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Features

February 15, 2013 
Senior Associate Dean Anjani Jain is sometimes asked whether India's culture plays a role in the preponderance of influential Indian management thinkers. He offers his perspective in a commentary in the Economic Times.

January 29, 2013 
Take a look inside Yale's integrated MBA curriculum and see how it can help you understand complex leadership challenges.

January 14, 2013 
Mollie Crudden '12: "In a globalized world, so much hinges on being able to understand where people are coming from and bringing them together."

January 11, 2013 
A new working paper co-authored by Professor Peter Schott links the sharp decrease in U.S. manufacturing employment after 2001 to a substantial shift in U.S. trade policy towards China in late 2000.

January 11, 2013 
MIT development economist and MacArthur grant winner, Esther Duflo, doesn’t see a single silver bullet to ending poverty but points to the power of randomized control trials to drive incremental progress by measuring the effectiveness of solutions for specific problems.

2012

December 18, 2012 
Professor K. Sudhir discusses India's move to expand the presence of foreign retailers to modernize the country's retail sector and boost economic growth.

December 14, 2012 
Juan Cogorno '13, a student in SOM's new Master of Advanced Management program, says the speakers at Yale help him deepen his understanding of global business

December 5, 2012 
State and local governments are sitting on more than $1 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities. Updated accounting rules will require these governments to begin reporting their pension liabilities in a format more closely resembling for-profit accounting. Yale SOM professors Stanley J. Garstka and Rick Antle discuss whether clearer accounting can contribute to a solution of the under-funding crisis.

November 19, 2012 
Planning is underway for the official opening of Edward P. Evans Hall in January 2014.

November 15, 2012 
Shareholders own the corporation, so managers should maximize returns for shareholders, right? Corporate law expert Lynn Stout says that there are problems with this argument, starting with the fact that legally shareholders don't own a corporation. On top of that, she says, prioritization of shareholder value harms returns in the long run.

November 8, 2012 
Christopher Kennedy '13: "I no longer see myself as a 'future finance guy' but rather as a future business leader."

October 19, 2012 
Lauren Coape-Arnold '13: "Beyond all of the quantitative skills that I'm learning, the ability to look at an issue from other perspectives has been hugely impactful."

October 18, 2012 
Private equity experts in India describe a unique developing market where the sector is profitable and a key to harnessing the country's tremendous entrepreneurial energy.

October 10, 2012 
At its fall roundtable, the Yale CEO Caucus focused on global events as they relate to business leaders.

October 2, 2012 
Indian social entrepreneurs described the enterprises served by students in Yale's Global Social Entrepreneurship course.

September 12, 2012 
A.J. Ganesan '12: "The integrated curriculum taught me how to see complex issues from multiple perspectives."

August 22, 2012 
Henry Silver '12: "There's a very diverse student body at SOM, which helps us all explore the complexity around any given issue."

August 21, 2012 
Members of the Yale SOM full-time MBA Class of 2014 come from all over the world and all sectors of the business world.

August 9, 2012 
Lindsey Blumenthal '12: I knew ultimately that I wanted to do something that had both analytical rigor and social meaning.

July 30, 2012 
Companies are competing almost as hard as the athletes during the 2012 London Olympic Games. What does it take to be the best in branding?

June 22, 2012 
David Rodriguez '12: "The magic of Yale SOM is that you leave with this MBA toolbox of skills, and a high-level understanding of how and when to use them."

May 15, 2012 
A panel of alumni and faculty discusses the complex process of commercializing university research.

May 2, 2012 
Jamie Brooke Forseth '12: "The most exciting part of the core curriculum is that it is a complete immersion. Essentially you are training yourself to think in a new way."

March 1, 2012 
Matt Schmitt '12 : "I joined the Army because I wanted to be a part of something greater. And I got that feeling from Yale."

February 8, 2012 
Socheata Poeuv '12: "SOM gave me the tools to effectively evaluate why a company might not work and what it would take to make it work."

January 23, 2012 
"It's great to be in a community where people want you to be passionate about your niche and help you find success in that area."

2011

December 13, 2011 
Getting a rocket into space is complicated business. In addition to expertise in physics, materials science, and electronics, you need the business savvy to create a sustainable company in an industry replete with flameouts. Bill Claybaugh '83 of Orbital Sciences Corporation talks with Qn magazine.

November 21, 2011 
"I live in downtown New Haven. I ride my bike to class every day, and I get to ride through the beautiful gothic architecture of the Yale campus."

November 11, 2011 
"Throughout the summer, I reached back to things I had learned in school, and even as someone who had worked in banking before, I was amazed at how much I had learned and absorbed."

October 18, 2011 
Diana Francis ’11 talks about the access Yale SOM students have to top business leaders, lectures, and courses around Yale.

September 21, 2011 
"Leadership is all about bringing people along with you, in creating a vision that others find compelling. Inspiring leaders are often great storytellers."

September 19, 2011 
With 14 million people out of work in the U.S., labor markets are receiving a lot of attention. Yale SOM's Lisa Kahn did groundbreaking work on the impact of graduating into a bad economy. She offers her take on what's happening now and what to expect.

September 12, 2011 
"I participated in the Global Social Entrepreneurship course, and it was rewarding to balance theory with a client-focused project with real-world implications."

August 24, 2011 
"One of the things I love about the school is that if I come across any courses outside of the School of Management I'm interested in, I can take them."

August 3, 2011 
"One of the reasons I chose Yale SOM was because of its international perspective and opportunities to travel and learn abroad, whether it’s the International Experience, Global Social Enterprise, or the student exchange programs."

July 26, 2011 
"Students from the Forestry School and Public Health brought a totally different perspective into the classroom."

July 18, 2011 
Businesses, ranging from mom-and-pop operations to global corporations, are struggling to understand how healthcare reform will affect them. Two experts with direct experience of policymaking and business decision making discuss what’s ahead.

June 30, 2011 
Two accomplished graduates of Yale SOM talk about their transitions to leadership roles with Amy Wrzesniewski, associate professor of organizational behavior.

June 24, 2011 
Are there leaders in everyday life? A long body of literature argues that a small number of individuals have an outsize influence on what the rest of us buy, wear, and consume. But marketing professionals and scholars have been debating how to make use of these opinion leaders.

June 6, 2011 
Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation and the subject of a Yale SOM "raw" case study, talks about whether doctors and designers can reinvent the way healthcare is delivered.

June 1, 2011 
As part of the MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program, students broaden their understanding by completing an Independent Study. In the last year, MBA-e students took courses across Yale, developed business plans, and worked with healthcare organizations to develop strategies for business development.

May 17, 2011 
Managers from four global companies talk about how they launched social and environmental innovations within massive organizations.

May 6, 2011 
Global trade is heavily dependent on the world's fleet of cargo ships, which carry everything from oil to iPads. Shipping operators in turn depend on specialized financing to stay in business. Scott Lewallen '89, global head of shipping finance for SEB Merchant Bank, describes how this little-noticed industry keeps globalization sailing ahead.

April 26, 2011 
"It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong." Advice like this, offered by Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince, made its author's name synonymous with the ruthless use of power. In Q8 magazine, Robert Harrison suggests you should be careful before looking for leadership lessons in The Prince.

March 29, 2011 
Corruption gums up the workings of a market economy, making legal activity less efficient, degrading the quality of institutions, and disadvantaging those who would behave ethically. A website in India aims to use the tools of social networking to start the wheels of positive change.

March 17, 2011 
Roger Brown '82 is the president of the Berklee College of Music. He previously cofounded Bright Horizons, a childcare provider that grew into a billion-dollar, publicly traded company, and ran relief operations in Asia and Africa. He talks about lessons he’s learned from these leadership experiences - including the importance of authenticity and the value of a little music.

March 10, 2011 
"I asked one of the top thinkers in education where I should go to business school, and he said, 'Hands down, Yale.'"

March 8, 2011 
SOM's Cade Massey developed a new way to calculate power rankings for NFL teams. Massey discusses the importance of clean, bias-free statistical analysis, and considers how a study of leadership in athletics might be applied to the business world.

March 3, 2011 
"I realized quickly how well SOM had prepared me, not just in terms of the hard skills necessary to put together deals, but the interpersonal skills you need to succeed in the business world."

February 25, 2011 
Marissa King studies how large-scale phenomena, like the increased prevalence of autism, arise from local behavior.

February 22, 2011 
Combat leadership involves making countless decisions, with imited information, shifting variables, and extreme time constraints. Colonel Rich Morales '99 and soldiers from his battalion describe their 15-month deployment in Iraq.

February 21, 2011 
"In the Global Social Enterprise club, students get to use their business skills in real-life environments, and the clients get access to some really smart people for free."

February 15, 2011 
Venture capital investor Nancy Pfund '82 mixes great financial returns with a positive effect on society.

February 9, 2011 
Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld explains why society is looking for its heroes in the corner office in Q8 magazine.

February 8, 2011 
SOM students and graduates discuss the connections between their military service and MBA education.

February 8, 2011 
"By the time I was 23, I had deployed to Iraq leading a logistics unit of 60 people. SOM has been a great place for me to transition into civilian life and continue to pursue challenging jobs."

January 25, 2011 
Justin Murfin finds surprising evidence of what drives lenders to write stricter loan contracts.

January 20, 2011 
Dean-Designate Edward A. Snyder, Dean Sharon M. Oster, and Yale President Richard C. Levin discuss how business schools can train leaders with the long-term perspective and integrity to create value for their organizations.

2010

December 9, 2010 
Should you take charge? Should you work to build consensus? In this interview from the forthcoming issue of Qn magazine, Victor Vroom argues that effective leaders are sensitive to the nuances of their organizations, cultural environments, and short- and long-term objectives.

November 22, 2010 
From laundry detergent to automobiles, businesses are presenting their products - and themselves - as green. How effective is green marketing? Will it have a meaningful impact on the planet?

November 11, 2010 
Max Ventilla '06, one of the first graduates of Yale SOM’s Silver Scholars program, founded Aardvark, a web service that answers questions using your social network.

September 22, 2010 
Qn looks at SELCO, a social enterprise bringing solar power to India’s rural poor and the subject of a Yale case study.

September 10, 2010 
The leader of sustainability efforts on campus talks to Qn magazine about the university's ambitious goals.

July 23, 2010 
Four experts discuss the economics and politics of trying to price human impacts on the environment.

July 8, 2010 
A strategist discusses how businesses can position themselves for major changes in the century to come.

June 22, 2010 
Four Yale SOM alumni discuss lessons learned in advancing the business of sustainability.

June 10, 2010 
The founder of a consulting firm specializing in sustainable business talks about how environmental issues are seen by business leaders.

June 4, 2010 
The head of an environmental advocacy group talks about maintaining ideals while taking pragmatic steps toward sustainability.

May 26, 2010 
Four experts discuss why we need to price human impacts on the environment in the lead article of Q7 magazine.

May 18, 2010 
Professor Ravi Dhar talks with leaders from GE and Patagonia about marketing sustainability to consumers in this preview of Q7.

May 7, 2010 
From Dow Chemical to the Rolling Stones, sustainability is the common link at the NYSE/Yale Green Summit.

April 27, 2010 
A nonprofit is teaching business skills to African farmers to help them enter the high-profit global market for specialty coffee.

April 16, 2010 
Research shows the surprising psychological power of money - touching cash can reduce pain or reduce our willingness to help others.

March 31, 2010 
Marketing guru Rishad Tobaccowala follows shifts in consumer behavior and how companies use network effects to market.

March 19, 2010 
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely says good people will regularly make ethically bad choices when incentives are misaligned.

March 5, 2010 
Polaroid went from ubiquity to obsolescence. Get an inside look at the business decisions that led to their downfall.

February 17, 2010 
Wharton's Betsey Stevenson describes how happiness research is informing economics, policy, and management.

February 8, 2010 
MIT's Andrew Lo argues we must look at both logical and emotional parts of the brain to grasp how we respond to financial risk.

January 25, 2010 
Noted hedge fund short-seller James Chanos discusses the strategy, politics, and practice of going short in an interview with Qn.

January 8, 2010 
The CMO of American Express says consumers are changing much faster than corporations and points to a new way of marketing.

2009

December 23, 2009 
When are we good at making choices? Three Yale economists explore decision-making from behavioral and traditional perspectives.

December 18, 2009 
The president of the nation’s largest community development bank talks about a for-profit social enterprise approach to banking.

December 14, 2009 
SOM's Cade Massey discusses his research on optimism. He explains how a positive outlook affects MBA students among others.

December 4, 2009 
Mark Tercek, a former director at Goldman, now CEO of The Nature Conservancy, discusses how conservation makes business sense.

November 23, 2009 
Professors Barberis and Frederick lead a discussion of how behavioral research is impacting economics, finance, and marketing.

November 16, 2009 
Richard Thaler discusses applications of behavioral economics that can help policy makers and managers achieve better outcomes.

November 11, 2009 
Yale SOM students discuss how they brought the lessons of the integrated MBA curriculum to their summer internships.

November 5, 2009 
Robert Shiller argues we must better account for the ways emotion, bias, error, and other irrational forces shape economic trends.

November 4, 2009 
"The curriculum has really disciplined my approach to solving problems. It teaches you not what to think, but how to think."

October 28, 2009 
"The curriculum differentiated SOM from other schools. The multidisciplinary approach is aligned with what you experience in business."

October 18, 2009 
"I think women can find a community at SOM where they can have a voice and a lot of opportunities to succeed and lead."

October 7, 2009 
Two members of the Class of 2009 launch a company aimed at revolutionizing transportation technology.

September 30, 2009 
"I was looking for a place where I could explore what I really wanted to do with my life. And that's what SOM has been."

September 28, 2009 
Foreign Policy's editor describes the illicit trading system that moves everything from body parts to fake handbags around the globe.

September 25, 2009 
Kalin Kolev's research in empirical financial accounting has examined fair value accounting and the misuse of special items.

September 23, 2009 
"I looked at schools that had a strong energy community. That was one of the reasons that Yale was an easy choice."

September 22, 2009 
Constanca Esteves-Sorenson is studying inertia in decision-making and wage discrimination between male and female physicians.

September 14, 2009 
Arthur Campbell's recent work is on pricing and ad strategies in markets where consumers engage in word of mouth communication.

September 8, 2009 
Olav Sorenson, Professor of Organizational Behavior, has extensively studied economic geography, or why firms cluster.

September 3, 2009 
The CEOs of Zipcar and BiddingForGood (Jon Carson '84) describe how companies can maximize returns while serving the public good.

August 13, 2009 
Diverse, multilingual group boasts accomplishments in all sectors.

August 5, 2009 
Todd Moss of the Center for Global Development talks with Qn about where Africa fits in the globalization puzzle.

July 22, 2009 
As the companies that were once the suppliers to multinationals have grown into multinationals themselves, competitors can suddenly come from anywhere, according to Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at the Boston Consulting Group and co-author of the book Globality. He talks with Qn magazine about how to compete in the new era of globalization.

July 15, 2009 
Qn magazine interviews Princeton philosopher Peter Singer, a prominent, often controversial, figure whose utilitarian approach focuses on reducing suffering and has led him to argue for animal liberation and euthanasia. He discusses his most recent book, The Life You Can Save, which looks at the responsibilities of individuals for addressing global poverty.

July 8, 2009 
Cosmopolitan is on newsstands in over 50 countries. Taking the "fun, fearless female" idea global pulled in profits for Hearst.

June 24, 2009 
Dartmouth economist Nina Pavcnik helps Qn readers parse how the gains from globalization are touching the lives of the poorest citizens in developing countries.

June 23, 2009 
"SOM allows you to set the bar higher: you are learning skills to operate at a high level and you have access to people who can help you."

June 10, 2009 
The Gates Foundation's Hilary Pennington '83 on rebuilding postsecondary education and leading nonprofits amid the recession.

May 29, 2009 
Lenovo acquired IBM's PC arm with nearly $10 billion in worldwide sales, then had to introduce itself to millions of consumers.

May 18, 2009 
Q5 asks "Where's the value in globalization?" and provides a variety of perspectives on the forces that tie together the world's economies.

May 12, 2009 
After leading the development of BP's human rights policy, Bader is working to create a global framework for business and human rights. "I've had a very SOM career," she says.

April 30, 2009 
"There's a real sense of ownership here - it's in the courses, it's in the clubs, it's in every part of the school."

April 28, 2009 
Professor Peter Schott and other experts discuss the growing web of connections transforming commerce and culture around the world.

April 22, 2009 
As part of a faculty research series, Martijn Cremers discussed a new measure of mutual fund performance.

April 20, 2009 
Two SOM graduates look to help teens make better decisions using the tools of economics.

April 14, 2009 
As part of a new faculty research speaker series, Oliver Rutz discussed how companies can best use Google advertising.

April 14, 2009 
Read a chapter of Robert Shiller's new book about the causes of the financial crisis on the Yale SOM crisis resources page.

April 7, 2009 
One small nonprofit has empowered emerging market entrepreneurs to create $2.5 billion in revenue and 90,000 jobs in 11 countries.

April 3, 2009 
SOM's Fiona Scott Morton and Yale Law School's Rick Brooks on barriers facing minorities in the credit and real estate markets.

April 3, 2009 
Students who organize conferences at the school learn some hands-on management lessons.

March 19, 2009 
In a Q5 preview, four leading experts discuss the impact of the economic crisis on the global economic and political system.

January 30, 2009 
Can a double bottom line help returns? One VC's socially-engaged approach may let it benefit from changing priorities.

January 28, 2009 
"Coming from Yale, I was prepared for my internship when I showed up on day one."

January 12, 2009 
"The new curriculum gives students the foundation they need but in a way that's more in line with how they'll actually use it in business."

January 5, 2009 
"SOM's integrated way of looking at things and unique approach to teaching made sense to me."

2008

December 18, 2008 
Dean Sharon Oster sent out the challenge to MBA students: Beat her in a 5k race and she'd donate $10 per student to charity.

December 15, 2008 
The leaders of the Yale SOM Energy Club have rolled out a series of new initiatives this year.

December 4, 2008 
Investors representing $14 trillion have signed on to the UN's Principles for Responsible Investing. What influence are they having?

November 19, 2008 
"The SOM core curriculum is built on a number of Perspectives aimed at teaching a manager to assess a problem from multiple angles. At Sears, I got to test out all my new knowledge and I was amazed how perfectly it fit into real-world situations."

November 14, 2008 
A firm of financiers, technologists, and policy gurus hopes to bring capital to bear on projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

November 5, 2008 
Ernesto Zedillo discusses the role of sovereign wealth funds in keeping global capital flowing. It's one of several takes on SWFs in Q4.

October 17, 2008 
Larry Summers, former secretary of the treasury, spoke with Q4 magazine about new forms of capital that are likely to affect markets, economies, and lives in the years ahead.

October 6, 2008 
"I didn't realize I had learned so much even in the first few months at SOM until I was interviewing for an internship."

August 27, 2008 
This year's class of 193 students has worked in every sector, on six continents, and already can boast of great accomplishments.

August 12, 2008 
Health policy researcher Jennifer Baron '05 looks to countries with universal access to healthcare for clues to improving care delivery.

August 6, 2008 
"To be a great CEO, you need to understand different perspectives. And the SOM curriculum is designed perfectly to accomplish this."

July 30, 2008 
"I was able to think differently because I had been taught in an interdisciplinary way; I wasn't just thinking of pieces in isolation, but really approaching the problem from a lot of different angles."

July 23, 2008 
"I really enjoy both the quantitative and qualitative sides of things, and I think in business you can play to both of those strengths."

June 26, 2008 
Stanley, a 165-year-old tool maker, turned to SOM students and Yale's Center for Customer Insights for a fresh perspective on branding.

June 20, 2008 
"Medical school kept on being pushed off and I saw that I could help people and have an effect through something other than medicine."

June 3, 2008 
Gregg Vanourek '00 and his business partner wrote a book that argues that the best way to live is like an entrepreneur.

May 15, 2008 
Jeff Russell '08 and Amy Karson '08 won a $10,000 business plan competition for their company, which helps nonprofits focus on doing good.

April 18, 2008 
Three Yale economics professors were once Yale undergraduates together.

April 9, 2008 
SOM announces its membership in The Consortium, a national organization that seeks to enhance diversity in business education and leadership.

April 7, 2008 
"I see myself promoting socially responsible behavior regardless of what department I work in."

March 25, 2008 
"There is a certain exhilaration about working so hard and seeing the result of that work and its impact on the real world."

February 20, 2008 
As the vice president of people operations at Google, Laszlo Bock may have the most glamorous HR job in the world.

February 6, 2008 
A former journalist, Sumana Chatterjee '08 authored a case study about slavery in the cocoa industry that will be used in SOM classes.

January 18, 2008 
For Quartel, a 3 a.m. revelation guided his company, NTELX Technologies, into a leading position in computer-based shipping security.

2007

November 29, 2007 
Shawn Liu's custom clothing company got him nominated as one of the best young entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek magazine.

October 22, 2007 
Charlie Zelle didn't intend to take over the family business. But when Jefferson Lines fell into trouble, he was determined to save it.

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