Message was Francis P. Weigel of Pelham Manor, NY, and William F. Weigel New York on the engagement of her daughter Madeleine Weigel Thomas Hibbard Ludlow, the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Norman Jr. Ludlow Rochester. A wedding is planned for January.

Weigel is Miss Morgan Stanley & Company Inc., the investment banking concern. She is a graduate of the Emma Willard School, University of Virginia and the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. His father, a former mayor of Pelham, Senior Partner in New York law firm Hoge & Hills.

Mr. Ludlow is a marketing director for Home Box Office, suppliers of pay TV. He is a graduate of Allegheny College, Syracuse University Graduate School of Journalism and the Columbia Business School.

His father retired executivesecretary Rochester Monroe County Young Men’s Christian Association. It operates a publishing concern bears his name, the publications of non-profit organizations. His mother is the assistant dean of the University College of the University of Rochester.

Warrick Cynthia, the daughter of Mrs. Paul Vestal of Greensboro, NC, and the end of Warrick Bascom Lewis Dothan, Ala., was married yesterday in Greenwich, Conn., John Burr Conrad, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Burr Konrad von East Aurora, NY Rev. Richard F. Van Wely led the ceremony at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. The couple lives in Greenwich.

The bride is her maiden name, is a vice-chairman of the national division producers Hanover Trust Company in New York. He was graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Vanderbilt University. She studied at Aix-en-Provence, France, during their junior years and earned a masters degree at New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. His father was with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

Mr. Konrad, assistant treasurer of the Continental Group Inc. Stamford, Conn., holds a doctorate from Princeton University and a Master of the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. His father is an Assistant Vice President for facilities at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Valerie Ann Sarantos, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard SR Sarantos of the City, NJ, yesterday, he was married to James Hopkins Seth Cruice Jr., son of Mr. and Ms. Cruice of Greenville, Del.. and Hobe Sound, Fla. The Rev. Albert Jr. Mr. Niese, the ceremony of the Episcopal Church of St. John on the mountain ..

The bride, a graduate of the Gill-St.

Bernard’s School, was graduated cum laude at Wheaton College and a Master’s Degree in music, last month, the University of Virginia. She visited Williams College in his junior year. His father, a retired orthodontists, Vice President and director of investment services for the professions of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields in Morristown, NJ

Mr. Cruice, a Masters in the last months of Virginia’s Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, is a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. It is expected that General Foods in White Plains as product manager qu’assistante the end of next month. His father is a sales director of the division of textile fibres EI Du Pont de Nemours & Company in Wilmington, Del..

The husband died of a small-son of Dr. Charles A. Stine, was a Senior Vice President and Director at Du Pont, where he guided the program of basic research, led to the discovery of nylon.

Eugenia Sarantos his sister was lady of honour. Charles S. Cruice served as best man for his brother.

Barbara apple, a marketing manager at American Express Travel Related Services Company, New York, and William R. Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Shearson Lehman / American Express in New York, 24 November plan married.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Ms. Irving Apple of Minneapolis, who have pledged their commitment to a son of Donna Sullivan of Alexandria, Va., and the late Col. William G. Sullivan, USA

Miss Apple graduated cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

His father is managing partner of Apple and Apple, an accountant in Minneapolis. His mother is president of Marion Apple & Associates, manufacturer representatives in the articles of gift.

The spouses earned B.S. and MBA degree from the University of Virginia, where he is a member of the board of the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He served as first lieutenant of cavalry of the air in Vietnam.

”The lack of political objectives,’’said Robert C. angel of the University of South Carolina,”has contributed, Japan terminal of the USA to achieve maximum benefits for Japan.”JAPANESE money in Academe

Up to 80 percent of studies in the USA-Japan-U.S. relations with universities and research institutes are funded at least in part, by Japanese society, foundations and government leaders.

The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, has a chair Nakasone, funded by the Japan Foundation.

James E. Auer, the Pentagon, a leading expert in Japan for most of this decade, and now director of the Center for USA-Japan-Studies and Cooperation in Vanderbilt University, is working on a study of defence transfer of technology between the two nations, funded by the Japanese.

Daiwa Securities $ 1 million grant to the Committee on Economic Development, a policy analysis group, for studies in education.

Is this the work of American scholar influenced by the source of their funding? It is important that the frequency increasing as Japan began, some spread the wealth of its trade surpluses in all the sciences.

John W. Rosenblum, a Japan specialist and dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration from the University of Virginia, said:”I would think, and I think I have reason to believe that my colleagues have integrity and ” one arm - Length perspective, even if some of their funding comes directly or indirectly, from Japanese sources.”

But it is a question”que all scientists are waiting, because himself the appearance of conflicts of interest would be disastrous for science and universities to support the bourse,’’said M . Rosenblum. Each Zeit”eine institution as defined on a mine other institution, whether a country or company, a significant part of financial assistance, it is reasonable to assume that, given this type of conflict of interests.”

Each”,”, he added,”would benefit from wider disclosure could strengthen relations with the conclusions.”Questions on Capitol Hill

In collaboration with a number of other American econmists, Gary R. Saxon House serves the Board of the Institute of Economic Research funded by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, but it is also a part-time economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and Head-Japan expert.

The position in Japan is not paid, and the board meets once every two years. Nevertheless, the link has received questions on Capitol Hill.

Eight members of the Assembly, headed by Helen Delich Bentley, Republican of Maryland, has recently requested an investigation into the White House. ”It is difficult to understand how each government of USA, an economist, so that important decisions on the future of this country, could participate as an adviser to a foreign government or foreign agency,”, she wrote. They said they were acting out”unsere deep concern about the USA lost the race for high-tech Japan.”

The White House dismissed the complaint based on a finding that Mr. Official Saxon House war””irrelevant accession, because of the rare meetings of Japanese board. Mr Saxon House is also a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.

The President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Michael J. Boskin, was in a position similar to board an institute funded by the Japanese Ministry of Finance. To avoid a possible conflict of interest, he joined before joining the Bush administration. But as a part-time employees of the borough council, Mr Saxon House is not the White House ethics rules, after a council spokesman, Steve field.

Realizing his 20 years as a student context of the Japanese economy, Mr Saxon House said that during his research, he developed associations with many Japanese scholars and government officials. ”It is precisely because these associations, my detailed knowledge about the Japanese economy, and my known and incomparable views on relations Japan-USA, that the Council of Economic advisers have sought to me as consultant with them,”he said

Colburn hard Constance, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Charles E. 3d Hart of Middlebury, Conn., was married yesterday 3d Walking Robert Shaw, the son of Mr. And Ms. Shaw Jr. Walking in Sewickley, Pa pastor J. Douglas Jr., Wigner At the ceremony of the Cathedral St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Woodbury, Conn.

Walking Ms. Shaw, product manager at Bristol-Myers Company in New York, was graduated from the school in West Lake in Los Angeles, Trinity College, Hartford and the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia . His father, a lawyer in the law firm Secor, Cassidy & McPartland in Waterbury, Connecticut, recently retired as a collaborator Associate Vice-President, General Counsel at Rockwell International in Los Angeles. The young grandfather, the late Charles E. Hart Jr. In Middlebury, was president of Chase Brass & Copper Company in Waterbury.

Walking M. Shaw was graduated from Sewickley Academy, Princeton University and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is a vice president of the investment division of Morgan Stanley in New York. His father was a pharmacist in Pittsburgh.

January 16, 2004 (BusinessWeek Online) - After two years a string of Corporate scandals, the term “business ethics” has become reliable fodder for late night talk-show hosts in search of laughs softly. However, the Business Roundtable (BRT), which aims to restore public confidence in Corporate America initiative with a $ 3 million for the training of future Presidents and ethics.

On 14 January, the BRT, an association of 150 CEOs of major American companies, he announced the creation of a new business-ethics center. The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is located at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

Proxy Wars
The GRT hopes to direct criticism of CEO excesses by drawing up an ethics-B-school curriculum that train execs and research. “From setting and maintaining the highest ethical standards starts at the beginning,” says BRT President Henry R. “Hank” McKinnell, who is also chairman and CEO of Pfizer (PFE). The new centre will help execs “a culture of innovative ethical business practices within our company,” said McKinnell.

The initiative is also fodder for the GRT of the campaign against the Securities & Exchange Commission’s proposal, shareholders new power to appoint the directors of the Corporate Boards. Business Guide fear the proposed regulation can be successful, expensive spalterischen proxy fighting and Special Interest-directors, the agenda of several shareholders. The GT has argued that opening the proxy candidate of shareholders is not required because the companies have already reacting strongly to investors concerned about the Corporate excesses.

The institute is run by the faculty of a cross section of top b-schools. It offers two courses for top managers this year, the first in June in Washington, DC

Three top business schools are joining forces to this fall, offering classes MBA from the other students via the Internet and video.

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On a warm spring day at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, dozens of M.B.A. students gather for coffee in the lobby of Saunders Hall, a cheerful room where countless recruiters have courted students over the…