Yale School of Management
The mission of the Yale School of Management is to educate leaders for business and society. This mission reflects the vision and expectation that our graduates are inspiring leaders who own and solve hard problems that matter. In 2006, Yale introduced an innovative integrated MBA curriculum, designed to better meet the challenges of contemporary organizations. As part of the Yale approach, traditional single-subject core courses – such as Marketing or Finance – have been replaced with multidisciplinary courses organized around the constituencies – for example, the Customer or the Investor – a manager must engage and lead in order to achieve organizational objectives.
By actively drawing connections between the traditional MBA subjects, Yale’s curriculum model teaches concepts and skills in a more relevant context, thus better equipping our students to succeed in today’s business environment. The school supports this integrative approach with SOM-developed teaching materials that incorporate the actual resources and information a contemporary manager must draw on every day; for instance, the school’s online “raw” case format utilizes documents such as 10-Ks and analyst reports, alongside other materials such as faculty-authored articles and media reports, to enable students to analyze business problems from a variety of disciplines and points of view. Yale SOM is also one of the first major MBA programs to require study abroad, taking first-year students on a two-week International Experience trip to locations around the world, where they interact with business, cultural, NGO, and political leaders and gain first-hand perspectives on the global economy.
Another key dimension to the Yale SOM experience is the Leadership Development Program, which, in concert with other courses and programs, encourages students to focus and develop their personal and professional aspirations, and to align those aspirations with their values and commitments. Yale SOM offers a two-year full-time MBA degree, along with a Ph.D. program, executive education, and an MBA for Executives program tailored for healthcare professionals. With around 200 students in each full-time MBA program class, the school is supportive and tight-knit. Our students come from backgrounds in every sector and from countries around the world.
Yale is distinct among business schools in its close integration with the rest of Yale, enabling our MBA students to take a wide variety of elective courses for MBA program credit in departments throughout the university or to pursue joint degree programs with seven of Yale’s other professional schools or with departments in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Accreditation
AACSB
