Mollie Crudden '12
Marketing chair, Internship Fund
Post-MBA position: Unilever
"In a globalized world, so much hinges on being able to understand where people are coming from and bringing them together."

 

Juan Cogorno '13
Master of Advanced Management Candidate
"The MAM program offered a great way to expand my business network while taking advantage of Yale's incredible resources."

 

Christopher Kennedy '13
Internship: Pitney Bowes
Bank of America Scholarship recipient
"I no longer see myself as a 'future finance guy' but rather as a future business leader."

 

Lauren Coape-Arnold '13
Co-chair, Philanthropy Conference
Summer Internship: Education Pioneers/Carnegie Corporation
"Beyond all of the quantitative skills that I'm learning, the ability to look at an issue from other perspectives has been hugely impactful."

 

Arjun Duraisamy Ganesan '12
Leader, Entrepreneurship Club
Post-MBA: CEO at Ancera LLC
"The integrated curriculum taught me how to see complex issues from multiple perspectives."

 

Henry Silver '12
Captain, SOM Hockey Team
Post-MBA position: Goldman Sachs
"There's a very diverse student body at SOM, which helps us all explore the complexity around any given issue."

 

Lindsey Blumenthal '12
General Representative, Student Government
Post-MBA: Nest Collective
"I knew ultimately that I wanted to do something that had both analytical rigor and social meaning."

 

David Rodriguez '12
Pre-SOM: Accenture
Post-SOM: The Chartis Group
"The magic of Yale SOM is that you leave with this MBA toolbox of skills, and a high-level understanding of how and when to use them."

 

Jamie Brooke Forseth '12
Pre-SOM: Personal Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to Finland
Post-MBA position: Goldman Sachs
"The most exciting part of the core curriculum is that it is a complete immersion. Essentially you are training yourself to think in a new way."

 

Matt Schmitt '12
Pre-SOM: U.S. Army
Co-leader, Veterans Club
"I joined the Army because I wanted to be a part of something greater. And I got that feeling from Yale."

 

Socheata Poeuv '12
Pre-SOM: Khmer Legacies
Summer internship: ParentingBreakthrough.com
"SOM gave me the tools to effectively evaluate why a company might not work and what it would take to make it work."

Sandra Idehen '12
Co-leader, Sports Club
Post-MBA position: Boston Consulting Group
"It's great to be in a community where people want you to be passionate about your niche and help you find success in that area."

Bryce Hall '12
President, Student Government
Post-MBA position: McKinsey & Company
"I knew that I would need a different set of skills to work on bigger challenges."


Alejandro Gomez '12
Pre-SOM Employer: Bloomberg
Internship: Mark Ventures, Buenos Aires
"I live in downtown New Haven. I ride my bike to class every day, and I get to ride through the beautiful gothic architecture of the Yale campus."


Joseph Pettit '12
Co-chair, Christian Fellowship
Summer internship: Barclays Capital
"Throughout the summer, I reached back to things I had learned in school, and even as someone who had worked in banking before, I was amazed at how much I had learned and absorbed."

Diana Francis '11
World Fellows Associate
Post-SOM: Bain & Company, South Africa
" I was a Yale World Fellows Affiliate. I was assigned to the Tunisian World Fellow, Fares Mabrouk, and helped him integrate into the University. This is just one example of the mind-blowing access to amazing people and incredible talks here at the University. Walking around the Yale campus I get excited that I've come here."

Suzanne Appel SOM/Drama '11
Co-chair, Internship Fund
Post-SOM position: managing director, Cutting Ball Theater
"Leadership is all about bringing people along with you, in creating a vision that others find compelling. Inspiring leaders are often great storytellers."

Jamila Amarshi '11
Co-leader, Education Club
Post-MBA Position: Level Playing Field Institute
"I participated in the Global Social Entrepreneurship course, and it was rewarding to balance theory with a client-focused project with real-world implications."

Tomer Cohen '11
Participant, International Exchange Program, Tsinghua University, Beijing Post-MBA Position: Goldman Sachs
"One of the things I love about the school is that if I come across any courses outside of the School of Management I'm interested in, I can take them."

Liya Ma '12
Pre-SOM employment: Credit Suisse, New York
Summer Internship: J.P. Morgan, New York
Clubs: Food for Thought, Greater China Club, Real Estate Club
"One of the reasons I chose Yale SOM was because of its international perspective and opportunities to travel and learn abroad, whether it’s the International Experience, Global Social Enterprise, or the student exchange programs."

Saidrasul Nasretdinov ’11
Clubs: Student Government
Dean's Task Force
"Students from the Forestry School and Public Health brought a totally different perspective into the classroom."

Lisa Poon '12
Club: Retail Club, Incoming Leader
"The Yale SOM curriculum will be particularly important for me in my internship, because it is about applying business skills across different areas."

Jason Kearns '11
Summer Internship: Google
Finance Chair, Internship Fund
Co-leader, Technology Club and Ski and Snowboard Club
Blogger, Yale SOM Community Blog
"Yale SOM opens doors that I wouldn’t have otherwise had access to, and connects me with people that I never would have met."

Tracy Shepard '12
Pre-SOM Position: Sierra Club
Summer Internship: Unilever Incoming
Co-leader, Marketing Club
"After the Customer course, I had the mindset and the tools to evaluate a marketing problem."

Jessica Hans '11
Pre-SOM: Credit Suisse Securities
Post-SOM: Blackstone Group
Executive Director, Finance Club
"I can't stress enough how I've benefited from the incredible range of experiences here. My classmates have done extraordinary things in areas I didn't even know about before coming to school."

Roj Robinson '11
Summer internship/post-SOM position: Goldman Sachs
"I realized quickly how well SOM had prepared me, not just in terms of the hard skills necessary to put together deals, but the interpersonal skills you need to succeed in the business world."

Adrish Majumdar '11
Pre-SOM: A.T. Kearney
Summer Internship: Rare Conservation
Co-leader, Community Service Club and Global Social Enterprise
"In the Global Social Enterprise club, students get to use their business skills in real-life environments, and the clients get access to some really smart people for free."

Zandra Minor '11
Pre-SOM: U.S. Army
Summer Internship: Booz Allen Hamilton
"By the time I was 23, I had deployed to Iraq leading a logistics unit of 60 people. SOM has been a great place for me to transition into civilian life and continue to pursue challenging jobs."

Vandita Khullar Singh '11
Summer Internship: Goldman Sachs
"SOM helped me get the internship, but more importantly, gave me the skills I needed to do great work."

Kimberly Bartlett '11
Clubs: Director of Member Engagement, Net Impact
Summer Internship: Education Pioneers, Los Angeles County Office of Education, Head Start Program
Post-MBA Position: Director of Operations, Edward W. Brooke Charter School, Boston
"Everybody is very willing to put their name on the line to help you. The networking is so much stronger and more meaningful because we actually know each other well."

Julia Serbulov '11
Internship: J.P. Morgan
“Even though we’re competing, we cooperate. That’s how we build the sense of community that defines SOM.”

Laura Rodriguez '11
Pre-SOM: Accenture
Co-leader, Christian Fellowship; Co-Leader, Conservative Club
Internship: Barclays Capital
"I wanted to develop skills that I knew I could use for the rest of my life and that would make me marketable in any situation."

Corey Harrison '11
Co-leader, Finance Club
Internship: Goldman Sachs
"Today’s problems require solutions that address all stakeholders. This is a cornerstone of the SOM curriculum."

Eva Zlotnicka '11
Pre-SOM: Research Strategist, Morgan Stanley
Joint Degree Candidate with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
"I had to practice not just delegating but drawing in people and getting them to take ownership for pieces of the project."

Allan Coye '11
Internship: Goldman Sachs
"As I got a sense of the culture of SOM, one of the things that stood out was that the students are just so diverse, both in terms of what they’ve done and who they are."

Adriana Mochon '11
Pre-SOM: Morgan Stanley
Internship: Thomson Reuters
"What truly intrigued me were was the inner workings of the firms, the smaller-scale decision making that actually drives companies forward."

Nicole Cabbad '11
MD/MBA Joint Degree
"I think it's been one of the best decisions for me in my personal development and in my career development."

Greg Rawson '11
Internship: McKinsey
Clubs: Education, Board Service, SOM Outreach
"People at SOM are thinking about the best way to teach the skills needed to be successful."

Meredith King '11
Co-leader, Black Business Alliance
Internship: Education Pioneers
"Being active in clubs has given me a chance to experiment with my leadership style."

Jason Hill '11
Pre-SOM: Bartle Bogle Hegarty
President, Yale SOM Student Government
Internship: Booz & Company
"I want to use my time here to take courses that are completely unrelated to anything I've done before and are really going to push me."

Adam Zhang '11
Pre-SOM: Xinhua News Agency
"Figuring out how to work with diverse perspectives is an important learning process."