SOM names Donaldson Fellows
Five SOM alumni have been chosen to be Donaldson
Fellows as part of a new program for graduates who embody the school's mission
to educate leaders for business and society. The Donaldson Fellows Program,
named after the school's founding dean, Bill Donaldson ’53BA, recognizes SOM
alumni who exemplify three characteristic themes: leading and managing across
boundaries; transforming positive values into personal, professional, and
institutional commitments; and bringing creativity and discipline to complex
management problems. All five fellows will be on campus on October 2 and 3 for
the Donaldson Symposium, which will feature a variety of activities, including
a facilitated conversation between the fellows and first-year MBAs. The first
class of fellows includes Adam Blumenthal ’89MPPM, managing general partner of
Blue Wolf Capital Management; Laszlo Bock ’99MBA, vice president of people
operations for Google, Inc.; Andrea Levere ’83MPPM, president of the
Corporation for Enterprise Development; James Levitt ’76BA, ’80MPPM, director
of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard
University, and president of Levitt & Company, Inc.; and Elizabeth Serlemitsos
’93MBA, chief advisor for the National AIDS Council, Zambia.
Pioneering class graduates
The first class of students educated under the Yale
integrated MBA curriculum graduated from SOM in May. Two years ago, the 203
students of the Class of 2008 embarked on an unprecedented course of study. The
school wholly redesigned how it teaches management, creating a new integrated
MBA curriculum aimed at providing students not just with new tools and
perspectives for solving the complex problems of modern business, but also with
a new model of broadly engaged leadership for organizations in the twenty-first
century.
"It is amazing to see how quickly
our new approach to management education has increased the school's already
strong reputation, and begun to create a brand that represents innovation and
leadership, augmenting our historic and strong reputation for excellence in
nonprofit and financial management, in multi-sectoral focus, in our school's
unquestioned commitment to values and ethics," Dean Joel Podolny told the group
at its commencement. Learn more about the Yale integrated MBA curriculum at mba.yale.edu/curriculum.
Global leaders attend Yale Governance Forum
More than 200 global leaders in corporate governance,
including corporate executives and directors, regulators, and academics,
gathered at Yale University for the third annual Yale Governance Forum on June
9-10. The two-day event, hosted by the Millstein Center for Corporate
Governance and Performance, was designed to give practitioners the opportunity
to discuss current issues in the field. This year's session had a special focus
on the current state of global capital markets. Discussion topics included how
boards and shareholders should approach one another, governance issues between
private equity and pension funds, and whether boards should treat short-term
and long-term shareholders differently. Among the participants were Bill Donaldson
’53BA, former chairman of the SEC and founding dean of SOM, who discussed
recent events in corporate governance; and David Jackson ’93MBA, the CEO of
Istithmar World Capital, an investment arm of Dubai, who analyzed the state of
the global capital markets. Also, the Millstein Center named 56 professionals
under the age of 40 as the inaugural group of "Rising Stars of Corporate
Governance," an international group of analysts, experts, activists, and
managers focused on improving the relationships between corporations and their
shareholders.
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