THE  AIM COMMUNITY mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Gabino A. Mendoza on December 22, 2011.

Prof. Mendoza was the first faculty member and COO during the founding of AIM in 1968. He was president of the Institute from 1978 to 1986, dean of the Institute from 1973 to 1986, and dean of faculty from 1968 to 1972.

On December 13, 2011, AIM launched the second edition of Prof. Mendoza’s book, Management: The Asian Way. His daughter, Rina, graced the event and represented her father. The book is a collection of Prof. Mendoza’s monthly articles published in the World Executive’s Digest from 1983 to 1990. It is the first AIM publication to be made available for tablet computers.

“It just accumulated,” Prof. Mendoza wrote in his book introduction. “It burgeoned sporadically from the occasional formal lecture that I was invited to read in different managerial fora. It arose from my ruminations on and reactions to the ideas, events, and people that I ran across in my indiscriminate omnivorous reading and my day-to-day experiences as a professional manager, business consultant, and teacher of management.” 

Prof. Mendoza taught general management (strategy formulation and implementation), marketing, and finance in the MBA, Master in Management, and Executive MBA programs, and initiated the course on development of enterprise.

He was the chairman of the board of Allied Metals and director-treasurer of Foodmach, Inc. He was also a director of several companies, among them Philippine Investment Management Consultants (PHINMA), NCR (Philippines), Basic Advertising, Executive Digest Inc., Prosoft Ltd., Options Publishing Services, Audience Research Asia, and TQM Asia. In the past several years, he served as a general management consultant to such companies as San Miguel Corporation; Ayala Land; Delbros Inc.; First Holdings, Inc.; Phelps Dodge Philippines; Sime Darby (Philippines); Basic/Foote, Cone and Belding, Inc.; Makati Medical Center; Caltex Pacific Indonesia; Federal Auto Holdings Bhd. (Malaysia); World Executive's Digest; and Canadian International Development Agency.

Prof. Mendoza obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree (valedictorian) from the Ateneo de Manila University (1953) and an MBA (With Distinction) from Harvard Business School (1966). He was the 1975 Eisenhower Fellow from the Philippines and was a Fellow of the International Academy of Management. He was also a member of the visiting committee of the Lahore Business School in Pakistan.
 
With the passing of Prof. Mendoza, AIM has lost one of its legendary professors. AIM extends its deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Prof. Mendoza.

A memorial service will be held at the AIM campus on January 31, 2012, Tuesday, 1:00-4:00 PM.

AIM is collecting testimonials and expressions of sympathy, which will be posted online. To send them, please email enews@aim.edu by Jan. 13, 2012.

Management: The Asian Way is available on Amazon for Kindle. For inquiries on purchasing a hard copy of the book, please contact Ms. Eden Aquino at eaquino@aim.edu or +632 8924011 ext. 354.