Business Program Unites Olympians, Veterans in Classroom

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Margaux Lohry has a knack for finding the perfect fit. A former Division I rower at Colgate University, Lohry's first job mere days after graduation was as international games manager for US Rowing — a title she would go on to hold at USA Swimming). When her husband's career took the couple to New Hampshire, she joined Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business as senior program delivery coordinator, not knowing that it was about to launch Next Step, a two-week on-campus program designed to hone the business acumen of elite athletes and military veterans alike (the 2019 breakdown was 55 percent veterans, 45 percent athletes). Paul Steinbach asked Lohry, who now serves as Next Step's program director, to walk us through the certificate program that has proven so popular, it turns away as many applicants as it accepts, with a second session added to the academic calendar to meet demand starting this fall.

Whose idea was Next Step?
The idea really came from Tuck's deputy dean, Punam Keller, and at the time she had been speaking with a number of Tuck's MBA students who were veterans, and they explained the challenge of coming into the MBA environment with a significant amount of tactical and practical experience, but lacking some of the business terminology and just kind of basic underlying knowledge that the other students had. That's really where the concept came from — to provide a sort of bridge-style program for veterans. And there was also an interest in bringing in another audience into that group.

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