Leading the Goizueta vision

Leadership. It’s an essential element of the Goizueta curriculum, although some will argue that a true leader doesn’t learn from textbooks. Future leaders learn from the examples of those around them.

I’m proud to head the group of exceptional leaders who serve as the Goizueta Leadership Alliance Advisory Committee. They are an impressive lot, as I’m sure you can tell by scanning the names on this page. Most importantly, they are committed to achieving the vision that Dean Tom Robertson has designed for the next generation of Goizueta graduates. They give generously of their resources, a generosity that reaches far beyond their individual financial contributions.

The role of the Advisory Committee is to guide Goizueta in its quest for excellence. Committee members generously share their knowledge, contacts, and insight to uncover ways to benefit the school. In their volunteer role, they open doors at foundations and corporations and assist the development staff in “selling” the Goizueta cause.

In the end, the work of these individuals will have a significant impact on our goal to be among the top ten business schools in the nation. And their success will have another effect, as they show our students the true meaning of leadership.

John Spiegel ’65MBA
Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, SunTrust Banks, Inc.
Chairman, Goizueta Leadership Alliance

Solon and Marianna Patterson to name business-arts green space

Emory alumni Solon P. Patterson ’57BBA-’58MBA and Marianna Reynolds ’61C have been married forty-one years; the two were introduced by Marianna’s brother Richard ’55B-’58L, a fraternity brother of Solon. Richard later married one of Marianna’s sorority sisters.

As such, the Pattersons’ memories are drawn to Emory. They have shown their support throughout the years as loyal volunteers; now the couple has merged its dedication to Goizueta and the College by making a significant joint commitment that names the future green space between the business school and the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This area, a sort of business-arts “green,” will be a well-manicured grassy haven where students can gather to recharge their minds and bodies between classes and exams.

“Marianna and I wanted to impact Emory in a positive way. We liked the idea of preserving green space on campus,” says Mr. Patterson. “President Chace is creating an important legacy by encouraging more open space—it certainly makes the campus look and feel better.”

The Pattersons made many friends during their time on campus, including the son of Louis Montag. After working in New York, Mr. Patterson eventually returned to Atlanta to join Mr. Montag at Montag & Caldwell, the Southeast’s oldest investment counseling firm. In March, he celebrated forty years with the company, which he now chairs. He recently stepped down as CEO.

Mrs. Patterson, a former government municipal bond trader, is an active community volunteer.

Both Pattersons have served on the Emory Board of Visitors, and together they chaired the 1997 Emory Annual Fund. Mr. Patterson is a former president of the Business School Alumni Association and is a member of the Dean’s Business School Advisory Board. Mrs. Patterson is a former Alumni Leadership Committee member and is currently involved with a project for the Center for Performing Arts.—Sarah Banick

SunTrust plans triple match

More than 150 current SunTrust employees earned diplomas and got their start at Emory University. Now they can significantly stretch donations to Goizueta Business School and its current fund-raising initiative through a generous three-to-one matching program sponsored by the bank and its foundation. Funds will be used to name the SunTrust Bank Classroom, slated to be room #334.

The classroom will benefit the entire campus, as it will be used for basic finance, marketing, strategy, and accounting classes for all Emory students. It will accommodate up to sixty-five students and feature state-of-the-art computer, video, and audio facilities. Individual donors who contribute more than $500 will have their names posted permanently on a plaque in the SunTrust Bank Classroom.

“By giving back to Goizueta through the generous program offered by SunTrust Bank and its Atlanta Foundation, you ensure the success of both future students and SunTrust leaders,” says Wes Lambert ’00BBA, a SunTrust analyst.

The bank has a long history of generous support for both Emory and Goizueta. All graduates of Emory, currently employed or retired, are invited to participate. Commitments may be either a one-time gift or a two-year pledge.

For more information, contact Chris Tobin ’94C, senior associate director of development for Goizueta, at chris_tobin@bus.emory.edu or 404.727.6648.—Sarah Banick

Making history

Phil Reese may be a businessman by trade, but you could easily mistake him for an historian. If he fulfills his dream of seeking a PhD in history, the triple Emory graduate (’66C-’76MBA-’76JD) may someday be Dr. Reese, professor of business history. Until then, he stays busy as vice president of the Delaware-based Conectiv, a Fortune 500 energy company.

Reese assured his place in Emory history as a graduate student, when he helped found the joint JD/MBA program. He is now determined to help Goizueta receive its due as one of the nation’s elite business schools. “There are few schools, which aspire to be the among the best, that are as well postured with the resources and the access to a major commercial center, both nationally and internationally, as we are,” he says.

For his part, Reese and his wife Daphne have committed to the fund-raising initiative through a mix of cash and estate giving. A significant part of this will fund scholarships for the joint JD/MBA program. “Emory gave me the foundation for all the choices that I’ve had,” he says. In the last thirty years, he has had the opportunity to work in the telecommunications, energy, and banking industries—three areas that have gone through exciting changes.

Reese also credits Emory with giving him a passion for civic commitment. “The school instilled in all of us a sense of service to our communities. I’ve tried to live that out in my life.” In addition to duties on the Dean’s Advisory Council at Goizueta and on the Board of Governors for the Alumni Association, Reese is well known in Delaware for his work with a number of community organizations. He is a recipient of the Salvation Army’s national William Booth Award and Goizueta’s Alumni Service Award.—Sarah Banick

Surplus boosts bottom line

Goizueta’s new building has an unusual new backer: the school’s own Goizueta Marketing Strategy Competition. The annual competition, now in its tenth year, pits twelve teams of MBA students working for clients against each other. The first place team splits a $10,000 prize.

The competition has generated more than the interest and gratitude of the business community; it also has made a useful profit. “Even after paying out our prize money and investing back in the program, we had a surplus,” says Reshma Shah, assistant professor of marketing and faculty advisor for the program.

For-profit and nonprofit clients contribute to sponsor a team. These contributions cover the expenses of the competition, which can be considerable. Teams must conduct reams of research, sometimes traveling to distant locales. They also have to communicate with their international teammates from partner business schools in France, India, and Mexico. In recent years, Goizueta has increased its investment in the staff, technology, and collateral that support the program. Just as success breeds success, the donation will help the marketing competition as well. “The new building will have the space we need for conducting interviews and focus groups, computers for research purposes, and meeting rooms for the teams,” says Shah. “There will also be some much-needed space for the MBA student leadership team that helps run the competition.”

“We wanted to do something that reflected student, faculty, and corporate collaboration, which is really a big part of the spirit of the GMSC,” says Krista Stein ’01MBA, president of last year’s leadership team. “We also wanted to earmark the donation in a way that would give the teams more resources to develop top-notch solutions for their clients.”—Russ Moore

Moore continues tradition

When the business school renovated its home in the Rich Building, then-sophomore Laura Moore ’80BBA was impressed. “I saw how important capital improvements are,” she says now. “It changed the way the school thought of itself.”

That is one reason Moore, a second-generation Emory graduate, has committed to the new building and the annual fund over the next five years. There are other reasons. Moore’s father, M. Brittain Moore Jr. MD-’51C-’56M, used to tell her, “The second-best thing to growing up to teach at Emory is to work at Coca-Cola.” She acted on his philosophy—Moore is a fifteen-year veteran of The Coca-Cola Company, where she is manager of international taxes.

Her father’s friend, H. Prentice Miller, legendary former dean of alumni, taught Moore that even recent graduates could support Emory, no matter how small the gift. She made her first contribution her senior year, already aware that “every door opened for me because I went to Emory.” She remains an active participant in the Corporate Partners Program, helping enhance Coca-Cola’s relationship with Goizueta. She also is a regular contributor to ZooAtlanta and the High Museum of Art, “but education is by far my biggest cause.”—Sarah Banick

Goizueta Leadership Alliance gifts, Pledges, and Planned Gifts

Goizueta Foundation, three endowed chairs, four MBA scholarships
Anonymous Charitable Remainder Trust
John M. and Lucy Cook, The John M. and Lucy Cook Chair
Anonymous, endowed chair in finance
Anonymous Charitable Remainder Trust
Estate of Josephine Dobbs, endowed chair
Solon ’57BBA-’58MBA and Marianna Patterson ’61C, new building
Karen and John Spiegel ’65MBA, unrestricted support
Anonymous, fully endowed Latino/Hispanic MBA scholarship
Phil ’66C-’76MBA-’76JD and Daphne Reese, combined planned gift,
unrestricted support and scholarship endowment; new building
2000–2001 Annual Fund
1999–2000 Annual Fund
1998–1999 Annual Fund
Earl Dolive ’40BBA, new building
Tara Whitehead ’93MBA, planned gift, scholarship endowment
Bernard Gray, planned gift, unrestricted support
Kurt Salmon Associates, scholarship endowment
J. Coleman Budd ’50BBA, naming of the Dean’s Suite, new building
Faculty gifts, new building
Goizueta Marketing Strategy Competition, new building
Anonymous, unrestricted support
James ’61BBA and Anne Carson ’61C, new building
Margaret C. Dickson ’83MBA, new building
Kimberly-Clark Corp., scholarship
Laura Moore ’80BBA, new building, unrestricted support
John Robson, Robson Award
Mac ’98MBA and Kim Schuessler, new building
Additional gifts
Gifts pending:
Simulated trading floor
Endowed scholarships
Total: $29,968,300

Goizueta Leadership Alliance Advisory Committee

Ellen Bailey ’63C-’87EMBA
William Belk ’73MBA-’84LLM
James Carson ’61BBA
Margaret Dickson ’83MBA
Earl Dolive ’40BBA
J. Joseph Edwards ’54O-’56BBA-’58MBA
William Holden ’72MBA
Lynn Johnston ’50O-’52BBA
Jay Levine
Jack Markley ’59MBA
John Morgan ’67O-’69BBA
Solon Patterson ’57BBA-’58MBA
Daniel Pompilio III ’98EMBA
Phil Reese ’66C-’76MBA-’76JD
John Spiegel ’65MBA
Robert Stanley ’82EMBA

All in the Development Office welcome your feedback, questions, and support:

Development Office
Goizueta Business School
Emory University
1300 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322-2710
Fax: 404.727.4983

Marc Broderick
Director
404.727.7573
Marc_Broderick@bus.emory.edu

Andy Reed
Senior associate director
404.727.4971
Andy_Reed@bus.emory.edu

Christopher Tobin
Senior associate director
404.727.6648
Chris_Tobin@bus.emory.edu

Kimberly Head
Associate director
404.727.5272
Kimberly_Head@bus.emory.edu

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