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August, 2005

 
Kaplan University Launches New Online Master Degrees in Criminal Justice and Business Administration
PRNewswire
, August  23, 2005
 

Kaplan University announced today the introduction of two new graduate programs, a Master of Science in Criminal Justice (MSCJ) degree and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree.

"Kaplan's new MBA program challenges working business professionals to examine themselves in relation to theories and practices in today's business world," said Dr. James M. Dorris, Dean of Kaplan University Graduate School of Business. "It helps them develop personal action plans to assume leadership roles in the business world."

Distinguished scholars for the MBA program include Claire McCaskill, Auditor for the state of Missouri, an expert on leadership and financial auditing, and Dr. Patricia Werhane, Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics at DePaul University. Dr. Werhane also serves as the Peter and Adeline Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

(Also appeared on WGCL-TV CBS 46 Atlanta, WVLT-TV CBS 8 Knoxville, KTRE [TX], KPTV-TV UPN 12 Beaverton [OR], WHNT-TV News 19 Huntsville [AL], Ohio News Network, KHNL-TV NBC 8 [HI], WIVB-TV [Buffalo], and in Black Enterprise Magazine, My Way Finance, iWon Money, VantageLink, and Chief Learning Officer.

   
Conflict of interest quandary
San Francisco Chronicle
, August  17, 2005
By David Lazarus
  Gary Forsee, chief exec of newly merged phone giant Sprint Nextel, rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, announcing the arrival of a company with more than 44 million cell phone subscribers and about 80,000 employees. Sitting on the company's board as an independent director is William Kennard, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. At the same time, Kennard sits on the board of Hawaiian Telcom, Hawaii's largest telecom provider. Like Sprint Nextel, Hawaiian Telcom offers long- distance phone service, making the two companies direct competitors.

A Carlyle spokesman, Chris Ullman, said that because Hawaiian Telcom leases its wireless infrastructure from Sprint Nextel, the two companies aren't actually rivals, even though they both offer mobile phone and long- distance services. 

"From a legal point of view, that may be right," responded Ed Hartman, director of the Prudential Business Ethics Center at Rutgers University. "But if I was a stockholder in Sprint Nextel, I'd be wondering if all members of the board are looking out for my interests."

   
   

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