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February 14, 2013 
The spread of the atom bomb is becoming like a networked multinational corporation, according to Professor Paul Bracken, author of The Second Nuclear Age.

February 13, 2013 
As legislators negotiate comprehensive immigration reform, Professor Mushfiq Mobarak explains, in a commentary in the New York Times, the importance of skilled foreign workers in sustaining the United States’ comparative advantage in science and innovation.

February 4, 2013 
Professor Marissa King compared the prescribing patterns of doctors who graduated before and after their medical schools introduced conflict-of-interest policies that restrict industry gifts. Her research showed that doctors who experienced gift restrictions during medical training are less likely to prescribe newly marketed medications.

January 30, 2013 
In an event watched live by students in the Global Network for Advanced Management, Ross described his firm's decision to invest in the Bank of Ireland and other aspects of the European financial crisis.

January 24, 2013 
UK Prime Minister David Cameron promised that, if reelected, he will hold a referendum on whether the country should stay in the European Union. Yale SOM's David Bach argues that this move is likely to produce just what a struggling economy doesn't need-more uncertainty.

January 22, 2013 
Professor Marissa King mapped the geographic patterns of the use of antidepressants, antipsychotics, and stimulants across the United States. She identified large regional clusters, centered on Tennessee, where use of these drug classes were elevated.

January 18, 2013 
The veteran reporter and contributor to PBS NewsHour spoke at Yale SOM.

January 17, 2013 
Guilt may be a key mechanism for enhancing pleasure, according to new research co-authored by Professor Ravi Dhar.

January 14, 2013 
Yale President Richard C. Levin and President-Elect Peter Salovey have announced that Benjamin Polak, the William C. Brainard Professor of Economics and Professor of Management, has been appointed University Provost. The appointment is effective immediately.

January 10, 2013 
Small price differences can have a substantial effect on how we choose, according to new research co-authored by Professors Nathan Novemsky and Ravi Dhar.

January 10, 2013 
Gross, a founder of Hudson Clean Energy, called for government incentives and infrastructure investment to push the growing sector, in a talk hosted by the Yale SOM Energy Club.

January 7, 2013 
The second round application deadline for our full-time MBA Program is January 8, 2013.

January 7, 2013 
The student-led Yale Philanthropy Conference, titled "Integrated Perspectives Across the Sector," will take place on February 1.

January 4, 2013 
The conference, presented by the Center for Customer Insights, will feature speakers from Facebook, MetLife, Cisco, Gilt Group, and L'Oreal

January 3, 2013 
The CEO of New Haven-based Ancera talked to students in the Yale SOM Entrepreneurship Club.

January 3, 2013 
In an essay in the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the senior associate dean for executive programs and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, argues that heroic leaders can overcome the cowardice and apathy that are sometimes observed in crowds.

2012

December 21, 2012 
The fall semester is over and classes at Yale SOM won't resume until January 14, but the SOM community remains active. SOM students will host events for prospective students around the world in the coming weeks.

December 20, 2012 
Miller, the chairman of Marblegate Asset Management, spoke to Yale SOM students on November 26.

December 14, 2012 
A study co-authored by Professor Mushfiq Mobarak examines the contributions of foreign and domestic doctoral students in science and engineering to U.S. innovation. The paper is short-listed for the Royal Economic Society's 2012 best paper award.

December 13, 2012 
Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeffrey Bewkes will accept the Legend in Leadership Award of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at a ceremony to be held December 13 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

December 10, 2012 
A team of second-year students won the 2012 Supply Chain Challenge, and first-year students won the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business International Case Competition.

November 27, 2012 
The team, made up of students from across Yale, will represent the University at an international case competition.

November 26, 2012 
Global Network schools in Brazil, China, Turkey, Spain, and U.S. join to create immersion program for business students.

November 26, 2012 
Steven Brill, a journalist and serial entrepreneur, lays out his case that fixing the public education system is critical to the future of the U.S. economy. In his view, charter schools demonstrate some successful tactics for education reform, but big questions and big challenges remain if these tactics are going to be brought to scale.

November 14, 2012 
Yale SOM students with military backgrounds shared their wartime experiences with classmates, faculty, and staff at an event marking Veterans Day.

November 12, 2012 
John Shrewsberry '92, president of Wells Fargo Securities, discussed the banking sector with Yale SOM students.

November 8, 2012 
United States Army veteran Christopher Kennedy '13 is the inaugural Bank of America Scholar.

November 7, 2012 
The four alumni, who were recognized for exemplifying the Yale SOM mission, will come to campus in February 2013 to participate in panels and discussion groups with students.

October 28, 2012 
Yale University has canceled classes and non-essential services on Monday, October 29, and Tuesday, October 30, in response to the powerful weather system expected to affect the region. Students, faculty, and non-essential staff should not travel to campus. Further information and the latest updates are available at http://emergency.yale.edu.

October 24, 2012 
A team of students from the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has won the first-place prize in a National Forest Foundation business plan competition focused on solutions for public lands stewardship.

October 23, 2012 
Over two hundred private equity professionals will gather for the 12th annual Private Equity Conference organized by the Private Equity and Venture Capital Club.

October 19, 2012 
Activist Wanja Muguongo described her role managing an LGBTI and sex worker rights fund to a Yale SOM audience.

October 18, 2012 
Members schools in the Global Network for Advanced Management will meet at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, November 26-28 to build on the organization's progress and plan new initiatives.

October 18, 2012 
Brady Dougan, the CEO of Credit Suisse, addressed Yale SOM students as part of the Leaders Forum lecture series.

October 17, 2012 
At the Convening Yale speakers series, Ray Fair, the John M. Musser Professor of Economics, shared his methodology for predicting the outcome of presidential elections.

October 16, 2012 
Professor George Newman studied the effectiveness of offering small thank-you gifts in return for charitable donations and found that they reduce donation amounts.

October 15, 2012 
A panel of women from the industry shared their career strategies at a talk sponsored by the Women in Management club.

October 12, 2012 
Nirav R. Shah, New York State’s commissioner of health, described the reforms to New York's Medicaid system in a talk with the healthcare professionals in Yale's MBA for Executives program.

October 12, 2012 
Yale SOM kicked off its 2012-2013 Convening Yale speaker series with a talk by Anthony Reed, assistant professor of African American studies and English.

October 11, 2012 
Marketing professionals from Procter & Gamble explained the brand management role at an event sponsored by the Marketing Club.

October 9, 2012 
In an event organized by two Yale SOM clubs, students heard from leaders visiting Yale from around the world.

October 9, 2012 
Philanthropic giving in India lags that in developed nations. In the first PONPO lecture of the year, Professor K. Sudhir discussed how he translated research into an ad campaign that increased giving from wealthy donors to a charity that supports the elderly.

October 8, 2012 
Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for Manhattan, urged business schools and leaders to focus on ethics during a talk at Yale SOM.

October 8, 2012 
Indonesian trade minister H.E. Gita Wirjawan discussed the country's growing economic power in an address at Yale SOM.

October 4, 2012 
A panel of women from the Yale SOM faculty discussed their professional experiences at a Women in Management Club event.

October 1, 2012 
When banks experience payment defaults to their loan portfolios it makes them question their ability to screen risky borrowers, according to research by Prof. Justin Murfin. They compensate by writing stricter loan contracts for current borrowers.

September 26, 2012 
Professionals from a range of sectors helped the new class of full-time MBA students explore career possibilities during Yale SOM’s annual Career Immersion event.

September 24, 2012 
Scientists are trained to be objective, but new research by Professor Victoria Brescoll and a team of Yale colleagues found gender biases among both male and female science faculty that favor male students.

September 19, 2012 
A study of television viewing habits co-authored by Professor Constanca Esteves-Sorenson has implications for structuring default choices in retirement accounts, healthcare plans, and other policy settings.

September 13, 2012 
In BizEd magazine, David Bach, senior associate dean for executive MBA and global programs, outlines six forces that are reshaping business and business education.

September 4, 2012 
Members of the full-time MBA Class of 2014 were introduced to a variety of New York City firms during Yale SOM Orientation.

August 31, 2012 
Private equity experts and practitioners will discuss their own experiences and the current state of the industry. Read about the panelists and register now.

August 24, 2012 
Senior Associate Dean Anjani Jain tells new MBA class that they "must draw upon the best ideas in business, entrepreneurship, nonprofit, and government sectors across the globe" to solve today's most pressing problems. Read his full address to the New MBA Class.

August 23, 2012 
Local or decentralized banks are believed to always offer better lending terms to small and young firms, but new research co-authored by Prof. Rodrigo Canales finds that this is only true when banks face competition.

August 22, 2012 
Yale SOM provides a fact check on recent stories in the New York Times Magazine and U.S. News & World Report that have reported on the finances of the school. These stories exclude essential context and related facts that were provided. Moreover, some assertions are, put simply, untrue.

August 15, 2012 
Students in Yale SOM's new Master of Advanced Management program began their one-year course of study on August 15.

August 6, 2012 
Yale SOM's MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program welcomed the Class of 2014 to campus in July.

August 2, 2012 
The Center for Customer Insights will host its fourth annual China India Insights Conference August 3-4.

August 1, 2012 
A proposed $400 million federal initiative seeks to build Canada's venture capital industry. In the Financial Post, Prof. Olav Sorenson explains what Canada can learn from Yozma, the program credited with creating Israel’s VC community.

July 31, 2012 
Tax increases should be accompanied by deductions that encourage charitable giving, writes Prof. Robert Shiller in the New York Times.

July 25, 2012 
SOM students join fellow Yale entrepreneurs in the 2012 Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Summer Fellowship program.

July 24, 2012 
"Time and again, the lessons of a troubled world economy are the same: An unbalanced world is an unsustainable world," writes Stephen Roach in YaleGlobal Online, a publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

July 18, 2012 
Research by Professors Keith Chen and Judith Chevalier finds that most female primary-care doctors don't work enough hours in the prime of their careers to make their expensive medical training pay off financially. Most would earn more money over their careers becoming physician assistants instead.

July 16, 2012 
"Ventures survive longer and generate greater annual profits and cash flows when their founders locate them in their home regions where they have deep roots of family and friends," says Professor Olav Sorenson. His study "Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures" is published in Management Science.

June 25, 2012 
In the New York Times, Professor Robert Shiller writes that mortgage lenders need to write down the amounts owed by homeowners, but the different stakeholders have been unable to act collectively to do this, even though it is in their common interest.

June 20, 2012 
Prospective students from U.S. under-represented populations, and from Global Network for Advanced Management member schools, sample MBA coursework and learn about career paths during Yale SOM’s Global Pre-MBA Leadership Program.

June 14, 2012 
Yale School of Management Dean Edward A. Snyder announced two leadership appointments: Anjani Jain will join Yale SOM as senior associate dean for the full-time MBA program on July 1, 2012; David Bach will join the school as senior associate dean for executive MBA and global programs on September 1, 2012.

June 11, 2012 
The recovery from the latest recession is historically different from past recoveries, write Professors Ben Polak and Peter Schott on the New York Times Economix blog. Local government employment continued to grow during past recessions, but this time it hasn't, slowing job recovery. "Without this hidden austerity program, the economy would look very different," they write.

June 7, 2012 
In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, Yale SOM Dean Edward A. Snyder described how the Global Network for Advanced Management, launched by the school earlier this year, can improve business education in a globalized, more competitive world.

June 5, 2012 
In a Net Impact club lecture, the chief executive officer of Mercy Corps discussed his work creating social innovation in the world’s toughest places.

June 4, 2012 
Uniform accounting standards to serve diverse economies are not feasible, write Professors Shyam Sunder and Stella Fearnley (Bournemouth University) in the Financial Times.

May 31, 2012 
Mary Ellen Iskenderian '86 spoke to Yale SOM students about how the increasing presence of for-profit lenders in microfinance is affecting the industry.

May 30, 2012 
In a Project Syndicate op-ed, Robert Shiller tells graduates to "never lose sight of the purpose and overriding social goals of finance."

May 25, 2012 
Dan O'Connell '80 described how he built a career in private equity and the trends that have shaped the industry over the last three decades.

May 21, 2012 
The Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting brought economists from around the world to discuss the latest research.

May 18, 2012 
On May 21, 2012, members of the Class of 2012 will receive their MBAs from the Yale School of Management. The diploma ceremony, scheduled to begin at approximately 12:45 p.m. in Caulkins Courtyard, is the culmination of several days of events.

May 16, 2012 
Speaking as part of the Convening Yale series, Kahn explored the roots of the controversy over healthcare reform.

May 14, 2012 
The Yale School of Management has appointed Brigadier General (Retired) Thomas A. Kolditz as professor in the practice of leadership and director of the school's Leadership Development Program, effective July 1, 2012.

May 10, 2012 
Daylian Cain will accept the award, and deliver a lecture from his Behavioral Economics Meets Business Ethics elective, at Brigham Young University.

May 9, 2012 
Deans and Directors at the launch meeting of the Global Network discussed how business schools can educate leaders better equipped to tackle the challenges of a globalized, competitive world. Read the report...

May 9, 2012 
The 2012 program, renamed the Global Pre-MBA Leadership Program, will expand to include undergraduate students from a select group of universities in Brazil, China, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, and Singapore.

May 7, 2012 
In a YaleNews Q&A, Stephen Roach discusses the world economy and his move from Morgan Stanley to full-time teaching at Yale.

May 3, 2012 
Concerned about the negative consequences of appearing to be too outspoken, powerful women talk less than others in their organizations, while powerful men talk more, finds a study by Victoria Brescoll.

April 30, 2012 
Shiller spoke about proposals in his new book, "Finance and the Good Society," as part of Convening Yale, a series that brings faculty members from around the university to Yale SOM to discuss their work.

April 23, 2012 
Yale SOM is among the 21 international business schools that have formed the Global Network for Advanced Management, which will connect faculty, students, and deans with their peers in order to address the complex leadership issues in business and society worldwide.

April 18, 2012 
Yale SOM's Women in Management club hosted a discussion with faculty and alumni aimed at helping students become better negotiators.

April 13, 2012 
Alec Ellison, vice chairman of the investment bank Jefferies & Company, spoke to students about the decline in initial public offerings.

April 11, 2012 
The eighth annual Yale Healthcare Conference will take place on April 13.

April 2, 2012 
Through the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum lecture series, top leaders share experiences and insights gained from running organizations on the leading edge of complex global markets.

April 2, 2012 
A study by Martijn Cremers finds that the publicly traded emerging market affiliates of large multinationals have outperformed their parent companies, their local stock market, and the wider emerging markets over the last 14 years.

March 29, 2012 
The legendary founder of Third Avenue Management discussed his experiences restructuring failing companies.

March 28, 2012 
Visa's CMO explains how the company plans to make use of the global stage offered by its sponsorship of the Olympic Games

March 27, 2012 
Douglas Borthwick ’96, head of trading and managing director for Faros Trading, described how he excels in the complex and ever-shifting currency markets.

March 19, 2012 
Ibbotson and his co-authors were honored for the paper "The ABCs of Hedge Funds: Alphas, Betas, and Costs."

March 19, 2012 
The Education Club will host the sixth annual Yale SOM Education Leadership Conference, "Vision 2032: Shaping the Future of Education," on March 23.

March 16, 2012 
Google's VP of new products, Claire Johnson '01, explains how the company brings its data-driven approach to its relationship with users and advertisers.

March 14, 2012 
The steel structure of Edward P. Evans Hall is complete and workers are pouring concrete and installing conduits.

March 13, 2012 
The conference will examine issues relating to customer choices, innovation, brand performance, social media, and competitive marketing strategies.

March 13, 2012 
Elizabeth Fowler, a White House staffer who is helping to implement healthcare reform, spoke to students in the MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program.

March 9, 2012 
In his new book, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that finance should play a larger role in helping society achieve its goals.

March 7, 2012 
Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Inc., will accept the "Legend in Leadership Award" of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute today at the Yale CEO Caucus in Washington, DC.

February 28, 2012 
Students in the Global Social Enterprise elective will spend spring break consulting with social enterprises in Cape Town, South Africa.

February 27, 2012 
A professor of biomedical engineering and anesthesia, Niklason described how her lab is growing replacement veins, and discussed efforts to commercialize the technology.

February 20, 2012 
The president of the Corporation for Enterprise Development spoke to the Economic Development Club about the CFED's approach to poverty.

February 10, 2012 
Brian Trelstad spoke to Yale SOM students about how the Acumen Fund selects investments that can have both social impact and financial return.

February 9, 2012 
Two Goldman Sachs executives spoke to Yale SOM students about their careers and opportunities in the finance industry.

February 1, 2012 
Net Impact will host the seventh annual Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference on February 3.

January 30, 2012 
As part of Yale SOM’s Convening Yale series, Wynn described research into the moral instincts of young children, and discussed its implications for adult social behavior.

January 26, 2012 
Will we have enough energy, materials, food, and water in the year 2030?

January 25, 2012 
Ripplewood Holdings founder Timothy Collins '82 has been named chairman of the Yale SOM Board of Advisors.

January 12, 2012 
Students from across Yale University participated in a case competition run by the Yale Healthcare and Life Sciences Club.

January 10, 2012 
The annual conference is titled "The Higher Velocity Marketplace: Technology, Innovation, and Engagement in the New Marketplace."

January 10, 2012 
Edward Kaplan has been appointed to a committee that will evaluate the effectiveness of the nation’s system to detect and prevent a nuclear attack.

January 4, 2012 
When Solyndra went bankrupt after receiving millions in federal loan guarantees, some said that the government should stop interfering in energy markets. Nancy Pfund '82 and Ben Healey '12 show that the country has a long history of subsidizing emerging forms of energy, including coal, oil, and nuclear.

January 4, 2012 
The Entrepreneurship Club heard from Justin Borgman, who launched a fast-growing software startup while still at Yale SOM.

January 3, 2012 
"One key thing SOM gave me was the ability to deal with multiple constituencies when managing complex issues."

2011

December 22, 2011 
Classes at Yale SOM won't resume until January 9, but the SOM community remains active. SOM students will host events for prospective students around the world over the coming weeks.

December 20, 2011 
Around 100 of the world's top business leaders gathered in New York City on December 15 for the CEO Summit; the theme of the gathering was "Rethinking Global Markets: Leading Businesses across Divergent National Economies."

December 20, 2011 
Bryce Hall '12: "I knew that I would need a different set of skills to work on bigger challenges."

December 19, 2011 
Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. and Starr International USA, Inc., collectively known as Starr Companies, was awarded the “Lifetime of Leadership Award” of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at a ceremony held December 15th at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

December 17, 2011 
The Dow Chemical Company Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris will accept the “Legend in Leadership Award” of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at a ceremony to be held today at The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City.

December 13, 2011 
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York urged students to stand up for ethics in their professional lives.

December 12, 2011 
A two-day event drew scores of prospective students to Yale SOM, where they heard from current students, faculty, staff, and alumni about the school's culture and commitment to diversity

December 6, 2011 
James Choi and co-authors have received the sixteenth annual TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for their paper, "Why Does the Law of One Price Fail?" The paper finds that the average investor does not understand the importance of mutual fund fees in investment decisions.

December 2, 2011 
"It's time for NFL blackouts to go," says Professor Subrata Sen. In his paper, "Should NFL Blackouts Be Banned?" he finds that the loss of viewers' rights exceeds the revenue teams gain from blacking out games on local television.

November 29, 2011 
In the New York Times, Robert J. Shiller writes that the failure to rescue the unemployed stems from partisan divisions in Congress, lack of consensus among economists on the effects of fiscal stimulus, and a lack of appreciation of the social consequences of long-term joblessness.

November 16, 2011 
In a guest blog post for Xerox, Ravi Dhar writes that companies can build stronger customer relationships by giving them relevant information and by helping them discover unrealized needs.

November 15, 2011 
Professor Edward H. Kaplan has received the Koopman Prize for the outstanding publication in military operations research.

November 14, 2011 
The Chief Executive Leadership Institute will host its inaugural Yale CEO Caucus in Washington, D.C., on November 15. The roundtable will convene business leaders, politicians, and scholars to discuss the business implications of urgent national and global events.

November 10, 2011 
A team of five Yale SOM students took home first prize in a case competition at the national Net Impact conference in Portland, Oregon.

November 10, 2011 
Yale SOM's Women in Management club hosted three executives from Thomson Reuters for a discussion of how to increase the number of women in senior leadership roles.

November 7, 2011 
In a Project Syndicate op-ed, Stephen Roach writes that the U.S. should stop blaming China for its massive trade deficit, and notes that the U.S. also runs deficits with 87 other countries. "Without addressing the root of the problem--America’s chronic saving shortfall--it is ludicrous to believe that there can be a bilateral solution for a multilateral problem."

November 7, 2011 
Scott Friedman, head of trading for Soroban Capital Partners, spoke to the Yale SOM Sales and Trading Club.

November 2, 2011 
Two recent discussions featuring Yale SOM graduates and Yale World Fellows fostered discussion of the complex ways in which business concerns and environmental concerns can affect each other.

October 25, 2011 
"Steve Jobs-like folk heroes are the key to American strength--but our management systems often drown the spirit of such creative geniuses because of their challenging complex characters," writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld in the Huffington Post.

October 19, 2011 
Physicist Ramamurti Shankar discussed the theory of relativity in the first session of a speaker series that brings faculty from across Yale University to the School of Management.

October 18, 2011 
Kateri Callahan, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, will discuss "Energy Efficiency: America's First Fuel" in the first webinar of CBEY’s Blueprint for Efficiency series on October 18.

October 18, 2011 
Roach, the former chief economist of Morgan Stanley and current senior fellow at the Jackson Institute, identified forces he thinks are likely to suppress growth in the coming years.

October 17, 2011 
On a recent trip to London, Dean Edward A. Snyder sat down with the Financial Times for his first interview since joining the school on July 1.

October 17, 2011 
Public improvement projects to create jobs for the unemployed are the modern national equivalent of winter work on the farm, writes Robert Shiller in the New York Times.

October 13, 2011 
On October 13, Yale University President Richard Levin will moderate a panel discussion on job creation featuring economists Judith Chevalier, Robert Shiller, John Geanakoplos, William D. Nordhaus, and Aleh Tsyvinski.

October 12, 2011 
The award will be presented to Oster at the annual meeting of the American Economics Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession on January 12.

October 11, 2011 
"The Journey from Financial Engineering to Value Creation" is the theme of the Private Equity Club's 11th annual conference on November 11.

October 10, 2011 
At an event at Yale SOM, Seth Goldman and Prof. Barry Nalebuff discussed the path that took Honest Tea from a classroom idea to an international brand--and why they have chosen to give back to the school.

October 7, 2011 
As part of Yale SOM's annual Reunion Weekend, two distinguished graduates of the school and two current students spoke about how they've managed relationships in their professional lives, and how the Yale SOM approach to leadership has prepared them for this endeavor.

October 6, 2011 
William Hutton '83, the head of Baltimore-based Titan Steel, describes how the firm thrives by continually adapting to a volatile global marketplace, shifting macroeconomic trends, and exchange-rate fluctuations.

October 4, 2011 
Downshifting to a more sustainable pace of growth would be a welcome relief for China’s economy, writes Stephen Roach.

October 3, 2011 
A microfinance leader talks about how to change the lives of the world's poorest people.

September 30, 2011 
The heads of three organizations seeking to help people through enterprise rather than charity spoke as part of Yale SOM's Global Social Entrepreneurship course.

September 29, 2011 
Construction on the site of Edward P. Evans Hall, the new Yale SOM campus, has made significant progress, with several concrete structures stretching up to 40 feet above ground level. See photos and video of the construction.

September 28, 2011 
Members of the Yale SOM community took part in the Yale Alumni Association’s Global Volunteer Service Leadership Forum.

September 27, 2011 
Six accomplished women, including faculty members and a senior administrator, discussed some of the unique challenges women face, as well as how professional women can succeed in male-dominated organizations.

September 26, 2011 
Stories of out-of-control debt have scared consumers, writes Robert Shiller, and a better economic outlook may hinge on finding a more inspiring narrative.

September 22, 2011 
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld explains what drives the "serial acquirer" CEO in the Washington Post.

September 20, 2011 
Prompting employees to write down a plan to get a flu shot makes them more likely to follow through on it, finds research by James Choi.

September 12, 2011 
According to Robert Shiller, President Obama's job stimulus plan "would help some people, but...it's not really up to the magnitude of the problem."

September 7, 2011 
In the NYT, Shiller writes that the recent stock market volatility is the result of investors trying to assess the fear of other investors.

September 2, 2011 
The Yale Daily Bulletin recently profiled several ventures developed by Yale SOM students.

September 1, 2011 
The recent market volatility surrounding U.S. debt worries was exaggerated by high-frequency trading, according to Frank Zhang.

August 29, 2011 
"The US ecnonomy - as well as the global economy - cannot get back on its feet without the American consumer," writes Stephen Roach in an op-ed on the anemic growth in consumer spending.

August 18, 2011 
Sarena Lin '98 spent twelve years at McKinsey & Co. learning how many different types of businesses operate, before moving into a corporate role.

August 15, 2011 
A select group of students arrived on campus to start their Yale SOM careers last week. The Class of 2013 includes students from all over the world with a wide variety of accomplishments.

August 5, 2011 
Economist Robert Shiller and political scientist Jacob Hacker discuss how inequality affects government, markets, and the risks faced by ordinary people.

August 1, 2011 
Stephen Roach writes that China has lost confidence in Washington and its economic policies.

July 25, 2011 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller recommends balancing spending and taxing, and focusing on programs that will create jobs.

July 20, 2011 
For the third consecutive year, a diverse group of college students and recent graduates came to the Yale SOM campus for an intensive taste of the first-year MBA curriculum. A grant from Goldman Sachs Gives allowed this year’s group a unique opportunity to learn from top executives.

July 19, 2011 
Ed Kaplan discusses the applications of the most influential formula in queuing theory.

July 13, 2011 
Yale SOM brought together a select group of doctoral students from leading universities for the weeklong Behavioral Finance Summer School, organized by Professors Nicholas C. Barberis and Robert J. Shiller.

July 8, 2011 
Yale SOM research wins the EFM’s Best Paper Award for the second consecutive year.

July 7, 2011 
Growth scares are inevitable in a weak post-crisis recovery that lacks a cushion to ward off economic shocks.

July 1, 2011 
Starting July 1, 2011, Edward A. Snyder is the Dean and William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management. Read more about Snyder’s background and his vision for the school.

June 28, 2011 
"The Yale SOM curriculum will be particularly important for me in my internship, because it is about applying business skills across different areas."

June 22, 2011 
Yale SOM faculty members with experience in the top levels of both business and government described why the Obama administration and the business community have had a contentious relationship and also suggest how it can be improved.

June 21, 2011 
Edward P. Evans Hall will rise at the northern end of the Yale campus, taking its place among the university’s architectural landmarks. Read an update on the construction and take an audio tour of the designs for Evans Hall.

June 17, 2011 
Yale SOM marketing professors Jiwoong Shin, K. Sudhir, and Dina Mayzlin were honored for their research at the 33rd INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, held from June 9 to 11.

June 16, 2011 
The Millstein Center and investor T. Boone Pickens will collaborate on the new program announced at the Yale Governance Forum.

June 15, 2011 
The annual Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award recognizes outstanding global corporate governance professionals under the age of 40.

June 9, 2011 
More than 200 leaders from the global corporate governance community will gather for the sixth annual Yale Governance Forum, June 16-17, 2011, hosted by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management.

June 7, 2011 
Fiona Scott Morton has been named deputy assistant attorney general for economic analysis and will take a leave of absence from SOM to lead economic analysis in the antitrust division of the DOJ.

June 7, 2011 
American Express Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Chenault will accept the "Legend in Leadership Award" from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at a ceremony to be held June 8 at the New York Stock Exchange.

June 3, 2011 
The grant will support research by Professors K. Sudhir and Zhiwu Chen related to the rapidly emerging markets of China and India.

May 25, 2011 
"Yale SOM opens doors that I wouldn’t have otherwise had access to, and connects me with people that I never would have met."

May 24, 2011 
At Yale SOM's 34th commencement, the Class of 2011 celebrated with family, friends, and faculty.

May 23, 2011 
The graduating class raised a record $225,393 for its Class Gift. Part of the money will be used to name the student gym in the new Edward P. Evans Hall.

May 18, 2011 
Peter Lehrer and Gene McGovern built one of the country's most successful construction management companies, not despite their differences, but often because of them. They spoke at Yale SOM on April 26.

May 17, 2011 
A course taught by Professor Douglas Rae has been added to Open Yale Courses, the popular website run by Yale University, and can be viewed online.

May 16, 2011 
"Everybody is very willing to put their name on the line to help you. The networking is so much stronger and more meaningful because we actually know each other well."

May 11, 2011 
Yale SOM faculty members jumpstart research ideas and build community by leading groups of students on the annual International Experience trips.

May 9, 2011 
As president of Scenic Hudson, Ned Sullivan '82 works to protect the environment and spur economic growth through tourism and green jobs.

May 6, 2011 
The event, on May 13 and 14, brings together lead academics and practitioners to discuss key issues relating to customer mindset and behavior.

May 5, 2011 
Anjai Lal '11 is the winner of the Economist-InnoCentive Entrepreneurship Challenge, an international competition aimed at identifying "disruptive" business models to solving important business issues.

May 5, 2011 
"After the Customer course, I had the mindset and the tools to evaluate a marketing problem."

May 4, 2011 
Yale SOM’s Center for Customer Insights and IBM hosted the Smarter Education Forum to discuss the importance of social analytics in business strategy.

May 3, 2011 
The school's leading supporters gathered to celebrate the progress that's been made toward the construction of Edward P. Evans Hall.

May 2, 2011 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller writes that advances in data collection can help us better understand the risk of another financial shock.

April 27, 2011 
Roger Ibbotson has received the Financial Analysts Journal's Best Perspectives Award for "The Importance of Asset Allocation."

April 25, 2011 
Author, entrepreneur, and engineer Robert Zubrin argued that the U.S. should promote flex-fuel vehicles to wean the economy off of foreign oil.

April 21, 2011 
Professors Chen and Cain were recognized for excellence in teaching based on a vote by current students. The annual award is sponsored by the Yale SOM Alumni Association.

April 20, 2011 
This year's Internship Fund Auction, which supports students doing internships in the nonprofit and public sectors, raised more than $53,000.

April 19, 2011 
In a talk sponsored by the Human Capital, Arts and Culture, and Media and Entertainment clubs, Jed Bernstein described how lessons learned at Yale SOM have proved valuable in leading creative enterprises.

April 18, 2011 
Executive panel debates the role capital should play in medical innovation.

April 14, 2011 
Treasury security prices tend to be lower on auction days, which results in a large issuance cost for the U.S. Treasury Department, finds Hongjun Yan.

April 12, 2011 
This year, Yale SOM's Pre-MBA Leadership Program will include a one-day trip to Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City and increased travel support for students, among other enhancements.

April 7, 2011 
Google's success depends on sustaining both generative chaos and precision output. Laszlo Bock, who heads the internet giant's human resources function, which it calls "People Operations," talks about how it encourages employees to participate in running the company and builds effective teams.

April 6, 2011 
Marissa King finds that wealthier neighborhoods with more resources to diagnose autism have helped fuel the dramatic rise in autism prevalence.

April 5, 2011 
Dean Designate Edward A. Snyder announced that Jeanette Gorgas will join the Yale School of Management as Senior Associate Dean for the MBA Program.

March 23, 2011 
K. Sudhir has been designated the James L. Frank '32 Professor of Private Enterprise and Management.

March 22, 2011 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller writes that we can keep traditional public pensions by changing how we compute them.

March 21, 2011 
Ed Kaplan has contributed to a new report that outlines what U.S. intelligence can learn from the behavioral and social sciences.

March 18, 2011 
Stephen Roach assesses the spillover effects of the natural disasters in Japan on other major economies.

March 16, 2011 
Ted Fishman, a journalist and former commodities trader, discusses the worldwide trend toward older populations and what it might mean for individuals, governments, and businesses.

March 15, 2011 
For nearly two days this week, the most emailed story at the New York Times website was about a program at Google to train better bosses. The architect of that program was Laszlo Bock '99, the vice president of people operations at Google and a graduate of Yale SOM.

March 13, 2011 
The Yale SOM administration, in consultation with students and faculty, has decided to cut short the International Experience trip to Japan. The Yale SOM students and faculty who were in Japan at the time of Friday’s earthquake have left the country, and are now en route back to the United States.

March 8, 2011 
The Education Club will host the fifth annual Education Leadership Conference on March 25.

March 2, 2011 
Four executives from top organizations discussed fostering diversity in the work force as part of an SOMUnity panel discussion.

March 1, 2011 
Stephen Roach writes that China's new five-year plan "is likely to go down in history as one of China's boldest strategic initiatives."

February 28, 2011 
A dozen students traveled to South Africa with Professor James Levinsohn to deliver a course on data analysis for local leaders. The effort was part of a for-credit course called the African Data Analysis Project.

February 24, 2011 
A report published by the Millstein Center outlines how chairmen and CEOs work effectively together in these interdependent roles.

February 17, 2011 
Teams of Yale SOM students presented business plans for a successor to the Food for Thought cafe in a school-wide competition.

February 16, 2011 
A leading economics journal selected a 1981 paper on stock prices by Robert Shiller for its list of the top 20 papers in its history.

February 14, 2011 
The Center for Customer Insights and the Marketing Club will present the fifth annual marketing conference on February 25.

February 11, 2011 
The students, faculty, and staff of the MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program donated more than 2,300 lbs. of food to the Connecticut Food Bank in a recent food drive.

February 7, 2011 
A new national housing bubble is not likely to happen anytime soon, writes Robert Shiller in the New York Times.

February 4, 2011 
Kai Du, a PhD candidate at the Yale School of Management, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Accounting.

January 26, 2011 
Four people who worked on the new 32-story 360 State Street-all SOM graduates or students-spoke about the project's green features and potential impact on the city of New Haven.

January 24, 2011 
In Newsweek, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes about visionary founders and the companies that need to outlast them.

January 14, 2011 
Sandy Urie '85, president and CEO of Cambridge Associates, spoke about how to succeed in business and life.

January 11, 2011 
Professors Chevalier and Mayzlin have won the William F. O'Dell Award of the Journal of Marketing Research.

January 6, 2011 
"Giving Voice to Values" moves ethics education away from old theoretical models, focusing on action.

2010

December 20, 2010 
Yale University has received a $50 million commitment from a Yale College alumnus to support the construction of SOM’s new state-of-the-art campus, which will be named Edward P. Evans Hall.

December 10, 2010 
"SOM helped me get the internship, but more importantly, gave me the skills I needed to do great work."

December 9, 2010 
Aisha de Sequeira '95 explains how she built Morgan Stanley’s Indian investment banking business into the industry leader.

December 8, 2010 
Victoria Brescoll finds that on-the-job mistakes are magnified for a female police chief, a male president of a women's college, and others in jobs not normally associated with their gender.

December 3, 2010 
A team of four students won the fourth edition of the Yale SOM Student-Faculty Challenge.

November 24, 2010 
Four graduates honored for exemplifying Yale SOM’s mission returned to campus to share their experiences.

November 23, 2010 
Rub described how he has made good use of his business degree in an industry not accustomed to professional management

November 22, 2010 
Metrick spent a year working for the Council of Economic Advisers and described some of the lessons he learned from his time in Washington.

November 17, 2010 
The Yale SOM Standing Task Force on Diversity is made up of students, faculty, and staff who work together to ensure that diversity remains at the forefront of dialog and action at the school.

November 16, 2010 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller explains how reframing future bailouts can help alleviate taxpayer anger.

November 12, 2010 
A two-day event drew scores of prospective students to Yale SOM, where they heard from current students, faculty, staff, and alumni about the school’s culture and commitment to diversity.

November 4, 2010 
A generous $10 million pledge from Wilbur L. Ross YC '59, the CEO and chairman of WL Ross & Co. LLC, will be directed toward the library in the new Yale SOM campus.

November 4, 2010 
"Today's problems require solutions that address all stakeholders. This is a cornerstone of the SOM curriculum."

November 2, 2010 
Chad Troutwine '02 served as a producer for the film adaptation of the best seller Freakonomics. He recently attended a screening at Yale SOM hosted by two SOM student clubs.

November 1, 2010 
The Millstein Center, the European Corporate Governance Institute, and Said Business School will host "Corporate Governance and Performance: Causation?"

October 29, 2010 
INFORMS honors Ed Kaplan for his ability to make complex operations research engaging and accessible.

October 27, 2010 
The Yale School of Management launched a redesigned homepage and six key landing pages on Monday. View the new pages at http://mba.yale.edu.

October 25, 2010 
Michael Eisenson '81 leads a private equity firm that avoids glamour for profits.

October 18, 2010 
The Yale CEO Leadership Summit will take place in Mumbai on October 25.

October 14, 2010 
"I came to SOM for a specific toolbox, and one of the reasons nonprofits struggle is because those skill sets are too often missing."

October 13, 2010 
"Unleashing creative potential and innovation is the key to cultural and economic development," writes Jonathan Feinstein on Cato Unbound.

October 12, 2010 
In Business India, Dean Oster writes about the aims of business education in the post-crisis era.

October 8, 2010 

October 8, 2010 
Yale SOM's Global Social Entrepreneurship class brings together MBA students with the leaders of social enterprises in India.

October 6, 2010 
"There's no such thing as a public sector problem or a private sector problem. More and more, the lines between sectors are blurring."

October 5, 2010 
Experienced private equity investor Robert Davis '97 talked to students about lessons he’s learned in this competitive industry.

October 4, 2010 
Corporate managers have inadvertently contributed to a vicious cycle of rising unemployment and plummeting national morale, writes Robert Shiller in the NYT.

September 29, 2010 
Stimulating Chinese consumption is a better fix for the U.S. - China trade imbalance than currency realignment, argues senior lecturer Stephen Roach in the NYT.

September 29, 2010 
"Even though we’re competing, we cooperate. That's how we build the sense of community that defines SOM."

September 28, 2010 
The 10th annual conference will feature leading private equity keynotes, panels, and networking opportunities.

September 24, 2010 
Prof. Barry Nalebuff and Seth Goldman '95, co-founders of Honest Tea, discuss the company's success on CNBC.

September 22, 2010 
"It's that ability to see an issue from multiple angles, to see how an industry impacts stakeholders, that defines the SOM approach."

September 21, 2010 
Professor Frank Fabozzi offers students a crash course in the field of finance from an expert practitioner's perspective.

September 15, 2010 
Dean Sharon M. Oster announced that Bradley Abelow '89, Jennie Niles '98, Ken Ofori-Atta '88, and Hilary Pennington '83 have been selected as Donaldson Fellows.

September 15, 2010 
"I wanted to develop skills that I knew I could use for the rest of my life and that would make me marketable in any situation."

September 14, 2010 
A 25-year-old idea to pay employees a fixed share of revenue is worth a second look, write Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff in Forbes.

September 13, 2010 
In a series of Career Development Office panels, students explained how to find the right summer position.

September 8, 2010 
"I started going to Marketing Club meetings and talking to students about it. I guess you can say I fell in love with it."

September 7, 2010 
Learn about the distinctive Yale integrated MBA curriculum in a series of videos about SOM classes and cases.

September 2, 2010 
Ira Millstein and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld have been named to Directorship’s list of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance.

August 31, 2010 
"The thing that continues to surprise me is the dedication of the alumni and their willingness to help."

August 30, 2010 
In the NYT, Prof. Shiller writes that temporarily bringing back a general revenue sharing program will help stimulate the economy.

August 27, 2010 
Three SOM experts discuss the aftermath of the financial crisis and the likely effects of recent regulation.

August 26, 2010 
In a commentary on the NYT DealBook blog, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld examines the decision of Hewlett-Packard’s board to remove Mark Hurd as CEO.

August 25, 2010 
"What truly intrigued me was the inner workings of the firms, the smaller scale decision making that actually drives companies forward."

August 24, 2010 
A new exchange-traded fund tracks the commodity index developed from the research of Profs. Geert Rouwenhorst and Gary Gorton.

August 23, 2010 
"M.B.A.s who take an ethics oath without enough supporting leadership education are likely more vulnerable to ethical breaches," write Profs. Canales, Massey, and Wrzesniewski in the WSJ.

August 19, 2010 
Female politicians pay a price for power, according to a study by Prof. Victoria Brescoll and Tyler Okimoto.

August 18, 2010 
On the Forbes CSR Blog, Dean Sharon Oster highlights the student-led effort to improve the environmental sustainability of SOM’s operations.

August 18, 2010 
Prof. Nalebuff and Seth Goldman '95, co-founders of Honest Tea, discuss the success of the company and the push to create the first mainstream organic beverage.

August 16, 2010 
Linda Craib '10 wrote: "I graduated with the realization that I had already started living the aspirations I outlined in my admissions essay."

August 13, 2010 
The 231 students in the entering class embarked on the school’s orientation program while getting to know their new community.

August 6, 2010 
"The Subprime Panic" by Prof. Gary Gorton is the first paper to win all three research awards of the European Financial Management journal.

August 4, 2010 
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes talks about making money from traditional media in the internet era.

August 3, 2010 
To avoid protracted unemployment, federal stimulus programs should focus on creating jobs in labor-intensive service fields, writes Prof. Robert Shiller in the NYT.

July 27, 2010 
Yale SOM hosts Pre-MBA Leadership Program for minority college students.

July 27, 2010 
In a study of house prices, Prof. Daylian Cain shows how disclosing conflicts of interest can backfire.

July 20, 2010 
"Being active in clubs has given me a chance to experiment with my leadership style."

July 20, 2010 
In Newsweek, Prof. Jeffrey E. Garten writes that the face-off between President Obama and big business won’t last for long.

July 16, 2010 
Hear from the SOM community about the school’s integrated curriculum, diverse students, and unique approach to educating leaders.

July 7, 2010 
People at SOM are thinking about the best way to teach the skills needed to be successful.

July 6, 2010 
The Yale MBA for Executives Leadership in Healthcare program joins top American business schools to help improve the healthcare sector.

July 2, 2010 
Five SOM students completed a for-credit study of the school’s environmental impact and made a series of recommendations.

June 30, 2010 
"SOM alumni are very eager and willing to help and to share their contacts and knowledge."

June 25, 2010 
A group of alumni, students and faculty are helping SOMers interested in starting new ventures link up with like-minded people.

June 21, 2010 
In the NYT, Prof. Shiller writes that withholding part of executives' pay would give them the incentives to consider the long-term consequences of their decisions and help prevent another financial crisis.

June 18, 2010 
After graduating, Tom Halsey ’81 went on to a successful career at Exxon Corp but remained in touch with the school.

June 17, 2010 
The second annual China India Consumer Insights Conference will take place in Beijing July 1-3.

June 16, 2010 
The Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award recognizes outstanding corporate governance professionals under the age of 40.

June 14, 2010 
In Newsweek International, Prof. Jeffrey E. Garten writes the next wave of the crisis is all about political risk.

June 8, 2010 
John C. Whitehead, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, will be presented with the Lifetime of Leadership Award at the Yale CEO Summit.

June 4, 2010 
The 62nd Yale CEO Summit will take place at the NYSE on June 9.

June 3, 2010 
The fifth annual Yale Governance Forum will take place June 17-18.

May 26, 2010 
The 207 members of the Class of 2010 received their diplomas under sunny skies on May 24.

May 24, 2010 
Prof. Will Goetzmann receives the Financial Analysts Journal's highest honor for "Estimating Operational Risk for Hedge Funds."

May 20, 2010 
Dr. Catherine Everett MBA-e '10 and her daughter Charlotte Goins YC '10 will graduate together on Monday.

May 19, 2010 
New research by Prof. Martijn Cremers examines pension fund performance and costs.

May 18, 2010 
Economic models aren't forecasting a double-dip recession, but the risk remains as long as people lack confidence in the economy, writes Robert Shiller in the New York Times.

May 17, 2010 
In the Financial Times, Howard Forman and Stan Garstka write that it's time for business schools to step up to address the leadership challenges of the healthcare industry.

May 14, 2010 
"I think it's been one of the best decisions for me in my personal development and in my career development."

May 12, 2010 
The quarterly newsletter highlights the intellectual capital of SOM's faculty.

May 11, 2010 
Graduates from the Class of 2010 will receive their diplomas at approximately 12:45 p.m. in Caulkins Courtyard on Monday, May 24.

May 10, 2010 
The 2010 Internship Fund Auction raised a record $51,433 to support students pursuing internships in nonprofit, public, and social enterprises.

May 6, 2010 
Dean Oster writes about how BP should respond to its oil spill crisis on Forbes' new corporate social responsibility blog.

May 5, 2010 
New Haven Board of Aldermen approves zoning changes for new SOM campus.

April 30, 2010 
In a Leaders Forum talk, Bewkes described his approach to leadership and the vital functions of both culture and strategy inside a company.

April 23, 2010 
The winners of the 2010 Yale School of Management Alumni Association Annual Teaching Awards were announced at a town hall meeting on April 22. They were selected in a vote by the student body.

April 23, 2010 
"SOM is an amalgamation of very diverse people with brilliant minds, and the curriculum is perfectly suited to that."

April 22, 2010 
Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Green Summit participants celebrated the 40th anniversary of Earth Day by ringing the NYSE opening bell.

April 20, 2010 
Speakers and attendees from many sectors and industries discussed critical issues for the future of India’s economy at a student-organized conference.

April 20, 2010 
SOM marketing professor Ravi Dhar quizzes P&G CEO Bob McDonald on brand management, innovation, and sustainability.

April 15, 2010 
The Green Summit will bring together thought leaders to discuss and exchange ideas on environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility.

April 12, 2010 
In the New York Times, Prof. Robert J. Shiller writes that there is a lack of evidence to support that the recent increase in home prices will lead to a sustained housing recovery.

April 8, 2010 
Top picks in the NFL draft, although highly valued by teams, are bad investments finds a paper co-authored by Cade Massey.

April 6, 2010 
The Millstein Center event will examine the role corporate governance should play in a global financial center.

March 22, 2010 
Jerry Speyer talks about three decades of real estate deals and charts way forward for commercial real estate.

March 18, 2010 
In an Economic Times op-ed, Professor K. Sudhir writes that organized retail in India can achieve long-term success by following the strategies of China and other Asian countries that recently modernized their retail sector.

March 15, 2010 
In a Project Syndicate commentary, Prof. Robert J. Shiller explains that economists are not in a good position to forecast the end of the current economic crisis.

March 12, 2010 
Rakesh Mohan, former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, will join the SOM faculty and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale on July 1.

March 11, 2010 
"It's because an alumnus took an interest in me and advocated for me that I got the job."

March 3, 2010 
"My plan is to build up my skills across the board, so that I’ll be able to have a much greater impact than I ever could before."

March 1, 2010 
Indra Nooyi ’80, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, spoke at SOM about her leadership style and what it takes to run a $43 billion company.

February 26, 2010 
Prof. Gary Gorton presented research on the shadow banking system at a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission forum examining the causes of the crisis.

February 25, 2010 
A mainstay of the Yale SOM community, the Internship Fund provides financial assistance to SOM students taking low-paying internships in the nonprofit and public sectors. This year 100% of the first-year class pledged to support this effort.

February 23, 2010 
The fourth annual Education Leadership Conference will explore the ideas and challenges at the forefront of the education reform movement.

February 22, 2010 
Prof. Olav Sorenson finds that movies produced by major studios and well-known filmmakers receive more lenient parental guidance ratings, giving them an advantage at the box office.

February 22, 2010 
Healthcare experts Michael Porter and Ezekiel Emanuel discuss how to overhaul the healthcare system.

February 18, 2010 
In a Financial Times op-ed, Professor Robert J. Shiller writes about the extent to which national leaders can boost economic confidence.

February 12, 2010 
Professors Gary Gorton and K. Geert Rouwenhorst discuss their paper "Facts and Fantasies About Commodity Futures" in a Financial Times feature interview.

February 10, 2010 
Prof. Shyam Sunder analyzes the suggestion that all people should invest in index funds and not chase excess returns.

February 10, 2010 
In a Financial Times op-ed, Prof. Jeffrey Garten writes that America’s bilateral approach towards China is not working.

February 5, 2010 
Research by Prof. Martijn Cremers and co-authors from Harvard Law School and INSEAD finds the share of top executive pay awarded to the CEO is related to firm performance.

February 4, 2010 
Professor Shyam Sunder provides suggestions on how to mitigate the problems caused by financial firms that are "too big to fail."

February 2, 2010 
New research by Prof. Will Goetzmann finds the recent collapse of the real estate securities market wasn’t the first in U.S. history.

February 2, 2010 
The second annual Pre-MBA Leadership Program for under-represented minority students will take place June 13-26.

February 1, 2010 
In the New York Times, Prof. Robert Shiller writes that solutions for the economy must address the economic pessimism of workers and investors.

January 29, 2010 
"In spite of the Christmas near-miss over Detroit, the real risk of flying is truly tiny, with or without the added terror scare," write SOM Prof. Ed Kaplan and Technion Prof. Boaz Golany in the Jerusalem Post.

January 28, 2010 
Professor Keith Chen’s work has prompted a re-evaluation of the theory of cognitive dissonance.

January 21, 2010 
Read about, and see video and pictures of, Dean-designate Snyder's visit to Yale SOM.

January 20, 2010 
Edward A. Snyder, currently Dean and George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, will succeed Sharon Oster as Dean of SOM in July 2011.

January 15, 2010 
"The multi-disciplinary nature of my education was crucial."

January 14, 2010 
We have all been saddened and concerned to learn about the tragic situation in Haiti. Members of the SOM community have expressed a desire to help in any way they can.

January 8, 2010 
Robert Haas YC ’69 made his reputation in finance, but these days prefers photographing wildlife.

January 7, 2010 
On the NYT DealBook blog, Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes about CEOs who accept responsibility for failure instead of passing the buck.

2009

December 23, 2009 
Classes at Yale SOM won't resume until January 11, but the SOM community remains active. SOM students will host events for prospective students around the world over the coming weeks.

December 21, 2009 
"Every class that I have taken has had a profound impact on how I view my role as a manager and entrepreneur."

December 15, 2009 
New research by Prof. Olav Sorenson finds that enforcement of non-compete agreements moderates the effects that venture capital has on entrepreneurship and regional economies.

December 3, 2009 
Consumers believe "north is up" and "south is down," finds research by Prof. Joseph Simmons. This belief, shaped by language and experience, can affect judgments of travel time, ease, and cost.

December 2, 2009 
"I know that after SOM I'll be able to approach a system, diagnose its problems, and find ways to fix them."

December 1, 2009 
A study by Profs. Frederick, Novemsky, and Dhar finds that consumers make different choices when reminded of the opportunity costs of a purchase.

November 30, 2009 
In the Financial Times, Jeffrey Garten writes that a weaker dollar is inevitable and a global monetary system that is not centered on the dollar must be devised.

November 25, 2009 
"When I looked at business schools, I was excited by the SOM curriculum and how closely it modeled issues I faced in the business world."

November 24, 2009 
Three alums, representing three facets of health care, tell what they like and don’t like about the current bills.

November 23, 2009 
"Beyond fiscal stimulus and government bailouts, the economic recovery that appears under way may be based on little more than self-fulfilling prophecy," writes Robert Shiller in the New York Times.

November 18, 2009 
"I really like the fact that we can apply what we're learning in a very practical way."

November 17, 2009 
The Center for Customer Insights and Marketing Club brought top practitioners to SOM to explore the new role of marketers.

November 12, 2009 
Doctoral student Panos Patatoukas’ award-winning paper examines how the concentration of a supplier's customer base affects its performance and stock market valuation.

November 11, 2009 
Five students have served overseas in two war zones and on the Korean peninsula.

November 3, 2009 
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani will accept the Legend in Leadership Award at the Yale CEO Leadership Summit in New Delhi on November 6.

October 28, 2009 
Prof. Martijn Cremers and co-author Allen Ferrell of Harvard Law use their new database to analyze how governance affects firm value and stock returns.

October 27, 2009 
The Private Equity Club will host industry leaders at its annual conference in Greenwich, CT on November 6.

October 27, 2009 
Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses why the Obama administration's pay czar may be the Walter Cronkite or King Solomon of resolving financial disputes.

October 20, 2009 
Executives from Unilever, American Express, Toyota, and Publicis Groupe, will speak at the conference "Finding the Upside in the Downturn: The Changing Role of Marketing" on Nov. 6.

October 15, 2009 
Directorship has named Ira Millstein and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld to its annual list of the 100 "most influential people in the boardroom and corporate governance."

October 13, 2009 
Members of the Yale School of Management faculty were delighted to learn yesterday that Oliver E. Williamson, an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, had been named to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

October 12, 2009 
In the NYT, Prof. Robert Shiller writes that the sudden rise in home prices "...probably reflects a new home-buyer emphasis on market timing."

October 12, 2009 
INFORMS has honored Prof. Edward Kaplan with its 2009 Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award.

October 7, 2009 
The Yale CEO Leadership Summit will hold its first global program in New Delhi November 5 and 6.

October 6, 2009 
A study co-authored by Prof. Victoria Brescoll is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of the menu calorie-labeling policy mandated in New York City restaurants to fight obesity.

October 5, 2009 
Prof. Jonathan Koppell draws on his study of Senate appointees in an Albany Times Union op-ed on appointed senators facing election in 2010.

October 5, 2009 
Prof. Gary Gorton is the first contributor to the New York Times' DealBook Dialogue, an online round table of experts examining the topic "Too Soon to Rethink? Assessing the Financial Crisis."

September 30, 2009 
Prof. Shiller receives the prize, which honors internationally renowned economists whose work has significantly influenced research in financial economics, today at a ceremony in Frankfurt.

September 29, 2009 
PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi '80 leads the FT's inaugural list of the Top 50 Women in World Business.

September 28, 2009 
In the Financial Times, Robert Shiller writes that complex financial products have the potential to protect investors from risk and should not be discouraged in response to the financial crisis.

September 21, 2009 
In BusinessWeek, Jeffrey Garten writes that "...a global central bank is becoming a necessity in today's complex, interconnected world economy."

September 16, 2009 
Fortune names PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi '80 the Most Powerful Woman in Business for the fourth consecutive year.

August 31, 2009 
CO2Neutral2021, an organization founded by Roberto Jimenez '09, is working to influence climate change in Costa Rica.

August 31, 2009 
In the New York Times "Economic View" column, Robert Shiller writes that a social epidemic is supporting renewed confidence in the economy.

August 27, 2009 
Forbes magazine has named two Yale School of Management alumnae to its 100 Most Powerful Women list.

August 25, 2009 
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke referenced research by Professors Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick in remarks on the financial crisis delivered at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Annual Economic Symposium.

August 20, 2009 
Laszlo Bock '99 talked to the Class of 2011, offering advice on their time at SOM and beyond.

July 31, 2009 
The Chairmen's Forum urges the SEC to require companies without an independent chair to explain how their leadership structure provides sufficient shareholder safeguards.

July 30, 2009 
In Newsweek, Jeffrey Garten writes that "...America can lead the global recovery politically without having to do all the heavy lifting economically."

July 30, 2009 
For two weeks in June, forty-one college students experienced a slice of life as an MBA student, in a program aimed at helping underrepresented minority students gain a better understanding of the benefits of a management education.

July 28, 2009 
This summer marks the two-year anniversary of the start of the financial crisis. The ICF at the Yale School of Management and the Review of Financial Studies assembled researchers to discuss what they have learned about the crisis and its causes.

July 21, 2009 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller writes "...Innovation often entails tension between safety and power. We need to foster [financial] inventions that better human welfare while incorporating safety mechanisms that protect the public."

July 14, 2009 
Professor James N. Baron heads faculty search committee, along with seven other SOM and Yale faculty, to find Yale SOM's next Dean.

July 1, 2009 
Yale SOM welcomes Olav Sorenson, Professor of Organizational Behavior, and assistant professors Arthur Campbell, Kalin Kolev, and Constanca Esteves-Sorenson.

June 30, 2009 
A team of CDC researchers including Ed Kaplan has won the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award for their paper "Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States."

June 23, 2009 
Research at Yale SOM pushes forward public discussion and influences the practice of management. The new 'Faculty Insights' website pulls together information on this leading-edge faculty work.

June 18, 2009 
Yale University recently announced participation in the Yellow Ribbon Program.

June 18, 2009 
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recommended Professor Gary B. Gorton's paper on the "shadow banking system" and the roots of the economic crisis.

June 16, 2009 
The Millstein Center has released two new policy briefs: "Pay, Risk and Stewardship" and "Agenda for Private Sector Reform."

June 11, 2009 
The letter proposing broad reforms for the U.S. capital market is signed by SOM faculty, former SEC Chairman and Commissioners, Treasury and World Bank Leaders

June 10, 2009 
Ten outstanding corporate governance professionals under the age of 40 are recipients of the 2009 Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award.

June 9, 2009 
Yale SOM graduate and Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer was elected to the Yale Corporation.

June 8, 2009 
In the New York Times, Robert Shiller outlines several factors that can explain long, steady declines in the real estate market.

June 4, 2009 
172 MBA and 20 MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare grads received their degrees at SOM's 32nd commencement.

June 2, 2009 
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld wrote in BusinessWeek that, despite complex factors for the company's collapse, former CEO Rick Wagoner will be known as the man who lost GM.

May 21, 2009 
A total $193,335 was pledged to the 2009 Class Gift with all 173 graduating students participating.

May 15, 2009 
David Mizrahi '09 was selected by his classmates as best embodying the values central to SOM. He will represent the 'Spirit of SOM' at Yale University's Commencement Ceremonies.

May 11, 2009 
Lisa Kahn's research that finds graduating in a bad economy has a negative long-term effect on wages was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

May 8, 2009 
Keith Chen approaches cognitive dissonance as an economist and concludes that decades of psychological studies are flawed.

May 4, 2009 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller writes that the current depression scare is weaker than those of the past based on consumer confidence measures.

April 28, 2009 
Research by Hongjun Yan and Steven Malliaris helps explain why "nickel" strategies are popular with hedge fund managers, even when they offer lower expected returns.

April 24, 2009 
Annual SOM event raises second most in its thirty-year history, enabling more students to intern in nonprofit and public sectors.

April 21, 2009 
Luis Ubinas described how the Ford Foundation, established in 1936, continues to address the most significant challenges in American society.

April 21, 2009 
The first conference by the SOM South Asian Business Forum focuses on how India is faring under global financial crisis and what opportunities still exist.

April 15, 2009 
Nearly 200 items are up for auction this week to benefit the Yale SOM Internship Fund. The silent part of the auction is taking place in the SOM Hall of Mirrors through Thursday, April 16, with the live auction planned for that night in Donaldson Commons. This year's theme is SOMonopoly.

April 7, 2009 
In this commentary, Stephen Davis, senior fellow of the Millstein Center, highlights the findings of a recent roundtable on shareowner stewardship the center convened in New York City.

March 31, 2009 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert Shiller argues that human psychology needs to be respected alongside quantitative analysis to forecast economic risk.

March 30, 2009 
Millstein Center report calls for publicly traded companies to separate chairman of the board and CEO roles.

March 18, 2009 
A group of SOM students and Yale undergraduates won the New York Society of Security Analysts Investment Research Challenge and advanced to the world championship.

March 12, 2009 
Professor Matthew Spiegel's award-winning paper examines why some asset markets are more liquid than others.

March 12, 2009 
The Yale School of Management announced the details of this year's Yale International Student Loan program today.

March 9, 2009 
A new YCCI research program studies changing patterns of consumer spending and saving in China and India's rapidly growing economies.

March 5, 2009 
The new Accelerated Integrated JD-MBA program will enable students to earn both degrees in three years.

March 4, 2009 
Research by Professor Ravi Dhar explains how the methods companies like Dell and Nike use to help customers customize their products influence what customers buy and whether they will buy at all.

March 2, 2009 
Voting Integrity, a new policy briefing from the Millstein Center, proposes steps to boost trasparency among institutional investors and the proxy voting services that advise them.

March 2, 2009 
Countries are attempting to protect their own companies and workers from the economic crisis. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Jeffrey E. Garten argues that if economic nationalism escalates, the political and financial damage will be severe.

February 26, 2009 
Joel Klein, the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, was the keynote speaker at SOM's Education Leadership Conference.

February 24, 2009 
John Mackey, the chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Whole Foods, spoke at SOM on February 10 in a talk sponsored by the Gordon Grand Fellowship.

February 23, 2009 
Stories about the Great Depression have started to inform our expectations for the current economic crisis writes Professor Robert J. Shiller in the New York Times.

February 12, 2009 
In an op-ed on TheStreet.com, Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld argues that if Wall Street executives are really so smart, they should welcome President Obama's salary cap proposal and its pay-for-performance incentives as it will reward their success.

February 11, 2009 
William Donaldson, Ira Millstein, and David Swensen have been named to the Investors' Working Group to improve financial market regulation.

February 11, 2009 
Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, has been awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2009.

February 10, 2009 
Compilation of Yale lectures addresses the role finance, investors, and resource companies can play in solving climate change issues.

January 27, 2009 
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that the stimulus plan proposed by the Obama administration is not aggressive enough to revive consumer confidence - what John Maynard Keynes referred to as "animal spirits" - and therefore, economic growth.

January 20, 2009 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that the government should start a program to subsidize personal financial advice for all. Doing so would help people avoid mistakes that have contributed to the financial crisis such as taking on mortgages with terms they do not understand and debt they cannot afford.

January 15, 2009 
2008 was the second-worst year for U.S. equities since 1825 according to data from the NYSE History Research Project at SOM's International Center for Finance.

2008

December 23, 2008 
Join current School of Management students and alumni at events hosted around the world during this winter break.

December 22, 2008 
The annual Philanthropy Conference explored how management skills are critical to successfully addressing the sector's key challenges.

December 22, 2008 
Tapped for a top spot on Obama's economic team, Larry Summers spoke on how new forms of capital are altering the global financial system.

December 18, 2008 
View video of Jamie Dimon and Ivan Seidenberg discussing leadership in a time of crisis.

December 16, 2008 
In the December 22 cover story of Newsweek International, Professor Jeffrey E. Garten writes that world leaders have spent trillions on confused, inadequate rescue plans. They need to spend more -about $4 trillion more - to restore confidence.

December 16, 2008 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that firm economic targets, including a commitment to providing a job for everyone who is willing to work, are needed to restore Americans' confidence.

December 16, 2008 
A new policy brief by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management finds direct dialogue between directors and investors can enhance board authority, especially during crises, as well as boost shareowners' trust in their quest for optimal performance.

December 12, 2008 
The CEO of Newsweek outlined the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the company amid a shifting media landscape.

December 10, 2008 
The CEOs of JPMorgan and Verizon will each receive the "Legend in Leadership Award" at the Yale CEO Summit of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute.

December 10, 2008 
The lead architect from Foster + Partners' Yale School of Management campus project presented some of the features of the current designs-in-progress for the new SOM campus to an audience of SOM students, faculty, and staff in the GM Room on the evening of Tuesday, December 9.

December 9, 2008 
Assistant professor Victoria Brescoll spoke to the Women in Management club about how anger can keep women from getting ahead.

December 8, 2008 
Ed Hirs '81, chief financial officer of DJ Resources, recently published an essay in the Yale Daily News discussing his thoughts on the deregulation of natural gas and the struggle for energy independence.

December 8, 2008 
The seven business leaders inducted into Directorship magazine's inaugural Corporate Governance Hall of Fame on December 2 included two with close ties to the Yale School of Management.

December 5, 2008 
Yale SOM Dean Sharon M. Oster was one of five business school deans asked to contribute an essay to a special report by Forbes.com devoted to how business schools are responding to the global economic crisis.

December 5, 2008 
In a Wealth Manager magazine cover story, Professor Roger Ibbotson explains how the financial crisis developed and outlines the opportunities ahead for investors.

December 5, 2008 
Yale SOM students competed against their professors in a test of business knowledge in the Student/Faculty MBA Challenge.

November 26, 2008 
The Yale SOM Private Equity Conference, titled "The Road Ahead," brought together some 200 private equity professionals in Greenwich, Connecticut.

November 24, 2008 
A proposal to support green entrepreneurship in Philadelphia brought a team of Yale SOM first-year students top honors in the 2008 Net Impact North America Conference's Green Economy Case Competition.

November 24, 2008 
With a little ingenuity, the MBA-E Class of 2010 overcame a logistical challenge to donate more than 430 lbs. of food for a good cause.

November 19, 2008 
SOM graduate Rich Morales recently published an essay in the Yale Daily News describing how his experiences at business school helped prepare him to lead soldiers in Iraq.

November 17, 2008 
In YaleGlobal, Professor Zhiwu Chen argues that China can emerge stronger from the economic crisis by boosting domestic consumption and private ownership.

November 5, 2008 
Professor Jeffrey E. Garten, the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business, argues that governments around the world need to stop pouring money into failing industries in Newsweek.

November 3, 2008 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that groupthink kept economic experts from sounding the alarm on the financial crisis.

October 22, 2008 
Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced in a message to the Yale School of Management community that Joel M. Podolny is stepping down as Dean effective on November 1, 2008. He will be succeeded by Sharon M. Oster, the Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship.

October 21, 2008 
Second-year student bests 22 other contestants to be named the "next CEO."

October 21, 2008 
Financial Markets and Game Theory, taught by Yale SOM Professors Robert Shiller and Benjamin Polak, respectively, are two of the eight new courses offered by "Open Yale Courses," Yale University's free online education initiative.

October 20, 2008 
In an essay published in the Economic Times of India, Professor Robert J. Shiller looks at how the disruptions in the financial markets are affecting India and argues that deep behavioral causes lie at the root of recent events.

October 16, 2008 
A panel discussion featuring five SOM faculty members was held on October 7 on the financial crisis and what the future of the world economy might look like.

October 15, 2008 
Employers in consulting, finance, manufacturing, nonprofit, and consumer goods came to SOM to recruit students.

October 15, 2008 
The Yale School of Management has announced a new offering, the Pre-MBA Leadership Program for college juniors and seniors of color, other undergraduates who actively support diversity and inclusion in business, and recent college graduates who are interested in developing their leadership skills and exploring careers in business.

October 10, 2008 
Five alumni forged paths in private equity, conservation, HIV/AIDS prevention, community development, and human resources.

October 3, 2008 
Wall Street veteran Boon Sim '92, head of Credit Suisse's Americas Mergers and Acquisitions Group, provides a take on the financial crisis.

October 2, 2008 
Yale SOM experts partner with business and academic leaders for a roundtable on the current financial crisis.

October 1, 2008 
Professors Jonathan G.S. Koppell and William N. Goetzmann write that paying off all delinquent mortgages would address the underlying cause of the financial crisis, help homeowners, and revive the markets.

September 30, 2008 
SOM students and faculty take up the subject of the ongoing financial crisis and what can be learned from it.

September 30, 2008 
Professor Jeffrey E. Garten recommends the establishment of a "Global Monetary Authority" to oversee markets that have become borderless.

September 26, 2008 
The inaugural Green Consumer Values Survey, conducted by the YCCI and CBEY in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, will be presented at the Oct. 10 conference.

September 25, 2008 
The Yale president traced his achievements over the last fifteen years, including rebuilding and expanding the campus, helping to revitalize New Haven, and launching new international and environmental initiatives.

September 18, 2008 
Professor Shyam Sunder argues that the development of IFRS is good news; a government mandate to grant it a monopoly is not.

September 18, 2008 
In a preview from Q4 magazine, three Yale SOM faculty experts discuss how a dip in house prices spawned chaos in the financial system.

September 17, 2008 
Professor Jonathan Koppell argues that investment banks and other companies should pay for "too big to fail" insurance.

September 9, 2008 
Research by Professors Nathan Novemsky and Ravi Dhar, and doctoral candidate Jing Wang, may help explain why people overspend on frivolous items.

September 2, 2008 
Yale School of Management was the only American business school to hold an executive educational program at the Beijing Olympics.

August 28, 2008 
Dean Joel M. Podolny was a guest on the internationally distributed business radio program Marketplace on August 28 to discuss the new innovative "raw" case studies pioneered by SOM to support the school's integrated MBA curriculum.

August 21, 2008 
Following the Yale Global Leadership Forum at the Beijing Olympics, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld comments on the East-West divide the games embody.

August 4, 2008 
Approximately 56,300 Americans became newly infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 2006 according to the findings of the first study to directly measure the incidence of new HIV infections in the United States.

July 29, 2008 
Fiona Scott Morton, professor of economics and senior associate dean for faculty development at SOM, delivered testimony to Congress about Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program begun in 2006 that provides drug coverage to more than 25 million people.

July 28, 2008 
The embrace of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the federal government makes it official: Uncle Sam is the world's foremost subprime borrower.

July 25, 2008 
President and CEO of WNYC Radio Laura Walker '87 Receives Edward R. Murrow Award

July 18, 2008 
Yale SOM Dean Joel M. Podolny announced that five graduates of the school have been selected as the inaugural class of Donaldson Fellows.

July 11, 2008 
Ira M. Millstein, senior associate dean for corporate governance, delivered the second annual Charkham Memorial Lecture hosted by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).

June 30, 2008 
Global leaders in corporate governance gathered at Yale for a forum on the key issues in the field including the state of world capital markets

June 30, 2008 
Over $100 billion in tax rebates have gone out in the hopes taxpayers will spend it and lessen the risk of economic disaster from the subprime crisis.

June 9, 2008 
The list of Rising Stars recognizes corporate governance professionals under the age of 40 who are making their mark as outstanding analysts, experts, activists, and managers.

June 4, 2008 
Speaking to 203 MBA recipients and 21 graduates of SOM's MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program on May 25, Podolny stressed that leadership "is inspiring, engaged, and rooted in values and personal accountability."

June 4, 2008 
The kick-off roundtable for the "Chairmen's Forum" will take place on October 7 at the Yale Club of New York City.

June 2, 2008 
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel and the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut have received a gift from Daniel Rose, chairman of Rose Associates, Inc. and a 1951 graduate of Yale College, to establish a three-year partnership to conduct homeland security and counterterrorism research.

June 2, 2008 
The Carlyle Group chairman will accept the "Legend in Leadership Award" at a ceremony to be held June 5 in New York City.

May 23, 2008 
Gautam Prakash, a Yale College graduate, explains how he saw a niche for a hedge fund with a long term strategy in India and turned it into a major market force.

May 19, 2008 
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance will host the third annual Yale Governance Forum from June 9-10.

May 15, 2008 
Dean Podolny marks the conclusion of a highly successful faculty recruiting season, announcing the addition of ten new members to the school's faculty ranks.

May 7, 2008 
Renowned shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis addressed an audience of close to 80 at the Yale School of Management on April 29 as part of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance's Lunch Forum on Corporate Governance.

May 7, 2008 
Rather than hunkering down for a battle royal over executive pay, directors need to reach out to shareholders to find common ground and build trust.

May 5, 2008 
The Conference of Fund Leaders is a permanent new body composed of independent board chairs and lead independent directors of mutual funds in the United States.

May 2, 2008 
Oster, whose expertise spans multiple areas of economics, has been a driving force behind the Yale MBA integrated curriculum.

May 2, 2008 
Keynote speech for event co-sponsored by the International Center for Finance explores how the folly of speculative bubbles spans geography, culture, and time.

April 28, 2008 
"The MBA education of this century will be - must be - very different from the MBA education of the last century," writes Dean Joel M. Podolny in the first op-ed to be published under a new partnership with the Economic Times, India's leading business newspaper.

April 24, 2008 
Begun to serve Spanish immigrants, the company has come to dominate the Hispanic food market by adding products for each new group arriving in the country.

April 24, 2008 
Organizational Effectiveness, an informal seminar at Yale SOM, brings MBA-style analysis to the effort to improve nonprofits.

April 23, 2008 
Student businesses use technology to solve problems in jet engines, rural healthcare, and desalination.

April 21, 2008 
A Yale SOM "raw case" asks students to analyze a recent, highly innovative private equity deal, with strong environmental and political ramifications.

April 18, 2008 
First conference by SOM Arts and Culture club explores the intersection of business and the arts.

April 17, 2008 
After 25 years making organic yogurt, Stonyfield CE-Yo believes he's found a way to help save the earth.

April 15, 2008 
Professor Benjamin Polak explains how game theory can be critical to business decisions.

April 15, 2008 
Sessions deconstruct how to give a top presentation, so students can learn how to assemble their own.

April 10, 2008 
The CEO of Commonfund helped set the course for Harvard's endowment to become the largest in higher education.

April 9, 2008 
Reaching back to ancient history for its theme, annual auction aims to determine how much students will pay to bowl with the Dean.

April 9, 2008 
European and North American scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will converge on Yale University from April 17-19 to explore the financial and cultural history of the first great international stock market crash.

April 9, 2008 
In a Millstein Center talk on April 2, Kindler described the challenges and opportunities inherent in leading the world's largest pharmaceutical company.

April 8, 2008 
Students visit massive sorting facility at the invitation of FedEx CEO Fred Smith.

April 7, 2008 
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s plan to overhaul the financial system could officially transform the Federal Reserve into a "market stability regulator" rather than merely a banker's bank.

April 3, 2008 
Former top editor at Time, Inc. currently sees more peril than potential in media investments.

April 2, 2008 
Rita Hudetz '09 will be a featured contributor in a two-week long HBR Green discussion, providing her opinions on whether or not business leaders should have to take an oath to do no unnecessary harm to the environment.

April 1, 2008 
In a Leaders Forum lecture on March 26, Perkowski YC '70 relayed how he tackled China's automotive market by founding a major auto parts supplier in 1993.

March 31, 2008 
Members of the Global Social Enterprise club spent two weeks assisting six social enterprises mostly focused on Colombian environmental causes.

March 31, 2008 
The day-long conference will focus on the business side of the arts by taking a look at the challenges arts organizations and artists face today.

March 28, 2008 
Having managed Wellesley's endowment since 2002, Mendillo will take over Harvard's $35 billion endowment in July.

March 20, 2008 
Kalra, an Indian venture capitalist, explains the fine points of developing in emerging economic power at the SOM South Asian Business Forum.

March 19, 2008 
Tencent has created a feature area on its website devoted to Yale SOM's January 2008 trip abroad.

March 18, 2008 
Jiwoong Shin and K. Sudhir shed new light on when it is profitable for a firm to offer better prices to its current customers or to its competitors' customers.

March 14, 2008 
New classrooms will use the latest technological advances, but much of their design stems from the unique advances of the Yale MBA curriculum model.

March 12, 2008 
Speaking to students in the State & Society course, Bolton described the "deeply flawed" nature of the United Nations and its impact on global business.

March 7, 2008 
Former Prime Minister Blair will lead a seminar on faith and globalization at Yale SOM and Yale Divinity School.

March 3, 2008 
"Talking Governance: Board-Shareowner Communications on Executive Compensation" analyzes the risks and benefits of engaging in a sustained dialogue on governance issues.

February 26, 2008 
Dean Podolny participated in two sessions at the annual gathering of top leaders from all sectors of global business and society.

February 22, 2008 
Appointed in 2007 as Yale's first CFO, former NASA CFO Sykes was invited by SOM's Black Business Alliance to discuss her career and management style.

February 15, 2008 
The publishing business is a unique industry with its own path to success. Yet in his Leaders Forum lecture, George Green YC '60 stressed that the tactics he's utilized at Hearst Magazines International often apply to anyone involved in international business.

February 14, 2008 
During the first week of February, three events highlighted the growing role the environment is playing in the ongoing transformation of global business.

February 13, 2008 
Yale SOM will enhance its international offerings with a new exchange program next fall.

February 12, 2008 
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance has launched an eNewsletter that previews upcoming corporate governance events at the Center and around the world.

February 4, 2008 
The Yale School of Management will hold its second annual Education Leadership Conference on Friday, February 15 at the New Haven Lawn Club.

February 1, 2008 
It took two dozen long meetings before the owners of the Nielsen Company convinced David L. Calhoun to leave his position at General Electric to take the Nielsen helm.

January 29, 2008 
Several months after Yale picked Foster + Partners to design the new SOM campus, to be constructed on the Whitney Avenue parcel across from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the process is moving along, with the design concept expected to be approved later this year.

January 28, 2008 
A new study by associate professor Brian Mittendorf shows that a firm's decision to outsource is often based on undermining a rival, not on saving money.

January 14, 2008 
Independent chairs and lead independent directors of U.S. mutual funds will participate in the first roundtable on independent leadership of collective funds on January 22 at the Yale Club of New York City.

2007

December 19, 2007 
Bradley Abelow '89 is what Dean Joel Podolny calls a "true SOM story." He started his working life in anti-poverty work and eventually became the chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

December 12, 2007 

December 11, 2007 
Alan Murray's first Wall Street Journal columns, which chronicle the business world through the eyes of a CEO, came just as a number of prominent CEOs were being fired for a variety of infractions.

December 10, 2007 
Oliver J. Rutz of the Yale School of Management and Randolph E. Bucklin of the UCLA Anderson School of Business have developed the first model to measure the performance of individual keywords in paid search advertising on Internet search engines.

December 7, 2007 
Two very different leaders spoke to SOM audiences the last week of November - one, a career military officer at the pinnacle of his career; the other, a famed executive who served in the Bush administration and now devotes himself to overhauling healthcare.

December 6, 2007 
Yale SOM announced the establishment of the Donaldson Fellows Program for Yale SOM Alumni, a fellowship aimed at honoring exceptional alumni, and named to honor the school's founding dean, William H. Donaldson.

December 3, 2007 
Many people look at the current state of energy production and climate change in the U.S. and see an unbeatable crisis. Richard Kauffman '83 sees an opportunity.

November 29, 2007 
Victor H. Vroom, an authority on the psychological analysis of behavior in organizations, has been appointed the inaugural BearingPoint Professor of Management. Jonathan S. Feinstein, an economist whose scholarly interests include creativity and innovation, has been appointed the John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management.

November 21, 2007 
Claire Chino, a Yale World Fellow and corporate counsel for Itochu, one of Japan's largest corporations, spoke at a panel on women in Japanese business on November 13 at Yale SOM.

November 16, 2007 
After successfully fielding questions about stock symbols and famous business leaders, a team of SOM students secured a marginal victory over their faculty opponents in the SOM Student-Faculty MBA Challenge November 15.

November 16, 2007 

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November 13, 2007 
Veterans recount their reasons for joining the armed services and describe what it's like to wear a uniform for their country.

October 31, 2007 

October 22, 2007 
There are signs that the existing order in the wireless world may finally be changing.

October 11, 2007 
Five students from the class of 2008 collected $8,000 in prize money after winning the third annual competition.

October 5, 2007 
A team of Yale SOM alumni won the 2007 Yale Cup soccer tournament...

October 3, 2007 
As part of the Yale SOM Leaders Forum, Istithmar CEO David Jackson '93 discussed the state of private equity in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis.

September 25, 2007 
Owen Nee, a lawyer who has represented many of the world's largest corporations in a variety of business transactions in China, spoke about changing trends in China investment from a lawyer's perspective at Yale SOM on September 19, 2007.

September 18, 2007 
The architectural firm Foster + Partners, led by Chairman Norman Foster, has been selected to design the new Yale School of Management campus, Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced.

September 13, 2007 
Extreme price shoppers for groceries - those who contribute negative gross margins to a retailer - are a very small share of the market and do not have a significant adverse impact on retail profits according to a study by researchers at the Yale School of Management and SUNY Buffalo.

September 12, 2007 

September 12, 2007 
Professors William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst will present "The History of Financial Innovation," the first lecture in the Yale Carbon Finance Speaker Series, on Thursday, September 13, from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Luce Hall, located at 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

September 12, 2007 
Namhla Thina Siwendu, founding partner of the South African law firm Siwendu & Partners Inc., will deliver the first lecture in this year's Millstein Center Lunch Forum on Corporate Governance.

September 6, 2007 
Yale SOM hosts a variety of events each year to help prospective applicants learn about the school. Admissions officers visit cities from Seattle, Washington, to Shanghai, China, to meet with individuals and answer their questions.

August 30, 2007 
Three corporate governance experts at the Yale School of Management have been named to Directorship magazine's list of the 100 'Most Influential Players in Corporate Governance.'

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May 3, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., May 4, 2007 — The Connecticut Chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs has honored the Yale School of Management with its 2007 Destino Community Organization Award.

April 25, 2007 

April 20, 2007 
This spring the Yale School of Management published Q1, the first edition of a magazine for alumni and friends of the school.

April 19, 2007 
A team of first-year Yale MBA students won the 2007 Operations Simulation Competition this month, beating out 62 other teams of MBA students from business schools around the world. The Yale team, called "yalewillwin," was comprised of Gene Lee, Krishan Soni, Garan Geist, and Robert Doherty.

April 12, 2007 
When Sesame Street debuted in 1969, its only competition for preschool viewers came from an affable man in a cardigan sweater and sneakers. For twenty years, Big Bird and Mr. Rogers divided the preschool world between them.

April 9, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., April 9, 2007 — Private information passed through the social networks of mutual fund portfolio managers and senior company officers who attended the same university affects fund returns, finds a new study.

April 5, 2007 

March 26, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., March 26, 2007 — Healthcare 2007, the third annual healthcare conference presented by the Yale School of Management, will take place on March 30, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.

March 7, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., March 7, 2007 — Recommending a rival can increase a firm's bottom line suggests a new study by researchers at Yale School of Management.

March 6, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., March 6, 2007 — Yale School of Management MBA students will put their business skills to work for a good cause over spring break. A group of 24 students will spend two weeks in Brazil performing pro bono consulting work for socially focused organizations. The trip will take place March 10-24

February 9, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., February 9, 2007 — Pingyang Gao, a doctoral student in accounting at the Yale School of Management, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program.

February 8, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., February 8, 2007 – Leaders of the education reform movement will discuss the role of leadership in solving the problem of education inequity at the Yale Education Leadership Conference on February 16, 2007.

February 1, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., February 1, 2007 – Before you reach for that snack, does thinking about your next meal make it easier to eat healthy? Every day, people make choices that involve self-control dilemmas such as choosing between a fattening cookie and a fat-free yogurt as a snack. A new consumer behavior study from researchers at the Yale School of Management and Carnegie Mellon finds that the self-control people exercise in a decision at hand is influenced by the choices they believe they will make in the future.

January 24, 2007 
Gina Boswell '89, senior vice president and COO of Avon North America, has been named one of the Top 15 Women in Business 2007 by PINK magazine and Forté Foundation.

January 11, 2007 
Professor of Economics Fiona Scott Morton testified in front of a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee devoted to the topic of "Prescription Drug Pricing and Negotiation: An Overview and Economic Perspectives for the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit" on January 11, 2007.

January 11, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., January 11, 2007—Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) experts from leading universities and organizations will gather at Yale to explore the latest research and trends in the field in a two-day workshop on January 13 and 14. The event is presented by The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, the Center for Business and Environment at Yale, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and the Yale School of Management.

2006

December 18, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., December 18, 2006—First-year students from the Yale School of Management will study abroad during the first two weeks of January 2007 as part of the school's first International Experience, a mandatory component of the school's new MBA curriculum that was launched in September 2006. Yale SOM is the first major MBA program to require students to study abroad.

December 12, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., December 12, 2006—The 54th gathering of the Yale CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute takes place at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Thursday, December 14 and Friday, December 15.

November 20, 2006 
Beginning Tuesday, November 21, 2006, three distinguished leaders will visit the SOM campus to take part in the Yale SOM Leaders Forum, which brings current leaders in the private, public, and nonprofit world to the Yale SOM community to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing business and society today.

November 8, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., November 8, 2006—Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny today announced that the Yale Center for Corporate Governance and Performance has been renamed The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management in honor of corporate governance expert Ira M. Millstein. Millstein, a senior partner at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, is also senior associate dean for corporate governance at Yale SOM.

November 6, 2006 
A representative of PepsiCo spoke at Yale SOM on November 2, 2006, as part of the school's on-campus recruiting program. SOM hosts dozens of such job talks each year, so, why is this one a big story? In this case, the representative was the recently appointed president and CEO of PepsiCo, the most powerful woman in business (according to Fortune magazine), and Yale SOM alumna Indra Nooyi '80.

November 3, 2006 
Yale School of Management alumni D. Ellen Shuman '84 and Andrew Golden '89 took home two of the four awards bestowed by Institutional Investor magazine in its 2006 Awards for Excellence in Investment Management. The awards honor the outstanding achievements of executives who manage U.S. pension plans, endowments, and foundations.

October 26, 2006 

October 24, 2006 
The keynote speaker at the upcoming Future of Philanthropy Conference, to be held at Yale SOM on November 10, 2006, will be Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women's World Banking, a not-for-profit financial institution at the forefront of microfinance globally. Iskenderian has more than twenty years of experience in building financial systems in Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe and will address the conference's theme of "Innovations shaping the landscape of tomorrow."

October 13, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., October 13, 2006 - The Yale School of Management has the highest percentage of women MBAs enrolled for 2006 according to a census released by the Forté Foundation. Women make up 38 percent of SOM's Class of 2008.

October 10, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., October 10, 2006—Top marketing executives and scholars will discuss the latest trends in marketing and consumer behavior at the "Marketing Innovations in Products and Communication" conference at the Yale School of Management on October 20, 2006.

September 25, 2006 

September 5, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., September 5, 2006 – The Yale School of Management today introduces an innovative MBA curriculum that replaces courses in finance, marketing, and other subjects that have been the mainstay of business education for the last 50 years with multidisciplinary courses that cut across functional boundaries to provide management education in a richer, more relevant context. Yale's new approach aligns the way management is taught with the way managers operate every day and challenges students to shape their career goals around their personal values and aspirations. The 208 students of the Class of 2008 begin the new courses today, the start of the 2006-2007 academic term.

August 21, 2006 
Finance professors at the Yale School of Management have devised a new method to measure the active management of mutual funds. This new measure, known as Active Share, reveals that nearly one third of the U.S. mutual fund industry is comprised of "closet indexers" – funds that claim to be actively managed but passively invest most of their assets in the benchmark index – while truly active funds account for only about a quarter of the market.

August 16, 2006 
Indra K. Nooyi, a member of the Yale SOM Class of 1980, has been elected chief executive officer of PepsiCo by the company's board of directors, effective October 1, 2006. Nooyi will lead one of the world's largest convenient foods and beverages companies, with $33 billion in annual revenues.

August 9, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., August 9, 2006—Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the Yale School of Management, today begins his term as the 2006-2007 president of the American Accounting Association.

August 1, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., August 1, 2006—People often rely on their intuitions when making choices – whether they are deciding which sports team to bet on, politician to vote for, or job candidate to hire. A new study published in the August issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General explains why people are predisposed to trusting their intuitions even when presented with information that suggests that their intuition may be wrong.

July 14, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., July 14, 2006—Garry Brewer, the Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Resource Policy and Management at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES), has been named a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

July 13, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., July 13, 2006 - The Yale School of Management's core curriculum reform is the subject of the July installment of the Wall Street Journal's monthly M.B.A. Track column. In the article, which focuses on the multidisciplinary nature of the new first-year curriculum, columnist Ron Alsop writes, "Other schools are taking steps toward a more integrated curriculum, too, but not on the scale of Yale's bold revision."

June 28, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., June 28, 2006—Professor Owen Lamont today testified as an expert witness in the United States Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Hedge Funds and Independent Analysts: How Independent are Their Relationships?"

June 19, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., June 19, 2006—Many think of creativity as being the domain of "creative types" or those who, in a sudden spark of inspiration, are struck with a novel or groundbreaking idea. A provocative new book argues that creativity happens not in a serendipitous flash, but unfolds as a structured, definable process over years or even decades.

June 12, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., June 12, 2006—Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny today announced the establishment of the Yale Center for Corporate Governance and Performance (YCCGP) with the receipt of $20 million in gifts and commitments from individual and corporate donors, including a $10 million gift from David Nierenberg, a 1975 graduate of Yale College and a 1978 graduate of Yale Law School, and his wife Patricia, which represents the single largest gift in the history of the Yale School of Management. Podolny also announced that Ira M. Millstein, a senior partner at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges and senior associate dean for corporate governance at Yale SOM, has been named the center's director.

June 8, 2006 
Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, will be presented with the fourth annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for his article, "Exclusionary Bundling." The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Antitrust Institute on June 21, 2006, in Washington, D.C.

May 30, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., May 30, 2006-This week's 53rd gathering of the Yale CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute will celebrate the historic closure of the traumatic Enron scandal's court verdict by examining the fair scope of responsibility assigned to the CEOs of modern global corporations. The conference, entitled "CEO Intervention: Modeling Accountability vs. Meddling Actions," takes place at the Yale Law School June 1-2, 2006.

May 25, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., May 25, 2006—The book Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition by Dean Joel M. Podolny has been selected as a finalist for the George R. Terry Book Award. The award is given annually by the Academy of Management to recognize the book that has "made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management."

May 22, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., May 22, 2006—Two hundred and fifteen graduates received their MBA degrees today at the commencement exercises for the Yale School of Management Class of 2006. This year's class signifies a milestone in the history of the School: SOM matriculated its 5,000th graduate since its founding in 1976.

April 26, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 26, 2006—People are often reluctant to obtain diagnostic medical tests for serious diseases they may be at risk for including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and Alzheimer's. A new study finds that the perceived treatability and severity of a disease impacts individuals' decisions to submit to—or avoid—medical screening.

April 25, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 25, 2006—Judith A. Chevalier, the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics at the Yale School of Management, has been named a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

April 20, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 19, 2006—Widely honored design engineer James Dyson, Chairman and Founder of Dyson, will speak at Yale on April 27 and sponsor a four-hour design charrette, or hands-on workshop, for students the following morning.

April 19, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 19, 2006—The International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management will host "The China Industry Conference at Yale," April 21-22, at Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, New Haven.

April 18, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 18, 2006— The U.S. defense sector is not experiencing economic gains from the use of information technology (IT) like civilian sectors. The result, say the authors of the new paper "Bringing Defense into the Information Economy," is that national security is becoming more costly and national strategy isn't aligned with America's technological and economic strengths as it was in World War II and the Cold War.

April 13, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 13, 2006—Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny today announced that James N. Baron, currently the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, will join the faculty of the Yale School of Management effective July 1. Dean Podolny also announced that Joseph P. Simmons, a scholar from Princeton University, will join the faculty as assistant professor of marketing.

April 12, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 12, 2006—David M. Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief and columnist at The Wall Street Journal, will present the lecture "Can Newspaper Journalism Survive Blogs, Fox News, and Karl Rove?" at the Yale School of Management on Tuesday, April 18, at 11:45 a.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue.

April 11, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 11, 2006—A study that examines the demand for high-fee mutual funds finds that many investors do not realize that fund fees are important for making investment decisions, are swayed by irrelevant prospectus information, and often buy high-cost funds even though they sense they may be making a mistake.

April 7, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 7, 2006—The broad range of social, economic, political, and legal issues that arise from technological development will be the subject of a symposium at the Yale School of Management.

March 30, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 30, 2006--Dr. Eddie O'Connor, CEO of Airtricity, Ireland's largest wind development company, will speak at the Yale School of Management on Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. in the General Motors Room of 55 Hillhouse Avenue. The talk is free and open to the public.

March 21, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 21, 2006—Herb Allison, President and CEO of TIAA-CREF, will speak about the competitive pressures facing America at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, March 23, in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue.

March 15, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 15, 2006—Yale School of Management MBA student Todd Kaplan '06, has been honored as the 2006 recipient of the Anna C. Klune Memorial Scholarship from the Connecticut Chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA-CT). He was recognized for this achievement at the Student Marketer of the Year "Mark of Excellence Awards Ceremony" in Hartford, Connecticut on March 14.

March 6, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 6, 2006—Twenty-four senior government leaders from the Republic of Kazakhstan will attend an executive development program at the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) March 6-18, 2006.

February 23, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 23, 2006—Virgílio Viana, Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development of Amazonas State, Brazil will present three lectures at the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) on February 27, 28, and March 2.

February 21, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 21, 2006—Craig R. Barrett, Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation, will speak as part of the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on February 22. The talk will take place in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue at 11:45 a.m. It is free and open to the public.

February 20, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 20, 2006—Twenty MBA students from the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) will put their business skills to work for a good cause over spring break. The group will spend two weeks in the island nation of Madagascar performing pro bono consulting work for socially focused organizations.

February 16, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 16, 2006—The Yale School of Management Black Business Alliance has organized a series of cultural activities to take place at the school throughout February in honor of Black History Month. "Black History Month is a time to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements and legacy of African-Americans," said Vinice Davis '06, co-leader of the Black Business Alliance.

February 14, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 14, 2006—The Yale School of Management will host its second annual healthcare conference and networking forum on March 24, 2006. "Healthcare 2006: The Political and Ethical Challenges to Advancing Healthcare Quality" will take place 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue. The conference is organized by the Yale School of Management Healthcare Club, the Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program, and the Yale School of Management Alumni Association. Advance registration is required.

February 8, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 8, 2006—Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the 13th Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Wednesday, February 15, 2006.

2005

December 16, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., December 16, 2005—Ravi Dhar has been appointed the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management.

December 8, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., December 8, 2005—January 1 is around the corner and New Year's resolutions to save money, lose weight, and stop smoking are being contemplated. A study from the Yale School of Management and the University of Chicago helps explain who will stick to their goals and who will stray.

December 5, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., December 5, 2005—William G. Parrett, CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, will speak as part of the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Thursday, December 8, 2005, 11:45 a.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue. The talk is free and open to the public.

November 15, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., November 15, 2005—Many online retailers encourage customers to post product reviews believing that they will influence the purchases of other customers. A new study from the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management that examines the effect of consumer reviews on book sales at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com finds that this community content does have an impact on what consumers buy.

November 7, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., November 7, 2005--The Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Yale School of Management (SOM) have announced a new offering, one of the first programs of its kind: a joint M.B.A./Ph.D. degree

October 12, 2005 
October 12, 2005—Nick Brod and James Woody, MBA students from the Class of 2006 at the Yale School of Management, were part of an international team that participated in the recent Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope. The team of 67 business school cyclists raised nearly $90,000 for the tour, a transcontinental bike ride to support and draw attention to the fight against cancer.

September 27, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 27, 2005—Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, has been named a Fellow of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The award will be presented to Professor Kaplan during a ceremony at the INFORMS annual meeting on November 14, 2005 in San Francisco.

September 19, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 19, 2005—How much do you really desire a designer handbag or an exclusive watch but feel guilty about purchasing it? Maybe you should donate to the United Way or spend a weekend building homes with Habitat for Humanity. According to a new research study, "Licensing Effect in Consumer Choice," consumers who act or feel altruistic are more likely to subsequently splurge on luxury goods.

September 12, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 12, 2005—The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded the Yale Environment Management Center a $1.5 million grant to support the joint masters degree program between the Yale School of Management (SOM) and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES).

September 7, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 7, 2005—The Yale School of Management is hosting the first Yale Global Governance Forum, an historic and timely gathering of sixty of the most influential voices in governance reform from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States. On September 8 and 9, CEOs and chief governance officers of the nation's largest firms, global regulators, shareholder activists, journalists, governance reformers, as well as scholars from many top universities, will gather at Yale for the Forum to share ideas for addressing governance challenges across sectors and across countries.

August 16, 2005 
New Haven, Conn.—The Yale School of Management welcomes the Class of 2007. The 212 students arrived on campus on August 15 to take part in Orientation Week activities.

August 15, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., August 15, 2005—Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the Yale School of Management, has been named president-elect of the American Accounting Association. This is a three-year appointment to the Association's Executive Committee. His post as president begins in August 2006.

August 1, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., August 1, 2005—The charter class of the Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program begin their first academic term today at the Yale School of Management. Leadership in Healthcare is the first degree program to be offered by the Yale School of Management on a schedule tailored to the needs of working executives.

July 11, 2005 
New Haven, Conn.—Graduates of the Yale School of Management Class of 2005 can add a new accomplishment to their already impressive résumés: record breaker. In making their class gift to the school, a tradition of each graduating class, they set a new record for participation. Eighty-one percent of the Class of '05 pledged their support, raising a total of $167,695.

July 11, 2005 
As soon as news of the tragic events in Britain was received last week, the CDO and other Yale SOM staff began contacting or trying to contact SOM students and alumni known to be living and working in London. We are delighted and relieved to report that all Class of 2006 students who have internships in London this summer are safe, and we have received no reports to date of any SOM alumni being affected.

July 5, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., July 5, 2005— Sensors to detect suicide bombers before they can reach a target and detonate explosives would not substantially reduce deaths and injuries in urban settings, Yale researchers report in the July 5 early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

June 20, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., June 20, 2005—The basic economic theory that people work harder to avoid losing money than they do to make money is shared by monkeys, suggesting this trait has a long evolutionary history, according to a Yale University study under review by the Journal of Political Economy.

June 14, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., June 14, 2005—The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures announced its selection of four grand-prize winners and four runners-up at the final round of the Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, in Jersey City, New Jersey on Friday, June 10.

June 9, 2005 
New Haven, Conn.—Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, died on June 4 at age 59. Wittink was a respected mentor and scholar with over one hundred articles in the field of marketing. He was noted for his work in the study of conjoint analysis, the most widely used tool to measure consumer preferences.

June 8, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., June 8, 2005—As Wall Street bulls and bears debate whether CEO actions are a good indicator of the direction of our uncertain economy, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics will gather at the 51st CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management to discuss their own leadership choices. The conference, entitled "Is Sustainable High Performance Really a Myth?" will be the inaugural event at the new World Headquarters of Bloomberg LP in New York City June 9 and 10, 2005. Conference sponsors include: UPS, Accenture, ArcaEx, Bloomberg News, RHR International, and Russell Reynolds Associates.

May 9, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., May 9, 2005—President Bush recently announced his proposal for Social Security solvency through "progressive indexing," or benefit cuts to future generations of retirees. This is indicative of the ongoing reform debates, which have viewed bankruptcy and benefits as necessary trade offs. A new paper from the Yale School of Management outlines an economic model for a solvent system that keeps payouts, and the promised safety net for retirees, intact.

May 2, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., May 3, 2005—Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD) prohibits U.S. firms from disclosing information to only a select few analysts, instead requiring disclosures to the public. Although the Securities and Exchange Commission enacted Regulation FD with the aim of improving the quality of information reaching the market to help level the playing field between investors and analysts, it may have the opposite effect according to a new study.

April 26, 2005 

April 19, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., April 19, 2005—The Yale School of Management-The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures will host its third and final National Business Plan Competition and Conference and Awards Ceremony on June 9-10, 2005, at the Hyatt on the Hudson in Jersey City, NJ. Twenty entrepreneurial nonprofits from across the country will present their earned income venture business plans and compete for $500,000 in prize money and business planning assistance.

April 7, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., April 7, 2005— Retailers, manufacturers, and regulators have debated the controversial role of slotting allowances, the one-time fees manufacturers pay to retailers in exchange for shelf space to stock new products, with little consensus. While some argue that they are anti-competitive, others contend that they serve to enhance efficiency by helping, for example, to allocate scarce shelf space.

April 4, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., April 4, 2005—Mutual funds perform better when their directors have significant ownership in the funds they oversee according to a new study.

March 23, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., March 23, 2005—Workers who opt to invest in the personal accounts outlined in President Bush's Social Security reform plan are likely to earn less to retire on than those who stay in the traditional system, according to a new study by Yale University economist Robert J. Shiller. The research finds that on the date of retirement, the personal accounts would have negative values 71 percent of the time.

March 7, 2005 
New, Haven, Conn., March 7, 2005 - Senior policymakers from the Republic of Kazakhstan will attend an executive training program at the Yale School of Management from March 7-19, 2005.

March 3, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., March 3, 2005 - "The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" announced its selection of 20 nonprofit organizations to proceed to the final round of the Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

February 22, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., February 22, 2005--As consumers become more impervious to traditional marketing tactics, companies are increasingly turning to word of mouth (WOM) campaigns to engineer conversations--or buzz--among customers. Researchers at the Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School have conducted the first study that examines the effectiveness of firm-sponsored WOM with a surprising result: consumers with no loyalty to the firm or product create more powerful WOM than loyal customers.

February 1, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., February 1, 2005—The Yale School of Management will host a conference and networking forum featuring healthcare industry leaders and members of the Yale health-related community. "Healthcare 2005: A Workshop on Pursuing Effective Business Leadership and Management of Healthcare Enterprises," takes place on Friday, February 4, 2005, from Noon to 5:00 p.m. at the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Conn. All conference sessions are open to members of the press who register in advance.

February 1, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., February 1, 2005—Laura Cha, former vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has contributed $700,000 to endow The Laura Cha (Shi Mei Lun) Scholarship at the Yale School of Management. This merit-based scholarship is intended to provide financial assistance to MBA students from mainland China who demonstrate financial need. It will be awarded every other year so that one student will get his or her two-year MBA tuition fully covered by this scholarship.

January 25, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., January 25, 2005—Ravi Dhar, professor of marketing at the Yale School of Management and co-director of the Yale Center for Customer Insights, and Klaus Wertenbroch (INSEAD), are the recipients of the prestigious 2005 William F. O'Dell Award for their study "Consumer Choice Between Hedonic and Utilitarian Goods."

January 25, 2005 
Bright Horizons Family Solutions and CarMax, 2 companies founded and headed by Yale SOM alumni, have been named to the prestigious 2005 FORTUNE "100 Best Companies to Work For" list – an annual ranking recognizing employers who go beyond the norm to make their workplaces among the best in the nation.

January 3, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., January 4, 2005—The Yale School of Management is opening a new research center devoted to the behavior of customers. The Yale Center for Customer Insights (YCCI) will bring together industry leaders and scholars from multiple disciplines to focus on joint research relevant to the marketplace.

2004

December 14, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., December 14, 2004—Many CEOs today announce a strong interest in internal invention and fostering new ideas from within rather than looking to buy businesses. Are the days of dealmakers over and replaced by business builders? To resolve this paradox, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics gather at the 50th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management. The conference, entitled "The Return of Invention, Imagination & Integrity," takes place at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, December 16-17, 2004.

December 8, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., December 8, 2004-Yale University President Richard C. Levin has appointed Jacob Thomas the Williams Brothers Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Yale School of Management.

December 1, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., December 1, 2004—As consumers flood malls and online retailers this holiday shopping season, a new study of shopping behavior by researchers at the Yale School of Management and Duke University explains why some consumers may buy more than they intend.

October 20, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., October 20, 2004 – "The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 90 nonprofit organizations to proceed to Round II of the Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

October 18, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—October 18, 2004—Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.

August 17, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., August 18, 2004 – The Yale School of Management is launching an MBA for Executives program to begin in August 2005. The innovative new program, the Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in the Healthcare Sector, combines the resources of one of the country's leading MBA programs augmented with the knowledge, technical, and policy expertise of one of the nation's foremost medical programs, the Yale School of Medicine.

May 26, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 26, 2004—Despite strong economic indicators, international financial markets currently reflect geopolitical uncertainties that make it hard for business leaders to guide the next 12 months. In an effort to review strategic business directions amid these conditions, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics gather at the 49th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management.

May 25, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 25, 2004—Investor confidence has declined amid worries that the Fed will raise interest rates according to the latest survey results of The Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indexes™.

May 14, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., May 14, 2004—The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures announced its selection of four grand-prize winners and four runners-up at the final round of the Second National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, in New York City on Thursday evening, May 13.

May 12, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 12, 2004—Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, is the recipient of the Paul E. Green Award 2004 for his paper "Is 75% of the Sales Promotion Bump Due to Brand Switching? No, Only 33% Is" with Harald J. van Heerde (Tilburg University) and Sachin Gupta (Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University).

May 3, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 4, 2004—The International Center for Finance (ICF) at the Yale School of Management has received a $1.6 million grant for the study of behavioral finance—The Whitebox Advisors Grant—bestowed by Andrew Redleaf, Yale '78 MA, '78 BA, and his company Whitebox Advisors.

April 15, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—April 15, 2004— Roger G. Ibbotson, Professor in the Practice of Finance at the Yale School of Management, is a recipient of the 2003 Graham and Dodd Award for his paper "Long-Run Stock Returns: Participating in the Real Economy" with Peng Chen, Managing Director and Director of Research of Ibbotson Associates.

April 12, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—April 12, 2004— The Yale School of Management announced today that Dean Jeffrey E. Garten will be stepping down in June 2005, after he completes his second five-year term as dean of Yale University's business school.

February 17, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., February 17, 2004 - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 20 nonprofit organizations to proceed to the final round of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

January 30, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—January 30, 2004—The Yale School of Management has appointed a roster of prominent executives to serve as its new Board of Advisors. Linda A. Mason (SOM '80), Chairman and Founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, and Fellow of the Yale Corporation, is Chair of the 40-member Board, which includes 21 Yale SOM and 14 Yale College alumni.

2003

December 18, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.—December 18, 2003—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Associate Dean for Executive Programs at the Yale School of Management and Founder, President and CEO of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute, presided over the market open of The NASDAQ Stock Market this morning at NASDAQ's Times Square MarketSite in New York City.

December 16, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.—December 16, 2003—With the resurgent stock market, cheerful economic indicators, rising corporate profits, and geopolitical calm, 140 business and top policy leaders gather at the 48th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management to determine if these conditions will continue past this holiday season. The invitation-only conference, "Happy Days: Are They Here Again?" takes place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, December 18-19, 2003.

October 15, 2003 
New Haven, CT-October 15, 2003 - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 80 nonprofit organizations to proceed to Round II of the Second National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

October 8, 2003 
New Haven, Conn. – October 8, 2003 – In a new report released today by The Aspen Institute and the World Resources Institute, the Yale School of Management is recognized as one of six elite business schools arming graduate students with skills critical for effective leadership in a changing world.

September 30, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.—September 30, 2003—The latest survey results of The Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indexes™ report an improvement in investor confidence since the stock market bottomed nearly a year ago in October 2002, but not a consistent or strong improvement by most indicators. The market reached its lowest point since the 2000 peak on October 9, 2002, and is now up by about a third as measured by the S&P500.

September 24, 2003 
New Haven, Conn., September 24, 2003 -- Since New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation into fraudulent practices in the mutual fund industry, more and more attention is being paid to the subject of fair value pricing as a means of combating arbitrage. A Yale School of Management study cited in Spizter's formal complaint was the first to propose fair valuation method that fund companies and regulators can employ to substantially reduce opportunity the market timing and enable mutual funds to calculate more consistent and accurate daily NAVs.

September 15, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.-September 15, 2003 -- The Yale School of Management is pleased to announce that it has received a grant of $1.5 million dollars from The Goldman Sachs Foundation. The grant will help fund "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures," an initiative established in 2002 to educate nonprofits about nonprofit enterprise. This is the second such grant bestowed by The Goldman Sachs Foundation. The first, a $1.5 million contribution in 2002, helped launch The Partnership, which also receives support from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

July 23, 2003 
New Haven, Conn., July 23, 2003 – Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, is the new editor of the Journal of Marketing Research (JMR). His three-year editorial appointment began on July 1, 2003 and will run through June 30, 2006.

June 25, 2003 
New Haven, CT, June 25, 2003 - As geopolitical crises stabilize and the world economy sputters back to health, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics gather at the 47th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management. The meeting takes place at the Yale Law School, June 26-27, 2003. The conference, "The Giddiness is Gone: Resetting Paradigms for Growth," addresses the challenges of discovering hidden business opportunities within sectors that are currently not as readily identified as they were during the bubble economy.

May 6, 2003 
New Haven, CT, May 5, 2003 - The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures announced its selection of four grand-prize winners and four runners-up at the final round of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, in downtown New York City on Friday, May 2.

April 21, 2003 
New Haven, CT, April 21, 2003 – In the midst of the worst mutual fund performance in a decade, a Yale School of Management research team proposes a new financial model to identify mutual funds that will substantially outperform the market benchmark.

April 9, 2003 
New Haven, CT, April 9, 2003 – The Yale School of Management hosted a lively discussion of Professor Robert Shiller's new book, The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century, at the Yale Club of New York City last night. In The New Financial Order, Professor Shiller unveils his plan for our financial security by describing new ways to hedge against the ever-increasing risks that society faces.

April 1, 2003 
New Haven, CT, April 1, 2003 – A new Yale School of Management study finds evidence of significant change in health care leadership in the United States. The number of MBA-trained physicians is increasing dramatically and mirrors the rise in the number of MD/MBA programs in the last decade.

March 13, 2003 
New Haven, CT, March 17, 2003 – On the eve of war in Iraq, Yale School of Management expert Edward H. Kaplan, along with colleagues Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and David L. Craft, M.I.T Operations Research Center, predict the number of casualties from an aerosolized anthrax weapon dispersed into a crowded city could be reduced by half if antibiotics were distributed either pre-attack or within several hours post-attack.

March 3, 2003 
February 19, 2003 – New Haven, CT - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 20 nonprofit organizations to proceed to the final round of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

February 11, 2003 
February 10, 2003 – New Haven, CT – The Yale School of Management honors Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, with The Yale School of Management Award for Distinguished Leadership in Global Capital Markets. The event, held in New York City, gathers 50 of the world's leading financiers, finance ministers, and central bank governors for a meeting that includes a discussion on the future of global markets.

January 10, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.— January 14, 2003 – In the aftermath of the Bush Administration's newly announced economic policy package and the Conference Board's recent final recommendations on needed corporate governance reforms, more than 100 CEOs of the nation's largest firms will gather to discuss how new governance requirements, changing public scrutiny, and global geopolitics have changed their job definitions. This conference, "Building and Restoring Trust," is the 46th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management (SOM) – the nation's original CEO College – held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, January 14-15, 2003.

2002

December 18, 2002 
New Haven, CT, December 18, 2002 – The global eradication of smallpox stands among the most critical public health achievements of the last century. Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, continues to argue that in the event of a smallpox bioterror attack, rapid mass vaccination of the population in the area of the attack is preferable to ring vaccination, where only the contacts of smallpox cases would be vaccinated.

November 11, 2002 
New Haven, CT, November 11, 2002 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) announced today that Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, is the 2002 recipient of the INFORMS® President's Award. The award will be presented to Professor Kaplan during a ceremony held at the San Jose Conference Center, as part of the INFORMS® annual meeting, on November 18, 2002.

November 7, 2002 
New Haven, CT, November 7, 2002 - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" announces its selection of 80 nonprofit organizations to proceed to Round II of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

September 18, 2002 
New Haven, CT, September 18, 2002 – An egg sizzling in a frying pan as the viewer is told: "This is your brain on drugs." That vivid image was used during a successful anti-drug television campaign created by The Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) to change societal attitudes about drugs and reduce drug consumption among teens.

September 3, 2002 
New Haven, September 3, 2002 – The stock market is down 20% since the beginning of the year (as measured by the Standard & Poors 500), and The Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indexes™ directed by Robert Shiller, author of the bestseller Irrational Exuberance, show that individual and institutional investor confidence is steadily sliding.

July 19, 2002 
New Haven, July 14 to 23, 2002 – International experts who teach, design, or implement corporate governance training programs worldwide are in an intensive, eight-day Corporate Governance Director Education Program, which is being sponsored by The Global Corporate Governance Forum and the International Institute of Corporate Governance (IICG) at the Yale School of Management (SOM). Leaders from the director training institutes in nine East Asian economies (China, Taipei, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia) are attending to develop a core curriculum that will promote corporate governance reform at a corporate level.

July 8, 2002 
New Haven, CT, July 3, 2002 – In the event of a smallpox attack, a mass vaccination policy would result in fewer deaths and faster disease eradication than alternative vaccination strategies, reports a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (article 2827). Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, the best response to a smallpox attack has been a topic of hot debate.

June 24, 2002 
New York, June 24, 2002 – Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a New York-based non-profit organization, and the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) announced today a partnership to launch a new MBA Preparation Program to increase success rates for minority applicants and expand minority representation at leading graduate business schools throughout the world.

May 28, 2002 
New Haven, CT, May 28, 2002 - In response to the nation's current leadership crises over trust, accountability, and security, 100 of the nation's top corporate leaders will meet at the Yale School of Management (SOM) this week with top policy makers and leading educators. The 45th CEO Leadership Summit is sponsored by United Parcel Service, Bloomberg News, The Gallup Organization, and PRG-Shultz International.

April 3, 2002 
New Haven, CT, April 3, 2002 -- The Yale School of Management is opening a new research and teaching center to study Corporate Governance worldwide and the relationship between legal regulatory frameworks and the global economy. The Yale School of Management International Institute for Corporate Governance (IICG) was inaugurated by World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn in a ceremony today on the business school campus. Mr. Wolfensohn also was awarded the annual Yale School of Management International Center for Finance award for his contributions to business and society.

March 12, 2002 
New Haven, CT, March 12, 2002 – Fifteen Yale MBA students are enroute to Japan for a weeklong study trip to an array of Japanese firms and multinational corporations as part of their business studies of current strategy, operations, financial institutions, and general management in what is arguably the world's second largest economy.

March 11, 2002 
New Haven, CT, March 12, 2002 -- How confident are individual and institutional investors following the September 11th terrorist attacks and amid heightened doubts about the integrity of financial reporting sparked by Enron Corp.? A study from the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance announces four new indexes devised by Robert J. Shiller, a Faculty Fellow there. It shows that both individual and institutional investors' confidence remain "unshaken." Such resilient confidence, says Shiller, "Is a powerful support for the market."

February 7, 2002 
New Haven, CT, February 7, 2002 - "The Yale SOM - Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" is a new initiative at the Yale School of Management (SOM) to be funded through combined grants totaling $4.5 million made by The Goldman Sachs Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Partnership, which will launch a pioneering business plan competition for nonprofits, grew out of the three partners' growing concern that nonprofits increasingly find the need to enter the marketplace to generate new revenues beyond their philanthropic activities.

2001

December 6, 2001 
New Haven, CT, December 6, 2001 -- "YES." A recent study by researchers at Berkeley and Yale found that the Internet is disproportionately beneficial to those whose demographics put them at a disadvantage in negotiating -- primarily African-Americans, Hispanics, and women.

October 31, 2001 
New Haven, CT - October 31, 2001 - The Yale School of Management is being honored today by The Aspen Institute in New York City and The World Resource Institute in Washington, D.C. with an award for its outstanding leadership in training MBA students in environmental management skills.

June 12, 2001 
New Haven, CT, June 12, 2001 -- Where do the world's most prominent chief executives go when they want to learn from each other? CEOs from Michael Dell to Sumner Redstone to Quincy Jones would likely say, The Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI), a combination think-tank and corporate management education center. Starting this summer, CELI joins forces with the Yale School of Management to offer the first University-based peer driven leadership education program for America's top executives.

May 22, 2001 
New Haven, CT, May 22, 2001 -- Amidst the current turbulence in our financial markets, a group of leaders from business, banking and academia, established at the suggestion of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in April 2000, released its findings today on ways to improve the system of financial reporting for companies. It concluded that investors do not have all the information they need to make the most reasoned judgments on how to value companies.

March 9, 2001 
New Haven, CT, March 9, 2001 -- The Yale School of Management recently received two gifts totaling $1.2 million dollars for its International Center for Finance (ICF) to help fund collecting research and publication in financial market history.

February 7, 2001 
New Haven, CT, February 7, 2001 -- Today, the Yale School of Management celebrated the launch of a new MBA-managed venture capital fund called Sachem Ventures, LLC, a $1.5 million venture capital investment fund that is unique to the business school arena. It is the only fund of its kind run by Yale MBA students who can invest in local startups. Ten percent of the school's studentbody help manage the Fund.

 

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