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Industry, Strategy, and Policy
 

Industry, Strategy, and Policy is a required course for Policy Studies majors emphasizing practical applications that lie at the intersection of business and policy.  It provides students with a unique opportunity to focus of the big challenges facing the major sectors of the global economy.

This spring the course featured 11 distinguished professionals, including many Lafayette alumni, who provided critical feedback on student reports and shared perspectives based on their extensive real world experience.  Perhaps more importantly, the course exposes students to business sectors that they might not otherwise have considered as a career option.  The sectors covered and industry experts are listed below:

"Interactive and engaging presentations from accomplished alumni really helped reinforce the notion that the solutions to today's most pressing political, economic, and social issues can only be found by adopting a global perspective of problem solving.”                                                

Lindsay Weir ‘11

"A crucial part of the Policy Studies 300 course is the group industry study report. These reports on different sectors of the economy force students to work collaboratively, and step outside of their boundaries by doing research on industries they may have never explored otherwise.”

Max Balsam Kalman ‘11
Guest Commentators from the Spring 2009 Policy Studies Course:

Chris Caine ’78
President and CEO
Mercator XXI LLC

Information Technology and Computer Services

Roger Newton ’72
President and CEO Esperion Therapeutics

Biotechnology

Martha Heinze ’86
Vice President of Treasury & Security Services
JP Morgan Chase

Financial Services

Stephen D. Pryor ’71
President
Exxon Mobil Chemical

Energy

Peter G. Jacoby '81
Vice President & Director for Congressional Affairs AT&T

Telecommunications

George Rubin ’64
Vice Chairman Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

Real Estate/Construction

Bruce Maggin ’65
Managing Partner
H.A.M. Media Group

Broadcasting

J. Peter Simon ’75
Co- Chairman
William E. Simon & Sons

Philanthropic/Nonprofit

Donald Morel ’79
Chairman and CEO
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.

Manufacturing

Sandra J. Weiss, Esq.
Of Counsel, Tallman, Hudders, & Sorrentino
Healthcare: Provider Strategies in Historical Perspective

Paul M. Needham
Industrial College of the Armed Forces, The National Defense University

Transportation