![A black and white photo of former Yale SOM dean Burton Malkiel in the classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/square_160/public/2024-07/Malkiel_September%201983_2_crop.jpg.webp?itok=PvzjXw_f)
The Historian’s Notebook: When Burton Malkiel, Author of a Finance Classic, Led Yale SOM
Best known for his book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, which introduced many readers to passive investing, Malkiel was also a Yale SOM dean who helped build the school’s faculty and curriculum.
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Yale SOM Welcomes New Faculty Members
Four scholars in economics, organizational behavior, and accounting will join the faculty in July.
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Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership Welcomes Newest Fellows
The new cohort includes Akshar Abbott, a VA ophthalmologist; Liany Arroyo, COO of the Charter Oak Health Center in Connecticut; and Carrie Bridges, vice president of community health and equity at Rhode Island’s Lifespan Health System.
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Learning Blockchain Basics at EMBA Global Network Week
During a week-long exchange program in Singapore, Manish Pandya ’25 learned from blockchain experts by day and explored local markets with his family by night
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Prof. Christopher Clayton Wins Award for Research on Geoeconomics
In a 2023 paper, Clayton and two co-authors offered a mathematical model to understand how great powers exert economic pressure on other countries.
![A black-and-white photo of the first class of Yale SOM graduates](/sites/default/files/styles/square_160/public/2024-06/Charter%20Class%20Commencement2400a.jpg.webp?itok=9kuAJu9s)
The Historian’s Notebook: The First SOMers
This edition of the Historian’s Notebook looks at the Charter Class, the first cohort of students to matriculate at Yale SOM.
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Proud & Loud: Embracing Pride at Yale SOM
This June, Pride Month marks the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and Yale SOM continues its celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, which began with our own Pride Week in April.
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Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellows Reflect on Their Time at Yale and the Path Ahead
A dinner at Evans Hall celebrated graduates of the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership, which brings mid-career healthcare professionals with a commitment to health equity to the MBA for Executives program each year.
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Dean Kerwin Charles Named to Beinecke Professorship
Charles, Yale SOM’s dean since 2019 and a renowned economist whose work examines a range of topics in labor and applied economics, has been appointed the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy & Management
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The Historian’s Notebook: Different from Day One
The first edition of the Historian’s Notebook looks back at Yale SOM’s origin story.