Beyond the Bottom Line The Yale School of Management

In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Tombaugh, President of Tauck, a Connecticut-based and family-owned travel company. Jennifer discusses her journey from working in large, Fortune 500 companies like Coca Cola at the start of her career to what led to her decision to join Tauck's business development team 18 years ago. As her role in the company has changed, Jennifer shares insight into her work on the business development team and what goes into being an effective manager all while the travel business changes and grows over time since first joining Tauck.

In this episode, we speak with Claudia Reuter, Managing Director of the Stanley Techstars Additive Manufacturing Acclerator in Hartford and General Manager of Techstars East. She is an experienced entrepreneur who worked as SVP of digital services for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and was Co-Founder and CEO of School Chapters.

In this episode, we speak with Jeff Hong SOM '15, Co-Founder of Bite, a technology platform that provides restaurants with intelligent self-service kiosks to both simplify and personalize the food-service experience. Jeff shares how his coursework at SOM helped to shape the idea for Bite, the prototyping process, and building point of sales systems.

In this episode, we speak with Melissa Mash, Co-Founder of Dagne Dover. Melissa shares how her experience working for Coach in London helped her formulate the idea for her own brand and led to her decision to attend business school. While at Wharton, Melissa met her co-founders, Deepa Gandhi and Jessy Dover, and the team worked together to create Dagne Dover - "bags designed for a life in motion".

In this episode, we speak with Brendan Kennedy SOM '05, Co-Founder of Privateer Holdings and CEO of Tilray. Brendan discusses his career path upon graduating from Yale SOM and how this work experience helped lead to the idea behind Privateer Holdings. He also shares his transition to CEO of Tilray and how his experiences as an entrepreneur impacted this role change.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Allison Mishkin, Founder of Bit by Bit: Breaking the Barrier for Girls in Tech. Allison holds a joint PhD & MBA from the Oxford Internet Institute and Yale School of Management. Allison shares what led to her pursuit of a career in STEM and the challenges she saw along the way that often keep women from considering a path in the computer science industry. Making this a part of her PhD research, Allison discusses how we can empower young girls and women to find their place in a traditionally male-dominated field.