Program Spotlight

Peter Methot

Associate Dean

Department: Executive Education Years of Service: 10 years at Rutgers

What would you do (for a dream career) if you weren’t doing this? To answer this question, you should know that I have been skiing since I was three years old, and have had a love for the sport ever since. A few years ago, my brother and I had the opportunity to go helicopter skiing in British Columbia – we flew in a helicopter to the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere, and a trained guide led us down completely untouched snow on the most incredible backcountry ski experience. When I realized that being a heli-skiing guide was an actual career path, I admitted that, in an alternate life, it would be my dream job because it brings two of my passions together: teaching and skiing.

What are the three words that best describe you? Husband – I have been with my wife, Jessica, since we met in undergrad at the University of Florida (Go Gators!). She is my best friend, cheerleader and travel partner extraordinaire – we share a love for food, so whenever we travel, we also eat, a lot!

Dad – Blessed to be dad of two amazing boys (Brenton and Mercer) that bring so much joy into my life. Fortunately, I have instilled the love of sport and food into them at a young age, so we are often skiing or eating.

Entrepreneur – I have always been driven to build creatively. Whether it was one of my many business ventures, from entertainment to restaurants to growing executive education, I have always been passionate about making the organizations I have been involved with better than how I found them.

What would you name the autobiography of your life? Pies and Pints – I bought and managed my first pizza restaurant when I was 20 years old and it was a career-trajectory altering experience. I learned so much about who I was and what I was capable of doing – a true business education by fire. It also taught me about service and customer relations, skills that I still use every day. Since then, I have loved the art of pizza making, a tradition I’ve continued at home with my family and friends almost weekly. So much joy emanates from the experience of sharing stories and smiles around a hot, fresh pizza pie. And what better to pair pizza with, but great craft beer? My wife, Jessica, and I have traveled all over the world in the pursuit of the perfect pint; we’d recommend practically any IPA or saison from Hill Farmstead in Vermont, and a traditional gueuze from Drie Fonteinen in Belgium. Cheers!

Pictures: Above: Informal township outside Cape Town, South Africa Right: First Cohort to graduate from RU-Flourishing Other page: Render of Modular Furnishing at HLCC

Program Spotlight:

Rutgers Advanced Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Development

The Rutgers Advanced Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Development (RAISED) combines research, teaching, and community engagement, within and across our entrepreneurship projects. RAISED is distinctively different their views of what “counts” as entrepreneurship by focusing on “everyday entrepreneurs.” These include all sorts of people who organize many different types of ventures in pursuit of their goals and the changes they want to see in the world. Venture Capitalist Guy Kawasaki famously noted that great ventures must increase peoples’ quality of life, or right a wrong, or prevent the end of something good. RAISED embraces the vision of “prosocial entrepreneurship,” and what we study, teach and promote. RAISED considers entrepreneurship as not just a key business skill, but as a “New Liberal Art” – a competence that is central to being able to participate fully in and contribute productively to contemporary society. We think it is something that all students should learn to do.

RAISED has been selected as one of the 12 Big Ideas selected across the Rutgers system to be promoted by the Rutgers University Foundation. RAISED projects also span a broad range of topics and geographies. Jeffrey Robinson is leading a major government-funded multi-year project to figure out how to get more women and underrepresented minorities into technology entrepreneurship. Jasmine Cordero-West and Ted Baker created RU-Flourishing, a 10-year engaged research program to train and support previously incarcerated people build businesses, and to create a model for such programs that others can adopt. Ted, Jasmine and Sadee Brathwaite are building the Urban Solutions Lab (located in the new HLLC building) that will connect our students and faculty to business, government and civil society leaders to work on building prosocial ventures that respond to local versions of grand social challenges. In South Africa, we are supervising students engaged in multiple studies seeking to understand how entrepreneurs living in informal townships and facing a legacy of deep structural inequality and racial discrimination nevertheless sometimes manage to build great businesses.

For more information on RAISED, contact Sadee Brathwaite, sbrathwaite@business.rutgers.edu, Jasmine Codero-West, jcordero@business.rutgers.edu, or visit their website here.

Did You Know?

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Livingston Parking Deck

The new Livingston Parking Deck at the RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center, right next to the Rutgers Business School, has 535 spaces. For anyone interested in parking in the new garage:

• Contractually, all Rutgers employees (including PTLs) are required to have a parking permit to park anywhere on campus. In addition, the RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center Garage charges $3 per hour for parking. • The $3 per hour rate can either be paid on a mobile app (Passport Parking) or at a kiosk in the first level lobby by the elevator. • All parking areas and all buildings at Rutgers University are patrolled by RUPD and Security units 24/7. • Parking regulations are being enforced during COVID/telecommuting and violators are being fined.

Check out https://ipo.rutgers.edu/new-brunswick-campus for the latest changes to transportation and parking around the New Brunswick campus.

Hearing Impaired Mask Symbol

The logo shown on the face mask in this photo indicates that the person wearing the mask is deaf or wearing a hearing aid. Many deaf and hard of hearing people read lips to communicate, but with COVID-19 and face mask mandates in most environments, it is impossible for the hearing impaired to read lips. The pandemic has brought special challenges to many, so the next time you see this symbol, please assist however you can.

Tech Tip: Windows Activation

Since so many of us are not on the Rutgers network or the VPN (which acts as if it’s a Rutgers network) that the license file on our work devices are outdated and eventually yield a notification error every quarter. The easiest work around while still at home is to download an updated product key for an RU License and install it manually. Doing so, will avoid updates every 3 months to install a permanent product key. If you trouble with any of the following steps, contact the OTIS Help Desk.

Instructions: Obtain the Product Key: 1. Go to http://software.rutgers.edu and log on with your NETID and password. 2. At the top right corner type “Windows” then click search OR in the left column under “Operating System” click “Windows” 3. Select the following result:

4. Scroll down to the Item section, where you see “Single user license (University Equipment only)” and click “add to cart”

5. On the next screen, under Delivery Method choose “Download”, then click “check out”, verify your email address is correct (if not change it), click “NEXT”, then “Next/Submit” on the next screen 6. Now that you ‘purchased’ the license, click “MY SOFTWARE” at the very top of the screen. 7. Under “Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Upgrade 32/64bit” click “License Details” 8. Next to “License info: Please use” Copy the 25-character code (highlighting it then press Ctrl and “C” at the same time to copy it)

Applying your Product Key: 9. On your desktop click the Window Icon in the bottom left corner, then type “Activation

Settings” and you should see “Activation settings” appear at the top of the list – CLICK on it to open the settings window 10. Click on “Change Product Key”. A Blue Box should pop up with 25X’s. 11. Click in that box to paste to the 25 character code you’ve previously copied (right click and choose “Paste” or you can press Ctrl and V at the same time). Click Next, then Activate. 12. In a few seconds to a minute you should see “Windows is Activated” appear on the screen. 13. Click close – you are done and will never have to worry about Windows activation until you receive a new device, or need yours wiped clean.

Program Spotlight:

Rut gers Advanced Inst it ut e for t he St udyof E nt repreneurship and Development

The Rutgers Advanced Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Development (RAISED) combines research, teaching, and community engagement, within and across our entrepreneurship projects. RAISED is distinctively different their views of what “counts” as entrepreneurship by focusing on “everyday entrepreneurs.” These include all sorts of people who organize many different types of ventures in pursuit of their goals and the changes they want to see in the world. Venture Capitalist Guy Kawasaki famously noted that great ventures must increase peoples’ quality of life, or right a wrong, or prevent the end of something good. RAISED embraces the vision of “prosocial entrepreneurship,” and what we study, teach and promote. RAISED considers entrepreneurship as not just a key business skill, but as a “New Liberal Art” – a competence that is central to being able to participate fully in and contribute productively to contemporary society. We think it is something that all students should learn to do.

RAISED has been selected as one of the 12 Big Ideas selected across the Rutgers system to be promoted by the Rutgers University Foundation. RAISED projects also span a broad range of topics and geographies. Jeffrey Robinson is leading a major government-funded multi-year project to figure out how to get more women and underrepresented minorities into technology entrepreneurship. Jasmine Cordero-West and Ted Baker created RU-Flourishing, a 10-year engaged research program to train and support previously incarcerated people build businesses, and to create a model for such programs that others can adopt. Ted, Jasmine and Sadee Brathwaite are building the Urban Solutions Lab (located in the new HLLC building) that will connect our students and faculty to business, government and civil society leaders to work on building prosocial ventures that respond to local versions of grand social challenges. In South Africa, we are supervising students engaged in multiple studies seeking to understand how entrepreneurs living in informal townships and facing a legacy of deep structural inequality and racial discrimination nevertheless sometimes manage to build great businesses.

For more information on RAISED, contact Sadee Brathwaite, sbrathwaite@business.rutgers.edu, Jasmine Codero-West, jcordero@business.rutgers.edu, or visit their website here.

Pictures: Above: Informal township outside Cape Town, South Africa Right: First Cohort to graduate from RU-Flourishing Other page: Render of Modular Furnishing at HLCC