MBA Humor:
Source: The Cornell Business Journal / Natalie Lin, MBA ’13
Tweets of the Week:
pankaj chaddah @pankajchaddah12h
the only benefit of hiring an mba is, he/ she won’t leave to do it again #employeeretention
Can’t wait to see all the mortar boards out there. Kim McField (staffer/MBA grad) has set the bar high #StanGrad pic.twitter.com/yjNErgH2I5
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer. To create chaos with no possibility of salvation calls for an MBA.
My Mom graduated with her MBA this weekend. From having me at 17 & being a single mother to having a Masters Degree. #Proud #Inspired
Mergers
Zaahir Syed, 31, an MBA from UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Faizah Malik, 28, were married on Saturday (June 1). Syed is a senior associate responsible for raising capital at Metropolitan Real Estate, a real estate investment fund in Manhattan, while Malik is the counsel and manager of special projects at Single Stop USA, an antipoverty organization. Source: NYT
Anna Natasha Joukovsky, 27, who is currently pursuing her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and Michael Jensen McDuffie, 29, were married on Saturday. Joukovsky is a senior membership associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, managing fund-raising and marketing to donors, and McDuffie is an associate at the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Source: NYT
Greg Geronemus, 27, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and Katherine Sarah Pier, 26, were married on Saturday evening. Geronemus is a founder of Footbridge Partners, a start-up investment firm in New York looking to acquire and operate a business, while Pier is to begin a psychiatry internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Source: NYT
Amanda Beth Freedman, 29, who has an MBA from Columbia Business School, and Philip Joseph Orban Jr., 30, were married Saturday. Freedman is a marketing manager for the United States operations of L’Oréal Group, the French beauty products company, while Orban is a principal in Glenmont Capital Management, a real estate investment firm in New York. Source: NYT
DON’T MISS:
Weekly Roundup 1: THE BUDDHIST PRIEST AND THE MBA
Weekly Roundup 2: Yale’s New EQ Test for MBA Applicants
Weekly Roundup 3: Can An MBA Make You Happy? Apparently So.
