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Photos: Our Friendsgiving Celebration
This week, students gathered for SOM’s annual Friendsgiving, a feast centered around gratitude and camaraderie in early celebration of the Thanksgiving tradition.
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Making a Difference: Serving the Local Refugee Community
We talked with Puneet Chhabra ’24 about what he has learned volunteering with the refugee community at Integrated Refugee Immigrant Services in New Haven.
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Yale SOM Research on Algorithms for Volunteer Matching Honored at INFORMS Conference
Doctoral student Akshaya Suresh and Professor Vahideh Manshadi won the Public Sector Operations Research Best Video Award.
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Celebrating Veterans Day at Yale SOM
How Yale and SOM are marking the occasion.
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Studying Italian Excellence: Global Network Week at SDA Bocconi
Rachel Szarka ’24 shares insights she gleaned from a week in Italy studying the art management and lifestyle industries.
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Photos: From the Military to Yale SOM
Stephen Potts ’24 decided to pursue an MBA at Yale SOM after serving as a captain in the Marine Corps.
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Internship Spotlight: Laurence Spekterman ’24, KIPP DC
Laurence Spekterman ’24 looks at his summer internship, where he applied the business and management skills he learned in the classroom in an education context.
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Inaugurating a New Dialogue in Times of Transformation and Conflict
Emanuel Ritschard ’24, a joint-degree student at Yale SOM and the Jackson School of Global Affairs, reflects on attending the inaugural Berlin Global Dialogue at ESMT Business School in September 2023.
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Old Friends, New Venture
The Boston chapter of the Yale SOM Alumni Association brought classmates Steve Kelleher ’99 and Aaron Albright ’99 together in 2022.
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Diving into Digital Leadership at FGV São Paulo
Christopher Benavides ’24 shares photos from Global Network Week at FGV Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, where he took a module on digital leadership.