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.”

The school changed its name to the Yale School of Management. 

Yale SOM began offering a master of business administration (MBA) degree, while maintaining its multi-sectoral focus.

The school introduced an executive MBA program with a focus on healthcare leadership.

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.

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.

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.

The school created the one-year Master of Management Studies degree and the Systemic Risk track of the MMS, which trains early- and mid-career employees of central banks and other major regulatory agencies with a mandate to manage systemic risk.

The school created the Global Business and Society track of the MMS, open to those who have earned or are earning a master’s degree in management or equivalent degree from member schools in the Global Network for Advanced Management.

The school created the Asset Management track of the MMS, which gives early-career students a deep understanding of the application of data science and quantitative techniques to investment decisions, while emphasizing fiduciary responsibility, ethics, and investment performance.

The school also announced the launch of The Broad Center at the Yale School of Management, which aims to strengthen the leadership of major public school districts. The Broad Center is home to the Public Education Management track of the MMS and the Fellowship for Public Education Leadership. These rigorous, tuition-free programs are driven by The Broad Center’s commitment to equity and excellence and fit squarely with the distinctive mission of Yale SOM to educate leaders for business and society. The MMS in Public Education Management will welcome its first cohort of students in 2022.