Karen Lynch '84, President and CEO of CVS Health
This month, 听has landed in the mailboxes of alumni, students, parents, and others鈥攚ith a lively array of stories that illustrate 艾可直播 College鈥檚 unique style of management education.
The Carroll School鈥檚 annual print publication features alumni who are bringing their BC values and know-how to an eclectic range of business pursuits; students who are connecting their management studies to the liberal arts and to their development as whole persons; and 艾可直播research that is helping people and organizations find answers to urgent questions.
Among the Carroll School alumni highlighted in this edition are:
Seidner University Professor Paul Romer
鈥� Nine CEOs, including three from Fortune 500 companies, profiled in our feature story, 鈥淭he Changemakers.鈥� They鈥檙e shaking up their industries the 艾可直播 College way.
鈥� Joe Martinez 鈥�05, who earned a World Series ring as a pitcher with the San Francisco Giants and left professional baseball for consulting. He鈥檚 now combining his management and baseball knowledge in his role as Major League Baseball鈥檚 vice president of on-field strategy.
鈥� Ronnie Slamin 鈥�13, a real estate developer who is bringing mixed-income housing to one of the richest neighborhoods in Washington, DC. She learned the trade from the pioneering developer of mixed-income housing, the late Joseph Corcoran 鈥�59, H 鈥�09, P 鈥�85, 鈥�86, 鈥�87, 鈥�98.
鈥� Natalie White 鈥�20, who has changed the game for women basketball players with her brand, Moolah Kicks, featuring a sneaker specially designed for women鈥檚 feet.
Carroll Capital鈥檚 cover story is about Paul Romer, the Nobel laureate in economics who arrived at 艾可直播 College this past year as the Seidner University Professor in the Finance Department and founding director of the new Center for the Economics of Ideas. Romer won the Nobel Prize for his upbeat theory of economic growth, but he has been sounding alarms that have grown more urgent. Romer the optimist is worried.
Aidan Said '24, Andrew Namkoong '24, and Irfane Soumanou '25, all featured in the story on formative education
Another feature story looks at how 艾可直播 College is shaping the whole undergraduate experience through formative education. The article spotlights busy Carroll School students toggling between finance in Fulton and philosophy in Gasson, extending outward through organizations like the Joseph E. Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action, and reflecting on their experiences together with peers at an array of retreats.
For the 鈥淏ottom Line鈥� column on the closing page, John and Linda Powers Family Dean Andy Boynton interviewed Jack Connors 鈥�63, H 鈥�07, P 鈥�93, 鈥�94. Dubbed 鈥渢he last king of 艾可直播,鈥� Connors has never stopped connecting his BC values to both business and his many philanthropic causes in 艾可直播.
Much of the edition throws light on the old and the new鈥攈ow the Carroll School is integrating those values and the arts and sciences into a contemporary management education.
鈥湴芍辈� College and the Carroll School have made great strides in recent times, but the gains would have been few and far between without the Jesuit Catholic ethos and liberal arts tradition that animate the curriculum, student life, and other areas of the University,鈥� Boynton writes in his dean鈥檚 message. 鈥淐hange and stability will carry us further still. Ever to Excel!鈥�
Carroll Capital
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Carroll Capital, the annual print publication of the Carroll School of Management at 艾可直播 College, throws light on trends in business and society while telling stories about alumni and students as well as 艾可直播and school initiatives.
