Fall Brings New Magazine Issue

I hope you’re enjoying the crisp fall air that has newly arrived. I might have brought it back with me from Chicago, where I took a brief trip last week. I traveled to the Windy City for President Kerwin’s alumni reception, where I was introduced to about 75 alumni and their guests. (I was happy to share the spotlight with my new colleague, Dean Goldgeier of AU’s School of International Service.)

When I meet a new group of constituents, like I did in Chicago, it’s good to be able to show them something tangible that represents our school’s growing accomplishments. And this was perfect timing: the new issue of our Kogod Now magazine debuted last week.

As I told the audience, Kogod is the only business school I’m aware of to have such a publication. Some schools publish scholarly journals; many publish glossy magazines that share alumni news. This is a unique product—one that takes faculty’s scholarly accomplishments and professionally reports them, in an accessible format for an extensive audience.

Given our faculty members’ keen interest in important public policy issues—I would argue that Kogod faculty focus more on these issues than the typical business school does—it is especially important that we share our research results. I was particularly pleased that Richard Clark, MBA ’70 and Merck chairman, contributed a piece for the new issue on how his company is responding to public health problems. It’s important to tie the publication to the world of practice through thoughtful practitioners like Dick.

I also want to extend my thanks to the gentlemen who participated in our discussion of digital marketing to teenagers last week, to mark the launch of the magazine: Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy, Keith Fentonmiller of the FTC, and Dan Jaffe of the Association of National Advertisers. They may hold strongly polarized opinions, but together they comprised a wonderful panel. Sonya Grier was a superb leader in that debate.

I hope that you’ve taken a few minutes to peruse the latest issue of our publication. I’m proud of it, and I know you will be, too.