{"id":230,"date":"2008-01-08T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T14:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/08\/alum-named-businessweeks-businessperson-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T14:23:01","slug":"alum-named-businessweeks-businessperson-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/01\/alum-named-businessweeks-businessperson-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum named BusinessWeek&#8217;s Businessperson of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/mark-hurd-0107.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hurd\" align=\"right\" \/>Baylor&#8217;s Hankamer School of Business saw not one but <em>two<\/em> of its graduates receive national honors from <em>BusinessWeek<\/em> in the magazine&#8217;s year-end issue.<\/p>\n<p>Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, who graduated from Baylor in 1979 with a degree in marketing, was named <em>BusinessWeek<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/content\/dec2007\/db20071227_684654.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_best+of+bw\" target=\"_blank\">Businessperson of the Year<\/a>, beating out big names like Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.  (In case you&#8217;re in the area, Hurd will be speaking at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waco-chamber.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waco Chamber of Commerce luncheon<\/a> this Friday.)<\/p>\n<p>Keith Hembre, who earned his master&#8217;s in economics from Baylor in 1993, was also recognized as <em>BusinessWeek<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/07_53\/b4065048245085.htm?chan=search\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Forecaster of the Year<\/a>.  According to the magazine, Hembre was &#8220;the most accurate economic forecaster, based on a 2007 economic forecast survey conducted by <em>BusinessWeek<\/em> last December.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor b-school grads!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor&#8217;s Hankamer School of Business saw not one but two of its graduates receive national honors from BusinessWeek in the magazine&#8217;s year-end issue. Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, who graduated from Baylor in 1979 with a degree in marketing, was named BusinessWeek&#8216;s Businessperson of the Year, beating out big names like Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs and media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}