Back to School: Alumni Advise Students Online

As Fall Quarter 2007 drew to a close, nearly 200 Northwestern alumni participated in a special online program. Over the course of two weeks, these alumni communicated in an online forum with students in Professor Bill White's Organizational Behavior class. The alumni addressed questions raised by students centered on topics ranging from whether Joe Girardi was the best choice to manage the New York Yankees baseball team to whether sales incentives for mortgage originators caused the housing loan financial crisis.

Alumni and students alike enjoyed the dialogue, and the interaction with alumni volunteers greatly helped students as they completed their final papers in the class. If you are interested in serving as an alumni advisor in the future, please email 342class@alumni.northwestern.edu. If you are interested in finding career connections with fellow Northwestern alumni and students, you may wish to sign up on Northwestern CareerNet (see instructions below).
 
The student papers follow, in PDF format. If you have trouble downloading them, please make sure you have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer (if you do not, the application is free and you can download it here).

"Help Them Be Who They Are, Not Who They Wear" by Ku Azharul Nizar, Ku Abdul Rahman
"The legality of dress codes" by Lauren Gochman
"Tony Dungy: Appropriate and Effective" by Ravi Shah
"Tony Dungy’s leadership style is appropriate for a professional football team" by Marie Grabinski
"Joe Girardi: Yankee Killer" by Bryan Paynter
"Joe Girardi was the best choice to manage the New York Yankee’s baseball team" by Joe Shields
"The Right over Air Waves" by Taarif Jafferi
"Former CEO of Merrill Lynch Compensated Fairly" by Stephanie Lo
"Was Chairman/CEO, E. Stanley O’Neil, treated fairly when he left Merrill Lynch?" by Farhad Aspy Fatakia
"Mortgage Incentives and the Credit Crisis" by Shuyang Bai
"The role of sales incentives in the housing loan financial crisis" by Alex Thaler
"Chicago Olympic Bid 2016: Let’s Trick this City into Cooperating!" by Jaema Berry

About Northwestern CareerNet
We have made creating and updating Volunteer Profiles quick and easy.  You can post your Volunteer Profile in under five minutes by filling in some basic information and posting your resume.  Or you can spend more time creating a narrative about your career path and filling in additional searchable fields.  Our new key word search allows students and alumni to search all content in your profile – including your resume. Your help is crucial to making Northwestern CareerNet a rich, useful database for the Northwestern community.  We hope you will contribute to this effort by posting or updating your profile today.To post a profile on CareerNet, follow these instructions:
1) Log in to Online Tools
2) Click "Career Network" on the left hand menu bar
3) Click "Getting Started"
4) Click "Volunteer Profile" to update your profile.
5) Click "Network with Alumni" to explore the site yourself.

About Professor White
Professor William J. White is a faculty member of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Kellogg School of Management. He teaches organizational behavior, engineering entrepreneurship, and general management. He is a recipient of the Northwestern Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence and was honored as the McCormick professor of the year in 2001.

Prof. White's research focuses on behavior-based leadership. He is conducting a study to contrast the behaviors of CEOs of high performing companies with the behaviors of CEOs of less successful organizations. His latest book is entitled From Day One: CEO Advice on Launching an Extraordinary Career. He has been a frequent guest on TV and radio shows. Visit Professor William J. White's Web sites at www.williamjwhite.com and www.fromdayone.com.