Education Reform:
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Silvia Cruz
Principal, Schoolhouse Partners Haven Ladd T’03 Partner, The Parthenon Group |
Eric Scroggins
Executive Vice President Teach for America Matthew Slaughter – Moderator Associate Dean for Faculty, Tuck School of Business |
"I’m very passionate about bringing an awareness of not only where MBAs can bring value to the education system in the U.S., but also to open a dialogue about the current issues that the industry faces." |
Session Chair: Joyce Cadesca, T'13How did you get interested in Education and what is your involvement in the industry?
As a major in Spanish Language and Literature at Columbia, I knew I wanted to teach Spanish language to middle or high school students. After teaching 9th and 10th grades, I moved to Spain, where I had the opportunity to teach English to elementary school students in the public school system. I moved back to New York City, my hometown, after two years of classroom teaching, to work with under resourced teenagers in a college preparatory program in a charter school management organization (CMO). Serving the community in this position was my first exposure to the world of education reform, giving me a new view on the value of collaboration between government, educators, school systems, corporations, and policy makers. Quickly moving up in the ranks in various management roles, I felt the MBA was the next best step – and here I am at Tuck. I’m honored to be a part of BSC this year, leading the Education session. What motivated you to organize your specific session for BSC? As a member of the Education Leadership Club at Tuck, I’m very passionate about bringing an awareness of not only where MBAs can bring value to the education system in the U.S., but also to open a dialogue about the current issues that the industry faces. By engaging students in an interactive panel and forum, I believe we can create a cross-sector space of mutual learning around some of these challenges. The role that incentives play in our current education system can both facilitate and prevent outcomes, and I think it’s good for everyone to be aware of and to discuss these effects. |
Education Reform Panelists
Silvia Cruz
Principal, Schoolhouse Partners Silvia is a Principal at Schoolhouse Partners, a strategic advisory services and early-stage principal investing firm focused in the K-12 education sector. Previously, she worked as a strategy consultant for L.E.K. Consulting, where she engaged with corporate and non-profit clients across a wide range of industries and she interned in the White House for the National Economic Council and in the U.S. Senate as a foreign policy analyst. She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where she graduated with honors. |
Haven Ladd T’03
Partner, The Parthenon Group Mr. Ladd has consulted across a wide range of industries and focuses on strategic issues facing companies and schools in the U.S. education market. He brings a perspective on strategy built on fourteen years of consulting across education and corporate clients in a variety of professional services and industries. Mr. Ladd works extensively with education providers and also advises corporations in the professional services, information, and manufacturing industries. He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was a Tuck Scholar. He serves on the boards of the National Dropout Prevention Network and The Landing School, an independent college in Arundel, Maine. |
Eric Scroggins
Executive Vice President of Growth, Development, and Partnerships, Teach for America Eric Scroggins is responsible for ensuring Teach for America fulfills its potential as a force for change by building an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse movement of leaders in the private and public sectors committed to educational excellence and opportunity for all children. As vice president of growth strategy and now executive vice president of growth, development, and partnerships Eric has led the implementation of new models connecting growth and development. Under his leadership, Teach For America has opened 16 new sites and grown regional revenue from $82 million in 2008 to $228 million in 2012, fueling a 67% increase in the national total corps size to over 10,000 corps members teaching across 46 regions. Eric graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University in St. Louis. |
Matthew Slaughter – Moderator
Associate Dean for Faculty, Tuck School of Business At the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Matthew J. Slaughter is Associate Dean for Faculty, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management, and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Global Business and Government. He is also currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers; a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy; and a member of the academic advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum. |