Mary Butkus
Mahendra R. Gupta (right), PhD, the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and Management and dean of Olin Business School, chats with degree candidates (from left) Philip Rong of the Executive MBA (EMBA) Shanghai program, William Reed of the EMBA Kansas City program and Jamie Wolf of the EMBA St. Louis program in McMillan Cafe prior to the Dec. 9 EMBA graduation in Graham Chapel. The event, the culmination of 20 months of study and class work for the students, was the Kansas City program’s first graduation and also marked the first time that all three of Olin’s EMBA programs graduated at the same time and in the same place. Of the 93 candidates who received diplomas, 55 were from the Shanghai class, 30 from the St. Louis class and eight from the Kansas City class.