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Assignment 2: Interview with Nikki Mammano

Senior, Nikki Mammano, transferred before her sophomore year from Sweet Briar College to Chatham University’s sustainability school. However, after taking courses in economics, she realized that she was more interested in the social aspect of sustainability as well as economic justice. At the time, there were no focuses in the sustainability school at the time, so she majored in economics and minored in sustainability and political science instead. When she was studying sustainability, she realized that “sustainability started teaching me more about my passions…I felt by learning about more and taking more classes focused on economics, I’d be learning more about capitalism in a way so in the future I can take that knowledge and systematically learn and evolve the problematic system. Then I could take that and put it into a sustainability lens.” On top of her actual degree, Nikki spends her time on her club, Chatham Student Power, as well as competing as a ballroom dancer. As far a...
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Plans for Future Individual Assignments

IA2:             I plan to meet with either Dr. Iris Grossmann or Dr. Thomas Macagno to discuss how they originally began their careers in Sustainable Technology and Business. IA3:             I plan to research more into the industry of demand-side management and renewable energy. IA4:             I plan to continue attending the Chatham University events pertaining to my interests in sustainability and business. IA5:              I personally enjoyed Dr. Thomas Macagno’s lecture, and he is also a favorite professor of mine. I will most likely write my assignment on him and his lecture.
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Review on Freakonomic's "How to Become a C.E.O."

“How to Become a C.E.O.” by Stephen J. Dubner is a Freakonomics podcast about how several highly different C.E.O.’s had come to be. There is no exact correlation between the history of all excellent C.E.O.’s that has been made. In the podcast recording they did, however, make a connection about the difference in successfulness based on whether a C.E.O. was internal or external to the company. The difference was that internal candidates made better C.E.O.’s and were over 25% more successful financial performance than external hires. The podcast also highlighted how important mistakes helped and taught the C.E.O.’s life lessons that eventually helped them develop into the successful C.E.O.’s that they were. Something that interested me during the lecture was how usually entrepreneurs are almost never their company’s C.E.O. in the long run. Usually entrepreneurs do not make good C.E.O.’s because of their inability to successfully run a business. The textbook describes a n  entrep...
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