Our Top Ten Favorite MBAs of 2014MBAs who are already making a difference by: Nathan Allen on December 24, 2014 | 8 minute read December 24, 2014 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit 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 Previous PagePage 3 of 3 1 2 3 © Copyright 2026 Poets & Quants. All rights reserved. This article may not be republished, rewritten or otherwise distributed without written permission. To reprint or license this article or any content from Poets & Quants, please submit your request HERE.