Tag Archives: Management and Organization

Meet Michelle Darnell

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“Meet 220” is a series of posts featuring staff of the Smeal Professional Graduate Programs. “220” refers to the suite of offices within the Business Building where the team is housed.

Michelle Darnell, Director of Honor & Integrity, Management & Organizations, Smeal College of Business

What’s your role with the Smeal College community?

I hold two positions at Smeal: Director of Honor & Integrity, and Associate Clinical Professor in the Management & Organization department. I love that I get to strike a balance between these roles every day. In my classes, I strive to help others develop various skills related to ethical leadership in an organizational context. Continue reading →

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By Vibhor Kharbanda, MBA Class of 2014

I interned with AmerisourceBergen this summer. It is one of the three big pharmaceutical distributors in US. The company was also rated 30th in the Fortune list of 2013. One of the projects assigned to me as an intern was to identify top performing Distribution Centers in the network and find out the management practices in those DCs. So we started off by analyzing a number of KPIs and zeroed in on a couple of distribution centers that were clearly outperforming the others. To better understand the management practices in these high performing DCs, the regional heads arranged for us to tour these facilities. The expectation was to interview the leadership teams in the Continue reading →

Yale Integrated Leadership Case Competition

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By Wei Li, MBA Class of 2014

The School of Management of Yale University held an Integrated Leadership Case Competition On April 6th and invited the top business schools in North East US region to join the competition. The team consisting of four first year MBA students — Andrew Barnes, Carrie Zhou, Effie Li and Monira Linda — represented the Smeal College of Business MBA Continue reading →