Released on: August 6, 2008, 9:14 pm

Press Release Author: Roger L. Newman

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny announced that
five graduates of the school have been selected by a committee of Yale SOM alumni,
students, faculty and staff as the inaugural class of Donaldson Fellows

Press Release Body: Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny announced that
five graduates of the school have been selected by a committee of Yale SOM alumni,
students, faculty and staff as the inaugural class of Donaldson Fellows. These
individuals will participate in a symposium at the school in October 2008. The
Donaldson Fellows Program, named for the school\'s founding dean William Donaldson,
was established to recognize and honor Yale SOM alumni who exemplify the school\'s
mission of educating leaders for business and society. The Donaldson Fellows
selected for the inaugural Class of 2008-2009 are:
Adam Blumenthal \'89 (http://mba.yale.edu/alumni/alumni_leaders/blumenthala.shtml),
Managing General Partner, Blue Wolf Capital Management; Laszlo Bock \'99, Vice
President, People Operations, Google, Inc.; Andrea Levere \'83
(http://www.cfed.org/about.m?id=107#162), President, Corporation for Enterprise
Development; James Levitt \'80, Director, Program on Conservation Innovation at the
Harvard Forest, Harvard University and President, Levitt & Company, Inc.; and
Elizabeth Serlemitsos \'93; Chief Advisor, National AIDS Council, Zambia
(http://mba.yale.edu/news_events/CMS/Articles/6546.shtml).

The Yale School of Management aims to educate leaders who will approach and solve
lingering problems that matter to stakeholders across the social spectrum. It is
led by an accomplished board of advisors, including William H. Donaldson, chairman
of Donaldson Enterprises
(http://mba.yale.edu/why/advisors/profiles/donaldsonw.shtml) and the 27th chairman
of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Josh Bekenstein
(http://mba.yale.edu/why/advisors/profiles/bekensteinj.shtml), a managing director
of Bain Capital LLC
www.baincapitalprivateequity.com/team/index.asp?viewType=ByRegion&d_Bio_ID=67), a
leading global private investment firm based in Boston.

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