School Notes: School of Management
November/December 2014

SOM welcomes new students

Yale SOM welcomed its largest ever MBA class to campus this fall. A diverse group of professionals with accomplishments in many industries and sectors, the class is also global, with roots in 46 countries around the world including Germany, Poland, Turkey, Israel, and Japan. The class includes 323 students, 39 percent of whom hail from outside the United States; 37 percent are women; underrepresented US minority students make up 13 percent of the class. Forty-seven members of the class are enrolled in joint-degree programs, getting their MBAs in combination with degrees in architecture, law, medicine, drama, public health, environmental management, and global affairs.

The MBA students join their counterparts in SOM’s master of advanced management Class of 2015. The MAM class, too, is the largest ever for the one-year program at Yale SOM, with 62 students from 32 countries, representing 18 schools in the Global Network for Advanced Management. 

SOM’s MBA for Executives program welcomed 52 new students to campus. The EMBA Class of 2016 is the first with students in three programs: healthcare, sustainability, and asset management.

Business leaders discuss Yale SOM’s global strategy

Yale SOM dean Edward A. Snyder will host a series of discussions throughout the fall term aimed at assessing Yale SOM’s progress on its aspiration to become the most distinctively global US business school. The first global strategy discussion was held on September 8–9 and included a number of top business leaders, both graduates of the university and other supporters. Some of the participants included Timothy Collins ’82MBA, CEO and senior managing director, Ripplewood Holdings; Indra Nooyi ’80MBA, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo; Laszlo Bock ’99MBA, senior vice president, people operations, Google, Inc.; and Pamela Carlton ’80MBA, ’80JD, president, Springboard—Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership.

Magazine cites Evans Hall’s design

Yale SOM’s new Edward P. Evans Hall has landed a spot on Architectural Digest’s list of nine best new university buildings around the world. From the magazine: “British architecture office Foster & Partners brought its brand of finely detailed design to Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, creating a rectilinear jewel box of a home for the institution’s Edward P. Evans Hall, Yale School of Management.”