Linda Craib

Recent Articles by Linda Craib

June 15, 2009

Channeling Frances Perkins

Nearly a century ago, a young woman by the name of Frances Perkins bolstered her clinical background as a social worker when she pursued advanced education in ...

February 8, 2009

Watching the Crisis from B-School

They say that even the gods fear the fates. As the agents of destiny would have it, the collapse of the financial markets coincided with my first semester of business ...

October 12, 2008

Starting at Yale

If the days, weeks, and months leading up to starting classes at Yale were defined by a sense of anticipation, then the past month of my life can only be described as ...

August 14, 2008

Anticipating Yale

As I finish up my last journal entry as a prospective MBA student, I am less than two weeks away from the start of business school. Time, which, according to Einstein,...

February 4, 2008

A New Life Where Math Is Fun

Toward the end of December, as I was completing six months of math refresher courses, I received my formal letter of acceptance from Yale. It was the winter solstice, ...

November 26, 2007

Statistically Blonde

Amanda Brown, a former Stanford law student, voice actor, and author struck a hit with her debut novel, Legally Blonde. A film adaptation, a sequel, two Golden Globe ...

November 4, 2007

B-School Through a Math Lens

My name is Linda Craib, and I have been accepted into the Yale School of Management Health Care Executive MBA program for 2008-10. Because I'm a woman who has had an ...