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A Chat with the Yale School of Management’s Professor Will Goetzmann

About the class

The full and long-term impact of the global pandemic on the finance industry over the past year and a half is, in many ways, still to be determined, but scholars, including those at Yale SOM, have produced fascinating insights during this time. Simultaneously, the experience of completing an EMBA in the middle of a public health crisis also shifted during the 2020-2021 school year, with changes to program delivery, working at home and networking, resulting in both unique challenges and in some cases, better than expected outcomes and learnings.

​Join Ivy Exec and  Yale SOM for a fireside conversation with Professor Will Goetzmann, faculty director for the MBA for Executives program’s Asset Management area of focus. Professor Goetzmann will discuss his work in topics such as the art market, financial history and the stock market, and alternative investments, as well as the state of the asset management and investments industry and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He’ll be joined by Justin Wilson and Renee Greene, recent alumni from the Yale SOM Class of 2021, who will provide a student and alumni perspective on their work in the industry historically and over the last year, their experience in the MBA for Executives program and the benefits of the opportunity to focus on asset management within the program. Justin and Renee will discuss how they juggled work and home life with pursuing an EMBA, why they chose Yale SOM’s MBA for Executives program, offer advice to those considering an EMBA and reminisce about their favorite EMBA moments, including the close relationship each has formed with Professor Goetzmann as students and alumni of Yale SOM.

About the Presenter

William N. Goetzmann

William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. He is an expert on a diverse range of investments. His past work includes studies of stock market predictability, hedge funds and survival biases in performance measurement. His current research focuses on alternative investing, factor investing, behavioral finance and the art market. Professor Goetzmann has written and co-authored a number of books, most recently, Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton, 2016). He teaches portfolio management, alternative investments, real estate and financial history.

Justin Wilson

Justin Wilson ’21 currently serves as Managing Director and President of i2E Management Company (iMCI), an early-stage VC headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK. He is endlessly curious and is passionate about passionate people – whatever your thing is, if you are enthusiastic about it, Justin is excited to hear about it. He is a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, originally hails from the extremely rural Southeastern Oklahoma town of Wright City, and is active in expanding exposure, opportunity, and mentorship to rural and Native youth. Prior to iMCI, Justin served as Director of Strategic Investments for Choctaw Global, where he helped design and build a private market investments portfolio that suited the investment and diversification goals of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Before that, he was a political appointee in the Administration of President Barack Obama where he served as Advisor to the Special Trustee for American Indians. He currently lives in the OKC area with his wife, Brooklyn, and two rambunctious toddlers, Rhett and Ryder.

Renee Greene

Renee Greene ’21 is a Vice President, Investment Grade Credit Trader at Goldman Sachs.  Renee participated in the Goldman Sachs Veterans Integration Program and joined the firm full-time in 2016.  Prior to working at Goldman Sachs, she served for six years, active duty in the United States Army as a Korean Cryptologic Linguist. During her service, she led signals intelligence teams in South Korea and also served as a Military Language Instructor, teaching Korean at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Renee serves as the Chief of Staff of the Goldman Sachs Veterans Network Steering Committee and is active in assisting with resume review, interview preparation and career exploration for veterans seeking a transition into financial services. Renee also serves as a coach to interns through the Global Markets Diversity Council annual summer program. At Yale, Renee served as an elected Class Advisor and as a Graduate Affiliate for Pauli Murray College, offering undergraduate students support and mentorship. She is passionate about increasing financial literacy levels in America and serves on the Associate Board of the Council for Economic Education to increase financial literacy levels among K-12 students.  She also serves as a board member on the Canisius College Alumni Association Board of Directors.

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