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The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, together with the James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship in the Purdue School of Education, have teamed up to present The Purdue Series on Corporate Citizenship and Ethics. 

The series includes three speakers chosen from a variety of disciplines to investigate the various aspects of business ethics and the role citizens play in corporate ethics. Dick Thornburgh, former U.S. Attorney General, was the first speaker, on April 14. Howard Putnam, co-founder and chairman of Aircraft Interior Resources (AIR), and also former CEO of Southwest Airlines, follows on October 3, and Marci Rossell, former chief economist of CNBC, will appear in April 2004. All events are free and open to the public.

Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger spoke at last fall's Second Annual Krannert Leadership Speakers series, which was held at the Westin in downtown Indianapolis. Around 550 people attended the event, including more than 200 students. The event raised $10,000 in scholarship funds for graduate and undergraduate students. The next event will be held October 2, in conjunction with the dedication of Rawls Hall and the meetings of the Krannert School Alumni Association and the Dean's Advisory Council. Tim Russert, moderator of Meet the Press, is the featured speaker. 
 

Burton Morgan passes away    

Long-time Krannert friend and entrepreneur Burton D. Morgan passed away in March at the age of 86

Morgan received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue and was a successful entrepreneur with a number of companies, most notably Morgan Adhesives, now known as MACtac. He leaves behind a legacy of entrepreneurship at Krannert and Purdue through his sixteen-year-long support of the Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition, a case competition for business entrepreneurs held each spring semester at Krannert. Most recently, Morgan gave a generous gift to establish the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, located in Purdue's Discovery Park, an interdisciplinary center for research and other initiatives. The center now houses the entrepreneurial competition, among many other initiatives. Krannert Dean and Leeds Professor of Management Rick Cosier serves as director for the center, for which building construction is currently under way.

Known for his dry sense of humor, Morgan once said, "I was thirty-five when I got the remarkable idea of starting at the top. I knew that it takes brains, talent, devotion to duty, education, and charm to start at the bottom or the middle and work your way up. I also knew that while I had a fair enough share of these qualities, it wasn't enough to get me as far as I wanted to go. Not if I worked for someone else. Starting at the top, on the other hand, takes nothing but ignorance and lack of working capital, and I had more than enough of both to float any enterprise I could think of."

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At its partners' meeting last September, the Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises (DCMME) and its various partners discussed the center's latest initiatives and industry trends. The day-long event included a roundtable discussion titled Development, Challenges, and Expectations, with panelists John Matly from Delphi Automotive, Tom McDuffee from Saint-Gobain Containers, Prof. Cynthia Emrich, organizational behavior and human resources, and Cassandra Fetzer, MBA '03.