IPA Charities Supports Simon Graduate School of Business

Buffalo Grove, IL, December 31, 2008 --(PR.com)-- IPA Charities has contributed $10,000 to the University of Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business. The contribution was specifically in support of the Simon School Annual Fund.

Mark Zupan, Dean and Professor of Economics and Public Policy, indicated that the money will be utilized to move ahead vigorously with plans to improve the school.

The University of Rochester started a small business program in 1958 and awarded its first M.B.A. degree in 1962. Though, the school’s impact in the business world can be traced to a later decision, by then University President W. Allen Wallis, to create a first-class business school in Rochester. In 1964, Wallis recruited William H. Meckling, a noted economist best known for his analysis and leadership in support of an all-volunteer U.S. armed service. As dean, Meckling committed the school to an economics-based approach to problem solving, recruited a first-rate faculty, required that all research at the school have an empirical orientation, initiated new finance and accounting journals that incorporated economics, eliminated traditional boundaries between functional departments and transformed what had been a small, undergraduate and evening business school into a leading graduate business program.

As a result of pioneering work by Meckling and other faculty members, the school became known for making enormous contributions in the critical areas of finance, accounting and organizational theory. In turn, the faculty’s contributions helped shape the research agenda of a generation of business scholars around the globe, influencing teaching in graduate business programs and forever changing how many companies and executives in this country and abroad conduct business.

In 1986, the school was renamed the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration. William E. Simon, a financial entrepreneur and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, believed strongly in the principles and ideals of the school. He offered not only his name, but also an enduring financial commitment to the school’s continued success. Today, the school flourishes and thrives as a leading business school, offering both the highest quality business education and cutting-edge research by an internationally renowned faculty.

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