“Your mission, if you choose to accept it…is to make things work better,” Barbara S. Thomas told the audience at the graduate students’ diploma and awards ceremony, May 17. Thomas, a Wash U alumna and Trustee, is senior vice president and chief financial officer of HBO Sports. Listen to her delightful and insightful keynote speech and watch the entire ceremony online, including student speaker Brooke James, MBA ’13.

Brooke James, student speaker at the Graduate Diploma and Awards Ceremony.