Grads

Nina Godiwalla (MALS'04) is a recognized expert on leadership, diversity and women in the business world. She is the bestselling author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street, published in February 2011, which The New York Times describes as The Devil Wears Prada of investment banking. The book is an insider's perspective on her experience at Morgan Stanley from an outsider's point of view.

Her MALS thesis, in the creative writing concentration, was the first draft of her book. She began with two short stories. One about growing up as a second-generation Parsi American and feeling she would be a failure if she weren't a doctor or engineer, and the other about her journey from a small-town Texas suburb to Wall Street. As she continued to add short stories to her work, hearing again and again from professors she respected that she had a story worth telling and the potential to tell it encouraged her. She believes that her main motivation to keep writing was that she felt silenced during her investment banking experience and writing about it finally gave her a voice.

Her ambition led her to New York City, where she felt driven to fit the mold of her fellow Morgan Stanley recruits, who were wealthy, white and male and whose lifestyle was fast and flashy. Suits offers a behind-thescenes look at the recklessness that ruled Wall Street during the dot-com boom days, but it is also a story of the family Nina left behind. It is a vibrant snapshot of an immigrant family with big dreams, a story of fathers and daughters and the pursuit of honor.

Her story reveals how much we've been conditioned to trade for success. Nina is also the CEO of MindWorks (www.mindworkscorp.com), which provides leadership and stress management training to corporations and other professional organizations. She is currently working on another book, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Meets 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The MindWorks organizational training format is discussion focused, so Nina feels she learns as much from those she teaches as they do from her. She plans to take the lessons learned about leading from within and share them through fun, entertaining stories.

Joshua Labove (MALS'11) has settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he has begun a Ph.D. program in geography at Simon Fraser University. He is teaching political geography and is busy writing academic articles and conference papers. Most of his work centers on Canadian legal identity, though he takes a broad approach by considering the various actors and events that created the current approach to law. Along with developing an interest in hockey, Joshua is planning to help build a Dartmouth Vancouver club. He is tentatively planning a spring event.

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