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 Chambers | IU alumnus John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, has donated $1 million to IU’s Kelley School of Business to establish an internship program that will provide MBA students with the rare opportunity to work alongside a CEO in all phases of a company’s operations. The internship program will provide for eight MBA students to work 10-12 weeks with a chief operating officer, chief information officer or CEO at an emerging company. The students will be involved in all phases of company operations and in projects that are innovative, entrepreneurial and of value to the company. Chambers received an MBA from IU in 1976. He also has a named endowed faculty chair in his honor at IU, established by friends and colleagues, and was one of the first faculty endowments in the country to be dedicated exclusively to the study of the Internet and related networking systems.
“With the increasing trend for MBAs to target a career niche, the Chambers Internship Program affords an attractive funding feature, which assists both the student and employer,” said Dick McCracken, director of graduate career services at the Kelley School. Kelley Dean Dan Dalton said that the program should help the school encourage MBA graduates to stay in Indiana and work at many of the high potential, entrepreneurial companies that are increasingly valuable to the state’s economy.
Chambers’ recent honors include: Best Investor Relations by a CEO, Investor Relations and Barrons magazines, March 2002; Number Seven Best Place to Work, London Sunday Times, March 2002; Top 15 Best Places to Work, Fortune, February 2002. |
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