School Notes: School of Management
January/February 2014

Conference marks opening of Evans Hall

A three-day conference in January marking the opening of SOM’s new campus at Edward P. Evans Hall will bring together business leaders from a range of industries and disciplines to examine major trends that are transforming markets and organizations around the world. Speakers and panelists for the conference include Yale president Peter Salovey ’86PhD and president emeritus Richard C. Levin ’74PhD; chairmen and CEOs of major corporations including Indra Nooyi ’80MPPM, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. Inc., and Jeffrey Bewkes ’74, chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc.; and current and former leaders from government and nonprofit sectors, including Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Sheila C. Bair, senior advisor at the Pew Charitable Trusts and former chairman of the FDIC. A plenary session will feature deans and leaders from schools in the Global Network for Advanced Management discussing today’s increasingly diverse political, legal, economic, and cultural environment. Business + Society: Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World begins on January 9. 

MBA for Executives program expands areas of focus

Beginning in 2014 the MBA for Executives program (EMBA), which currently focuses on health care, will expand to include studies in asset management and sustainability. Like the existing health-care program, the expanded EMBA program will feature the Yale integrated MBA curriculum and Leadership Development Program, in tandem with a series of specialized courses and in-depth speaker series that will prepare students to lead in complex, fast-moving, and highly influential areas of the global economy. The asset management track will emphasize the development of the full complement of MBA skills and their application to solving investment problems that affect both the private and public sectors. The sustainability track has been created to educate leaders who can use knowledge of sustainability trends and practices to create strategic value for their organizations.

Students interested in leading in these areas may begin applying in January 2014 for a spot in the Class of 2016. Classes will begin in July 2014.