School Notes: School of Management
January/February 2017

CBEY celebrates ten years

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2016. Founded by the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2006, CBEY works to advance business solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

The center oversees the joint degree program between the two schools. Created in 1982, it is the oldest joint degree in business and the environment in the United States. CBEY also initiates research projects, presents speakers, and coordinates collaboration among faculty, students, and visiting scholars and business leaders. Read more about CBEY’s anniversary at environment.yale.edu.

SOM faculty launch design podcast

Designers Jessica Helfand and Michael Bierut, two prominent graphic designers who have joined the Yale SOM faculty to teach about the intersection of business and design, are hosting a new podcast this fall on the subject, titled The Design Of Business/The Business of Design. The podcast will be recorded in conjunction with Helfand and Bierut’s Yale SOM course Twelve Design Ideas that Changed the World, which will examine a series of design challenges and their solutions. The guest speakers will include designers, their clients at a variety of organizations, and business leaders. Listen to The Design Of Business/The Business of Design on Soundcloud or iTunes.

Alumni leaders speak at SOM

Three alumni leading prominent global organizations spoke at SOM this fall. Joe Tsai ’86, ’90JD, executive vice chairman of the Alibaba Group, discussed global expansion as part of SOM’s Becton Fellowship lecture series on September 30. Neal Keny-Guyer ’82, CEO of Mercy Corps, also spoke as a Becton Fellow on November 3. On November 10, Indra K. Nooyi ’80MPPM, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, spoke as part of the Leaders Forum lecture series.