I started at the Allison Gas Turbine Division of General Motors in 1974 as a cooperative student from General Motors Institute.  (Allison Gas Turbine Division is now Rolls-Royce Allison, not associated with General Motors.  General Motors Institute is now the Kettering Institute.) 

When I graduated in 1979 I applied for a General Motors fellowship to the University of Chicago and was lucky enough to get it.  After receiving my MBA in 1981, I returned to Allison in marketing research department, became the advertising manager in 1983, and manager of advertising and public relations in 1988.  

My education:

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) 1981

• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

• Graduate School of Business

• Specialization in Marketing, Concentration in Behavioral Decision Making

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, 1979

• General Motors Institute, Flint Michigan (now Kettering Institute)

• Material Science Option

• Thesis: “The Use of Resource Profiles in Capacity Planning”