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Mission Matters

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

Elevating ideas from worker experts

An illustration of a person in scrubs speaking to a group of people wearing suits

Asking big questions

Louis Kim

Making the business case for environmental remediations

A contaminated brownfield in New Hampshire

Creating value for investors and workers

An electrical worker examining a piece of equipment

Tackling gaps in climate finance

People building sustainable homes in sub-Saharan Africa

Scaling insights from classroom educators

Nicole Milberg at work

Advancing the responsible use of AI

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Mobilizing private investment where it’s needed most

The M10 industrial park in Lviv, Ukraine

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

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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In the Master of Advanced Management program, MBA graduates from around the world augment their business education with a global perspective on management and mission-driven leadership.

My first year at SOM prepared me to meet the challenges of this internship. The core course The Executive pushed me to see problems the way C-suite leaders do. That multi-stakeholder perspective was incredibly helpful in developing my long-term strategy as a product manager. Delivering practical AI projects in the course Generative AI and Social Media equipped me to work in a software-centric company and recognize where AI could help in my work.

I work with people in healthcare every day, but I don’t usually engage with people in finance, insurance, tech, and sustainability. The diversity of the cohort was the deciding factor in my decision to come to SOM. I’ve learned so much from my classmates, and that cross-pollination of ideas has made this a truly enriching experience for me.

Mark Clay ’26