When Marla Driscoll, WG’01, was an EMBA student, not only was she commuting to Philadelphia from Houston, but she had two young kids and was on track to become a partner at Accenture. She didn’t have any time left in her schedule for activities outside of home, school, and work. And there was certainly not time to think about Wharton alumni clubs.

What does it mean to turn around a lagging company? Autumn Bayles, WG'00, a Wharton EMBA alumna, answered that question in the recent Knowledge@Wharton article, "A Piece of Cake? Hardly, but Autumn Bayles Helped Herself, and Others, Rise to the Top."