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Forsythe named
Leonard A. Hadley Chair in Leadership
Posted April
11, 2000
IOWA CITY -- Economics Professor Robert Forsythe has
been selected as the Leonard A. Hadley Chair in Leadership in the University
of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business.
The Chair, endowed by the Maytag Corporation, honors UI alumnus and
former Maytag Corporation CEO Leonard A. Hadley. It provides support
for a UI business faculty member who has exhibited outstanding leadership
in a major discipline or functional area of business. Earnings from
the endowment, which was given to the College though the UI Foundation,
will provide support for Forsythe's research, teaching and other professional
leadership activities.
Forsythe is senior associate dean in the Tippie College of Business,
and is a co-founder of the Iowa Electronic Markets, real-money futures
markets in which contract payoffs depend on economic and political events
such as elections.
"As senior associate dean, Professor Forsythe is a leader in serving
the interests of our faculty, but has also been a leader in his research
and teaching," said Gary Fethke, dean of the Tippie College of Business.
"Along with his colleagues, he developed the Iowa Electronic Markets,
a unique, web-based tool to teach students about how markets operate
and a research tool to study investor behavior."
Maytag endowed the chair position in Hadley's honor in August 1999,
after he retired as chairman and CEO of Maytag, Hadley had enjoyed a
40-year career with the home and commercial appliance manufacturer based
in Newton, Iowa. Hadley received an accounting degree from the UI in
1958 and later studied law there. He serves on the Board of Visitors
at the Tippie College of Business and is a member of the UI Foundation
board of directors.
Forsythe, who joined the college in 1981, has a Ph.D. in economics from
Carnegie-Mellon University, M.S. degrees in economics and statistics
from Carnegie-Mellon, and a B.S. in quantitative business analysis from
Pennsylvania State University.
Contact Information
Floyd Akins
Senior Director of Development, Henry B. Tippie College of Business
(319) 335-3305 or (800) 648-6973
Additional information about supporting the UI's Henry
B. Tippie College of Business also is available on this site.
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