Yale School of Management | Educating Leaders for Business and Society

Students from diverse socioeconomic and family backgrounds can face a distinct set of challenges in business school. The founders of Yale SOM’s First Generation/Low-Income Club created the organization to offer resources, support, and a space for discussion.

Our mission is to educate leaders for business & society. The drive to build successful organizations that make a difference inspires our curriculum, our approach to research, and our community.

We seek students who care deeply about the problems afflicting our world.

We equip them with the knowledge, the resources, and the networks to pursue positive and ambitious change.

Degree Programs

Executive Education

Our Community

A group of adults and children celebrating the opening of the National Security Index

Startup Stories: Ethical Investing in Emerging Markets

A conversation with Justin Bernier ’20 who, with four EMBA classmates, launched an index fund that lets Americans invest in emerging markets without supporting companies that threaten U.S. national security.

May 9, 2024 MBA For Executives

Dean Kerwin Charles Visits with the SOM Family around the World

In a series of alumni gatherings held on three continents, Dean Charles met with alums to discuss the school’s latest initiatives and the enduring mission that binds the SOM family together.

May 1, 2024 Alumni

Miguel Zaldivar-Giuffredi ’25

A portrait photograph of a researcher wearing a suit and smiling

Postdoc Danielle Bovenberg Honored for Research on Technical Knowledge Diffusion

In an analysis of three semiconductor R&D facilities, Bovenberg showed how instrument technicians help innovators in competition share solutions to common problems without divulging industry secrets.

May 3, 2024

Preview image for the video "Behind the Scenes at the Health & Veritas Podcast". — Every week, Yale physicians and professors Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz discuss the latest news in health and talk with researchers and healthcare practitioners. We visited their studio for a backstage glimpse of the recording process.

Reddit is really different. Our mission is to provide users with community, belonging, and empowerment in a safe, productive space, and it resonates.

Jen Wong, COO of Reddit, speaking at the Colloquium on Entrepreneurship

Mary Ellen Iskenderian ’86

Three students holding books and smiling

Elevating Pan-Asian Voices

The Office of Inclusion and Diversity shares how Yale SOM commemorated Pan Asian American Heritage Month.

May 1, 2024

More headlines

I’ve availed myself of so many diverse opportunities at Yale, ranging from a Mahler concert at Woolsey Hall to a Thanksgiving event at the African American Cultural Center and recently a dinner at SOM that brought EMBA and full-time students together.

Luis Chavez-Brumell ’25, MBA for Executives