The Historian’s Notebook

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

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.

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.

In 1977, a student-run variety show brought SOM’s Charter Class together through satire and became a cherished school tradition.

We asked graduates from each decade of SOM’s history to recall their first impressions of the school and its community.

Robert Shiller’s work attracted faculty to SOM and inspired new research, making the school the epicenter of a developing economic field.

SOM opened its doors in 1976. But the history of business education at the university stretches back over a century.

In the years leading up to the construction of Edward P. Evans Hall, administrators and architects sought the assistance of faculty members in designing classrooms to fit the school’s innovative approach to teaching.