School Notes: School of Management
July/August 2015

Global Network’s online magazine

The Global Network for Advanced Management, the network of 27 top business schools founded by Yale SOM, has launched Global Network Perspectives, a new online, ideas-based magazine featuring the expertise, research, and opinions of faculty and other contributors from throughout the network, with an emphasis on the complexities of doing business in an increasingly interconnected world. “Global Network Perspectives is a fresh way of showing the innovation of the network,” said Kazuo Ichijo, dean of Hitotsubashi ICS, “and a state-of-the-art way of showcasing the fresh ideas in business education.”

EMBA program in global top ten

In its “Which MBA? Executive MBA” rankings released on May 14, the Economist placed Yale SOM’s MBA for Executives program at number 10 globally, and fourth among US programs. The biennial ranking evaluated programs based on “personal development/educational experience and career development.” This is the first appearance in the rankings for SOM, which expanded its MBA for Executives program in 2014 to include three focus areas, adding specialties in asset management and sustainability to the existing health care focus.

Alumna honored for life achievement

Sandra Urie ’85MPPM, chairman and CEO of Cambridge Associates, received a lifetime achievement award at the US Investment Management Awards, presented by Institutional Investor magazine on May 14.

When she graduated from Yale SOM, Urie had several job offers to choose from. She chose to go to work at Cambridge Associates, a 40-person consulting firm with a focus on providing investment guidance to universities and other nonprofit organizations, where she could do the two things she “loved most”: finance and serving nonprofits. In the decades since, Institutional Investor says, “Sandra Urie has played a major role in growing a small, Boston-based, US-focused consulting practice into a global organization with 1,150 employees. . . . [She] is a trailblazer in enlightened personnel management, allowing Cambridge’s staffers to balance challenging careers with family and personal needs.”