Dear Fellow SOM Alumni: The global pandemic has changed the lives and plans of literally billions of people worldwide, including many of you reading this blog post. Among the consequences of coronavirus, there is one that is especially important to SOM, and that SOM alumni can do something...

Join us for the Yale ICF’s new YBlockchain? crypto and blockchain online discussion series! The Yale ICF partnered with Yale SOM alumna, Diana Barrero Zalles ’17, to create a series of discussions about blockchain presented through a variety of panels and keynote addresses by leading...

Dear Fellow SOM Alumni: I am struck by two contradictory truths as we move through this pandemic year. One is that, in the U.S., there has been a huge boom in demand for in-home exercise equipment, bicycles and other fitness gear.  The other truth is that, apparently, tailors in New York City...

This is the story of microfinance: you help someone get a loan to buy a cow, so she can get money, so she can send her kid to school. I started thinking about what people are valuing: They want education; they don’t want loans. Yes, the financial system needs to be more equitable, that’s a...

Systemic changes are really hard. I knew I couldn’t take the Yahoo annual planning and performance management process and immediately apply it to KIPP LA. There needed to be some interpretation. That’s where The Broad Center came in. Read the profile. 

Dear Fellow SOM Alumni: My name is Jeff Juger (MBA ‘11), and I have the honor to serve as Chair of the SOM Alumni Advisory Board.  I have served on the AAB since 2016, and officially stepped into the leadership role on July 1.  I will try to fill the very large shoes left by my predecessor...