Fairfield University Dolan School of Business


Dolan School of Business
Motto Per Fidem ad Plenam Veritatem -- Through Faith to the Fullness of Truth
Established 1947
Type Private, Jesuit
Dean Donald E. Gibson
Location Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Campus Suburban 200 acres (809,000 m²)
Website DSB Website
Dolan School of Business

The Charles F. Dolan School of Business is a graduate and undergraduate business school and one of the professional schools of Fairfield University located in Fairfield, Connecticut. The school offers fully accredited graduate and undergraduate programs, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and is ranked among "Small Colleges and Universities Strong in Business" according to the Fiske Guide to Colleges. The Accounting Program is ranked one of the best in the United States according to LinkedIn[1] and Princeton Review's "Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools"[2]

The school places its students into internship programs in New York City and surrounding Fairfield County, Connecticut. The school is named after Charles F. Dolan H'04, founder of HBO, Chairman of Cablevision and Fairfield University trustee, in recognition of his $25 million donation in 2000.[3] The Dolan School of Business is committed to the Jesuit tradition of educating the "whole" person to be a socially responsible professional, who is prepared to serve others.[4]

History

Academic programs

Undergraduate programs

Graduate programs

Academic distinctions

Academic achievement

McGowan Scholars

Rankings and ratings

Experiential Learning

Approach to Dolan School of Business

BEST Classroom

The Business Education Simulation & Trading (BEST) classroom provides Dolan School of Business undergraduate and graduate business students the opportunity of working on a financial markets trading floor. The 2,300-square-foot (210 m2) high-tech BEST classroom provides students with the experience of dealing with real-world financial market trading situations ranging from case studies and contact with other companies to discussion of economic and business events.

The BEST classroom is equipped with a stock ticker and a data wall displaying real time quotes and 34 workstations loaded with financial software including: RITC (Rotman Interactive Trader) for market trading simulations; Bloomberg Professional with business and economic news and data; Research Insight including Compustat and Global Vantage containing financial information on every publicly trading company in the world; and CRSP with stock returns for all U.S. companies.[14]

Business Plan Competition

The Business Plan Competition provides Fairfield undergraduate students the opportunity to work in groups from across campus to develop and submit a proposal for a business venture, which are judged by a panel of entrepreneurs and business executives in the spring of each year. After submitting their proposals, each team of students is assigned a faculty advisor and an outside entrepreneur who advise and mentor the team through the process. The winners of the competition receive prize money totaling $20,000 which is divided among the winners.[15]

Fairfield Investment Group

The Fairfield Investment Group, a Fairfield University club, provides a learning opportunity in the world of finance. The Group received an investment of $100,000 from an anonymous private investor in 2010. With about 25 students researching stocks and making investment decision, the group is an opportunity for them to strengthen trading and analysis skills, prepare for future jobs, and connect with students and alumni.

The club is run by students — most from the Dolan School of Business — and has a management team that includes a chief executive officer, a position held by a senior finance major. The student club assigns members to research companies using Bloomberg terminals, which provide business and economic news and data. Students then work in teams deciding which stocks to invest in or divest from. They submit reports and recommendations to fellow student members serving as portfolio managers and executive leaders, who vote on whether they should buy, sell, or hold.[16]

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program provides Dolan School of Business undergraduate and graduate accounting students hands-on experience by working for the Bridgeport Campaign of the Internal Revenue Service's National Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Students assist clients in obtaining federal and state income tax benefits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC), tax benefits many working families don't claim.[17]

Community engagment

Fairfield University Accelerator & Mentoring Enterprise

Fairfield University Accelerator and Mentoring Enterprise (FAME) is a business incubator for entrepreneurs of all ages fostering both state and local economic growth by offering up and coming innovators all the necessary tools and support they need; from guidance to funding to prime downtown office space, allowing each an opportunity to turn their ideas into realities. FAME was created as a collaboration with Fairfield University, The Town of Fairfield Economic Development Department, and Kleban Properties. FAME gives entrepreneurs access to a program designed to assist them in achieving their goal of viable business entity. With access to new technology, technical resources, business basics, and business tools, ideas are molded into a cohesive model that can go to market or be presented to potential investors, partners, or financial institutions.

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Center for Microfinance

The Center for Microfinance works to help develop self-sustaining business operations in developing countries. In keeping with the Jesuit mission of Fairfield University, Dr. Winston Tellis and Dr. Michael Tucker co-founded the Center in 2001 where they have helped develop self-sustaining businesses in poor rural areas of Haiti and Nicaragua. The Center was honored for its work for Haiti's poor by FONKOZE USA (F/USA) which supports Fonkoze (Fondasyon Kole Zepol), Haiti's only alternative bank for the poor. F/USA is one of only five non-profit organizations approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to solicit U.S. investments for foreign organizations.[18]

Universidad Centroamericana Partnership

CMAC is participating in a signed partnership between Fairfield University and the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), in Managua, Nicaragua. UCA sponsors the largest microfinance institution in Nicaragua, Fondo de Desarrollo Local (FDL). Through that organization Dolan School of Business students spent part of the 2005 winter break working at the FDL's León branch office.[19]

Charles F. Dolan Lecture Series

The Charles F. Dolan Lecture Series features guest speakers who include:

People

Endowed faculty

Notable alumni

Dolan graduates with an Accounting degree include:

Dolan graduates with a Finance degree include:

Dolan graduates with an International business degree include:

Dolan graduates with a Marketing degree include:

Dolan graduates with a Management degree include:

Father John Conlisk Irish Scholarship

The Father John Conlisk Irish Scholarship, instituted in 1990, awards free tuition, room and board, and medical insurance every year to a Dolan School of Business MBA or MS in Finance candidate from the Republic of Ireland. The scholarship is dedicated to perpetuating the Irish culture and strengthening educational and cultural relationships. Kevin Conlisk '66, one of the principal owners of the Alinabal Co. of Milford, Connecticut, is part of a group that instituted the scholarship named for Conlisk's late brother, a 1954 Fairfield Prep graduate who served the Diocese of Bridgeport.

Honor Societies

Beta Gamma Sigma

Beta Gamma Sigma or ΒΓΣ is an honor society for business students and scholars. Membership is the highest national recognition a student in business can receive at a school accredited by AACSB. The mission of ΒΓΣ is to encourage and honor academic achievement and personal excellence in the study and practice of business. Invitations to join Fairfield University's chapter are extended to undergraduate juniors and seniors, graduating master's students, and faculty on the basis of academic excellence and integrity.

Beta Alpha Psi

Beta Alpha Psi or BAΨ is an honorary organization for accounting, finance and information systems students and professionals. The National Honorary and Professional Fraternity for Financial Information Professionals, is an honorary and professional fraternity with chapters at eligible universities accredited by AACSB-International. The fraternity recognizes academic excellence as well as active participation in professional activities. In addition, Beta Alpha Psi fosters lifelong learning, service, and ethical conduct. The national fraternity was founded in 1919. Fairfield's chapter, Iota Psi, was chartered on April 9, 2000. Invitations to join Iota Psi are extended to undergraduate and graduate accounting majors and minors.

Affiliations

JesuitMBA School

The Dolan School of Business is a JesuitMBA member school. Formed in 1996, JesuitMBA is a consortium of 28 Jesuit and Jesuit-friendly schools promoting the many benefits of a Jesuit business education. As a JesuitMBA school students are offered the collective resources of these schools including opportunities for portability of credits, international travel options, Beijing study exchange, powerful alumni connections, career support, and curricula steeped in business ethics and social responsibility.[52]

National School of Banking

Fairfield University is home to the America's Community Bankers National School of Banking ("NSB"). Founded in 1960, NSB is a graduate level program designed to provide a study of today’s community banking industry and to prepare department or division managers for senior management positions.[53] Dr. Philip J. Lane, Associate Professor of Economics at Fairfield University, is the NSB Academic Director.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Best schools for accounting professionals
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Princeton Review's "Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools"
  3. ↑ , "Fairfield University's business school a valuable resource," Fairfield County Business Journal, January 2003.
  4. ↑ Charles F. Dolan School of Business Mission Statement
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 , About the Dolan School of Business
  6. ↑ http://www.fairfield.edu/x8596.html
  7. ↑ Fairfield University :: Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan School of Business launches Dolan Advisory Council with top business leaders
  8. ↑ Fairfield University :: Fairfield University's Dolan School of Business to offer new Master of Science degree in Accounting
  9. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School student takes top honors in global currency trading competition
  10. ↑ Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business students place third in national competition to market Chevy’s fuel-efficient cars to Generation Y
  11. ↑ Fairfield University business students decisively win global currency trading competition involving 16 schools from three nations
  12. ↑ Fairfield University :: Fairfield University Finance department ranks in top 20 percent of 923 institutions nationwide for amount of published research
  13. ↑ http://www.fairfield.edu/x18802.html
  14. ↑ Fairfield University Dolan School of Business: BEST classroom
  15. ↑ Fairfield Business Plan Competition, accessed November 4, 2011.
  16. ↑ With $100,000 in real money from a private investor, the Fairfield Investment Group is helping Fairfield University students learn about finance firsthand
  17. ↑ Fairfield University Dolan School of Business students help community
  18. ↑ http://www.fairfield.edu/x6860.html
  19. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School of Business :: Center for Microfinance Advice and Consulting (CMAC)
  20. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School of Business :: Jack Welch
  21. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School of Business :: C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T
  22. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School of Business :: Alan C. Greenberg
  23. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School of Business :: Karen Katen, Pfizer
  24. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School of Business :: Anne Mulcahy, Xerox
  25. ↑ Fairfield University :: Dolan School of Business :: Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric
  26. ↑ Renowned equity money manager Peter Lynch to deliver Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan Lecture
  27. ↑ Abby Joseph Cohen, one of Wall Street’s most influential investment strategists, to deliver the annual Charles F. Dolan Lecture at Fairfield University
  28. ↑ Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan School of Business present Sanford I. Weill and daughter Jessica M. Bibliowicz in talk about leadership, markets and globalization
  29. ↑ Charles F. Dolan Lecture Series at Fairfield University to feature a conversation with Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., renowned for his insights, accessed April 12, 2012.
  30. ↑ Home Depot Co-founder Kenneth Langone Gives Dolan Lecture
  31. ↑ Fairfield University :: Fairfield University's Dolan School of Business to install Arjun Chaudhuri as first person to hold the new Rev. Thomas R. Fitzgerald, S.J., Chair in Marketing
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Fairfield University :: Fairfield University's Dolan School of Business appoints two professors to endowed chairs
  33. ↑ Fairfield University :: NBC Universal CEO Bob Wright to speak at installation of first Robert C. Wright Chair in Business Law, Ethics and Dispute Resolution at Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan School of Business
  34. ↑ Fairfield University :: Gerald M. Levin Chair in Finance announced at Fairfield's Charles F. Dolan School of Business
  35. ↑ Board of Trustees gains six new members, Fairfield Mirror, October 10, 2001.
  36. ↑ Fairfield University Dolan School of Business: Christopher Cardell
  37. ↑ AICPA: Susan Coffey Bio
  38. ↑ Fairfield University Dolan School of Business: Gavin O'Connor
  39. ↑ UBS: Robert Stefanowski
  40. ↑ Hologic Executive Officers: Robert Cascella
  41. ↑ John Flannery Named President and CEO Of GE India
  42. ↑ Cantor.com - Shawn Matthews
  43. ↑ Craton Equity Partners: Robert W. MacDonald
  44. ↑ Greenhill SAVP: John Mullin
  45. ↑ Knight Capital: Christopher Quick
  46. ↑ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-Palm Beach Event Chair: Thomas C. Quick
  47. ↑ Madison Avenue Sports & Entertainment: Ed Horne
  48. ↑ BusinessWeek Executive Profile: Peter J. McDonald, accessed August 25, 2011.
  49. ↑ American Combat Association: Granimal
  50. ↑ NNDB: Frank J. Fanzilli Jr.
  51. ↑ BusinessWeek Best Global Brands: Jim Garrity
  52. ↑ JesuitMBA
  53. ↑ National School of Banking Mission

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