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Whitman Seniors Featured among Poets & Quants for Best and Brightest Business Majors

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, By Kerri D. Howell
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Justin Harris and Catherine Cummings

and , both seniors at 听, were featured as two of the 鈥渂est & brightest undergraduate business majors,鈥 by Poets & Quants for Undergrads, a news website for undergraduate business education. This is the third annual list, which honors 100 of the most accomplished seniors at top business schools across the country.

鈥淭hese students personify the best qualities of their schools and business in general,鈥 said Jeff Schmitt, Poets&Quants鈥 senior writer who launched the series in 2015. 鈥淭hey are standard bearers, really, who made the most of their time in business school. In the process, they made the people around them better too. The Class of 2018, in particular, set the bar high. They鈥檙e such committed and creative students. The business world will be great shape when these graduates hit their stride.鈥

Cummings was featured in the . 鈥淭he biggest lesson I learned from studying business is to never get too comfortable,鈥 she said. 鈥淎lways challenge yourself, and persevere through the conflicts, because you never know where they will lead you. I can utmost say that my successes have come from taking risks, falling and getting back up again.鈥

A budding entrepreneur, Harris is a risk taker who is planning to take his business plan idea, born in the classroom, to market after graduation. 鈥淵our knowledge about business does not just come from one class, but rather it is a culmination of a wide range of topics that one has to take it in order to be a successful business student,鈥 he said.

Poets & Quants plans future lists in the coming months, including 鈥淏est & Brightest MBA Students of 2018鈥 and the 鈥淭op 40 Under 40 Undergraduate Business Professors,鈥 which , professor of management, in 2017.

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