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What ever happened to my favorite professor?

John “Jack” Andrews ’53BBA went from teaching at Goizueta to CEO.

Almost ten years ago, John “Jack” Andrews ’53BBA got a chance to put years of theory into practice. After teaching finance at Goizueta for three decades, he retired in May 1996. In September, he was asked to become CEO of an Atlanta-based manufacturing company.

Andrews had been associated with Dixie Seal and Stamp Co., well-known manufacturer of rubber stamps, notary seals, and promotional items, since 1973 and had even designed a pension plan for it. To steer the organization, however, would be quite a challenge.

Still, performing the new role seemed to come easily to Andrews. “I learned early in life to delegate,” he explains, “and we have a good workforce.”

Another reason for Andrews’ success may be his affinity for challenges. His first career was a seven-year stint as a fighter pilot after graduating in Emory’s first ROTC class.

Over the years, Andrews has seen Emory and Goizueta make changes as adventurous as his career switches. The business school was quite small, he remembers, when he began teaching there, and the field of finance was in its adolescence. Both grew during the decades that followed. Andrews says that Goizueta has become an institution of national and international importance, and finance has “matured
. . . particularly in the area of valuation.”

His students have advanced, too. “I’m always pleased to run into former students and see how well they’re doing,” he says.

Because he still lives in Atlanta, he sometimes uses the Goizueta library or meets former staff members for lunch. But he can rarely linger . . . Andrews has a company to run.

Christian Kirkpatrick


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