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Information on sources and credits for Business & Society: The Yale School of Management's First 50 Years, a book published in 2026 to commemorate the school's 50th anniversary.

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Chapter I

Business Education at Yale: 1860–1962

  1. Russell H. Chittenden, History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922 (Yale University Press, 1928), 144.
  2. Chittenden, History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922, 82.
  3. Chittenden, History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922, 363.
  4. Chittenden, History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922, 319–21.
  5. Gabriel Abend, “The Origins of Business Ethics in American Universities, 1902–1936,” Business Ethics Quarterly 23, no. 2 (2013): 181.
  6. Chittenden, History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922, 321; “F.W. Vanderbilt Donated Funds for Tenth College,” Yale Daily News, May 9, 1939, 1, 3.
  7. “University and Educational News,” Science 40, no. 1042 (1914): 890–91; John Perry Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs (J. Simeon Press, 1991), 192–93; Chittenden, History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922, 322–23.
  8. Chittenden, History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846–1922, 325–26.
  9. Charles H. Warren, “Sheffield Scientific School: The First Hundred Years,” Scientific Monthly 67, no. 1 (1948): 62; Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 192–93.
  10. Pearson Hunt, letter to John Perry Miller, November 5, 1985, Yale School of Management Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, CT.
  11. “Law and Business Cooperate,” Harvard Crimson, May 19, 1934.
  12. William O. Douglas, letter to Glenn Saxon, April 14, 1936, Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society.
  13. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 190.

Chapter II

The Yale SOM Vision: 1962–1976

  1. Hanna Holborn Gray, An Academic Life: A Memoir (Princeton University Press, 2018), 211–12.
  2. Kingman Brewster, Report of the President: 1966–1967 (Yale University, 1967).
  3. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 191.
  4. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 196.
  5. University Council Committee on the Graduate School, Research and Training in Large Organizations (Yale University, 1964).
  6. University Council Committee on the Graduate School, Research and Training in Large Organizations.
  7. John Perry Miller, “Moving the Immovable, or Management Education at Yale: Search for a Unique Mission,” n.d., 7–8.
  8. University Council Committee on the Graduate School, Research and Training in Large Organizations.
  9. University Council Committee on the Graduate School, Research and Training in Large Organizations.
  10. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 196.
  11. A Proposal for the Creation of an Institute of Social Science (Yale University, 1968), 11.
  12. A Proposal for the Creation of an Institute of Social Science, 7.
  13. Miller, “Moving the Immovable, or Management Education at Yale: Search for a Unique Mission,” 18.
  14. Victor H. Vroom, “Improvising and Muddling Through,” in Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays, vol. 3, ed. Arthur G. Bedeian (Routledge, 2018), 271.
  15. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 198–202.
  16. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 202–3.
  17. Richard Phalon, “Yale Gets a Business School with a Diverse Class Roster, Curriculum,” New York Times, September 13, 1976.
  18. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 203.
  19. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 206–7.
  20. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Steven Permut, August 12, 2024, Zoom.
  21. Vroom, “Improvising and Muddling Through,” 271.
  22. Spinelli, interview with Steven Permut.
  23. Miller, Creating Academic Settings: High Craft and Low Cunning: Memoirs, 209.
  24. Yale School of Organization and Management Catalog, 1976 (Yale University, 1976).
  25. Mead Treadwell, “Pomp and Revelry Mark Start of Management Grad School,” Yale Daily News, September 14, 1976.
  26. Yale School of Organization and Management Catalog, 1976.

Chapter III

The Founding: 1976–1980

  1. Hoil Kim, “Yale’s Newest School,” Yale Daily News, November 9, 1978.
  2. Karyl Evans, interview with Jane Phillips Donaldson, July 11, 2017, New Haven, CT.
  3. Vroom, “Improvising and Muddling Through,” 272.
  4. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Christopher Jones, June 5, 2024, Guilford, CT.
  5. Spinelli, interview with Christopher Jones.
  6. “Founders Honored at Campus Dedication,” Yale School of Organization and Management News, Fall 1979.
  7. Gray, An Academic Life: A Memoir.
  8. William Donaldson and Karl Weber, Entrepreneurial Leader: A Lifetime of Adventures in Business, Education, and Government (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2018).
  9. Donaldson and Weber, Entrepreneurial Leader, 131.
  10. Evans, interview with Jane Phillips Donaldson.
  11. Donaldson and Weber, Entrepreneurial Leader, 131.
  12. Yale School of Organization and Management Catalog, 1979–1980 (Yale University, 1979).
  13. Jeffrey Yudkoff, personal communication to the author, April 20, 2026.
  14. Donaldson and Weber, Entrepreneurial Leader, 131.
  15. Arthur Swersey, personal communication to the author, March 24, 2026.
  16. Spinelli, interview with Steven Permut.
  17. Swersey, personal communication to the author, March 24, 2026.
  18. Spinelli, interview with Steven Permut.
  19. Philip Gold, “Yale’s Offbeat Management School,” Insight, June 22, 1987.
  20. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Jeffrey Yudkoff, November 11, 2024, Zoom.
  21. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Michael Dowling, May 12, 2025, Zoom.
  22. Karyl Evans, interview with Arthur Swersey, June 7, 2017, New Haven, CT.
  23. Karyl Evans, interview with Linda Mason, January 18, 2024, New Haven, CT.
  24. Karyl Evans, interview with Jim Levitt, October 13, 2023, New Haven, CT.
  25. Evans, interview with Linda Mason.
  26. Karen Guzman, “Internship Fund Celebrates 40th Anniversary,” Yale School of Management Headlines, March 6, 2019.
  27. Kim, “Yale’s Newest School”; Spinelli, interview with Steven Permut.
  28. Yale School of Organization and Management News, “Founders Honored at Campus Dedication.”

Chapter IV

Building and Strengthening a Faculty: 1976–1987

  1. John A. Byrne, “Former Simon and SOM Dean Dies,” Poets&Quants, February 29, 2016; Stephen G. Breyer, “Paul W. MacAvoy In Memoriam,” Journal of Competition Law & Economics 12, no. 3 (2016): 425–26.
  2. Byrne, “Former Simon and SOM Dean Dies.”
  3. Mike Cummings, “For Nobel Laureates, Successful Collaboration Began as Yale Grad Students,” YaleNews, October 10, 2022.
  4. Susan McHenry, “Rosabeth Moss Kanter,” Ms. Magazine, 1985.
  5. Karyl Evans, interview with Richard C. Levin, March 26, 2018, New Haven, CT.
  6. Eric R. Alterman, “Yale Management School Clings to Twin Goals,” Boston Globe, March 23, 1986.
  7. Michael M. Lewis, “Bulldog Bull: Yale’s Feel-Good School of Management,” New Republic, May 23, 1988.
  8. Gold, “Yale’s Offbeat Management School.”
  9. Gold, “Yale’s Offbeat Management School.”
  10. Karyl Evans, interview with Sharon Oster, August 22, 2017, New Haven, CT.
  11. “Dean Malkiel Steps Down, Merton Peck Is Acting Dean,” Yale School of Organization and Management News, Fall 1987.
  12. “Management Sciences Program Expands,” Yale School of Management News, December 1984.
  13. “School Establishes Loan Forgiveness Program,” Yale School of Organization and Management News 9, no. 2 (1987); “SOM Announces Loan Deferral Program,” Yale Weekly Bulletin & Calendar, December 24, 1986.

Chapter V

Conflict, Fissure, and Protest: 1988–1992

  1. Alterman, “Yale Management School Clings to Twin Goals.”
  2. Karyl Evans, interview with Benno Schmidt, April 21, 2021, New Haven, CT.
  3. Evans, interview with Benno Schmidt.
  4. Evans, interview with Benno Schmidt.
  5. “Class Conflict,” Time, November 14, 1988.
  6. Paul MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President on the Current Status and Future Strategic Plan of the Yale School of Organization and Management, 1993, Archive of the Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
  7. Karyl Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka, June 7, 2017, New Haven, CT.
  8. Evans, interview with Benno Schmidt.
  9. Evans, interview with Benno Schmidt.
  10. Swersey, personal communication to the author, March 24, 2026.
  11. Vroom, “Improvising and Muddling Through,” 276.
  12. Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka.
  13. Karyl Evans, interview with Martin Shubik, June 7, 2017, New Haven, CT.
  14. Lisa Stapleton, “Outside SOM, University Officials Remain Officially Silent,” The Exchange, November 14, 1988; Richard Bernstein, “The Yale Schmidt Leaves Behind,” New York Times Magazine, June 14, 1992.
  15. Evans, interview with Sharon Oster.
  16. Vroom, “Improvising and Muddling Through,” 276.
  17. Constance Hays, “Change Protested at Yale’s Business School,” New York Times, November 3, 1988.
  18. Barbara Carton, “Fears and Furor at Yale Business School,” Washington Post, November 13, 1988.
  19. “Commencements; Aerial Protest Darkens Ceremonies at Yale,” New York Times, May 30, 1989.
  20. Nick Ravo, “‘Where’s Benno?’ New Refrain at Yale Belies Record,” New York Times, May 26, 1989.
  21. Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka.
  22. MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President.
  23. Karyl Evans, interview with William Goetzmann, January 18, 2022, New Haven, CT.

Chapter VI

Reflection and Clarification: 1992–2005

  1. MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President.
  2. Hara Amdemariam, “New SOM Dean Plans Image Makeover,” Yale Daily News, May 23, 1993.
  3. Hara Amdemariam, “Selling SOM,” Yale Daily News, September 27, 1993.
  4. MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President.
  5. Amdemariam, “Selling SOM.”
  6. MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President.
  7. Paul MacAvoy, “Draft Memo to the Advisory Board,” March 15, 1993, Archive of the Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
  8. Yale University, “Yale’s Business School Shortens Its Name; Will Become the ‘School of Management’ on July 1st,” news release, March 1, 1994.
  9. John A. Byrne, ed., A Business Week Guide: The Best Business Schools, 4th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1995).
  10. MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President; MacAvoy, “Draft Memo to the Advisory Board.”
  11. MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President.
  12. Byrne, A Business Week Guide: The Best Business Schools; MacAvoy, Memorandum to the Yale President.
  13. David E. Sanger, “Commerce Official to Head Yale Management School,” New York Times, September 29, 1995.
  14. Karyl Evans, interview with Richard C. Levin.
  15. Jennifer Kaylin, “SOM Under New Management,” Yale Alumni Magazine, February 1996.
  16. Swersey, personal communication to the author, March 24, 2026.
  17. Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka.
  18. Karyl Evans, interview with Jeffrey Garten, 2017, New Haven, CT.
  19. Evans, interview with Jeffrey Garten.
  20. Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka.
  21. Evans, interview with Jeffrey Garten.
  22. Alumni Relations Yale School of Management, “MPPM to MBA Alumni Questionnaire,” November 10, 2025.
  23. Jonathan Weisberg, interview with Jeffrey Garten on the occasion of the Yale School of Management's fifth decade, n.d.
  24. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Ravi Dhar, K. Sudhir, and Nathan Novemsky, November 19, 2025, New Haven, CT.
  25. Jocelyn Courtney, “New SOM Center Will Examine Consumer Behavior,” Yale Daily News, January 11, 2005.
  26. Evans, interview with Richard C. Levin.
  27. Bruce Fellman, “Business with a Twist,” Yale, March 2002.
  28. Evans, interview with Richard C. Levin.
  29. Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka.
  30. Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka.
  31. Kaylin, “SOM Under New Management.”
  32. “Yale School of Management Dean Jeffrey E. Garten to Step Down in 2005,” Yale School of Management Headlines, April 12, 2004.
  33. Evans, interview with Stanley Garstka.
  34. Evans, interview with Jeffrey Garten.
  35. Evans, interview with Jeffrey Garten.

Chapter VII

Transforming the Curriculum: 2005–2011

  1. Ronald Alsop, “M.B.A. Programs Blend Disciplines to Yield Big Picture,” Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2006, sec. B5.
  2. Associated Press, “MBA Programs Get New Focus; Revamped Courses, Overseas Study Increasingly Employed by Universities,” Sunday Gazette (Charleston, WV), December 24, 2006.
  3. David Leonhardt, “Revamping the MBA,” Yale Alumni Magazine, June 2007.
  4. Leonhardt, “Revamping the MBA.”
  5. David A. Garvin et al., Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press, 2010).
  6. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Jacob Thomas, September 10, 2025, New Haven, CT.
  7. Jake Thomas, Report of the Core Curriculum Subcommittee (2006).
  8. Spinelli, interview with Jacob Thomas.
  9. Alsop, “M.B.A. Programs Blend Disciplines to Yield Big Picture.”
  10. Srikant M. Datar et al., Yale School of Management, Case Study no. 9-308-011 (Harvard Business School, 2008).
  11. Spinelli, interview with Jacob Thomas.
  12. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Diane Palmeri, July 10, 2024, Telephone.
  13. Garvin et al., Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads.
  14. Spinelli, interview with Diane Palmeri.
  15. “Yale School of Management Launches Innovative New MBA Curriculum,” Yale School of Management Headlines, September 5, 2006.
  16. Garvin et al., Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads.
  17. Alsop, “M.B.A. Programs Blend Disciplines to Yield Big Picture.”
  18. Richard C. Levin, “Announcement - School of Management,” institutional communication, October 22, 2008.
  19. Mark Alden Branch, “Surprise Exit by SOM Dean,” Yale Alumni Magazine, December 2008.
  20. Branch, “Surprise Exit by SOM Dean.”
  21. “Yale School of Management Hires Senior Finance and Economics Faculty from Wharton and London School of Economics,” Yale School of Management Headlines, May 15, 2008.
  22. Richard C. Levin, “Announcement - School of Management,” October 22, 2008.
  23. Evans, interview with Sharon Oster.
  24. Evans, interview with Sharon Oster.
  25. Karen Guzman, “Professor M. Sharon Oster,” Yale School of Management Headlines, July 10, 2017.
  26. Derek Tam and Victor Zapana, “Laid-off SOM Staff Notified,” Yale Daily News, April 8, 2009.
  27. Derek Tam, “SOM Adapts to Economy,” Yale Daily News, February 12, 2009.
  28. Garvin et al., Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads.
  29. “Sharon Oster, 1948–2022,” Yale School of Management Headlines.
  30. Derek Tam, “Design for SOM Campus Unveiled,” Yale Daily News, December 10, 2008; Paul Needham, “SOM: Project to Boost School’s Competitiveness,” Yale Daily News, December 10, 2008; Nikita Lalwani, “New Dean Plans Rise of SOM,” Yale Daily News, December 3, 2010.

Chapter VIII

Modernization, Globalization, and Strategic Expansion: 2011–2019

  1. Adam Davidson, “Is Michigan State Really Better than Yale?” New York Times Magazine, August 7, 2012.
  2. “Dean Edward A. Snyder: A Landmark Term,” Yale School of Management Headlines, June 18, 2019.
  3. Yale School of Management Headlines, “Dean Edward A. Snyder: A Landmark Term.”
  4. “SOM’s New Home Reflects Its Integrated Approach to MBA Education,” Yale News, January 13, 2014.
  5. Jonathan Moules, “US ‘super Dean’ Offers Lesson in Integration,” Financial Times London (UK), August 5, 2019.
  6. Lindsay Gellman, “Yale MBAs Question Whether Their Business School Is Too Corporate,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2016.
  7. Karyl Evans, interview with Edward Snyder, January 18, 2022, Yale School of Management.
  8. Della Bradshaw, “Yale Takes Its Global Network One Step Further,” Financial Times, April 30, 2012; Korn, Melissa, “Yale Redefines What It Means to Be Global,” Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2012.
  9. Edward A. Snyder et al., “Exponential Alliance,” BizEd 16, no. 4 (2017): 18–27.
  10. “Yale School of Management to Inaugurate the Yale Center Beijing,” Yale School of Management Headlines, April 30, 2014.
  11. John A. Byrne, “Is Yale the ‘Most Distinctively Global’ U.S. Business School?,” Poets&Quants, December 16, 2014.
  12. John A. Byrne, “How Yale SOM Climbed Into the Top Ten,” Poets&Quants, January 29, 2014.
  13. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Anjani Jain, November 6, 2025, New Haven, CT.
  14. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Andrew Metrick, November 10, 2025, New Haven, CT.
  15. Yale School of Management Headlines, “Dean Edward A. Snyder: A Landmark Term.”
  16. Michelle Spinelli, interview with Joel Getz, December 10, 2025, Telephone.
  17. John A. Byrne, “New Grading Policy Stirs Up Yale MBAs,” Poets&Quants, March 13, 2014.
  18. Lavinia Borzi and Larry Milstein, “SOM Grading Amendments Cause Debate,” Yale Daily News, April 17, 2014.
  19. Yale School of Management Headlines, “Dean Edward A. Snyder: A Landmark Term.”
  20. John A. Byrne, “Six Biggest Surprises in the New MBA Ranking from U.S. News,” Forbes, March 21, 2018.
  21. Jason Kroon, personal communication to the author, April 27, 2026.
  22. Qi Xu, “Despite Rise in Ranks, SOM Mission Unchanged,” Yale Daily News, February 12, 2016.

Chapter IX

Sustaining the Mission: 2019–Present

  1. Kerwin Charles, “Welcome Address,” Yale School of Management, March 26, 2019.
  2. “Yale School of Management Receives Largest Gift in the History of the School from The Broad Foundation for Programs to Strengthen Leadership in Public Education,” Yale School of Management Headlines, December 5, 2019.
  3. Kerwin Charles, “Letter from Dean Charles Announcing the Broad Center at Yale SOM,” Yale School of Management Headlines, December 5, 2019.
  4. Kerwin Charles, “COVID-19 Update: Cancellation of School-Sponsored Travel in March,” institutional communication, March 3, 2020; Kerwin Charles, “COVID-19: Yale SOM Staff Update,” institutional communication, March 13, 2020.
  5. Edward H. Kaplan et al., “Aligning SARS-CoV-2 Indicators via an Epidemic Model: Application to Hospital Admissions and RNA Detection in Sewage Sludge,” Health Care Management Science 24, no. 2 (2021): 320–29; Edward H. Kaplan, “Containing 2019-nCoV (Wuhan) Coronavirus,” Health Care Management Science 23, no. 3 (2020): 311–14; Joseph T. Chang and Edward H. Kaplan, “Controlling the Spread of Coronavirus via Repeat Testing and Isolation,” Significance Magazine, November 25, 2020; Edward H. Kaplan, “COVID-19 Scratch Models To Support Local Decisions,” SSRN Scholarly Paper (Social Science Research Network, April 16, 2020); Jordan Peccia et al., “Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Tracks Community Infection Dynamics,” Nature Biotechnology 38, no. 10 (2020): 1164–67; Edward H. Kaplan, “OM Forum—COVID-19 Scratch Models to Support Local Decisions,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 22, no. 4 (2020): 645–55.
  6. Jason Abaluck et al., “The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh,” Science 375, no. 6577 (2022).
  7. Matthew Spiegel and Heather Tookes, “Business Restrictions and COVID-19 Fatalities,” Review of Financial Studies 34, no. 11 (2021): 5266–308.
  8. Karen Guzman, “Faculty Update Curricula for the COVID-19 Era,” Yale School of Management Headlines, August 20, 2020.
  9. Yale SOM Alumni for Change, “We Are Alumni of the Yale School of Management Aiming to Dismantle Systemic Racism within Our School,” institutional communication, n.d.
  10. Kerwin Charles, “Dean’s Statement on Responding to Racism,” Statement, September 29, 2020.
  11. “Yale SOM Receives Major Gift to Launch Swensen Asset Management Institute,” Yale School of Management Headlines, April 4, 2023.
  12. Karen Guzman, “Meng Impact Fund Makes Its First Investment,” Yale School of Management Headlines, August 26, 2024.

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Page 1: Barry M. Tennin

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Page 119, from top: 1982-83 admissions catalog, Tony Rinaldo

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