School Notes: School of Management
November/December 2015

New students at SOM

This fall, the SOM community welcomed 462 diverse, accomplished students into its three master’s degree programs—the MBA, the MBA for Executives (EMBA), and Master of Advanced Management (MAM)—and its PhD program. The students, who hail from 56 countries, include record numbers of women in both the EMBA class of 2017 and the MAM class of 2016; the MBA class of 2017 contains the largest percentage of women in decades.

EMBA students, who are enrolled in the asset management, health-care, and sustainability focus areas, began their three-day orientation on July 24, followed by a two-week in-residence period. New students in the MBA and MAM programs convened for a weeklong orientation on August 17.

Former Treasury secretary to chair advisory board

Former US Treasury secretary Timothy F. Geithner will serve a three-year term as chair of the advisory board of the Yale Program on Financial Stability (YPFS) at SOM. Over the last year, Geithner has participated in a number of activities with Yale SOM and YPFS, and cotaught the Yale University course The Global Financial Crisis with Andrew Metrick, the faculty director of YPFS.

YPFS, which aims to mitigate crises by improving the understanding and management of systemic risk in the financial system, is creating a repository of practical knowledge that organizes and annotates primary sources, synthesizes these sources with academic research, and summarizes the results.

Conference explores finance as a tool for social good

Thought leaders from industry and academia convened at SOM on September 9 and 10 for the Future of Finance Conference, which explored the opportunities and challenges in using financial systems to address today’s major social problems.

Speakers at the conference, presented by Yale SOM’s International Center for Finance, included leading academic theorists such as Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller, the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, and Andrew Lo, the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor and the director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management; and finance industry leaders Paolo Zannoni ’87MA, ’87MPhil, a partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs; Ranji Nagaswami ’86MBA, a senior advisor at Corsair Capital; and Lingfeng Li ’03PhD, a portfolio manager at Capula Investment Management.