May 2025 James Tong (MMM '17) is redefining travel as co-founder of Quest Excursions, a travel agency specializing in unique, immersive experiences. To do that, he's relying on lessons learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program.
May 2025 Tabassum Qurashi (MMM '25) applied lessons learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program this summer as a growth strategy intern for Porsche Motorsport North America.
April 2025 Matt Marrapode (MMM '21) is applying lessons learned from Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program to guide strategy for wearable technology innovation at Epicore Biosystems.
April 2025 Adam Attas (MMM ‘18) brings a grocery list of innovation from his MMM education to his job helping reshape Walmart customers’ online shopping experience.
March 2025 Will Gomez (MMM '25) shares what it means to be recognized with the prestigious fellowship and how the opportunity supplements his MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program experience.
March 2025 Visionary designer Bruce Mau spoke with students in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program about life-centered design.
February 2025 Ilesh Jain spent the summer applying lessons learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program to help the Washington Nationals business strategy and analytics team.
February 2025 Quinnell Smith (MMM '25) looks back on her experience as a product innovation intern for the company's food and beverage innovation team.
January 2025 Guillermo Hellmund (MMM '25) began the MMM program knowing he eventually wanted to create his own company. He had no idea he'd become a co-founder before graduating.
December 2024 A team of MMM students collaborated with Microsoft to explore how 'Minecraft' could teach soft skills to a new generation of workers.
November 2024 Becky Lin (MMM '25) spent her summer supporting the Apple Cash team while getting hands-on experience with business-to-consumer marketing.
November 2024 Louis Dudley (MMM '17) turned to Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program to jump-start his career in product management. Since then he's held PM roles at Apple, Amazon, and Airbnb.
October 2024 Becca Hellerman leans on her MMM education to help evolve the brand image of the professional networking site so its more than 1 billion users can find deeper value.
October 2024 Five students used Business Innovation Lab to apply lessons learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program to a real business problem facing Walgreens.
October 2024 Nihar Shah relies on lessons learned in MMM as he works on Carvana’s mission to become the largest and most profitable car retailer in the country.
September 2024 Current student Gabby Fong shares what she's most excited about as she prepares for one of the most impactful courses in the MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program.
September 2024 The newest class of MMM alumni shared how they grew in the program and the most important lessons they learned.
August 2024 MMM students worked with Google to explore using generative AI and storytelling to help content consumers become content creators.
August 2024 Students from Northwestern's MBA + MS in Design Innovation (MMM) and Engineering Design Innovation programs partnered to finish second in the Kellogg Design Challenge.
August 2024 The annual event's co-chairs reflected on the design competition and what they learned about leadership from the experience.
July 2024 Luis Cerro (MMM '23) looks back on the speech he delivered to his fellow graduates last year and shares how MMM helped him grow as a person and hybrid innovator.
June 2024 Kyron Whitfield employs the lessons he learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS in Design Innovation (MMM) program to give Walgreens customers a better online experience.
June 2024 The co-chairs of the Kellogg Tech Conference relied on their MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program foundation to create a sold-out event examining the technology industry as it stands at a crossroads.
June 2024 Nimi Oyeleye came to Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program with her sights set on a job in a new field. As graduation approaches, that job is waiting for her.
May 2024 Four MMM students developed the InstaEnglish app that earned top prize in the annual Kellogg Venture Challenge.
May 2024 It is easy for Michael Miller to recount the most important lesson he learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS in Design Innovation (MMM) program. It's a skill he leverages every day as a program manager at Google.
April 2024 Rahul Srivathsa’s company was born just as his MMM experience began. He shares how the program helped get his business off the ground and focus it for future success.
April 2024 Akito Kashiwai credits the MMM program with giving him the needed support to create a startup aimed at changing how small food-service businesses find funding.
March 2024 Accenture Song global chief strategy officer Baiju Shah discusses leadership and what it takes to remain relevant in his Growth Innovation course.
March 2024 Zach Jaffe brought his startup experience to the MMM program and is using it to foster the enthusiasm on campus for entrepreneurship and venture capital.
March 2024 Scott Tsangeos leans on his MMM lessons and the opportunities the program provides to build his strength-training app into a powerhouse in the fitness community.
February 2024 Marissa Noboa shares how the MMM program set her up for what has proven to be a successful and diverse career in brand leadership.
February 2024 Microsoft's Mike Edmonds received the 2023 Cole-Higgins Award for Excellence in Teaching for his work teaching Mindful Product Management in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program.
January 2024 Sky Lalwani's internship at Amazon gave him the chance to leverage lessons learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program to help solve a financial problem.
January 2024 Tamara Gutverg shares insights from her internship experience at toymaker Mattel, planning for the next generation of dolls while being immersed in a cultural tidal wave.
January 2024 Karley Woods looks back on how the MMM program helped prepare her for success during her summer internship with Nike.
January 2024 Students in MMM’s Business Innovation Lab are helping alum Nora Boneham (MMM ‘19) create a smoother shopping experience for customers at Foxtrot.
December 2023 Liz Mooney returns to the MMM program to partner with students in its Business Innovation Lab to drive growth at the shaving and grooming products company.
December 2023 Kevin Petty looks back on his internship with Activision and how the MMM program helped prepare him for success with the maker of the popular video game series.
December 2023 A quintet of summer interns brought the program’s human-centered design approach to the financial institution.
November 2023 Intech Systems Managing Director Deval Parikh (MMM ‘99) talks about how he leveraged his MMM education to develop a business philosophy that has led to multiple massive success stories.
November 2023 International student Maanil Dodani ’25 recounts his first few months in the design-centric MBA program, and how supportive career coaches and peers are helping him chart a career pivot.
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October 2023 Michael Chen shares how instrumental the MMM program was to his career growth and his ability to create innovative workflow products at Asana.
September 2023 Adam Putterman's MMM experience made it possible to found OURS, a company financially backed by Serena Williams’ fund Serena Ventures that is trying to remove the stigma surrounding couples looking for help in their relationship.
September 2023 Students in the MMM program’s Research-Design-Build course talked about their experience helping one of the world’s largest diamond retailers create lasting connections to its customers.
September 2023 Logan Groover leverages the lessons learned from the MMM program to play the role of impressionist at e-commerce giant Wayfair.
August 2023 Geetha Somayajula (MMM '24) shares how she applied lessons learned in MMM to win the Kellogg Design Challenge and help Nissan reimagine global transportation.
April 2023 MMM students put their learning into practice to help Northwestern Medicine in its fight against the spread of pathogens.
March 2023 Students in the MMM program’s Equity Centered Design class partnered with a Chicago group to help seal recently-digitized sensitive information.
March 2023 MMM course’s new instructors focus on creating digital designers with the ability to build bridges to the world of software engineers and developers.
February 2023 MMM program’s co-director talks about how the program is able to create graduates ready to make a difference in the business world.
November 2022 Saranga Arora’s summer internship helped shape her career goals for when she graduates from the MMM program.
November 2022 Five new students share what appealed to them about the program and how they think it will help them accomplish their professional goals.
October 2022 A new MMM course looks at an often overlooked element in human centered design in an effort to address current social inequities.
October 2022 Tobias Wyler’s summer internship allowed him to apply lessons learned in MMM to help improve the sanitation situation in slums in Nairobi.
September 2022 Recent graduates from the dual-degree program thought back to their time as prospective students and explained why MMM appealed to them.
September 2022 Jake Erichson leaned on his MMM lessons during his summer work on an app designed to make life easier for math teachers.
September 2022 Adjunct lecturer Dan Kraemer talks about his work as co-founder and co-CEO of IA Collaborative and his new course being taught to students in Northwestern's MMM program.
August 2022 Danielle Ma (MMM '22) is applying the focus on human-centered design she learned in MMM into her work at Microsoft, where she's leading consumer insights for the Minecraft franchise.
August 2022 René Peters talks about how his time with the MMM program helped him on the road to unveiling NVIDIA’s potentially life-changing Project Aurora.
August 2022 MMM students helped Bank of America reimagine the post-pandemic banking experience for their Business Innovation Lab (BIL) project.
June 2022 Michael Perry (MMM ‘18) talks about his positive approach to life and work as a design innovator with Doblin.
May 2022 Ryan Lee (MMM '16) talks about how Northwestern's MMM program prepared him for his work as senior director of product management with Hologram, an Internet of Things startup.
May 2022 Discover why the 145-year-old pasta company continues to turn to students in Northwestern's MMM program for guidance in design thinking and human-centered design.
May 2022 Marney Boughan (MMM '11) talks about how Northwestern's MMM program prepared her to successfully launch her design consultancy company, dthink.
May 2022 Ellen Wilcox (MMM '20) shares how the MMM program helped hone the human-centered design approach she now leverages daily as a senior design lead at IDEO.
April 2022 MMM Co-Director Greg Holderfield talks about the unique elements of Business Innovation Lab, the culminating course in a student's MMM experience.
April 2022 Nicole Cuervo (MMM '22) is leveraging the lessons she's learned in Northwestern's MMM program to launch Springrose, her own company that produces adaptive, attractive, and comfortable bras designed specifically for women with upper mobility restrictions.
February 2022 Steph Manuel (MMM '19) shares how MMM prepared him to launch TrueFiktion in an effort to redesign how people understand and relate to American history.
February 2022 Stephen Chang (MMM ‘21), a product manager at startup Plato, reflected on his recent experience leading a design sprint to help brainstorm new growth opportunities for the company.
February 2022 Claire Henderson (MMM ‘18) shares how Northwestern’s MMM Program prepared her to lead the innovation team at Zillow.
January 2022 Entrepreneur Sophia Wennstedt (MMM ‘22) shares how blip energy got started and explains the value of the company's first product, the blipOne smart battery.
December 2021 MMM students are assisting both companies as part of Research-Design-Build, one of the foundational courses in Northwestern's MMM program.
December 2021 Adam Attas (MMM ‘18) explains how he's leveraged human-centered design principles at Fortune 100 companies and now as a product manager at a startup venture studio.
November 2021 Current second quarter students check in about the highlights from their introduction to MMM and what they're looking forward to most about the rest of their time in the program.
November 2021 Michael Boyas (MMM '22) wants a career that allows him to innovate while solving customer and business challenges. The lessons he's learning in MMM are preparing him to do just that.
November 2021 Claire Marsh (MMM '20) turned to Northwestern's MMM program to understand how to bring business and design teams together. Now she's using that expertise to help launch new businesses as a senior product manager at BCG Digital Venture.
November 2021 Rohan Bhatt (MMM '22) has always been a creative person. Thanks to Northwestern's MMM program, he is learning to use that creativity to drive impact and create change.
September 2021 Leah Marcus (MMM '13) had a transformative experience as a student in Northwestern Engineering's MMM program. Today, she is a business design director at IDEO and back at MMM, where she teaches as an adjunct lecturer.
September 2021 Kyron Whitfield (MMM '22) dreams of using technology to create innovative solutions that positively impact underrepresented communities. He turned to the MMM program to help make his dream a reality.
September 2021 Casey Ankeny, Steven Franconeri, Victor Lefevre, Jill Wilson, and Kiki Zissimopoulos received the awards
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August 2021 Shubhendra Agrawal (MMM '21) was drawn to MMM because of the intersection of business and design thinking. He recently reflected on the most important lessons he took away from the transformative program.
May 2021 As the popularity of product managers has increased, so too has the responsibility they must take for their creations, says MMM and EDI adjunct lecturer Mike Edmonds.
May 2021 Stephanie Baranovic (MMM '19) talks about what appealed to her about MMM and how her experiences in the program directly influenced her role and responsibilities today.
April 2021 Courtney Weldon (MMM '21) talks about having knowledge developed in MMM be applicable to almost everything she does now.
March 2021 Greater Good Studio Co-Founder George Aye shares the motivation behind this new course.
February 2021 Bianca Deslouches (MMM '19) talks about her new role as director of innovation strategy at Daily Harvest, and how she applies the lessons learned in Northwestern Engineering's MMM program on a daily basis.
January 2021 Jenn Beske (MMM '15), Cam Scovil (MMM '17), and Juan Luciano (MMM '19) talk about their work at the design and innovation consultancy and the lessons they learned at Northwestern.
January 2021 MMM students provided recommendations to Northwestern Medicine to increase ease of use of analytical dashboards.
January 2021 Lynn Gong (MMM '18) talks about her role as a product manager at Adobe and how Northwestern Engineering's MMM program helped prepare her for the job.
January 2021 Rei Kigoshi (MMM '21) examines why she left her job developing innovative product concepts for aircraft cabins to pursue degrees in business and design innovation.
September 2020 MMM Student Sarah Pinner (MMM ‘22) views the hybrid class experience as one that practices what MMM teaches.
August 2020 Graduates of the MMM Class of 2020 share their perspectives on MMM’s impact and memories of their ‘aha’ moment in the program.
August 2020 Dean Julio M. Ottino welcomed the new MMM cohort this summer. The following is an adaptation of his remarks.
July 2020 As the first pair of Black co-presidents to lead the Innovation and Design Association at Kellogg, Marvin Harris, Jr. (2Y 2021) and Hannah Anokye (MMM 2021) believe “that design and innovation can be leveraged to tackle societal issues that have stemmed from years of systemic inequality.”
December 2019 The MMM Program's Design Research course taught by Amy Schwartz provides a deep dive into the human-centric element of the design thinking process.
November 2019 Teams representing the MMM Program took home the top prizes at the Kellogg Design Challenge in partnership with Amazon.
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September 2019 Fernanda Colaco (MMM '20) interned with IDEO.org over the summer. Her internship took her to Tanzania where she designed financial tools for street food vendors.
August 2019 Mark Carrott Odden (MMM '20) spent his summer interning with the Sephora's Innovation Lab, an opportunity that aligned with his passion for combining retail, innovation, and technology.
July 2019 Northwestern University's MMM Program celebrated the graduation of its master's students on June 21 and 22 as part of the University's 161st Commencement.
June 2019 Students in the MMM Program spent the winter term collaborating with Discover Global Network and Half Acre Beer Company as part of Business Innovation Lab, the program's capstone course.
April 2019 Students came together for the first-ever MMM Innovation Day on April 12 to hear different perspectives about fostering design innovation in business.
April 2019 A startup created by three Northwestern students won $10,000 at the 2019 SXSW PitchTexas Competition on March 8.
March 2019 Northwestern students competed in the AbbVie Innovation Challenge on March 6, with a team consisting of three MMM students and a Kellogg MBA student placing first.
March 2019 Robbie Sutkay and Layon Costa are applying the skills they have learned from the MMM Program to the Zell Fellows Program.
February 2019 During the fall 2018 term, students in MMM's Research-Design-Build course partnered with DICK'S Sporting Goods and Lowe's Home Improvement.
November 2018 Thirty-six teams competed in the Kellogg Design Challenge to create solutions to reduce barriers to insulin pump therapy for Medtronic.
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September 2018 Alyssa Lorenz is a Marketing Manager with Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices in the healthcare industry. In a Q&A, she reflects on her experience in the MMM Program and how it has impacted her career.
September 2018 Jeanne Gatto is Director, Innovation Strategy at Baxter Healthcare Corporation in the medical devices industry. In a Q&A, she reflects on her experience in the MMM Program and how it has impacted her career.
August 2018 Michael Chen is a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Slack in the technology industry. In a Q&A, he reflects on his experience in the MMM Program and how it has impacted his career.
August 2018 Richard Xie (MMM '19) spent his summer interning with the National Football League, working in Media and Business Development in both New York and Shanghai.
June 2018 Northwestern University’s MMM Program celebrated the graduation of its master’s students on June 22 and 23 as part of the University’s 160th Commencement.
June 2018 This past winter, students in the MMM Program at Northwestern collaborated with NorthShore University HealthSystem, McDonald’s, and Hormel Foods Corporation as part of the program’s capstone educational experience: Business Innovation Lab.
June 2018 Students in Northwestern's MMM Program combine design thinking and business expertise in a collaborative initiative with Visa.
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May 2018 Five MMM students are getting a chance to hone their entrepreneurship skills while competing in VentureCat, an event celebrating Northwestern’s most promising student-founded startups.
December 2017 Insights and prototypes took flight in a MMM course called Research Design Build during the fall quarter as students partnered with United Airlines for a design innovation project.
November 2017 Students from across the United States and Canada competed to find better ways to deliver information to millennial parents.
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June 2017 Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering celebrated the graduation of students from the MMM Program on June 17 as a part of the University’s 159th Commencement.
May 2017 Elaine Chen is a second-year in the MMM Program and happens to be one of four co-founders behind the RompHim, a romper designed for men, that has drawn attention from the media and many backers on Kickstarter.
May 2017 A team of MMM students that included military personnel were asked to identify the best channels to raise awareness about Code Platoon, a Chicago vocational school that trains veterans through an intensive coding program.
May 2017 Anil Divakaran, a student in the MMM Program, explains how he leveraged design innovation skills in a more traditional management consulting role during a summer internship.
April 2017 Held on March 2-4, the Innov8 Marketing Case Competition recognized a team with three MMM students for their response to a marketing challenge issued by competition sponsor Adobe.
April 2017 Held on April 1-2, the Rotman Design Challenge recognized a team of four students in the MMM Program with the best business and design solution on behalf of wireless telecommunications company and challenge sponsor TELUS.
March 2017 MMM student Adam Attas chronicles how the New Venture Discovery design practicum has taught him to tackle a problem using a lightweight solution.
February 2017 IA Collaborative’s Rebecca Gimenez spoke about critical and emerging trends impacting companies in the travel and hospitality space and offered advice on how to become champions of meaningful innovation.
December 2016 MMM alumnus and Harley-Davidson President and CEO Matt Levatich worked with students to solve a challenge presented by the renowned motorcycle company.
December 2016 The MMM Program welcomed Joshua Lucas-Falk and John Devanney of design consultancy Moment for a discussion on how students can get the most out of their MMM degrees in the corporate world.
November 2016 Five students in the 2017 class at Kellogg — including MMM students Jonathan Goldstein and Bo Gustafsson — will each receive a $35,000 award for their final year of graduate studies.
May 2016 The MMM Innovation Council visited campus for its annual meeting, offering students the unique chance to connect with council members and gain their perspective on how innovation is shaping today’s business world.
March 2016 First-year MMM student Vandana Sathpathy explains how the "Research Design Build" course simplifies the design thinking process.
February 2016 First-year MMM student Kristen Zhou describes how she used design thinking to solve a challenge in the consumer healthcare market.
February 2016 Team “Designables” won Proctor & Gamble's challenge to design a new foot care routine with their proposal for “Pedifresh,” a disposable daily freshening wipe for feet.
January 2016 MMM student Alyssa Lorenz shares how she leveraged design thinking during an internship with Johnson & Johnson.
January 2016 MMM student Caio Dimov describes how his MMM coursework helped him during summer internships at Maserati and ABInbev.
August 2015 Doblin co-founder and MMM adjunct professor Larry Keeley hosted MMM students at Doblin’s Chicago office for a crash course on what innovation looks, feels, tastes, smells and sounds like.
January 2015 MMM students share their reactions to IDEO chief creative officer Paul Bennett’s recent presentation on design thinking to the Kellogg community.
January 2015 MMM co-director Greg Holderfield examines ten traits he believes are essential to be an effective design thinker.
January 2015 MMM co-director Greg Holderfield shares what makes design thinking so valuable.
January 2015 A team of four Kellogg students that included MMM classmates David Ufford and Justin Saeheng won second place in UC Berkeley’s 2014 Haas Tech Challenge held in November.
