Mary Mazzio is an award-winning independent filmmaker, Olympic rower, and former law firm partner with Brown Rudnick. She received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, a law degree from Georgetown University, and studied film production at Boston University. Her company, 50 Eggs, LLC, has produced five independent films shown across the United States on television, in classrooms, and in theatres. We met with Ms. Mazzio outside of Boston, Massachusetts, to explore her thoughts on entrepreneurship and the challenges and excitement of making documentaries.

Kaizen: You’ve been a lawyer, an Olympic rower, and now a documentary filmmaker. When you were young, did you have any idea your adult life would be so varied?

Mazzio: Not at all. Although as a kid I remember always having a sort of boundless enthusiasm for whatever it was that I was doing. So I always thought that good things would happen in the end but I had no idea.

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Congratulations to Khetsiwe Dlamini, who was the subject of an article the Rockford Register Star this week for her leadership in the Rockford College Student Government. Khetsiwe also made her mark in Dr. Stephen Hicks’s Entrepreneurship and Ethics course, in which she gave an excellent presentation of her case study on the entrepreneur Richard Branson. Watch a short video clip from her presentation here. Additionally, Khetsiwe was featured in the April 2009 issue of Kaizen.

Read the article at the Rockford Register Star.

In the new CEE-sponsored course, Entrepreneurship and Ethics, students were asked to develop in-depth case studies of a major entrepreneur’s life, character, style, challenges, and innovations. Student presentations included Stacy L. Moore on Andrew Mellon, Khetsiwe Dlamini on Richard Branson, Goran Mamic on Mayer Rothschild, and Bridget Markin on Coco Chanel. Below are brief video clips from their presentations.

Stacy L. Moore on Andrew Mellon

Khetsiwe Dlamini on Richard Branson

Goran Mamic on Mayer Rothschild

Bridget Markin on Coco Chanel

Very entertaining: Billionaire Richard Branson talks at TED about his career, near-death experiences and what motivates him as an entrepreneur – and as a person.