Boston University Questrom Internship Fund Impact Report

IMPACT REPORT 2018–2019

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FOR SOCIAL IMPACT

SOCIAL IMPACT—AND YOUR IMPACT At Questrom, community is at the heart of who we are and what we do. From the start, grad students coalesce into cohorts that reflect a diversity of backgrounds, interests, and talents. Classroom projects and cocurricular activities center around teamwork so that students have opportunities to innovate and collaborate as they expand their leadership skills.

The Internship Fund for Social Impact creates opportunities for the Questrom community to come together to create value for the world and drive sustainable change across the globe. The fund is run by first- and second-year MBA students.

Established in 2012, this invaluable resource helps students pursue meaningful summer internships, regardless of the salary offered. With assistance from the Internship Fund, the students use their business expertise to strengthen local, national, and international social impact ventures. They do this through research and data analysis, resulting in more streamlined operations, newly uncovered revenue sources, and more efficient and equitable distribution of services.

As advisors to the fund, faculty and staff share their expertise, guidance, and invaluable professional networks to help identify experiences that enable students to apply their classroom learning to some of today’s difficult societal challenges.

To raise awareness of the Internship Fund and its broad impact, student leaders recently pioneered Impact Week: a four-day, on-campus fundraising campaign. With daily events and videos highlighting past recipients’ accomplishments, Impact Week encourages students to expand their idea of what is possible in a summer internship and inspires them to support their peers through Donate-a-Day. The idea behind Donate-a-Day is simple: students pledge to donate the amount of money earned during one day at their summer internship or full-time job to the Internship Fund. This approach allows all Questrom graduate students to contribute meaningfully. For many first-time donors, it serves as an inspiration for lifelong philanthropy.

Alumni and friends play an important role by supporting students who seek career-accelerating, purpose-driven internships. From contributing on Giving Day to establishing endowments, donors are ensuring that Questrom MBA students can pursue careers with real social impact.

2018–2019 INTERNSHIP FUND $78,143 100% 154 10 TOTAL FUNDS RAISED

FIRST-YEAR FULL-TIME MBA STUDENTS DONATED DONATIONS FROM CLASS OF 2020 STUDENTS

STUDENTS IN SUMMER 2019 FUNDED FOR INTERNSHIPS WITH MEASURABLE SOCIAL IMPACT

% OF SECTORS SERVED IN SUMMER 2019

ADVISORY & OPERATING COMMITTEES ADVISORY BOARD

OPERATING COMMITTEE

Alicia Hadley (Questrom’20) MBA, Social Impact Internship Fund Recipient

Laura Chanoux (Questrom’20) MBA, Social Impact President

Rob Harriss (GRS’21, Questrom’21) MBA, Social Impact; MA, Economics Internship Fund Recipient

Matthew Cowin (Questrom’20) MBA Vice President of Finance Rachel Larson (Questrom’20) MBA, Social Impact Vice President of Operations

Paul “Hutch” Hutchinson (GRS’15) Senior Lecturer, Organizational Karin Freed (Questrom’21) Behavior MBA, Social Impact First-Year Chair Sayi Makwaia (Questrom’20) MBA Jessica Iocca (Questrom’21) Internship Fund Recipient MBA, Social Impact Marketing Chair JP Matychak Dana Tumbaga (Questrom’21) Associate Dean, Student MBA, Social Impact Experience & Services First-Year Representative Ned Rimer (Questrom’95) Sophie Hearne (Questrom’21) Executive-in-Residence/ Senior Lecturer, Organizational MBA, Social Impact First-Year Representative Behavior Faculty Director, Health Sector Emily Gutman (Questrom’21) Management Program MBA, Social Impact First-Year Representative Shani Scheiman (Wheelock’17) Associate Director, Stewardship Rebecca Levy (Questrom’21) MBA, Social Impact and Donor Engagement First-Year Representative David Stolow Senior Lecturer, Organizational Connie Hadley Lecturer, Organizational Behavior Faculty Director, Social Impact Behavior Faculty Advisor Program

75 INTERNSHIPS FUNDED SINCE 2013

AT ORGANIZATIONS BIG AND SMALL

52

NONPROFIT

7

PUBLIC SECTOR

16

START-UPS/ACCELERATORS

% OF ORGANIZATIONS POSITIVELY IMPACTED BY SECTOR SINCE 2013

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“It speaks a lot to what kind of community Questrom is; 100% of the first-year class gave. That demonstrates how supportive we are of each other. We believe in our classmates, and we want to support each other’s passions and individual career journeys.” Sara Dever (Questrom’19)

2019 RECIPIENTS Iswarya Chandramouli (Questrom’20, SPH’20) MBA, Health Sector Management; MPH Evans Family Fellow Judge Baker Children’s Center, Boston, Mass.

MissionPromote the mental health of children and families through research, intervention, training, and advocacy ImpactAnalyzed Massachusetts’ school-based mental health policies, systems, and practices to create more opportunities for children with different needs

Hanming Chu (Questrom’20,’20) MBA, Social Impact; MS, Digital Innovation iCareBetter, Boston, Mass.

MissionHelp patients gain knowledge about their chronic diseases and increase their adherence to a care plan with engaging and influential video education ImpactDeveloped a go-to-market strategy for a start-up digital platform with limited financial resources and reduced customer acquisition cost by 50%

Charlie Cook (Questrom’20) MBA, Social Impact Bunker Labs, Boston, Mass.

MissionConnect entrepreneurs in the militaryaffiliated community with the network, tools, and resources they need to start their own business ImpactHelped plan the National Summit, which connected over 300 military veteran entrepreneurs and provided research and due diligence to develop a $50 million VC fund scheduled to launch Q4 2020

Mugdha Guru (Questrom’20) MBA WBUR, Boston, Mass.

MissionProvide thoughtful content to inform, challenge, and enrich the human experience ImpactHelped increase awareness of and engagement with digital media and demonstrated the need to expand and diversify marketing operations, research, and budget

Alicia Hadley (Questrom’20)

MBA, Social Impact City of Boston Department of Transportation, Boston, Mass.

MissionImprove Boston’s basic city services and create a more sustainable, equitable, and efficient transportation network ImpactAnalyzed existing process and developed a more efficient system for Boston Department of Transportation to respond to over 3,000 constituent requests

Rob Harriss (GRS’21, Questrom’21)

MBA, Social Impact; MA, Economics Mass. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Malden, Mass.

MissionPrepare all students for success in life ImpactDeveloped a STEM practices framework for schools and districts to develop robust, equitable STEM opportunities for students

Rashi Jaiswal (Questrom’20) MBA EatWell Meal Kits, Cambridge, Mass.

MissionMake healthful eating more available to families living in food-insecure communities ImpactIdentified a new distribution channel and developed a go-to-market strategy that resulted in reaching the organization’s goal more efficiently

Sayi Makwaia (Questrom’20) MBA NINAYO, Tanzania

MissionUse crowdsourced data to provide actionable business intelligence for users ImpactIdentified challenges within the agricultural start-up and helped facilitate a more focused, efficient implementation strategy

Ankita Parmar (Questrom’20) MBA The Capital Network, Boston, Mass.

MissionDemocratize access to funding through hands-on education and personalized mentoring from investors and experts ImpactCreated a CRM database to manage and analyze client information and facilitate a more efficient onboarding process for program participants

Julianna Samper (Questrom’20) MBA, Social Impact Accion International, Cambridge, Mass.

MissionAdvance financial inclusion by giving people the financial tools they need to improve their lives ImpactImplemented a change management strategy to facilitate increased collaboration for more sustainable results across international locations

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“I am proud of the footprint I have created in this start-up. It was important for me to do not only work that was purposeful in what I see myself doing in my career, but also work that contributed to a community.”

Sayi Makwaia (Questrom’20)

“I really think the collaborative spirit here at BU is infectious and I think it is really important that we continue that not just during the academic year but outside of it, and then the next generations here at BU will see that spirit and have it continue on.” Sam Amazeen, Class of 2020

“The financial barriers of business school can be a lot, so having a fund like this will hopefully help encourage students to pursue work they’re really passionate about, regardless of pay.”

Sara Dever (Questrom’19)

“An amazing thing about Questrom is how supportive this community really is, and the Internship Fund is another example of that. We’re really like one big family. We support each other, we stick together, and that foundation sets us up to be strong leaders and enables us to drive change in the world.”

Jillian Yee (Questrom’19, SPH’19)

2018–2019 DONORS Mohammad Haider A. Abbasi (Questrom’20) Mohamed E. Abdelrahman (Questrom’20) Sara Adelsberg (Questrom’20) Edem Adukonu (Questrom’20) Vijayalakshmi Agnani (Questrom’15) Felicia Aguiar (CGS’12, Sargent’15, Questrom’20) Arzum Akkas Benjamin Allen (Questrom’19) Oluwatobi Alliyu (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Jordan Altman (Questrom’20) Samuel Amazeen (Questrom’20) Michel Anteby Mahita Appalaraju (Questrom’19,’19) Jyoti Arora (Questrom’19) Elizabeth Arthur (Questrom’18,’18) Mary Artuso (Questrom’17) Casey Babbitt (Questrom’19) Connor Baharozian (MED’19, Questrom’19) Andrew Bailer (Questrom’20) Isaac Barbour (Questrom’19) Samuel Barcelo (Questrom’19) Michael Barros (Questrom’18) and Jaclyn Dentino (MET’15) Natassya Bedos (Questrom’19) Eugene Berardi (Questrom’20) Natalie Berreth (Questrom’20, SPH’20) David Berry (Questrom’19) Swapnil Bhagat (Questrom’20,’20) Steven Bichimer (Questrom’19) Barbara Bickart Carolyn Bogle (Questrom’20) Kyle Bowen (Questrom’20) Ritika Bramhe (Questrom’20) Magnus Buerman (Questrom’19) Mary Buletza (Questrom’80) and Gary Breton Nicole Burnstein (Questrom’20) Daniel Buxbaum (Questrom’20) Daniel Carlton (Questrom’19) Patrick Casper (Questrom’19) Iswarya Chandramouli (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Laura Chanoux (Questrom’20) Richard Cheng (Questrom’13) David Chin (CAS’64, Questrom’97) Dooyon Cho Hanming Chu (Questrom’20,’20) Iain Cockburn Charles Cook Matthew Cowin (Questrom’20) Benjamin Cox (Questrom’20) Kendall Cox (Questrom’20,’20) Christiana Crooks (Questrom’20) Jeffrey Cruikshank and Ann Bryan (Parents CAS’18) Katherine Cunningham (Questrom’19) Diego A. Da Silva Nunes (Questrom’18) Francisco Darquea Jaramillo (Questrom’20) Saarth Dave (Questrom’20) Rodolfo De Melo Penna (Questrom’20,’20) Emily De Redon (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Patrick Demarle (Questrom’20) Jingren Deng (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Jaymin Desai (Questrom’15,’20) Anish Deshpande (Questrom’20,’20) Sara Dever (Questrom’19) Dalia Doerner Rinaldi (Questrom’18) Rishabh Dua (Questrom’20,’20) Dana Dubovik Mackenzie Duncan (Questrom’20) Jasmine DuPont (Questrom’19, GRS’22) Blythe Elkin (Questrom’19) and Michael Bauer

Lauren Evans (Questrom’20,’20) Ellen Ferzoco (Questrom’10) Allison Filler (Questrom’20,’20) Colleen Fitzpatrick Twayne Forth (Questrom’20) Stephen Franco (CAS’94, Questrom’94) James (Questrom’98) and Donna French (Parents CAS’15) Nishant Garg (CAS’19, MED’20, Questrom’20) Sean Gemunden (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Saeid Gholami (Questrom’20,’20) Frederick Godley (MED’15,’20, Questrom’20) Maria Gonzalez Biurrun (Questrom’19) Facundo Goyeneche Giupponi (Questrom’20) Stacey Graf (Questrom’20) Michael Green (MED’20, Questrom’20) Nolan Greene (Questrom’12) Mugdha Guru (Questrom’20) Jeonghi Ha (Questrom’20) Alicia Hadley (Questrom’20) Constance and Christopher Hadley John Hall (CAS’16, Questrom’20,’20) Patricia Hambrick Carlos Hank Amaya (Questrom’19) Stephanie Harding (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Patricia Harris (Questrom’20) Robert Harriss (GRS’21, Questrom’21) Katherine Havens (Questrom’20) Edward Hawkins (SHA’11, Questrom’20) Lindsay Helenbrook Zoe Heyman (Questrom’20) Katherine Hickey (Questrom’20) Chelsea Ho (Questrom’19) Cheng-Hui Ho (Questrom’20) Heather L. Howe (Questrom’19,’19) Hanhan Hu (Questrom’20,’20) Yaohua Hu (Questrom’20) Yan Huang Eric Huber (CFA’11) Petra and Robert Hurkmans (Parents CGS’15, Questrom’17,’20) Amina Hussain (Questrom’08) Paul Hutchinson (GRS’15) Maria Ivchenko (Questrom’20) Kartikeya Iyer (Questrom’20,’20) Shreya Iyer (Questrom’20) Titus Jahng (Questrom’20) Mayank Jaiswal (Questrom’18,’18) Rashi Jaiswal (Questrom’20) Haley Jensen (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Dan Jian (Questrom’20) James Johnston (Questrom’20) Matthew Jund (Questrom’20) Tamar Kaim Doniger (Questrom’17) Kruti Kanojia (Questrom’20) Jennifer Kaufman (Questrom’19,’19) Brittany Keegan (Questrom’19) Matthew Kenney (Questrom’20,’20) Ashish Khurana (Questrom’20,’20) Steven Kinsella (Questrom’19) Nolan Kleinhenz (Questrom’19) Gabriella Knoll (Questrom’20,’20) Alexandra Krakoff (Questrom’20,’20) Aseem Kulkarni (GRS’20, Questrom’20) Tirada Kulsuppaisarn (Questrom’20,’20) Amanda Kutia (Questrom’10) Steven Lacey (Questrom’20) Rachel Larson (Questrom’20) Dana Laustsen (SHA’12, Questrom’18) Cody Learned (Questrom’20) Maurice Lee (Questrom’20) Esther Leibel Sarah Levitin (Questrom’19)

Yinsheng Li (Questrom’20) Yunze Li (Questrom’19) Evan Lin (Questrom’20) Petro Lisowsky (Questrom’08) Dan Liu (Questrom’20,’20) Xuejing Liu (Questrom’20) Craig and Mary Lovell (Parents COM’19, Questrom’19) Maxwell Lyons (Questrom’20) Kyle MacDonald Andrew MacKenzie (Questrom’13) Olivia Mackenzie (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Adelaide Makwaia (Questrom’20) Narine Malkhasyan (Questrom’20) Liana Marinelli (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Jason Maron (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Oliver Marshall (Questrom’19,’19) Alexandra Masko (Questrom’19) JP Matychak Kristen McCormack (Questrom’92, Parent Questrom’09, Pardee’12, Sargent’12, MET) Erin McIntosh (Questrom’19) Andrew and Nicole (Questrom’20) Mikkelson Kento Minagawa (Questrom’20,’20) Bridget Miskell (Questrom’19) Alejandro Molina (Questrom’20) Jordan Mooney (Questrom’20) Katiary Munoz (Questrom’19,’19) Raksha Shantharam Nandikur (Questrom’20,’20) Nicole Nelson (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Camille S. Netter (Questrom’20,’20) Julia Nicholson (Questrom’20) Mark (Questrom’64) and Marion Niles Yardin Octora (Questrom’20) Victor Olakojo (CAS’14, MET, Questrom’19) Johanna Ortiz Pulgarin (Questrom’19) Subhrakant (Questrom’93) and Shaifalika (Questrom’92) Panda Subhanshu Pandey (Questrom’20,’20) Jacqueline Parker (Questrom’19) Monica Parker-James (COM’91,’94, MET) and Martyn James (Parents COM’18, CAS’20) Ankita Parmar (Questrom’20) Jai Patel (Questrom’20) Natalie Perez (Questrom’20) Liza (Questrom’15) and Dylan Perry Thuy Phan (Questrom’19,’19) Laura Phenix (Questrom’15,’15) Celeste Popitz (Questrom’20) James and Jeannette Post Christopher Presto (Questrom’20) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Zhengyi Pu (Questrom’20,’20) Emily Rackleff (Questrom’19,’19) Anusha Reddy (Questrom’20) Cooper Redpath (Questrom’20,’20) Claire Rhodes (Questrom’20) Benjamin Richards (Questrom’19) Patrick Richards (Questrom’20) Dolan Riley (Questrom’19) Tanner Roberts (Questrom’20) Nicole Rodriguez Christensen (Questrom’20) Marielis Rosario Hernandez (Questrom’20,’20) Fernando Rosas (Questrom ‘09) Claire Rosenwasser (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Susannah Rudel (Questrom’19, SPH’19) Jesse Ruf (Questrom’19) Katherine Ryan (Questrom’20, SPH’20)

Jordan Sadler (Questrom’95) Julianna Samper (Questrom’20) Minal Sariya (Questrom’20,’20) Anand Savani (Questrom’19) Kendall Sawyer (Questrom’20) Shani Scheiman (Wheelock’17) David (Questrom’86) and Mary-Anne (Wheelock’85) Schubert Edward Sebor (Questrom’20) Bruno Sepulvida Couto (Questrom’20,’20) Amit Manish Shah (Questrom’20,’20) Dhruvi Shah (Questrom’20) Ali Shaaban Shahid (Questrom’20) Nishant Sharma (Questrom’13,’13) Aram Shrestinian (Questrom’20) Douglas Sibor (Questrom’20,’20) Andrew Silverman (Questrom’20) Vivek Singh (Questrom’20,’20) Daniel Smigaj (Questrom’20) Ditstat Somsirivatana (Questrom’20,’20) Siddharth Sood (Questrom’19) Sushrut Sood (Questrom’20,’20) Cameron Stewart (BUA’12, Questrom’20,’20) David Stolow Alex Straley (Questrom’17,’17) Richard and Susan Sullivan Christopher Sullivan-Trainor (ENG’13, Questrom’19,’19) Saurav Suman (Questrom’20,’20) Erica Swan (Questrom’19) Yannick Tamm (Questrom’20) Lauren Tapply (Questrom’19) Benjamin Tarshis (Questrom’14) John Terzian (Questrom’20, SPH’20) Thanatporn Thamrongthanakit (Questrom’20) The Benevity Community Impact Fund Hai Thi (Questrom’19) Suthasinee Tilokruangchai (Questrom’20,’20) Thomas Traylor (Questrom’19,’19) Brian Tse (Questrom’22) Katherine Tung (Sargent’18, Questrom’19) Cyril Vallet (Questrom’20) Jason A. Veitch (Questrom’20) Benjamin Veli (Questrom’19) Allison Vernerey (Questrom’19) Valerie Vigoda (Questrom’97) Robert Wadja (Questrom’92) and Lori Deane-Wadja Jiedong Wang (Questrom’20,’20) Yanqing Wang (Questrom’20) Lijun Weng (Questrom’20) Michael Wijaranakula (Questrom’20) Marilyn Wilcke (Wheelock’79) and Ruben Pollard (Wheelock’81) Lynn Wiwanto (MED’20, Questrom’20) Yukai Wu (Questrom’19) Chirag Yadav (Questrom’20,’20) Chunxiao Yang (Questrom’20) Siyun Yang (Questrom’20,’20) Xiao Yang (Questrom’17,’17) Janet L. Yeung (Questrom’20,’20) Jennifer Ysabel (Questrom’20) Daniel Yu (Questrom’20) Xiaoyang Yu (Questrom’20,’20) I. Nyoman Yuliarsa (Questrom’20) Daniel Yun (CAS’12, Questrom’18,’18) Michael Zagieboylo (Questrom’20) Jian Zhang (Questrom’20,’20) Yuerong Zheng (Questrom’20) Rosemarie Ziedonis Ming Zou (Questrom’20,’20) Anonymous

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