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February 1, 2013 
Any large organization has multiple stakeholders with different needs. And a truly global business has to deal with tremendous variation in cultural and regulatory contexts. For example, in the U.S., per capita credit card penetration is 2.5--meaning there are more than 2 credit cards for each person in the country. In Saudi Arabia, where Islam forbids the use of credit, the penetration rate is .04. How can a company cope with exponentially increasing complexity as it moves to more and more markets?

January 31, 2013 
Speaking as part of the Yale SOM Leaders Forum lecture series, Martha Samuelson YC '76 advocated building a corporate culture that prioritizes high performance and career development.

January 2, 2013 
The former president of Colombia argues that dealing with globalization is an imperative for all countries. He describes how he tried to build relationships with other nations when he was head of state, with an eye toward working together to solve major problems--such as narco-trafficking, terrorism, and resource constraint--that cross borders.

2012

December 19, 2012 
What does it mean to be a leader and a woman? How much do bias and cultural assumptions still present challenges for women as they move up in their careers? A panel of accomplished Yale SOM alumnae discussed their experiences of leadership and management and reflect on strategies women can use to navigate in the workplace.

December 17, 2012 
In a talk at Yale SOM, Tarullo outlined stricter capital and liquidity requirements that soon may apply to foreign banks doing business in the United States.

December 3, 2012 
In a student-sponsored event, Uribe discussed his administration’s efforts to promote a stable democracy and encourage private investment in Colombia.

November 20, 2012 
Leading architect and dean of the Yale School of Architecture Robert A. M. Stern argues that much of the action in global architecture has shifted to Asia and the Middle East. He outlines the challenges of designing large-scale buildings and doing business across cultures.

November 14, 2012 
Dr. Howard Forman, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and director of the MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare Program, explains how the Affordable Care Act is expected to affect overall healthcare spending, as well as state and federal budgets. He also discusses the reality behind some of its most controversial provisions.

November 6, 2012 
Stephen Roach, an economist and a senior fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, talked about the IMF's latest GDP growth estimates and the struggling world economy.

November 6, 2012 
Follow a team of Yale SOM students as they complete a semester-long marketing project for PepsiCo.

October 31, 2012 
Yale SOM has more than 50 student clubs, each a potential leadership opportunity and a way to make a mark on the school and its surrounding communities.

October 26, 2012 
John Shrewsberry '92, the president of Wells Fargo Securities, outlines how government regulation and the ongoing tight credit environment are affecting the banking industry--and how banks can keep up with the rapid pace of change.

October 20, 2012 
Yale SOM students take a broad look at investment banks, hedge funds, and markets in an elective course taught by Prof. Andrew Metrick. Watch a video...

October 17, 2012 
Yale SOM students take a broad look at investment banks, hedge funds, and markets in an elective course taught by Prof. Andrew Metrick.

September 27, 2012 
A recent online discussion with three experienced private equity professionals provided a survey of the industry's development over the last decade, as well as advice for those interested in moving into the field.

September 27, 2012 
View the latest photos of the construction of Yale SOM’s new campus.

September 25, 2012 
Each year, incoming students are introduced to our integrated MBA curriculum through the Case for Community. Students work in groups to brainstorm ideas, research proposals, and present their final plans before fellow students and faculty. Watch the video.

September 24, 2012 
Yale SOM students organize a number of major conferences each year, bringing key leaders to Yale and honing their own management skills in the process.

September 18, 2012 
Sandor discussed the use of financial innovations to address global environmental issues with students in a talk sponsored by the Yale Center for Business and Environment.

September 6, 2012 
With the support of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, students incubate ideas, hone business plans, and launch businesses.

August 28, 2012 
The Global Network for Advanced Management helps faculty and students better understand the global marketplace. Watch the video.

August 13, 2012 
A group of Yale SOM alumni recently toured Edward P. Evans Hall, the future home of the Yale School of Management.

August 10, 2012 
Members of Class of 2014 heard from Yale President Richard C. Levin, Dean Edward A. Snyder, and Senior Associate Dean Anjani Jain as they began Yale’s full-time MBA program.

July 10, 2012 
Dean Ted Snyder and Prof. William Goetzmann team-teach a raw case, bringing multiple perspectives to a leadership challenge. Watch a video about the case.

July 5, 2012 
Hear about the new Edward P. Evans Hall from Lord Norman Foster, the Pritzker-winning architect behind its design.

June 29, 2012 
Women in Bangladesh prefer inexpensive, traditional stoves for cooking over modern ones despite significant health risks and years of efforts to promote cleaner and more fuel-efficient models. Professor Mushfiq Mobarak and colleagues from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Stanford examine the barriers to their adoption in a new paper.

June 27, 2012 
Yale SOM's new course Strategic Marketing Leadership: The Role of a Chief Marketing Officer features leading marketing executives as weekly guest speakers.

June 21, 2012 
Marketing professors Jiwoong Shin and Dina Mayzlin won the John D.C. Little Award at the 34th annual INFORMS Marketing Science Conference.

June 13, 2012 
At a forum this spring, Yale alumni, students, and faculty met with golfing industry leaders to discuss ways to increase the game’s popularity and accessibility.

June 12, 2012 
Construction of the new Yale SOM campus is far enough along that the final product is coming into focus.

May 24, 2012 
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for executive programs and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, writes in the Washington Post that the Facebook board must learn to deal with its genius CEO.

May 21, 2012 
The Yale School of Management celebrated the accomplishments of 241 newly minted MBAs.

May 18, 2012 
Ross, the CEO and chairman of WL Ross & Co., drew on his experience in distressed investing to explain the benefits of minimizing risk.

May 2, 2012 
First-year and second-year students compete for bragging rights in the annual Garstka Cup hockey game.

April 10, 2012 
Speakers at the seventh annual Yale SOM Philanthropy Conference addressed the rapidly changing world of giving and "impact" investment.

April 5, 2012 
The chairman and CEO of Alcoa delivered the annual Gordon Grand Fellowship Lecture at Yale SOM, sharing insights gleaned from running the world’s leading producer of aluminum.

March 22, 2012 
Professor Ravi Dhar sits down with top marketers from IBM and Converse to discuss the future of marketing in a digital world.

March 7, 2012 
The head of WPP said his company is "involved one way or another in the major changes happening in the world."

March 6, 2012 
First-year students travel to global business capitals as part of the required International Experience course. Learn more about the 2012 trips as they happen.

March 2, 2012 
Entrepreneur Roland Betts YC '68, founder and chairman of Chelsea Piers, spoke to students about lessons from his career "living by his wits."

February 22, 2012 
Sit in on Professor Nicholas Barberis's explanation of why individual investors often make poor decisions.

February 17, 2012 
Two Yale professors discuss their interdisciplinary course, which gave students access to experts from across the university.

February 13, 2012 
As part of a design exercise organized by the Design and Innovation Club, Yale SOM students came up with hundreds of ideas for new products for the cosmetic company Garnier.

February 8, 2012 
Yale faculty Tony Sheldon, Dean Karlan, and Rodrigo Canales discuss how microfinance organizations and other social enterprises can effectively address poverty.

January 27, 2012 
The Yale marketing professor discusses her pathbreaking study showing that online conversations can lead to sales in the real world.

January 20, 2012 
Amy Wrzesniewski, associate professor of organizational behavior, introduces students to the forces and dynamics that shape careers over the long term.

January 13, 2012 
McChrystal described the importance of leadership in a world of complex global competition.

January 11, 2012 
Two Yale marketing professors discuss an award-winning paper that investigates whether new or existing customers should be rewarded with discounts.

2011

December 21, 2011 
Learn how first-year students put their newly developed business skills to the test in the Net Impact/Consulting Club Case Competition.

December 8, 2011 
In an online conversation, Yale SOM alumni from the venture capital and technology industries discussed the effects of new models for investment.

December 6, 2011 
Prof. Roger Ibbotson analyzes recent market swings and argues that volatility, while frightening for individuals, can play an important role in the economy.

November 29, 2011 
In the first edition of a new roundtable hosted by Yale SOM’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute, CEOs, scholars, and politicians spoke about how the private sector can act to put more people back to work.

November 28, 2011 
The Yale case examines Project M, an effort to use mobile technology to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

November 4, 2011 
On the night of November 2, the entire Class of 2013 became traders, brokers, and investors in an exercise to help them understand how individuals function in markets.

October 26, 2011 
In a Leaders Forum talk at Yale SOM, Sotheby's president and CEO William Ruprecht described how the company has stayed on top through the greatest global shift in the history of the industry.

October 4, 2011 
Yale students learn about international economics from Rakesh Mohan, one of India’s top economic policymakers.

September 28, 2011 
In their first days on campus, Yale SOM students tackled the challenge of devising a plan to increase the impact of the Yale Sustainable Food Project.

September 16, 2011 
Prof. Keith Chen explains how economic thinking is a critical skill for future leaders and managers, as part of the Basics of Economics course at Yale SOM.

September 6, 2011 
Rogers described his two year stint at the Department of Energy, where he oversaw the deployment of $36.7 billion in stimulus funds.

August 10, 2011 
Each year, a group of students interested in marketing works through the Yale Center for Customer Insights to tackle major problems for top corporations.

August 9, 2011 
Visit the new Yale SOM YouTube channel to learn about the Yale approach to MBA education, hear from leading faculty, and get insights from some of the distinguished leaders who visit campus. Subscribe to the channel and keep up with life at Yale SOM.

July 29, 2011 
Sit in on a Yale SOM course, get an up-close view of student conferences and club activities, and hear from thought leaders on the school’s faculty on the new Yale SOM Portrait Videos webpage.

July 21, 2011 
A course taught by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld brings CEOs and other industry leaders into the classroom for candid dialogue about what it takes to succeed.

July 15, 2011 
A multidisciplinary core course teaches Yale MBA students how to build organizations that foster and sustain innovation.

July 11, 2011 
In a recent working paper, Gary B. Gorton, Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management and Finance, and two collaborators propose a system for gathering and disseminating measures of risk in the economy.

June 23, 2011 
In a class co-taught by Jeffrey E. Garten and Stephen Roach, students met with leaders from finance and government as they studied the lessons of the financial crisis.

May 31, 2011 
Ian Ayres talks with Microsoft’s BizIntelligence.TV about using data for decision-making and crafting incentives to achieve goals.

April 27, 2011 
Each year Yale students learn the art and science of starting a business from two experts with long track records of success in venture capital and entrepreneurial startups.

April 18, 2011 
Alex Counts, founder and CEO of Grameen Foundation, related lessons learned from a 25-year career in the microfinance field.

April 14, 2011 
Faculty, students, and alumni of Yale SOM and Yale Law School worked together to produce a white paper on the causes and effects of the foreclosure crisis in minority communities.

April 13, 2011 
This week, Yale SOM students, faculty, and staff worked for four days to create 1,000 cranes as a way to raise funds for the people suffering in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

April 11, 2011 
The CEO Pay Slice is the proportion of the total pay for the top five executives at a firm that goes to the CEO. Martijn Cremers, co-creator of this new measure, studies the relationship between it and firm performance.

April 8, 2011 
In a conversation with Dean Sharon Oster, Pickens, the chairman and CEO of BP Capital, expounded on his plans to improve corporate governance and move the U.S. toward energy independence.

March 28, 2011 
Ian Ayres discusses his book Carrots and Sticks, which outlines how to craft effective incentives and commitments.

March 24, 2011 
For many Yale SOM students, attending lectures by leaders from business, government, academia, and nonprofit organizations is a central part of the MBA experience.

March 2, 2011 
"If you are really good at what you're doing, you will come to an intersection point whereby you have enough capital to launch your own venture. For me, it has been a tremendously satisfying experience. It gives me a lot of freedom."

February 24, 2011 
SOM students face a blizzard of choices about how to spend their time - speakers, clubs, competitions, socializing. Get a look at four recent events.

February 1, 2011 
The Customer teaches students to approach marketing problems with a holistic view and to align organizational structure and strategy around the customer.

January 6, 2011 
Students talk about the study group, a central part of Yale SOM's collaborative approach to MBA education.

2010

December 16, 2010 
Mushfiq Mobarak, a development economist at Yale SOM, uses experiments in real-world settings to try to understand the barriers to the adoption of beneficial new technology in the developing world.

November 10, 2010 
The MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare takes industry professional and medical practitioners and molds them into leaders

October 14, 2010 
Three SOM professors argue that business schools need to teach leadership in a way that prepares students for real-life dilemmas.

October 8, 2010 
Bradley Abelow '89, COO, MF Global Inc. and Stuart Staley '95, managing director and head of global commodities, Citigroup, discussed the role of markets and their impact on sustainability in a webinar moderated by assistant professor Arthur Campbell.

September 28, 2010 
Members of the Class of 2012 discuss what they've learned in their first days as MBA students.

September 16, 2010 
Professors Goetzmann and Rouwenhorst discuss historical documents that illuminate the development of finance.

August 5, 2010 

August 3, 2010 
Fiona Scott Morton studies how the internet impacts car prices, and finds that one piece of information gives shoppers a notable advantage.

July 19, 2010 
How many undetected terror plots are there and how many can be stopped? Prof. Edward Kaplan answers these important questions by framing terrorism as a queuing problem.

July 16, 2010 
Students worked for credit on projects focused on marketing, brand awareness, and customer relations for Campbell’s, Sears Canada, and IBM.

July 12, 2010 
Prof. Heather Tookes on how the supply of capital affects firms' financing decisions.

June 29, 2010 
In the final course of the Yale SOM integrated core curriculum, students use what they have learned to solve complex, real-world problems.

June 11, 2010 
Prof. Olav Sorenson on local factors that help venture capital drive economic growth.

June 2, 2010 
"I want to use my time here to take courses that are completely unrelated to anything I've done before and are really going to push me."

May 28, 2010 
A key component of the SOM core curriculum, the International Experience gives students unparalleled access to top business, political, and nonprofit leaders.

April 6, 2010 
Bob McDonald, chairman, president, and CEO of Procter & Gamble, spoke about the values that guide him in his decision making.

March 30, 2010 
An experiment with monkeys shows that our economic biases have pre-human origins.

March 10, 2010 
GSE course trains students to aid entrepreneurs who hope to make a difference.

February 15, 2010 
In studies by Cade Massey, MBA students and NFL fans show they remain optimistic long after it's merited.

January 29, 2010 
Edward Kaplan argues that current methods of allocating anti-terrorism resources create unnecessary vulnerabilities.

January 12, 2010 
Yale SOM alumnus arranges for group of students to spend day with hedge fund legend John Paulson.

January 6, 2010 
"Figuring out how to work with diverse perspectives is an important learning process."

2009

December 21, 2009 
In one class session, students analyze the differences between Target and Walmart.

December 8, 2009 
Three successful investors - Joseph McNay YC '56, George Wyper SOM '84, and Charles D. Ellis YC '59 - spoke to SOM students about the philosophies and approaches that helped them get ahead.

November 24, 2009 
Fiona Scott Morton’s study of the Medicare prescription drug plan found that drugs are cheaper for enrollees, but only sometimes.

November 19, 2009 
For one night each year, the first-year class puts classroom lessons into practice as they trade stock and try to beat the market. Watch a video of Professors Roger Ibbotson and Nicholas Barberis discussing the Investor Trading Game.

November 13, 2009 
Mary Houghton, president of Chicago's ShoreBank, explained how she and three friends revolutionized how to revitalize a community.

November 9, 2009 
James Choi describes his research into one simple way to raise participation rates in 401k plans: change the default.

November 6, 2009 
James Chanos, founder and president of Kynikos Associates, took an SOM audience through a number of concerns he has about the state of the financial industry.

October 30, 2009 
Mathematical models meant to calculate risk failed, leading many lenders to make loans that were doomed to go bust.

October 14, 2009 
Prof. Shyam Sunder describes how failures in accounting regulations contributed to the financial crisis.

August 6, 2009 
Yale SOM students, faculty, and alumni talk about what makes the school unique on the new Portrait video website.

July 21, 2009 
Four SOM alumnae who head major endowments discuss how they're navigating the financial crisis and what they see ahead for financial markets.

July 20, 2009 
Nicholas C. Barberis, the Stephen and Camille Schramm Professor of Finance, describes psychological factors, such as overconfidence and groupthink, that may have contributed to the development of the current economic downturn. View the video of his lecture on the Faculty Insights website.

June 9, 2009 
SOM students discuss what they learned working with the Center for Customer Insights to perform a consulting project for Visa.

March 16, 2009 
Each year, first year students travel on the International Experience, a required part of the curriculum aimed at producing better leaders.

February 26, 2009 
A Millstein Center program will explore the origins of shareholder advocacy.

January 27, 2009 
Yale SOM students and faculty participated in all aspects of the Opportunity Funding Corporation's 2008 Bermuda Forum focused on developing market opportunities in Africa and the Caribbean.

2008

November 21, 2008 
The winners of a recent case competition describe how they applied what they've learned in the Yale integrated MBA curriculum to a problem.

November 13, 2008 
Researchers from the Technion and Yale SOM are collaborating on new approaches to counterterrorism and homeland security.

November 12, 2008 
Four first-year students discuss what they've learned in their first weeks in business school.

October 27, 2008 
Sang-Hyun Kim, Yale SOM assistant professor of operations management, has been awarded the George B. Dantzig Award given each year for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice.

October 27, 2008 
Research may help explain why people overspend on frivolous items or extra product features whose enjoyment will be short-lived.

September 30, 2008 
Research by SOM professor Joseph Simmons looks at consumer demand for psychological drugs.

September 19, 2008 
Professor Victor Vroom discusses his role in an SOM executive program held during the Beijing Olympics.

August 20, 2008 
SOM professor discusses CDC study on HIV infections in United States.

January 25, 2008 
James McGregor describes his career as a reporter and businessman in China and predicts the ways in which the country might maintain stability in the face of rapid economic expansion...

2007

December 6, 2007 
Professor Howard Forman and recent graduate Eric Schultz discuss SOM's healthcare MBA program.

October 24, 2007 
Wal-Mart executive Leslie Dach (YC '75) describes how the company is helping the environment one supplier at a time.

October 10, 2007 
Four SOM students won $200,000 in the first MBA game show on CNBC.

September 25, 2007 
Professor Ted Marmor discusses the role of healthcare in the upcoming presidential election and analyzes the likelihood of real reform.

September 6, 2007 

August 20, 2007 

 

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