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Tepper School of Business | Carnegie Mellon University FALL / WINTER 2020
Isabelle
Bajeux-Besnainou
10th Dean of the
Tepper School of Business
FC EOANTTUERNETSS
Eduardo Tobon (MBA 2000) ADMINISTRATION
Leadership Advisor Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Ph.D.
Spencer Stuart Dean and
M A G A Z I N E Pradeep UN (MBA 2003) Linda Argote, Ph.D.
Director, Customer & Field Experiences Senior Associate Dean, Faculty and Research
Microsoft Corp.
TEPPER SCHOOL ALUMNI RELATIONS Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Ph.D.
John M. Sengenberger Sr. BUSINESS BOARD OF ADVISORS Senior Associate Dean, Education
Executive Director, Alumni Relations Homaira Akbari (MSIA 1996)
President and CEO Jonathan S. Stern
ALUMNI BOARD AKnowledge Partners LLC Associate Dean, Advancement
Michelle Crottier (MBA 2014)
10 Winds of Change
Finance Integration Darryl Britt (MSIA 1990) John Gasper, Ph.D.
Google President and CEO Assistant Dean, Strategic Initiatives
Apprio Inc.
COV ER FE AT UR E
Robert DeAngelis (MSIA 1985) Rhonda D. Fischer
Retired Eric L. Butler (E 1981, MSIA 1986) Chief Operating Officer
KeyBank CEO
Aswani-Butler Investment Associates LLC Lynda W. Oliver
Lyenda Simpson Delp (MSIA 1997) Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
Deputy Head of Client Relationship Management, Mark A. Coblitz (MSIA 1982) The Tepper School of Business welcomes
FIG Americas Senior Vice President, Nicola Secomandi, Ph.D. new Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou.
BlackRock Strategic Planning (retired) Head, Ph.D. Program
Comcast Corporation
Cyanne Demchak (MBA 2009, MSHC 2009) Kathryn Barraclough, Ph.D.
Chief Innovation Officer David A. Coulter (BSIM 1971, MSIA 1971, Trustee) Head, MBA Program
Cigna Medical Group, Cigna Corp. Special Limited Partner
Warburg Pincus Burton Hollifield, Ph.D.
John Dischner (MSIA 1994) Head, Undergraduate Business Administration Program
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Managing Director Christine DeFilippo (BSE 1990, MSIA 1994)
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AlixPartners LLP Director of Operations Christopher I. Telmer, Ph.D.
Apple Head, Economics
Russell C.B. Ewing II (MSIA 1996)
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Retired Duane J. Seppi, Ph.D.
VERSATILE
Stephanie Ercegovic (BSIM 1982, MSIA 1983)
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Head, Master of Science in Computational
TRENDING
President
Finance Program
PATHFINDER
Discovery Capital Management
Lori Heinel (MSIA 1992)
Executive Vice President,
Deputy Global Chief Investment Officer
Donald Heberle (MSIA 1994) Nicholas Hamilton-Archer
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EDITOR
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leaders
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POST-COVID FUTURE
The unprecedented
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Jertez Hunter (MBA 2013) LEADING AND SERVING
Gunjan Kedia (MSIA 1994) PRODUCTION has stalled and shifted
Lead Product Development Karen Boucher
BY EXAMPLE
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management priorities in every industry.
Union Pacific
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Scott Jubeck (BS 2003, MBA 2008)
Vice President, Product
U.S. Bank COVER STORY
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PARTNER serving others.
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Chairman of the Board (retired)
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Project Management Consultant
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Ranjit Singh (MSIA 1999) President and Founder
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Full-Time MBA
Letter
Employment Highlights
89% 87% MSBA Program
Names Alan
As I begin my journey as the 10th Dean of the Tepper School of Business, I am
leading on behalf of our community: students, faculty, staff, our Carnegie
Mellon colleagues, and our alumni. It is difficult to walk through the doors of our impressive
Received offers by three
months after graduation
Accepted offers by three
months after graduation
Montgomery
New Faculty Head
but sparsely populated Tepper Quad and witness how our community has been impacted by
$136K
The online Master of Science in Business
the events of the past year. From the effects of the coronavirus pandemic to our unrelenting
Median salary
Analytics (MSBA) named Professor of
mission to end systemic racism within our community, we are indeed living through a Marketing Alan Montgomery as its new
per year
faculty head. He succeeds Professor
challenging time. How do I lead Tepper into brighter days?
Willem-Jan van Hoeve, who was
recently named Senior Associate Dean
One thing I know is that innovation is born of challenge, and uncertainty is a foundation of Education.
from which we grow, thrive, and create monumental change that can impact the world.
Montgomery will lead the program in
For the better. bringing leading-edge techniques in
Mid-Atlantic 15.9%
Midwest 12.7% data analytics into a business context,
occupying a niche space on the spectrum
As Dean, I am emboldened to take on these challenges, because I know that we will come Northeast 27.0%
South 2.6% between an MBA and a data science
out stronger and smarter on the other side. I am committed to the success, health, safety, degree. He has been teaching the
Southwest 6.3%
and happiness of our entire Tepper community. I am confident that our powerful, collective West 28.0% Analytical Marketing course in the MSBA
program since the program launched in
expertise in technology, science, entrepreneurship, and leadership will continue to build a
Asia 4.8% December 2017.
culture of excellence that will propel us to new heights.
Latin America & the Caribbean 2.6%
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It is my mission to help grow and strengthen the Tepper School community and show the
world all that we can accomplish when we work together. I thank you for this opportunity
and look forward to serving as your Dean.
With gratitude and excitement, 34.6% Consulting 33.0% Consulting
23.0% Marketing 31.4% Technology
20.9% Finance 13.1% Finance
Function 13.1% General Management Industry 7.3% Manufacturing
cmu.edu/tepper
5.8% Operations 6.8% Biotechnology/Health/Pharmaceuticals
2.6% Technology 3.1% Energy/Petroleum/Utilities
2.6% Other
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou
1.0% Consumer Products
Dean, Tepper School of Business 1.0% Media/Entertainment
0.5% Real Estate
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TE PPE R NEWS FROM THE TEPPER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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U.S. News & World Report Tepper Economists
The Tepper Undergraduate Receive King Mellon
#7
Business Administration
Taya Cohen
Receives $4.4
Million Grant From
program placed #7 on
the U.S. News & World
Foundation Grant
the John Templeton Report list of 2021 Best
Foundation Undergraduate Business
Research aimed at understanding the
effects of the coronavirus pandemic
economics research project, “Developing
a Pandemic Consumption Expenditure Alumni
School Programs. on consumer behavior received a Index,” aim to identify and categorize
Donors
Taya Cohen, Associate Professor of $50,000 grant from the Richard King emerging patterns of consumer behavior.
Organizational Behavior and Theory, is
serving as a science of honesty project
T E P P E R S C H O O L S P E C I A LT Y R A N K I N G S
Mellon Foundation.
The Richard King Mellon Foundation
Support
leader on a research team that is Laurence Ales, Associate Professor primarily funds projects relating to
Nicholas Muller
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of Economics; Rebecca Lessem, regional economic development and
in Developing a
exploring scientific and philosophical
questions about honesty. The John # # # # # # Associate Professor of Economics; conservation, along with education
New ESG Index
Templeton Foundation is sponsoring Chris Telmer, Associate Professor and human services and nonprofit
this project with a $4.4 million grant. of Financial Economics and Head of capacity building throughout
Information Analytics Quantitative Production Finance Supply Chain Economics; and Ariel Zetlin-Jones, southwestern Pennsylvania.
Systems Analysis and Operations Management Associate Professor of Economics,
Along with Cohen, the Honesty Project
Management and Logistics A sustainability initiative directed by
includes three psychology professors through their micro- and macro-
Nicholas Z. Muller, Lester and Judith
from Wake Forest University and is led
Lave Associate Professor of Economics
by A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy
Engineering & Public Policy, has received
and Principal Investigator Christian B.
funding from two alumni donors.
Miller, also of Wake Forest University.
Dokyun Lee Wins Christopher A. Potter (MSIA 1973) and
Emily Stark Joins Health Professions
The research team will use a mix of
field studies, surveys, laboratory Sponsorship from Kathleen O. Potter, John Levinson
(MSIA 1980) and Ellen Levinson, along
and online experiments, and coding
of qualitative data to study honesty.
McKinsey & Co. Program Advisory Board with the Levinson family, recently made
contributions to this important initiative.
Cohen—who conducts research on
honesty, moral behavior, negotiation, In a first for CMU, McKinsey & Company announced V. Emily Stark, Assistant Teaching Professor of Business
Led by Muller, the Tepper School
Tepper School of Business | Carnegie Mellon University
and conflict, and is known in particular research sponsorship for Dokyun Lee, Assistant Communication, was invited to join the advisory board for
Sustainability Initiative offers students
for her research on moral character Professor of Business Analytics, and Ph.D. students Carnegie Mellon’s Health Professions Program (HPP).
an opportunity to pursue scholarship,
in the workplace—will lead research Emaad Manzoor and Mao Chengfeng. The McKinsey
coursework, and career opportunities in
on honesty in difficult conversations & Co. sponsorship is in applying AI in The HPP is a university-wide advising resource that is
the ever-growing field of sustainability.
where people must deliver critical marketing promotion. available to all CMU students and alumni. Composed
The initiative encompasses a wide
feedback to mentees and teammates. of a diverse group of colleagues from MCS, DC, CIT,
range of topics, including energy,
Lee founded and co-directs ENAiBLE, a CMU Retail & SCS, Tepper, and the Center for Student Diversity and
natural resources, the environment,
Services Collaborative, which is a forum for industry Inclusion, the advisory board works with the HPP director
health and social well-being,
leaders to share their challenges with academic on policy review, resource development, programmatic
engineering, and architecture.
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experts at the forefront of new technology. ENAiBLE, enhancements, and alumni engagement.
whose mission is to create more humane, efficient,
cmu.edu/tepper
This year, the Tepper School’s Ph.D. program
and positive retail and service experiences, recently Stark has a background in biology and alumni relationships
has welcomed 14 new students. Due to the
held its first roundtable to address the use of AI and has helped to bring greater awareness of the HPP and
pandemic and travel restrictions, five of the during the COVID-19 pandemic. its valuable resource to the Tepper community.
students began the year remotely with the goal
of joining in-person beginning January 2021.
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Accounting Association
DI G E S T
Leadership
inducted Shyam Sunder
DI G E S T
(Ph.D. 1974) into the
Accounting Hall of
Fame. The Accounting
Hall of Fame honors
Center Invites
Marketing Science accountants who have
made, or are making, MBA Students
Institute Names significant contributions
to Enroll in
Ilker Baybars
to the advancement of
Jeff Galak 2020
MSI Scholar
accounting since the
beginning of the the Curiosity
20th century.
Project Celebrates 50
The Marketing Science Institute announced its
2020 class of MSI Scholars, naming Associate
Years at Tepper
The Accelerate Leadership Center announced that all first-year
Professor of Marketing Jeff Galak a 2020
full-time MBA students can enroll in the Curiosity Project.
Scholar. The MSI Scholars Program was developed Ilker Baybars, George Leland Bach Chair, Professor
An entirely optional program, the Curiosity Project is a curated
to recognize excellence in marketing scholarship, develop
a cohort across marketing disciplines, and strengthen ties
Erina Ytsma student-to-student networking action plan focused on
of Operations Management, and Dean and CEO Emeritus
of the Qatar campus of CMU, is celebrating an impressive
between scholars and MSI. Joins the World expanding key leadership skills, such as asking questions and
listening with curiosity, as well as allowing students to share
milestone of 50 years at Tepper.
Galak specializes in behavioral psychology, behavioral
Economic their lived experiences with peers.
Baybars came to CMU in late August of 1970 as a student and
experimentation, consumer behavior, decision-making, Forum’s Global Intended to be loose and fun, as well as insightful and personal,
joined the faculty in 1978, eventually serving as Associate
and marketing research.
Future Council the goal of the Curiosity Project is to help increase empathy
Dean in 1985, Deputy Dean in 1992, and Acting President
of the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied International
Fellows Program for others and awareness of oneself by practicing the art of
conversation with someone new. It also aims to help students
Studies in 1997. He was director of the Tepper School’s MBA
program from 1984 to 1997, oversaw the Undergraduate
strengthen their curiosity muscle so that they can use it with
Business Administration program from 1990 to 1994, and
The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils (GFC) ease when needed in professional settings.
served for six years as the Dean and CEO of the Qatar
named Erina Ytsma, Assistant Professor of Accounting, a campus of CMU.
fellow for the council on the New Agenda for Work, Wages
and Job Creation. GFC Fellows are postdoctoral scholars
Sunkee Lee Awarded MK-AKMS
at leading universities with a future-looking and systems-
Young Scholar Award Ilker Baybars played a central role in
oriented mindset. Fellows play a crucial role in councils by being
responsible for capturing, synthesizing, and disseminating
growing a small, innovative master’s
INFORMS Awards knowledge and insights from the councils’ deliberations. Assistant Professor of Organizational program to one from which, each year,
Nicola Secomandi Best Ytma’s research focuses on topics in organizational and labor
Theory and Strategy Sunkee Lee was
honored with the MK-AKMS Young Scholar
hundreds of graduates assume leadership
Publication Award economics and the economics of digitization and innovation. Award. The award was launched three roles in prominent companies throughout
She is particularly interested in incentive systems and the years ago by Maekyung Media Group, the world. Having witnessed this
The Institute for Management; and
organization of work in the digital age and in the context of owner of South Korea’s largest business
transformation, I am still in awe of Ilker’s
knowledge work and innovation. newspaper, Maeil Business Newspaper, and
Operations Research and Stephen Smith, Research
the Association of Korean Management vision for what the school could become,
the Management Sciences Professor at CMU’s
Scholars (AKMS) to contribute to the career and his skillful management of the
honored Professor of Robotics Institute.
development of young Korean scholars
transformation that realized his vision.
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Operations Management Matthew Denes, Assistant in the global academic community. Lee’s
and Ph.D. Program Head The ENRE Best Publication Professor of Finance,
received a gift from The
research focuses on organization design, Dennis Epple,
Nicola Secomandi with Award in Environment
Annie E. Casey Foundation organizational learning, exploration and Thomas Lord Professor of Economics
a Best Publication and Sustainability is
for his paper, “Securing the exploitation, incentives, spatial design, and
Award in Environment given annually to the best Gig: Youth Employment, microfoundations of strategy.
and Sustainability. refereed journal article in Entrepreneurship, and the Rise
the areas of interest for of the Platform Economy.”
Secomandi’s paper, Energy, Natural Resources,
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
“Managing Wind-Based and the Environment
invests in innovative ideas,
Electricity Generation in (ENRE) Section. The practices, and policies that Brianna Agyemang awarded Executive of the Year Award
the Presence of Storage objective of the award is to help build a brighter future for
cmu.edu/tepper
and Transmission recognize the contributions children who face significant
Brianna Agyemang (B.A. in Economics, Class of 2010) and Jamila Thomas of Atlantic
Capacity,” was co-authored of ENRE members to the obstacles on the road to
adulthood. Denes researches Records, who led ‘The Show Must Be Paused’ campaign in response to the deaths of
by Yangfang (Helen) Zhou field of environment George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery earlier this year, will receive the
empirical corporate finance,
(Ph.D. 2012); Alan Scheller- and sustainability in private equity, venture capital, Executive of the Year Award at Billboard’s 2020 Women in Music Event.
Wolf, Richard M. Cyert Operations Research and entrepreneurship, and
Professor of Operations Management Science. political economy.
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BY COURTNEY RYAN
TEPPER E X PER T S FIND POSITI V E WAYS TO LOOK TOWA R D A POS T- COV ID FU T UR E TRENDING TOPICS
the expected premature deaths due to air Yet while employers contend with where transparency, and visibility across digital supply
pollution from personal vehicle travel and and how their employees physically work, a networks, and this ultimately increases the
electricity use are estimated to have declined by new workforce option continues to emerge. adaptability and strength of digital
approximately 360 deaths per month, or about Automation in manufacturing has long been supply networks.
25 percent of the baseline of 1,500 deaths. The underway as the Fourth Industrial Revolution,
study also estimated that social distancing likely also known as Industry 4.0, has continued to “In the short term, basic AI technologies can
resulted in a loss of roughly 46 million metric push for innovations in AI and smart technology keep the lights on in the factories, enable
tons of carbon dioxide emissions per month — in order to improve production while lessening remote control of the shop floor activities
essentially a 19 percent decline. reliance on human intervention. despite potentially large numbers of sick or
quarantined employees and required social
Further, by assuming a value of statistical life — In a recent study published in Social Science distancing measured,” concludes the study.
a common measure of the value of reductions Research Network, Professor Sridhar Tayur,
in the risk of mortality — of $9 million and a Ford Distinguished Research Chair; University Finally, Carnegie Mellon Associate Professor
social cost of carbon of $50 per ton, the study Professor of Operations Management, along of Marketing Jeff Galak co-authored a paper
estimated the environmental benefit of stay- with researchers from West Virginia University, with fellow behavioral scientists to help firms
at-home and social distancing measures in the University of Iowa, and Johns Hopkins address how an era marked by uncertainty,
United States is $5.5 billion per month. University’s Carey Business School, analyzed isolation, and excess information has
how COVID-19 is improving the case for an affected consumers.
While this study offers a silver lining for the AI-inspired digital transformation in
current pandemic climate, it also suggests that manufacturing and supply networks. In the paper, the authors explain that in the
institutions that promote remote work and context of high uncertainty, consumers are
retail delivery opportunities will continue to The researchers observed that even as some more likely to seek control either by digging
be necessary for societal health following the strapped organizations are abandoning “non- into the hobbies and interests where they feel
pandemic. This in turn has sent researchers essential” plans to implement AI technology most like experts or, adversely, by adopting a
digging for clarity and finding a few in an effort to concentrate all efforts on changed mindset and exploring new territories.
positive results. responding to the immediate impact of the In either case, brands will benefit by
pandemic in the short term, there is evidence remaining consistent in messaging and
As companies continue to both embrace and that embracing AI could help manufacturers
scruple with the effects of working remotely, combat uncertainty and become more resilient
Anita Williams Woolley, Associate Professor to disasters.
of Organizational Behavior and Theory at
the Tepper School of Business, offers The team recognized that since job losses
suggestions to ultimately minimize stress and in the U.S. exceeded 33.5 million by early
communication issues while still promoting May 2020, it’s understandable that many are The authors warn that brands should also
successful collaboration. concerned with the implications of a “jobless expect customers to appear less satisfied
future” and are therefore hesitant to further with their purchases since uncertainty blunts
In an op-ed titled “Best Practices for Working reduce human jobs by adopting AI technology. our ability to consider the consequences of
Remotely,” Woolley draws from her research However, the study determined that the vast our actions. For this, the authors suggest that
to posit that remote work opens the doors for majority of COVID-related job losses have brands adopt more flexible return policies to
greater diversity. been concentrated in sectors with low AI, restore loyalty and trust. Additionally, since
which suggests that an AI-inspired digital consumers are inundated with information
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transformation might have actually helped to these days, they are more likely to view a brand
mitigate job losses. favorably if said brand can offer a simple and
clear purchasing process. And finally, all firms
he unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic A new study conducted by Professor Using cell phone data to measure changes Throughout the study, the researchers observe can benefit by leveraging any social benefits
has stalled and shifted priorities in Nicholas Muller, Lester and Judith in mobility from February to April 2020, the where and how AI technology is implemented, gained by using their products during this
every industry, and uncertainty still Lave Associate Professor of Economics, researchers connected emissions from travel finding that AI-driven transformation can time of isolation. Ultimately, any brand that
looms large on the horizon. While many Engineering, and Public Policy — along with and electricity use to changes in ambient address product lifecycle issues such as design, addresses some of these stressors among its
of the pandemic’s direct consequences researchers at the University of Chicago, the fine particulate matter and manufacturing, sustainability, and resilience. consumer base is likely to build a more solid
have been catastrophic, such as rising University of North Carolina, Greensboro, evaluated the associated she writes, explaining that diversity of surface- In turn, the adoption of such technologies has foundation post-pandemic.
unemployment rates and a staggering loss of Dartmouth College, and the University of reductions in expected level characteristics among team members actually resulted in increased connectivity,
human life, other consequences — including North Carolina at Chapel Hill — found that adverse health effects from tends to prime a heightened sense of attention While no study or theory may completely grasp
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the swift transition to remote work and stay-at-home policies have not only reduced exposure to pollution. The and concentration between members, which the entirety of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is
learning — pose unexpected opportunities toxic emissions and energy use, but have results are promising: For a in turn promotes collective attention and clear that the crisis will eventually end and that
for growth. likely prevented premature deaths. month of social distancing, satisfaction. “If time zones and technology organizations that make thoughtful decisions
allow, people from all over the world can today may come out ahead in a different, and
work together.” possibly better, future. ―
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“The timing is not ideal; I was not actively She spotlights data analytics as being Evelyn Pierce, Teaching Professor of
on the job market, but I was chased by a of special importance to this dynamic Business Management Communication and
Winds of
very persistent headhunter,” recalls Bajeux- environment; business leaders need to a member of the hiring committee, says
Besnainou, 56. “And the more I learnt about analyze information in real time and use the Bajeux-Besnainou was distinctive because
the Tepper School, the more I could see insight gleaned to make quick and effective she did not submit a strategic plan in the
that it has all of the right ingredients to be a decisions. And recruiters find such abilities interview process; she wanted to speak to
very top business school. It was an amazing to be invaluable. the key stakeholders first.
Change
opportunity that I could not pass up.”
“Tepper is a top business school already, but “It wasn’t that she hadn’t done her research;
She highlights the close collaboration I think it can become greater still because it’s she wanted to lead by relationship-building
between world-leading faculty across at the center of a world-leading university — that was refreshing,” says Pierce. “It made
Carnegie Mellon, from the School of that focuses on technology, data, and her the unanimous first choice of all the
Computer Science to the College of Fine Arts. analytics,” says Bajeux-Besnainou. “This is deans at other CMU schools. They saw her
Bajeux-Besnainou says cross-disciplinary the DNA of CMU.” as someone who will be their partner,
learning is fertile ground for innovation and not a competitor.”
creativity that will be crucial for companies And when it comes to cultivating data
as they emerge from the pandemic. literacy and many other specialist abilities, This perspective of Bajeux-Besnainou is
the experiential, skills-based learning that echoed by Gunjan Kedia, who serves on the
*** She believes a wide array of perspectives is the Tepper School’s hallmark is the gold Tepper School’s Business Board of Advisors.
also enriches the learning experience of standard. What’s more, cross-campus “Isabelle is likeable, relatable, empathetic,
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou students through group discussion. And
fresh infrastructure at the Tepper School
collaboration is at the heart of this approach.
“Practical learning forces us to think about
very easy to talk to,” says Kedia, who met
the new dean for the first time after her
Dean, Tepper School of Business is the conduit through which this diverse
academic knowledge flows, embodied by the
the future, not only what happened in the
past,” Bajeux-Besnainou says. “It pioneers a
appointment. “She asked me about the role
of the Business Board, what the other CMU
new $201 million David A. Tepper Quadrangle new way of teaching and addressing schools needed, and what I think should be
(Dammon’s legacy). The state-of-the-art business problems.” on her priority list.”
teaching facilities connect all seven campus
colleges and reimagine the purpose of a
business school. ***
I
t was not exactly a warm welcome. Those who were involved in hiring
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou was on the “I don’t think of Bajeux-Besnainou recall being endeared by
long drive from Montreal to Pittsburgh, her balance of confidence and humility. Her
to become the 10th Dean of the business as a siloed inclusive style of “servant leadership” made
her an instant favorite with the faculty, who
Tepper School of Business, when she was discipline,” says praise her empathy, listening, persuasion,
struck by a visual reminder of what would
become the toughest test of her tenure to Bajeux-Besnainou. and foresight.
date. The closed border between Canada
and the U.S. underscores the challenges
“To solve problems, “She recognizes that — alone — she is not
of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting you need to going to make anything happen,” says
economic fallout. Anita Williams Woolley, Associate Professor
build bridges of Organizational Behavior and Theory, and
However, Bajeux-Besnainou, an academic between academic co-chair of the search committee. “She is
committed to the idea of building a vision
lifer, relishes the trials to come. She joined
the Tepper School from McGill University’s disciplines. Because for the future together with the faculty.
That quickly made her the frontrunner.”
Desautels Faculty of Management on
otherwise business
Oct. 15 (taking over from Robert Dammon)
and believes the business school is just doesn’t work.
strategically positioned to succeed in
There is no other
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the current age of upheaval.
way to reinvent
business in a post-
COVID-19 world.”
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STORY DEAN ISABELLE BAJEUX-BESNAINOU WINDS OF CHANGE
Jim Rohr, Chairman of the Board of After 21 years at George Washington, she study method of teaching that has among our professors, that does not bode Yet the closure of campuses nationwide in
Trustees of Carnegie Mellon, highlights was headhunted for the dean’s job at McGill, underpinned graduate business education well with prospective students. We need to the spring, including Carnegie Mellon, and
Bajeux-Besnainou’s strong track record as joining in 2015. She would spend five years for decades. “I would not say the case be incredibly supportive in making sure that coronavirus restrictions on their reopening
“There is a huge effort
an innovator. “She invented a number of new in Montreal raising research excellence, method is not useful, but it only looks at when we hire more diverse faculty, we offer have forced more investment in technology we have to make in
programs when she was at McGill, and her financial sustainability, and community the past,” she says. “With the current crisis, the support they need to be successful. It’s to keep classes running remotely. The Tepper
ability to integrate other disciplines into a impact through experiential and there is no blueprint about how to handle about intentionality.” School’s experience with its long-established communicating to
business school is extremely important,” interdisciplinary learning. She also a pandemic. We need to invent different Part-Time Online Hybrid MBA meant the
the business world
he says. oversaw the expansion of teaching methods to solve business problems.” Change is required in the curriculum itself, transition for faculty was relatively smooth.
facilities at the business school. she adds, noting that relatively few case and to prospective
“We are a very forward-looking institution, Meanwhile, the standout success of studies feature a black or other minority And Bajeux-Besnainou expects online
uniquely positioned with a focus on AI, Perhaps the crowning achievement of her specialized master’s programs across ethnic protagonist — a problem that is not learning to proliferate even after the
students everywhere
robotics, and big data. For Isabelle to be tenure, though, was the creation of the subject areas has convinced her that the unique to the Tepper School. pandemic. Yet the coronavirus has also that we have the
able to incorporate these developments, so Bensadoun School of Retail Management MBA, long the flagship graduate business highlighted a craving for human interaction.
crucial to the future of business, into various in collaboration with Circle K, the Canadian degree, will be diminished in prominence in “I have never thought that 100 percent online right positioning and
management courses, would be terrific for convenience store. This is in addition to a the years ahead. “We need to ensure the programs are the way to go,” she says. strengths. I want the
our students.” Retail Innovation Lab where students work
with employers to define the future of retail. “In no way do I think the MBA is dead, but it professors are teaching “Teaching on these courses can be world to know that
*** will become a slimmer market — it already about why diversity frustrating because you feel like you don’t
Tepper is the business
Former colleagues describe her as has become one, with some schools closing know the students well enough. The hybrid
Born and raised in Paris, Bajeux-Besnainou
highly imaginative and collaborative. their programs,” she says. “I believe there matters and how you version is a very powerful model as it school of the future.”
Mark Michaud, Director of Administration will be more balance between MBAs and provides students with flexibility, but also the
attended the École Normale Supérieure,
at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management, specialist master’s degrees, which are
improve businesses opportunity to network in person and have
one of the most selective and prestigious
graduate schools in France. She went on
says, “She liked to solicit ideas. She was becoming very important and in ever higher and society when you a stronger sense of community.”
forward-looking, whether it was designing demand. We will need to think carefully
to earn a doctorate in mathematics from
new programs or infrastructure. She was about this balance at Tepper.”
bring diverse points Bajeux-Besnainou’s colleagues are hoping
Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, writing her
thesis on applying mathematical models to
fearless, never backed down, but yet was of view to problem- she will innovate at the Tepper School, which
very warm. She always gave people the Like other deans across America, she is primed for continued success with its
financial markets.
opportunity to speak up. Her door was pledges to renew her institution’s focus solving,” says Bajeux- new building, its technology expertise, and
From there, she was hired by France’s ESSEC
always open.” on racial justice following the Black Lives
Besnainou. “It’s not just its world-leading, online delivery capacity.
Matter protests that erupted in response to “Isabelle’s job is to put all these ingredients
Business School as a finance professor.
After four years, she moved to New Jersey
Liette Lapointe, Vice-Dean of Programs the police killing of George Floyd. Diversity about social justice. together and take us to the next level. I don’t
at Desautels, says that Bajeux-Besnainou and inclusion have always been important know what that will look like, but boy am I
in the U.S. with her husband and young son
is one of the most driven people she has to Bajeux-Besnainou, who is one of
Yes, that is crucial, excited to find out,” says Pierce.
(“it was as close to New York as we could
afford”), and worked as a visiting professor
ever worked with. “She has tons of ideas relatively few female deans of top business but diversity is better
and is very energetic. I know she has schools. “I’ve always been in a heavily male “The education landscape is changing so
in Montreal. After having her second child
grand ambitions and I’m sure she will push dominated environment,” she says, adding for both society quickly that there are many opportunities
(she has three kids now) the family moved to
Washington, D.C., where Bajeux-Besnainou
forwards tons of new projects at the Tepper that she was the only woman in the and business.” for us to do something different. I believe
School. They are lucky to have her.” finance department when she joined students want institutions that don’t just
landed a job at George Washington
George Washington. maintain the status quo, but are making
University’s School of Business.
Henry Mintzberg, a professor in the business education more relevant.”
Desautels Faculty of Management, adds: Diversity and inclusion have long been
Passionate about research and teaching,
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“I found Isabelle to be very supportive and priorities at the Tepper School, giving Bajeux- *** True to form, Bajeux-Besnainou says that she
she became Chair of the Finance
very helpful with my sometimes challenging Besnainou a solid foundation to build on. will not impose her vision. “During the first
Department. After discovering a love of
requests. Managing a management school, “This is definitely a huge challenge,” she Looking ahead, one priority and challenge month as a dean, it’s incredibly important to
leadership, she became Associate Dean
with so many professors who think they says. “I think it’s incredibly important too. will be to continue to draw international listen and to learn, not to rush into changes,”
for Undergraduate Programs. One key
know so much about management, is no There’s an awakening right now in the U.S., students to the Tepper School amid a she says. “You need to grasp the aspiration
achievement was reforming the bachelor’s
easy task. Isabelle pulled it off.” and we need to take a very proactive, not clampdown on immigration in the U.S., as of all the constituents — professors, staff,
degree in business administration, making
reactive, approach to effect significant well as travel restrictions around the world students, alumni. Everyone has been
it compulsory for students to select a
positive change. The good thing is that and the temporary closure of embassies incredibly generous with their time.”
double major outside the business school.
*** there is recognition from the whole Tepper that issue visas. “The strength of the U.S.
“Wall Street came to Washington to hire my
community that this issue needs to has been and always will be thanks to Long-term, her goal is to raise awareness of
students because they had a breadth and
Outlining her vision for the future of business be addressed.” immigration, and in particular the ability the unique strengths of the Tepper School
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depth of knowledge, and could broaden
education, Bajeux-Besnainou says she’s keen to bring top brains from so many different that drew her south from Montreal.
the horizons of the banks,” she says.
to develop closer links with industry so that She spotlights the dearth of black faculty at countries. I am quite optimistic this flow of
students at the Tepper School develop skills the business school as being one of the key talent will continue after COVID-19,” says
that make them ready for the job market. challenges. “If there is very little diversity Bajeux-Besnainou.
She envisions a pivot away from the case
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou,
10th Dean of Carnegie Mellon
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A PRECISE
V E R S AT I L E PAT H F I N D E R // A M I T S AC H D E V ( B S I M 19 9 0) BY NICHOLAS DUCASSI
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DYSSEY “I WANT THE COUNTRY THAT ELIMINATED
POLIO AND MAPPED THE HUMAN GENOME TO
LEAD A NEW ERA OF MEDICINE ... TO BRING
THE COUNTRY CLOSER TO CURING DISEASES
For Tepper alumnus and current Vertex EVP and Chief Patient
Officer Amit Sachdev, the State of the Union represented a
highlight of nearly a decade of tireless work. Having helped
shepherd the Boston-based company to multiple breakthrough
medical treatments, ten-fold growth, and R&D sites and offices
I REALIZED PRETTY
QUICKLY I WANTED
TO DO SOMETHING
THAT I FELT MORE
PURPOSEFUL ABOUT
— SOMETHING LESS
ABOUT INVESTING AND
MORE ABOUT PUBLIC
LIKE CANCER AND DIABETES,” PROCLAIMED across four continents, the presidential mention further validated
his decision to join Vertex when the company had just one office,
POLICY AND HELPING IN
PRESIDENT OBAMA IN HIS 2015 STATE OF THE
no commercial operations, and no profit. OTHER WAYS.
UNION ADDRESS. As Obama announced the launch of a
new precision medicine initiative, the Capitol building erupted in “Precision medicine,” also known as “personalized medicine,”
applause. 27-year-old cystic fibrosis patient Bill Elder, a guest that targets a disease’s genetic roots to modify the course of a disease
night of First Lady Michelle Obama, listened live as the president or even prevent it. “That’s what Vertex does,” says Sachdev. “We
explained the catalyst: “In some patients with cystic fibrosis,” a use different approaches — small molecules, cell therapies, gene
rare, life-threatening genetic lung disease, “this approach has therapies — to create innovative, transformative medicine for
reversed a disease once thought unstoppable.” serious diseases.”
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That approach is Kalydeco, a breakthrough treatment developed But the journey from research to market can be decades-long,
by Vertex Pharmaceuticals that targets the genetic roots of the laden with setbacks, and require serial rounds of massive financial
disease, earning it the distinction from Forbes as “The Most investment. Sachdev’s odyssey from finance and data analysis
Important New Drug Of 2012” and winning the First Annual Forbes classes at Carnegie Mellon to helping bring hepatitis C, cystic
Breakthrough Drug Award for “dramatically improving the lives fibrosis, and hopefully Type 1 diabetes and sickle cell disease
of patients and conquering a scientific challenge that had vexed treatments to the world was similarly winding, carrying him
researchers for decades.” over a million miles across numerous international borders with
stopovers at law school, Wall Street, and Capitol Hill. Over the last
“I’m so lucky to be a living, breathing example of how precision two years, this has led to the creation of a new MBA track in health
medicine can work,” Elder told the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation care at the Tepper School of Business.
shortly after the State of the Union. “I started taking a
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breakthrough treatment for cystic fibrosis a few years ago, and it
has changed my life. This new treatment is allowing me to pursue
my dreams. Without Kalydeco, I know I would get sick a lot more Amit Sachdev (BSIM 1990)
EVP and Chief Patient Officer
often, but since taking the drug, I haven’t had a flare-up.” Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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TEPPER’S
NATURE MEETS NURTURE
As a child, Sachdev spent countless hours
medicines sent to Africa, further sharpened
his skills. “I was problem-solving from the
number of patients who were diagnosed.
Within two years, Sachdev also led the
While it was initially approved to treat
around 4 percent of CF patients, Vertex
exposure to different types of problems and
risks, but I still apply the same set of skills
CURRICULUM
inside the science labs at Louisiana State time I walked in to the time I left,” says opening of Vertex’s first ex-U.S. offices, has continued to develop Kalydeco since its I learned at Tepper to develop solutions to GAVE ME
University, where his parents conducted
research as chemistry and botany
Sachdev. “Problem solving, data analysis,
and assessing and managing risk are what
including its commercial operations, sales,
and marketing, in Canada.
2012 introduction to bring it to more eligible
patients around the globe, including its
those problems.”
SKILLS AND
professors. His genetic predisposition to I most took away from Tepper, and what I 2020 approval to treat babies as young as 4 And while Sachdev is working on bringing CAPABILITIES
scientific curiosity met a love of computers,
which he nurtured in his teens when he
come back to every time.” But as Incivek advanced through clinical
trials and awareness of hepatitis C
months old. Today, Vertex has four approved
medicines that have the potential to treat
those medical therapies to the greater
population, he’s also working hard on
THAT I’VE
began programming in Basic, Cobalt, A BLOSSOMING IN BIOTECH increased, so did the pressure on Vertex. up to 90 percent of CF patients in the future. bringing a special segment of the population APPLIED
and Fortran. By 2004, a D.C. colleague called to gauge
his interest in joining BIO, the life sciences
“Leading up to Incivek’s approval, we had
raised $4.5 billion in public markets without
“We’re not done; there’s still 10 percent
of patients that probably need some sort
to Vertex: Tepper alumni. “We have as much
need, want, and capability in innovative life
THROUGHOUT
Drawn to Carnegie Mellon for its prowess trade association that represents large generating a return for our shareholders. of gene therapy or cell therapy that we’re sciences as the Silicon Valley companies or MY WHOLE
in technology, he had two predominant
career goals in mind as he chose his major:
companies like Celgene ($15B) and smaller
venture-backed, innovative biotech
It took us four years of working with the
government, philanthropy, foundation, and
working on,” cautions Sachdev. “But we feel
good about what we’ve done.”
Wall Street banks for those with analytical
capabilities, data scientists, and the other
CAREER.
purposeful work and entrepreneurship. companies. “I wanted to experience the peer companies to set up a framework to skills that make Tepper graduates so special.”
He decided to major in business: “Tepper’s private sector. I had done almost a decade enable the funding for treatment.” A DEEP COMMITMENT TO ITS PATIENTS
curriculum gave me skills and capabilities in public service, which I found really But Vertex’s and its Chief Patient Officer’s To that end, he’s worked closely with Tepper
that I’ve applied throughout my whole meaningful, but I didn’t know which part to After 15 years of development, Incivek hit missions have always been about more faculty and staff, including former Dean
career,” says Sachdev. enter — hospitals, insurance, innovation. I the market in 2011, and by 2012, for the than just treating the disease: “We’re deeply Robert Dammon, to design and develop a
thought going to BIO would give me a first time in its 23-year history, Vertex committed to the patients we serve, and our new MBA Health Care track in data analytics
After graduating, he became an investment taste of that.” was profitable. “It was the fastest drug in responsibility goes beyond medicine. We that will include artificial intelligence for
advisor for a large Wall Street brokerage the industry to reach a billion dollars in spend a lot of time thinking about what kind life sciences.
house. It was short-lived: “I realized pretty At BIO, Sachdev met Joshua Boger, a doctor revenue,” says Sachdev. of outcomes patients have in terms of quality
quickly I wanted to do something that I felt of organic chemistry who founded Vertex of life and how we can engage with them to The partnership between the Tepper School
more purposeful about — something less in 1989 to pioneer work in structure-based It didn’t last. “It was also the fastest drug ensure we’re meeting their needs to make of Business Health Care Initiative and Vertex
about investing and more about public drug design to treat serious diseases. By off the market. Within two years, it was sure their voice is heard.” will create an MBA curriculum for health care
policy and helping in other ways.” 2007, nearly twenty years into its existence, replaced by a competitive product. After analytics and support the related research of
the company had no commercial wing and Vertex went through a major investment That work also includes philanthropy — the faculty and doctoral students.
He pivoted from business to Emory no profit. It had devoted all of its resources over many years to be the pioneer in Sachdev oversees The Vertex Foundation
University’s law school and soon landed an to its founding mission. But it was on the hepatitis C treatment — to not win in the — to running programs that help patients “Our vision is to offer a comprehensive
internship at the Department of Justice in verge of making history. strategy game of making sure you didn’t connect directly with the company. “We have deep dive into the study of health care
Environmental Litigation and Defense. He just have the first treatment, but also the patients who show up on their vacations analytics,” says Soo-Haeng Cho, Professor
eventually found his way to writing laws, Its antiviral treatment for hepatitis C, a best ... was tough.” and want to come meet our scientists,” so of Operations Management and Strategy
running hearings, and negotiating bills in disease that killed more U.S. citizens in Sachdev built a program that allows patients at Tepper. The curriculum will draw from
cybersecurity and critical infrastructure 2007 than HIV, was in clinical trials. Using THE VERTEX VORTEX to tour Vertex’s Boston labs, not unlike how Tepper School’s health care analytics courses
as Senior Counsel for a senior a technique called protease-inhibition, “We had to pivot to a different disease Sachdev himself toured his parents’ labs and related courses in health care policies
congressional committee. Vertex’s treatment, called Incivek, showed area. We had cystic fibrosis in mind, but the when he was a child. and AI applications to health care from the
promise to stop the replication of the virus research was in an earlier stage, so we had Heinz School and the School of Computer
Law school helped him get to Capitol Hill, that caused the disease. “If we succeeded, it to figure out how to stay alive through the Sachdev says he’s gained an extended family Science. Touching on everything from
but Sachdev says the business negotiation would essentially be a cure. You would treat ‘divot’ period.” in the CF community. “When you have a rare hospital management, insurance policies,
skills he learned in his undergraduate each patient once, and you would move disease, it’s a very small number of people, and patient records to medicine, diagnoses,
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Mergers and Acquisitions class helped on,” says Sachdev. While rare — only around 35,000 Americans unlike the larger systemic diseases that and treatment, the track will culminate in
him excel there: “I learned how to work are affected — cystic fibrosis is brutal to affect large swaths of the population. I know a capstone project course that exposes
with other people and how to negotiate. But bringing that dream to fruition would those it afflicts: The life-threatening genetic them by name, know their family members, students to a real business problem in the
Whether I was negotiating legislation in require help from someone with vast disease causes persistent lung infections know their communities ... that’s a privilege health care and life science industry. “The
a bipartisan way or in a business experience in multiple sectors, including and limits the ability to breathe over time. that we have doing this work.” potential is limitless,” says Professor Cho.
negotiation — the skills I learned at Tepper business, government, and policy — Vertex’s personalized treatment, known as
really applied forward in my career.” someone like Sachdev. The opportunity to Kalydeco, was the first medicine to treat the On the horizon, Vertex has therapies in While the program is currently in
simultaneously do good and help shape a underlying cause of the disease. various stages of research and development, development — like a cutting-edge
Before long, he became Deputy company was the perfect marriage of the including potential treatments for Type 1 personalized medicine in a clinical trial —
Commissioner of the Food and Drug career goals that pushed him to study Kalydeco exceeded expectations in its diabetes, beta thalassemia, and sickle cell the fall 2020 semester featured the first-
Administration (FDA), which oversees at Tepper. clinical trials. “We were surprised. Not disease. Issues are sure to arise as they work ever Health Care concentration to build up
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nearly 25 percent of the U.S. consumer only could you get a modification in the to introduce them to the world, but Sachdev momentum and excitement for the track.
economy. The breadth and diversity of his Sachdev came on as Vertex’s SVP of slope of the decline in lung function,” says his journey has equipped him to tackle “There’s no reason we shouldn’t connect
workload from implementing key elements Corporate Affairs and Public Policy. He recalls Sachdev, “we also began to see any hiccups: “My career path — and it was these dots and help recruit more Tepper
of the Medicare Modernization Act to led its market shaping, including raising improvement in lung function as well.” definitely a winding road, just gave me graduates to life sciences,” says Sachdev. ―
ensuring the efficacy and safety of HIV awareness of hepatitis C and increasing the
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