Build organizations that make the world better
Throughout our programs, we train you to see the opportunity for profit and the means to have impact. You’ll learn to bring rigor to every effort to strengthen your community and heart to every business decision.
Career Paths
Start in an internship
Build a career
Sample Employers Class of 2025 // HASI / Wellspring Consulting / Encore Renewable Energy / State of Connecticut / Ford Motor Company / DE Shaw Renewable Investments / Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Based on student reports that social or environmental impact is an expectation or requirement of their role.
Meet Your Community
Connect with MBA Student Ambassadors to learn more about the Yale SOM community.
Community support
A tradition of helping each other make impact
For decades, SOM students have come together to support their classmates pursuing internships in the impact sector through the Internship Fund. They don’t forget to have fun along the way.
PSEII
The Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact supports activities across the school, including regular seminars and talks, career panels, and experiential courses.
The original impact course
Generations of Yale SOM alumni who have gone on to lead impactful organizations have taken Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations.
How a Yale MBA Can Help
Our mission to educate leaders for business & society means that impact has always been part of the formula. You’ll learn the latest thinking about effective action and join a supportive and wide-ranging community. A Yale MBA will set you up for a career that will make a difference.
- See the whole problem. Yale SOM’s integrated curriculum trains you to approach complex problems through multiple stakeholder perspectives and to think broadly about the ways a business can affect its community.
- Think critically. Develop the analytical discipline to interrogate evidence, exercise judgment, and think critically about major trends, like AI and emerging technologies, the climate crisis, and economic inequality.
- Leverage all of Yale. As a great university, Yale has experts in every field, who you can connect with and learn from as you pursue your interests.
- Build thriving teams. Success often comes down to your team. Yale SOM’s collaborative culture builds the ability to communicate across perspectives and align others around action.
Impact around the world
Learn about social impact and jump in to make a difference through programs stretching from New Haven across the globe.
- Inclusive Growth Fellowship: Consult for the New Haven city government on a project to support equitable growth.
- Education Conference: Participate in a long-running forum on strengthening public schools.
- Golub Social Impact Consulting: Take on a consulting project to strengthen a nonprofit you care about.
- Global Social Entrepreneurship: Take a class in which your coursework is consulting with a mission-driven organization in the developing world.
- Inclusive Economic Development Lab: Engage with public officials, practitioners, academics, and engaged citizenry around how to drive inclusive economic growth.
Meng Impact Investing Fund
I wanted to leave SOM with tangible achievements to launch my career in impact investing. I achieved that goal thanks to the dedicated work of my peers on the Meng Fund and the support of school leadership, faculty, and staff.
