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Diversifying Interest
Gerstacker Symposium Addresses Diversity and Business Success
Posted March 25, 2004
Michigan's business sector
joined Albion College's business scholars for the second annual
Carl A. Gerstacker
Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management Business Symposium.
The theme for this year’s symposium, held March 23, was “Greater
Diversity: Greater Success.”
A majority of Gerstacker Institute members attended the audience, which
also included business owners, managers, executives and
professionals.
Photo by Bobby Lee
Students who couldn't
attend the symposium also had opportunities to meet with the keynote
speakers, in class sessions. Heim visited John Bedient (in striped
shirt) and his management class in the afternoon.
Photo by Jake Weber
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Gerstacker panelists Tamara Heim, Regina Montoya, Joseph Anderson, Diane
Ariza, with moderator Bill Ritter, '62.
Photo by Bobby Lee.
The panel of presenters included experts and pioneers in
business diversity, including:
Regina Montoya,
attorney and former assistant for intergovernmental affairs for President Clinton;
Joseph Anderson, chairman and CEO of TAG Holding, LLC of Troy, and the
subject of “The Anderson Platoon,” winner of a best-documentary Oscar;
Tamara Heim,
former president of Borders Books and Music Stores; Ann Arbor; and
Diane Ariza, assistant
dean for intercultural affairs at Albion College.
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