Looking to hire Ole MBA's....

Thanks to SOMA member Jim Jerz '91 we are able to post our first "looking to hire an Ole MBA ad":

Harris Nesbitt is the US investment banking arm of the Bank of Montreal, which is one of the largest North American financial institutions with $265 billion in assets.

Harris Nesbitt focuses on the middle market and has a full product offering of advisory services, debt & equity capital-raising and corporate lending.

The firm is currently hiring candidates with the following backgrounds:

• Analyst: 1-2 years of investment banking experience
• Associate: 3+ years of investment banking experience and an MBA
• Vice President: 6+ years of investment banking experience and an MBA.

The website is www.harrisnesbitt.com

Send an e-mail to Jim Jerz class of '91 at : jiminov7@yahoo.com for more information.

Another HBS grad joins SOMA...

Welcome to the newest member of SOMA:

Priscilla Paff Wardlow '75
Harvard Business School, Harvard University, MBA '79

New Dean named for the Carlson School of Management - U of MN

Alison Davis-Blake named new Dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Full press release can be found here:
http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page3295.aspx?showcontent=41038&display=2&templateID=2

Snapshot of SOMA network

You can now view the current list of all top 50 MBA programs (according to USNews & World Report's 2006 Top Business Schools Rankings) represented within the SOMA membership network on the right hand side of this blog.

Top 25 programs represented:
84% (21 of the top 25 programs)

Top 50 programs represented:
54% (27 of the top 50 programs)