January/February

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Features

• Catching Up: Our Fish Chronicles
  writers are now seniors and share with us their thoughts on their Aggie experience and plans for the future
• Business PhDs in High Demand: With declining numbers of doctoral students, many business schools are left wondering who will step up as the next generation of teachers and scholars

March/April

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• Retailing Hall of Fame inducts first honorees: More than 350 people gathered in New York City in January to see five retailing visionaries inducted into the inaugural Retailing Hall of Fame
  Fourth-generation daughter: Jennifer Finch held up her hand until the speaker at her graduation got to "four."
  Not your grandfather's job market: How to cope as a free-market employee
  Marvin J. Girouard: It seems stereotypical that you would see a high-ranking CEO cruising the streets of Dallas , looking like James Bond in his Aston Martin.

May/June

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• Robert Nardelli, M.B. Zale Visionary Merchant: Chairman, president and CEO Robert Nardelli of The Home Depot has been credited with overseeing an unprecedented expansion of the world’s largest home-improvement retailer, growing the top line by more than $20 billion and reinvesting $17 billion in core enhancements since he took over in late 2000.
  MBA consultants analyze firms and add value: In part two of a series of career-focused stories, we examine what Mays’ MBA students bring into the workforce: effective consulting experience
  Learning the new product development process: Dr. Busch’s iPod Idol: Marketing 442 focuses on the new product development process, and early this spring students were asked to identify their favorite new products. The iPod digital music player was clearly the most popular.

July/August

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• 10 Years at Wehner: A celebration of our growth and potential
  They have lived all over the world, melding their lives with the cultures they've encountered. Some find themselves in exactly the profession they envisioned, while others are worlds away from where they imagined in college, enjoying the twists and turns of an evolving career.
• Three students and a furniture mart: Buying trip with Gallery Furniture exposes students to real-world business practices
  They spent a week ordering rugs, lamps, mattresses and anything else that struck their fancy and appealed to their tastes, ordering much of what the Gallery Furniture buying team would bring back to its involved and energetic boss.
• Ethics in Action
  Natalie Allen, senior lecturer in accounting
  As we discuss various topics in the Principles of Managerial Accounting course, I strive to introduce the importance of ethics in the management decision-making process. Students are required to analyze ethics cases that contain typical ethical dilemmas and are asked to describe the ethical issues involved.

September/October

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• Part of Mays’ rise
  Researchers, teachers add to school’s growth factor
  Mays added 13 new researchers and teachers to the 2005 line-up, with the accounting and management departments gaining the most new faces for the upcoming academic year.

  On location: Middle East
  A dozen Aggies are the first interns in expansive Halliburton projects in Kuwait, Dubai and Jordan

  Accounting for a Generation
  One man has impacted thousands of A&M students
  Brent Stolle ’98 swore he would never be an accountant. Brent had grown up watching his father, Carlton D. Stolle ’65, teach accounting at Texas A&M, so his decision to attend Rice for his undergraduate degree was a calculated step outside Carlton’s footprints.

  Ethics in Action
  Joobin Choobineh, associate professor, Department of Information and Operations Management
  In the honors section of Fundamentals of Information Systems, I spend a full lecture on computer crimes, information security and ethics. These are very important topics for our modern computerized education and work environments.

November/December

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• Circle of life success
  Mays’ 2005 Outstanding Alumni give back in thanks for opportunities A&M first helped them create
  More than 200 guests gathered in September at College Station’s Pebble Creek Country Club to honor three alumni whose successes in life compounded by their unwavering support to the success of others through scholarships, faculty chairs, and their commitment to family.

  Shelter from the storm
  Mays makes room, finds help for 95 students displaced by Katrina
  “We’ve been told for years it was coming — the big one that would take out New Orleans.”

  Ethics in Action
  Cynthia E. Devers, Assistant Professor of Management
  In strategic management we cover a broad range of topics from functional-level tactics through corporate strategy and governance. Throughout the semester students are exposed to a number of hot-button ethical issues. So rather than addressing ethics as a separate factor, I attempt to integrate ethical decision making into the entire course.