Vince Sherry

Pictured: Co-authors, Professor Chris Fleming and Nick. Nick was the MBA Director for several years and continues to be the Course Convenor of Sustainability and Systems Thinking, a core course of the MBA program. In this interview, Nick gives us a glimpse of the book he co-authored with Professor Chris Fleming. He also reflects on his leadership of the program and shares advice for future and current students.

For the past couple decades, I’ve occasionally heard running store owners try to discourage each other from opening a second store. “Owning a second store is three times the work!” was a common warning from those who had tried it. So, when Adam Gifford, the former owner of Sedona Running Company, asked if I might be interested in purchasing the shop that he and his wife Lindsay owned and operated for the past eight years, I laughed.