Speakers and Honorees

Honorary Doctor of Business Administration
Undergraduate Commencement Address speaker on Saturday, May 16

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that help create successful enterprises and contribute to the betterment of society. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning. Her research has been published in 70 scholarly articles and eight books.

Amy’s book Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well was selected as the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year and is being translated into 25 languages. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth has been translated into 15 languages. Her other books—Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, Teaming to Innovate, Extreme Teaming, and Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation—explore themes ranging from teamwork in dynamic organizational environments to the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries for radical innovation.

Amy was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024. She received an honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) from Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2014 and the Columbia University Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service in 2024. She has been recognized in the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011 and was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023 and #2 in 2025.

Amy received her PhD in organizational behavior (1996), AM in psychology (1995), and AB in engineering and design (1980) from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, George Daley, a physician-scientist and medical school dean; they have two adult sons. 

Honorary Doctor of Business Administration
Honored at the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 16

Glenn Creamer is a co-founder of Providence Equity Partners, where he currently serves as a senior advisor. Over the course of his 30-plus year career, he and his partners built Providence Equity from a small private equity firm with a single office in Providence to a global firm that has managed over $33 billion of committed capital. During his long career at Providence Equity, he served on the firm’s management and investment committees as well as the boards of numerous public and private companies in North America and Europe.

Mr. Creamer started his private equity career at Narragansett Capital, an early pioneer in private equity investing. Previously, he worked at both Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he concentrated in international relations and economics. He received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He recently concluded ten years on the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In addition to his professional career, Mr. Creamer has long been active in the nonprofit world, including serving in numerous leadership positions. He currently serves as chairman of the World Affairs Councils of America in Washington, D.C. WACA is the nation's largest nonpartisan grassroots organization dedicated to engaging the American public in foreign affairs, with a network of 90 councils around the U.S. He is also the chairman of the Catholic Relief Services Foundation in Baltimore. The CRS Foundation supports CRS’s humanitarian relief and development work in nearly 100 countries around the world. In addition, Mr. Creamer is president of the Thomas Becket Foundation, which supports the Brown-RISD Catholic Community.

Mr. Creamer’s other current philanthropic activities include serving as a director of the Norton Museum of Art, the RISD Museum, Mustard Seed Communities, and American Friends of Jamaica. He has been a member of the finance council for the Catholic Diocese of Providence for approximately 20 years.

Mr. Creamer has been married for 35 years to his wife, Mary Jane. They have four adult children and two grandchildren.

Graduate Commencement Address speaker on Thursday, May 14

Frank Hauck ’81, P’08 is a respected business leader whose career spans more than three decades in the technology and financial services industries.

Frank began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation before joining EMC in 1990, where he held multiple leadership roles, including Executive Vice President for Customer Operations. Following EMC’s merger with Dell, he served as President of Customers and Markets for Dell EMC’s Infrastructure Solutions Group. He later served as President and General Manager of Banking at NCR Corporation before retiring. The cornerstone of Frank’s career has been a focus on leadership development and delivering an outstanding customer experience.

Following his corporate career, Frank has remained actively engaged in philanthropy and higher education, including his service on Bryant University’s Board of Trustees.

Frank and his wife, Marion (Sheahan) ’81, P’08, have maintained a deep and lasting connection to Bryant. In 2024, their leadership gift established the Frank ’81 and Marion ’81 Hauck Sales Performance Lab, a cornerstone of the Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center (BELC) that advances experiential learning through real-world sales training and development. Building on the success of the Sales Performance Lab impact, they recently funded the Hauck AI Performance Labs. These labs will unite curriculum, research, and industry engagement so students learn by solving real-world business problems utilizing AI tools and technology.

Frank’s career and continued engagement with Bryant reflects a strong commitment to leadership, innovation, and giving back to the community.