Tag: Wake Forest School of Business

Brick-by-colorful-brick lessons for life and work

Ed Roberson (’01, MBA ‘09) finds his place and new voices in the search to solve the critical land and water issues of a stressed landscape.

Maria Toler Velissaris (’02) , who stretched her entrepreneurial wings building a new company as a Wake Forest junior, has soared as a lauded venture capitalist in women’s health care.

Brothers Tim ('93) and Marcus ('98) Lam build a new kind of school in Las Vegas for careers in hotel management, event planning and more.

Alumnus doggedly pursues a career in comedy, and he’s making it happen.

Zach Klein (’04) follows his passions, from co-founding Vimeo and DIY.org to sharing woodsy architecture in Cabin Porn books to a dream job as CEO of Dwell magazine.

An alumna shares her fresh perspectives after touring museums in her adopted home city abroad with new Deacon friends.

Jessica Peterson Dempsey ('96, JD '99) and Melanie Sheffield Haley ('00) never crossed paths at Wake. Then a twist of fate brought them together — forever.

Ed Kivett ('87, MBA '94) realizes his life's dream as a mountain innkeeper.

In her first book, author Allison Fairall Britz ('11, MAM '12) describes a personal struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. A diagnosis, she writes, 'meant I wasn't a freak.'

For John Champlin ('06, MBA '15), a great hot dog is worth sharing — virtually.

His student-days neighborhood is changing, thanks in large part to Wake Downtown.

Hu Womack ('90, MBA '00) receives 2015 MLK 'Building the Dream' award