When Shelley Boyce was a graduate student at Wharton, her professor gave her a failing grade for a marketing plan she put together for a class. The idea was sound, but a lot of questions hovered over the execution. Boyce worked hard to answer those questions, and she turned her idea into a multimillion-dollar company. MedRisk, which she founded in 1994, is a leading provider of managed physical medicine for the workers’ compensation industry and related market sectors. In 2017, Boyce moved from CEO to executive chairman. She spoke to Knowledge at Wharton about her entrepreneurial journey and why she believes in “stalking” the right people for the job. (Listen to the podcast at the top of this page.) An edited transcript of the conversation follows. Knowledge at Wharton: You have a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Virginia. What made you want to become an entrepreneur? Shelley Boyce: I wasn’t planning to become an entrepreneur, per se. It was just a journey that led me there.…