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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 2011, you can use the summer to begin preparing your application materials. It’s never too early to begin the process, so here are some tips to get a head start.
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 New Yale SOM Online Case Looks at Controversial Buyout of Energy Company
The Environmental Defense/TXU case is one of a new type of business school cases SOM has pioneered. Rather than a “cooked” narrative summarizing the case, students were confronted with a web site that linked to a plethora of “raw” documents, videos, and maps.
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 Student Profile: Finance Career
I spent my summer internship at Credit Suisse working on a number of pitch books for deals that were underway. There were also some bonus projects. I got a close look at the IPO for a large, prestigious, quantitative hedge fund. There was a certain exhilaration about working so hard and seeing the result and its impact on the real world.
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 Colleagues and Classmates
When Andrew Metrick joined the Yale SOM faculty this last year after teaching at Wharton for eight years, he also rejoined two colleagues he’s known for twenty years, since they were all undergraduates at Yale: Professors Fiona Scott Morton and Judith Chevalier. |
 Alumni Profile: Jon Carson '84, CEO, cMarket
Instead of posting items on eBay, the Yale SOM Internship Fund auction uses the website of a company called cMarket, whose head is Jon Carson ’84. The distinction is important, especially since cMarket is trying to position itself as the eBay for the nonprofit world and to profit from helping causes.
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