School Notes: School of Management
March/April 2014

New campus opens

The School of Management inaugurated Edward P. Evans Hall, its new campus, with a ceremony on January 9 where past and present leaders of the school and university reflected on how the new building will help SOM achieve its global ambitions and its mission to educate leaders for business and society. Dean Edward A. Snyder delivered remarks, along with Yale president Peter Salovey ’86PhD; former SOM dean and current faculty member Sharon M. Oster; founding SOM dean William Donaldson ’53; and William Beinecke ’36, a philanthropist and longtime supporter of the school. Following the ceremony, a three-day conference celebrated the achievements and ideas of Yale SOM alumni and faculty, and featured panels that examined major trends transforming markets and organizations around the world.

You can watch video of all of the panels and read interviews with some panelists at http://som.yale.edu/news/news/business-society-overview. (For a Yale Alumni Magazine article on the new building, see page 40.)

Global Network for Advanced Management expanding

The Global Network for Advanced Management is expanding its Global Network Week and Global Network Courses programs. Global Network Week, which gives students at schools in the network the opportunity to select another school for a one-week intensive mini-course, will expand to 12 schools, with room for more than 470 students, in March 2014. Additional Global Network Weeks are planned for the second half of 2014 and the first half of 2015.

Global Network Courses, in which students across the network attend classes and collaborate on group projects over the Internet, are a newer innovation. The first two courses, based at Yale SOM, began in September 2013. 

Deans from network schools have also agreed to add two more business schools to the international network. With the addition of Berlin’s ESMT, an innovative 11-year-old school founded by a consortium of businesses, and HEC Paris, one of Europe’s top-ranked business schools, the network now has 25 top business schools around the world, including Yale SOM.