Meaningful Connections

Yale SOM's centers are focal points for faculty, students, businesspeople, and policy makers interested in particular subject areas. They create meaningful connections between academic endeavor and real-world application.

• International Center for Finance

  The International Center for Finance provides active support for research in financial economics by its fellows — leading scholars within and outside of Yale SOM — and disseminates their work to the world's academic and professional communities. Visit site.

   

• Center for Customer Insights

  The Center for Customer Insights facilitates interaction between marketing executives and academic scholars from many disciplines who share an underlying interest in understanding customer behavior and marketplace dynamics. Visit site.

• Program on Social Enterprise

  

  The Program on Social Enterprise supports scholars, students, alumni, and practitioners interested in exploring the ways in which business skills and disciplines can be harnessed to most effectively and efficiently achieve social objectives. PSE facilitates work on nonprofit and public sector social entrepreneurship as well as initiatives in private sector social enterprise. Visit site.

• Center for Business and the Environment

  

  The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale joins the strengths of two world-renowned institutions, the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. These two schools have been at the forefront in bringing together business and the environment in innovative and constructive ways for more than a quarter of a century. Visit site.

• Center for Corporate Governance

  

  The Yale Center for Corporate Governance supports research and academic exchanges that explore how corporate governance affects both financial performance and a company's impact on the broader society. Visit site.

Working with the Center for Customer Insights is a great experience because it's so different from what we're doing in classes and it's much more like what will be happening in the real world.”

 – Erin Livingston '12