Webinars
The Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable organizes virtual educational presentations related to graduate business curricular and co-curricular topics.
Don't miss our upcoming webinars:
2025 Innovator Award Webinar Series
Featuring Specialized Masters Program
Curriculum Innovation Finalists:
Wake Forest University – From Classroom to Client:
A Scaffolded Consulting Journey for
Pre-Experience Graduate Students
&
Johns Hopkins University - Consulting in Action:
A Scalable Model for Data-Analytics
Experiential Learning in MS Programs
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Join us to learn about the amazing innovations from our 2025 Innovator Award Finalists and Winners. This webinar will feature our finalists for Specialty Masters Program Curricular Innovations - Wake Forest University – From Classroom to Client: A Scaffolded Consulting Journey for Pre-Experience Graduate Students and Johns Hopkins University - Consulting in Action: A Scalable Model for Data-Analytics Experiential Learning in MS Programs
Wake Forest University – From Classroom to Client: A Scaffolded Consulting Journey for Pre-Experience Graduate Students
To better fulfill its mission of developing future business leaders, the Master of Science in Management (MSM) program atWake Forest sought to redesign its experiential learning approach. The program serves pre-experience students with limited work history or business background, tasked with immersing them in applied business learning over 10 months. The goal was to provide multiple, realistic, and discipline-integrated project-based experiences that equip students to engage confidently with business challenges and career opportunities. This scaffolded innovation offers a replicable blueprint for pre-experience graduate programs to build deep, market-connected, discipline-integrated experiential learning. It reflects excellence in concept, execution, and outcome, and is a testament to Wake Forest’s commitment to innovation, student transformation, and employer engagement.
Johns Hopkins University - Consulting in Action: A Scalable Model for Data-Analytics Experiential Learning in MS Programs
Carey’s Full-Time Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence program is composed of international graduate students with limited work experience. To address students’ need for more hands on, career-aligned experiences, we created the Analytics Consulting Project, a culminating practicum that immerses students in real-world consulting engagements. Led by three expert faculty mentors, this course empowers students to analyze complex business datasets and provide strategic recommendations to business clients, transforming the classroom into a consultancy and accelerating their job market readiness. The Analytics Consulting Project (ACP) represents a highly creative and differentiated approach to experiential learning at the Carey Business School—both within our institution and across the broader landscape of graduate business education. It is designed to meet the needs of a large, international graduate cohort while delivering real-world client engagement at scale.
Presenter: Norma R. Montague, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Innovation; John B. McKinnon Professor; Associate Professor of Accounting, Wake Forest University School of Business
Norma R. Montague serves as Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Innovation at the Wake Forest University School of Business, where she leads strategic initiatives focused on curriculum development, faculty engagement, and academic innovation. A member of the accounting faculty, her scholarship centers on auditing and judgment and decision-making in accounting, with a strong commitment to advancing teaching excellence. In her leadership role, Norma works to align program design and delivery with the evolving needs of graduate business education. Her work emphasizes innovative pedagogy, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and continuous improvement to enhance student learning outcomes and institutional impact.
Presenter: J. Bren Varner, Assistant Dean, Master of Science in Management Program, Wake Forest University School of Business
Bren Varner serves as Assistant Dean of the Master of Science in Management Program at the Wake Forest University School of Business, providing leadership for one of the school’s flagship graduate programs. With a background in strategy and entrepreneurship, he brings both academic and practical experience to the development of future business leaders. Bren has played a key role in advancing curricular innovation and experiential learning within graduate programs. His work focuses on integrating real-world applications, innovation strategy, and leadership development into the classroom experience.
Presenter: Angie Lynde, Senior Associate Director of Experiential Learning, Wake Forest University School of Business
Angie Lynde serves as Senior Associate Director of Experiential Learning at the Wake Forest University School of Business, where she leads the design and implementation of hands-on, project-based learning experiences across graduate programs. She partners with faculty and industry leaders to connect students with real-world consulting and applied business challenges. Her work strengthens the integration of experiential education into the graduate curriculum, ensuring students develop practical skills alongside academic knowledge. Angie’s leadership supports innovative program delivery and enhances the career readiness and impact of graduate business students.
Presenter: Nazli Turken, Associate Professor of Practice, Operations Management & Business Analytics, , Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Nazli Turken is an associate professor of practice in Operations Management and Business Analytics area at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She received her PhD in Operations Management and MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florida. She also holds a BS in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests span environmental sustainability in supply chains, e-commerce channel strategies, socially responsible operations, and neurodiversity and gender bias in communication and teaching. She studies proactive, as in biomimicry, circular economy, and industrial symbiosis, and reactive approaches to sustainability in supply chains, i.e., strategic and tactical decisions as a response to regulations, using qualitative and quantitative methods. She has taught business analytics, sustainable supply chains, and service operations management courses to MBA, MS and PhD students. She advises MBA, MS student projects with various industries and topics ranging from machine learning applications and AI strategy to marketing, renewable energy, and telehealth. Industry partners include Amazon, Constellation, Cox Prosight, Danone, EQUUM, Exelon, JHU APL, Land O'Lakes, Merck, and Siemens.
Presenter: Monica Crubezy, IT Director, Research IT Solutions, Information Technology, Johns Hopkins University
Monica Crubezy, Ph.D. is the IT Director of Research IT Solutions in Johns Hopkins’ information technology organization. Her team of engineers and technologists works closely with investigators and coordinates their IT experience throughout the research lifecycle, helping them navigate technology complexities and onboard secure, sustainable solutions developed by the team and partners across the institution. Monica is a research IT leader with 20+ years of experience at top research institutions in the US and in France, contributing to key innovation, development, and governance initiatives. Prior to joining Hopkins in 2024, she led Emory University’s Research Solutions group, developing IT platforms and services for research, from study data management and analytics to cloud computing. Initially trained as an engineer, Monica established her scientific research expertise at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Digital Science & Technology) and at Stanford University Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, designing semantic AI and informatics techniques to automate decision and problem-solving tasks in various domains. Monica is the Immediate Past Chair of the American Association of Medical Colleges Group on Information Resources and has a record of leading strategic efforts and collaborations to advance academic research through technology best practices.
Moderator: Stephen Taylor, Vice President, Grad Enrollment Strategy, Liaison
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026
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