Yale SOM Community

• SOM offers an environment where you are not just trained very well technically by world-class faculty, but you also have the opportunity to explore the human side of being a businessperson.

  

• I thought I’d be involved in a new startup as part of a team or a larger group. But to actually be the founder bringing forth the new company was really awesome and not something I would’ve even dreamt about had I not been through the program.

  

• When you have a school that takes educating leaders for business and society seriously, it’s our job to foster personal transformation in our students as we prepare them to lead organizations.

  

• The core curriculum culminates in the final Executive course, when you realize you’ve learned to look at things through different functional lenses, at the quantitative as well as qualitative aspects.

  

• That’s how I’d like to be remembered, as someone who stepped into a difficult situation, got to work, and got things done.

  

• I like the pattern of learning the best the private sector has to offer…then moving into nonprofits, because I’ve been better able to build partnerships, make connections, address all forms of operational and leadership issues.

  

• This is all I could have hoped for: being able to find a group of people, not only at school but post-MBA, who really identify with what I’m passionate about.

  

• Part of my mission here is to help educate people—maybe it’s women, maybe it’s millennials—whoever feels they could be more organized financially.

  

• In my classes here at SOM, I’ve had students from the Graduate School, students from Forestry, students from Drama, students from the Law School, undergraduates. We get a lot of perspectives in the classroom.