Amazing Global Network Week at Madrid
After conquering several difficulties before the trip, we finally made it to Madrid. The following amazing week at Madrid definitely deserved our previous efforts.
Kale, Coffee and Culture: Our Fall Coffeehouse
They were bold. They were bright. They were bodacious.
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Jed Bernstein ’79 on the Intersection of Art and Commerce
Today I met my hero. I didn’t know prior to the event that he was my hero, but I left knowing full well that this man was the man I wanted to model the rest of my career after.
Pizza, Rap & My First Case Competition
It was 9:00pm and I had just devoured two (ok fine…three) slices of pizza while the 90’s party mix Pandora station played in the background.
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Lunch with Ranji Nagaswami '86
A Ghanaian scholar, Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir - Aggrey once said “if you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate an entire nation.
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Trip to Asia
I had a great trip to Asia last week where I had the chance to visit five Global Network schools in five days to give presentations on the MAM program.
Cohort Life: The FUNdamental SOM Experience
The cohort experience is fundamental to one’s first year at SOM. After the class is admitted, each of us is carefully placed into one of four “statistically indistinguishable” cohorts – Blue, Silver, Green, or Gold – of about 70 people each.
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Ibiza - New Haven Restaurant Week 2013
Prior to SOM, I wrote a local food blog in San Diego. When my classmates found out I had a blog, they all encouraged me to re-create the blog for New Haven.
Alumnae Join Panel for NYC Admissions Event
Yale SOM's Admissions office recently hosted an event featuring New York City alumnae. Moderated by Professor Sharon Oster, the panel featured several Yale SOM alumnae working in Manhattan.
Getting It Right
A recent talk by reporter David Barboza underscored one of the cardinal rules for anyone taking a professional risk: take your time and get it right.