Alumni Spotlight
Peter Jose
Personal Injury Claims Adjuster
Commerce Insurance Company
What year did you graduate? 2003
What did you study at Clark? Majored in Management
What is your hometown? Shrewsbury, MA
What is your current position? Personal Injury Claims Adjuster -
Commerce Insurance Company
How long have you been at this job? 3 years at Commerce Insurance
Company, 2 years in this position
How did you find your current job? I made a contact through an
internship I had at Commerce during my senior year at Clark. I had two
other jobs prior to working at Commerce that I was dissatisfied with and
I called my contact, the manager of the department in which I had
interned, and asked him for a job. My first position at Commerce was a
customer service representative.
Describe in a few sentences the work that you do: My job involves
evaluating the monetary value of people’s injury claims when they get
hurt in a car accident. My job is to determine the value of a person’s
injury based on the severity of their injury and disability. I negotiate
with attorneys who represent the injured people and if we cannot agree
on a value we may decide to have the case brought to an arbitrator, a
mediator, or to court and have a jury award a settlement.
What do you feel are skills necessary to do your job?
Attention to detail, hard work and patience.
Where do you hope to see yourself in 5 years?
If I stay in insurance, I would like to be in a supervisory position or
if I decide to leave the insurance industry, I would like to take a position
teaching in a post high school environment and/or start a small business.
What recommendations would you provide to current students interested
in pursuing a similar job? Do your research. Determine what you
think your interests are and talk to people who have been working in that
area for more than a couple of years. Don’t worry if you change jobs when
you start; sometimes it takes a while to figure out what you don’t want
before you can figure out what you do want.
 Get to Know...
Prof. Maurry Tamarkin
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
Alma Mater: I have an A.B. (major in Geology) and Ph. D. (major
in Finance), both from Washington University in St. Louis.
Courses currently teaching: Graduate Cases in International
Finance and undergraduate Corporate Finance.
Current Research: I am working on the risk attitudes of
investors. I am currently researching sports betting (football and
basketball) to determine if different betting propositions give
information about outcomes.
Favorite thing about Clark: The size of Clark gives me an
opportunity to interact with my students.
In my free time… I read and jog. I like to play chess and
poker, neither of which have I demonstrated an aptitude.
Favorite Movie/Book: Favorite movie is a tossup between Beau
Geste with Gary Cooper and Yankee Doodle Dandy with Jimmy
Cagney. I saw both at an early age and they have stuck with me.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart is also excellent.
Favorite book is The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky although
almost any play (I realize these are not books) by Shakespeare and Don
Quixote by Cervantes are right up there.
Place I would most like to visit: Belka, Ukraine where my father
was from. Other than this emotional tie, I would like to visit Greece
If I wasn't a professor, I would be... most likely working for a
bank or an investment firm.
Management Internships
Taking part in an internship should be a priority for every Management
student at some point in their undergraduate career. Internships allow you
to explore areas of business and management you think you might be
interested in before you go for your first job, while also letting you build
your resume, network and gain some professional experience. Over the summer, many
Management students took advantage of an internship opportunity. Here are
just two of the internships our students did this summer:
Adam Androphy: WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston) - Human Resources
Assistant. He found his internship on Clark's E-Recruiting website.
His responsibilities included assisting the staff in various aspects of
hiring, benefits administration, compensation, and training and development
programs.
Sheetal Chodhari: State Bank of India, Tel Aviv Branch (Israel) - Executive
Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer. She learned of the internship
opportunity through family who informed her about the opening of this new
branch of the bank. She did a host of diverse projects related to public
relations, correspondence, accounting and also analysis of financial
statements of corporations
If you are interested in exploring internship opportunities this year,
check out the upcoming internship fairs Career Services is sponsoring. There
are 2 mini fairs on campus on August 28 and 29, and a larger internship/job
fair in Boston in October. If you want more information, please visit the
Career Services office.
Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business Conference
 Harvard
Undergraduate Women in Business is holding its third annual
Intercollegiate Business Convention on Saturday, October 13 at the Hyatt
Regency Boston, with a registration cost of just $10. All undergraduate
women with an interest in business are welcome to attend. The conference
will feature a variety of interactive panel discussions and
presentations designed to educate women about careers in such fields of
business as financial services, marketing, consulting, nonprofit, and
entrepreneurship. A few of the confirmed speakers include Vanessa
Castagna, former CEO of JCPenney, Nancy Newman, VP of Marketing
Solutions for Yahoo, and panelist Beth Feldman, VP of CBS
Communications.
For more information and to register, please go to
http://www.wibconvention.com
New Clark Student Business
As students are returning to campus this week, a Clark student run
business is busy with paperwork and preparations to open its doors this
fall and provide students with something new and fresh to do this year.
Spiritual Haze was founded by Clark students Vicky Mariano, Bilal Anwar,
Shahzad Godil and Wei Che Cheng. The idea was generated by Vicky Mariano,
and the groundwork for the business was laid last year in the Innovation and
Entrepreneurship capstone course, through which the other students became
involved.
Spiritual Haze will feature a café, live bands, hookah bar, art gallery,
open mic nights and a variety of other cultural and entertainment events. A
fellow Clark student and I&E capstone course participant, Asher
Cowan, will be handling the food for the café as he continues work on his
own plans for an organic, fast food restaurant. Space will also be available
for students to rent to hold their own events, and students are encouraged
to suggest ideas for events and programs they would like to see held there.
Spiritual Haze is currently open for private parties, and will officially
open to the public at the end of September. It is located at 482 Park Ave.
Check out their website,
www.spiritualhaze.com, to stay up to date on grand opening plans, or
contact Vicky at Vicky.SpiritualHaze@gmail.com to find out
more information.
ENT202 Class Time Change
The class meeting time for ENT202 Entrepreneurial Communication and
Influence was changed during the summer to Monday evenings, 6-9 pm. All
students who registered for that class should see the new class time when
they view/print their schedules. We apologize for any inconveniences this
may have caused students.
Tip of the Month
Attend at least one Executive Discussions at Noon lecture series this
year. The series was developed to bring successful, creative executives to
campus to share their management experience with GSOM students and faculty.
The sessions provide industry perspectives and a behind the scenes look at
business decision-making. This is a chance for you to hear first hand from
some of the most successful business leaders of today, and also ask
questions during the lunch that follows the lecture.
Previous
speakers have included Mike Eskew, Chairman & CEO of UPS; Jim Heyworth,
former President & CEO of HBO; Arjun Mathrani, former Chase CFO; and Ralph
Crowley, President & CEO of Polar and Adirondack Beverages.
The first session will take place at noon on Tuesday, September 25. It
will be hosted by our Executive in Residence, Peter Rowley, and will be
joined by special guest Natalie Gustafson, an Emmy award winning television
producer. A pizza lunch will follow. The location is to be determined, so be
on the lookout for more information on the event to be sent your way, as well
as posted on
GSOM's intranet.
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