Key Historic Dates
1971
1971
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The University received a bequest from the estate of Frederick W. Beinecke, PhB 1909, for the creation of a program in management. Two years later, the Yale Corporation approved the creation of a School of Organization and Management, which would confer a master’s degree in public and private management (MPPM). The first class arrived in the fall of 1976.
The new school offered a two-year program designed to train managers who could be effective in the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, and who would have the skills, understanding, and perspective to move among those sectors effectively. “Business and government are growing more interrelated,” an early admissions catalog said, “requiring effective managers in each sector, public and private, to understand in depth the goals and operations of the other.”
1994
1994
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The school changed its name to the Yale School of Management. In 1999 it began offering a master of business administration (MBA) degree, while maintaining its multi-sectoral focus.
1999
1999
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Yale School of Management began offering a master of business administration (MBA) degree, while maintaining its multi-sectoral focus.
2005
2005
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The school introduced an executive MBA program with a focus on healthcare leadership.
2006
2006
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The school introduced an integrated core curriculum, designed to train leaders for the cross-functional environment of contemporary organizations. In multidisciplinary, team-taught core courses, students learn to draw on a broad range of information, tools, and skills to develop creative solutions and make strategic decisions.
2012
2012
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Yale SOM convened the Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of business schools from both developed and developing economies that act together to advance understanding of global business. In the same year, the school introduced the Master of Advanced Management program, a one-year program in advanced leadership and management for those who have earned or are earning an MBA or equivalent degree from a Global Network school.
2014
2014
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In January 2014 the school moved into Edward P. Evans Hall, an entirely new campus designed to build on the school's strengths in innovation, curriculum, community, and global engagement. Also in 2014, the school expanded its executive MBA program to include three focus areas: asset management, healthcare, and sustainability.
2017
2017
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The school created the one-year Master of Management Studies degree and the Systemic Risk track of the MMS, and in 2018 created the Global Business and Society track of the MMS.
Birth of the School
Birth of the School
Reflections on the Founding of the Yale School of Management
At SOM Alumni Weekend in 1983, William S. Beinecke spoke to the Yale SOM Charter Class of 1978. A businessman and philanthropist who served on the Yale Corporation for many years and helped shape many parts of the University, Mr. Beinecke was a driving force behind the creation of the School. In his talk to the Charter Class, he described with an insider’s perspective the process of discussion and debate, over two decades, that led to the founding of the Yale School of Organization and Management, now known as the Yale School of Management.
Read: The Birth of a School