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 Marketing Strategy Unplugged by David Black  MBAs with a Mission by Brook Raflo Thinking inside the Box by Nicholas Shreiber, Guest Columnist |
Welcome from Maria Radulovic 
Dear alumni and friends,It is such a pleasure to be the new director of alumni relations for Goizueta Business School. Everyone has been so friendly and willing to help as I settle in to my responsibilities. Goizueta is supported by a strong and vibrant network of more than nine thousand alumni who play vital roles throughout the world. The Office of Alumni Relations is dedicated to continuing the tradition of creating opportunities for alumni to exchange insights, network, extend their education long after graduation, and support the greater works that lie ahead for Goizueta. We have some exciting programs and opportunities for involvement, so I encourage alumni to keep in touch and stay active. Sincerely, Maria Radulovic Senior Associate Director Alumni Relations Goizueta runs, swims, bikes 
Goizueta fielded a team of eighteen students, faculty, friends, and family members in the April 30 St. Anthony's Triathalon 2000 in St. Petersburg, Florida, a benefit for Bayfront-St. Anthony's Health Care."Nobody won, but there was great rivalry among the group. I was chasing one of the alums the whole race and finished about two minutes behind him," says Travis Dommert '00MBA, organizer of the event. "There was an alumni group that organized, and the students organized a weekly workout at Stone Mountain. The race is for a good cause," he says. The international distance triathalon, consisting of a 1.5K swim, 40K bicycle ride, and 10K run, took members of the group anywhere from two and a half hours to about four hours to finish. The fourteen-week training period included workouts five days a week, progressing from about thirty minutes in the beginning to several hours toward the end. Dommert, now employed at e-procurement firm iCG Commerce, says the triathalon torch has been passed to Scott Cohen '01MBA. Though Cohen is off for a semester abroad in Australia, he'll organize the race from down under and be back stateside in time to train for the 2001 race. "People generally train on their own during the fall and winter, then start thinking about preparing for the triathalon after the New Year," Cohen says. Interested in participating in the next race? Contact Cohen at scott_cohen@bus.emory.edu. Down in Guatemala 
Molly Hood '98BBA rarely passes a dull moment in her position as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tejutla, San Marcos, Guatemala. Working with a population that is 95 percent indigenous, Hood devoted much of her year and a half spent in Central America to the Fruitgrowers Association of Comitancillo, teaching agricultural marketing."The municipality where I do the majority of my work has forty-seven communities with a population of approximately fifty thousand," Hood writes. "The literacy rate is about 40 percent. Many of the Mayan traditions are still practiced-a diet consisting of corn tortillas and greens, medicinal plants used to cure the sick, and a chuj or small adobe hut, used for sweat bathing." "Some days I work with women's weaving groups and others I assist in pig castrations. You never know what a new day will have in store." Kupueva in Kyrgyzstan 
Aselia Kupueva '99MBA works as economist in the office of the president of Kyrgyzstan, a small central Asian country west of China that became part of the Russian Empire in 1864. Many Russians have been returning home since Kyrgyzstan gained its independence in 1991 when the U.S.S.R. collapsed. Privatization, expansion of political freedoms, and interethnic relations are hot topics in Kyrgyzstan."Despite the fact that our financial sector is in the premature stages of development, I enjoy working in my position because I am part of the great economic transformation from planned to market economy," Kupueva says. In addition to teaching her about world economies and showing her how technological developments can influence people and businesses, Kupueva says, "the Goizueta experience gave me the feeling of confidence in my own powers. It gave me hope for the better future of Kyrgyzstan." Carol Carter 
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