If you build it, Oles will come...

Welcome to more new members of SOMA!

Jack Kemme '70
College of Business, University of St. Thomas, MBA '93
Director, Human Resources Division, Scott County, MN

Keith Tufte '82
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, MBA '84
Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager, Riversource Financial

Sonya Carlson Wilson '98
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, MBA '03
Co-founder, One World Spanish, LLC

Susan Throndrud '77
College of Business, University of St. Thomas, MBA '85
Residential Real Estate Sales, REMAX Results, Edina, MN

Laura Langer '73
College of Business, University of St. Thomas, MBA '85
Director of Marketing and Communications, Barrett Moving & Storage, Eden Prairie, MN

Andrew Ronningen '83
College of Business, University of St. Thomas, MBA '93
Entrepreneur and Executive Search (Franchot & Associates)

John Jensvold '85
College of Business, University of St. Thomas, MBA '01
Manager of Business Development, PCL Construction Services, Inc.

Dr. Gary Coles '66
University of Missouri-Columbia, MBA '81
University of North Dakota, MA and PhD, General-Experimental Psychology, '68 and '70
Adjunct Professor of Marketing, University of Missouri-Columbia

More new members...

Join us in welcoming:

Michelle LeGros '87
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, MBA '89
Director of Marketing Research, UnitedHealth Group

Karin Roof '89
Sloan School of Management, MIT, MBA '95
New Product Planning, Guidant Cardiac Rhythm Management

Bruce Jerde '82
W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, MBA '91
Director of Business Development, PacifiCare

Don Cleven '95
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, JD and MBA '98
Portfolio Manager/Analyst, Lee Munder Capital

Jill Rowlison '95
School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University, MBA '03
Manager, Political Action Committee, Target Corporation

Tim Bates '80
College of Business, University of St. Thomas, MBA '87
President & CEO, Cirista, LLC

Laura Veazie '01
College of Business, University of Illinois, MBA '04
Arizant Healthcare Inc.

Tom Heckler '73
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, MBA '75
CEO, OHSU Medical Group

Dean Jones '86
Anderson School of Management, UCLA, MBA '00
VP, Sales & Marketing, Mission Control Productivity, LLC

Welcoming new SOMA members...

We are receiving a terrific response from our initial invitation to Ole MBAs to participate as members of SOMA.

Welcome to the following to new members!

John Shaw '87
Hamline University Law School JD '93
University of Wisconsin-Madison, MBA in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics '02
Currently the Managing Member of Shaw Realty Group, LLC specializing in the development of Section 42 low-income housing tax credit apartments and conventional apartment investments

Cuitlahuac Turrent '97
Stern School of Business, New York University, MBA '03
Works as an Associate at Goldman Sachs in the Operational Risk Group

Pierce Johnson '78
Carlson School of Management, University of MN, MBA '89
Retired. Founder of Johnson Technologies.

George Aker '58
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, MBA '60
Retired

Tait J. Pinnow '99
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, MBA '05

Career Resource for MBAs

This resource, hosted at Yahoo! Groups : MBAJobs, is a job listserv for MBA candidates all over the country. Sign up with the site and you can be alerted to jobs whenever they open up.

An Ole MBA from Yahoo! Joins SOMA

Paul Boruta '98, Harvard MBA '04, has joined SOMA!

Paul works at Yahoo Search Marketing in Pasadena, CA in the product marketing group.

Welcome Paul!

MBA Consulting Salaries Are Up 10% over 2004 - Boston Globe

According to this article from the Boston Globe, starting consulting salaries for MBAs will be $109,000, up from $98,751 in 2004. The survey was based on responses from 85 MBA students, from a dozen schools, including Yale, Wharton, Chicago, and UCLA.

The report also looked at MBA graduates' perception of some of the top consulting firms. When asked which companies were among the most favorable, a majority of the MBA students selected McKinsey & Co. The second top ranking firm in this category was Boston Consulting Group, followed by Bain & Co., Monitor Group, A.T. Kearney, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and IBM Consulting.