He's a former assistant secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and now a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
"I don't think the firm sees a return in the way I see a return, " says Mr. Yoshizaki, a May graduate of Wharton's Philadelphia program who is now a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Wharton marketing professor Americus Reed and doctoral students Amit Bhattacharjee (now a visiting professor at Dartmouth) and Jonathan Berman were chatting at the department holiday party when the conversation turned to current events.