Walker School students spent Spring Break immersed in Israeli culture.  Guided by Tom Cornwell, visiting professor and Walker School Advisory Board member, the experience is one of several available through Walker Global Hybrid Courses.  From visiting Microsoft-Israel to touring the Holy City of Jerusalem, the week-long trip capped off the eight weeks students spent studying about Israeli businesses and culture online.  Check out the travel blog for photos and details.  

This month, the Walker School honored Lesley Hoffarth as our 2014 Woman of Influence.  As president and executive director of Forest Park Forever and former project director for the Missouri Department of Transportation, Hoffarth is making a difference forever.  "I've never shied away from things I haven't done before," she says.  "There's a first time for everything." Get insights from her lecture, "Rebuilding History:  Leadership Lessons from I-64 to Forest Park Forever."  

If what you don't know can't hurt you, then one would think that ignorance truly is bliss.  However, in the book, Willful Blindness:  Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, Margaret Heffernan makes the case that most of us in business aren't blissful but rather bind.  Read Dean Benjamin Ola. Akande's review for a preview of the corporations and corporate culture discussed in this book.

The Walker School is seeking host families for our global intern students. Our international student interns are eager to learn about American life first-hand, and we have a group of students from Germany and Mexico who need families to stay with while they complete internships at St. Louis businesses this summer.  Find out how you can host a global intern. 

On May 6 at 1:30 p.m. CST, the Walker School will honor Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, as our CEO of the Year.  This Speaker Series lecture will be held at Worldwide Technology, and it will also be streamed online.  Make plans to join us for "A Conversation with Randall Stephenson."