Yale School of Management - Student Profiles

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Consulting

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."

Elizabeth Dunning '07
Summer internship: Uncommon Schools
Post-MBA position: Booz Allen Hamilton
"If you really care about an organization, then you need to evaluate it left, right, and sideways and make sure that you're operating effectively..."

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..."

Touradj Barman '07
Founder, GoGroups
"I was drawn to Yale because I felt that SOM was stepping up to an exciting period of growth. It reminded me of the way that I was accustomed to building myself or to starting a new firm."

Consumer Products & Retail

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

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

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."

Entrepreneurship

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..."

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."

Matt Sly '07
Cofounder, FutureMe.org
Post-MBA Position: Program Manager, Microsoft
"There's something pretty compelling about writing a letter to your future self."

Environment/Energy

Austin Whitman '07
One of Three Student Winners of the 2007 Net Impact Green Challenge
Joint degree candidate with Yale SOM and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
"Global warming is going to be very costly to businesses and they need to think about this."

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."

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..."

Finance

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..."

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."

Grace Chionuma '07
Pre-SOM position: Human Resources Director, Westin Mission Hills Resort, Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Post-MBA position: Associate, Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division
"I wanted to be at a place where I wasn’t just one of 700, where I was able to connect with people and people were able to connect with me."

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..."

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."

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."

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."

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.""

Nnenna Nnoli '07
Admissions Committee
Head, Black Business Alliance
Post-MBA Position: Associate, JPMorgan
"I wanted to be in an environment where I could make a career switch and develop hard skills in finance and accounting in a smaller and more collaborative setting."

Qin Zhang '07
Co-leader, Private Equity Club
Yale SOM Photographer 2005-2007
Post-SOM Position: J.P. Morgan, Hong Kong
"Photographers have to be very creative and independent, which matches the spirit here at Yale SOM."

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."

Yansong Cao '07
First Recipient of the Laura Cha Scholarship
Co-leader of The Greater China Club
Post-SOM position: JP Morgan, Hong Kong
"I came here in 1999 and feel I have a great repertoire of experiences. It's time to go back to China and give back."

Zuri Briscoe '07
Co-Leader Private Equity Club
Student Liaison to the SOMAA Board of Directors
Post-MBA position: Navigation Capital Partners
"I think the diversity of backgrounds at Yale SOM is what makes it unique. I’ve learned to understand different perspectives, which I think is useful in any type of business environment..."

Government/Education

Fawzia Ahmed '07
Executive committee, Net Impact Club
"I wanted to develop broader management skills and work for a charter school or school district..."

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..."

Healthcare

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?"

Paul Sandoval '07
Co-Leader, Yale Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Society
Summer internship: Boehringer-Ingelheim
Post-MBA position: Market Planning Analyst, Daiichi-Sankyo
"A lot of people don’t understand just how many different compounds a pharmaceutical company has to make before they actually get a successful drug..."

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..."

Victoria Potterton '08 and Alexandra Beale '07
Co-leaders, Healthcare 2007 conference
"Instead of just having a management-based discussion, we sought to expand the conversation into all the corners of healthcare."

Media/Entertainment

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."

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..."

Nonprofit/Social Responsibility

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."

Fawzia Ahmed '07
Executive committee, Net Impact Club
"I wanted to develop broader management skills and work for a charter school or school district..."

Jessica Smith '07
Post-SOM Position: Community Affairs Manager, United Technologies
Organizer, Future of Philanthropy Conference
"Yale provided the creativity and the flexibility to allow me to study corporate social responsibility..."

Technology

Matt Sly '07
Cofounder, FutureMe.org
Post-MBA Position: Program Manager, Microsoft
"There's something pretty compelling about writing a letter to your future self."