School Notes: School of Management
November/December 2012

Yale SOM welcomes MBA Class of 2014

“The world needs a different kind of leader,” Yale SOM dean Edward A. Snyder told members of the full-time MBA Class of 2014 when he welcomed them to campus on August 8. Snyder described Yale SOM’s approach to business education, saying that the school is working to be the most connected to the advantages and resources of a preeminent home university and the most “distinctly global” among US business schools. He also stressed SOM’s commitment to educating leaders for an increasingly complex world. Yale University president Richard Levin ’74PhD addressed the class the following day, discussed Yale’s history of helping to rejuvenate New Haven, and encouraged students to be a part of the city. “The university has a deep involvement in the economic and cultural development of the city,” Levin said. “What’s still missing in New Haven is more of a culture of innovative start-up companies with Yale graduates at the helm.”

SOM alumni visit Evans Hall

A group of Yale SOM alumni from the Connecticut area recently got a chance to see the rapid progress being made on Edward P. Evans Hall, the new home of the Yale School of Management. The Connecticut chapter of the SOM Alumni Association organized a tour of the building for alumni on August 3. Over the summer workers installed glass panels around the courtyard at the center of Evans Hall and the Beinecke Room, a function space at the back of the building. Steel framing for interior walls is in place, as is drywall in the building’s signature curved classrooms. With these interior structures visible, the visitors were able to get a sense of many of the spaces in the building, including the classrooms, the dining hall, the student lounge just off the courtyard, the Wilbur L. Ross Jr. Library, the Beinecke Room, and the staff and faculty offices that surround an atrium in the building’s south wing.