experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2021
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Experimenting during the shift to virtual team work: Learnings from how teams adapted their activities during the COVID-19 pandemic

22 Apr 2015
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"Frothy" Is a Relative Term

Keywords: real estate; career experience; REITS; Real Estate

14 Jun 2021
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Onboarding Summer Interns in a Virtual Work Environment: An Experiment Highlights the Pros and Cons of “Virtual Water Coolers”.

25 Aug 2022
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Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I grew up in the northeast part of the Bronx. There was no internet, so how did you learn about the world? If you had any resources in my... View Details

Keywords: career; life experience; Hollywood; movies; film

01 Dec 2022
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Turning Point: Soul Cycle

recognizing that feeling as something to pay attention to. At Wellesley, I had a similar intuitive experience when I switched majors from neuropsych to economics. That change was scary because it was late in the game, but the decision led... View Details

Keywords: transitions; life experience; career change; entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

25 Jun 2024
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On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)

When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment.... View Details

Keywords: retail; customer service; supply chain management; career experience; Retail Trade

06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced to take a look, Simon liked... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew senior urged his daughter to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
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Brand New

Rob Sundy (MBA 2004) has an unabashed fondness for Americana. It’s an interest he traces back to an unexpected source: his time as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. “It’s a historic unit,” says the West Point graduate, noting that many of the military’s heroes... View Details

Keywords: April White; manufacturing; life experience; leadership; Black; African American; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2023
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That Was Then, This Is Now

extracurricular exercise. Pulling from the Mary Oliver poem “The Summer Day,” Deifell asked his classmates to answer the question posed in the poem’s last line: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Then, drawing on his View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership