Almond was invited to participate in University Professor Nicholas S. Rashford, S.J.’s CEO Intervention, a program that culminates the capstone course for Executive MBA students. Under Almond’s lead, NEST had already engaged with HSB in multiple ways, including sponsoring the management department’s annual business policy competition and hiring interns and co-ops from a variety of majors including marketing, business intelligence & analytics and finance — but this opportunity was uniquely appealing. “Hearing feedback from EMBA students who are not only currently immersed in case studies and learning best business practices, but have also worked in the business world and been successful themselves, was incredibly valuable,” says Almond. “There was a direct symbiotic benefit in that moment. I was able to get reinforcement for a decision I was planning to make, and the students were able to engage in a real-life business decision.”
