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Five IU alumni to be honored at annual business conference March 7
March 5, 2001
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Five alumni of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University will be honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 55th annual IU Business Conference at the Indianapolis Convention Center on March 7.
Being named to the Kelley School of Business Academy of Alumni Fellows are Elizabeth S. Acton, vice president and treasurer of Ford Motor Co., of Dearborn, Mich.; Bruce Hinton, chairman of MCA Nashville, Nashville, Tenn.; Roger G. Ibbotson, chairman and founder of Ibbotson Associates, Hamden, Conn.; and James T. Morris, chairman and chief executive officer of IWC Resources Corp. and Indianapolis Water Co., Indianapolis.
The 2001 Distinguished Entrepreneur Award will be presented to Michael L. Hatfield, founder of Calix Networks, of Petaluma, Calif.
Acton, who was appointed vice president and treasurer of Ford Motor Co. in October, previously served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Fort Motor Credit Co., a wholly-owned Ford subsidiary. She joined Ford Credit in January 1998 and previously was assistant treasurer of Ford Motor Co.
She has held a variety of positions since joining Ford in 1983, including posts with the treasurer's office that involved international financing, portfolio and foreign exchange management, cash flow forecasting, corporate finance, and pension asset management.
Before joining Ford, Acton was vice president and relationship manager in the multinational banking group at Continental Bank in Chicago. In addition to a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota, she earned a master of business administration degree in finance from IU in 1976. She serves as a member of the Kelley School of Business Dean's Advisory Council.
Hinton is chairman of MCA Nashville, which is consistently named the top country music recording label by leading industry publications such as Billboard and Radio & Records. Award-winning artists Vince Gill, Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood all call MCA Nashville home.
A native of Tell City, Ind., Hinton began his music career at Warner Bros. Records in New York in 1960, after earning a bachelor's degree in finance from IU in 1958. He joined Columbia Records in 1965 as western promotion manager in Los Angeles and then moved to New York as director of the custom label group at CBS.
Hinton co-founded the first national independent country record promotion company and later co-founded a production company. In 1984, he moved to Nashville upon being named senior vice president and general manager of MCA Nashville. He was promoted to president in 1989 and then to chairman in 1993.
He serves on the board of the MBA Sports and Entertainment Academy of the Kelley School of Business.
Ibbotson is chairman and founder of Ibbotson Associates, which provides consulting services, software, data and financial publishing for financial institutions and investment advisers from offices in Chicago, New York and Tokyo. He also is a professor in the practice of finance at the Yale School of Management.
He is co-author of Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation, the standard reference for information on investment market returns.
Ibbotson conducts research on a broad range of financial topics and is a regular contributor and editorial board member to both trade and academic journals. He has served as a consultant to many companies in the financial and investment industry, and has directly managed bond portfolios, traded equity securities and managed asset allocation accounts.
He received a bachelor's degree from Purdue University, an MBA from IU and a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where he taught for more than 10 years and served as executive director of the Center for Research in Security Prices.
Morris is chairman and chief executive officer of IWC Resources Corp. and Indianapolis Water Company, a position he has held since 1989. Earlier in his career, he joined American Fletcher National Bank in Indianapolis, then moved to the mayor's office in 1967 and served then-Mayor Richard Lugar as administrative assistant and chief of staff. His career took him to Lilly Endowment in 1973, where he served as vice president of community development, executive vice president, and president. Morris is founder and director of the Indiana Sports Corp., which spearheaded a successful strategy to promote Indianapolis as the "Amateur Sports Capital of the World."
Nationally, he serves on the board of governors of the American Red Cross and on the board of trustees of the Young Women's Christian Association and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He was appointed by President George Bush in 1991 to serve on the Commission on Environment for the Americas.
Morris recently completed his term as treasurer of the United States Olympic Committee and is chairman of the NCAA Foundation board of directors. A long-time supporter and steward of IU, he is a member of the university's Board of Trustees and of the IU Foundation board of directors. He also serves as a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the Kelley School of Business, the IUPUI Board of Advisors, the Dean's Advisory Group of the IU School of Medicine and the IU School of Nursing Board of Advisors.
The 28th annual Distinguished Entrepreneur Award, presented by the Kelley School of Business and its alumni association, will be given to Hatfield, founder of Calix Networks, an optical networking start-up company in Petaluma, Calif.
The award recognizes Hatfield for significant achievement and innovation in developing a business through individual effort, personal responsibility, and ingenuity and for esteem he has earned as a business and community leader.
Prior to founding Calix in 1999, he was co-founder and chief operating officer of Cerent Corp., a leader in high-speed networking. In August 1999, Cisco Systems purchased Cerent for nearly $7 billion.
Hatfield has been vice president of marketing at Advanced Fibre Communications, where he built customer marketing, customer services and product management groups for the company's digital loop carrier product. He also led the company in its South African, French, Chinese and Brazilian markets as vice president-international. Previously, he had been at DSC Communications and Indiana Bell Telephone.
A graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, with a degree in electrical engineering and mathematical economics, Hatfield received an MBA degree in finance from IU in 1987.
The honors presentation will be part of a day-long program that will focus on the theme "'e' is the Business: Revolutionizing the Value Chain." Speaking at this year's conference will be Sidney Taurel, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Co.; Edward J. Sanderson Jr., executive vice president of Oracle Corp.; and Lawrence Summers, former U.S. secretary of the treasury and the Arthur Okun distinguished fellow in economics, globalization and governance at the Brookings Institution.
Information and online registration are available at http://www.kelley.iu.edu/alumni/bsconference.html, or call 812-855-6340 for further details.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)