In 1978, SOM built a novel partnership with a neighboring Yale school to encourage its students to tackle environmental problems using their business education.
Emily Whitehouse shares practical guidance for discussing the MBA for Executives program with your supervisor and demonstrating the value of learning while you lead.
Their project, which examines how companies can sustain authentic commitments to purpose beyond profit, was one of 19 selected for funding by YPS, which supports ambitious climate and sustainability scholarship.
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.