The Historian’s Notebook

In 1978, SOM built a novel partnership with a neighboring Yale school to encourage its students to tackle environmental problems using their business education.

A chance encounter led Pam Bronk Farr ’78 to enroll in Yale SOM’s first class, and put her on the path to impact in the private and philanthropic sectors.

In just a few years, Dean Burton Malkiel brought six future Nobel laureates to Yale SOM's faculty—and changed how the wider academic world saw the school.

The story behind the symbol that launched the school involves a last-minute scramble and a Yale employee who was fluent in the ancient tongue of heraldry.

Yale SOM’s earliest students helped shape the school from the start.

Members of Yale SOM’s earliest classes look back.

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.