Graduate Stories

A Louis Vuitton boutique in Bermuda is about as far from a research lab as you can get. Yet that’s exactly where Oksana Komarova stood, running a luxury storefront and selling $3,000 handbags to tourists.

From managing food service operations to overseeing global facilities for Fortune 500 companies, alum Anne Moser has navigated every major career pivot with grit, clarity, and a knack for turning challenge into opportunity.

From Coast Guard aviation to NSA intelligence to Marine Corps counterintelligence, Sam Hickey, Josh Michael, and Cody Boleyn brought decades of service - and very different paths - to the same Executive MBA cohort at Leavey.

When it comes to measuring financial sentiment, large-language models (LLMs) outperform traditional tools used by data scientists, with a caveat: They still require careful and deliberate guidance from people to work properly.

When people think about supply chains, they often picture the final step—getting products into customers’ hands. But according to Leavey School of Business alum Jasmine Ni, the real magic happens long before that.

Leavey Alumni Meir Amiel understands transformative technology. He joined Salesforce in 2010, recognizing that software as a service (SaaS) would transform the software industry and that Salesforce was at the cutting edge of that change.

Erica Valentine is no stranger to building bridges—between business and labor, advocacy and action, strategy and heart. A proud Leavey School of Business alumna twice over (Executive MBA ‘13, BSc ‘05), Erica has spent her career championing equity, policy change, and the voices of working families.

Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business MBA programs are ranked No. 1 in Silicon Valley for 2025 according to U.S. News & World Report, and also place among the nation’s top 15 in business analytics, marketing, entrepreneurship, and finance specializations.

Next month, Pan-Asian business leaders from across Northern California will convene at the Leavey School of Business for an evening of networking and insights as part of a new partnership between the Leavey School of Business and Ascend NorCal.

This summer, the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University will expand its portfolio of top-ranked, industry-leading graduate business programs with the launch of its new Master of Science (MS) in Sports Business, a program designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in one of the world’s most dynamic industries.