School Notes: School of Management
September/October 2018

New program offers master’s in global business and society

The introduction of the Global Business and Society program this fall marks the latest addition to Yale SOM’s program portfolio. An inaugural class of 32 students, from 17 different countries, has enrolled in the new program, which will prepare them for global leadership roles across sectors.

With an average age of just 24, these students have all already lived, worked, and attended university in multiple countries. Class members spent the past year studying in a master of management program at one of seven Global Network for Advanced Management schools in Hong Kong, Paris, Madrid, Istanbul, Milan, Vancouver, or São Paolo.

About 60 percent of the new program’s curriculum consists of advanced courses that introduce students to Yale SOM’s distinctive approach to management. The remainder of the students’ time will be spent in electives, where they will mix with MBA, master of advanced management, and other Yale graduate students. 

Yale SOM names professorship for former dean

The Yale School of Management has named an endowed chair in economics for Sharon Oster, the school’s former dean and the Frederic D. Wolfe Professor Emerita of Management and Entrepreneurship. Oster retired this spring after teaching at Yale for more than four decades, including 36 years at SOM. The Sharon Oster Professorship was supported by a generous gift from a group of Yale College and Yale SOM alumni, faculty colleagues, and members of Yale SOM advisory boards.

Oster is also the recipient of the 2018 Irwin Outstanding Educator Award for Excellence in MBA/Executive Education. The award is given by the Academy of Management’s Strategic Management Division to an “educator who has demonstrated outstanding teaching ability, an important impact on teaching pedagogy, and deep passion about the subject of strategic management and about the intellectual development of students.”

A member of the SOM faculty since 1982, Oster became the first woman tenured professor at the school in 1983 and served as its first woman dean from 2008 to 2011. She is the author of influential textbooks, including Modern Competitive Analysis and Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations.