WDCH is an investment vehicle that Butler established to acquire a business with $1 to $3 million in annual EBITDA. He plans to purchase from an owner looking to transition out of the business, and Butler will assume the CEO role after closing the deal. “I want to be a leader and a CEO. I...

Semester-long Courses  MGT-646: Start-up Founder Practicum – Jennifer McFadden  The purpose of this course is to provide full-time Yale SOM students with a mechanism to work on their start-up ventures for credit, applying principles derived from their other coursework, particularly the...

Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Rong has always been interested in entrepreneurship. He discovered the search fund concept during his time at Yale and immediately took to its approach to entrepreneurship. After taking Entrepreneurship through Acquisition, a course that focuses on the...

Steven Silver, Senior Managing Director, Centerbridge Partners and ICF Advisory Board member, spoke to a packed classroom of SOM students in the MGT 847 Private Equity: Leveraged Buyouts course.  Steve spent the entire class answering student questions about everything private equity.  Steve...