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BOB’S VISION AND SENSE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MAKES HIM A WELLDESERVED ROLE MODEL FOR FUTURE ENTREPRENEURS, AND HIS LEGACY LIVES ON.

those high-tech companies that are in Reston. Our slogan for our students is “Your success is our success.” We invited the top-notch professors in this area to teach the courses of our well-designed MBA program, and the students, which mostly consist of working professionals, not

only learn about business law, decision-making processes, statistics, marketing theories, management principles, and how to survive in the ever-changing international business environment and cyber space, but they also learn about Mr. Robert Simon and his ideals, as well as social entrepreneurship, sustainable

wish we had as many students as those birds, but I guess we must grow a big and strong enough tree to harbor them all. So far, we have 20 students that have started with us, but we are very confident that with the blessings of Bob, the tree will grow bigger, and more birds will be flying to us in no time. Mark Zhong, Ph.D., Administrative Dean, Clarewood University, has been living in Reston since 2001.

development, and social equality. I still remember a board meeting a year and half ago, when Bob was still with us and showed up in our school that day. Prior to that meeting, when I drove to our school, I suddenly saw hundreds of birds flying into a big tree in front of our school building. I

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