School Notes: School of Management
September/October 2016

Global Network hosts EMBA students

More than 180 executive MBA students from across the Global Network for Advanced Management participated in the first Global Network Week for EMBA students from June 13 to 17. The students participated in modules hosted by seven network schools, covering topics from The Future of Food to Behavioral Science and Management. While EMBA students have been able to participate in Global Network Week in the past, these specialized offerings are tailored for what mid-career professionals may be currently encountering in their fields, while also providing them the opportunity to network and collaborate with fellow EMBA students.

Silver Scholars program marks 15 years

Current students and alumni of Yale SOM’s Silver Scholars program commemorated two milestones this past spring: the program’s 15th anniversary and its 100th graduate. At an event in May, students and alumni paid tribute to Professor Barry Nalebuff, who helped create the Silver Scholars program and has since recruited and mentored students in the program. The Silver Scholars program offers college seniors the opportunity to accelerate their careers by pursuing an MBA immediately after graduation. Students spend a year at Yale SOM, complete an extended internship of a year or more, and then return to Yale to complete the MBA program.  

Book reveals historical influence of finance

Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton University Press, 2016), a new book by William Goetzmann, the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and director of the International Center for Finance, explores the role that finance has had in making civilizations possible and in guiding the course of history. Favorable reviews have appeared in the Financial Times and the New York Times Book Review.

SOM alumnus named to Yale Corporation

Lei Zhang ’02MBA, ’02MA, has been appointed as a successor trustee to the Yale Corporation, the university’s governing board. Zhang is the founder, chair, and CEO of China-based Hillhouse Capital Management Group. While studying at Yale, where he earned a master’s degree in international relations as well as an MBA, he served as an intern at the Yale Investments Office, which administers the Yale endowment.