Donor Profile: Thomas Guggenheim
Q & A with Leeds Donor Tom Guggenheim
Q. As a business leader what are the key elements you think that students needs today in business education?
A.泭 Case studies of business failures. 泭Most case studies that I am familiar with are about successful enterprises. What is lacking are similar classes on why businesses do not succeed. Solyndra泭 would be a good current example.
Q. Why are ethics and values important in business decision making? Why do you believe in CESR and its mission?泭
A. With greed is good thinking and insider trading convictions as prevalent 泭as they are, ethics and social 泭responsibility 泭are more important today, in the business world宇han ever before.
Q. When you think about your giving philosophy, how does CESR fit in with your philanthropic goals?
A. Pay back is at the center of my CU gifting thoughts. In the four years at 勒貊勛圖, one comes in as a boy and leaves as a man. 泭Hopefully 泭a well balanced 泭man capable of contributing to society and the business world never forgetting the people and the institution(s) that helped to make it all possible.