School Notes: School of Management
March/April 2010

Dean-designate visits campus

The day after Yale president Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of Edward A. Snyder to be SOM’s new dean starting in July 2011 (see the Yale Alumni Magazine’s report, “SOM Lands a Leading B-School Dean”), Snyder came to campus to meet with faculty, students, and staff and to speak before a school-wide assembly. During his visit, Snyder, currently dean and George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, outlined his vision for SOM, which includes capitalizing on connections between SOM and the larger Yale community and completing the construction of the new campus, which is set to begin this summer. Snyder, who will take over as dean from Sharon Oster, told the audience he was excited to begin this latest chapter in his career. “I’m attracted to the fact that students have broad vision. I’m impressed by the faculty’s commitment to not only world-class research but also to education and the professional development of the students here in a way that is quite distinctive,” he said. “I have no doubt that this school is going to have an oversized role in the future. It’s going to have increasing influence in management education and in developing leaders in the years and decades to come.” Read the full story at:http://mba.yale.edu/news_events/CMS/Articles/7075.shtml.

Students travel to India to help social entrepreneurs

In the fall of 2008, Yale SOM launched a new course aimed at aiding social entrepreneurs in the developing world. Each year, selected entrepreneurs travel to New Haven for a week of seminars and meetings with students. Over the course of the fall semester, the students work on consulting projects for these overseas enterprises. In January, SOM MBA students flew to India (the first country where the program will eventually send students) to see the projects firsthand and put their ideas into action. Tony Sheldon ’84MPPM, executive director of the Program on Social Enterprise, leads the Global Social Enterprise course, which develops students’ practical skills while providing them with a deeper understanding both of social enterprises and the environment within which they operate. “In many ways it’s a perfect reflection of the SOM mission,” he said.