School Notes: School of Management
November/December 2020

New classes arrive at Yale SOM

Amid all the uncertainty of the current global health situation, Yale SOM welcomed 350 new students this fall to the MBA Class of 2022. This fall, the school’s hybrid model of instruction has some students in-person on campus and others studying remotely. In its other programs, Yale SOM welcomed 77 students to the MBA for Executives program; 65 to the master of advanced management class; 48 to the master’s degree in global business and society program; and eight students to the master’s in systemic risk program.

Broad Center names director

Hanseul Kang, currently the District of Columbia state superintendent of education, has been appointed assistant dean of Yale SOM and the inaugural Anita and Joshua Bekenstein ’80BA Executive Director of the Broad Center at the Yale School of Management.

Established in 2019 with a $100 million gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Broad Center at Yale SOM will provide the school’s distinctive management training to leaders of major urban public-school systems in the United States, with the aim of catalyzing excellence and equity in K–12 public education. Kang brings to the newly created leadership role wide experience in public education, including her successful tenure as the head of DC’s state education agency, a leadership position in the Tennessee Department of Education, and time as a high school social studies teacher.

Alumni, friends maintain support of Yale SOM

Yale SOM alumni and friends gave generously to the school in the 2019–20 fiscal year. Despite a pause in fundraising outreach in spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 48 percent of alumni participated in the Alumni Fund, giving a total of $4 million and allowing the school to achieve a balanced budget. The total raised in new gifts and commitments was a record $120.6 million, including a historic $100 million gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to develop new programs to improve K–12 public education in large urban public-school systems.