Tom Hamnett, MBA Class of 2014
EVP, Stern Student Government
Shawn McClain and Thomas Hamnett were two second-year MBA students whose only experience with crisis management was reading about it in their introductory Marketing class. The President and EVP of the class, respectively, they were excitedly preparing for the first Beer Blast of the year, ready to welcome back old friends and meet new ones during the grandest of Stern traditions. However, on that fateful night, Murphy enforced his Law and everything went awry. Kegs were delivered without hoses to the tap, mixed communications with catering led to no beer servers being scheduled, and the card swipe system failed. …