Tuck MBEP Alumni Association

April/May 2008 Newsletter

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Alland Leandre Receives Black Engineer of the Year Award: Dedicated to Education and to Making A Difference

Columbia, MD, Feb. 25, 2008 -- Before an exuberant audience at the Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Awards Conference 2008 held Feb. 14-17, celebrating the most distinguished minorities in the science and technology fields ranging from the highest ranks of the military to their counterparts in industry, Alland Leandre stood as a giant in his own right as he was bestowed the Black Engineer of the Year Entrepreneur Award.

With only five years under his belt as the Chief Executive Officer of Vyalex Management Solutions, Inc., a small avionics engineering and management company headquartered in Howard County, Maryland, Leandre’s genius and hard work illustrates the combined power of business and technology. In fact, this coveted award has not been given every year in the 22 year history of the conference.

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Business Ethics Made Simple

By Mary Parker
ALL-n-1 Security Solutions
MBEP 2001

For an organization to conduct its business in a truly ethical manner, ethical behavior must be firmly instilled in the corporate culture.  Embedding anything new into an established business culture is a laborious and not always successful venture.  Employees in many types of enterprises are reluctant to embrace change, especially if they find the current modus operandi satisfactory or beneficial.  One way to instill ethics as a corporate value is to enforce codes of conduct.  The codes must apply to everyone in the organization, from the CEO down.  Nothing undermines efforts to instill ethics more than applying the rules to some employees only.  For employees to embrace change, they must see it as beneficial and equitable.  If a new value does not apply to everyone in the organization, it will ultimately apply to no one.

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Documenting Your Business Processes

By Meryl Natchez
TechProse
MBEP 2001

Entrepreneurs wear many hats. They put on one hat to bring in business, another to hire employees, and yet another when it’s time to teach new skills. All this activity keeps many business owners from documenting their company’s policies and procedures. This means they must sit down and explain the way their business works to every new person who joins the team. Training is an “on-the-job” experience, and is often minimal. When everything from the new hire manual to how to qualify a lead exists in their head, owners wind up working long hours. 

The absence of written processes perpetuates a level of chaos that makes it hard to get to the next level. Employees don’t benefit from what’s in the owner’s head; they need clear instructions, and can only reach their potential when they know what they need to do and how best to do it.

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Sintelsat's ICT Initiative Making Significant Progress in the African Markets

Manisha Singhal
TechProse
Tuck-MBDA Partnership Program May 2007

Stony Brook, New York, March 01, 2008- Sintel Satellite Services has been working tirelessly in the last decade to provide ICT infrastructure & satellite communication solutions in the African Continent and providing much needed connectivity from Africa to the rest of the world. Recently, Sintelsat’s Chair-woman, Manisha Prakash, (an Alumna from Tuck Business School) met with the ICT industry entrepreneurs and world leaders, who congratulated her for her leadership and entrepreneurial spirit in the emerging markets.

Sintelsat’s President/CEO, Mr. Sanjay Singhal, received the Prime Minister’s Delegation from Cameroon and discussed the ICT initiative and a country wide roll out of internet services in partnership with public-private initiative in the Country. The Cameroon delegation’s US visit was aimed to establish strong relationship with leading providers in the ICT industry and concluded with Sintelsat’s Satellite Teleport visit in Maryland. The meeting was another milestone to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries and achieve Sintelsat’s pursuit to provide infrastructure communication solutions in the African nations.

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Giving to TMAA

Ever heard of the Alumni Scholarship fund? This is the fund which we draw upon to give new, very promising participants partial scholarships to the program. This fund, however, is not self renewing. We depend upon you to make donations to it! Want to learn more? Would you like to know how we choose the recipients? Contact Karen Horn at 603-646-2831 or karen.horn@dartmouth.edu

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Tell Us about Your Honors and Awards

Many of our alumni have become very successful, and have received honors and awards. We'd like to hear about them for two reasons:

1) We want to rejoice in your success: When you do well, we feel good about the work we do.

2) When we apply for funding, we get asked whether our program graduates are successful. One measure of success is the honors and awards you receive, so we like to keep track of the accolades our graduate receive.

To report, any and all honors, please contact Karen Horn, and let us celebrate your accomplishments with you.

Announcements, Advertisements, and Other Short Notes

Congratulations to everyone who has broken a record this year! And to all of you who have made a difference in your community. To each of our new alumni, thank you for attending a program! Please take a moment to peruse these thank you's, congratulations, and other announcements.

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