Sandra Ohrn Moose
Sandra Ohrn Moose | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 17, 1942 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Wheaton College Harvard University |
| Awards | Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 1999 Honorary doctorate from Wheaton College, 2009 Harvard Medal, 2015 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics Management consulting |
| Institutions | Boston Consulting Group |
Sandra Ohrn Moose is a senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, where she was the first woman hired as a business-strategy consultant.[1]
She is a director of several public companies, including Verizon Communications, President of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and a donor and fundraiser for Harvard University[2] and Wheaton College.[3] She was also the first woman elected as Chair of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Board of Trustees.[4]
Ohrn Moose graduated from Wheaton College in 1963 with a degree in economics and an interest in going into business. At the time, Harvard did not admit women to the two-year Master's of Business Administration program, and so she enrolled in the PhD program in Economics.
Finishing her PhD in early 1968, she interviewed with the Boston Consulting Group, intending to work outside the university environment for only a short period of time. She was offered a position with that company as its first female business strategy consultant, and remains with the company to the present day.
She was awarded the 1999 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for advancing the careers of women in the economics profession.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Harvard Medalists of 2015". Harvard Magazine. 2015-05-28. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ "I Choose Harvard: Sandra Ohrn Moose AM '65, PhD '68 | Stories | Harvard Alumni". Harvard Alumni. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ "Sandra Ohrn Moose, Honorary Degree Recipient – College History | Wheaton College | Massachusetts". wheatoncollege.edu. 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ "Sandra Ohrn Moose '63 elected chair of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation trustees – Wheaton Quarterly". wheatoncollege.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ Barbara M. Fraumeni. "An Interview with Sandra Ohrn Moose, Senior Vice-President and Director, Boston Consulting Group". Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.