School Notes: School of Management
September/October 2024

Alumni experts mentor students

Through a new fellowship program, SOM alumni experts mentored students in the Inclusive Economic Development Lab (IEDL) last semester. In IEDL, a hands-on elective, students tackle real-world development issues, partnering with community members and drafting possible solutions. 

Thanks to the recently launched IEDL Alumni Fellowship Practitioner Program, five economic development experts—including four Yale alumni—provided guidance and feedback in the lab last spring. IEDL focuses on a different theme each year. This year’s was “place-based economic development.” Students presented their projects and recommendations to city leaders and community stakeholders on May 6.

Program focuses on Elm City growth

Yale SOM’s Inclusive Growth Fellowship, a program that pairs students with local leaders to work on economic development projects in New Haven, began this year. The program is Yale SOM’s first major contribution to the Center for Inclusive Growth, a historic partnership between Yale University and the City of New Haven that will implement strategies for equitable economic development across the city. 

New faculty join SOM

Scholars in economics, organizational behavior, and accounting joined the SOM faculty on July 1: Pierre Bodéré, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, was named assistant professor of economics. Erin Lynn Frey, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, and Beth Anne Helgason, who earned a PhD from London Business School, are both now assistant professors of organizational behavior at SOM. Aneesh Raghunandan ’11, an assistant professor of accounting at the London School of Economics, has become an assistant professor of accounting at SOM.

SOM also appointed two visiting faculty members. John Manuel Barrios, an assistant professor of accounting at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin School of Business, is serving as visiting assistant professor of accounting for the fall semester; and Emma E. Levine, an associate professor of behavioral science and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, is a visiting professor of organizational behavior for the 2024–25 academic year.