TRINITY-IMI Graduate School of Management Awards Lemass Medal for Business Leadership
Posted on: 27 July 2006
The Trinity-IMI Graduate School of Management presented the founding award for the School to the international businessman, Dr John Malone, at a ceremony in Trinity College this week. The award, called the Sean Lemass Gold Medal for Business Leadership, was presented by the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen TD to Dr Malone, who is Chairman of Liberty Global Corporation in America. He is also founder and leading shareholder in a wide array of international media interests and is a global player in the cable industry.
Speaking on behalf of the Trinity-IMI Graduate School of Management, TCD Provost, Dr John Hegarty, said: “Trinity College is delighted that an international businessman of the calibre of Dr John Malone is being awarded with the Trinity-IMI School Award. The Trinity-IMI Graduate School of Management has achieved an international reputation for its world-ranked executive education for business leaders and its excellence in business research. The school has also formed a strategic partnership with one of the world’s leading colleges for enterprise education, Babson College in the US. Dr Malone, who has achieved so much as a business leader in both the US and on the international stage, provides an excellent role model for future graduates of the School.”
Speaking about the award, Dr Tom McCarthy, Chief Executive of the IMI, said: “Dr John Malone has been selected for the inaugural presentation of the award for his significant business achievements, his entrepreneurial skills and his Irish-American roots. His heritage reflects the Irish-American span of the Trinity-IMI Graduate School, especially given our link to Babson College in the US which is the recognised leader in entrepreneurship education and in the creation of entrepreneurs.”
One of the most successful entrepreneurs of Irish-American extraction, Dr Malone features in Harvard Business School’s Great American Business Leaders list. He is Chairman of Liberty Global and Liberty Media Corporations, was Chairman of TCI when it merged with AT&T, and serves on the boards of the Bank of New York, the CATO Institute, Discovery Communications, Expedia and the Nature Conservancy. He is a graduate of Yale and Johns Hopkins and has been the recipient of many awards and honours. His family originated from Co Cork and emigrated, like many others, to the US in the 19th Century. His business interests, through Liberty Global, include UPC Ireland which has been formed following the acquisition of NTL and Chorus and which when its networks are upgraded involves an almost €1 billion investment by in the Republic.
The Trinity-IMI Graduate School of Management was launched in October 2005 and brings together the IMI and TCD’s School of Business. The School also has a strategic partnership with Babson College in the US, a recognised global leader in entrepreneurship education and an internationally recognised business school. The Babson MBA in Entrepreneurship is ranked number one in the world.