McGinity Named Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at UW |
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July 19, 2007 -- Richard McGinity of Crowheart is the new Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Wyoming.
He is the founder and president of School Street Capital Group, an investment banking firm with offices in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Boston, Mass.; and Crowheart.
Funding for the Distinguished Professorship of Business Ethics is through the Daniels Fund, which is in its third year of providing critical funding to the College of Business for its business ethics curriculum, says Brent Hathaway, dean of the college.
"We are thrilled to add someone of Richard McGinity's caliber to our faculty," Hathaway says. "His remarkable background and knowledge will be a real benefit to the college and our students, plus he has an impeccable reputation. He's the perfect person to serve as the Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics."
McGinity, a co-owner of T Cross Ranch LLC, a historic guest ranch north of Dubois, is a licensed professional guide and is committed to helping preserve the history and natural beauty of Wyoming. He also is a Wyoming Business Council board member.
Founder of School Street Capital Group in 1986 and president during that time, McGinity has more than 30 years of experience as a venture capitalist, director of publicly-traded and privately-owned companies, and adviser to private and family-owned companies in a variety of industries. He has dealt with growth planning, equity financing, merger/acquisition, valuation, management incentives, corporate governance and audit, and regulatory compliance.
School Street's clients are privately-owned companies seeking expansion financing, merger or acquisition. Before founding School Street, McGinity was a partner in a Boston-based venture capital fund. He has served on the boards of numerous privately-owned and publicly traded companies, most recently Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd.
In the 1970s McGinity served on the research faculty of Harvard Business School where he wrote numerous case studies and co-wrote a book about economic development and agribusiness. He has a B.A. degree from Princeton, and M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard, and served as a naval aviator during the Vietnam War.
Business ethics is one of the UW College of Business' three focus areas. The others are environmental/natural resource economics and entrepreneurship education.
In April 2006, UW received a $2.62 million grant from the Daniels Fund, which expanded upon a 2005 grant of $900,000 to establish UW's Bill Daniels Distinguished Professorship of Business Ethics.
The Daniels Fund grant provides stable funding for the next decade for UW's business ethics curriculum, Hathaway says. With this support, the college will continue to develop ethics modules to include in conventional business classes, build a network of scholars interested in business ethics and expose business executives, graduate, undergraduate and community college students to the ideas and concepts of business and ethical issues, he adds.
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Richard McGinity of Crowheart is the new Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Wyoming.
Posted on Thursday, July 19, 2007
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