Alecsander Boyd ’23
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Barney School of Business
Marion A. Bills Memorial Scholarship
Awarded biannually to a deserving and qualifying student who wishes to attend a graduate program at a top university in Great Britain. Boyd will attend Imperial College London to study in its MSc Economics & Strategy for Business program.
Alecsander Boyd, who is majoring in business analytics and managerial economics, decided upon his academic course and professional goals based on a passion for understanding the complex role of world economics, and for wanting to help others understand it so that it can be used wisely and to good effect. This awareness developed from Boyd’s deep consideration of the world and its many transformations, natural and otherwise. Boyd truly takes the state of the world to heart, weighs its ups and downs and challenges and possibilities, and tries to come to an understanding of how it affects our lives, individually and as a society.
Certainly, that also helped him decide on a pathway to his own professional future.
Like the world he studies so diligently, Boyd is always on the move, and he has been that way since first coming to UHart. In addition to his studies, he has interned at many organizations, including a firm called CarpeData, for which he was a financial analyst; an insurance technology company in California; an organization called West Asset management, where he was an investment operations data manager; and at The Hartford Steam Boiler, where he assisted in its intelligence and analysis divisions.
On campus, he founded and is co-president of the Barney School’s first ever student-initiated club, The Q² Project. Q² stands for quantitative and qualitative, and the club is designed to let students interested in research work on projects of their own design.
After graduation, Boyd hopes to work toward a master’s degree in data or software science and engineering, and to then establish his own entrepreneurial business.
“Alec combines the quantitative rigor and data-driven approach of economics and econometrics with his keen interest in psychology,” says Ben Brewer, assistant professor of economics at the Barney School of Business. “He is a motivated student with a strong ability to connect his intuition about the real world to some of the more difficult economic theories and concepts. It is quite clear that he will be very successful.”