Emma Stanton

Kellogg Magazine

Leading with boldness and humility

January 23, 2020 is a day Joey Wat ’00 will never forget. It was the day China announced that Wuhan — the capital of Hubei Province and with a population of more than 10 million people — would be locked down to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Until that point, Wat, the chief executive officer of Yum China, China’s largest restaurant company, had been aware of COVID-19 but was remaining cautiously optimistic. Her company was well-positioned to provide additional safety for her staff members — a lon

Kellogg Insight

How Auctions­ Help Solve Some of the World’s Most Complicated Problems

What Is “Auction Theory,” and What Kinds of Questions Can It Answer?

Kellogg Magazine

Paying It Forward: Recruiting During COVID-19 | Fall/Winter 2020 Kellogg Magazine

Graham Burgess ’20 entered Kellogg not quite know what he wanted to do. “I came from the military and, after discussing some of my interests with my peers in the Veterans Management Association, I decided I’d go down the general management path,” Burgess says. However, it was only after accepting an internship with DaVita in general management that he realized his love for finance.

After returning from his summer internship, he began the recruiting process for investment banking. While a pivot

Northwestern Now

The Moskowitz Prize moves to Kellogg

The Kellogg School of Management is now the host of the Moskowitz Prize, which is the premier global prize for research in sustainable finance and is awarded each year “to the paper best representing outstanding research on sustainable and responsible investing and the financial implications of responsible business practices in capital markets.”

The prize was instituted in 1996 and had been hosted at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business for the past 24 years before moving to Kellogg. It was named

Northwestern Now

Dashun Wang named to Thinkers50 Radar List

Dashun Wang of the Kellogg School of Management has been hailed by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s preeminent management thought leaders.

Wang was chosen for the 2021 Radar List for his “refreshing ideas on how we think about — and do — science and innovation.”

“I’m deeply honored by this award,” he said. “It is a testament to all the hard work my team members and collaborators put in day in and day out — especially those by my students and postdocs. It is simply a privilege to have the oppor

Inside Kellogg

A Zell Fellow Goes All in to Make Onsite Tests for COVID-19

It began during a KIEI event last Fall. I connected with a McCormick professor and his former post-doc student from Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology, who were looking for a business partner at the time. We first put together some potential options for roles and projects I could do at the company. And the more we worked together, the better it got, and the more need they found in having a business partner. The Zell Fellows Program was kind enough to allow me to pivot to work with Steml

Inside Kellogg

Choosing Finance, Motherhood & a Kellogg MBA

This content was originally published in Poets & Quants.

My journey in finance began early, and very quickly, it expanded to working across global markets. I always knew that a career in this industry would mean that I would want to pursue an MBA, but the question remained, when would be the right time.

Following my undergraduate major in finance, I initially focused on gaining as much experience as possible. I landed my first job offer from Goldman Sachs when I was 19 years old as a Sophomore

Inside Kellogg

Co-Founding a Startup at the Intersection of Healthcare and Technology

Inside Kellogg had an opportunity to speak with Kellogg alumnus, Varun Goyal (E&W 2011), about his journey as an entrepreneur and how his startup, Illuminate Health, used its digital health platform to support patients during COVID-19, specifically those suffering with Substance Abuse Disorder.

Tell us about your professional journey.

Prior to Kellogg, I was more on the technology side, being an engineer by background. I spent the majority of my career at Oracle in various consulting roles, wo

Inside Kellogg

Solving the Hardest Problems While Serving the Market

Inside Kellogg had an opportunity to speak with Kellogg alumni, Dave Chookaszian (2Y 2013) and Raj Karan Singh (E&W 2019), about their overlapping paths in their professional journeys and how their work at Quantiphi continues to provide innovative solutions for their customers during COVID-19.

Tell me a little about your careers leading up to working at Quantiphi and with each other.

RAJ: Prior to Quantiphi, I had nearly a decade of consulting experience. During the time I was completing my MB

Northwestern Now

Kellogg to host ClimateCAP summit in 2022

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management will host ClimateCAP: The Global MBA Summit on Climate, Capital & Business in spring 2022. This annual summit, in partnership with business-school programs across the globe, brings together students and leaders across industries to discuss business engagement with issues of climate change.

ClimateCAP originated at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in response to a growing appetite from MBA students to be better equipped to understa

Inside Kellogg

Hispanic Heritage Month: An Alumna Leads Supply Chain & Cultures of Belonging

For Hispanic Heritage Month, Elsy Ocejo ’17 shares what she’s proud of in the past year as an Hispanic business leader in Bimbo Bakeries USA and how she strives to advance diversity, equity and inclusion both within her organization and in the Kellogg alumni community. Please see Elsy’s full bio below and ways you can become involved Kellogg community member.

Tell us about Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU). As an Hispanic business leader in the company, what about the company are you particularly proud

Inside Kellogg

Entrepreneurship: A Deeply Human Endeavor

Inside Kellogg had the opportunity to connect with Kellogg alumnus, Benjamin Hernandez (JD-MBA 2013, Founder & CEO of NuMat Technologies), about the founding of NuMat, its evolution as a company, and what he learned along the way about leadership–especially during COVID-19.

NuMat Technologies began at Northwestern. Can you tell us about how your partnership with Dr. Omar Farha began and the founding of NuMat?

While pursuing my JD-MBA at Kellogg, I met two unique individuals: One was a Ph.D. st

Inside Kellogg

The Ever-Evolving Legacy I’m Carrying Forward

Where I come from

It would be an understatement to say I’ve been blessed by an amazing family. I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, where I lived my entire life up until I entered Kellogg. From 1994 to 2021, I had the pleasure of living a traditional, almost movie-like, family dynamic: Sundays meant going to church, cramming 30 people in any of the previous generation’s homes, eating a delicious meal, and spending an evening of quality time. This was not unlike some of my friends’ Sundays, except f

Inside Kellogg

Staff Member Receives Kellogg’s Advancing DEI Award for Leadership in Allyship

Kellogg’s “Advancing DEI Award” is presented monthly to a staff member who is committed to, and active in, advancing the work of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Kellogg. Recent award recipient Raven Bedenfield, a digital designer for Kellogg’s Integrated Marketing and Communications team, shared with us her journey in DEI, what sparked her to act and what she was able to accomplish — including her own growth.

Tell me a little about yourself and what you do at Kellogg.

Hi, my name is Raven B

Inside Kellogg

MBA Application Video Essays: Managing Yourself Through Disruption

Hello, my name is Lance Bennett and I’m the director of diversity admissions at Kellogg and work with our full portfolio of programs. I’ve worked at Kellogg for almost seven years and am gratified in working to make an impact in the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion space. I join my colleagues in being very excited about your application!

Kellogg is dedicated to building a community of students who are creative, who seek out diverse teams to lead, and who meet challenges with innovation. Never has

Inside Kellogg

Blanx: A Kellogg Startup Amplifying Social Good

Ariel Bacal (EMBA 2020) and Alfredo Cottin (EMBA 2016) met each other at a Kellogg EMBA event for new students. From that moment, Blanx was born. Inside Kellogg recently had an opportunity to chat with them about the co-founding of their startup, and its evolution since. Here is their story.

Please share a little bit about your professional backgrounds.

ARIEL: I am a third-generation shoe dog. I have managed a vertically integrated business, from manufacturing to retail. I know the business in

Inside Kellogg

Now More Than Ever: Five Learnings from Kellogg’s Virtual Social Impact Days

By Vanessa Gottlieb and Sebastian Dominguez Marchant (both 2Y 2022)

As Sebastian and I (Vanessa) sit here trying to figure out how to co-author a post about Social Impact Days 2020, it dawns on me that this moment really exemplifies what it means to be at Kellogg. We are two former strangers coming from very different pre-Kellogg jobs, with different native languages, Zoom-brainstorming across continents and time zones, virtual bonding over our eagerness to make a lasting social impact and to s

Inside Kellogg

New Courses: A Look at Kellogg’s Curriculum Development and Innovation

By Michael Mazzeo, Senior Associate Dean of Curriculum and Teaching

Kellogg’s curriculum development is another engine of innovation for the school. Our approach is rooted in faculty research; we encourage our incredible faculty to develop courses that are (1) based on the latest insights in their fields and areas of professional expertise and are (2) designed to facilitate students’ personal and professional development.

Additionally, all our new courses need to meet fundamental standards of

Inside Kellogg

Kellogg’s Pride Week: Creating Spaces of Inclusivity and Allyship

Inside Kellogg recently had the opportunity to connect with Pride Week Co-Chairs Adam Wolford (2Y 2021) and Jamal Little (2Y 2021) on their experience as co-chairs and what Pride at Kellogg (P@K) has meant to them throughout their time as students. Here’s their story.

Tell us about your leadership journeys to Kellogg.

Adam: I have considered business school ever since I was an undergraduate. I was studying Chemical Engineering and knew that path was not one I wanted to take due to the lack of

Inside Kellogg

Introducing Kellogg’s New Assistant Dean for Executive MBA

Bernadette Birt, Kellogg’s new assistant dean for Executive MBA Global Network, is not new to Kellogg. She spent the early part of her career in Kellogg’s Executive MBA Program, where she dedicated herself to the student experience and contributed to the launch of global partnerships and programming. Returning to EMBA as assistant dean, she reflects on her leadership journey, as well as her passion for Kellogg’s Executive MBA Program and what makes it so distinct.

Can you tell us a little about

Inside Kellogg

Kellogg’s DEI Pathway: Honoring Our Purpose Through the Lens of DEI

By Bernie Banks, Associate Dean for Leadership Development and Inclusion

As of the start of Spring Quarter 2021, students in the Full-Time and Evening & Weekend Program have had the option to pursue a DEI Pathway at Kellogg. Now, you might be wondering what a pathway is. A pathway at Kellogg is neither a certification of any kind, nor is it a major, where you would need to take a minimum number of courses. Rather, a pathway functions more as a travel guide; if you want to make a trip to a certa

Inside Kellogg

Using Policy & a Kellogg EMBA to Advance Equitable Change

Note from Inside Kellogg: In addition to passing Paid Family Leave for DeSoto, Texas, Candice Quarles recently led the passing of Ban-the-Box policy on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Joining the City of Austin, 36 states, and over 150 cities and counties, Ban-the-Box will implement hiring policies that aim to give everyone a fair chance at employment. “Ban-the-box” refers to the policy of removing the conviction history check-box from job applications. If employers must ask about convictions, they can

Inside Kellogg

Kellogg Class of 2023: Setting a New Bar for Academic Excellence & Representation

by Kate Smith ’98, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid

With the start of the academic year, August is always an exciting time at Kellogg. But what is especially exciting for us is welcoming back all of our students and introducing our new, two-year class to the entire Kellogg community. The Class of 2023 exemplifies Kellogg’s commitment to excellence both in academics and representation, but also what it means to be a Kellogg leader — a leader who energizes and inspires those around

Inside Kellogg

An Alumnus’s Path to Entrepreneurship & Co-Founding Factor

Inside Kellogg recently connected with Mike Apostal (E&W 2012) on his journey to becoming CEO and Co-Founder of Factor 75 (now Factor), HelloFresh’s recent acquisition of Factor and advice to students pursuing entrepreneurship. Here’s what he had to say.

Tell us about your leadership journey to Kellogg and what you’ve been up to post-Kellogg.

I started my career in commercial banking at LaSalle Bank (which is Bank of America today), in their credit analyst program. I stayed in lending to food