Company visits

Hey ya'll -

Just wanted to get something set up in the interim while we all wait to go live on Blackboard. Here's the latest company visit updates I have:

Jacqi: Anheuser-Busch InBev
IBM
Cristina: Emerson
Sean: Emerson (with Cristina) ==> Kathleen McClelland's hubby has a contact
Ford
Energizer
Brooks: Regal Beloit http://www.regal-beloit.com/
Kamila: J & J
Sammi: J & J


Karen Heise sent me this on 1/20/09:

Kyle Hill of Shanghai Emerson comes quickly to mind..have you contacted him? He's in LinkedIn and quite the guy for students to connect into. Let me know. Mark Wolf (the 'Wolf-Man') may have some contacts for us in Hong Kong where he spent last semester.....for Shanghai, Patrick Moreton, faculty, is a wealth of knowledge - do you want me to ask him??? Just tell me what to do and I'll gladly ask him - I think Patrick, Mark Wolf and Kyle Hill will yield some good connections for us. Want me to push those three forward???!!!

I absolutely will be at your Tuesday 4:00 pm meetings in hopes I can somehow help. It conflicts with the GBSA meeting, which I am sure you already figured out and try to jockey back and forth. I'll try to do the same. Next Tuesday I will be there, and I appreciate the invitation.

Karen Heise
Associate Director

....and this on 1/21/09 to Patrick Moreton:

Good morning....well, evening to you right now, I think, Patrick! I'm writing on behalf of MBA students who are planning a trip to China for GMS, Global Management Studies. They leave end of February, and the current top priority is to schedule company visits. I wonder if you would reply with ideas of companies and contacts the students could reach out to and request a company visit during the trip. Companies, alumni, connections you have and are willing to share so that the students have rich, quality company visits as part of the GMS experience is the goal. Your assistance would be much appreciated. I'd be more than happy to call you or perhaps have a call between you, me and Sean Murphy, MBA student copied on this note who is in a leadership role for this trip.

Thanks, and I look forward to your reply!

Karen Heise
Associate Director

....and this is Patrick Moreton's response:

Hi Karen,
I’ll do what I can to help, but we’re going to have to move fast. The Chinese New Year starts in two days so the country will shut down for about 10 days to two weeks. I’m going to need a travel itinerary ASAP so that I have the dates you’ll be coming to Shanghai. Can you also send me a list of students and short bios for them so that I have something to provide to the hosts when they ask who will be coming. Finally, if you could poll all the students on the trip and have them go through their rolodexes to see who they know in China, I can follow up with any contacts they have. It’s generally best to work with someone here who is connected to the students since the quality of the visits is generally higher.

Patrick