Yale School of Management | Educating Leaders for Business and Society

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The Donaldson Fellows program recognizes Yale SOM graduates whose personal and professional accomplishments embody the school’s mission to educate leaders for business and society. In a series of video interviews, fellows told us about their paths to making a difference across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Our mission is to educate leaders for business & society. The drive to build successful organizations that make a difference inspires our curriculum, our approach to research, and our community.

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.

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How My Quest to Break a World Record for Global Travel Sparked Something Bigger

After visiting every continent in record time, MBA for Executives student Johnny Buckingham ’26 used skills learned at SOM to create a nonprofit that raises funds for at-risk youth through record-breaking attempts.

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Volunteers Teach Business and Life Lessons at New Haven School

A group of 25 volunteers from Yale SOM stepped into classrooms at the Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy for Global Awareness Magnet School on February 20 to teach business-based lessons as part of Junior Achievement Day.

Miguel Baca ’25

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Prof. Christopher Clayton Receives National Science Foundation Award to Support Geoeconomics Research

The award will help fund Clayton’s scholarship, which focuses on how great powers exert economic pressure on other countries, over the next five years.

Preview image for the video "Donaldson Fellows: David Browning '99". — David Browning is one of five alumni named as Donaldson Fellows for 2023-24, recognizing them as embodying the school’s mission to educate leaders for business and society in their personal and professional accomplishments.

Volunteering is an excellent way to stay grounded and proximate to the issues that I care the most about. In business school, you learn about organization-wide strategy and large-scale operations, but it is so important to understand that at the end of the day, it is people who are impacted by our decisions.

Edward Chiu ’25, reflecting on an annual event that brings SOM students to teach financial literacy in a New Haven elementary school

Following Up: Tiago Cruz ’17, Johnson & Johnson

As global strategy lead, analytics and data science procurement, at Johnson & Johnson, Master of Advanced Management graduate Tiago Cruz ’17 works to build mutually beneficial relationships between his organization and its suppliers.

Introducing Aysha Haider, SOM’s New Associate Director for Admissions

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My time at Yale ignited my passion for leveraging technology to drive change in the financial services industry. I was inspired by examples of financial institutions harnessing AI to make financial services more accessible and inclusive. Working at the intersection of finance and technology, I can play a role in shaping a financial system that benefits people from all walks of life.

Yuxia Wang ’25 Master’s Degree in Global Business and Society