Educating leaders on how to gain competitive advantage through the management of a robust stakeholder ecosystem.
Through MBA and executive education programs, we equip students and executives with the skills needed to navigate today’s complex business landscape.
Speaker Series
How can CEOs systematically create value for customers, employees, partners, communities, and other stakeholders—while sustaining financial success?
The Yale Program on Stakeholder Innovation and Management (Y-SIM) CEO Speaker Series explores this question directly with leaders of iconic enterprises. Moderated by Jon Iwata, Executive Fellow at Yale SOM and former Chief Brand Officer at IBM, these conversations probe the toughest “how” questions: How do leaders balance stakeholder demands without zero-sum tradeoffs? How do they turn commitments into systems and strategy? How do they position their companies to thrive long after founders are gone?
Consistent with Yale SOM’s mission, we do not view the question of stakeholder management as an ‘or,’ trading off shareholders versus other stakeholders, but rather as an ‘and’—how collaborating with, and creating value for key stakeholders, broadens the way in which organizations can create and sustain value for its shareholders more effectively.