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Upcoming Events

A Public Forum for the Business Community: "Integrity and Self-Deception in Corporate America"
Waldorf-Astoria, NYC
January 24, 2003
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Reinventing Your Career
with Herminia Ibarra
author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
Wilton, CT
January 27, 2003
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MBA@Yale Networking Reception for Women
Yale Club of New York City
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
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Faculty Lecture Series: Governance, Accountability and Transparency
Yale SOM
February 6, 2003
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Focus on Faculty

Arturo Bris
Robert B. & Candice J. Haas Assistant Professor of Corporate Finance

Professor Bris' research focuses on the effect of the market for corporate control on stock prices and the relationships between the market for corporate control and capital structure. His interests cover the application of market microstructure tools and game theory to corporate finance problems and the implementation of empirical tests using advanced econometric methodologies.
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Read his latest research: Corporate Governance Convergence by Contract: Evidence from Cross-Border Mergers
(Arturo Bris and Christos Cabolis) >>

And related story in Yale Daily News>>

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Faculty News

Yale School of Management's Edward H. Kaplan Awarded 2002 INFORMS® President's Award
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) announced that Professor Edward H. Kaplan is the 2002 recipient of the INFORMS® President's Award.
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Yale SOM's Jonathan Ingersoll Receives the 2002 IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award
Yale SOM Professor Jonathan Ingersoll, Adrian C. Israel Professor of International Trade and Finance, has been named the 2002 IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year...
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Inside the Beltway
Congratulations to founding dean, Bill Donaldson, on his nomination to chair the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

CSX Corporation Chairman John Snow (President Bush's designate for Secretary of the U.S. Treasury) was a guest in Paul W. MacAvoy's class, "Corporate Strategies in Network Industries."
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In Memoriam
Former executive-in-residence Thomas Wyman, former CBS Chief, died, January 2003.

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Latest Research

Extending the Global Smallpox Bioterror Policy Debate
The global eradication of smallpox stands among the most critical public health achievements of the last century. Professor Edward H. Kaplan continues to argue that in the event of a smallpox bioterror attack, rapid mass vaccination of the population in the area of the attack is preferable to ring vaccination, where only the contacts of smallpox cases would be vaccinated.
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"Anti-Drug Advertising Works" Says Joint Study by Leading Business School Professors at Yale SOM, NYU Stern, London Business School, and Baruch
An egg sizzling in a frying pan as the viewer is told: "This is your brain on drugs." That vivid image was used during a successful anti-drug television campaign created by The Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) to change societal attitudes about drugs and reduce drug consumption among teens.
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What Does a Three-Year Market Slump Mean to Investors? When Will Wall Street Recover?
Listen to Yale SOM's Smart Investor Radio Program on National Public Radio (from Jan. 16, 2003) and hear what ICF Director William Goetzmann, Matthew Spiegel, and Herbert Folpe have to say.
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Continued Learning

RECOMMENDED READING
2000 A Bubble? 2002 A Panic? Maybe Nothing!
by Professor Matthew Spiegel

Does this September New York Times headline "The Bubble Has Burst, But Strengths Remain" seem all too familiar these days? Given what we have learned over the last two years, the late 1990s presents a painful lesson.
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Nonprofit Enterprise: Right for You?
by Cynthia W. Massarsky and Samantha L. Beinhacker Co-Deputy Directors, Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures

Examine the growing trend of nonprofit enterprise: success depends on the right combination of mission, motivation, risks, capacities, and market demands.
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Dean Jeffrey Garten's The Politics of Fortune (HBS Press, Oct. 2002) poses two questions: What is the emerging shape of the world in the wake of both the September 11 terrorist attacks and the corporate scandals that began with Enron? What role should business leaders play in this new era?
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Available Soon (April 2003): The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Professor Robert J. Shiller (Princeton Press).
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Yale SOM Security Analysis: Student Company and Industry Reports
MBA students in the Security Analysis course produce industry and company valuation reports and guides.

LEADERS FORUM
Ewald Kist
Chairman
ING Group
November 14, 2002
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2002-2003 Leaders Forum Speakers >>

AYA LIFELONG LEARNING
Featured Courses:
Managing the Economy: Strategies for Uncertain Times
Faculty: Roger G. Ibbotson, Yale SOM; Michael J. Boskin, Stanford University; William D. Nordhaus, Yale University; Douglas Fore, TIAA-CREF Institute
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Beyond Irrational Exuberance:
Making Sense of the Stock
Market after the Bubble
Course Author: Robert J. Shiller, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale
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Globalization and the New
Global Economy

Course Author: L. Y. Yueh, Lecturer in Economics, The University of Oxford
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Focus on Centers of Excellence

The Chief Executive Leadership Institute
Nation's CEOs Gather to Redefine Their Jobs and Celebrate Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle

In the aftermath of the Bush Administration's newly announced economic policy package and the Conference Board's recent final recommendations on needed corporate governance reforms, more than 100 CEOs of the nation's largest firms gathered to discuss how new governance requirements, changing public scrutiny, and global geopolitics have changed their job definitions.
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Quick Look
School News

• Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures Announces National Business Plan Competition Results >>

SOMAA

• SOMAA Website Re-Launched;
• Latest Global Alumni Network News >>

Faculty News

• Professors Edward H. Kaplan and Jonathan Ingersoll Receive Awards

Latest Research

• Ed Kaplan on Extending the Global Smallpox Bioterror Policy Debate;
• Subrata Sen on Anti-Drug Advertising >>

Continued Learning

• Professor Matthew Spiegel on 2000 A Bubble? 2002 A Panic? Maybe Nothing!;
Nonprofit Enterprise: Right for You?;
• New Online Courses >>

 

Look for class notes in April's E-News.

 

 

Dean's Desk

Thanks to all of you who continue to send along notes about your professional and personal milestones. Not only am I delighted at your success, but it also constantly reinforces for me that our alumni are one of the most accomplished and most diverse groups of professionals - leaders at all levels and in every niche of business and society throughout the world. Indeed, this is a proud legacy of the school and its mission.

We hope you enjoy the second edition of our new Global Alumni Newsletter, which is full of current information, news and research from the Yale School of Management community.

WIth best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous 2003!

Best regards,
Jeff Garten

School News

Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures Announces National Business Plan Competition Results
80 nonprofit organizations to proceed to Round II of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.
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Thanks to all the alumni who participated in the Partnership's National Business Plan Competition!

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Focus on Alumni
SOMAA News

SOMAA Website Re-Launched (and More!)
SOMAA this fall launched a redesigned and expanded website. It's still the place to go for Alumni Association information and contacts, valuable career resources, links to a blinding array of Yale and Yale SOM resources, and more.
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Global Alumni Network News
Established by local alumni in 15 regions around the world, and supported by SOMAA, the networks host networking and social activities to bring Yale SOM alums together, and serve as the infrastructure for alumni support of Admissions and Career Development.
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Yale News

Graduate School Dean Susan Hockfield Named as Provost
President Richard C. Levin has named Susan Hockfield as the next Provost of the University. Hockfield, who was reappointed earlier this fall to a second term as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will succeed Alison Richard, who has been nominated as the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University.
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Admissions News

Fall Admissions Recruiting
This year was full of MBA fairs with record turnout in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. We hosted Minority MBA Workshops in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, with other top MBA programs. We also traveled to Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to reach out to women through panels and workshops.
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Yale MBA Women's Summit
Thank you to all of our students, faculty, alumnae, and staff who helped make the Yale MBA Women's Summit 2002 a tremendous success. A distinguished group of Yale alumnae addressed over 300 women at this standing-room only event, to talk about "Leadership in Business & Society Today: A Personal View."
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Key Partnership for Recruiting Women Announced
The Yale School of Management is pleased to announce its partnership with the Forté Foundation, a new non-profit organization established to increase the number of women in business education and business careers...
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Career News

Thanks to all the alumni who participated in career events and activities this fall!
As recruiters, presenters, counselors, and consultants, and for participating in "SOM in the City," "Tell Me about Your Job" Series, Alumni Panels, CDO Treks and Job Fairs, and Mock Interview Series.

RECENT JOB POSTINGS FOR ALUMNI
Personal Investment Portfolio Manager
Northern Trust Bank
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Director of Financial Analysis
Entertainment Company
New York City, NY
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Marketing Manager, TechMarketplace
TechFoundation
Cambridge, MA
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