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William Donaldson
June 14, 2024 News

Remembering Founding Dean William H. Donaldson, 1931-2024

As founding dean, Donaldson laid the groundwork for the school’s distinctive mission and strategy and recruited the first class of students to an untried program. His career also included decades of leadership in business and government.
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June 12, 2024 Faculty & Research News

Prof. Christopher Clayton Wins Award for Research on Geoeconomics

In a 2023 paper, Clayton and two co-authors offered a mathematical model to understand how great powers exert economic pressure on other countries.

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June 12, 2024 MBA Blog

Startup Stories: Accelerating the Search for New Medicines

A conversation with Arjun Murthy ’20, whose startup Maven Bio uses AI to help pharmaceutical companies streamline the drug development process.

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June 10, 2024 Historian's Notebook Blog

The Historian’s Notebook: The First SOMers

This edition of the Historian’s Notebook looks at the Charter Class, the first cohort of students to matriculate at Yale SOM.

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June 07, 2024 Master’s Degree in Global Business and Society Blog

A Day in the Life: Eric Chen ’24

We spent a day with GBS student Eric Chen as he went to class, played squash, and worked on his startup. Photos by Tony Rinaldo.

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June 06, 2024 MBA Blog

Beyond the Syllabus: Why Payment Methods Matter

In an elective course taught by Professor David Argente, students gain a grounding in the history of payment methods and evaluate emerging forms of tender, from mobile money to Bitcoin—essential skills for navigating a financial landscape in flux.

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June 03, 2024 MBA Blog

Video: Inside the Inaugural Responsible AI in Global Business Conference

We followed student organizers as they launched a multidisciplinary conference considering the potential risks and benefits of AI.

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May 31, 2024 MBA Blog

Proud & Loud: Embracing Pride at Yale SOM

This June, Pride Month marks the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and Yale SOM continues its celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, which began with our own Pride Week in April.

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May 30, 2024 MBA For Executives News

Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellows Reflect on Their Time at Yale and the Path Ahead

A dinner at Evans Hall celebrated graduates of the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership, which brings mid-career healthcare professionals with a commitment to health equity to the MBA for Executives program each year.

Dean Kerwin K. Charles
May 30, 2024 MBA News

Dean Kerwin Charles Named to Beinecke Professorship

Charles, Yale SOM’s dean since 2019 and a renowned economist whose work examines a range of topics in labor and applied economics, has been appointed the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy & Management