Students' Responses to the Yale SOM Integrated Curriculum Model

"At some point, everyone sees himself or herself in a leadership position. And the new curriculum really focuses on that aspect. You get the basic skills that will help you in the first few years of your career, but it also really teaches you how to make leadership decisions." — Chris Sanger '08

"One of the best things about the curriculum is that the professors talk to each other. They know what you learned in Accounting yesterday, and they know what you learned in Sourcing and Managing Funds. They mention key concepts that were in another class, so everything gets reinforced." — Telia Weisman '08

"One of the reasons I choose Yale SOM was the new curriculum. It really spoke to that concern, of sitting in the room with the operations person and general manager and being only allowed to talk about finance, when I felt like I could contribute to other things." — Oliver Hahl '08

"I’ve found that the curriculum is working really well in practice. The teaching has been excellent. And the material has been interesting, more interesting than I had anticipated." — Jonathan Gruber '08

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...on the Integrated Leadership Perspective (ILP)

“The best aspect of ILP was the all-star list of professors. I’m in finance and I felt like I got to take a course from Jeff Sonnenfeld, who focuses on leadership, for a semester. And I never thought I’d take a real estate course, but Will Goetzmann was awesome and now I want to take his real estate class." — Lisa Howie '08

“We had a lot of days where our core accounting professor and our marketing professor were teaching side by side. They each brought something different to each case and I really think that, together, they accomplished something they couldn’t have if they were just teaching alone.” — Lisa Schilling '08

“There were definitely clear allusions between the different disciplines, the different perspectives. People weren't sure quite how it was going to work out, either on the faculty or the student side, but in many ways I could give it a 10 out of 10 and call it seamless.” — Matt Hiller '08

“What I liked best was how ILP really built on what we’d been learning all year. By the time we got to ILP, I was thinking in terms of all the perspectives courses we’d taken. Every problem must be approached from these different angles. You could say that’s how I feel about ILP and the first year as a whole. Everything came together. Everything fit.”
— Josh Nelson '08

Read the series of articles on the Integrated Leadership Perspective.

Media Highlights

Associated Press, Yale Shakes Up MBA program by Requiring Study Abroad for Business Students, December 22, 2006

BusinessWeek Online, Breaking Down Silos at Yale, Dean Joel Podolny Talks About How the B-school is Putting Old Paradigms Out to Pasture with Its New Curriculum, September 12, 2006

The Wall Street Journal, MBA Track, MBA Programs Blend Disciplines to Yield Big Picture, July 11, 2006