Lessons from the Yale School of Management

Development economist Mushfiq Mobarak explains how implementing new ideas can be complicated by politics, unintended consequences, and the complexities of human behavior.

Finance isn’t just about making bets on stocks and bonds. It’s a technology that, at its best, opens up the world for commerce and discovery, and allows us to share risk and plan for the future. Prof. Song Ma, an expert in the economics of entrepreneurship, shares lessons from his course Finance and Society, which traces the innumerable ways finance powers modern life.

Leading a successful organization starts with getting teams aligned and working smoothly. But our instincts about teamwork often lead us astray.‌ Prof. Julia DiBenigno, an organizational ethnographer, shares key lessons that Yale MBA students learn in Managing Groups and Teams, a team-dynamics boot camp that kicks off the MBA curriculum.

Join us for a preview of the first season of Lessons from the Yale School of Management. On this podcast, you'll visit the Yale SOM classroom and hear from faculty members about the key business and leadership lessons from some of our most popular classes.