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By Nancy (Chia-Lin) Fan ’10, Thunderbird MBA candidate

Steve Sanghi has had passion on business since he was named the president of Microchip in August 1990. One time when he visited an office as a CEO, a manager asked him what he wanted to do. Mr. Sanghi asked back, “What do you want me to do?” After asking the same questions several times, the manager proposed to play golf. The only thing in Mr. Sanghi’s mind is whether employees are satisfied with their jobs, whether they have concerns on pricing, and so on. He turned around the company not only from a finance perspective, but also in product quality and employee satisfaction.
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Architect Rana Badran wants families in Jordan to have clean air, and she plans to do her part by incorporating green building practices into the projects she manages.  “In order to have healthy people and clean air, we need to do the green building,” says Badran, a 2009 graduate of SEEDS, a women’s entrepreneurship program that Thunderbird runs in partnership with Jordan’s Business Development Center. Funding comes from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The program provides two weeks of intensive business education for Jordanian women at Thunderbird in Glendale, Arizona. Through the program, Badran also will receive two years of business mentorship from architect Leslie Lindo, a green builder with Sonoran SBAP in Arizona. Watch the video above to learn more about Badran’s story.

Eman Afanah has worked in marketing and communication for 18 years and likes what she does. But recently she has discovered a passion for helping Jordanian businesswomen launch and grow their own companies. “This is where they idea came from that I would like to go out on my own and start my own consulting business and start working with these small enterprises,” says Afanah, a 2009 graduate of SEEDS, a women’s entrepreneurship program that Thunderbird runs in partnership with Jordan’s Business Development Center. Funding comes from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The program provides two weeks of intensive business education for Jordanian women at Thunderbird in Glendale, Arizona. Through the program, Afanah also will receive two years of business mentorship from Stephanie Krinetz, a branding and marketing professional at Graphique Communications Design in Scottsdale, Arizona. Watch the video above to learn more about Afanah’s story.