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Compiled by Lauri Johnson.
NORTHERN TRUST NAMED
AMONG 100 BEST
CORPORATE CITIZENS
Investment firm Northern Trust has been named one of the “100 Best Corporate Citizens” in the Spring 2005 issue of Business Ethics magazine. The sixth annual survey of Russell 1000 firms aims to identify companies that excel at serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity. The survey is based on a database maintained by Boston-based KLD Research & Analytics. Companies are noted for “strengths” and “concerns” in eight categories: total return to shareholders, community, minorities
and women, employees, environment, human rights,
customers and governance. Each company receives a
single score based on an unweighted average of all eight stakeholder measures.
FUNG NAMED AMONG TOP PUBLISHED FINANCE SCHOLARS
 HUNG-GAY FUNG
professor of Chinese Studies,
University of Missouri-St. Louis |
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Hung-gay Fung, the Dr. Y.S. Tsiang Endowed Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is ranked No. 81 among the most published finance scholars of the past 50 years, according to an article published in the Winter 2005 issue of the Journal of Finance Literature. Fung is the U.S. editor of China and World Economy and also serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.
For “Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature:
A Half Century of Contributions,” authors Philip L. Cooley and Jean L. Heck examined 17,573 national and international finance scholars who published in 72 peer-reviewed scholarly journals from 1953 through 2002. They then ranked the finance
scholars according to their publishing productivity
during that time.
FOUNDRY ART CENTRE
FEATURED IN AAA
MIDWEST TRAVELER
The Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles has been selected as a “Travel Treasure” in the March/April issue of AAA Midwest Traveler.
“We’re pleased to add the Foundry Art Centre to the growing list of ‘treasures’ in our region,” notes Michael Right, editor and publisher of AAA Midwest Traveler. “Our members recognize the Midwest has endless travel and recreational opportunities. We like to encourage more exploration of local sites and attractions.”
The Foundry Art Centre is a fine arts gallery overlooking the Missouri River at 520 N. Main Center in St. Charles. The center features a “Smithsonian-caliber” art gallery that hosts juried exhibitions and 20 working artist studios. Visitors can watch the creative process and buy art directly from the artists. For more
information, call (636) 255-0270 or visit www.foundryartcentre.org.
TWO MISSOURI LAWYERS
NAMED AMONG WORLD’S BEST FOR REAL ESTATE
ROBERT O. HETLAGE
partner,
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin |
CRAIG S. BIESTERFELD
partner,
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin |
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Robert O. Hetlage and Craig S. Biesterfeld, both partners at Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, have been recognized in the 2004 Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers, an international guide to pre-eminent practitioners in real estate law published by Euromoney Legal Media Group.
The 2004 issue marks the 10th time that Hetlage has been included and the first time that Biesterfeld has been honored. They are the only two attorneys from Missouri to be included in the publication, which lists individuals from 24 countries who were selected by clients and peers.
The publisher’s research department
conducted a year-long study of experts in the field of real estate law to determine who should be included in the guide.
CEJKA SEARCH’S DISTER FEATURED
IN HEALTHLEADERS MAGAZINE
The cover story of the March 2005 issue of HealthLeaders magazine—“Do MDs or MBAs Make Better Leaders?”—features comments by Lois Dister, a vice president at executive search firm Cejka Search. Writer Bonar Menninger interviewed Dister for her expertise regarding the pros and cons of having medical doctors, with and without MBAs, in executive leadership roles at hospitals and other health
care organizations.
According to the article, Dister says that there is one school of thought that says that organizations are better off hiring a physician who also has an MBA if everything else is equal. She also points out that a physician leading an organization will have a better chance of success if he “surrounds himself with the right people who have the right mix of experience—clinical, administrative, finance.”
Earning an MBA can have several advantages for a physician who wants to take on an executive role.
“What clients have said is that they’re interested in someone with an extra degree, because it shows that the individual is really committed to the executive path and not just sick of clinical work and looking around for something new,” Dister says.
She also notes that physicians often face a stereotype of being arrogant and difficult to work with, which is an unfair presumption. Most
physicians aren’t arrogant at all, says Dister, but are simply “focused,
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