The Historian’s Notebook

In just a few years, Dean Burton Malkiel brought six future Nobel laureates to Yale SOM's faculty—and changed how the wider academic world saw the school.

A graphic showing the Yale SOM coat of arms

The story behind the symbol that launched the school involves a last-minute scramble and a Yale employee who was fluent in the ancient tongue of heraldry.

Yale SOM’s earliest students helped shape the school from the start.

A black and white photo of students in conversation

Members of Yale SOM’s earliest classes look back.

A black-and-white newspaper photo of people working in a computer lab

In 1983, Yale SOM took a big step into the digital age.

A black-and-white photo of a man with white hair cradling his face in one hand

In a 1983 speech, philanthropist William S. Beinecke, who helped create Yale SOM, explains how the crises of the 20th century convinced him that the university should found a school of management.

A photograph of an archival print newspaper ad soliciting applications for faculty positions at Yale SOM

Buoyed by confidence in its mission and one semester of success, SOM pressed to immediately grow its faculty.

In 2007, an unprecedented Wall Street buyout inspired SOM faculty to create a new kind of case study.

This week, the Yale SOM community will convene for an annual colloquium honoring Donald H. Ogilvie ’78, a civil rights pioneer who made a lasting impact on the fabric of the university.