Yale School of Management
IN THIS ISSUE... { vol 8.7 | 5.14.09 }

  From the Admissions Office
  Professor Keith Chen on Cognitive Dissonance
  Reserve Bank of India Official Speaks at the First South Asian Business Forum
  Student Profile: Ian Moss '09
  Alumni Spotlight: Christine Bader ’00
  Help Us Improve the Admissions Newsletter
From the Admissions Office
The academic year is coming to a close, and we would like to thank everyone for their readership throughout the year. If you’re planning to apply for Yale SOM’s Class of 2012, summer is a great time to begin preparing your application. It’s never too early to begin the process. Here are some tips to get a head start. More...

Associate Professor of Economics Keith ChenProfessor Keith Chen on Cognitive Dissonance
As part of a new speaker series established by Dean Sharon Oster to give students more insights into faculty research, Keith Chen looks at cognitive dissonance from the point of view of an economist and determines that decades of psychological studies contain some key flaws. More...


Rakesh Mohan, the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of IndiaReserve Bank of India Official Speaks at First South Asian Business Forum Conference
The South Asian Business Forum hosted its first conference, India: Seeking Opportunity in Crisis. The focus of the student-organized conference was on how India is faring under the global financial crisis and what opportunities still exist. More...
Ian Moss '09Student Profile: Ian Moss '09
"I’m someone who is interested in big-picture thinking and has an entrepreneurial, creative nature, and I felt like Yale SOM was a really good fit for me. I appreciated how the structure of the curriculum, being more interdisciplinary and concept-focused, allowed for bringing in social concerns and questions of coordinating across sectors." More...

Christine Bader '00 Alumni Spotlight: Christine Bader ’00
Advisor to UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights
After leading the development of BP’s human rights policy, Bader is now working on a project to create a global framework for business and human rights. “I’ve had a very SOM career,” she says. More...

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44,000 dollars was raised in the Annual SOM Internship Fund Auction, the second most in its thirty-year history, allowing students to intern in nonprofit and public sectors.
9 organizational perspectives will now be taught in the Yale integrated MBA curriculum.
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