Business Ethics Lecture Series Concludes
with Gary Dando
The Business Ethics Lecture Series,
sponsored by the Smith School, hosted
its final speaker, B. Gary Dando '64,
retired partner, Ernst & Young on April
18. Dando spoke on Business Ethics and
?The Cheating Culture.?
Dando is a retired partner with Ernst
& Young. He started working for Ernst &
Young in 1964 after he graduated from
the Smith School. He was elevated to
partner at the firm in 1976. In addition
to client engagement responsibilities,
Dando held positions of national and
regional operational responsibility
within Ernst & Young in areas of
practice management and operations. He
retired in June 2001 after 37 years with
firm.
Stephen Loeb, Ernst & Young Alumni
Professor of Accounting and Business
Ethics and also the Academic Integrity
Officer of the Robert H. Smith School of
Business, is the main driving force
behind the ethics lecture series. He
said, ?I have known Gary Dando for many
years and I felt his comments were
outstanding.?
Jennifer Walls, a senior accounting
major attended the talk. ?He stressed
that you can learn a lot about a
person's morals through events outside
of work, especially his/her golf game,?
she said. ?I guess I am going to have to
learn how to play golf!?
Loeb organized yet another successful
year of the Business Ethics Lecture
Series. Speakers in
Fall 2006 included:
Lesley Fair, Attorney, Federal
Trade Commission
Teresa Iannaconi, Partner, KPMG
Robert Colson, Partner, Grant
Thornton
Besides Gary Dando, speakers in
Spring 2007 included Scott Avelino,
managing director, KPMG, and Dr. George
Ellard, Esq., Baach, Robinson & Lewis.
Loeb said, ?We have had six lectures
over the past academic year. In my view,
the attendance has been very good. I
think the speakers have all been
excellent and the opportunity for
students to add to their knowledge has
been excellent.?
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B. Gary Dando first
started working for Ernst & Young in
1964 after he graduated from what was
then the College of Business and Public
Administration at the University of
Maryland. He was elevated to partner at
the firm in 1976. In addition to client
engagement responsibilities, Dando held
positions of national and regional
operational responsibility within Ernst
& Young in areas of practice management
and operations. He retired in June 2001
after 37 years with firm.
Dando's areas of industry
expertise included high
technology, biosciences,
government contracting,
manufacturing and regional
banking institutions. While at
Ernst & Young he served several
regional, national and
multinational corporate clients,
including America Online, Black
& Decker, Digene Corp., Lockheed
Martin Corp., LTV Corp., the
National Association of
Securities Dealers Inc./NASDAQ
Stock Market, Space Applications
Corporation, among others. Dando
also advised the firm's McLean
office partners on the many
complex business and financial
accounting matters impacting
technology and bioscience
companies.
Dando dealt extensively with
accounting for mergers and
acquisitions and served as an
arbitrator for business
combination purchase price
adjustments as well as expert
witness for buyers and sellers
in business combination purchase
price disputes. He served as an
Initial Public Offering and SEC
review partner for numerous
clients. Additionally, from 1975
to 1982 Dando was a
Washington-based SEC Liaison
Consultation Partner for the
firm's domestic and
international offices.
From 1983 through 1994 Dando was
the principal author of Ernst &
Young's contracting and audit
procedural guides for aerospace
and defense clients with federal
government contracts. When he
served in the firm's national
office, he was responsible for
managing development,
distribution and delivery of
E&Y?s education and training on
a worldwide basis, and
management of the education and
training initiatives that
results from the 1989 Arthur
Young and Ernst & Whinney
merger.
Dando serves as president of the
Robert H. Smith School of
Business Foundation's board of
directors. He is also on the
board of directors of the
University System of Maryland
Foundation and the board of
trustees of the University of
Maryland College Park
Foundation. He's also chairman
of the Audit Committee for the
MICROS Systems board of
directors.
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Fall 2007
Ethics Series Schedule
Fall 2006 Ethics Lecture Series
Spring 2006 Ethics Lecture Series
▓ Sachin Agarwal, MBA Candidate 2007,
Smith Media Group
