LeeAnn Shelton

Kellogg School of Management • 16th April 2025

Recasting the scene

For ten years, VC-industry leader Courtney McCrea ’96 MBA was a managing director at a boutique venture capital fund of funds in the Bay Area. And over that time, she noticed an interesting trend. “Some of our best-performing investments came from emerging managers,” McCrea says. It turns out that scrappy, hungry managers often had more than just ambition propelling their success.

Kellogg School of Management • 16th April 2025

Winning strategies: Leadership lessons from business, sports and government

What makes Miami one of the world’s most dynamic business hubs? The same qualities that make it the perfect home for Kellogg’s Executive MBA Program: fearless ambition, an appetite for innovation and a global network of connections. This year’s Kellogg Business Leaders Forum and Global Leaders Symposium, hosted at our Miami Campus, showcased the city’s growing influence in global business and highlighted why our Executive MBA students and alumni thrive in this vibrant environment.

Kellogg School of Management • 16th April 2025

From isolation, community: How a rare diagnosis led to a thriving support network

When Ben Muñoz ’07 MBA suffered a brain aneurysm in his late twenties, he found himself navigating not only a complex medical journey but also the deep isolation that comes with having a rare condition, Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM). Struggling to find others who truly understood his experience, he decided to create what he wished had existed — a support network for patients like him.

Kellogg School of Management • 31st October 2024

Becoming the hit-maker

What’s the most radical thing you’ve ever done? Most people might take a few moments to think of an answer to that question. But Mark Himmelsbach ’07 MBA isn’t most people. A serial entrepreneur, Himmelsbach left a successful career as an ad agency executive to found his own boutique marketing agency devoted to data-inspired creativity.

Kellogg School of Management • 31st October 2024

Never stop learning: How Boise Cascade is developing its leaders

Retaining the best and brightest talent remains a top priority for firms regardless of their size and industry. But what is the best way to go about that very tall task? In our series, “Never stop learning,” we explore that question. In our latest installment, we introduce you to Boise Cascade, a dynamic manufacturer and wholesale distributor with more than 7,000 employees.

Kellogg School of Management • 31st October 2024

Never stop learning: How Grant Thornton is developing its people

How do firms train and retain their best talent? We’re exploring that pressing question in a brand-new series, “Never stop learning.” We’ll take you inside well-known firms to hear directly from senior executives about their human capital priorities. First up is Grant Thornton, a leading global professional services firm.

1st July 2024

Reshaping Healthcare

Call it a homecoming: In 2022, Peter J. Arduini ’95 MBA stepped into the role of president and CEO of GE HealthCare, returning to the company where he once cut his teeth as a regional sales manager. The timing couldn’t have been more critical for GE HealthCare. Its parent company, General Electric, had announced in 2021 that it would spin off its major business units to simplify its focus.

Kellogg School of Management • 1st July 2024

Insights from Gather Against the Gap

In the fall, the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern Mutual presented Gather Against the Gap, an event that explored the racial wealth gap and its impact on social and economic growth. Dean Francesca Cornelli and John Schlifske ’83 MBA, chairman, president and CEO at Northwestern Mutual, served as co-hosts.

Kellogg School of Management • 12th June 2024

How a Kellogg alumna is shaping the ethics of artificial intelligence

When Nikki Pope ’86 MBA left her comfortable law professor position for tech firm NVIDIA, her family was incredulous — because they'd never heard of it. “The only people in my family who had heard of NVIDIA were two of my nephews who are avid gamers because they were familiar with the chips,” Pope chuckles.

Kellogg School of Management • 17th May 2024

​​Pursuing a finance career? Use your past experiences as a springboard.

A professor describes how students aspiring to finance careers — even those from nontraditional backgrounds like teaching or nonprofits — use Kellogg MBA courses to land their dream jobs and succeed in the industry.

Kellogg School of Management • 1st May 2024

Champion of technology for humanity

Throughout a career at the nexus of technology, innovation and sustainability, public company board director Sonita Lontoh ’06 MBA relied on the principles she gained at Kellogg to chart her course.

Kellogg School of Management • 19th April 2024

Becoming a product manager in a ‘productized world’

It’s not just tech firms in need of product managers these days. A Kellogg professor and innovation expert explains what’s new in this exciting career path.

Kellogg School of Management • 18th April 2024

Pursuing a Marketing Career? Think in Quadrants

A Kellogg professor and industry expert suggests exercises for would-be marketers to uncover their passions and discern potential future career paths.

Kellogg School of Management • 3rd April 2024

Transforming legendary public opinion firm Harris Poll

CEO Will Johnson ’08 MBA is looking ahead to new tech-enabled solutions that will help decision-makers get to insights even faster — but never without the all-important human touch.

Kellogg School of Management • 26th March 2024

Small Wonder’s big idea: How alumni cofounders are reimagining haircare

Lunchtime chats at the Global Hub led two alumni to found a line of innovative, powder-to-lather haircare concentrates that flip the script on traditional shampoo.

Kellogg School of Management • 18th March 2024

Toy stories: A conversation with CMO Julia Fitzgerald

Having served as a CMO at several beloved brands, Fitzgerald literally wrote the book how to lead marketing at mid-sized firms with scrappiness and style.

Kellogg School of Management • 1st November 2023

Great minds think together

A brand-new research institute focused on complexity science will gather scholars from diverse disciplines in one place to investigate the most pressing questions facing businesses and society. In a roundtable discussion, the institute’s founding faculty directors explain why this is a ‘blue sky’ moment for Kellogg.

Kellogg School of Management • 1st September 2021

The person who made a difference

Kellogg School of Management grads know the business school experience is life changing — and that oftentimes, students learn just as much from the relationships forged here as from any syllabus. That’s because as vast as the Kellogg community is, it is equally close-knit.

Chicago Booth Magazine • 29th January 2021

The Book of Booth: Cargill CEO David MacLennan, ’88

MacLennan reflects on the global food corporation’s commitments to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability.

Booth Stories • 23rd November 2020

The Art and Science of Storytelling

Andrew Sugerman, ’97, took his career “to infinity and beyond,” first to Disney and now at his own entertainment studio.