![]() ![]() Men’s Olympic Basketball team 10 years as an NBA player, including an NBA championship in 1984 and time as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks. Since 2016, he also has been a member of the IU Board of Trustees.Ī 1976 business school graduate, Buckner is renowned for his basketball career that includes an NCAA championship and time as a member of the last undefeated men’s collegiate basketball team time as captain of the 1976 gold medal–winning U.S. He has been an analyst for numerous media outlets such as NBC, CBS and ESPN. MarleyĪs vice president of communications for Pacers Sports and Entertainment, Quinn Buckner serves in community outreach as a longtime professional basketball television analyst and as the leader of the Pacers Youth Basketball program and the company’s initiative to support youth basketball in Indiana. Brown Leadership Summit, created through his generosity. Kelley MBA students today participate annually in the Eddie C. Brown also holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from New York University.Ī member of Kelley’s Academy of Alumni Fellows, Brown was a regular panelist for a quarter century on the national PBS financial television program “ Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser,” which was popular during the 1980s and 1990s. ![]() While at IBM, he became increasingly fascinated by finance and investing and came to Kelley through the company’s management development program. Afterward, he designed computer circuits for IBM for five years. With an electrical engineering degree from Howard University, Brown worked at defense contractor Martin Marietta before serving for two years as a Signal Corps officer in the U.S. He is the firm’s founder, chairman, CEO and senior portfolio manager. for a decade and briefly before then at Irwin Management Group. Brown, a 1970 Kelley MBA graduate, started Brown Capital Management in Baltimore, Maryland in 1983, after serving as vice president and portfolio manager at T. Those being honored, in alphabetical order, are:Įddie C. He also is the author of the 2009 book, “Start Where You Are,” and the forthcoming book, “Permission to Dream.” The theme for MBA Diversity Week will be “Unity in Diversity.” Highlights will include an alumni panel, “Becoming a Person of Influence,” and a panel event featuring several successful businesswomen, “Uplifting the Women Around You.” Chris Gardner, entrepreneur and author of the autobiographical book, “ The Pursuit of HappYness,” which was adapted into a 2006 movie starring Will Smith, will speak to Kelley Full-Time MBA students on April 16. ![]() Kesner said future sets of banners will include women and alumni from other diverse backgrounds. ![]() “Since then, more than 900 Consortium students – men and women representing all underrepresented populations - have graduated from our MBA program, and many have given back to the program with their experience, leadership, and financial gifts,” said Kesner, who added that others being honored on banners are notable because they were “first” in some way or served the university on a larger level. “One long-lasting impact was our decision in the 1960s to become a founding member of The Consortium, a group of universities and corporations that came together to encourage and support Black students - at the time, only men - to pursue an MBA so that we would have more diverse leadership in our nation’s companies. “We wanted to do something visible that honored our history of diversity and the legacies of some of our notable alumni,” said Idalene “Idie” Kesner, dean of the Kelley School and the Frank P. Those being honored, or in some cases a family representative, will be invited to speak. Students, faculty and staff and guests are invited to attend a ceremony via Zoom to dedicate the banners featuring successful alumni of color, including several fellows of the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Management, which Kelley helped to create. – The Indiana University Kelley School of Business and its Full-Time MBA Program are kicking off Diversity Month with the dedication on April 9 of a new series of banners recognizing an accomplished group of alumni who have been part of the school’s history and efforts to be inclusive. ![]()
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