Giving Catalog

Yale SOM, guided by its mission to educate leaders for business and society, has been a pioneer in management education since its founding nearly 50 years ago. The school’s future development and growth is directly dependent on its faculty, and especially on the addition of new faculty members, to build and strengthen specific areas of management expertise at the school. Endowing a New Initiatives Professorship enables Yale SOM to recruit a leading scholar into its academic community by adding an incremental faculty position.

One of the historic strengths of Yale SOM is the quality of its faculty; they are renowned academicians, practitioners, as well as thought-leaders in their fields. Awarded to an existing faculty member, an endowed professorship enables the school to maintain the stature and excellence of its faculty.

Every year, Yale SOM invites outstanding faculty members from other institutions to campus, and this exchange produces new dialogue, collaborative work, and fresh insight into current issues in management education. Endowed gifts to support these positions allow Yale SOM to recruit exceptional thought leaders and fund their full participation in the school’s activities.

Endowed, named lecturer positions help the school to recruit exceptional thought leaders for one- to three-year terms and support their teaching engagement at the school. Lecturers play an important role in expanding the school’s curricular and programmatic activities and providing greater mentoring opportunities for students.

Junior faculty members are emerging leaders in their respective fields who bring innovative perspectives on management problems and processes to their teaching at Yale SOM. Endowed fellowships can be established to provide one- to three-year appointments to top junior faculty members. This will help Yale SOM recruit and mentor tomorrow’s leading scholars, and the fellowship will provide the faculty member with critical support for research materials and data, conference participation, research assistants, and other resources.

Yale SOM seeks to offer unique post-doctoral fellowship opportunities for promising scholars who are pursuing tenure by providing them with a place to research and have mentoring relationships with senior faculty. The fellowship would specifically support academics at tenure review milestones—third and sixth years of the process—to retain promising scholars in the academe.

Yale SOM students have unparalleled access to expertise through our world-renowned faculty of dedicated teachers and leading researchers who play an outsized role in shaping business theory, policy, and practice. Named faculty excellence awards can serve to retain our prominent academics and attract more exceptional scholars to join our faculty.

Yale SOM faculty are renowned scholars, practitioners, and thought leaders in management education. The influence of their research is felt in the classroom, at Yale, and beyond. Endowed gifts to support faculty research are critical to ensuring that Yale SOM continues to be a vital contributor in all fields of management research. Specifically, the school seeks to increase the number of research assistants who support the path-breaking research and data analysis conducted by Yale SOM faculty. Having a strong team of research assistants helps Yale SOM attract and retain the very best scholars in the field. To provide flexibility in the near term and to secure permanent support, the Dean seeks the creation of both spendable and endowed funds.

In the highly competitive business school environment, scholarships are critically important in continuing to attract top talent to Yale SOM. Endowed gifts in support of merit scholarships help to defray the rising costs of tuition and provide professional development and curriculum-related experiential opportunities.

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In the highly competitive business school environment, scholarships are critically important in continuing to attract top talent to Yale SOM. Endowed gifts in support of merit scholarships help to defray the rising costs of tuition and provide professional development and curriculum-related experiential opportunities.

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The Yale SOM doctoral program is small and highly selective, offering specialization in the management fields of accounting, financial economics, marketing, operations, and organizations and management. The program produces students who engage in scholarly research and teach in university settings around the world. Endowed gifts supporting doctoral fellowships enable students to finish their research in a timely manner and ultimately underwrite the professional formation of a new generation of scholars.

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In the highly competitive business school environment, scholarships are critically important in continuing to attract top talent to Yale SOM. Endowed gifts in support of merit scholarships help to defray the rising costs of tuition and provide professional development and curriculum-related experiential opportunities.

With a gift of $250,000 or more, you can establish a named merit scholarship fund, and you may choose to designate a preference for the students your scholarship will support, such as a field of interest or industry.

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In the highly competitive business school environment, scholarships are critically important in continuing to attract top talent to Yale SOM. With a gift of $100,000 or more, your named merit scholarship can help support one Yale SOM student per year for as many as five years, with a preference designated.

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In the highly competitive business school environment, scholarships are critically important in continuing to attract top talent to Yale SOM. Endowed gifts in support of merit scholarships help to defray the rising costs of tuition and provide professional development and curriculum-related experiential opportunities.

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Yale SOM offers the opportunity to pursue an MBA in combination with a degree from one of the university’s world-class graduate programs. The school has 11 joint-degree programs, which places us high among our peer business schools in terms of joint- and/or dual- degree programs offered. These robust joint-degree programs help the school fulfill its mission to educate leaders for business and society—the MBA combined with expertise in another discipline positions our students to address some of the most vexing and important problems facing our world. Scholarships play a critical role in our ability to attract top students, especially as the cost of a third year of study deters many talented students from applying to one of these programs.

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Yale SOM offers five one-year programs leading to the degree of Master of Management Studies (MMS): MMS in Asset Management, MMS in Global Business and Society, MMS in Public Education Management, MMM in Systemic Risk, and MMS in Technology Management, along with a one-year Master in Advanced Management degree. Scholarships play a critical role in our ability to attract top students to these prestigious programs that provide students with unparalleled management training and strengthens their professional skills.

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The Yale SOM Loan Forgiveness Program is the first of its kind among business schools and is widely emulated in business and law schools around the country. It underscores the school’s mission to educate leaders for business and society by providing support to qualified recent graduates who wish to pursue careers in the public or nonprofit sectors. Hundreds of Yale SOM graduates have benefited from the program and pursued impactful careers in fields that are less lucrative than those in the private sector. Endowed gifts to the Loan Forgiveness Program ensure the continuation and future growth of this signature Yale SOM initiative.

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In the highly competitive business school market, scholarships are critically important in continuing to attract top talent to Yale SOM. With a one-time gift of $10,000 to the Yale SOM Alumni Fund, you can name a one-year, partial merit Dean’s Society Scholarship that will help support a Yale SOM student, without any preferences designated.

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Yale SOM is a world-renowned leader in behavioral economics, finance, marketing, and decision-making. With a strong interdisciplinary approach to research, SOM’s behavioral science faculty members pioneer analyses of the complex challenges that matter in people’s lives. Highly cooperative in their approach, these scholars deploy multiple lenses from a variety of fields to arrive at understandings across a range of topics—from investing to philanthropy to consumer preferences. The school aims to build on unmatched strengths in these behavior-informed fields and cultivate its next generation of behavioral science thought leaders by establishing an Initiative in Behavioral Management Studies at SOM with an endowed gift of $10 million.

The Organizational Behavior (OB) faculty at Yale SOM includes some of the most accomplished scholars at the school. These faculty members pursue interdisciplinary research into a range of topics of pressing interest to contemporary businesses and leaders, embark upon impactful collaborations with scholars across Yale and around the world, and cultivate the professional development and success of the school’s degree candidates, both in and beyond the field. One priority for the OB faculty is to create an initiative focused on research that advances effective work, workforces, and workplaces.

Yale Center Beijing (YCB) is one of Yale University’s key global hubs for activities and collaborations in China and the Asia-Pacific region. The work of the Center advances the university’s mission to improve our world by bringing together luminaries from the U.S., China, and beyond. Your gift toward endowing YCB will enable the Center to exist in perpetuity as a gathering place for Yale alumni, faculty, and friends to innovate, inspire, and exchange ideas.

To provide flexibility in the near term and to secure permanent support, the Dean seeks the creation of both spendable and endowed funds.

Since its founding, Yale SOM has been transforming management education. This began with the school’s distinct mission to educate leaders for business and society, and it has continued with the school’s innovative integrated MBA curriculum and pioneering web-based “raw” case studies that are open-ended, multi-perspective presentations. There is ongoing need to develop original teaching and learning materials, courses, case studies, and experiential opportunities for students. A gift of $100,000 will create a spendable fund to provide critical current-use support to pedagogical innovations, ensuring a Yale SOM education takes a broad view of management challenges and teaches students to draw on ideas from different arenas in solving problems to improve society. A gift of $2,000,000 or more will create an endowed fund to support this vital work in perpetuity.

Yale SOM is committed to supporting and creating a strong student community that is grounded in the school’s distinct mission to educate leaders for business and society. The school aims to promote unity and wellness to offer a richer learning environment for all. The Community Resource Fund would support a range of activities: programs that advance understanding and curiosity; programs focused on health and wellness; and opportunities for students to explore the wider Yale campus, the surrounding area, and meet with faculty outside the classroom. This builds a strong sense of community and networks that are essential to SOM culture.

Endowed gifts to support Executive Fellows at the school enrich classroom learning and discussion by enabling Yale SOM to invite practitioners to share their expertise and management strategies developed in response to real-world problems.

Your gift will create a spendable fund supporting Yale SOM’s Centers and Initiatives as these programs host a range of conferences, speaker series, and colloquia that bring together leading scholars and practitioners, faculty, and students on current topics.

Yale SOM’s Digital Learning Initiatives advance the school’s mission by providing learners across the globe access to Yale faculty and research through our digital programs. Your gift will help to design, develop, and deliver digital learning that encompasses key elements of a uniquely Yale experience–the faculty expertise, heritage of excellence, and community building.

The Yale SOM Dean’s Special Initiatives Fund provides the school with the financial flexibility to develop innovative programming and strategic initiatives and to proactively respond to emerging needs of students and the SOM community. Gifts to endow the Dean’s Special Initiatives Fund enable the Dean to direct funds to where the school needs them most, including curriculum development, scholarships and loan forgiveness, and operational priorities.

Endowed gifts to the Information Technology Fund help to keep Yale SOM’s classrooms and important research programs and networks both cutting-edge and competitive.

In the highly competitive business school market, scholarships are critically important in continuing to attract top talent to Yale SOM. With a one-time gift of $10,000 to the Yale SOM Alumni Fund, you can name a one-year, partial merit Dean’s Society Scholarship that will help support a Yale SOM student, without any preferences designated.

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The Yale SOM Alumni Fund directly supports the school’s mission to educate leaders for business and society. As Yale SOM redefines management education through its integrated curriculum, the Alumni Fund provides critical resources for the school’s strategic priorities. The impact of collective giving by alumni is powerful. It sends an important signal to applicants, demonstrates the strength of the alumni community, and helps the school be fiscally sound while also investing in new ideas and initiatives.

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Evans Hall is a teaching and learning environment, a hub for conversation and deliberation, an incubator of ideas, and a platform for launching new ventures and networks. Designed by Foster + Partners, Yale SOM’s innovative campus opened in 2014 and has been supporting the school’s unique curriculum ever since through state-of-the-art classrooms, faculty offices, research centers, and meeting spaces organized around the enclosed Shen Courtyard. 

With its brilliant transparency and unfettered sightlines, Evans Hall embodies and powerfully signifies Yale SOM’s distinct approach to leadership and management education, integration with Yale University, and deep connection with the broader community. Wholly modern in conception and outlook, and modeling use of green construction materials and practices, SOM’s academic home is a notable sight among Yale’s distinguished architectural landmarks and the embodiment of the business school of the 21st century.

Spanning the length of the Shen Courtyard, this central terrace adjoins both the Dining Terrace and the Student Commons Terrace. Situated directly across from the main entrance to Evans Hall, its provenance makes it the ideal location for commencement ceremonies and other special events at Yale SOM.

Currently holding The Broad Center Suite, this well-appointed ~700 square ft. space features workstations, a communal workspace, a huddle room with built-in technology, and a kitchenette. It is prominently situated next to the Dean’s Suite and off the central Atrium in the Bekenstein Wing on the first floor.

Currently housing the Executive MBA Program and Global Programs, this contiguous suite features offices, workstations, huddle rooms, and a kitchenette. It is situated in the Bekenstein Wing on the second floor.

Situated within the Dean’s Suite on the first floor, each spacious office provides a flexible work and meeting space for the school’s senior leadership.

The IT Help Desk and Reception Area serves as the central hub for tech services and assistance provided to SOM students, faculty, and staff. It is situated adjacent to the Entrepreneurship Suite on the lower level.

An individual senior faculty office (220 sq. ft.).

This space is an individual junior faculty office (140 sq. ft.).

This is a functional and comfortable space, integrated with Zoom technology, for meetings, group work, and related activities, used primarily by the SOM Tech team and students and staff of the Program on Entrepreneurship. It is situated on the lower level (6- to 8-person capacity).

This is a functional and comfortable space for student meetings, mentorship consultations, and related activities. It is situated within the Entrepreneurship Suite on the lower level (4-person capacity).

Outfitted with state-of-the-art technology, this multi-purpose space can be used by students for study, in-person and virtual interviews, and practice presentations. Situated on the first floor off the central Atrium, each room features an electrostatic glass panel which changes from clear to frosted glass for privacy

The Art Fund helps to meet costs associated with the exhibition of various art displays that enhance the aesthetics of Evans Hall, highlight connections across campus and around the world, and wonderfully showcase the school to the community and visitors.

This high-tech classroom enhancement provides for state-of-the-art teaching capabilities and innovative learning connectivity.

Using wood from trees from Evans Hall and other Yale sites, these beautifully repurposed wood tables provide an aesthetic focal point for special functions and gatherings in the elegant Beinecke Terrace Room.

Yale SOM aims to hire a senior, tenured faculty member who has scholarly and research experience or interest in large, urban K-12 public school systems and a demonstrated commitment to excellence in public education.

The Superintendent in Residence/Executive Fellow will take on a number of programmatic responsibilities and will mentor and support members of the Broad alumni network, particularly those interested in district superintendent roles. This role will also be instrumental in developing content for the Fellowship and Master’s programs and will lead cohort activities and teach classes.

The Broad Center at Yale SOM offers leadership development programs for extraordinary education leaders working in K-12 urban districts, charter organizations, and state education agencies in the United States. Funding is needed to develop innovative curriculum and programs to support actionable improvements for school system leaders.

This opportunity supports the development of new courses and leadership development programs for public education leaders and students at Yale. Specifically, it will 1) design new case studies focused on the public education system; and 2) address the gap of learning tools focused on K-12 systems level leadership and complement the deep resources that exist on topics such as classroom teaching and school leadership.

The Broad Center at Yale SOM seeks to invite outstanding faculty members from other institutions to campus. This type of exchange produces new dialogue, collaborative work, and fresh insight into current issues in leadership development for school systems.

The Faculty Fellowship for The Broad Center at Yale SOM will help the school to recruit, mentor, and benefit from the research and teaching of tomorrow’s leading scholars as well as engage faculty from across campus.

The Broad Center at Yale SOM seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss the latest research related to public education and leadership development for school systems. A gift to support this program will enable Yale SOM to attract leading scholars, within and beyond Yale, to present their latest research and substantially raise the visibility of the institution.

The Innovation Fund will provide critical resources for The Broad Center at Yale SOM to address challenges and opportunities as it fosters the ideas, policies, and leadership to help all students—particularly those from large, urban communities—to learn and thrive. The Innovation Fund will also help strengthen the Broad Network, a nationwide community of nearly 900 dedicated leaders who are alumni of The Broad Center programs.

The Broad Center (TBC) at Yale SOM aims to foster research that focuses on the school system as the unit of change, and on the management and leadership questions that matter for policy and practice. TBC at SOM will do this by providing focused attention and a community of engaged scholars, resources that lower barriers to entry and make this work more possible, and by bringing together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to ensure that relevant, applicable research can be used by the field. Endowed and spendable funds will provide critical resources to advance this impactful activity.

The Broad Center at Yale SOM organizes a range of events and programs to create new knowledge and insights about high-quality, effective public school systems. In addition, TBC at Yale SOM supports a network of more than 900 education leaders across the country to sustain and deepen their impact on behalf of students and communities. Endowed and spendable funds will allow TBC at Yale SOM to offer colloquia, conferences, and seminars; expand opportunities for purposeful connection, collaboration and learning for Broad alumni; provide career supports such as executive coaching and specialized cohort experiences in particular areas of need, and strategic supports for leaders in key roles, including onboarding, crisis communications, and learning visits.

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) joins two world-renowned institutions—Yale SOM and the Yale School of the Environment—to address the environment in a business context and the need for management that responds to society’s environmental challenges.

The Center bridges research, teaching, and outreach at the business-environment interface across the Yale campus, while guiding students in a three-year joint Master’s program that combines the MBA of Yale SOM with a Master’s degree from the Yale School of the Environment.

An endowed gift to name the Center will provide funding to support CBEY’s ongoing activities and critical resources for innovation, ensuring that the Center continues to catalyze new research, educate leaders, and cultivate partnerships that advance business solutions to global environmental problems.

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) joins two world-renowned institutions—Yale SOM and the Yale School of the Environment—to address the environment in a business context and the need for management that responds to society’s environmental challenges. The Center bridges research, teaching, and outreach at the business-environment interface across the Yale campus, while guiding students in a three-year joint Master’s program that combines the MBA of Yale SOM with a Master’s degree from the Yale School of the Environment.

An endowed gift to name the directorship will ensure strong leadership for CBEY and give the Center director more resources to focus on supporting joint degree students and the Yale SOM MBA for Executives program in sustainability, and to focus on curriculum enhancements such as online courses and new case studies.

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) joins two world-renowned institutions—Yale SOM and the Yale School of the Environment—to address the environment in a business context and the need for management that responds to society’s environmental challenges. The center bridges research, teaching, and outreach at the business-environment interface across the Yale campus, while guiding students in a three-year joint Master’s program that combines the MBA of Yale SOM with a Master’s degree from the Yale School of the Environment.

New current-use funds will help the Center sponsor speakers, workshops, career guidance, placement support, curriculum development, and a case-study series for students interested in the link between business and the environment.

Yale SOM distinguishes itself from other business schools through its curriculum related to healthcare and management. Endowed and current-use gifts allow the school to design new courses and case studies and provide additional learning opportunities as we educate future healthcare leaders. In addition, the school aims to develop opportunities for Yale SOM students to become involved in healthcare entrepreneurial ventures through programs at Yale, coordinate curricular opportunities for students to tackle real-life business problems for organizations in the region, and support student-led programs.

The Colloquium on Healthcare Leadership bring prominent leaders from public, private, and nonprofit healthcare organizations to campus for candid discussions. This is a unique opportunity for students to deepen their understanding of the major trends in healthcare and of the challenges of being a leader in this space.

Yale SOM faculty generate actionable research that can provide recommendations for policy makers. This research helps inform critical policies pertaining to the management of healthcare practice and operations and impacts the delivery of healthcare worldwide. Endowed and current-use gifts will advance leading research in the areas of healthcare business, policy, operations, and economics.

A gift to endow and name the International Center for Finance (ICF) will provide critical funding for ICF’s wide range of initiatives that address the future of global finance, explore behavioral finance and behavioral economics, study the history of financial markets, and provide key support in educating MBAs and doctoral students at Yale.

A gift to endow and name the directorship of the International Center for Finance invests in the leadership of the Center—providing academic and professional support for research in financial economics, educating future leaders, and bringing together professionals in practice with the Yale community to discuss complex issues important to business and society.

A gift to endow and name the Program on Entrepreneurship will enable the Program to expand its programmatic activities and provide opportunities for as many students as possible across Yale to experience the entrepreneurial process and help Yale students and faculty become the drivers of innovation as entrepreneurs, benefiting business and society.

Yale SOM seeks to hire a senior, tenured faculty member who is a world leader in entrepreneurship research, teaching, and practice. A gift of $3 million will fund an existing professorship; a gift of $6 million will enable Yale SOM to recruit a new professor to the school.

A gift of $3 million will ensure strong leadership for the Program and give the director resources to achieve three crucial goals: to expand the entrepreneurship curriculum to meet student demand, to support and encourage SOM student-founded ventures while at Yale, and to build a culture of entrepreneurship at SOM and throughout the broader Yale community.

Entrepreneurship moves quickly, and as such, Yale SOM faculty are constantly developing new courses and inviting others into the school to teach new courses. A gift to the curriculum development fund will help us support faculty as they create these courses and ensure that Yale SOM classes are always on the cutting edge. To provide flexibility in the near term and to secure permanent support for curriculum development, the Dean seeks the creation of both spendable and endowed funds. A gift at the level of $50,000 or more could create a spendable fund, and a gift of $2,000,000 or more could create an endowed fund.

Endowed gifts for early-career, tenure track faculty help the school to recruit, mentor, and benefit from the research and teaching of tomorrow’s leading scholars in Entrepreneurship. This is an opportunity to establish a fellowship to provide a one- to three-year appointment to a top junior faculty member who then receives critical support for research materials and data, conference participation, research assistants, and other resources.

Yale SOM is not just a place for learning about entrepreneurship, but also a place where entrepreneurship scholars come to discuss the latest research in our Entrepreneurship and Innovation seminar series. Through this series, top scholars and practitioners are invited to Yale to share their insights with our community. A gift to support a seminar series will enable Yale SOM to attract the best guests and substantially raise the visibility of the school.

Complementing the existing faculty, the Program on Entrepreneurship seeks to invite Entrepreneur-in-Residences to come to Yale SOM for sustained periods of interaction with students and faculty.

Donor-funded awards enable Yale SOM students to directly apply classroom lessons to complex on-the-ground challenges and venture exploration. Awards support students’ summer opportunities to pursue entrepreneurial activities. A gift at the level of $50,000 or more could create a spendable fund, and gifts of $100,000 or more could create an endowed fund.

With a gift to endow and name the Yale Center for Customer Insights at SOM (YCCI), you will provide critical funding for YCCI’s wide range of initiatives that explore key drivers of consumer behavior, ensuring that YCCI continues to conduct insightful research, design curricular innovations, and facilitate dialogue globally around this research.

Yale SOM seeks to attract, recruit, and retain senior, tenured faculty who are thought leaders in marketing research, teaching, and practice, and specifically have a depth and breadth of customer insights experience.

A gift to endow and name the directorship of the Yale Center for Customer Insights invests in the leadership of the Center—supporting important research, advancing a better understanding of the changing customer, and helping educate future marketing and insights leaders who will be uniquely trained to address complex challenges.

Yale SOM seeks to offer unique post-doctoral fellowship opportunities for promising scholars by providing them with a place to research, have mentoring relationships with senior faculty, and intellectual exchanges among other postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and visitors. The beginning of a distinguished academic career often involves training and specialized research beyond the doctorate. Postdoctoral fellows are indispensable research partners for Yale SOM’s faculty and are chosen from among the best-qualified new Ph.D. graduates in the country.

The Yale Center for Customer Insights (YCCI) Executive Fellows program brings the latest in marketplace thinking into the Yale SOM curriculum, connecting students and faculty with marketing leaders to find the links between academic theory and industry practice. Executive Fellows are practitioners who spend one to six semesters visiting Yale SOM. The role of a YCCI Executive Fellow can vary widely, but most have chosen to collaborate with students and faculty, conduct research, host conferences, create case studies, and teach independent courses or electives in an area of their expertise. Executive Fellows become embedded in the life of the school and impart personal career experiences and advice.

The Yale Center for Customer Insights (YCCI) Student Fellows are an elite group of marketing and business leaders who have been recognized by YCCI for their contributions to the development and dissemination of new customer insights and the practical applications of those insights. And endowed gift would name this important YCCI Student Fellows program (for approximately five students per year).

The Yale Center for Customer Insights (YCCI) promotes student learning through a research fellowship program. A current-use gift (payable over two years) would provide critical research support for YCCI to work with students around a strategic topic relevant to advancing new thinking on customers.

The Colloquium on Marketing Leadership hosted by the Yale Center for Customer Insights brings leaders in marketing, insights, and innovation together with students and faculty to share personal perspectives on their careers, companies, and industries. It explores the latest challenges, opportunities, and developments in the world of marketing, from a wide variety of disciplines, perspectives, and backgrounds. In addition to their Colloquium presentation, speakers may also participate in other activities, including serving as guest speakers in graduate-level classes and being interviewed for Yale SOM’s website. In recognition of this support, the Colloquium could be named for the term of the gift.

Yale Center for Customer Insights practicum courses provide experiential learning opportunities for students in either big data analytics or behavioral science. A current-use gift would support a one-semester course.