Yale School of Management

Posts by Vani Nadarajah

From the Director of Admissions: Make 2016 the Year You Take the Next Step on Your Leadership Journey

By: Vani Nadarajah January 18, 2016

The year 2016 is off to a flying start here at the Yale School of Management (SOM). The first few days of January arrived with some wonderful recognition for our dean, Ted Snyder, who was appointed to another term in his post. In his official announcement, Yale President Peter Salovey...

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A Landmark Class

By: Vani Nadarajah August 11, 2015
On July 24, the Yale EMBA team welcomed the Class of 2017. This is a landmark class in several ways: with 63 students, it represents a record enrollment for the program, 40% of its students were born outside of the U.S., and—my personal favorite statistic—41% are women. Continue reading “A Landmark Class”

From EMBA's Director of Admissions: The Yale SOM Classroom Experience

By: Vani Nadarajah February 4, 2015
Yale SOM has a distinctive approach to management education. Classes are small, and the curriculum and teaching are rooted in rich discussion. Even the classrooms in Evans Hall are designed to facilitate exchange, in their layout, sightlines, and acoustics. All of that means that students in the MBA for Executives program get to benefit from the perspectives and the extraordinary experiences of fellow students. Continue reading “From EMBA's Director of Admissions: The Yale SOM Classroom Experience”

From the EMBA Director of Admissions: Is 2015 Your Year?

By: Vani Nadarajah January 9, 2015
As Director of Admissions for the Yale MBA for Executives program I have the privilege of meeting with outstanding professionals who have worked hard to advance in their careers and make an impact in their fields. Despite their success and many competing priorities in increasingly complex lives, they seem to yearn for more, to step up and do more, to develop as leaders and make a greater impact to their organizations, industries, communities and to society as a whole. Continue reading “From the EMBA Director of Admissions: Is 2015 Your Year? ”