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11 Dean William Keep attended the Tribeca Film Festival in May to catch his silver-screen debut in the documentary Betting On Zero. Keep, an expert on multilevel marketing, is featured in the film, which details the crusade by hedge fund magnate Bill Ackman to expose global nutritional company Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history. Keep joined the film's director, Ted Braun, in an audience Q&A following the screening. Associate Professor Susan Hume's finance students presented their research on social impact bonds—a new form of public- private partnership—to the Trenton Area Stakeholders in April. "The concept," Hume explained, "involves a government entity teaming up with an intermediary that identifies a service provider, develops a program with specific, measurable goals, and raises the capital from private investors or philanthropic foundations." The bonds have been used successfully elsewhere to improve school readiness, fund charter schools, provide healthcare to underserved communities, and reduce youth recidivism. Associate Professor Waheeda Lillevik and 21 TCNJ students spent the fall semester examining the European business environment, while based at SRH Heidelberg University. Ting Yang '17 spent the spring semester in Beijing, China, courtesy of a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Yang used the State Department-funded award to enroll in the Advanced Chinese Studies program at Peking University's School of Economics. Previously, Yang studied in Heidelberg, Germany. The experience "widened my horizons and enabled me to be more culturally fluent," she said. WISDOM FROM THE FOUNDER OF UGGS "The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to enjoy every day as a tadpole," quipped Brian Smith, founder of the wildly successful Ugg boot company. Smith offered this nugget of entrepreneurial wisdom and more during his October visit to the college, delivering a public lecture and speaking in two classes about his rags-to-riches story. Yet at the heart of his talk, Smith advised students to do what they're already doing as well as they can—this way, when opportunity strikes to grow their business from tadpole to frog, they'll be ready to make the leap. IN BRIEF DEPARTMENTS Accounting and Information Systems Economics Finance Management Marketing and Interdisciplinary Business MAJORS Accountancy Economics Finance Interdisciplinary Business Management Marketing STUDENT ENROLLMENT 1,206 CLASS OF 2015 AVERAGE STARTING SALARY $ 55,791 TOP EMPLOYERS Bloomberg Deloitte Johnson & Johnson JP Morgan Chas KPMG NRG Energy PricewaterhouseCoopers Prudential

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