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Roberto Jimenez '09
Recipient, Joseph Wright Alsop Memorial Scholarship
Co-leader, Energy Club
Summer internship: Shell
"To be a great CEO, you need to understand different perspectives. And the SOM curriculum is designed perfectly to accomplish this."

 

Giovanna Masci '08
Coleader, Global Social Enterprise and Economic Development Clubs
Post-MBA position: Kiva
"I was able to think differently because I had been taught in an interdisciplinary way; I wasn't just thinking of pieces in isolation, but really approaching the problem from a lot of different angles."

 

Dave Bledin '09
Co-leader Canadian Club, Co-leader Media and Entertainment Club
Summer Internship: MTV
"I really enjoy both the quantitative and qualitative sides of things, and I think in business you can play to both of those strengths."

 

Dan Droller '09
Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Deloitte Consulting
"Medical school kept on being pushed off and I saw that I could help people and have an effect through something other than medicine."

 

Jeff Russell '08
Founder, Easy Office
"I've come to believe the greatest good I can do for the greatest number of people is to mobilize and gather resources and systems to help them make their lives better."

 

Abby Goward '08
Executive committee, Net Impact Club
President, Yale SOM Student Government
"I see myself promoting socially responsible behavior regardless of what department I work in."

 

Kayam Rajaram '08
Post-MBA position: Credit Suisse
"There is a certain exhilaration about working so hard and seeing the result of that work and its impact on the real world."

 

Sumana Chatterjee '08
Authored a case study about slavery in the cocoa industry that will be used in SOM classes
"As a journalist, my job was to spark the thinking process. In this case, the story took on a life of its own. It was something I hadn’t imagined before."

 

Mike McLaughlin '08
Co-Leader, Consulting Club
MBA-MA in International Relations Joint-Degree Student
"You need to have structured thinking and a lot of knowledge about how business works. But there's also an aspect of creativity..."

 

Alexander Acree '08
Joint degree candidate, Yale Law School
"In a young company, having a healthy understanding of the interactions among a business' critical components adds a lot of value..."

 

Paola Allais '08
Joint degree candidate, Yale School of Drama
Student Body Representative, Yale SOM Student Government
Strategy Intern, Associated Press
"I am Italian, I am French, I have studied in Europe and in the States. It is this background that has led me to want to connect seemingly differing worlds..."

 

Ron Hertshten '08
Co-Leader of Yale School of Management Green Campus Initiative
Summer Internship: G.H. Holdings, London Office
"I want to combine my finance knowledge with my interest in energy and the environment..."

 

Max Mong '08
Summer internship: PepsiCo
"The same qualities that attracted me to cooking led me to business school."

 

Kate McGill '08
Co-leader Christian Fellowship
Summer Internship: Exxon-Mobil
"Working in a very large nonprofit, I saw a lot of inefficiencies. And I saw how someone with an MBA could really help solve the inefficiencies."

 

Lawrence Fan '08
Summer internship: Goldman Sachs
"People at Yale SOM have always encouraged me to speak more, to be braver, and to take more initiative."

 

Josh Nelson '08
Internship: PepsiCo
Member, Marketing Club
"I wanted to make a change in my career, so I started thinking about business school."

 

Roger Goldberg '08
Summer internship: Sun Farm Corporation
"I think there's a role for someone who understands the clinical issues and can help with the business development side..."

 

Lisa Howie '08
Summer internship: Merrill Lynch, Investment Banking Division
President, Finance Club
"It's not just learning about banking.... It's the realization that one way to effect change is by building the right kind of sustainable businesses.""

 

Jennifer Kasker '08
Major, U.S. Army
Co-leader, Veterans Club
Summer internship: Citigroup
"You want your company to be the best, but most of all you want to keep your soldiers safe and you want to bring them home with you..."

 

Krishan Soni '08
Joint degree candidate, Yale Medical School
"The more machines you buy, the more money it costs you. So, how many machines do you need?"

 

Jonathan Gruber '08
Marketing co-chair for Global Social Venture Competition
Planning Committee for Education Leadership Conference
Recipient of the H. Stuart Harrison Fellowship
"I wanted to be in a place where people pursue their personal values in their professional lives..."

 

Christopher Sanger '08
Summer Internship: Merrill Lynch, Investment Banking Division
Co-leader, Real Estate Club
"All the classes spend time on the perspective of top management when they make major decisions..."

 

Telia Weisman '08
Undergraduate thesis: "Economic Growth and Electricity Prices: A Sector Causality Analysis"
"When people hear that you learned finance from Frank Fabozzi, they suddenly want to talk to you."