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Letters OlinBusiness Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1162 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Cultivating Impact and alumni are playing many roles in area startups, too, from founding Vol. 16, Fall 2013 From my office window in Simon to advising and investing. Together, OlinBusiness magazine is published annually Hall, I have a spectacular view of the we are cultivating fertile resources by Olin Business School, Washington University Danforth Campus and a front-row that, in the view of many, including in St. Louis. Unless otherwise noted, all articles seat for the daily progress on the Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter may be reprinted without permission with construction of Olin’s new Knight Hall and Square, could lead to a business appropriate credit to OlinBusiness magazine. and Bauer Hall. The buildings have renaissance in St. Louis with risen from a deep hole in the ground global impact. Dean to take their place among the revered Mahendra Gupta and rose-colored granite halls of Olin has been cultivating leaders Washington University. who impact business for nearly a Associate Dean and Director of Marketing century. But the print version of and Communications More than 800 workers have toiled OlinBusiness can highlight only a few of Paula Crews, BSBA ‘90 on this project since we broke ground our accomplished alumni, faculty, and in May 2012. Skilled craftsmen have students in each issue. There is more. Editor laid the foundation, fitted steel, and Melody Walker installed pipes, cables, and glass I invite you to stay connected to your to transform the architects’ plans Olin network all year long by reading Managing Editor from paper to bricks and mortar. our new blog at olinblog.wustl.edu, Judy Milanovits These innovative new buildings will where you’ll find news about events on campus, alumni, gatherings far Class Notes Editor provide flexible spaces for our entire and wide, new faculty research, and Teresa Melton community—alumni, students, faculty, corporate friends, and family—to candid reports from students who are studying abroad, starting a business, Staff congregate, collaborate, communicate, or chronicling an internship. We also Leah Costantino, AB ‘97 and celebrate. have a lively presence on Twitter, Sarah Gibbs Facebook, and LinkedIn. Alicia Haith Please mark your calendar for Lexie Walther O’Brien, MBA ‘90 the dedication ceremony and a No matter where your career takes Neil Schoenherr symposium in honor of Knight Hall you, Olin is only a click away. I look Gloria Stukenbroeker and Bauer Hall, May 2–3, 2014. forward to seeing you online or in Adrienne Wartts, MA ‘07 The burgeoning startup scene in person in the coming year. Gabe Watson St. Louis has been attracting national Katie Roth Wools media attention, and Olin is involved

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Olin’s new 175,000-square-foot facility, including Knight A dedication ceremony and symposium are Hall and Bauer Hall, is scheduled to be complete and planned for May 2–3, 2014. ready for occupancy in the first quarter of 2014. The new buildings, providing much-needed additional classroom, office, and community spaces, will nearly double the To see more photos business school’s footprint on the Danforth Campus. and videos of the The $90 million project is centered on a three-story construction progress, glass Atrium, pictured here. Natural light will flow visit BuildOlin.wustl.edu from the Atrium through all five stories of the building, including the Forum, an amphitheater space for lectures and events.

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Olin Opens Doors to Veterans By David Sheets

Charlie Felker The current OVA president, Ryan Jack Senneff, MBA ’08, a veteran shed his Maher, MBA ’14, a former Marine Corps and director at Thompson Street fatigues three captain who also served in Afghanistan, Capital Partners who also visits with days before explained that the group takes multiple students, echoes that sentiment. “A starting his approaches to outreach. Among them: veteran who has earned an Olin MBA studies at Olin. is uniquely positioned to create value • Employer site visits and “power for a business.” The Army lunches,” where veteran alumni captain who host students at their workplaces, But Felker believes extending OVA’s served four highlight job opportunities, outreach to include veterans’ families tours in Afghanistan received a warm and educate students on their was a crowning achievement. welcome before tackling full-time MBA companies and industries. Felker also served at Fort Benning, studies. But later in his first year, he • A veteran mentor program that GA, and Fort Bragg, NC. He says encountered two former West Point matches students with alumni veterans’ families can have a tough classmates also attending Washington who can offer professional as well time adjusting to cities after living University, and he realized something as academic guidance and support. in a close-knit military community. about that welcome was missing. • P romotion of Olin Business “So, we adopt families, sponsor families, “I should’ve known they were here,” School’s full partnership in the and they come to St. Louis and have Felker said. “And they were walking Yellow Ribbon Program. Along with a family they can partner with, go to around with an Olin classmate of the Department of Veterans Affairs, baseball games with, have barbecues mine who they knew, too.” Olin will jointly cover all tuition with, share notes on good schools,” So, Felker, MBA ’13, committed costs for veteran candidates who Felker said. “So before they even move himself to improving outreach for are admitted to Olin and eligible to St. Louis, they have a family to other veterans at Olin through the for the Yellow Ribbon Program. connect with and show them the ropes.” Olin Veterans Association (OVA), a The group also offers pre-MBA student group that helps ease veterans’ internships with St. Louis-area transitions back to civilian life. companies that provide veterans with The association’s efforts have grown to exposure to the business world before include outreach for veterans’ families. starting classes.

“A veteran who shows up at Wash U Vic Richey, EMBA ’95, a veteran already knows what it’s like to work and chairman, CEO, and president hard. But they’re interested in knowing of ESCO Technologies in St. Louis, what it’s going to be like for their is one of the employer hosts. families,” said Felker, a “The sense of common purpose and former OVA president. mutual support is exceptionally strong “And it’s hard for in the military. Trying to find that in nonveterans to their new life can be difficult,” Richey answer those Charlie Felker welcomes veterans and their families said. “Anything I can do to aid in that at a reception at Dean Gupta’s home in August. questions.” transition, I will do.”

Stuart Wolfer Campus Complex, where the ROTC holds Honored by ROTC classes and training. While a student at Washington University, Stuart Wolfer, BSBA ’93, was an Army reservist Wolfer was active in student government, killed during a mortar attack in Iraq in 2008. ROTC, and Hillel, and he remained engaged as The Washington University ROTC celebrated an alumnus. Some 100 ROTC cadets approached Wolfer’s life and commitment to his Lt. Col. Jim Craig asking if they could honor country with the unveiling and Wolfer’s life of service. Many attended the dedication of Major Stuart Adam memorial event, including ROTC cadets, Olin Wolfer Hall in April. The Hall is Business School classmates, and members located in the North of Hillel and the Olin Veterans Association.

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EMBA Celebrates Milestone By Jill Pfieffer

“Life-changing is how I’d describe my To date, 2,407 alumni—from a In 1981, a university task force Executive MBA experience,” says John broad spectrum of industries and recommended a plan to make Danahy, a member of the charter class organizations—have benefited the business school among the in the EMBA program, launched in from the Executive MBA curriculum, best in the nation, and executive 1983. “The opportunity to learn from rooted in leadership development, education was a cornerstone world-class professors and peers made applied research, and immediate a fundamental difference in my career.” skills application. of the plan.

Thirty years ago, Danahy and his “All of us who were part of the inaugural 32 EMBA classmates were up-and- class felt a little special because we coming managers, eager to advance were there at the founding,” adds their careers. Danahy ran information Danahy, who is past president of the technology systems development for Executive MBA Alumni Association, May Department Stores Co. His career a member of Olin’s National Council, eventually led to the C-suite, where a member of the Alumni Association’s he was named chairman and chief Executive Committee, and former operating officer of The Famous-Barr chair of the Executive MBA Education Co. and, later, chairman and COO Committee. “Our legacy is that we of May Merchandising Co. and May blazed the trail and retained a great Department Stores International. sense of solidarity as a class. We like He retired in 2006. to say we’re ‘first class.’”

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Olin welcomes dozens of corporate friends and visitors to campus every semester. These generous executives share their business knowledge, management expertise, values, and career challenges with our community. From intimate classroom conversations to large-scale presentations, members of the business community provide a vital connection for students and faculty to the pulse of commerce and finance.

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1. Diane Sullivan, President & CEO, Brown Shoe Co., at Leaders in Business Summit 2. G eorge Paz, Chairman & CEO, Express Scripts, at Leaders in Business Summit 3. Jack Dorsey, cofounder & CEO of Square, Inc., & cofounder of Twitter, featured Olin speaker 4. Suzanne Sitherwood, President & CEO, The 1 2 3 Laclede Group, Inc., at Leaders in Business Summit 5. W ade Miquelon, MBA ‘89, CFO, Walgreen Co., alumni mentor 6. Gregory Wasson, President & CEO, Walgreen Co., at Century Club 7. T racy Elsperman Hart, President, Tarlton Corporation, at Leaders in Business Summit 8. Ward Klein, CEO, Energizer, at Century Club 9. President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative University held at Washington University April 5–7 10. Rakesh Sachdev, President & CEO, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, at Century Club 11. A thanasios Orphanides, MIT, former member ECB governing council & former governor, Central Bank of Cyprus, guest in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard’s course “U.S. Macroeconomic Policy after the 2008 Crisis” 12. Linda Babcock, economics professor, Carnegie Mellon University, CRES Distinguished Speaker 13. Dean Mahendra Gupta with Barbara Thomas, Senior VP & CFO, HBO Sports, graduate programs graduation speaker & Washington University trustee 14. John Stroup, President & CEO, Belden, Executive MBA graduation speaker 10 11 12 15. Lisa Lewin, BSBA ‘96, President, Teacher Education, Pearson, BSBA graduation speaker 16. Catherine French, PMBA ‘93, Director of Franchise Management, CitiMortgage, Professional MBA graduation speaker

D EFINING MOMENTS COURSE GUEST SPEAKERS: 17. David Peacock, EMBA ‘00, Chairman, St. Louis Sports Commission & former president, 15 16 Anheuser-Busch 18. Bob Chapman, Chairman & CEO, Barry-Wehmiller 19. Maxine Clark, founder & former CEO, Build-A-Bear Workshop 20. David Steward, founder & Chairman, World Wide Technology, Inc. 21. Eric Greitens, CEO, The Greitens Group 22 23 22. John Mozeliak, Senior VP & General Manager, St. Louis Cardinals 23. Ahmad Chatila, President & CEO, MEMC

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Profiles in

CONFIDENCE By David Sheets

From America’s farmland to the high-tech horizons Despite the different paths these alumni have chosen, of cloud computing, Olin alumni impact every sector they point to their Olin experience as an important of society and business on a daily basis. Each issue, influence on their careers. A common thread that we profile alumni who reflect the diversity of talent, connects the alumni in these pages is a sense of innovation, and leadership that we cultivate in our confidence they gained in their business studies students and admire in our alumni around the world. that fortifies and informs their work and lives.

Abu Abraham and Gabriel Santa Cruz cap an Olin Cup-winning year by going back to the drawing board.

How do you cultivate the prestige that comes from dual honors “I’ve got twin three-year-old boys, and wanted a future for like the Olin Cup and an Arch Grants award? my children and other children to play sports without having these destructive concussions,” he said. If you’re Abu Abraham and Gabriel Santa Cruz, you wipe the slate and start over—from scratch. Their latest startup, Zymplr, a word adapted from the term “simpler,” advances proprietary technology that Abraham Until recently, Abraham and Santa Cruz were among a team devised to curtail not just linear movement from head-on hits, of entrepreneurs at the heart of MMBiosensing, a biotechnology but also the rotational movement that damages the midbrain platform that commercializes new science in heart attack and regions atop the spinal column. detection. The startup garnered $50,000 in seed money with an Olin Cup win this year and another $50,000 from It’s a fertile subject for technical development and innovation. the Arch Grants Global Startup Competition, which rewards The Centers for Disease Control estimate that nearly four early-stage ventures. million sports-related concussions occur annually in the United States. In professional football alone, a player suffers an average Soon afterward, creative differences arose that sent its of 1,500 hits to the head in a single season. members off in different directions. But their courses and professors at Olin taught them that a virtue lies behind OLIN GAVE THEM COURAGE every obstacle. STARTING Abraham and Santa Cruz, along with cofounder Abraham “There are a lot of pitfalls that can befall a young company,” Pannikottu, believe their technology is sound enough that in Santa Cruz said. “That’s just the nature of business.” three years, Zymplr can capture about one percent of a $375 “And one of the things you certainly learn at Olin million market for football helmets in the United States. is not to let adversity hold you back,” Abraham said. They credit Olin for preparing them to handle a sudden career turnaround, but they were motivated as well. HIGH-IMPACT CONCEPT “Gabe was incredibly passionate about his entrepreneurship On the rebound, Abraham, a native of India, and Santa Cruz, efforts,” said Ken Harrington, managing director for the a native of Argentina, decided to pair up again, this time over Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. “It’s great an idea percolating in Abraham’s mind and brought to the to see how quickly he is moving forward.” forefront by a spate of reports about pro athletes suffering long-term effects from sports-related concussions. Zymplr may do the same. Abraham says Olin put it on the right track. OVER Abraham’s primary field was mechanical engineering, specifically composite materials and polymers. He envisioned “I had the opportunity to go into the entrepreneurship course,” mixing those ingredients in a way that better prevented known as The Hatchery, “which is completely optional . . . that concussions in high-impact sports. was pretty exciting. You got the opportunity to fine-tune your business idea within that course and then take it outside into The idea also intrigued Santa Cruz. the industry,” he said. “That’s why MMBiosensing got off to such a great start. I hope we can duplicate the same thing here.”

8 OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL | FALL 2013 STARTING OVER ABU ABRAHAM, EMBA ‘12 & GABRIEL SANTA CRUZ, PMBA ‘12, Cofounders, Zymplr

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Fareeha Amber Ansari proves you can be a risk-averse entrepreneur and still not fear making mistakes.

Fareeha Amber Ansari considers herself a risk-averse person. But the nearest open MRI was 60 miles from Liberal. Physicians battled out-of-town scheduling issues while That might surprise people who get to know her. patients struggled with the commute. Besides her outgoing, energetic personality, Ansari clearly Ansari started to research opening her own MRI facility possesses a high tolerance for risk when it comes to her while at Olin. Then came the business plan development, career. She once worked in oil fields as an engineer—the market research, and facilities construction—all while only woman among two dozen men. she was commuting between Liberal and St. Louis. She also started her own business while enrolled as a “There were days when I felt elated, and there were days full-time MBA student at Olin. when I wondered if I was going in the right direction and But “entrepreneurs are not crazily adventurous people,” whether it would pay off,” she said. “But that’s where the she insists. “They are as wary of risk as anyone else.” calculation of risk comes in, because at every step, you have to weigh your pros and cons and strategize what Still, starting an education and a new business, respectively, you’re doing . . . and that is where the critical thinking are difficult enough. Doing both at once sounds, to most lessons at Olin really mattered.” people, fraught with risk—especially when your class project is also your career. So does having the proper mind-set.

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Ansari, a native of Pakistan and now a resident of Liberal, “Amber was a laser-focused entrepreneurship student from KS, landed in the southwestern corner of the Sunflower State the first time I met her,” said Professor Clifford Holekamp, while still an engineer and met her physician husband there. senior lecturer in entrepreneurship and director of the MBA His practice was rooted, and engineering jobs were scarce. Entrepreneurship Platform at Olin. “Her motivation and She moved into healthcare management and later decided drive were inspiring, particularly considering the difficulty to pursue a business education. She found Olin and steeled of starting a medical facility in a different state while herself for 11-hour drives to and from St. Louis. simultaneously earning her full-time MBA.”

After her first semester—“very much a time of great discovery She finished her MBA in May, and her business is prospering. for me because I was still trying to figure out what to do,” she And of all the lessons she learned at Olin, this one resonates: said—she enrolled in an entrepreneurial course and “that “Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. That’s what all of my was like a lightbulb going on. I was like, ‘OK, now I know OPEN professors taught me,” she said. “You may be making the what I want to do.’” mistakes from which you learn the most. . . . There is no Having worked in small-town healthcare, Ansari knew foolproof way to success; you have to be able to take the there was an unmet need in the area. The market for risks. It’s the only way you can find out which path can diagnostic imaging was underserved. Some patients who lead you to success.” needed magnetic resonance imaging exams (MRIs) couldn’t handle the confined space in the enclosed tunnel-like machines, the only option available locally. An “open” MRI device, on the other hand, makes it easier for small children, older patients, and people with claustrophobia to be examined. MINDED CLOSED MRI VS OPEN MRI CLOSED MRI OPEN MRI “Closed” MRIs are tunnel-like devices, whereas an “open” MRI makes it easier to examine small children, older patients, and people with claustrophobia.

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FAREEHA AMBER ANSARI, MBA ‘13, CEO, Co-owner, Cofounder, Open MRI Liberal Diagnostic

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DAVID LEVINE, BSBA & AB ‘01, Director, Strategy & Investing, Artivest

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NEW DIRECTION

David Levine credits his motivation for starting a new business to his experience at Olin.

Financial investing is a broad, complex subject that “We present a selection of funds with clear analysis through confuses as much as it illuminates. our website, primarily,” Levine explained. “What we aim to do is educate instead of entice, and so we’re really focused David Levine says he understands why and aims on explaining through clear, engaging content about the to change that. world of alternatives so that people can understand and The Houston native believes the path past confusion choose for themselves.” is paved with information, and there’s plenty of it online. It’s a nuanced approach, but one Levine says he may not But not everyone can find it or knows what to do once have attempted without studying at Olin. He immersed it’s in hand. himself in business management, finance, and philosophy Enter Artivest, a New York-based financial services enterprise as an undergraduate. That broad education, plus connections backed by venture capital and run by a half-dozen people he cultivated at Olin, landed him at Lehman Bros., first as devoted to charting strategies that incorporate what Levine an intern, then full time as an analyst dealing with mergers calls “alternative investing.” Levine directs the fledgling and acquisitions and investing. company’s overall strategy. Employment at a private equity firm and a hedge fund, “I think that most people don’t have access to alternative as well as a law degree from Harvard, came later. But investing because it is a very secretive, closed industry,” Levine says Olin left a lasting impression that fuels his Levine said. “By alternatives, I mean hedge funds, venture entrepreneurial spirit. capital, and credit equity, among others. What we’re doing “To work as an entrepreneur and to try to build something that is a completely new way of creating access to an industry doesn’t exist and to really push things forward in a creative that many people just don’t have access to.” way does require creative thinking, abstract thinking . . . . ALTERNATIVE INVESTING Without Olin, there’s no way I’d be able to do this,” he said. “Even now, I think that the background I had academically Artivest—an amalgamation of the terms “art” and is tied to my credibility.” “investing”—spawned early this year from another company formed last year. A change of heart and goals among the OLIN-FORGED VISIONARY original company’s principals led to a change in overall Of course, having the right personality helps, too. direction. Levine is among the leaders charting this new direction. “David is a great visionary,” said Andrew Klaber, a former colleague of Levine’s at Paulson & Co. in New York. “He’s also If all goes as planned, Artivest will grow to almost a dozen incredibly generous with his time, generous from a charitable employees by year’s end. NEW perspective in terms of supporting nonprofit organizations. He epitomizes the ‘learn, earn, and return’ model, instead of ‘learn, earn, and then return.’ He’s extraordinary at doing DIRECTION all three at the same time.”

New York-based Artivest specializes in alternative investments and financial strategies. Its name derives from the terms “art” and “investing.”

CREATE KNOWLEDGE. INSPIRE INDIVIDUALS. TRANSFORM BUSINESS. 13 ‘UNQUENCHABLE SPIRIT’ EMILYEMILY PITTS, PITTS, EMBA Partner, ‘11, Partner, Edward Edward Jones, MBAJones ‘95

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Emily Pitts blazed a trail for diversity at Edward Jones, then brought that same energy to her study at Olin.

Look up Emily Pitts’ name online and you see the word As for choosing Olin, it was no contest, she said. Many “first” a lot. Along with it are several mentions of “diversity.” colleagues at Edward Jones who attended Olin and were enthusiastic ambassadors for the school set the standard That’s because Pitts, a general partner with Edward Jones Pitts wanted for herself. Investments in St. Louis, was the first African American woman to receive that title, in 2004, largely due to her But working on her Executive MBA while continuing crusade there to raise diversity awareness and bring more her duties at Edward Jones tested Pitts more than any minorities into the financial services workforce. final exam. She finished the program on time with her class in 2011. The crusade has earned her awards, praise, and plenty of respect throughout the region. John Beuerlein, MBA ’71, “Classes were every other weekend. Still, I had a lot of very a general partner at Edward Jones since 1976, recently late nights all through the week,” she said. “And I had an told the St. Louis Business Journal that Pitts “has an understanding husband to help me through them.” unquenchable spirit about inclusion.” OLIN’S GREATEST LESSON Still, Pitts thought she could do more, learn more, be more —but only if she returned to school, so she enrolled in the Though intent merely on filling gaps in her knowledge, Executive MBA program at Olin. Pitts acquired a broader education than she expected.

“I was always so busy in my career, I kept pushing back the “(Olin) did so many things for me—it increased my confidence idea of going back to school,” she said. “But then I realized in myself, in the work that I do, and in the way I interact there’s no perfect time to do that . . . . Nobody asked at work,” she said. “What I learned at Olin, really, was all me to do it; I just decided to do it to better myself.” of the possibilities . . . how so many organizations have utilized innovation and creativity and different thinking KNOWLEDGE GAPS styles to be more productive and to make a difference in their communities.” Pitts studied business administration and marketing at Clark College in Atlanta, then bounced from a pharmaceutical Pitts led the creation of Edward Jones’s Cross-Cultural firm to a series of brokerages before landing at Edward Jones. Development Program, which helps raise diversity awareness Yet, despite her education, talent, skills, and steady rise at among financial advisors, and the Women and Minority Edward Jones, Pitts saw plenty of places to sharpen her Leadership Forums, which focus on recruitment and skills in the areas of finance, strategy, and management. retention of diverse talent.

“For example, I was never fantastic at accounting,” she said. “But now I feel better equipped to have an intelligent conversation about accounting.”

Edward Jones was founded as a small chain of single-broker investment offices in 1922. The St. Louis-based firm is now one of the largest brokerages in North America, with more than 11,000 locations across the United States and Canada.

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LEADING EDGE An Olin education while at Monsanto put Carl Casale on track to bigger things with CHS Inc.

Life moves fast for Carl Casale, president and chief executive OLIN’S IMPACT officer of CHS Inc., a multibillion-dollar Minnesota-based Yet Casale gained more from his Olin studies than Fortune 100 company with interests in food processing he expected. and wholesale, farm supply, and financial services, among many others. “The knowledge I gained at Olin . . . not only allowed me to be an effective CFO, it gave me an appreciation and Besides that, Casale and his wife run a commercial understanding of how to do it better,” Casale said. blueberry farm in his home state of Oregon, and the busy season is just winding down. When he’s not in St. Paul, That, in turn, boosted his management profile and made he trades his suit and tie for a pair of comfortable jeans him the optimum choice to head CHS, known as Cenex and heads to the berry fields to get his hands dirty. Harvest States until changing its legal name in 2003.

“I go out every two weeks when they’re harvesting,” he said. “(Casale) has a really impressive and broad scope “Kim is there every week watching things, of course, but it’s of business experience,” then-chairman Michael Toelle my chance to get back out in the fields, which I really enjoy.” told the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis upon Casale’s hiring in 2010. Plus, he has “rural values and a commitment EXECUTIVE DECISION to agriculture.”

Casale grew up on an Oregon vegetable farm, studied But Casale credits Olin for making him a better manager. agricultural economics at Oregon State, then signed on with Monsanto in Washington state to sell herbicides. From “The broader growth through my study group was every bit there, he worked his way up to chief financial officer, though as valuable to my degree as the hard skills I learned in the finance was not his chief interest or skill. Monsanto offered classroom, and probably had a greater influence on me over to help him out. time,” said Casale, who has the distinction of being the first chief executive CHS hired from outside the cooperative. Through its Executive MBA program, “Olin had a partnership “You know, you can learn skills by reading a book, but LEADING with Monsanto. The leadership at the time thought I should take advantage of that, and I jumped at the chance,” Casale you can’t gain perspective by doing that, right? You have said. “Whenever you have an opportunity to expand your to interact with others in order to gain that,” he continued. skill base, what you probably don’t appreciate at the time “In my view, what really differentiated Olin when I went is the ability to also expand your perspective.” through are the relationships I built with my study group members. Everyone pitched in leading discussions, which The Executive MBA commitment took up many of Casale’s really helped balance a heavy class load.” Fridays and Saturdays, several hours of study group work each week, plus two hours of book study a night, on top of long days at Monsanto. The program, which he finished in 1992, presented one of the biggest challenges he ever faced, he said. EDGE

Casale also owns a commercial blueberry farm in his home state of Oregon and visits there often to work in the fields.

16 OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL | FALL 2013 LEADING EDGE CARL CASALE , EMBA ‘92, President, CEO, CHS Inc.

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DATA VISIONARY

David Brown keeps his St. Louis-based Datotel out in front of the cloud computing market.

David Brown was working in the cloud before most people “When you start seeing that term pop up all the time in knew what that meant. magazine articles, you know [the idea] is out there in the public realm,” Brown said. “So, that’s been helpful . . . In 2004, fresh out of Olin Business School, Brown was It has really taken away some of the barriers, at least from figuring out what to do with his newly minted MBA when an education awareness standpoint, that makes it a lot easier an idea struck him: remote enterprise data storage. to approach CFOs and CEOs of the world and explain the He had seen too many businesses struggling to store and value of our position.” secure their own data on site at great cost. So the Scotland That Brown, 36, is even in this position stuns him a native devised a way to help them. little. Before attending Olin, he worked for Oracle as an Nearly a decade later, Datotel, the cloud computing and information technology consultant and expected to land colocation company he founded with four people, does almost somewhere as a chief information officer. $10 million in business annually, with a total staff of 42 and “When I first started my career, I thought I knew what three storage centers, one each in Chicago, Denver, and at I wanted to do. But I didn’t have a good understanding the headquarters in St. Louis. for business,” he said. “I knew mainly the technology A CATCHY NAME side and how to apply it to business.”

Datotel was a blessing for small- and mid-size firms seeking MOTIVATED BY OLIN a third-party data caretaker who could also ensure Brown met and married a woman from St. Louis whose dependable data access. family included several Washington University graduates, “David’s approach to problem solving and client relationships who recommended that he check out Olin. He spoke to some is as an entrepreneur on a peer-to-peer basis, sharing ideas, of the professors and “everything seemed to click,” he said. strategies, and tactics to help me improve my business,” said Brown credits Olin for helping him trust and nourish his Jim Guller, president of Cooperative Home Care and All-Staff own creativity. Nursing, a home-based care service that has worked with Datotel since 2011. “Of course, I learned a lot of tactical things there, but I think just the close way you work with other students gives you But Brown’s company gained an unexpected boost in great insight into what other people are thinking,” he said. business when in 2006 the catchy term “cloud computing” “It was very different from my undergraduate experience in evolved to describe the concept of distributed computing engineering, which was a fairly solitary experience. And then over a network. coming from that to a business school where you’re working with other professionals, everyone is like-minded and focused, was really an amazing experience.”

Cloud storage is a term that describes the housing of data on multiple virtual servers operated by third parties such as Datotel. This allows remote access to information and file sharing wherever Internet access exists.

18 OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL | FALL 2013 DATA VISIONARY

DAVID BROWN, MIM ‘03, MBA ‘04, President, Datotel

Photo by Ron Klein FACULTY NEWS

Introducing Olin’s New Faculty

Bernardo Silveira Jennifer Dlugosz John Horn Zawadi Lemayian Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Senior Lecturer Assistant Professor of Economics of Finance in Economics of Accounting

PhD, Economics, 2013, New PhD, Business Economics, PhD, Economics, 1998, PhD, Accounting, 2013, York University 2009, Harvard University Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prior to joining Olin, Prior to joining Olin, Jennifer Prior to joining Olin, John Bernardo da Silveira was Dlugosz was an assistant Horn was on the faculty at Prior to joining Olin, Zawadi a research assistant at New professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s Lemayian was a teaching York University. His research Virginia Tech’s Pamplin Robert H. Smith School assistant at the Massachusetts interests include industrial College of Business. Her of Business. His research Institute of Technology’s Sloan organization, political economy, research interests include interests include applied game School of Management. Her and public economics. securitization, credit ratings, theory (e.g., wargaming) and research interests include and syndicated lending. behavioral economics (e.g., financial accounting (debt, debiasing strategic decisions). banking, disclosure) and taxation.

“We are delighted to welcome these seven newest members to our faculty. Collectively, they bring a set of skills, expertise, and intellectual curiosity Yulia Nevskaya Giorgia Piacentino Raphael Thomadsen Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor to our school that of Marketing of Finance of Marketing will provide excellent PhD, Marketing, 2013, PhD, Finance, 2013, London PhD, Economics, 2001, contributions to both University of Rochester School of Economics Stanford University our research and Prior to joining Olin, Yulia Prior to joining Olin, Giorgia Prior to joining Olin, Raphael Nevskaya was a lab instructor Piacentino was a class teacher Thomadsen was an assistant teaching missions.” for managerial economics at and course support manager professor at the University the University of Rochester’s at the London School of of California–Los Angeles’s —Todd T. Milbourn, William E. Simon Graduate Economics. Her research Anderson School of Senior Associate Dean–Faculty School of Business. Her interests include institutional Management. His research and Research and Hubert C. research interests include investors, corporate finance, interests include pricing, and Dorothy R. Moog Professor online content and digital corporate governance, and pricing strategies, geographic of Finance marketing, dynamic structural credit agencies. competition, and applied choice models, habit and game theor y. addiction formation, and consumer variety-seeking.

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Faculty Bookshelf Just Published...

Innovation and Recommended Reading Thakor Growth: What Do INNOVATION AND GROWTH

This book, written entirely by faculty at the We Know? Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a variety of practical and implementable perspectives on innovation for managers. In addition, the book contains chapters INNOVATI N that provide reviews of the academic research INNOVATI N AND on innovation in the faculty members’ specific areas of expertise. In taking this multifunctional AND GROWTH approach to innovation, the focus of the book is not just on what is currently considered to be “best What Do We Know? practice”. Rather, it is on bringing to managers the Give and Take: Engines of Lean In cutting-edge knowledge that is being generated by academic research that goes beyond current Anjan Thakor, best practice. GROWTH A Revolutionary Innovation What Do We Know? editor Director of By Sheryl Sandberg Anjan Thakor

ISBN 978-981-4343-53-4 Approach to ISBN-13 978-981-4397-83-4 World Scientific www.worldscientific.com World Scientific Doctoral Programs By Holden Thorp Published by Knopf8115 hc Success and Buck Goldstein and John E. Simon “Both men and By Adam Grant Published by The Professor of Finance women who are Published by University of North interested in their World Scientific Publishing Viking Adult Carolina Press organization’s The book’s eight chapters provide “Adam explains how givers, “Written by our new provost—a great performance will findLean In a a unique “synthesis of academic matchers, and takers follow book, of course, and a window into useful and informative book.” research on innovation with a different pathways, and presents the university’s future perspectives Michelle Duguid, Assistant variety of cross-functional and very a compelling account of how on entrepreneurship.” Professor of Organizational practical managerial perspectives givers—surprisingly!—achieve Cliff Holekamp, Senior Lecturer in Behavior on innovation,” according to editor remarkable success.” Entrepreneurship and Director of Anjan Thakor. In addition to reviews Ray Sparrowe, Associate Professor the Entrepreneurship Platform of academic research on innovation The Better Angels of Organizational Behavior in organizational behavior, operations, of Our Nature: marketing, economics, and finance, Capitalism from Why Violence Has the volume contains chapters for Happy Money: Below Declined managers with useful perspectives The Science of By Victor Nee By Steven Pinker on innovation that can be applied Smarter Spending and Sonja Opper Published by in the workplace. Eight Olin faculty By Elizabeth Dunn Published by Penguin Books members contributed to the book. and Michael Norton Harvard University “Takes a whole bunch of messy

Published by Press Nickerson CONTRIBUTORS —— ADVANCE PRAISE FOR —— Sanders • Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard Tackling Wicked information and makes(ret.) sense ofTackling it— Wicked Government Problems Tackling Wicked • David Altman, Center for Creative Leadership— “In a world where problems pay no attention to boundaries, and a failure to nav- ow can government leaders tackle the Europe, Middle East, Africa igate those boundaries can produce disaster, this book is a welcome guide. It not complex interagency and intergovernmen- Simon & Schuster • Donna Chrobot-Mason, University of Cincinnati only charts the big issues we face, but it also lays out a plan for getting the leaders Government tal issues they face increasingly today? • Rob Cross, University of Virginia and Network we need. It’s an invaluable contribution to the inescapable debate.” H Tackling Wicked Government Problems Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Roundtable — DONALD F. KETTL, Dean, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Government “This book implicitly compares the arguments are cogent• Kristin Cullen, Centerand for Creative Leadership articulated Problems Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders draws on “Now, more than ever, the country needs effective leaders who can ‘move the • Barry Dorn, Harvard School of Public Health and the experience of some of the federal govern- needle’ to improve enterprise performance. Ron Sanders, Jackson Nickerson, Tufts University School of Medicine ment’s most successful executives and leadership and a cast of proven leaders provide practical advice on how to improve leader • Andrew Hargadon, University of California, Davis A Practical Guide for development in government to tackle tough problems and achieve better enter- development experts who offer proven strategies • Leonard Marcus, Harvard School of Public Health and prise-wide outcomes.” for successfully taking on the great challenges Harvard Kennedy School Developing Enterprise Leaders Problems: A — W. SCOTT GOULD, former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans that confront our nation. Here, they point the way “The book not only teaches us how success of China’s economy to that well—and perhaps •a J. Michael McConnell,bit Booz Allen ofHamilton the ‘feel Affairs, and coauthor of The People Factor forward for the next generation of senior public • Laura Miller Craig, U.S. Government Accountability Office “Today’s big problems cannot be solved by single organizations, no matter how officials. • Jessica Nierenberg, U.S. Government Accountability powerful. They demand collaborative effort by people in various federal agen- Office cies, and often by others in state, local, and foreign governments and the private • Salvatore Parise, Babson College and nonprofit sectors. Marshalling these resources is the job of the ‘enterprise Practical Guide we can better spend our money to of Eastern Europe post-communism. good’ or ‘hope at the• Stephen T.end Shih, U.S. Office of Personnel of Management theleader,’ a term coined in this volume to describe the qualities increasingly de- • Pasquale (Pat) Tamburrino Jr., U.S. Department of manded of federal officials. It makes a convincing case both for viewing ‘wicked Defense problems’ differently and for preparing agency officials to work across bound- • Jim Trinka, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs aries in addressing them.” • Thomas W. Valente, University of Southern California — TIMOTHY B. CLARK, Editor-at-Large, Government Executive Media Group “Government’s ability to keep up with an ever-more complicated and changing Jackson Nickerson,for Ronald Sanders, Developing and their col- JACKSON NICKERSON is the Frahm Family Professor of increase our own happiness, but it In a great story, with rigorous tunnel’ factor in that he is suggestingworld depends on a move to a new ‘enterprise’ model of leadership, and this Organization and Strategy at the Olin Business School leagues offer several approaches for translating book is a great starting point for telling us how to get there.” at Washington University in St. Louis. He also is a social network theory into practical approaches nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the — MAX STIER, President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings– for building and employing collaborative net- Olin Executive Education partnership at Brookings. works. They present real solutions for developing INNOVATIONS IN LEADERSHIP SERIES RONALD SANDERS is a vice president at Booz Allen enterprise leadersEnterprise and explore how such leaders is also good for marketers who want research, it makes the argument violence is declining.”Hamilton and the firm’s first fellow. He also has served can use these networks to respond to, and even- in a number of senior U.S. government posts, including BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS Associate Director of National Intelligence, Chief HR Washington, D.C. Jackson Nickerson tually solve, thorny problems that span multiple Officer for the Internal Revenue Service, and Director of www.brookings.edu/press agencies and disciplines. Civilian Personnel for the U.S. Department of Defense. Ronald Sanders EDITORS Leadership to know how they can increase the that China’s success stems from Illustration and jacket by Rich Pottern Design Judi McLean Parks, Reuben C. and satisfaction and happiness of their entrepreneurs trying to work Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of customers. On top of that, it’s based around institutional impediments.” Jackson Nickerson, Frahm Family Organizational Behavior on the latest scientific research on Professor of Organization and Anne Marie Knott, Professor happiness, and an enjoyable read.” Strategy; Brookings Nonresident of Strategy Bitter Brew Senior Scholar in Government Joe Goodman, Associate Professor Studies; and Associate Dean of Marketing By William The Power of Habit and Director of the Brookings Knoedelseder Executive Education By Charles Duhigg Published by Competitive Published by HarperBusiness Brookings Institution Press Solutions Random House “An essential book This book is coedited by Jackson By R. Preston “It details how to read for Nickerson and Ronald Sanders, McAfee individuals and anyone interested in understanding vice president at Booz Allen Published organizations the evolution of business, the rise Hamilton. Sanders served 37 years by Princeton can consistently excel in life and of the global corporation, and the in government service to the U.S. University Press business.” history of St. Louis.” Intelligence Community, the Office “Competitive Solutions applies of Personnel Management, the Adina Sterling, Assistant Professor Bill Bottom, Joyce and Howard serious economic and game- Internal Revenue Service, and of Strategy Wood Distinguished Professor theoretic reasoning to a wide variety the Department of Defense. of Organizational Behavior of business applications. The author Their book draws on the is a first-rate economist with wide- The Art of experience of some of ranging experience in business. Explanation the federal government’s Formerly at CalTech, he now By Lee LeFever most successful executives works for Google.” Published by and leadership development experts, who offer Glenn MacDonald, John M. Wiley proven strategies Olin Distinguished Professor “It explains the art of explanation.” for successfully of Economics and Strategy Ron King, Director of the Center taking on the for Experiential Learning, Senior great challenges Associate Dean–Special Projects, that confront and Myron Northrop Professor our nation. of Accounting

CREATE KNOWLEDGE. INSPIRE INDIVIDUALS. TRANSFORM BUSINESS. 21 Photo by Joe Angeles

22 OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL | FALL 2013 FEATURE Bullish on

AmericaBy David Sheets

Retiring professor James Little is confident about the U.S. role in the global marketplace.

In four decades at Washington contribution to global growth, University, Professor James Little whereas the United States is poised To read the full transcript analyzed the ups and downs of to once again become a power behind of Professor Little’s speech numerous economies, and watched that growth. or watch a video of his four nations—Brazil, Russia, India, retirement presentation, and China—rise to prominence in “Part of the reason, of course, is go to olinblog.wustl.edu and search the global marketplace. the sheer size of the U.S. economy,” for “Jim Little.” he said. “But the main reason is the But as he steps away from his United States’ economic fundamentals. position as the Donald J. Danforth, Jr. director of Olin’s Executive MBA Distinguished Professor of Business “The most positive message is that I do Program and director of the school’s at Olin and into retirement, Little says not think the U.S. economy is in decline, European programs. these nations may not be able but rather that it is poised for solid to maintain the same growth over the next decade.” Although he is relinquishing his full professorship, Little will continue Little voiced his confidence during a serving as EMBA director in a farewell speech before a reception in partnership with Fudan University in his honor in June at the Knight Center. Shanghai, China. The new role keeps About 150 people, among them former him in a position to observe the students and colleagues, were on hand, evolving Chinese economy, which looks and they gave the longtime economics strong enough on its surface to rival professor their warm regards and America’s. toasted his long career. That strength, he says, emanates in part Little started teaching at Washington from an emerging marketplace spurred University in 1971 in the economics by advancing technology, increased department. He moved to the business capital flows, and increased trade school under Dean Bob Virgil and later across international borders due served as associate dean of academic to globalization. affairs. He has served as academic

CREATE KNOWLEDGE. INSPIRE INDIVIDUALS. TRANSFORM BUSINESS. 23 designed to promote free trade and Besides China and India, the other capital flows, market access for foreign leading emerging markets are Russia, enterprises, and provide financial aid Brazil, and to a lesser extent, South and assistance to the poorer countries Africa and Indonesia. All of them, of the world.” Little says, are transformative, relying ever more on market forces than Emerging markets government controls to drive their economies. They are embracing “By 2020, something approaching Now that openness may be challenged, new technology, investing in capital 60 percent of global output will come and Little cites the appointment this improvements, and they have large from developing and emerging-market spring of Brazil’s Robert Azevedo as populations of young people who countries,” Little said. “China’s share director-general of the World Trade are hungry for jobs. of output will surpass that of the U.S. Organization as partial proof. Brazil is in 2017 or so to become the world’s considered the most restrictive major largest economy.” Intelligent investing economy in the Americas, according With that shift in output comes to International Monetary Fund data, What threatens to disrupt their power to influence the design of the and Azevedo has staunchly defended progress—China’s in particular— global economic architecture, which Brazil’s economic policies. and the reason Little waxes bullish for decades was shaped by the on America’s future are the difficulties China and India endorsed Azevedo’s United States. these nations face in doing what appointment. The United States rallied the United States has already “It’s worth remembering that . . . the behind Mexican economist Herminio accomplished: the rapid transformation rules governing trade, international Blanco Mendoza, a free-trade advocate. of education to meet the need for capital flows, and currencies and knowledgeable workers, and the “It may well be that I’m a pessimist . . . but development finance . . . were largely redirection of investment spending while it might be fair to give emerging developed right after World War II. away from fixed assets toward economies more influence in our The U.S., by far the largest economy in investment in innovation. international economic institutions, the world at the time, did not dictate I fear that this will weaken some of the the rules, but certainly the U.S. had “The importance of education and very rules that made it possible for most of the votes,” Little said. “The innovation to growth comes as no them to grow rapidly in the first place,” system that was put into place was both surprise; the two largest sources Little said. enlightened and generous, and was of growth between the 1930s and

24 OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL | FALL 2013 “While the perception of many is that China has become capitalist, that is not the truth. A market economy is not necessarily a capitalist economy.”

1980s in the U.S. were education “While the perception of many is young people from all over the world and advances in knowledge,” Little that China has become capitalist, to study here,” Little said. “And with explained. “So, the issue for China that is not the truth,” Little said. immigration reform, which seems very going forward is whether it can make “A market economy is not necessarily likely to come, many more of those very the transition from growth based on a capitalist economy.” talented people will be able to remain investment in fixed assets to growth in the United States and contribute based on education and innovation. The U.S. economy, meanwhile, over their working lifetimes.” I am not convinced it will be able continues to lead in innovation and to do so.” offer an education that has great value, he insisted. He is skeptical because China not Scholarship only lacks investment incentive due “While our K-through-12 education Honors Little system may have slipped in the world to continued reliance on large state- Olin has established rankings, our higher education system owned companies to fuel its domestic the Jim Little economic engine, but also lacks the is the best in the world—so much so Tribute Scholarship willingness to discontinue that that we attract the brightest to honor Professor Little’s legacy of economic model. educating students. An Olin student will be awarded this scholarship next fall. To make a gift in support of this scholarship, please contact [email protected].

CREATE KNOWLEDGE. INSPIRE INDIVIDUALS. TRANSFORM BUSINESS. 25 COLLABORATION The key to global business

From St. Louis to Singapore, Olin continues to form new Two-thirds of Washington University undergrads pursue partnerships with companies, universities, and institutions multiple majors and minors; and graduate students seek to broaden opportunities for collaboration. “Learning how dual degrees to combine their cross-disciplinary interests. to collaborate with classmates on research projects, case Clues to some of our most recent collaborations are on these competitions, and student club activities is an essential part pages. If you need help solving the puzzle, the answers are M of the Olin experience,” says Dean Mahendra Gupta. “Our on page 38 of this magazine. partnerships with academic institutions and corporations S provide students with additional opportunities to collaborate 6 with professionals and gain real-world experience so they are L prepared for today’s complex global workplace.” E 8 9 boardfellows ACROSS 12 D 1. Washington University’s School of Social Work 13 offers MSW Social Entrepreneurship specialization E with Olin 4. S outheast Asian island city-state R 14 6. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president S 9. Program that allows MBAs to serve on United Way agency boards H 14. Dean of Olin Business School 16CYBERSECURI TY 15. W ebsite that covers entrepreneurship in St. Louis sponsored by Washington University P 16.   New master’s degree offered in conjunction with the School of Engineering & Applied Science 17. Nickname for Brookings Executive Education managed by Olin 17

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This summer, Olin welcomed St. Louis Federal Reserve Washington University’s School Clifford Holekamp, senior lecturer to campus the inaugural class president and CEO Jim Bullard; of Engineering & Applied Science in entrepreneurship, created the of the new Global Master of Chris Waller, senior vice president is partnering with Olin to launch a Danube Venture Consulting course Finance Dual Degree Program and director of research at the master’s degree in cyber security five years ago. Students spend in collaboration with Singapore St. Louis Fed; and Stuart management this fall to provide 10 days in Budapest consulting Management University. The Greenbaum, former Olin dean area professionals and full-time with startups. This year, one team’s cohort will travel between and Bank of America Professor students with the skills needed research was instrumental in St. Louis and Singapore to earn Emeritus of Managerial to prepare for and stop cyber the Danube Fund making a new degrees from both universities. Leadership, collaborated on attacks in the workplace. It will be portfolio acquisition. Another a new course this spring “U.S. part of the Professional Education team provided key market research Macroeconomic Policy after the Program administered by the for a software company preparing 2008 Crisis.” The class included Sever Institute. to enter a new market in the prominent guest speakers from United States. the world of finance.

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This new CEL Entrepreneur “Whether collaborating on a local In collaboration with the “Business and Government: Consulting Team (CELect) course or a global scale, the ability to Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Understanding and Influencing embeds students with startup work across disciplinary and in Herzliya, Israel, and Onward the Regulatory Environment” is companies at T-REx, an incubator cultural lines leads to innovative Israel, Olin is launching the Israel a new undergraduate course that for new ventures located in learning and is essential to Summer Business Academy (ISBA). includes a weeklong boot camp downtown St. Louis. The course finding solutions in today’s The six-week academy will take immersion in Washington, D.C., is a collaboration between the global economy. These kinds of place in Tel Aviv and combines at the Brookings Institution with schools of business, engineering, collaborative courses, programs, classroom and experiential government leaders and experts. and law. and practicums have the potential learning opportunities. Students to change the way our students will work on consulting projects think about both education and for nonprofit startups, engage their future careers. The future with entrepreneurs, and tour belongs to those who know how organizations such as Google to collaborate effectively.” Israel and the Tel Aviv Stock — Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton Exchange.

CREATE KNOWLEDGE. INSPIRE INDIVIDUALS. TRANSFORM BUSINESS. 27 ALUMNI NEWS Fueling Olin’s Momentum

Olin is on brings a return on your investment, graduates. At the same time, we can strong footing. not just for Olin or its students, but enhance our skills through continuing Our students also for you. education. We can further our careers are brighter through engaging with events in our This year, the Olin Alumni Board will than ever; the communities, social media, and by celebrate its 50th anniversary, and faculty and visiting campus and helping the school. I have the honor of serving as president. administration Finally, we can provide critical funding I am a 1991 graduate of the MBA are world class. for Olin through Leading Together: The program and a partner with Lockton, We have been Campaign for Washington University. the world’s largest privately held recognized by insurance broker. My Olin education Please join me this year in various rankings as one of the top prepared me for my first career in participating in the success of business schools in the United States. finance and strategic planning at Olin Business School. The website What’s more, we have momentum. The Anheuser-Busch and for my current www.olin.wustl.edu/alumni is a completion of Knight Hall and Bauer role assisting companies to mitigate great place to get started, and then Hall in the spring of 2014 will double risk as well as navigate the complexities contact Steffani Lautenschlager in Olin’s footprint on campus and position of their employee benefits programs. Olin’s Alumni & Development Office us for transformative growth for the for additional information at next generation. “My goal for this year is to 314-935-7398. Let’s make this year What role do we, the 19,000-strong capitalize on the momentum the year to maximize our engagement alumni, play in the success of our and celebrate our successes. school? I believe each of us plays we have at Olin to further a vital role—whether you live in St. energize our alumni.” Kirk Wrobley Louis or Shanghai and whether you MBA ’91, are established in business or a newly We are Olin’s best ambassadors. Olin Alumni Board President 2013–14 minted graduate, you have the ability We can guide prospective students, to make a difference. Your engagement mentor existing ones, and employ our

Kent Scholarship Challenge

For Jerry and Judy Kent, investing in through college, students means investing in success. and I couldn’t have That’s the reason they established attended Washington the Kent Scholars Program in 2009, University without which awards five annual scholarships financial assistance.” based on merit and financial need. It’s After graduating also the reason they’ve created a new from Olin, Jerry $2 million scholarship challenge to Kent went on to encourage others to help Olin students. cofound Charter For all new or increased scholarship Communications, gifts from alumni and friends, and today he is the Kents will provide additional cofounder, president, scholarship support to Olin. and CEO of the The fact that nearly 50 percent of telecommunications firm Cequel III, Judy and Jerry Kent (front row) at the 2012 all Olin undergraduate and graduate LLC. He believes that scholarships help Scholars in Business dinner with Kent Scholars students need financial assistance to ensure that no deserving student and BSBA ’12 graduates (from left to right) resonates with the Kents. “Judy and misses the opportunity for a top-tier Daniel Grimm, Kirsten Miller, Caitlin Lutsch, Joshua Chang, and Jonathan Howard. I both come from modest backgrounds, education at Washington University and neither of our families had and says, “We must increase resources For more information about the sufficient funds to finance our for scholarships if we’re to continue to Judy and Jerry Kent Scholarship education,” says Jerry Kent, BSBA ’78, attract the brightest students in the Challenge, contact Nancy Barter MBA ’79. “Judy worked her way country and in the world.” at [email protected] or 314-935-9053.

28 OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL | FALL 2013 ALUMNI NEWS 2013 Distinguished Alumni

Roger L. Weston Paulino Do Rego Barros Jr. John Dains Mary Jo Gorman Steven G. Segal Dean’s Medal Recipient

Center was established in the Financial Corporation, North Roger L. Weston Steven G. Segal 1980s and will expand in the America’s largest privately held BSBA ’82, Cofounder and MBA ’67, Chairman, new facilities in 2014. railcar and locomotive leasing Special Limited Partner, GreatBanc, Inc. company. J.W. Childs Associates L.P. Entrepreneur, Paulino Do Rego Barros Jr. Steve Segal cofounded the investor, art EMBA ’91, President, Equifax Mary Jo Gorman, MD Boston-based private equity collector, and International firm J.W. Childs Associates in philanthropist are EMBA ’96, Founder and Chief Paulino, a native of Sao Paulo, Executive Officer, Advanced 1995. The company has invested just a few of the facets of Roger Brazil, leads the international ICU Care $3 billion in more than 40 Weston’s long and successful business unit of Equifax, a global companies. In recent years, Segal career since graduating from Mary Jo Gorman is a nationally leader in consumer, commercial, has divided his time between Washington University. In recognized leader in hospital and and workforce information the firm and Boston University’s 1986, he founded GreatBanc, intensive care medicine. In 2005, solutions. He has strategic School of Management, where Inc., a multibank holding she founded her third company, oversight for the company’s he teaches a graduate course company that was acquired by Advanced ICU Care, now the business operations in Latin in private equity and leveraged Citizens Financial Group Inc. nation’s largest tele-ICU program America, Europe, and Canada. buyouts, and oversees a student in 2007. Weston’s involvement provider. The company works organization that actively in the business school has to standardize and deliver to manages a portion of the contributed to Olin’s growth and John Dains hospitals high-quality intensive university’s endowment. reputation. He played a key role BSBA ’68, CEO Emeritus, care previously available only in in the creation of The Hatchery Helm Financial Corporation larger, regional hospital systems. entrepreneurship course and A Washington University trustee, the founding of the Olin Cup John Dains is CEO emeritus business plan competition. With of San Francisco-based Helm his support, the Weston Career

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Carolyn (Cramer) Sanford, Share your news! 1960s 1980s MBA ’82, Los Angeles, CA, is assistant director of development Joseph Rosenthal, BSBA ’61, Douglas Miller, BSBA ’80, To submit updates, for the Life Sciences Department Sarasota, FL, retired in 1999. Lutherville, MD, received the corrections, and at UCLA. She writes, “After 20 He volunteers at a county Augustus Owlsley Stanley Award years of raising our children, announcements, visit hospital and raises money from the Bear Foundation in I am looking forward to this apps.olin.wustl.edu/ for physically and mentally April 2013 in recognition of next phase of my life. Would disabled children in public his innovative and progressive alumni/forms/classnotes love to hear from classmates.” school. [email protected] approach to tenant retention [email protected] and satisfaction. He was also Warren Morgens, BSBA ’62/ recognized by the Rorer Kevin Johnson, BSBA ’84, JD ’64, La Jolla, CA, moved to the Foundation for his 714 Program, Broken Arrow, OK, received 1950s West after his 2004 retirement a new tenant retention program. the 2012 research award from private law practice. from the Society for American Thomas Hess, BSBA ’50, He specialized in banking, Merril Prager, BSBA ’80, Baseball Research for the Negro Crystal City, MO, retired recently securities and general corporate Northbrook, IL, is equity chair Leagues Database. He appears from the real estate business. law. [email protected] of the Joseph Jefferson Awards in the Bob Costas special Behind [email protected] Committee, which celebrates the Seams: The Ballpark Factor, Tom O’Neal, BSBA ’62, excellence in Chicago theater. which airs periodically on the Frank Fuerst, BSBA ’55, Columbia, MO, just completed For more information, visit MLB Network. In addition to Warrenton, VA, received a 10 years of development work www.jeffawards.org. his day job at Sabre Inc. in President’s Volunteer Service for the University of Missouri. Tulsa, OK, Kevin is cofounder Award for his work with Vint He helped raise $82 million for Cheryl (Treffert) Lachalmelle, and vice president of the baseball Hill Conservancy and Vint Hill MU’s College of Business and BSBA ’81, Lake St. Louis, MO, website Seamheads.com and Manor Homeowners Association. now calls on all MU alumni retired in 2006 and loves living feature writer for the Outsider He served as president of both in Missouri and seven other in an over-55 community. Baseball Bulletin. organizations. Frank is the states. He and his wife of [email protected] [email protected] author of the prize-winning book 46 years, Gretchen, BFA ’64, Alzheimer’s Care with Dignity. have four grown children and [email protected] three grandchildren.

Diane Packman, BSBA ’83 Blasingame reminisced about Fadem in May at the dedication of a stone bench Honors her father donated by Diane Packman, Fadem’s Aaron J. Fadem, BSBA ’50, was a familiar daughter. The bench is located just to figure on the Washington University campus the east of Simon Hall, near an entrance for more than half a century. He arrived in to the Danforth University Center where 1946 to earn a business degree and major Prince Hall, the former home of the in advertising. But it was also the beginning business school, once stood. of a lifelong love affair with the school, “It’s very fitting we have a stone bench its faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Diane Packman and her daughter Amanda are in this location,” Blasingame told friends seated on the bench donated in memory of “Aaron was an incredible supporter of the and family who gathered for the their father and grandfather near the Danforth University,” recalled David Blasingame, dedication. “It is in a place that Aaron University Center. Executive Vice Chancellor for Alumni and loved so dearly, near his business school Development Programs, who knew Fadem and in the heart of the campus associated member of the Direct Marketing Association for more than 40 years. “He came to every with the Danforth family.” and served as its president. Aaron Fadem event we had. He was a lifelong member Fadem had a long and successful career passed away November 24, 2011, at the of the Eliot Society; he encouraged other at Commercial Letter in St. Louis for more age of 85. alumni to join, and was a great leader in than 55 years. He was also a founding — MELODY WALKER organizing class reunions.”

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Michael Weinstein, AB ’81/ Todd Sklamberg, MBA ’88, MBA ’84, White Plains, NY, Las Vegas, NV, was promoted finished 183rd out of 331 from COO to CEO of Sunrise finishers in the Dirty Kanza 200, Hospital & Medical Center a 200-mile, one-day “ultimate and Sunrise Children’s gravel grinder” bicycle race. Hospital. todd.sklamberg@ hcahealthcare.com Jon Klapper, BSBA ’85, Wilton Manors, FL, is general counsel at Rocksolid Granit, USA, a national franchisor of granite transformations. 1990s

Rick Butler, BSEE ’80/PMBA John DuCharme, MBA ’90, ’86, Milpitas, CA, is leading St. Louis, was recently promoted Cisco’s Sales Compensation to division VP, Southern California Center of Excellence. automotive operations, at Maritz. He is leading the St. Louis and Gregory Strauss, BSBA ’86/ Los Angeles teams to deliver MBA ’88, St. Louis, is chairman integrated marketing solutions of the 25th reunion of the Olin to major automotive clients Pictured left to right: Bernadine Shaw, Anne Elliott, and Kim Shaw Elliott MBA Class of 1988. He is looking on the West Coast. forward to seeing everyone at [email protected] the reunion in October. Koichi Kawabata, MBA ’90, Family Affair Terry McDonald, PMBA ’87, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Columbia, MO, recently retired attended his daughter’s graduation When Anne Elliott entered the Professional MBA program from the Federal Deposit at the University of British this fall, she became the third generation of women in her Insurance Corporation. Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, family to attend Washington University. She follows in the in May. [email protected] footsteps of her mother, Kim Shaw Elliott, JD ’79, LLM ’85, Carol Rogers, EMBA ’87, Chesterfield, MO, was named David Spark, BSBA ’90, EMBA ’96, and grandmother Bernadine Shaw, Nursing ’50. to Barron’s list of the 2012 San Bruno, CA, is the founder The trio visited campus to tour Graham Chapel and the Top 50 Women Independent of Spark Media Solutions. He Knight Center, where the family will host Anne’s wedding Wealth Managers in the writes, “Check out our fun next June. United States and also ranked 90-second highlight reel on No.12 among the top wealth www.sparkmediasolutions.com.” managers in Missouri. [email protected] [email protected] Jeffrey Tomaneng, BSBA ’92, Mark “Abba” Abbattista, Framingham, MA, is a financial Hiroshi Masayama, MBA ’93, Douglas Lang, MBA ’95, BSBA ’88, Golden, CO, was a planner at Lincoln Investment Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, was St. Louis, was promoted to VP, contestant on the CBS television Planning. promoted to president of TTC technology manager, at Wells show The Amazing Race. He [email protected] Foods Co. [email protected] Fargo Advisors in November maintains an entertainment 2012. [email protected] law firm specializing in music Seth Diamond, BSBA ’93, Nancy Goldstein, MBA ’94, clientele in Beverly Hills. New Milford, NJ, is a realtor® Chicago, IL, is founder and Julie Glaszczak, BSBA ’96, [email protected] associate with Keller Williams chief strategist of Compass(x) Kansas City, MO, is a senior Village Square Realty in Strategy, which recently accreditation manager at James Hammerschmidt, Ridgewood, NJ. celebrated its fourth anniversary. the National Association of BSBA ’88, Rockville, MD, [email protected] [email protected] Insurance Commissioners. was recently elected copresident [email protected] of the law firm of Paley Rothman, Kirsten (Kibota) Dietrich, Kazuhiro Hasegawa, MBA ’94, Bethesda, MD, where he cochairs BSBA ’93, Eureka, MO, was Tokyo, Japan, will be a visiting the employment law group. He promoted to director, global rewards, scholar at The Johns Hopkins and his wife, Jill, have three for Energizer Holdings, Inc. University this fall. children, Sophia, Emma, [email protected] [email protected] and Zachary.

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Kevin Johnson, BSBA ’84 “I already spent much of my free time either Baseball is business for researcher reading about baseball or In this high-resolution, high-definition doing baseball research, age, Kevin Johnson prefers to dwell so it seemed like a smart amid grainy photos and dusty memories. move to try to combine my business skills with Johnson, an avid baseball fan, scours my hobby,” the St. Louis the sport’s past for facts, figures, and native said about applying faces that shaped America’s pastime his Olin education to to assist the Phoenix-based Society baseball analysis. for American Baseball Research (SABR). When he’s not wielding He also works on Seamheads.com, Vintage Negro Leagues photo of the world champion St. Louis a specialty website devoted to the a SABR or adding stitches Stars from the Seamheads archives. legends and lore of baseball. to Seamheads, Johnson, now living in Broken Arrow, Few people outside sports have been OK, contributes feature “Number one would be how to able to mix their work and passion so pieces to Outsider Baseball Bulletin, an successfully collaborate with others,” well. Last year, Johnson, 51, won SABR’s e-magazine affiliated with Seamheads. he said, “closely followed by how National Baseball Research Award for He also appeared in the TV special to coordinate and manage large his efforts in compiling a database of Behind the Seams: The Ballpark Factor projects, matching the differing and Negro Leagues stars and stories stored on MLB Network in April. varied talents of other researchers” at Seamheads. to optimum effect. Through it all, Johnson prizes crucial skills cultivated at Olin. — DAVID SHEETS

Jen (Rodi) Hoglin, MBA ’96, George Van Antwerp, MBA ’96/ Stephanie Linn, BSBA ’98, Park City, UT, joined the MArch ’96, Waxhaw, NC, is St. Louis, relocated to St. Louis 2000s Cardiac Surgery Systems getting settled with his family with her husband, Seth Krantz, Sean Fitzgerald, BSME ’97/ business unit of Edwards in Charlotte, NC, after 20 years and their two-year-old son in MBA ’00, Chicago, IL, joined Lifesciences. She leads the in St. Louis. July 2013. She continues to EverFi with responsibility for marketing and professional work as a senior manager for leading and building the Midwest education departments. Elizabeth (Thien) Reich, AB Deloitte Tax LLP. Her husband is operation. EverFi is a leading [email protected] ’89/EMBA ’97, Grover, MO, completing a two-year fellowship education technology company is a VP, IT asset management, in cardiothoracic surgery. focused on teaching, assessing, Mark Jeffrey, MBA ’96, at MasterCard, where she leads [email protected] and certifying students in St. Louis, heads the marketing a global team responsible for critical skills. and market development software compliance, logistics, Karen Jashinsky, BSBA ’99, [email protected] departments at Solutia, Inc. inventory management, supplier Santa Monica, CA, is the founder He writes, “One son, Chris, relationship management, and of O2 MAX Fitness, which is Jeff Lash, BSBA ’00, is getting a PhD in chemistry order fulfillment. launching the MAXBox, a fitness St. Louis, joined SiriusDecisions (more accurately, computational [email protected] product for college students that in September 2012 as a research chemistry, whatever that is). Our includes personalized workouts, director in product management other son, Scott, is at Davidson Amanda (Kramer) Borden, access to fitness coaches, online service. SiriusDecisions helps College in North Carolina and BSBA ’98/AB ’98, Washington, nutrition info, and snacks. business-to-business companies next year will study at the DC, works at KIPP DC. [email protected] worldwide improve sales and London School of Economics. marketing effectiveness. Jeff My wife, Jennie, is heavily Katsuyuki Yamashita, MBA Julie (Hood) Leverenz, EMBA resides in Webster Groves, MO, involved in real estate work, and ’99, Minoh, Osaka, Japan, ’98, Bowling Green, MO, is with his wife, Leslie Hinyard, AB we added a second Vizsla puppy published Accounting for VP–strategy and planning at ’01/MSW ’04, and daughters, to the household a while back.” Stock Options in March 2013. Hannibal Regional Healthcare. Esme and Brynn. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Erica (Waxman) Mazon, Jeffrey Giles, MBA ’02, 2013 BSBA ’00, Franklin Lakes, NJ, St. Louis, was appointed director was promoted to buyer of men’s of corporate development at PRAXIS accessories and home for Polo Barry-Wehmiller Group in RESEARCH THAT IMPACTS BUSINESS Ralph Lauren Factory Stores. May 2013.

Keeping score among [email protected] credit rating agencies Managing teams with Read the latest research Michael Perlmutter, BSCS ’00/ When consumers don’t diverse values want choices from Olin professors in MBA ’00, Maryland Heights, Stephanie (Spannaus) Hebron, MO, recently joined World Wide BSBA ’02/MSBA ’02, the Praxis pullout section Testing for When good news emotional turns bad for Technology as an IT manager Naperville, IL, relocated to the intelligence marketers located on page 21.

with the business intelligence Chicago area. She is a partner Discovering the Management: diversity-productivity link a calling or just a job? and data warehouse teams. at Cardinal Investment Advisors, [email protected] an institutional investment consulting firm. Richard Stimac, PMBA ’00, [email protected] St. Louis, is an inside sales manager at Abstrakt Marketing Alan Yueh-Lin Lee, BSBA ’02, Federico Spagnoli, MBA ’04, Edward Holliday, PMBA ’05, Group. [email protected] Taipei, Taiwan, is a sales Coral Gables, FL, has moved Nuremberg, Germany, has manager at Doplin Business with his family to Florida after moved to Germany for three Willayna (Roberts) Banner, Center Ltd. six years in Asia. He continues years as a delegate to the BSBA ’01, Harrisburg, NC, was [email protected] working for AIG with a focus Siemens industry sector. promoted to senior VP at Bank in the Latin America and [email protected] of America. Asadur Tchekmedyian, MBA Caribbean region. He writes, ’03, Montevideo, Uruguay, “Looking forward to connecting Dennis King, PMBA ’05, Jeremy Bergtholdt, BSBA ’01, is CEO/director at Punktal. with the Olin community Lake St. Louis, MO, was San Francisco, CA, is a certified [email protected] in Florida.” promoted to chief security administrator with Salesforce. [email protected] officer at Working Security, com. [email protected] Katherine Fogertey, BSBA ’04, an independent provider of New York, NY, is a VP at Josh Zwickl, BSBA ’04/AB ’04, information security risk Donald Lange, EMBA ’01, Goldman Sachs & Co. Chicago, IL, is managing the management, compliance, Marthasville, MO, has a new [email protected] overhaul of operations within and governance services. position with the holding BP’s North American crude oil [email protected] company of the Nooter family Shaun Koiner, BSBA ’04, trading business. of companies. Brooklyn, NY, was recently [email protected] Megan (Canadeo) McCarthy, named senior VP, product BSBA ’05, Chicago, IL, Adam Schwartz, BSBA ’01/ innovation, at Sporting News Priscilla Duncan, BSBA ’05/ was promoted to VP, treasury MSBA ’02, Coral Gables, FL, Media, a new joint venture of MBA ’09/JD ’09, Kansas City, product management, at MB is a director at Fir Tree Partners. Sporting News and PERFORM MO, is corporate counsel at Financial Bank. Group (UK). [email protected] H&R Block, Inc. Justin Silver, BSBA ’01, Ron Sigal, MBA ’05/MEM ’05, New York, NY, recently joined Jordan Polak, MBA ’04, Keith Espelien, EMBA ’05, Haifa, Israel, is a software Aetna’s emerging businesses Phoenixville, PA, is celebrating Overland Park, KS, was engineer at Microfocus. group. [email protected] his first anniversary at BlueJar promoted to senior VP for the [email protected] Strategy, a marketing strategy specialty fertilizer business consultancy firm. at Compass Minerals. Aaron Zises, BSBA ’05, [email protected] New York, NY, was promoted to VP at Family Management Corporation, a registered investment advisor serving high-net-worth individual investors, families, and not- Leave Your Mark for-profit organizations.

Members of the MBA Class of 2013 left their Walker Averitt, BSBA ’05/MBA mark on a steel beam that will support Olin’s ’06, Houston, TX, serves as the new buildings as part of their class gift campaign. administrator and chief business You, too, can create a personalized legacy in officer for Breast Medical Oncology, which comprises Olin’s new facilities by making a five-year pledge 30 clinicians and 100 staff. of at least $10,000. Your name will be etched into the Donor Wall, which will be prominently displayed in Olin’s new facilities for generations to come. Leave your mark today. Please contact Sean Martin for more information: 314-935-3687 or [email protected].

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admissions office. He is leading James Holobaugh, PMBA ’08, career and management O’Fallon, MO, is senior development for the full consultant at Daugherty healthcare system. Kevin writes Business Solutions. that he and his wife, Gladys [email protected] Tse, are “happily living in Fort Worth and enjoy reminding their Jae Wook Kwon, MBA ’08, neighbors that the Cardinals San Jose, CA, was promoted beat the hometown Texas to director at Samsung. Rangers in the World Series.” [email protected] [email protected] Mimi Langley, EMBA ’08, Gary Setterberg, EMBA ’07, Kansas City, MO, was promoted Edina, MN, accepted a senior to senior conference director at position with financial services Cambridge Healthtech Institute, firm TIAA-CREF, the leading responsible for identifying and Olin students take a break from their New York City internships for provider of financial, investment, developing new products for a roundtable discussion with global commodities trader and Olin and retirement services to biotech markets in Asia. alum Richard Ritholz. higher education, not-for-profit healthcare systems, and the Katlyn Patton, BSBA ’08, public sector. He and his family Austin, TX, was promoted to relocated from Minnesota to the PPC marketing manager at Richard Ritholz, BSBA ’84 Charlotte, NC, area this past Home Improvement Leads. Insider information summer. [email protected] Kristen (Hilligoss) Plow, BSBA Richard Ritholz is head of global commodities trading Evan Sharp, BSBA ’07, ’08, Chicago, IL, works at The and a member of the management committee at Elliott Evanston, IL, graduated from the Deal. [email protected] Management Corporation, a New York-based hedge fund. Kellogg School of Management in In June, Ritholz hosted a group of 10 Olin students who June 2012 and joined Accenture. Jamie Reed, BSBA ’08, [email protected] were interning in New York for a roundtable discussion. Addison, TX, was accepted to the full-time MBA program at Olin Topics ranged from the hedge fund industry to how to Gabriel Zhu, EMBA-Shanghai Business School as a member of market yourself for jobs in the sector. ’07, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, the Class of 2015 and awarded a is director of SC and operation — NANCY BARTER Forté Foundation fellowship. at Brunswick Asia Pacific. [email protected] Josh Scherder, MBA ’08, St. Louis, was appointed to Suman De, MBA ’08, Will Martin, BSBA ’06, Alan Winters, EMBA ’06, a three-year membership on Shatin, New Territories, Hong Oakland, CA, writes, “Got Kansas City, MO, is in charge United Way’s GenNext Steering Kong, recently moved to Hong engaged, graduated from Cornell of the financial services vertical Committee. Kong to work for Emerson [email protected] with an MBA, moved to San for the English World/Asia Climate Technologies. Francisco, and took a new Pacific regions for Teleperformance, position at Chevron.” a global business process Shelley Smith, PMBA ’08, Jagjeet (Singh) Gill, MBA ’08, [email protected] outsourcing firm. alan.winters@ Boston, MA, leads the product San Jose, CA, was promoted teleperformance.com development team at Boston Beer to senior manager at Deloitte Ricardo Mattos, PMBA ’06, Company, with responsibility for Consulting in June 2013. Fishers, IN, was promoted to Randy Beck, MBA ’07, creating innovative products for [email protected] director, global licensing, at St. Louis, was promoted to Samuel Adams, and managing Merck & Co. [email protected] brand manager at Nestlé on-time delivery to market. Ryan Hamlin, PMBA ’08, [email protected] Purina Pet Care. Hafrsfjord, Norway, was Sean Walter, AB ’98/MBA ’06, promoted to manager, financial Seattle, WA, was promoted to Daniel Douglass, PMBA ’07, Drew Wethington, BSME planning and analysis, and senior mobile business analyst Des Plaines, IL, is VP of business ’08/MBA ’08, Dexter, MO, is transferred to Emerson Process at Big Fish Games. development at Emerson location manager at Greenway Management-Roxar. He, his Industrial Automation. Equipment, Inc. wife and their two children have Matthew Weiler, BSBA ’06, [email protected] relocated to Stavanger, Norway, New York, NY, graduated from Janet Robey Alonzo, EMBA for this new assignment. Columbia Business School Kevin Kiley, PMBA ’07, ’09, St. Louis, was elected with an MBA in finance and Fort Worth, TX, has joined president of the Association of entrepreneurship in May 2013 Texas Health Resources after Corporate Counsel–St. Louis and is an M&A associate at more than 11 years at WUSTL, Share Chapter and presented the Bill Credit Suisse. most recently in the Olin MBA Jaudes Award for outstanding your service to the organization. news!

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David Ross, BSBA ’09, Donald McClure, BSBA ’10, of its focus on the client Philadelphia, PA, graduated 2010s Denver, CO, is an associate experience and professional from SUNY Downstate College at Ascent Capital Group. development for employees. Nick Gilham, PMBA ’10, of Medicine and started working Proud to be an IBMer!” Florissant, MO, joined Blick as a resident physician in the David Schwister, MBA ’10/JD & Staff Communications as a Department of Family Medicine ’10, San Francisco, CA, is a new Christine Albrecht, PMBA ’11, member of the social media team at the Hospital of the University business development manager Washington, D.C., is a in October 2012. He writes, “This of Pennsylvania. [email protected] at Google, working closely partnership officer at Shot@ fall, I’ll join the University of with YouTube’s product and Life, a campaign of the United Missouri–St. Louis as an adjunct Jason Smith, EMBA ’09, engineering monetization teams. Nations Foundation that focuses professor of marketing and will St. Louis, is a senior manager on connecting, educating, and teach the introduction to social at Boeing and a member of empowering Americans to media marketing course.” Nadia Sobehart, BSBA ’10, the technology management Tokyo, Japan, is working champion vaccines as one of the team with full people leadership, toward a master’s degree at most cost-effective ways to save Ashish Gupta, MBA ’10, project, and budgetary Keio Graduate School of Media children’s lives around the world. St. Louis, recently moved to responsibilities. Design. [email protected] [email protected] Quinpario Partners, a St. Louis- [email protected] based private equity firm, after Aaron Davidson, MBA ’11, the successful sale of Solutia to Russell Williams, EMBA ’10, Charles Stewart, BSBA ’09, St. Louis, was named by Eastman Chemical. St. Louis, is director of Yuma, AZ, was selected for the international business at Aegion St. Louis Business Journal to rank of captain in the Corporation’s commercial and its 2013 Class of 30 Under 30. Jingxian Hong, MACC ’10, U.S. Marine Corps. structural business segment, Chicago, IL, transferred to PwC’s focused primarily on Asia and Javier Detrinidad, MBA ’11, Chicago office from Shanghai, Kurt Thompson, PMBA ’09, Latin America. St. Louis, was promoted remaining with the internal O’Fallon, MO, was elected [email protected] to multicultural marketing audit team. chairman of the board of strategist at Edward Jones. [email protected] advisors at the Mid-County Timothy Windhorst, BSBA ’10, javier.detrinidad@edwardjones. YMCA, Brentwood, MO, and Menlo Park, CA, is a technology com Erica Johnston, BSBA ’10, named to the metropolitan investment banking associate Chicago, IL, will enter the full- board of directors of the at Arbor Advisors. Zackary Jackson, BSBA ’11, time MBA program at the Tuck YMCA of Greater St. Louis. [email protected] New York, NY, completed the two- School of Business at Dartmouth year investment banking analyst this fall. She spent the past three program at Morgan Stanley, New years at McMaster-Carr, most Neha Agarwal, BSBA ’11, York City, and recently joined recently serving as international Gaithersburg, MD, joined IBM Castanea Partners, Newton, MA, marketing manager. Global Business Services as a consultant in the commercial as an associate. sector. She writes, “It’s a great company to work for because

Karen Jashinsky, Jashinsky knew that her new company’s success was going to hinge on building BSBA ’99 a virtual community with programs that Online-offline fitness helps teens would allow teens to work out where control waistlines and when and how they wanted. Since O2 MAX Fitness in Santa Monica, CA, 2008, she has honed a business model is the brainchild of Karen Jashinsky, that allows teens to access programs chair of Olin’s Los Angeles alumni and experts online, and her business committee. While attending an Olin has grown right alongside the success Business School program in London, of social media. Jashinsky realized that one of her main The firm’s newest program, MAXBox, interests, fitness, was a growing industry. is now launching to college students She also saw a need to help teens via social media. “Throughout all of control a growing obesity problem. this, I’ve become a social media expert,” “At that time, nobody was targeting Jashinsky says, “O2 MAX Fitness is proof the teen fitness market,” Jashinsky that online products, backed by offline says, “and no one offered online teen experts, promoted only in social media, programs. Keep in mind that back in can be a healthy business model.” 2008, Facebook—in fact all social — SUE WADLOW media—was in its infancy.” Karen Jashinsky lives and works in Santa Monica, CA.

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Jason Karlowicz, EMBA ’11, Whit Chapman, BSBA ’12, Dover, OH, is territory manager Boston, MA, was promoted to at Simmer Corp. associate account representative [email protected] at Lois Paul & Partners.

Jonathan Kaufman, MBA ’11, Jeremiah Jones, EMBA ’12, San Francisco, CA, has Lehi, UT, cofounded Stretto, launched Perfect College Fit an app agency specializing in (www.perfectcollegefit.com), building mobile, tablet, and an online tool that helps high web software for the technical, school students find colleges. scientific, research, and medical communities. jeremiah@ Matt LaMartina, PMBA ’11, strettoconsulting.com St. Louis, is the fourth generation to join the family Christopher Lichterman, business, Tony LaMartina PMBA ’12, Chicago, IL, Plumbing Company. As general was promoted to the field manager, he is responsible management development Chancellor Mark Wrighton presenting Howard Wood with an honorary for strategy, marketing, program at Liberty Mutual. degree during the 152nd Commencement at Washington University accounting, operations, and [email protected] in St. Louis on Friday, May 17, 2013. customer service. matt@ tonylamartinaplumbing.com Jamieson Ogle, BSBA ’12, Marthasville, MO, was promoted Joseph Mantovani, MBA to business technology analyst Howard L. Wood, BSBA ’61 ’11/JD ’11, St. Louis, is an at Deloitte. Honored by Washington University attorney at Polsinelli Shughart. [email protected] [email protected] Howard Wood received an honorary doctor of laws Michael Turner, EMBA ’12, degree at the Washington University Commencement Phillip Sangokoya, BSBA ’11, Fairway, KS, works in on May 17. St. Louis, is a commercial lender institutional sales for American and relationship manager at PNC Century Investments. After a successful career in accounting, Wood changed Bank, working with St. Louis and [email protected] course and cofounded what would become two of the Metro-East businesses with up to $10 million in annual revenues. KaLeena Weaver, PMBA ’12, nation’s most successful telecommunications companies: [email protected] Prairie Village, KS, is Charter Communications Inc. and Cequel III LLC. an executive director at Ryan Spies, MBA ’11, Ascension Health. While building his businesses, he also helped drive St. Louis, is a manager [email protected] WUSTL’s progress. He served on Olin’s Task Force in of sustainability strategic 1980–81. He is a past president of the Olin Alumni initiatives for Eastman’s Zero Michael Weiss, BSBA ’12, Association and, since 1995, an inaugural member of Waste to Landfill initiative. New York, NY, was promoted to “escape curator” at Bisnow. the school’s National Council. Among the Wood family’s Colin Ward, PMBA ’11, [email protected] major contributions to Olin Business School are the Sharpsburg, GA, is a senior Wood Fellows for MBA candidates and the Wood Scholars financial analyst at Eaton Corp. Ken Wenglewski, EMBA ’12, for undergraduates, as well as an endowed chair in [email protected] Tulsa, OK, spun off his business organizational behavior. and changed careers. Now Scott Werner, PMBA ’11, working in the nonprofit arena, Today, Wood runs a real estate and cattle farming Fairview Heights, IL, was he oversees educational and promoted to marketing neighborhood revitalization operation in his hometown of Bonne Terre, MO. associate at Nestlé Purina. reform in two neighborhoods — MELODY WALKER [email protected] and six schools. He writes, “In celebration of our 20th Lauren Weston, BSBA ’11, wedding anniversary, my wife Norman, AR, is project manager and I traveled to Italy, Greece, Daniel Bentle, MBA ’13, work with the firm on an at Stone Ward. and Turkey. I’ll post here for St. Louis, he writes, “Novus integrated, closed-loop the next 20!” has been an Olin Sustainability aquaponic farming model and Kate (Watt) Banahan, [email protected] Case Competition (OSCC) was offered a full-time contract PMBA ’12, Cleveland, OH, is corporate sponsor for two years to continue development of this assistant director of development running. After my involvement corporate social responsibility at Case Western Reserve University. with this year’s OSCC, I began initiative and other special projects.” [email protected]

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Julie (Hsu) Clark, Neal Mareschal, BS ’09/ directing a comprehensive PMBA ’13, Carlsbad, CA, PMBA ’13, St. Louis, is a fundraising, marketing, relocated to San Diego procurement manager and public information with Miltenyi Biotec as at Anheuser-Busch. program. A new way to get top the firm’s new marketing [email protected] [email protected] manager for stem cells stories from across the and cell analysis products. Lauren Ortwein, BSBA Tyler Weeks, PMBA ’13, university on your mobile She writes, “I love being ’13, St. Louis, is a Highlands Ranch, CO, device with our free app. back in Southern cofounder of Farmplicity is captain and senior California but I miss (see story on Olin Blog). financial analyst for the my PMBA 32 cohort.” [email protected] U.S. Air Force. He writes, “We provide on-demand, Feyza Ozge Coban, MBA Lalitha Naga Manohar mission-critical financial ’13, St. Louis, is an MBA Parasi, MBA ’13, analyses in support of Download it today associate at MasterCard. Louisville, KY, is a more than 100 Air Force [email protected] business consultant at installations throughout reader.wustl.edu Humana. manohar.pln@ the world, directly Ethan Felder, MBA ’13/ gmail.com impacting the execution JD ’13, St. Louis, is an of nearly $1 billion in associate at Citibank. Kathleen Schue, annual taxpayer funding.” [email protected] EMBA ’13, St. Louis, [email protected] is director of development Kwun Ho Lee, MBA ’13, and marketing at Seoul, South Korea, is a United Cerebral Palsy manager at Woori Bank. Heartland, responsible [email protected] for planning, developing, implementing, and Reader

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Julie Glaszczak, BSBA Josh Zwickl, BSBA Kristen Hilligoss Plow, Scott Werner, PMBA ’11, KaLeena Weaver, PMBA ’96, Kansas City, MO, ’04/AB ’04, Chicago, IL, BSBA ’08, Chicago, IL, Fairview Heights, IL, ’12, Prairie Village, KS, to Keith Garber, to Sheri Rakusin, to Marshall Plow, to Hannah Sensintaffar, to Matthew Thomas, July 7, 2013. September 9, 2012. August 18, 2012. March 23, 2013. April 27, 2013. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] kaleenasweaver@gmail. com Willayna Roberts Banner, Megan Canadeo Ashley Lautzenheiser, Kate Watt Banahan, BSBA ’01, Harrisburg, NC, McCarthy, BSBA ’05, BSBA ’09, St. Louis, PMBA ’12, Cleveland, OH, Diana Coughlin, PMBA to Brandon Banner, Chicago, IL, to to Judson Clark, to Kyle Banahan, ’13, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2011. Kevin McCarthy, June 29, 2013. May 25, 2013. to Patrick Whaley, October 13, 2013. September 21, 2013. Jingxian Hong, MACC Joe Rosenberg, MBA ’12, [email protected] Will Martin, BSBA ’06, ’10, Chicago, IL, Oakland, CA, Oakland, CA, to to Liren Pan, to Maya Tobias, Stef Levner. October 1, 2012. August 11, 2013. [email protected] candicehong1986@ hotmail.com

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Births & Adoptions

Amanda (Kramer) Michael Perlmutter, BSCS Erin (Doty) Toohey, Drew Wethington, BSME Brian Lunt, PMBA ’11, Borden, BSBA ’98/AB ’00/MBA ’00, and Cheryl BSBA ’02, St. Louis, ’08/MBA ’08, Dexter, MO, St. Louis, a second child, ’98, Washington, D.C., (Wiener) Perlmutter, a daughter, Catherine a son, Elijah Duke. a son, Henry Joseph. a son, Maxwell Gabriel. BSME ’00/PMBA ’05, Grace. [email protected] Josh Carr, MBA ’10, Maryland Heights, MO, [email protected] Anita (Thekdi) Prichard, St. Charles, MO, a son, Daniel Bentle, MBA ’13, a son, Spencer. BSBA ’98, Arlington, VA, Shailesh Panth, MBA ’03, Caleb Powell. St. Louis, a daughter, [email protected] a daughter, Meera. St. Louis, a second child, Geneva Joy. Matt LaMartina, PMBA Adam Schwartz, BSBA a daughter, Sriya. [email protected] Erica (Waxman) Mazon, ’11, St. Louis, a second ’01/MSBA ’02, Coral BSBA ’00, Franklin Miguel Bricio, EMBA child, a daughter, Gables, FL, a daughter, Lakes, NJ, a daughter, ’08, Zapopan, Mexico, Vincenza Grace. Sydney Emerson. Eva Lauryn. a daughter, Nicole. matt@tonylamartina [email protected] plumbing.com In Memoriam

1930s William H. Copeland, Michael M. Levinson, John G. Hornecker, Fannie L. (Garfinkel) BSBA ’42/JD ’48, BSBA ’46, St. Louis BSBA ’48, Hot Springs Zimmerman, BSBA ’48, Herbert J. Schmidt, St. Louis Village, AR St. Louis BSBA ’35, St. Louis George B. Fisher, Jr., Norman M. Rubenstein, BSBA ’47, Short Hills, NJ Harry A. Knapp, BSBA Vincent S. Zucchero, Jr., Harold C. Fudemberg, BSBA ’42/JD ’42, ’48, Port Saint Lucie, FL BSBA ’48, St. Louis Sherwood G. Huff, BSBA BSBA ’38, St. Louis Chesterfield, MO ’47, St. Louis Eugene Sacks, BSBA ’48, George Brown, Jr., BSBA James H. Howe III, BSBA San Francisco, CA ’49, Greenwood, IN Merl M. Huntsinger, 1940s ’43, St. Louis BSBA ’47, Gretna, LA James K. Schuler, BSBA Paula (Barthell) Friday, Patricia E. (Peele) Marshall L. Rosenberg, ’48, Yardley, PA BSBA ’49, Odessa, TX Schaum, BSBA ’40, David H. Karsh, BSBA BSBA ’43, Vashon, WA St. Louis ’47, St. Louis Donald E. Stocker, BSBA Marvin Grossman, BSBA Mary J. (Hausman) ’48, Florissant, MO ’49, St. Louis Marvin M. Feldman, John O. Perkins, BSBA Cloyd, BSBA ’44, BSBA ’41/MBA ’59, ’47, Raleigh, NC George H. Streiff, Jr., Harold R. Klein, BSBA St. Louis Ballwin, MO BSBA ’48, Round Rock, TX ’49, Rancho Mirage, CA Eric H. Ross, BSBA ’47, Arline A. (Tiemann) Charles A. Hodgson, St. Louis Donald B. Williams, David J. Lehleitner, Meyer, BSBA ’44, BSBA ’41, Ballwin, MO BSBA ’48, Lake Forest, IL BSBA ’49, St. Louis St. Louis Madonna (Cannon) Donald E. Paul, BSBA Douglas, BSBA ’48, Jerome P. Zellinger, Wayne E. Northway, Harriet (Hagedorn) Perry, ’41/MBA ’54, Tulsa, OK Prairie Village, KS BSBA ’48, Chesterfield, MO BSBA ’49, Chicago, IL BSBA ’45, Milan, MI Henry L. Stealey, BSBA Richard Hausafus, BSBA John S. Schubert, BSBA ’41, Wentzville, MO ’48, Frankfort, IL ’49, Lake Forest, IL

Nicholas Baloff appointment as an assistant professor on operations management, at the University of Chicago School of organizational transformation, Business in 1963, then as an associate and the design and management Nicholas Baloff, professor at the Graduate School of of health care systems. 75, passed away Business and the School of Medicine July 15, 2013, He received a BS in industrial at Stanford in 1968. Professor Baloff in Berkeley, CA. engineering with highest honors from also served as dean of the University He joined the the University of California–Berkeley in of Oklahoma’s College of Business Olin faculty in 1959, followed by a master’s degree Administration from 1973–76. 1976, serving in industrial management from the as interim dean Professor Baloff was recognized Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s for a year, and remained a professor of for his research and teaching in Sloan School of Management, and a PhD organizational behavior and operations the areas of organization change in business from Stanford University’s management until his retirement in 2005. and development, organizational Graduate School of Business in 1963. behavior, and operations strategy. His long and distinguished career in Nicholas Baloff is survived by his wife He published seminal articles on academia began with his first Alexandra, of Berkeley, two children, learning curves, in addition to articles and five grandchildren.

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In Memoriam (continued)

1950s Edwin Nies, Jr., BSBA ’56, St. Louis Nelson James Bleisch, BSBA ’50, Willoughby, OH Glenn J. Tintera, BSBA Lyn D. Pankoff ’56/ MBA ’62, St. Louis William L. Hoeman, BSBA ’50, Scottsdale, AZ Robert L. Buenger, Lyn D. Pankoff passed away February 12, 2013, BSBA ’57, St. Peters, MO in St. Louis. He joined Olin’s faculty in 1967, James B. Lovette, BSBA ’50, Little Rock, AR Charlton B. Rogers III, teaching and conducting research primarily MBA ’58, Crossville, TN in statistics and computing. Douglas A. Niedt, BSBA ’50, St. Louis Merle G. Shepard, Professor Pankoff served as vice dean from BSBA ’58, St. Peters, MO Paul L. Fultz, BSBA ’51, 1992–93 and acting dean from 1993–95. St. Louis As acting dean, he oversaw the reaccreditation 1960s of the BSBA, MBA, and PhD programs; revision of Shirley (Gardner) Lee, Alan L. Bernstein, BSBA ’51, The Villages, FL the full-time MBA curriculum; establishment of three new faculty chairs; BSBA ’61, St. Louis and the expansion of nondegree executive programs. From 1997–98, Dean Van Engelen, William H. Owen, Professor Pankoff served as dean of the College of Business at Rochester BSBA ’51, Eagle, ID BSME ’60/MBA ’63, Institute of Technology. Richard G. Andrews, Midlothian, VA BSBA ’52, Ballwin, MO He earned his PhD and MBA in statistics and economics from the R. Stephen Duke, University of Chicago, and also earned an MS in behavioral science Earl R. Buelteman, Jr., BSBA ’64/JD ’66, BSBA ’52, St. Louis Redondo Beach, CA and a BS in management science from Case Western Reserve University.

James F. Gehlert, Jerrold B. Franzel, Lyn Pankoff is survived by his wife, Belinda Bauer Pankoff, two sons, MBA ’52, St. Louis AB ’65/MBA ’65, two stepdaughters, and seven grandchildren. Vero Beach, FL Walter O. Loebel, Jr., BSBA ’52, St. Peters, MO Gregory C. Kowert, BSBA ’68, St. Louis Stanley Markenson, Jeffrey Alan Blueweiss, 1990s Friends of Olin BSBA ’78, Trumbull, CT BSBA ’53, New Orleans, LA Nicholas Baloff, PhD, 1970s Emil Frederick Lawrence E. Milhouse, Jr., Richard E. Haferkamp, Miskovsky, MD, Berkeley, CA Alfred J. Buescher, Jr., BSEE ’71/JD ’77/ EMBA ’91, St. Louis BSBA ’53, St. Charles, MO Lyn D. Pankoff, PhD, MBA ’70, Folsom, CA MBA ’78, St. Louis John J. Kolar, BSBA ’54/ Mel Jay Marten, St. Louis Phillip L. Lilley, MBA ’72, BSBA ’94, St. Louis MBA ’64, Fenton, MO Doris I. Schnuck, Manchester, MO 1980s Robert L. Skrainka, Richard M. Cribb, St. Louis Lloyd R. Schneider, MBA ’54/MA ’60, Arthur L. Oertel, AB ’50/ EMBA ’95, Roswell, GA EMBA ’88, Annette M. Veech, PhD, Charlottesville, VA MBA ’72, St. Louis Chesterfield, MO David Diaz, PMBA ’99, Ballwin, MO Vera J. (Koch) Swallow, Hiram Bowers Ables, Andover, MA Otha (Lee) Overholt, Eugene F. Williams, Jr., BSBA ’54, St. Louis BSBA ’75, Granite City, IL MS ’70/PMBA ’89, St. Louis Albert L. Scheman, Michael Joel Rubinstein, St. Louis 2000s AB ’75/MBA ’76, BSBA ’55, St. Louis Alberto Sandoval, Highland Park, IL BSBA ’05, Quito, Equador

Annette M. Veech

Annette M. Veech, Professor Veech earned her PhD from exceptional teaching most inspire, senior lecturer the University of Illinois. Prior to joining energize, and transform students. in business the Olin faculty, she held management In addition to teaching, Veech consulted communication, positions at Maritz, Inc. in St. Louis with corporate, nonprofit, small business, passed away July and Arthur Andersen & Co. in Chicago. and entrepreneurial organizations. As a 1, 2013, after a While at Olin, she taught business communications expert, she regularly long and valiant management communications and facilitated idea-generation sessions battle with cancer. received seven Reid Teaching Awards, and workshops. She had taught at Olin Business School an honor given by graduating classes to since 1998. the professors whose enthusiasm and Annette Veech is survived by her husband, Steve Bernstein.

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