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Mission Matters

Our mission to educate leaders for business & society inspires us to make a difference across industries and sectors.

Improving care for sickle cell disease

Cece Calhoun ’21

Assessing police reform efforts

A police car with a lighted siren

Adapting to AI search

An illustration of a robot inserting gold coins into a computer screen

Drawing the blueprint for a regenerative economy

Workers loading and transporting fresh palm fruit bunches

Exploring private investment in biodiversity

Bats flying across an orange sky at sunset

Expanding avenues to success

Danneka Mitchell ’24

Building civic institutions

An aerial view of Bangalore

Growing deep-tech leaders

Anne Glover ’78

Investigating who benefits from prediction markets

An illustration of three sheep with a map leading a group of other sheep

Developing young scholars

A group of doctoral students photographed from above

Answering new questions with old data

A printed page showing historical stock data

Understanding water risks

The Colorado River

We seek students who care deeply about the problems afflicting our world. 

We equip them with the knowledge, the resources, and the networks to pursue positive and ambitious change in business and in life.

Since its founding 50 years ago, Yale SOM has sought to be a different kind of business school—one that educates leaders who can improve their organizations and their communities.

Our Community

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Incoming students in SOM’s residential master’s programs reflect on the shared values and collaborative spirit that unite their cohorts.

Classes like Sourcing & Managing Funds and Basics of Accounting gave me a strong foundation and helped me feel much more confident in the technical parts of the internship. Just as important was the Finance Club. Second-year students and mentors helped prepare us to to navigate a new team, ask good questions, manage competing priorities, and understand what being a great associate actually looks like.

At SOM, the curriculum’s flexibility—and the opportunity to take classes across the university—has been a major benefit. I want to study management, but I also want to learn about computer science, politics, and international transactions. In that way, SOM has been more than just a business school. It’s a place where I’ve built an interdisciplinary mindset and prepared myself to work across sectors and borders.

Zeyu Cheng ’26