Career Conversations
Yale School of Management students sit down with alumni for a series of candid conversations about career paths, industries, opportunities for business school graduates, and discussions on career topics including work-life balance and creating a meaningful impact in business and society. This series is produced by and recorded at the Yale School of Management.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 74
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Paras Malik ’10, Boston Consulting Group
Fed Panfilov ’17, Strategic Advisory at Riot Games
Logan Yonavjak ’16, Finance & Natural Capital
Logan Yonavjak ’14 is a financial services professional, entrepreneur, author, and angel investor. She's incredibly passionate about building businesses and guiding capital in ways that replenish, re…
Tony Lynn ’14, Global Program Lead at Meta
Tony Lynn ’14 is a Global Program Lead at Meta, leading strategy development, operations, and execution for Instagram's SMB Advertiser Growth Sales Programs. In the episode, Tony discusses what it is…
IDEO Internship: Yousef Aly ’22
Yousef Aly is a second-year MBA student at Yale SOM. Prior to joining SOM, he was a management consultant for four years focused on the payments and fintech space. This past summer he was a Business …
Paramount Pictures Internship: Ikya Kandula ’22
Ikya Kandula ’22 spent her summer as an intern at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. This episode is part of a special mini-series of “Career Conversations” focused on MBA summer internships where we…
NASA Internship: Sam MacAvoy ‘22
Sam MacAvoy ’22 spent his summer as an intern at NASA and the Ames Research Center. He is also an active duty member of the U.S. Navy. This episode is part of a special mini-series of “Career Convers…
Camino de Paz, Assistant Dean of Global Network Programs at Yale SOM
Camino de Paz is Yale SOM's Assistant Dean of Global Network Programs. She brings 20 years of experience and a passion for global collaboration to her role working with students across all of SOM's p…
Natasha Nair ’21
Natasha Nair ’21 was born in Nigeria to Indian parents and grew up in South Africa. She has lived and worked across seven cities in four countries over the past five years, gaining a unique ability t…
Responsible Investing: Sarah Wilson ’15, Managing Director on the Responsible Investing team at Nuveen
Sarah Wilson ’15 is a Managing Director on the Responsible Investing team at Nuveen, a TIAA Company. She integrates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions for t…
Andrew Jacobs ’22
Andrew Seth Jacobs ’22, a rising second year in the full-time MBA program, came to SOM after a career in nonprofit fundraising. He serves as Co-President of the Consulting Club, and Co-Leader of Out …
Emily Averna ’22
Emily Averna ’22: I am looking to pivot from the nonprofit sector to corporate sustainability efforts. Before coming to Yale SOM I was fortunate to spend eight years working on sustainable developmen…
Corporate Strategy: Reeve Harde ’20, Global Strategy at Samsung Electronics
Reeve Harde ’21 works in the global strategy group at Samsung Electronics in Seoul, Korea. Prior to SOM, Reeve worked at Deloitte M&A as an Advisory Manager, Special Acquisition Services performing b…
Professor Nathan Novemsky
Professor Nathan Novemsky is Professor of Marketing at Yale SOM and has an appointment as Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He co-teaches the Yale SOM core c…
Entrepreneurship & Agroforestry: Ariana Day Yuen ’19, Founder and CEO of Forested Foods
Ariana Day Yuen ’19 is the founder and CEO of Forested Foods, a vertically integrated agroforestry venture in Ethiopia. She began her career as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in their…
Education Leadership: Scott Gordon ’88, Founder & CEO of Mastery Schools
In his 17th year as founder and chief executive officer of Mastery Schools, Scott Gordon ’88 oversees an organization that is known for turning around struggling public schools in Philadelphia while …
Entrepreneurship & CPG: Max Dworin ’20, Co-Founder & COO at Onda
Max Dworin ’21 is the co-founder and COO of Onda, a canned sparkling tequila beverage company. Onda is made with blanco tequila from a woman-owned distillery in Jalisco, Mexico and flavored with rea…
Management Consulting: Uma Krishnan ’19, Consultant at Bain & Company
Uma Krishnan ’19 is a consultant in the Houston office of Bain & Company. In this episode, Uma discusses how her passion for the education industry led her to the MBA program at SOM, life as a Bain e…
Sunny Mehta ’21
Sunny Mehta is an MAM student in the class of 2021. He completed his MBA at HEC Paris. Sunny has always followed his passion, first in politics and now on his startup within the sports industry. Sunn…
Martha Bull ’21
Martha Bull is a second-year full-time MBA student in the Class of 2021. They interned with PepsiCo last summer in their marketing department and is a second-year leader for Out Of Office (SOM LGBTQ+…