 375,000 square feet and employs 500 people.
E. Peter Urbanowicz
Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
E. Peter Urbanowicz is the Deputy General Counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. HHS is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. HHS touches the lives of every American through its more than 300 programs, which include: Medicare, Medicaid and State Children's Health Programs, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Public Health Service and the Surgeon General's Office, the Centers for Disease Control, substance abuse and mental health services, temporary assistance to needy families, and Head Start. The Office of the General Counsel serves as the primary legal advisor to the Secretary and for all HHS agencies. Mr. Urbanowicz was named to his position as Deputy General Counsel in October of 2001 by President George W. Bush and Secretary Tommy Thompson.