As a benefit of your membership to MSUAA, the regional club is allowed to purchase tickets in advance to most home and away games. All ticket orders are due by May 15, 2008 so don’t delay. Click here for an order form. Tickets will be sent to you when we receive them from MSU. Please contact Steve Wagner at s-wagner@prodigy.net for more information.

Corporate Structure Transformation When Driven by External Forces Kenneth F. Sommer Key Note Speaker (BA Accounting ’80) Ken Sommer served in various executive positions at Visa International from 2000 through 2007, serving most recently as president and CEO. He served as chief administrative officer prior to being named CEO in 2006, and was executive vice-president and CFO from 2000-2005. While corporate structure generally follows business strategy, external forces can drive the need for change. Responding to such forces in the market place and business environment, Visa, the world’s largest credit card network, completed a restructuring last October that combined the U.S., Canadian and International operations to emerge as Visa Inc. Robert B. Duncan, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean, and Michael Mazzeo, associate dean for Undergraduate Programs and Finance at the Broad School, will be joined by the school’s director of Corporate Relations, Helen Dashney, to present afternoon workshops. Workshops topics include: Corporate control, governance, M&As, and how academic and enrichment programming at the Broad School produces leaders in strategic change and innovation.

Early pricing extended to May 10!

• $ 110 General
• $ 100 MSUAA member
• $ 80 Young alumni (2004-2008)
• $ 1000 Table sponsor

EAST LANSING, Mich. (March 13, 2008) – The Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (MSU) is proud to welcome Kenneth Sommer (BA Accounting '80), consultant and former CEO of Visa International as the keynote speaker for the 2008 Broad Executive Forum - Chicago. The event will be held Thursday, May 15, at the University Club of Chicago, and the day’s topic is “Taking Charge: Corporate structure transformation when driven by external forces.”

"We strive to bring timely topics to our alumni and friends at this annual business event," says Robert Duncan, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean at the Broad School. "With a topic taken right from today's business news pages and blogs, participants will hear about the market place and business environment factors that led to restructuring for Visa, the world's largest credit card network, to merge as Visa Inc. The company's long-awaited, multi-billion dollar IPO is expected soon."

The forum schedule will start at 4 p.m. with a faculty-led workshop conducted by Michael Mazzeo, associate dean for Undergraduate Programs and Finance at the Broad School. He will discuss corporate control governance, mergers and acquisitions At 5 p.m., Dean Robert Duncan, along with Mazzeo and the Broad School's director of Corporate and Academic Relations will discuss Broad School programs that develop leaders for the global marketplace. The keynote speech will start following a reception and dinner at 6:15 p.m.

The conference fee (including dinner) starts at $130 with discounts for MSU Alumni Association members and recent alumni. Details are available at www.bus.msu.edu/alumni/events.cfm or by phone at 517-432-7442. Information about event sponsorships is available by email request to alumni@bus.msu.edu .

The building images in this collection were taken from a volume of photographs presented to the State of Michigan Board of Agriculture on November 1st, 1934. It was submitted to them by Herman H. Halladay (then State Secretary of Agriculture) as an inventory of all properties owned by Michigan State College at that time and was secured through the aid of the deans of various divisions of the College and the Superintendant of Buildings and Grounds (Now Physical Plant Division). Additional images of interest were gathered from the University Archives, The Library of Congress, and private sources.

 View them online at  http://www.msu.edu/~hvac/survey/1934Survey.html .