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Executive MBA Class 45 will be the first to march to Pomp & Circumstance this year at their Diploma and Awards Ceremony Saturday scheduled for April 30, 2016, 10:30 a.m. in Emerson Auditorium, Knight Hall.

John Herber

The keynote speaker will be John Herber. He is the Managing Partner of RubinBrown, St. Louis. Founded in 1952, RubinBrown LLP is one of the nation’s leading accounting and professional consulting firms. As a Partner in the Assurance Services Group, Herber serves clients in the Manufacturing and Distribution service industries.

Herber’s consulting experience includes strategic planning and individual, business and estate tax planning. John is an active community leader and was also named one of the Most Influential St. Louisans by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2011 and 2012.

Patrick Smith

Class 45 elected classmate Patrick E. Smith, Sr. as their class speaker. Smith is the Senior Director of Metro Division Operations and Community Relations for Ameren Missouri. He leads four Missouri operating divisions engaged in the safe design, installation, and maintenance of the electrical distribution system. This includes service to nearly 800,000 customers in Missouri from the Mississippi River to the western St. Charles border. He also leads business and community relations strategies for Ameren Missouri.

Smith’s career has spanned three decades at Ameren beginning as a journeyman lineman. He rose to his current position in senior leadership after serving in positions from supervisor of electrical operations to strategic analyst and superintendent of operations for the company. Smith has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. He and his wife, Crystal, have two children in college. He is active in the community and passionate about youth leadership development.

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), a leading professional society in the field of production and operations management, has selected Dr. Panos Kouvelis to receive the POMS Fellow Award of 2016.  Kouvelis, Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management and Director of the Boeing Center for Technology, Information and Manufacturing at Washington University’s Olin Business School, was given the news by the chair of the selection committee earlier this week.  Considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the operations management community, the POMS Fellow Award is given as a recognition of lifetime achievement to individuals who have made exceptional intellectual contributions through research and teaching.

Kouvelis

“Although loyal service to the Society, in administrative, elected, or editorial assignments, is not by itself a sufficient qualification for this award, it can strengthen the case of a member who has also become a thought-leader in our field. To be eligible a candidate must have demonstrated commitment to furthering the objectives of POMS (as evidenced by such indicators as membership in the Society, and active participation in POMS Colleges and meetings).”   ~  POMS website

Kouvelis will be welcomed into this highly-esteemed group at the official ceremony, which will be held at the POMS annual conference in Orlando, Florida on May 8.  The Olin community is very thankful for Kouvelis’ contributions to research and teaching, and congratulates him on this wonderful accomplishment!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Shaker Sadasivam, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, SunEdison Semiconductor, will deliver the keynote address at the Olin Diploma and Awards on Friday, December 18, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. in Graham Chapel.

Dr. Shaker Sadasivam is a product and technology development specialist with a keen talent for generating positive return on invested capital and managing product profitability. Shaker’s influence in the semiconductor industry has been significant. Since 1993, he has played a key role developing proprietary crystal growth technologies and has substantially enhanced corporate operations, grown market share, and strengthened customer relations. SunEdison Semiconductor customers have benefitted from his industry knowledge and technological expertise, as well as his hands-on collaborative approach to critical product development. Shaker has held numerous positions within SunEdison semiconductor, including serving as Executive Vice President & President-Semiconductor Materials, Senior Vice President-Research & Development, President of Semi Japan, Director of U.S. Technology, Corporate Director for Operations Technology, and Director of Research & Development for Semiconductor Operations in Korea. Shaker holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University and an MS degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology–Bombay in Mumbai India. He earned his MBA from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

I hope you will join us as we celebrate our Olin graduates on this momentous occasion.

Listed below find the awards and honors for the Diploma and Awards Ceremony on Friday, December 18. Congratulations to all! If your schedule permits, please join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of this newest group of Olin graduates.

Taylor Outstanding Service Award
Sijia Liu  
Awarded to the graduating student who has participated in multiple Taylor Community Consulting projects to enable positive change in the St. Louis community. The Taylor Community Consulting Program provides students the opportunity to impact the local nonprofit sector through team-based, applied learning projects.

Professional MBA Peer Recognition Award
Margaret Elizabeth Louis       
Awarded to the graduating Professional MBA student who, in the opinion of his or her fellow students, best exemplifies the qualities of character, leadership, and service and also enjoys the respect, admiration and affection of his or her classmates.

Professional MBA Achievement Award
Molly Mulligan  
Awarded to the graduating Professional MBA student who best exemplifies the qualities of integrity, loyalty, intelligence, and high moral character as judged by the faculty.

Outstanding Accounting Student Award 
Xin Julia Qu  
Awarded to the graduating Master of Accounting student who, in the judgment of the faculty, exhibits the strongest academic achievement and the most potential in the field of accounting.

Professional MBA Hiram and Mary Neuwoehner Prize 
Kevin Brian Ritter 
Awarded by the faculty to the graduating Professional MBA student who has been the most substantive addition to the evening program by way of contributions in the classroom and excellence in writing papers and taking examinations. This award was established by Mary Neuwoehner in the 1990s to honor her husband, Hiram Neuwoehner, BSBA ’41, a St. Louis advertising executive and founder of Batz-Hodgson-Neuwoehner Inc.

Outstanding Finance Student Award
Chuyi Sun
Awarded to the graduating Master of Science in Finance student who, in the judgment of the faculty, exhibits the strongest academic achievement and the most potential in the field of finance.

Taylor Outstanding Service Award
 Xinyi Xu     
Awarded to the graduating student who has participated in multiple Taylor Community Consulting projects to enable positive change in the St. Louis community. The Taylor Community Consulting Program provides students the opportunity to impact the local nonprofit sector through team-based, applied learning projects.

Outstanding Supply Chain Management Student Award
Qiaoxi Yang  
Awarded to the graduating Master of Science in Supply Chain Management student who, in the judgment of the faculty, exhibits the strongest academic achievement and the most potential in the field of supply chain management.

Outstanding Customer Analytics Student Award
 Yi You 
Awarded to the graduating Master of Science in Customer Analytics student who, in the judgment of the faculty, exhibits the strongest academic achievement and the most potential in the field of customer analytics.

Outstanding Supply Chain Management Student Award 
Junyan Zhang
Awarded to the graduating Master of Science in Supply Chain Management student who, in the judgment of the faculty, exhibits the strongest academic achievement and the most potential in the field of supply chain management.

On Saturday, Nov. 7, alumni and friends of WashU joined the campus community for Founders Day, the annual commemoration of the university’s 1853 founding.

Highlighting this year’s banquet, held at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel, celebrated writer and biographer Walter Isaacson. The event also honored the recipients of the university’s Distinguished Alumni Awards and Distinguished Faculty Awards. In addition, three individuals received the Robert S. Brookings Award.

Members of the Olin community were well represented among the honorees.

Distinguished Faculty Awards

The Distinguished Faculty Awards recognize outstanding commitment to the intellectual and personal development of students. Recipients this year are:

Timothy J. Ley, MD (MD ’78), the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Chair in Oncology and professor of medicine and of genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis;

Todd Milbourn, PhD, the Hubert C. and Dorothy R. Moog Professor of Finance and senior associate dean of faculty and research at Olin Business School;

Kimberly Jade Norwood, JD, professor of law in the School of Law; and

William Peck, MD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director, Center for Health Policy in the School of Medicine.

Distinguished Alumni Awards

The Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize outstanding professional achievement, public service, exceptional service to Washington University, or all three. Recipients this year are:

Edward P. deZevallos (MBA ’67);

Curley M. Dossman Jr. (JD ’76), president, Georgia-Pacific Foundation;

Thomas Feichtinger (BS ’86), director, Maryville Technologies;

W. E. Moerner, PhD (BS, AB, BS ’75), the Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University;

Richard Ritholz (BSBA ’84), senior portfolio manager at Elliott Management Corp.; and

Bernarda “Bernie” Lo Wong (MSW ’68), president and chief executive officer of the Chinese American Service League.

Robert S. Brookings Awards

Presented by the Board of Trustees, the Robert S. Brookings Award honors individuals for their extraordinary dedication and generosity to Washington University. Recipients this year are:

James and Elizabeth McDonnell; and

Joyce Wood (BSBA ’76, MBA ’77).

For more information about the history and commemoration of Founders Day, visit here.

By Barbara Rea, WUSTL Newsroom

A research paper by professors Daniel Elfenbein, Barton Hamilton, and Todd Zenger* has been selected as the winner of the INFORMS Technology Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) Best Paper Award for best innovation and entrepreneurship paper published in 2010 in INFORMS journals.

The paper is,”The small firm effect and the entrepreneurial spawning of scientists andengineers,” published in Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 659-681.

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics.

This is the first year of the INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship best paper competition. The INFORMS TIMES section leadership chose a system in which the best papers for the annual competition would be narrowed down for the competition to the top-six papers by citation from five years earlier (this year 2010). The best paper and a runner-up were then selected by a panel of senior leaders in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship.

This year, after narrowing down the papers to those with top citations, James Utterback, Arnoud De Meyer, Dundar Kocaoglu, Nitin Joelker and Juliana Hsuan served as judges on the best paper selection panel.

*Todd Zenger is a former faculty member at Olin; Dan Elfenbein is a professor of Organization and Strategy at Olin; and Bart Hamilton is the Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Olin.

Reid Teaching Awards are presented by Olin’s graduating students to the professors whose enthusiasm and exceptional teaching most inspire, energize, and transform our students. A longtime benefactor of Olin Business School, James W. Reid, BSBA ’28, with his wife, Marcile, established the Reid Teaching Awards in 1994 to recognize teaching excellence. The impact of the Reids’ benevolence and commitment to Olin will continue to be felt by generations of students, faculty, alumni, and friends. I am delighted and honored to inform you of this year’s 2015 Reid awardees.

Congratulations to all!

Undergraduate Reid Teaching Awardee:
James Sawhill, Senior Lecturer in Marketing

MBA Reid Teaching Awardees:
Thomas D. Fields, Senior Lecturer in Accounting
John Horn, Senior Lecturer in Economics

Professional MBA Reid Teaching Awardees:
Sergio Chayet, Senior Lecturer in Operations & Manufacturing Management; Director of the Master of Science in Supply Chain Management Program; Director of the Operations & Supply Chain Management MBA Platform

Master of Accounting Reid Teaching Awardee:
Thomas D. Fields, Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Master of Science in Finance Reid Teaching Awardee:
Richard Ryffel, Senior Lecturer in Finance

Master of Science in Supply Chain Management Reid Teaching Awardee:
Sergio Chayet, Senior Lecturer in Operations & Manufacturing Management; Director of the Master of Science in Supply Chain Management Program; Director of the Operations & Supply Chain Management MBA Platform

Executive MBA Reid Teaching Awardees:
Samuel Chun, Assistant Dean of Executive Programs, and Senior Lecturer in Management Practice
Barton H. Hamilton, Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship