School Notes: School of Management
July/August 2012

Global Network gets official launch

Deans and directors from 21 international business schools convened in New York and at Yale SOM April 26–27 to officially launch the Global Network for Advanced Management, an organization that will connect faculty, students, and deans with their peers to address the complex leadership issues in business and society worldwide. Participants in a discussion about future leadership challenges agreed that business schools need greater emphasis on exercising creativity and thinking unconventionally, as well as more exposure to foreign languages, other cultures, and the economic and political systems in other countries in order to prepare leaders for a global economy. With its membership representing countries at different levels of economic development, the Global Network will provide a forum in which to evaluate how to restructure management education to ensure it addresses these challenges. Yale SOM will leverage the Global Network in the development of cases and other MBA course materials, as well as through the master of advanced management degree program that will gather exceptional graduates of Global Network schools for a one-year program of cross-disciplinary study at Yale. For more information visit the Global Network website: advancedmanagement.net.

Retired army general to head leadership program

On July 1, Brigadier General (Ret.) Thomas A. Kolditz joined Yale SOM as a professor in the practice of leadership and director of the school’s Leadership Development Program (LDP). Kolditz is spearheading the reintroduction of SOM’s LDP, which will be updated and expanded based on a set of goals and priorities developed by a faculty committee that has been evaluating the leadership curriculum at the school. He is creating a highly integrated program that will span, draw on, complement, and contribute to the entire two-year MBA experience—an innovation among top business schools. The new program will prepare SOM graduates to think expansively, rigorously, and responsibly about their footprint in the world. Kolditz had a distinguished career in the US Army, serving most recently as professor and head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the US Military Academy at West Point, where he oversaw leader training and was founding director of the West Point Leadership Center.