Our Top Ten Favorite MBAs of 2014

MBAs who are already making a difference

Honorable Mentions

Uru Storm, Said, rower and Olympic medalist

 

Nolan Walsh and Connor Wilson, Columbia Business School, Founders of Thursday Boot Company

 

Stern’s class of MBAs that used the video portion of the application process to sing, dance, and run into Stern

 

Alessandra Basso, London Business School, the fashion-forward MBA

 

Anindya Ghose, best professor in the Poets&Quants 40 under 40 list

 

Haifa AlHumaid, Babson, entrepreneur

 

Matt Segneri, Harvard’s New Social Enterprise Director 

 

Richard Hunt, Columbia, winner of the Pershing Square Challenge

 

Patrick Martinchek, Stanford, formally worked in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab

 

Sheena VanLeuven, Ross, PeaceCorps alum

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