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The Teetotaler’s MBA

Upon completing our first MBA year this past Monday, celebrations were certainly in order. After we submitted our Innovator final at 7:30 p.m., we all proceeded to eat, drink and make merry…. OK OK, you got me. The more accurate version of the story—at least, in my case—is that I ate, drank (mango lassi, that [...]

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Airlines, Antarctica, and Asset Management

Olá from Sao Paulo, Brazil! I am blogging from IE Brazil command central, the Renaissance Marriott in the lively Jardins district of Sao Paulo. The International Experience, or IE, is a required international trip for all first-year SOM students. We picked our destination from six possible countries, and having never been to South America, I [...]

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SOM in the Bush

Greetings from South Africa, where my friend Katherine Miller, SOM ’14, and I just completed our first African safari! While our International Experience (IE)—a mandatory part of the first-year curriculum that happens in the spring—doesn’t begin until tomorrow, most of our classmates in the South Africa IE cohort made pre-trip plans like ours. at South [...]

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Management and Liberal Arts

While Yale School of Management is undoubtedly a top business school, throughout the world Yale is probably best known for its liberal arts tradition.  The hallmark of any Yale education is to approach problems from different perspectives, to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to obtain penetrating insights, and the new Master of Advanced Management at [...]

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A unique celebration of leadership: Donaldson Fellows

photo credit: Anthony Clark On Friday, February 8 the Class of 2014 met at the New Haven Lawn Club to meet the third class of Donaldson Fellows: Donald Gips, Nadim Matta, Leon Ming, and Christine Bader. The Donaldson Fellows program began in 2009 and seeks to recognize graduates of the Yale School of Management who [...]

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(Un)Serious Selves

Hey There! It’s been a while, but I’ve stored up a lot of great stuff for you.  Everything in this post is a reflection of the longstanding tradition at Yale SOM of taking our jobs and experiences seriously, but definitely not taking ourselves too seriously.  First off, here’s a picture of my house* that my [...]

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I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Greetings from San Francisco, where over 100 Yale SOM students just completed visiting more than 40 companies for our annual San Francisco Job Trek! During this year’s record-breaking trek, the leaders of eight SOM clubs, such as Net Impact and the Technology Club, have coordinated visits with diverse companies and organizations in the Bay area. [...]

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A House Full of Terrific

Wait.  Before I get to my post about my terrific roommates, you have to watch this video.  Remember when I wrote about the cohort system at SOM?  Well, this year we’ve inaugurated the Cohort Cup competition, where the four cohorts in both years compete for glory and EPP’s (Eminent and Purposeful Points).  This is a [...]

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The Wave of Business School

I took a deep breath and threw myself face first into the Pacific Ocean. The cold hit me hard, and my heart began to race as I counted down the seconds I had to hold my breath- 20, 19, 18. My mind drifted to graduate school applications and I wondered if anyone else at business [...]

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Applying design thinking to business and international development

SOM prides itself on its integrated curriculum, which also bleeds over to clubs and other activities around Yale.  After starting our Fall-2 core classes, our first foray into the SOM’s integrated curriculum, I have been incredibly impressed by how concepts have blended together, to the extent that it is almost hard to tell which class [...]

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