Spreadsheet One
Coming
to Terms with Title Envy
AFTER BUSINESS SCHOOL, Bruce Cozadd, MBA ’91, searched for a company
that was not full of workaholics. “But then those bad genes took over
and I started climbing the ladder because it was there,” Cozadd said
of his experience at Alza Corp., where he became CFO and finally COO.
He eventually resigned after the company was bought out and his position
would have required much travel.
Now a “titleless” consultant with three children, Cozadd and his spouse-classmate,
Sharon Hoffman, constrain their careers by setting a limit on the amount
of child care they will hire. “Our nanny has never left later than 3
p.m.,” Cozadd said at a June discussion of work–family balance issues
organized by the Alumni Affairs office. The focus was on the balance
issues faced by men, because they have fewer opportunities than women
to talk about the subject, said Linda Wells, MBA ’93, who organized
the discussion.
Cozadd and Hoffman, director of the School’s MBA Program, sit down
monthly to coordinate their schedules and make “horse trades” about
the hours they each will be home, he said, confessing to occasional
bouts of “title envy.” “You guys are all something,” Cozadd said to
the men in the audience, “and I’m just me.” “I was so ambitious, I couldn’t
have done this right out of school,” added Jonathan Visbal, MBA ’84,
about his decision to trade his career in international entrepreneurship
for a lower-key role as an executive recruiter. “You only have 10 years
to influence your kids, and after that society takes over,” he said,
explaining why he had left work at 4:30 the day before to cycle with
his two daughters and why he would attend a school party the next day.
How do you find a job with work–family balance? Eric Weaver, MBA ’92,
founder of the nonprofit Lenders for Community Development and father
of a toddler, suggested people focus their career by thinking about
what things they like to do that “don’t have 10,000 other people beating
the door down to do them.”
Recession
Hits Student Pocketbook
THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN led to a record need for financial aid among
MBA students this year, according to financial aid director Colleen
MacDonald, who estimates she will provide $4.3 million to MBA students,
up from a record $3.9 million in 2001–02. During the 1998–99 academic
year, when the economy was much better, the School awarded $2.2 million
in MBA fellowships.
The proportion of students receiving aid has not changed that much,
MacDonald said, but more of them have a need that is clustered around
the mean, this year at $11,787. About half of MBA students qualify for
fellowship assistance, and 69 percent apply for loans through the financial
aid office.
ILLUSTRATION BY TERRY COLON |
A Generous
Class in a Tight Year
IN A YEAR when money was scarcer than normal, the MBA Class of 2002
showed unusual generosity, setting a record for a class gift. As of
July 8, an unprecedented 91 percent of the class had participated and
pledged more than $311,000, shattering the old dollar record by more
than $137,000.
The class also broke with the model of picking a specific building
project to fund. Instead they helped support MBA fellowships and expansion
of the second-year seminars, a year-old program that allows returning
MBAs to spend an intensive week in a small group with a faculty member
whose research interests them.
“The gift will be commemorated with a plaque in Knight Plaza,” Dean
Robert Joss said. “We hope it will be the start of another great GSB
tradition.”
Library
Databases Open to Alumni
BUSINESS SCHOOL GRADS can subscribe to four popular online databases
through a new service of the Alumni Association and Jackson Library.
Staff negotiated with database suppliers to offer the service after
a survey of alums showed high interest in the service.
From their homes or offices, alumni subscribers can research current
business conditions in ABI/INFORM (ProQuest), get the latest technology
news from Computer Database, conduct career searches or prospect for
customers using ReferenceUSA, and track market trends in TableBase.
The service is $150 annually for life members of the association; more
for nonmembers.
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