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The Holmes Fellowship Program is funded by Jones, Day,
Reavis & Pogue. It offers an outstanding second year MBA student
or a participant in the joint MBA degree program to work on regional
economic policy issues at high levels within our community. The Holmes
Fellow works in a greater Cleveland economic development organization
assisting a senior level staff member or corporate executive committee
chair on a project of importance to the community. The student selected
receives a $500.00 award, a $3,000 stipend for the two-semester Fellowship
and a tuition scholarship to be allocated to two MBA courses, 3 credit
hours per semester.
Past Recipients
Peijun Gao – 2004 – 2005
Gao headed a group of international students and the local business
community in a roundtable forum to develop initiatives such as the International
Business consulting team and the English Corner – honing conversational
skills in English for international students. Through the REI Director
and staff, Gao helped channel the resources of international students
into the local workforce and leading local companies to utilize the
advantage into their business operations. The roundtable forum is Gao’s
legacy to new international students attending the Weatherhead MBA program
each year.
Katherine Readey – 2003 – 2004
Katherine interned at the Cleveland Municipal School District with the
Chief Information Officer around the issue of performance management
for teachers. The project was about getting teachers in the Cleveland
Municipal School District to resist the temptation to “teach to
the test” as the new federal No Child Left Behind Act brought
increasing pressure to do so and teach to a new set of standards created
by the District. Katherine and her team developed a metric around a
student’s proficiency test performance.
Megan Van Voorhis – 2002 – 2003
Megan interned at the Community Partnership for Arts & Culture.
She coordinated an economic impact study of the arts and culture sector
in Northeast Ohio for the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.
The project involved working with external research partners on survey
protocol development and implementation as well as oversight of final
report development. Additional projects related to development of protocols
for assisting arts and cultural organizations with their business practice
development.
Matt Kozink – 2001-2002
Matt interned at Enterprise Development, Inc. (EDI) to help develop
a strategy to build regional economic advantage focused on technology
transfer, commercialization and new venture creation. EDI was particularly
interested in leveraging the life science and engineering strengths
in the region. The assignment included development of a strategic planning
process containing situational analysis, SWOT, key issue identification,
prioritization criteria, strategic alternatives, action agenda and final
plan and implementation.
Linda Sternheimer – 2000-2001
Linda interned at the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. She had
a unique opportunity not only to see how the strategic planning process
gets underway, but also how a large organization with many missions
and objectives operates and struggles to change in the face of “new
economy” thinking.
Zakia Davis – 1999 – 2000
Zakia interned at the Port Authority for her year-long fellowship.
Brian Schneiderman – 1998 – 1999
Brian interned at Landmark Management. Through his 2 projects –
luxury townhouses in downtown Cleveland and a residential redevelopment
in downtown Buffalo, Brian gained a deeper understanding of public-private
partnerships and working in the private sector of economic development,
the work itself fine-tuned his technical skills.
Marla J. Bobowick – 1997 – 1998
Marla interned at Cleveland Tomorrow and was involved with Cleveland
Development Partnership III and “Civic Vision: 2000 and Beyond.”
She conducted research and worked on projects to answer the question
“Can Cleveland Tomorrow tap into corporate pension funds in order
to finance economic development.
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