School Notes: School of Management
January/February 2016

Global Network adds new member

The University of California–Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has become the 28th member of the Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of top business schools, including Yale SOM, committed to educating global leaders. Berkeley-Haas brings unique depth in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology to the network, as well as a close connection with Silicon Valley. Yale SOM dean Edward A. Snyder said Berkeley-Haas would increase the network’s ability to enrich the full range of programs at all member schools, adding that in this “intensely globalized” business world, “working with peers across institutional boundaries and from diverse backgrounds is now an imperative.”

Conference examines emerging markets and real estate industry

Investors at the annual Yale Alumni Real Estate Association Conference, held September 25 at SOM, explored ways in which demographic changes and emerging global markets are influencing real estate today. The conference included talks by alumni Joe Bachkosky ’10MBA, managing director and cohead of Rialto Investment Management’s credit business, and Joe Fahey ’97MPPM, principal of Balboa Retail Partners.

In her keynote address, Kathleen McCarthy ’00, senior managing director and chief operating officer of the Blackstone Group’s real estate division, said that there are opportunities to be seized amid the changes in the industry, and identified “macro trends” that the company has been watching closely and investing in, including the rise of the middle class in emerging markets like China and India, and growing industries like global travel.

Yale Center Beijing marks one year

To commemorate the first anniversary of the Yale Center Beijing on November 2, Yale University president Peter Salovey discussed the business applications of his pioneering research on emotional intelligence in a talk at Yale SOM that was streamed live to the center. James Jian-Min Sun, professor and deputy director of the Center for Leadership Studies at Renmin University of China, offered comments from Beijing. The conference also included panels on investing, trade, and entrepreneurship in China.

The Yale Center Beijing, which supports research and study from each of the university’s schools and divisions, enables Yale to expand existing activities and form new partnerships with organizations in China, and serves as a gathering place for alumni from throughout Asia.