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Miller Urban Entrepreneurs Series Apprentice’s Pinkett Speaks at Miller Urban Entrepreneurs Series Randall Pinkett Sun’s Project Blackbox Stops at UWM The Center for Technology Innovation at UWM’s Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business hosted Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox in front of Lubar Hall in March. A complete datacenter in a standard, 20-foot shipping container, Project Blackbox packages computing, storage, and network infrastructure, along with high-effi ciency power and cooling, into modular units based on standard shipping containers. The system is optimized for rapid deployment and extreme energy, space, and performance effi ciency. The Project Blackbox datacenter can support 10,000 simultaneous workstations. The mobile facility was open for tours to the campus and business communities during its UWM visit — the only Wisconsin stop on its national tour. 14 OUTLOOK Dr. Randall Pinkett, the winner of Season 4 of NBC’s The Apprentice, spoke to a capacity crowd at the Miller Urban Entrepreneurs Series at Lubar Hall in November. Pinkett is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of BCT Partners, a multimillion dollar management, technology, and policy consulting fi rm based in Newark, New Jersey. The series is sponsored by Miller Brewing Company and is held nationwide in six major cities. The Milwaukee program was co-hosted by the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business and The Milwaukee Urban League. It featured a full day of workshops on formulating a business plan, with the goal of providing current and future entrepreneurs with insights into starting and maintaining a successful business. Pinkett told the audience that success comes by creating business enterprises — not small businesses. “Enterprises stand the test of time,” he said. “They don’t need to be large, but they need to perpetuate a mission and a vision for the future.” Critical to the successful business enter - prise, he said: formalizing your company’s response to change, committing to technology as fundamental to the fi rm’s success, and taking advantage of formal and semi-formal strategic partnerships with other businesses. The 2007 Miller Urban Entrepreneurs Series is being planned for October.
Beta Gamma Sigma Rockwell’s Nosbusch Addresses Honors Students “ When I graduated from college, IBM was a lifetime employer and Allen-Bradley was a private company,” noted Keith D. Nosbsuch in an address to business honors students. Nosbusch is the Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer of Rockwell Automation and a 1978 graduate of the Lubar School’s MBA program. The lesson to be learned from that simple statement, according to Nosbusch? Where things are today is likely not where they will be down the road. And as future business leaders, he advised students, they need to be prepared. Nosbusch was the keynote speaker and Beta Gamma Sigma honoree at the November induction ceremony of the national business honor society. He addressed an audience of about 120 people, including inductees, their family members and friends, and Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business faculty and staff. “The prerequisite for success in business is all about leadership,” Nosbusch told students. In this constantly changing world, leaders must be able to thrive in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty, he said. “Most PhD CLASS Lucy A. Arendt MASTERS CLASS Danelle M. Bohringer Mariam E. Cass William D. Donegan Michelle E. Gilbert problems are complex, and a leader needs to not only understand that, but to apply some structure to the situation,” he said. Leadership also requires the ability to look at the world realistically and to have the courage to make the right decisions and the tough decisions. Last, Nosbusch said, great leaders want to shape the future. “You can’t be comfortable with the status quo,” he stated. “You have to be willing to drive change, to view it as an opportunity.” Rockwell Automation is a global leader in industrial automation power, control, and information solutions with its world head - quarters in Milwaukee. One of Wisconsin’s largest companies, Rockwell employs about 21,000 people worldwide, serves customers in more than 80 countries, and boasts annual sales in excess of $5 billion. Keith Nosbusch’s career began in 1974 when he joined the Allen-Bradley Company as an application engineer. He rose steadily at Allen-Bradley and later at Rockwell, where he quickly entered the executive ranks. Prior to becoming the company’s Chairman and CEO, Nosbusch served in a number of positions, including as the president of Rockwell Automation Keith D. Nosbusch Thirty-four students were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma at the November ceremony: Lauren M. Mader Kelly E. Pamperin Shuchita Singal Jody Trehus-Krainer Kari L. Vanderhoef Ralph R. Williams Jeremy A. Yardley SENIOR CLASS Stephanie M. Backes Jon E. Ferch II Meghan L. Hipsak Ling Hu Abby M. Karnthaler Matthew S. Kult Kurt F. Servais Control Systems, and senior vice president of the Control and Information Group. In addition to signifi cant civic and com munity involvement, he is an active member of the Lubar School’s Business Advisory Council and a co-chair of the university’s comprehensive capital campaign. JUNIOR CLASS Erik L. Beardsley Mark J. Boettcher Elizabeth R. Ehlers Sara A. Flom Jordan J. Gindt Heather L. Howland Rachel L. Hustad Harpreet Kaur Laura M. Manoni Lindsey M. Ostrowski John M. Pryor Nicole S. Rosen Emily A. Scherkenbach Pa Vang John C. Wegner SPRING 2007 15
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