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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."

 

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..."

 

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."

 

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."

 

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..."

 

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."

 

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..."

 

John Eng '09
Summer internship: Sears Holdings
"The SOM core curriculum is built on a number of Perspectives aimed at teaching a manager to assess a problem from multiple angles."

 

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.""

 

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..."

 

Sarah Pickard '09
Pre-SOM: BlackRock
Budget Officer, Arts & Culture Club
Summer Internship: PepsiCo
"At SOM when you're given an ambiguous problem and put in a room with three peers, you learn."

 

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."

 

Catherine Feng '09
Pre-SOM: Diplomat with Chinese government
Co-leader, Greater China Club
Second-year advisor, Leadership Development Program
Summer internship: BP
"I didn’t realize I had learned so much even in the first few months at SOM until I was interviewing for an internship."

 

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..."

 

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..."

 

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?"

 

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..."

 

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..."

 

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."

 

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."

 

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."

 

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..."

 

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."

 

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..."

 

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."