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Ashish Mehrotra, Chief Operating Officer & Head of IT Managed Services at Ericsson, traveled from Texas to meet and connect with Olin students. After a luncheon with a smaller group of students and faculty at the Whittemore House, Mr. Mehrotra gave a riveting speech to a larger group of students and faculty gathered at the Knight Center.

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He shared insights on his career path and keys to success in the operations management field. Mr. Mehrotra also talked about challenges and opportunities confronted by today’s IT industry professionals and offered advice to students interested in pursuing careers with tech companies.




Consumers’ demand for your products is declining. Competitors are bigger, and cheaper. It is more and more difficult to maintain employee morale. Your company’s business is collapsing…

This was a scenario faced a few years ago by food company Post Holdings. Post’s Executive Vice President of Marketing, James Holbrook (Olin EMBA’97), came on campus last week to provide valuable insights on doing business in a competitive environment to BSBA students enrolled in the Management 100 course taught by Professor Adina Sterling.

The students heard about the company’s comeback and success as the only cereal company that currently records growth. Key to success? “Shake-it-up and get busy” – says Jim Holbrook. By keeping its employees energized, he said, Post was able to regain confidence and create value.

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On the same day, the Management 100 course also hosted:

  • SiSi Beltran (Olin BSBA ‘04), Senior Manager – International Bear Marketing at Build-A-Bear Workshop, and
  • John Steinhubl (Olin MBA ‘87), Sr. Director, Advertising Production at Anheuser-Busch InBev.

We are thrilled to have these professionals playing such an important role in the Olin experience.




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Olin student leaders were also in attendance.

For the 5th consecutive year, the Leaders in Business Summit gathered senior executives from the St. Louis region to hear from an impressive line-up of speakers, engage with their peers and Olin faculty and students. Co-hosted by Olin and Deloitte, the event took place on September 25th, and was attended by more than 130 delegates.

The topic of this year’s Summit: “Stable or Stalled: What’s Next for the Economy?”, couldn’t be more relevant for business leaders, who led their organizations through the 2008 financial crisis and deal today with critical questions about economic stability and recovery.

The session kicked off with a riveting speech delivered by Ron Kruszewski (pictured above), Chairman, President & CEO of Stifel, one of the nation’s largest full-service brokerage and investment banking firms. The need to embrace market capitalism, tax and immigration reforms, job creation, and energy independence were some of the key issues Mr. Kruszewski addressed as essential on the road to recovery.

Pictured left to right: Robert F. O’Loughlin, Mark Trudeau, Dr. Timothy Eberlein and Professor Bart Hamilton.

Pictured left to right: Robert F. O’Loughlin, Mark Trudeau, Dr. Timothy Eberlein and Professor Bart Hamilton.

The conference continued with a panel discussion highlighting St. Louis as a hub for entrepreneurship, moderated by Olin Professor Bart Hamilton.

The attendees had an opportunity to hear first-hand about innovation, strengths and challenges that face three successful business leaders in our region: Mark Trudeau, President & CEO, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals; Dr. Timothy Eberlein, Director of Siteman Cancer Center and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Barnes Jewish Hospital; and Robert F. O’Loughlin, Chairman & CEO, Lodging Hospitality Management.

Pictured left to right: Dr. Patricia Buckley, Professor Stephen Williamson and Rodney Kinzinger.

Pictured left to right: Dr. Patricia Buckley, Professor Stephen Williamson and Rodney Kinzinger.

 

Finally, one of Washington University’s most prominent economists, Professor Stephen Williamson, and Deloitte’s Director of Economic Policy & Analysis, Dr. Patricia Buckley, shared their thought-provoking ideas on monetary policy and perspectives for economic recovery.

We are already looking forward to next year’s Leaders in Business Summit!

 




David Levy, a graduate of Washington University and Controller at Exxon Mobil traveled from Houston, Texas to spend time with our MBA students. He joined them for lunch in the Knight Center and then presented in Professor Todd Milbourn’s David Levy 20132Corporate Finance & Investments Platform course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Levy, EN '84 & Jake Dulle, MBA '08 from Exxon Mobil

Jake Dulle, MBA ’08, left, and David Levy, EN ’84

 

Jake Dulle, MBA ’08 who also works for Exxon Mobil, attended the Platform course as well.

 

 

 

 

Graphic from ExxonMobil: The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040




Words of wisdom will be coming from an impressive lineup of speakers at Commencement ceremonies this month.  Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker headlines the all-University ceremony at 8 a.m. in Brookings Quad. Olin hosts two Diploma and Awards Ceremonies for undergrad and grad students in the Athletic Complex later in the day.

Lisa Lewin, BSBA’96, will speak at the Undergraduate Ceremony on May 17 at 11:30 a.m. in the Athletic Complex Field House. Amanda Signorelli will be the student speaker at the BSBA ceremony.

Lisa Lewin is president of Teacher Education at Pearson, the global learning company. She is responsible for setting strategy, driving revenue and profitability, and seizing opportunities to disrupt and innovate in the field of educator preparation and practice. Prior to joining Pearson, she founded Mindgate Media, a New York-based digital media consultancy serving the independent and educational film industry. Lewin earned a BSBA from Olin Business School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Barbara S. Thomas, will speak at the Graduate Ceremony at 3 p.m. on May 17 in the Athletic Complex Field House. Brooke James, MBA’13, will be the student speaker at the graduate ceremony.

Barbara Thomas is senior vice president and chief financial officer of HBO Sports. She is responsible for overseeing talent negotiations, program administration, research, strategic planning and financial and distribution operations for HBO Sports as well as HBO Pay-Per-View and HBO Archives. She serves on the Board of Trustees at Washington University in St. Louis and is chair of the University’s National Council for Arts & Sciences. Thomas earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.