Wall Street Journal Profiles International MBA Alum

June 17, 2009

Posted June 17, 2009

The Sunday edition of the Wall Street Journal carried a column profiling Mrinal Desai (MBA ‘01), a graduate of the Monterey Institute’s Fisher International MBA Program. Columnist Alexandra Levit narrates Desai’s story as he experiences initial setbacks, only to achieve his goals and go on to found his own start-up company, CrossLoop, which recently received $9 million in venture capital funding and an innovation award from Laptop magazine.

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