School Notes: School of Management
November/December 2025

Envisioning a more equitable New Haven

In its second year, nine SOMers participated in the Inclusive Growth Fellowship, a program that pairs School of Management students with New Haven agencies to conceptualize economic development projects benefiting all local residents. The fellowship is part of the Center for Inclusive Growth, a landmark partnership between Yale and its home city. The 2024–25 fellows focused on ways for New Haven to attract more events, reform its zoning code, promote the use of low-carbon construction materials, and support local entrepreneurship. “The fellowship rightfully brings Yale closer to the community it calls home,” said program assistant Edward Chiu ’25MBA.

Expanding the frontiers of economics

The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, a program housed within Yale’s economics department, hosted its annual series of summer conferences at Evans Hall in collaboration with SOM. Over 350 economists and scholars flocked to New Haven for the event, and SOM faculty members spoke alongside colleagues from other peer universities and central banks of several countries about topics including early childhood learning, collective bargaining, and student debt. 

“Supporting rigorous research is a core part of our mission,” said Yale SOM dean Kerwin K. Charles. “When SOM helps put scholars in dialogue, the SOM community and broader society stand to benefit.”

Putting principles into practice

MBA students applied lessons learned in their first year at Yale SOM during internships at banks, consulting firms, museums, startups, media companies, and consumer brands. Ben Locklin ’26 explored human capital consulting at Deloitte; Jasmine Liao ’26 contributed to a new feature on the language learning app Duolingo; and Jason Kertayasa ’26 helped a Tanzanian fair-trade coffee distributor improve its operations. “This summer provided exactly what I hoped,” said Nataliia Nevinchana ’27 of her internship at EY Consulting: “Hands-on experience, leadership opportunities, career exploration, and a chance to test life in a completely different place.”