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November 23, 2009 
"Beyond fiscal stimulus and government bailouts, the economic recovery that appears under way may be based on little more than self-fulfilling prophecy," writes Robert Shiller in the New York Times.

November 18, 2009 
"I really like the fact that we can apply what we're learning in a very practical way."

November 17, 2009 
The Center for Customer Insights and Marketing Club brought top practitioners to SOM to explore the new role of marketers.

November 13, 2009 
Mary Houghton, president of Chicago's ShoreBank, explained how she and three friends revolutionized how to revitalize a community.

November 12, 2009 
Doctoral student Panos Patatoukas’ award-winning paper examines how the concentration of a supplier's customer base affects its performance and stock market valuation.

November 11, 2009 
Five students have served overseas in two war zones and on the Korean peninsula.

November 6, 2009 
James Chanos, founder and president of Kynikos Associates, took an SOM audience through a number of concerns he has about the state of the financial industry.

November 3, 2009 
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani will accept the Legend in Leadership Award at the Yale CEO Leadership Summit in New Delhi on November 6.

October 28, 2009 
Prof. Martijn Cremers and co-author Allen Ferrell of Harvard Law use their new database to analyze how governance affects firm value and stock returns.

October 27, 2009 
The Private Equity Club will host industry leaders at its annual conference in Greenwich, CT on November 6.

October 27, 2009 
Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses why the Obama administration's pay czar may be the Walter Cronkite or King Solomon of resolving financial disputes.

October 22, 2009 

October 20, 2009 
Executives from Unilever, American Express, Toyota, and Publicis Groupe, will speak at the conference "Finding the Upside in the Downturn: The Changing Role of Marketing" on Nov. 6.

October 15, 2009 
Directorship has named Ira Millstein and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld to its annual list of the 100 "most influential people in the boardroom and corporate governance."

October 13, 2009 
Members of the Yale School of Management faculty were delighted to learn yesterday that Oliver E. Williamson, an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, had been named to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

October 12, 2009 
In the NYT, Prof. Robert Shiller writes that the sudden rise in home prices "...probably reflects a new home-buyer emphasis on market timing."

October 12, 2009 
INFORMS has honored Prof. Edward Kaplan with its 2009 Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award.

October 7, 2009 
The Yale CEO Leadership Summit will hold its first global program in New Delhi November 5 and 6.

October 6, 2009 
A study co-authored by Prof. Victoria Brescoll is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of the menu calorie-labeling policy mandated in New York City restaurants to fight obesity.

October 5, 2009 
Prof. Jonathan Koppell draws on his study of Senate appointees in an Albany Times Union op-ed on appointed senators facing election in 2010.

October 5, 2009 
Prof. Gary Gorton is the first contributor to the New York Times' DealBook Dialogue, an online round table of experts examining the topic "Too Soon to Rethink? Assessing the Financial Crisis."

September 30, 2009 
Prof. Shiller receives the prize, which honors internationally renowned economists whose work has significantly influenced research in financial economics, today at a ceremony in Frankfurt.

September 29, 2009 
PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi '80 leads the FT's inaugural list of the Top 50 Women in World Business.

September 28, 2009 
In the Financial Times, Robert Shiller writes that complex financial products have the potential to protect investors from risk and should not be discouraged in response to the financial crisis.

September 21, 2009 
In BusinessWeek, Jeffrey Garten writes that "...a global central bank is becoming a necessity in today's complex, interconnected world economy."

September 16, 2009 
Fortune names PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi '80 the Most Powerful Woman in Business for the fourth consecutive year.

August 31, 2009 
CO2Neutral2021, an organization founded by Roberto Jimenez '09, is working to influence climate change in Costa Rica.

August 31, 2009 
In the New York Times "Economic View" column, Robert Shiller writes that a social epidemic is supporting renewed confidence in the economy.

August 27, 2009 
Forbes magazine has named two Yale School of Management alumnae to its 100 Most Powerful Women list.

August 25, 2009 
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke referenced research by Professors Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick in remarks on the financial crisis delivered at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Annual Economic Symposium.

August 20, 2009 
Laszlo Bock '99 talked to the Class of 2011, offering advice on their time at SOM and beyond.

July 31, 2009 
The Chairmen's Forum urges the SEC to require companies without an independent chair to explain how their leadership structure provides sufficient shareholder safeguards.

July 30, 2009 
In Newsweek, Jeffrey Garten writes that "...America can lead the global recovery politically without having to do all the heavy lifting economically."

July 30, 2009 
For two weeks in June, forty-one college students experienced a slice of life as an MBA student, in a program aimed at helping underrepresented minority students gain a better understanding of the benefits of a management education.

July 28, 2009 
This summer marks the two-year anniversary of the start of the financial crisis. The ICF at the Yale School of Management and the Review of Financial Studies assembled researchers to discuss what they have learned about the crisis and its causes.

July 21, 2009 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller writes "...Innovation often entails tension between safety and power. We need to foster [financial] inventions that better human welfare while incorporating safety mechanisms that protect the public."

July 14, 2009 
Professor James N. Baron heads faculty search committee, along with seven other SOM and Yale faculty, to find Yale SOM's next Dean.

July 1, 2009 
Yale SOM welcomes Olav Sorenson, Professor of Organizational Behavior, and assistant professors Arthur Campbell, Kalin Kolev, and Constanca Esteves-Sorenson.

June 30, 2009 
A team of CDC researchers including Ed Kaplan has won the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award for their paper "Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States."

June 23, 2009 
Research at Yale SOM pushes forward public discussion and influences the practice of management. The new 'Faculty Insights' website pulls together information on this leading-edge faculty work.

June 18, 2009 
Yale University recently announced participation in the Yellow Ribbon Program.

June 18, 2009 
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recommended Professor Gary B. Gorton's paper on the "shadow banking system" and the roots of the economic crisis.

June 16, 2009 
The Millstein Center has released two new policy briefs: "Pay, Risk and Stewardship" and "Agenda for Private Sector Reform."

June 11, 2009 
The letter proposing broad reforms for the U.S. capital market is signed by SOM faculty, former SEC Chairman and Commissioners, Treasury and World Bank Leaders

June 10, 2009 
Ten outstanding corporate governance professionals under the age of 40 are recipients of the 2009 Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award.

June 9, 2009 
Yale SOM graduate and Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer was elected to the Yale Corporation.

June 8, 2009 
In the New York Times, Robert Shiller outlines several factors that can explain long, steady declines in the real estate market.

June 4, 2009 
172 MBA and 20 MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare grads received their degrees at SOM's 32nd commencement.

June 2, 2009 
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld wrote in BusinessWeek that, despite complex factors for the company's collapse, former CEO Rick Wagoner will be known as the man who lost GM.

May 21, 2009 
A total $193,335 was pledged to the 2009 Class Gift with all 173 graduating students participating.

May 15, 2009 
David Mizrahi '09 was selected by his classmates as best embodying the values central to SOM. He will represent the 'Spirit of SOM' at Yale University's Commencement Ceremonies.

May 11, 2009 
Lisa Kahn's research that finds graduating in a bad economy has a negative long-term effect on wages was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

May 8, 2009 
Keith Chen approaches cognitive dissonance as an economist and concludes that decades of psychological studies are flawed.

May 4, 2009 
In the NYT, Robert Shiller writes that the current depression scare is weaker than those of the past based on consumer confidence measures.

April 28, 2009 
Research by Hongjun Yan and Steven Malliaris helps explain why "nickel" strategies are popular with hedge fund managers, even when they offer lower expected returns.

April 24, 2009 
Annual SOM event raises second most in its thirty-year history, enabling more students to intern in nonprofit and public sectors.

April 21, 2009 
Luis Ubinas described how the Ford Foundation, established in 1936, continues to address the most significant challenges in American society.

April 21, 2009 
The first conference by the SOM South Asian Business Forum focuses on how India is faring under global financial crisis and what opportunities still exist.

April 15, 2009 
Nearly 200 items are up for auction this week to benefit the Yale SOM Internship Fund. The silent part of the auction is taking place in the SOM Hall of Mirrors through Thursday, April 16, with the live auction planned for that night in Donaldson Commons. This year's theme is SOMonopoly.

April 7, 2009 
In this commentary, Stephen Davis, senior fellow of the Millstein Center, highlights the findings of a recent roundtable on shareowner stewardship the center convened in New York City.

March 31, 2009 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert Shiller argues that human psychology needs to be respected alongside quantitative analysis to forecast economic risk.

March 30, 2009 
Millstein Center report calls for publicly traded companies to separate chairman of the board and CEO roles.

March 18, 2009 
A group of SOM students and Yale undergraduates won the New York Society of Security Analysts Investment Research Challenge and advanced to the world championship.

March 12, 2009 
Professor Matthew Spiegel's award-winning paper examines why some asset markets are more liquid than others.

March 12, 2009 
The Yale School of Management announced the details of this year's Yale International Student Loan program today.

March 9, 2009 
A new YCCI research program studies changing patterns of consumer spending and saving in China and India's rapidly growing economies.

March 5, 2009 
The new Accelerated Integrated JD-MBA program will enable students to earn both degrees in three years.

March 4, 2009 
Research by Professor Ravi Dhar explains how the methods companies like Dell and Nike use to help customers customize their products influence what customers buy and whether they will buy at all.

March 2, 2009 
Voting Integrity, a new policy briefing from the Millstein Center, proposes steps to boost trasparency among institutional investors and the proxy voting services that advise them.

March 2, 2009 
Countries are attempting to protect their own companies and workers from the economic crisis. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Jeffrey E. Garten argues that if economic nationalism escalates, the political and financial damage will be severe.

February 26, 2009 
Joel Klein, the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, was the keynote speaker at SOM's Education Leadership Conference.

February 24, 2009 
John Mackey, the chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Whole Foods, spoke at SOM on February 10 in a talk sponsored by the Gordon Grand Fellowship.

February 23, 2009 
Stories about the Great Depression have started to inform our expectations for the current economic crisis writes Professor Robert J. Shiller in the New York Times.

February 12, 2009 
In an op-ed on TheStreet.com, Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld argues that if Wall Street executives are really so smart, they should welcome President Obama's salary cap proposal and its pay-for-performance incentives as it will reward their success.

February 11, 2009 
William Donaldson, Ira Millstein, and David Swensen have been named to the Investors' Working Group to improve financial market regulation.

February 11, 2009 
Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, has been awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2009.

February 10, 2009 
Compilation of Yale lectures addresses the role finance, investors, and resource companies can play in solving climate change issues.

January 27, 2009 
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that the stimulus plan proposed by the Obama administration is not aggressive enough to revive consumer confidence - what John Maynard Keynes referred to as "animal spirits" - and therefore, economic growth.

January 20, 2009 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that the government should start a program to subsidize personal financial advice for all. Doing so would help people avoid mistakes that have contributed to the financial crisis such as taking on mortgages with terms they do not understand and debt they cannot afford.

January 15, 2009 
2008 was the second-worst year for U.S. equities since 1825 according to data from the NYSE History Research Project at SOM's International Center for Finance.

2008

December 23, 2008 
Join current School of Management students and alumni at events hosted around the world during this winter break.

December 22, 2008 
The annual Philanthropy Conference explored how management skills are critical to successfully addressing the sector's key challenges.

December 22, 2008 
Tapped for a top spot on Obama's economic team, Larry Summers spoke on how new forms of capital are altering the global financial system.

December 18, 2008 
View video of Jamie Dimon and Ivan Seidenberg discussing leadership in a time of crisis.

December 16, 2008 
In the December 22 cover story of Newsweek International, Professor Jeffrey E. Garten writes that world leaders have spent trillions on confused, inadequate rescue plans. They need to spend more -about $4 trillion more - to restore confidence.

December 16, 2008 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that firm economic targets, including a commitment to providing a job for everyone who is willing to work, are needed to restore Americans' confidence.

December 16, 2008 
A new policy brief by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management finds direct dialogue between directors and investors can enhance board authority, especially during crises, as well as boost shareowners' trust in their quest for optimal performance.

December 12, 2008 
The CEO of Newsweek outlined the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the company amid a shifting media landscape.

December 10, 2008 
The CEOs of JPMorgan and Verizon will each receive the "Legend in Leadership Award" at the Yale CEO Summit of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute.

December 10, 2008 
The lead architect from Foster + Partners' Yale School of Management campus project presented some of the features of the current designs-in-progress for the new SOM campus to an audience of SOM students, faculty, and staff in the GM Room on the evening of Tuesday, December 9.

December 9, 2008 
Assistant professor Victoria Brescoll spoke to the Women in Management club about how anger can keep women from getting ahead.

December 8, 2008 
Ed Hirs '81, chief financial officer of DJ Resources, recently published an essay in the Yale Daily News discussing his thoughts on the deregulation of natural gas and the struggle for energy independence.

December 8, 2008 
The seven business leaders inducted into Directorship magazine's inaugural Corporate Governance Hall of Fame on December 2 included two with close ties to the Yale School of Management.

December 5, 2008 
Yale SOM Dean Sharon M. Oster was one of five business school deans asked to contribute an essay to a special report by Forbes.com devoted to how business schools are responding to the global economic crisis.

December 5, 2008 
In a Wealth Manager magazine cover story, Professor Roger Ibbotson explains how the financial crisis developed and outlines the opportunities ahead for investors.

December 5, 2008 
Yale SOM students competed against their professors in a test of business knowledge in the Student/Faculty MBA Challenge.

November 26, 2008 
The Yale SOM Private Equity Conference, titled "The Road Ahead," brought together some 200 private equity professionals in Greenwich, Connecticut.

November 24, 2008 
A proposal to support green entrepreneurship in Philadelphia brought a team of Yale SOM first-year students top honors in the 2008 Net Impact North America Conference's Green Economy Case Competition.

November 24, 2008 
With a little ingenuity, the MBA-E Class of 2010 overcame a logistical challenge to donate more than 430 lbs. of food for a good cause.

November 19, 2008 
SOM graduate Rich Morales recently published an essay in the Yale Daily News describing how his experiences at business school helped prepare him to lead soldiers in Iraq.

November 17, 2008 
In YaleGlobal, Professor Zhiwu Chen argues that China can emerge stronger from the economic crisis by boosting domestic consumption and private ownership.

November 5, 2008 
Professor Jeffrey E. Garten, the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business, argues that governments around the world need to stop pouring money into failing industries in Newsweek.

November 3, 2008 
In an "Economic View" column published in the New York Times, Professor Robert J. Shiller argues that groupthink kept economic experts from sounding the alarm on the financial crisis.

October 22, 2008 
Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced in a message to the Yale School of Management community that Joel M. Podolny is stepping down as Dean effective on November 1, 2008. He will be succeeded by Sharon M. Oster, the Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship.

October 21, 2008 
Second-year student bests 22 other contestants to be named the "next CEO."

October 21, 2008 
Financial Markets and Game Theory, taught by Yale SOM Professors Robert Shiller and Benjamin Polak, respectively, are two of the eight new courses offered by "Open Yale Courses," Yale University's free online education initiative.

October 20, 2008 
In an essay published in the Economic Times of India, Professor Robert J. Shiller looks at how the disruptions in the financial markets are affecting India and argues that deep behavioral causes lie at the root of recent events.

October 16, 2008 
A panel discussion featuring five SOM faculty members was held on October 7 on the financial crisis and what the future of the world economy might look like.

October 15, 2008 
Employers in consulting, finance, manufacturing, nonprofit, and consumer goods came to SOM to recruit students.

October 15, 2008 
The Yale School of Management has announced a new offering, the Pre-MBA Leadership Program for college juniors and seniors of color, other undergraduates who actively support diversity and inclusion in business, and recent college graduates who are interested in developing their leadership skills and exploring careers in business.

October 10, 2008 
Five alumni forged paths in private equity, conservation, HIV/AIDS prevention, community development, and human resources.

October 3, 2008 
Wall Street veteran Boon Sim '92, head of Credit Suisse's Americas Mergers and Acquisitions Group, provides a take on the financial crisis.

October 2, 2008 
Yale SOM experts partner with business and academic leaders for a roundtable on the current financial crisis.

October 1, 2008 
Professors Jonathan G.S. Koppell and William N. Goetzmann write that paying off all delinquent mortgages would address the underlying cause of the financial crisis, help homeowners, and revive the markets.

September 30, 2008 
SOM students and faculty take up the subject of the ongoing financial crisis and what can be learned from it.

September 30, 2008 
Professor Jeffrey E. Garten recommends the establishment of a "Global Monetary Authority" to oversee markets that have become borderless.

September 26, 2008 
The inaugural Green Consumer Values Survey, conducted by the YCCI and CBEY in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, will be presented at the Oct. 10 conference.

September 25, 2008 
The Yale president traced his achievements over the last fifteen years, including rebuilding and expanding the campus, helping to revitalize New Haven, and launching new international and environmental initiatives.

September 18, 2008 
Professor Shyam Sunder argues that the development of IFRS is good news; a government mandate to grant it a monopoly is not.

September 18, 2008 
In a preview from Q4 magazine, three Yale SOM faculty experts discuss how a dip in house prices spawned chaos in the financial system.

September 17, 2008 
Professor Jonathan Koppell argues that investment banks and other companies should pay for "too big to fail" insurance.

September 9, 2008 
Research by Professors Nathan Novemsky and Ravi Dhar, and doctoral candidate Jing Wang, may help explain why people overspend on frivolous items.

September 2, 2008 
Yale School of Management was the only American business school to hold an executive educational program at the Beijing Olympics.

August 28, 2008 
Dean Joel M. Podolny was a guest on the internationally distributed business radio program Marketplace on August 28 to discuss the new innovative "raw" case studies pioneered by SOM to support the school's integrated MBA curriculum.

August 21, 2008 
Following the Yale Global Leadership Forum at the Beijing Olympics, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld comments on the East-West divide the games embody.

August 4, 2008 
Approximately 56,300 Americans became newly infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 2006 according to the findings of the first study to directly measure the incidence of new HIV infections in the United States.

July 29, 2008 
Fiona Scott Morton, professor of economics and senior associate dean for faculty development at SOM, delivered testimony to Congress about Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program begun in 2006 that provides drug coverage to more than 25 million people.

July 28, 2008 
The embrace of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the federal government makes it official: Uncle Sam is the world's foremost subprime borrower.

July 25, 2008 
President and CEO of WNYC Radio Laura Walker '87 Receives Edward R. Murrow Award

July 18, 2008 
Yale SOM Dean Joel M. Podolny announced that five graduates of the school have been selected as the inaugural class of Donaldson Fellows.

July 11, 2008 
Ira M. Millstein, senior associate dean for corporate governance, delivered the second annual Charkham Memorial Lecture hosted by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).

June 30, 2008 
Global leaders in corporate governance gathered at Yale for a forum on the key issues in the field including the state of world capital markets

June 30, 2008 
Over $100 billion in tax rebates have gone out in the hopes taxpayers will spend it and lessen the risk of economic disaster from the subprime crisis.

June 9, 2008 
The list of Rising Stars recognizes corporate governance professionals under the age of 40 who are making their mark as outstanding analysts, experts, activists, and managers.

June 4, 2008 
Speaking to 203 MBA recipients and 21 graduates of SOM's MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program on May 25, Podolny stressed that leadership "is inspiring, engaged, and rooted in values and personal accountability."

June 4, 2008 
The kick-off roundtable for the "Chairmen's Forum" will take place on October 7 at the Yale Club of New York City.

June 2, 2008 
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel and the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut have received a gift from Daniel Rose, chairman of Rose Associates, Inc. and a 1951 graduate of Yale College, to establish a three-year partnership to conduct homeland security and counterterrorism research.

June 2, 2008 
The Carlyle Group chairman will accept the "Legend in Leadership Award" at a ceremony to be held June 5 in New York City.

May 23, 2008 
Gautam Prakash, a Yale College graduate, explains how he saw a niche for a hedge fund with a long term strategy in India and turned it into a major market force.

May 19, 2008 
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance will host the third annual Yale Governance Forum from June 9-10.

May 15, 2008 
Dean Podolny marks the conclusion of a highly successful faculty recruiting season, announcing the addition of ten new members to the school's faculty ranks.

May 7, 2008 
Renowned shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis addressed an audience of close to 80 at the Yale School of Management on April 29 as part of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance's Lunch Forum on Corporate Governance.

May 7, 2008 
Rather than hunkering down for a battle royal over executive pay, directors need to reach out to shareholders to find common ground and build trust.

May 5, 2008 
The Conference of Fund Leaders is a permanent new body composed of independent board chairs and lead independent directors of mutual funds in the United States.

May 2, 2008 
Oster, whose expertise spans multiple areas of economics, has been a driving force behind the Yale MBA integrated curriculum.

May 2, 2008 
Keynote speech for event co-sponsored by the International Center for Finance explores how the folly of speculative bubbles spans geography, culture, and time.

April 28, 2008 
"The MBA education of this century will be - must be - very different from the MBA education of the last century," writes Dean Joel M. Podolny in the first op-ed to be published under a new partnership with the Economic Times, India's leading business newspaper.

April 24, 2008 
Begun to serve Spanish immigrants, the company has come to dominate the Hispanic food market by adding products for each new group arriving in the country.

April 24, 2008 
Organizational Effectiveness, an informal seminar at Yale SOM, brings MBA-style analysis to the effort to improve nonprofits.

April 23, 2008 
Student businesses use technology to solve problems in jet engines, rural healthcare, and desalination.

April 21, 2008 
A Yale SOM "raw case" asks students to analyze a recent, highly innovative private equity deal, with strong environmental and political ramifications.

April 18, 2008 
First conference by SOM Arts and Culture club explores the intersection of business and the arts.

April 17, 2008 
After 25 years making organic yogurt, Stonyfield CE-Yo believes he's found a way to help save the earth.

April 15, 2008 
Professor Benjamin Polak explains how game theory can be critical to business decisions.

April 15, 2008 
Sessions deconstruct how to give a top presentation, so students can learn how to assemble their own.

April 10, 2008 
The CEO of Commonfund helped set the course for Harvard's endowment to become the largest in higher education.

April 9, 2008 
Reaching back to ancient history for its theme, annual auction aims to determine how much students will pay to bowl with the Dean.

April 9, 2008 
European and North American scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will converge on Yale University from April 17-19 to explore the financial and cultural history of the first great international stock market crash.

April 9, 2008 
In a Millstein Center talk on April 2, Kindler described the challenges and opportunities inherent in leading the world's largest pharmaceutical company.

April 8, 2008 
Students visit massive sorting facility at the invitation of FedEx CEO Fred Smith.

April 7, 2008 
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s plan to overhaul the financial system could officially transform the Federal Reserve into a "market stability regulator" rather than merely a banker's bank.

April 3, 2008 
Former top editor at Time, Inc. currently sees more peril than potential in media investments.

April 2, 2008 
Rita Hudetz '09 will be a featured contributor in a two-week long HBR Green discussion, providing her opinions on whether or not business leaders should have to take an oath to do no unnecessary harm to the environment.

April 1, 2008 
In a Leaders Forum lecture on March 26, Perkowski YC '70 relayed how he tackled China's automotive market by founding a major auto parts supplier in 1993.

March 31, 2008 
Members of the Global Social Enterprise club spent two weeks assisting six social enterprises mostly focused on Colombian environmental causes.

March 31, 2008 
The day-long conference will focus on the business side of the arts by taking a look at the challenges arts organizations and artists face today.

March 28, 2008 
Having managed Wellesley's endowment since 2002, Mendillo will take over Harvard's $35 billion endowment in July.

March 20, 2008 
Kalra, an Indian venture capitalist, explains the fine points of developing in emerging economic power at the SOM South Asian Business Forum.

March 19, 2008 
Tencent has created a feature area on its website devoted to Yale SOM's January 2008 trip abroad.

March 18, 2008 
Jiwoong Shin and K. Sudhir shed new light on when it is profitable for a firm to offer better prices to its current customers or to its competitors' customers.

March 14, 2008 
New classrooms will use the latest technological advances, but much of their design stems from the unique advances of the Yale MBA curriculum model.

March 12, 2008 
Speaking to students in the State & Society course, Bolton described the "deeply flawed" nature of the United Nations and its impact on global business.

March 7, 2008 
Former Prime Minister Blair will lead a seminar on faith and globalization at Yale SOM and Yale Divinity School.

March 3, 2008 
"Talking Governance: Board-Shareowner Communications on Executive Compensation" analyzes the risks and benefits of engaging in a sustained dialogue on governance issues.

February 26, 2008 
Dean Podolny participated in two sessions at the annual gathering of top leaders from all sectors of global business and society.

February 22, 2008 
Appointed in 2007 as Yale's first CFO, former NASA CFO Sykes was invited by SOM's Black Business Alliance to discuss her career and management style.

February 15, 2008 
The publishing business is a unique industry with its own path to success. Yet in his Leaders Forum lecture, George Green YC '60 stressed that the tactics he's utilized at Hearst Magazines International often apply to anyone involved in international business.

February 14, 2008 
During the first week of February, three events highlighted the growing role the environment is playing in the ongoing transformation of global business.

February 13, 2008 
Yale SOM will enhance its international offerings with a new exchange program next fall.

February 12, 2008 
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance has launched an eNewsletter that previews upcoming corporate governance events at the Center and around the world.

February 4, 2008 
The Yale School of Management will hold its second annual Education Leadership Conference on Friday, February 15 at the New Haven Lawn Club.

February 1, 2008 
It took two dozen long meetings before the owners of the Nielsen Company convinced David L. Calhoun to leave his position at General Electric to take the Nielsen helm.

January 29, 2008 
Several months after Yale picked Foster + Partners to design the new SOM campus, to be constructed on the Whitney Avenue parcel across from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the process is moving along, with the design concept expected to be approved later this year.

January 28, 2008 
A new study by associate professor Brian Mittendorf shows that a firm's decision to outsource is often based on undermining a rival, not on saving money.

January 14, 2008 
Independent chairs and lead independent directors of U.S. mutual funds will participate in the first roundtable on independent leadership of collective funds on January 22 at the Yale Club of New York City.

2007

December 19, 2007 
Bradley Abelow '89 is what Dean Joel Podolny calls a "true SOM story." He started his working life in anti-poverty work and eventually became the chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

December 12, 2007 

December 11, 2007 
Alan Murray's first Wall Street Journal columns, which chronicle the business world through the eyes of a CEO, came just as a number of prominent CEOs were being fired for a variety of infractions.

December 10, 2007 
Oliver J. Rutz of the Yale School of Management and Randolph E. Bucklin of the UCLA Anderson School of Business have developed the first model to measure the performance of individual keywords in paid search advertising on Internet search engines.

December 7, 2007 
Two very different leaders spoke to SOM audiences the last week of November - one, a career military officer at the pinnacle of his career; the other, a famed executive who served in the Bush administration and now devotes himself to overhauling healthcare.

December 6, 2007 
Yale SOM announced the establishment of the Donaldson Fellows Program for Yale SOM Alumni, a fellowship aimed at honoring exceptional alumni, and named to honor the school's founding dean, William H. Donaldson.

December 3, 2007 
Many people look at the current state of energy production and climate change in the U.S. and see an unbeatable crisis. Richard Kauffman '83 sees an opportunity.

November 29, 2007 
Victor H. Vroom, an authority on the psychological analysis of behavior in organizations, has been appointed the inaugural BearingPoint Professor of Management. Jonathan S. Feinstein, an economist whose scholarly interests include creativity and innovation, has been appointed the John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management.

November 21, 2007 
Claire Chino, a Yale World Fellow and corporate counsel for Itochu, one of Japan's largest corporations, spoke at a panel on women in Japanese business on November 13 at Yale SOM.

November 16, 2007 
After successfully fielding questions about stock symbols and famous business leaders, a team of SOM students secured a marginal victory over their faculty opponents in the SOM Student-Faculty MBA Challenge November 15.

November 16, 2007 

November 14, 2007 

November 13, 2007 
Veterans recount their reasons for joining the armed services and describe what it's like to wear a uniform for their country.

October 31, 2007 

October 22, 2007 
There are signs that the existing order in the wireless world may finally be changing.

October 11, 2007 
Five students from the class of 2008 collected $8,000 in prize money after winning the third annual competition.

October 5, 2007 
A team of Yale SOM alumni won the 2007 Yale Cup soccer tournament...

October 3, 2007 
As part of the Yale SOM Leaders Forum, Istithmar CEO David Jackson '93 discussed the state of private equity in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis.

September 25, 2007 
Owen Nee, a lawyer who has represented many of the world's largest corporations in a variety of business transactions in China, spoke about changing trends in China investment from a lawyer's perspective at Yale SOM on September 19, 2007.

September 18, 2007 
The architectural firm Foster + Partners, led by Chairman Norman Foster, has been selected to design the new Yale School of Management campus, Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced.

September 13, 2007 
Extreme price shoppers for groceries - those who contribute negative gross margins to a retailer - are a very small share of the market and do not have a significant adverse impact on retail profits according to a study by researchers at the Yale School of Management and SUNY Buffalo.

September 12, 2007 

September 12, 2007 
Professors William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst will present "The History of Financial Innovation," the first lecture in the Yale Carbon Finance Speaker Series, on Thursday, September 13, from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Luce Hall, located at 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

September 12, 2007 
Namhla Thina Siwendu, founding partner of the South African law firm Siwendu & Partners Inc., will deliver the first lecture in this year's Millstein Center Lunch Forum on Corporate Governance.

September 6, 2007 
Yale SOM hosts a variety of events each year to help prospective applicants learn about the school. Admissions officers visit cities from Seattle, Washington, to Shanghai, China, to meet with individuals and answer their questions.

August 30, 2007 
Three corporate governance experts at the Yale School of Management have been named to Directorship magazine's list of the 100 'Most Influential Players in Corporate Governance.'

August 23, 2007 

August 20, 2007 

August 16, 2007 

August 14, 2007 

August 1, 2007 

July 24, 2007 

June 28, 2007 

June 13, 2007 

June 12, 2007 

June 7, 2007 

June 4, 2007 

June 1, 2007 

June 1, 2007 

May 31, 2007 

May 31, 2007 

May 8, 2007 

May 3, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., May 4, 2007 — The Connecticut Chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs has honored the Yale School of Management with its 2007 Destino Community Organization Award.

April 25, 2007 

April 20, 2007 
This spring the Yale School of Management published Q1, the first edition of a magazine for alumni and friends of the school.

April 19, 2007 
A team of first-year Yale MBA students won the 2007 Operations Simulation Competition this month, beating out 62 other teams of MBA students from business schools around the world. The Yale team, called "yalewillwin," was comprised of Gene Lee, Krishan Soni, Garan Geist, and Robert Doherty.

April 12, 2007 
When Sesame Street debuted in 1969, its only competition for preschool viewers came from an affable man in a cardigan sweater and sneakers. For twenty years, Big Bird and Mr. Rogers divided the preschool world between them.

April 9, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., April 9, 2007 — Private information passed through the social networks of mutual fund portfolio managers and senior company officers who attended the same university affects fund returns, finds a new study.

April 5, 2007 

March 26, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., March 26, 2007 — Healthcare 2007, the third annual healthcare conference presented by the Yale School of Management, will take place on March 30, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.

March 7, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., March 7, 2007 — Recommending a rival can increase a firm's bottom line suggests a new study by researchers at Yale School of Management.

March 6, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., March 6, 2007 — Yale School of Management MBA students will put their business skills to work for a good cause over spring break. A group of 24 students will spend two weeks in Brazil performing pro bono consulting work for socially focused organizations. The trip will take place March 10-24

February 9, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., February 9, 2007 — Pingyang Gao, a doctoral student in accounting at the Yale School of Management, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program.

February 8, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., February 8, 2007 – Leaders of the education reform movement will discuss the role of leadership in solving the problem of education inequity at the Yale Education Leadership Conference on February 16, 2007.

February 1, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., February 1, 2007 – Before you reach for that snack, does thinking about your next meal make it easier to eat healthy? Every day, people make choices that involve self-control dilemmas such as choosing between a fattening cookie and a fat-free yogurt as a snack. A new consumer behavior study from researchers at the Yale School of Management and Carnegie Mellon finds that the self-control people exercise in a decision at hand is influenced by the choices they believe they will make in the future.

January 24, 2007 
Gina Boswell '89, senior vice president and COO of Avon North America, has been named one of the Top 15 Women in Business 2007 by PINK magazine and Forté Foundation.

January 11, 2007 
Professor of Economics Fiona Scott Morton testified in front of a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee devoted to the topic of "Prescription Drug Pricing and Negotiation: An Overview and Economic Perspectives for the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit" on January 11, 2007.

January 11, 2007 
New Haven, Conn., January 11, 2007—Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) experts from leading universities and organizations will gather at Yale to explore the latest research and trends in the field in a two-day workshop on January 13 and 14. The event is presented by The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, the Center for Business and Environment at Yale, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and the Yale School of Management.

2006

December 18, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., December 18, 2006—First-year students from the Yale School of Management will study abroad during the first two weeks of January 2007 as part of the school's first International Experience, a mandatory component of the school's new MBA curriculum that was launched in September 2006. Yale SOM is the first major MBA program to require students to study abroad.

December 12, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., December 12, 2006—The 54th gathering of the Yale CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute takes place at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Thursday, December 14 and Friday, December 15.

November 20, 2006 
Beginning Tuesday, November 21, 2006, three distinguished leaders will visit the SOM campus to take part in the Yale SOM Leaders Forum, which brings current leaders in the private, public, and nonprofit world to the Yale SOM community to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing business and society today.

November 8, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., November 8, 2006—Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny today announced that the Yale Center for Corporate Governance and Performance has been renamed The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management in honor of corporate governance expert Ira M. Millstein. Millstein, a senior partner at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, is also senior associate dean for corporate governance at Yale SOM.

November 6, 2006 
A representative of PepsiCo spoke at Yale SOM on November 2, 2006, as part of the school's on-campus recruiting program. SOM hosts dozens of such job talks each year, so, why is this one a big story? In this case, the representative was the recently appointed president and CEO of PepsiCo, the most powerful woman in business (according to Fortune magazine), and Yale SOM alumna Indra Nooyi '80.

November 3, 2006 
Yale School of Management alumni D. Ellen Shuman '84 and Andrew Golden '89 took home two of the four awards bestowed by Institutional Investor magazine in its 2006 Awards for Excellence in Investment Management. The awards honor the outstanding achievements of executives who manage U.S. pension plans, endowments, and foundations.

October 26, 2006 

October 24, 2006 
The keynote speaker at the upcoming Future of Philanthropy Conference, to be held at Yale SOM on November 10, 2006, will be Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women's World Banking, a not-for-profit financial institution at the forefront of microfinance globally. Iskenderian has more than twenty years of experience in building financial systems in Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe and will address the conference's theme of "Innovations shaping the landscape of tomorrow."

October 13, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., October 13, 2006 - The Yale School of Management has the highest percentage of women MBAs enrolled for 2006 according to a census released by the Forté Foundation. Women make up 38 percent of SOM's Class of 2008.

October 10, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., October 10, 2006—Top marketing executives and scholars will discuss the latest trends in marketing and consumer behavior at the "Marketing Innovations in Products and Communication" conference at the Yale School of Management on October 20, 2006.

September 25, 2006 

September 5, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., September 5, 2006 – The Yale School of Management today introduces an innovative MBA curriculum that replaces courses in finance, marketing, and other subjects that have been the mainstay of business education for the last 50 years with multidisciplinary courses that cut across functional boundaries to provide management education in a richer, more relevant context. Yale's new approach aligns the way management is taught with the way managers operate every day and challenges students to shape their career goals around their personal values and aspirations. The 208 students of the Class of 2008 begin the new courses today, the start of the 2006-2007 academic term.

August 21, 2006 
Finance professors at the Yale School of Management have devised a new method to measure the active management of mutual funds. This new measure, known as Active Share, reveals that nearly one third of the U.S. mutual fund industry is comprised of "closet indexers" – funds that claim to be actively managed but passively invest most of their assets in the benchmark index – while truly active funds account for only about a quarter of the market.

August 16, 2006 
Indra K. Nooyi, a member of the Yale SOM Class of 1980, has been elected chief executive officer of PepsiCo by the company's board of directors, effective October 1, 2006. Nooyi will lead one of the world's largest convenient foods and beverages companies, with $33 billion in annual revenues.

August 9, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., August 9, 2006—Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the Yale School of Management, today begins his term as the 2006-2007 president of the American Accounting Association.

August 1, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., August 1, 2006—People often rely on their intuitions when making choices – whether they are deciding which sports team to bet on, politician to vote for, or job candidate to hire. A new study published in the August issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General explains why people are predisposed to trusting their intuitions even when presented with information that suggests that their intuition may be wrong.

July 14, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., July 14, 2006—Garry Brewer, the Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Resource Policy and Management at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES), has been named a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

July 13, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., July 13, 2006 - The Yale School of Management's core curriculum reform is the subject of the July installment of the Wall Street Journal's monthly M.B.A. Track column. In the article, which focuses on the multidisciplinary nature of the new first-year curriculum, columnist Ron Alsop writes, "Other schools are taking steps toward a more integrated curriculum, too, but not on the scale of Yale's bold revision."

June 28, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., June 28, 2006—Professor Owen Lamont today testified as an expert witness in the United States Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Hedge Funds and Independent Analysts: How Independent are Their Relationships?"

June 19, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., June 19, 2006—Many think of creativity as being the domain of "creative types" or those who, in a sudden spark of inspiration, are struck with a novel or groundbreaking idea. A provocative new book argues that creativity happens not in a serendipitous flash, but unfolds as a structured, definable process over years or even decades.

June 12, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., June 12, 2006—Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny today announced the establishment of the Yale Center for Corporate Governance and Performance (YCCGP) with the receipt of $20 million in gifts and commitments from individual and corporate donors, including a $10 million gift from David Nierenberg, a 1975 graduate of Yale College and a 1978 graduate of Yale Law School, and his wife Patricia, which represents the single largest gift in the history of the Yale School of Management. Podolny also announced that Ira M. Millstein, a senior partner at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges and senior associate dean for corporate governance at Yale SOM, has been named the center's director.

June 8, 2006 
Barry Nalebuff, the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, will be presented with the fourth annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for his article, "Exclusionary Bundling." The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Antitrust Institute on June 21, 2006, in Washington, D.C.

May 30, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., May 30, 2006-This week's 53rd gathering of the Yale CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute will celebrate the historic closure of the traumatic Enron scandal's court verdict by examining the fair scope of responsibility assigned to the CEOs of modern global corporations. The conference, entitled "CEO Intervention: Modeling Accountability vs. Meddling Actions," takes place at the Yale Law School June 1-2, 2006.

May 25, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., May 25, 2006—The book Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition by Dean Joel M. Podolny has been selected as a finalist for the George R. Terry Book Award. The award is given annually by the Academy of Management to recognize the book that has "made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management."

May 22, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., May 22, 2006—Two hundred and fifteen graduates received their MBA degrees today at the commencement exercises for the Yale School of Management Class of 2006. This year's class signifies a milestone in the history of the School: SOM matriculated its 5,000th graduate since its founding in 1976.

April 26, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 26, 2006—People are often reluctant to obtain diagnostic medical tests for serious diseases they may be at risk for including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and Alzheimer's. A new study finds that the perceived treatability and severity of a disease impacts individuals' decisions to submit to—or avoid—medical screening.

April 25, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 25, 2006—Judith A. Chevalier, the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics at the Yale School of Management, has been named a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

April 20, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 19, 2006—Widely honored design engineer James Dyson, Chairman and Founder of Dyson, will speak at Yale on April 27 and sponsor a four-hour design charrette, or hands-on workshop, for students the following morning.

April 19, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 19, 2006—The International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management will host "The China Industry Conference at Yale," April 21-22, at Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, New Haven.

April 18, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 18, 2006— The U.S. defense sector is not experiencing economic gains from the use of information technology (IT) like civilian sectors. The result, say the authors of the new paper "Bringing Defense into the Information Economy," is that national security is becoming more costly and national strategy isn't aligned with America's technological and economic strengths as it was in World War II and the Cold War.

April 13, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 13, 2006—Yale School of Management Dean Joel M. Podolny today announced that James N. Baron, currently the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, will join the faculty of the Yale School of Management effective July 1. Dean Podolny also announced that Joseph P. Simmons, a scholar from Princeton University, will join the faculty as assistant professor of marketing.

April 12, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 12, 2006—David M. Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief and columnist at The Wall Street Journal, will present the lecture "Can Newspaper Journalism Survive Blogs, Fox News, and Karl Rove?" at the Yale School of Management on Tuesday, April 18, at 11:45 a.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue.

April 11, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 11, 2006—A study that examines the demand for high-fee mutual funds finds that many investors do not realize that fund fees are important for making investment decisions, are swayed by irrelevant prospectus information, and often buy high-cost funds even though they sense they may be making a mistake.

April 7, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., April 7, 2006—The broad range of social, economic, political, and legal issues that arise from technological development will be the subject of a symposium at the Yale School of Management.

March 30, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 30, 2006--Dr. Eddie O'Connor, CEO of Airtricity, Ireland's largest wind development company, will speak at the Yale School of Management on Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. in the General Motors Room of 55 Hillhouse Avenue. The talk is free and open to the public.

March 21, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 21, 2006—Herb Allison, President and CEO of TIAA-CREF, will speak about the competitive pressures facing America at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, March 23, in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue.

March 15, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 15, 2006—Yale School of Management MBA student Todd Kaplan '06, has been honored as the 2006 recipient of the Anna C. Klune Memorial Scholarship from the Connecticut Chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA-CT). He was recognized for this achievement at the Student Marketer of the Year "Mark of Excellence Awards Ceremony" in Hartford, Connecticut on March 14.

March 6, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., March 6, 2006—Twenty-four senior government leaders from the Republic of Kazakhstan will attend an executive development program at the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) March 6-18, 2006.

February 23, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 23, 2006—Virgílio Viana, Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development of Amazonas State, Brazil will present three lectures at the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) on February 27, 28, and March 2.

February 21, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 21, 2006—Craig R. Barrett, Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation, will speak as part of the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on February 22. The talk will take place in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue at 11:45 a.m. It is free and open to the public.

February 20, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 20, 2006—Twenty MBA students from the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) will put their business skills to work for a good cause over spring break. The group will spend two weeks in the island nation of Madagascar performing pro bono consulting work for socially focused organizations.

February 16, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 16, 2006—The Yale School of Management Black Business Alliance has organized a series of cultural activities to take place at the school throughout February in honor of Black History Month. "Black History Month is a time to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements and legacy of African-Americans," said Vinice Davis '06, co-leader of the Black Business Alliance.

February 14, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 14, 2006—The Yale School of Management will host its second annual healthcare conference and networking forum on March 24, 2006. "Healthcare 2006: The Political and Ethical Challenges to Advancing Healthcare Quality" will take place 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue. The conference is organized by the Yale School of Management Healthcare Club, the Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program, and the Yale School of Management Alumni Association. Advance registration is required.

February 8, 2006 
New Haven, Conn., February 8, 2006—Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the 13th Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Wednesday, February 15, 2006.

2005

December 16, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., December 16, 2005—Ravi Dhar has been appointed the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management.

December 8, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., December 8, 2005—January 1 is around the corner and New Year's resolutions to save money, lose weight, and stop smoking are being contemplated. A study from the Yale School of Management and the University of Chicago helps explain who will stick to their goals and who will stray.

December 5, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., December 5, 2005—William G. Parrett, CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, will speak as part of the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Thursday, December 8, 2005, 11:45 a.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue. The talk is free and open to the public.

November 15, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., November 15, 2005—Many online retailers encourage customers to post product reviews believing that they will influence the purchases of other customers. A new study from the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management that examines the effect of consumer reviews on book sales at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com finds that this community content does have an impact on what consumers buy.

November 7, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., November 7, 2005--The Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Yale School of Management (SOM) have announced a new offering, one of the first programs of its kind: a joint M.B.A./Ph.D. degree

October 12, 2005 
October 12, 2005—Nick Brod and James Woody, MBA students from the Class of 2006 at the Yale School of Management, were part of an international team that participated in the recent Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope. The team of 67 business school cyclists raised nearly $90,000 for the tour, a transcontinental bike ride to support and draw attention to the fight against cancer.

September 27, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 27, 2005—Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, has been named a Fellow of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The award will be presented to Professor Kaplan during a ceremony at the INFORMS annual meeting on November 14, 2005 in San Francisco.

September 19, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 19, 2005—How much do you really desire a designer handbag or an exclusive watch but feel guilty about purchasing it? Maybe you should donate to the United Way or spend a weekend building homes with Habitat for Humanity. According to a new research study, "Licensing Effect in Consumer Choice," consumers who act or feel altruistic are more likely to subsequently splurge on luxury goods.

September 12, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 12, 2005—The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded the Yale Environment Management Center a $1.5 million grant to support the joint masters degree program between the Yale School of Management (SOM) and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES).

September 7, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., September 7, 2005—The Yale School of Management is hosting the first Yale Global Governance Forum, an historic and timely gathering of sixty of the most influential voices in governance reform from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States. On September 8 and 9, CEOs and chief governance officers of the nation's largest firms, global regulators, shareholder activists, journalists, governance reformers, as well as scholars from many top universities, will gather at Yale for the Forum to share ideas for addressing governance challenges across sectors and across countries.

August 16, 2005 
New Haven, Conn.—The Yale School of Management welcomes the Class of 2007. The 212 students arrived on campus on August 15 to take part in Orientation Week activities.

August 15, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., August 15, 2005—Shyam Sunder, the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the Yale School of Management, has been named president-elect of the American Accounting Association. This is a three-year appointment to the Association's Executive Committee. His post as president begins in August 2006.

August 1, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., August 1, 2005—The charter class of the Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare program begin their first academic term today at the Yale School of Management. Leadership in Healthcare is the first degree program to be offered by the Yale School of Management on a schedule tailored to the needs of working executives.

July 11, 2005 
New Haven, Conn.—Graduates of the Yale School of Management Class of 2005 can add a new accomplishment to their already impressive résumés: record breaker. In making their class gift to the school, a tradition of each graduating class, they set a new record for participation. Eighty-one percent of the Class of '05 pledged their support, raising a total of $167,695.

July 11, 2005 
As soon as news of the tragic events in Britain was received last week, the CDO and other Yale SOM staff began contacting or trying to contact SOM students and alumni known to be living and working in London. We are delighted and relieved to report that all Class of 2006 students who have internships in London this summer are safe, and we have received no reports to date of any SOM alumni being affected.

July 5, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., July 5, 2005— Sensors to detect suicide bombers before they can reach a target and detonate explosives would not substantially reduce deaths and injuries in urban settings, Yale researchers report in the July 5 early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

June 20, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., June 20, 2005—The basic economic theory that people work harder to avoid losing money than they do to make money is shared by monkeys, suggesting this trait has a long evolutionary history, according to a Yale University study under review by the Journal of Political Economy.

June 14, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., June 14, 2005—The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures announced its selection of four grand-prize winners and four runners-up at the final round of the Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, in Jersey City, New Jersey on Friday, June 10.

June 9, 2005 
New Haven, Conn.—Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, died on June 4 at age 59. Wittink was a respected mentor and scholar with over one hundred articles in the field of marketing. He was noted for his work in the study of conjoint analysis, the most widely used tool to measure consumer preferences.

June 8, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., June 8, 2005—As Wall Street bulls and bears debate whether CEO actions are a good indicator of the direction of our uncertain economy, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics will gather at the 51st CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management to discuss their own leadership choices. The conference, entitled "Is Sustainable High Performance Really a Myth?" will be the inaugural event at the new World Headquarters of Bloomberg LP in New York City June 9 and 10, 2005. Conference sponsors include: UPS, Accenture, ArcaEx, Bloomberg News, RHR International, and Russell Reynolds Associates.

May 9, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., May 9, 2005—President Bush recently announced his proposal for Social Security solvency through "progressive indexing," or benefit cuts to future generations of retirees. This is indicative of the ongoing reform debates, which have viewed bankruptcy and benefits as necessary trade offs. A new paper from the Yale School of Management outlines an economic model for a solvent system that keeps payouts, and the promised safety net for retirees, intact.

May 2, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., May 3, 2005—Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD) prohibits U.S. firms from disclosing information to only a select few analysts, instead requiring disclosures to the public. Although the Securities and Exchange Commission enacted Regulation FD with the aim of improving the quality of information reaching the market to help level the playing field between investors and analysts, it may have the opposite effect according to a new study.

April 26, 2005 

April 19, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., April 19, 2005—The Yale School of Management-The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures will host its third and final National Business Plan Competition and Conference and Awards Ceremony on June 9-10, 2005, at the Hyatt on the Hudson in Jersey City, NJ. Twenty entrepreneurial nonprofits from across the country will present their earned income venture business plans and compete for $500,000 in prize money and business planning assistance.

April 7, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., April 7, 2005— Retailers, manufacturers, and regulators have debated the controversial role of slotting allowances, the one-time fees manufacturers pay to retailers in exchange for shelf space to stock new products, with little consensus. While some argue that they are anti-competitive, others contend that they serve to enhance efficiency by helping, for example, to allocate scarce shelf space.

April 4, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., April 4, 2005—Mutual funds perform better when their directors have significant ownership in the funds they oversee according to a new study.

March 23, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., March 23, 2005—Workers who opt to invest in the personal accounts outlined in President Bush's Social Security reform plan are likely to earn less to retire on than those who stay in the traditional system, according to a new study by Yale University economist Robert J. Shiller. The research finds that on the date of retirement, the personal accounts would have negative values 71 percent of the time.

March 7, 2005 
New, Haven, Conn., March 7, 2005 - Senior policymakers from the Republic of Kazakhstan will attend an executive training program at the Yale School of Management from March 7-19, 2005.

March 3, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., March 3, 2005 - "The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" announced its selection of 20 nonprofit organizations to proceed to the final round of the Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

February 22, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., February 22, 2005--As consumers become more impervious to traditional marketing tactics, companies are increasingly turning to word of mouth (WOM) campaigns to engineer conversations--or buzz--among customers. Researchers at the Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School have conducted the first study that examines the effectiveness of firm-sponsored WOM with a surprising result: consumers with no loyalty to the firm or product create more powerful WOM than loyal customers.

February 1, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., February 1, 2005—The Yale School of Management will host a conference and networking forum featuring healthcare industry leaders and members of the Yale health-related community. "Healthcare 2005: A Workshop on Pursuing Effective Business Leadership and Management of Healthcare Enterprises," takes place on Friday, February 4, 2005, from Noon to 5:00 p.m. at the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Conn. All conference sessions are open to members of the press who register in advance.

February 1, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., February 1, 2005—Laura Cha, former vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has contributed $700,000 to endow The Laura Cha (Shi Mei Lun) Scholarship at the Yale School of Management. This merit-based scholarship is intended to provide financial assistance to MBA students from mainland China who demonstrate financial need. It will be awarded every other year so that one student will get his or her two-year MBA tuition fully covered by this scholarship.

January 25, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., January 25, 2005—Ravi Dhar, professor of marketing at the Yale School of Management and co-director of the Yale Center for Customer Insights, and Klaus Wertenbroch (INSEAD), are the recipients of the prestigious 2005 William F. O'Dell Award for their study "Consumer Choice Between Hedonic and Utilitarian Goods."

January 25, 2005 
Bright Horizons Family Solutions and CarMax, 2 companies founded and headed by Yale SOM alumni, have been named to the prestigious 2005 FORTUNE "100 Best Companies to Work For" list – an annual ranking recognizing employers who go beyond the norm to make their workplaces among the best in the nation.

January 3, 2005 
New Haven, Conn., January 4, 2005—The Yale School of Management is opening a new research center devoted to the behavior of customers. The Yale Center for Customer Insights (YCCI) will bring together industry leaders and scholars from multiple disciplines to focus on joint research relevant to the marketplace.

2004

December 14, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., December 14, 2004—Many CEOs today announce a strong interest in internal invention and fostering new ideas from within rather than looking to buy businesses. Are the days of dealmakers over and replaced by business builders? To resolve this paradox, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics gather at the 50th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management. The conference, entitled "The Return of Invention, Imagination & Integrity," takes place at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, December 16-17, 2004.

December 8, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., December 8, 2004-Yale University President Richard C. Levin has appointed Jacob Thomas the Williams Brothers Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Yale School of Management.

December 1, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., December 1, 2004—As consumers flood malls and online retailers this holiday shopping season, a new study of shopping behavior by researchers at the Yale School of Management and Duke University explains why some consumers may buy more than they intend.

October 20, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., October 20, 2004 – "The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 90 nonprofit organizations to proceed to Round II of the Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

October 18, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—October 18, 2004—Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.

August 17, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., August 18, 2004 – The Yale School of Management is launching an MBA for Executives program to begin in August 2005. The innovative new program, the Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in the Healthcare Sector, combines the resources of one of the country's leading MBA programs augmented with the knowledge, technical, and policy expertise of one of the nation's foremost medical programs, the Yale School of Medicine.

May 26, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 26, 2004—Despite strong economic indicators, international financial markets currently reflect geopolitical uncertainties that make it hard for business leaders to guide the next 12 months. In an effort to review strategic business directions amid these conditions, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics gather at the 49th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management.

May 25, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 25, 2004—Investor confidence has declined amid worries that the Fed will raise interest rates according to the latest survey results of The Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indexes™.

May 14, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., May 14, 2004—The Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures announced its selection of four grand-prize winners and four runners-up at the final round of the Second National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, in New York City on Thursday evening, May 13.

May 12, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 12, 2004—Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, is the recipient of the Paul E. Green Award 2004 for his paper "Is 75% of the Sales Promotion Bump Due to Brand Switching? No, Only 33% Is" with Harald J. van Heerde (Tilburg University) and Sachin Gupta (Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University).

May 3, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—May 4, 2004—The International Center for Finance (ICF) at the Yale School of Management has received a $1.6 million grant for the study of behavioral finance—The Whitebox Advisors Grant—bestowed by Andrew Redleaf, Yale '78 MA, '78 BA, and his company Whitebox Advisors.

April 15, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—April 15, 2004— Roger G. Ibbotson, Professor in the Practice of Finance at the Yale School of Management, is a recipient of the 2003 Graham and Dodd Award for his paper "Long-Run Stock Returns: Participating in the Real Economy" with Peng Chen, Managing Director and Director of Research of Ibbotson Associates.

April 12, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—April 12, 2004— The Yale School of Management announced today that Dean Jeffrey E. Garten will be stepping down in June 2005, after he completes his second five-year term as dean of Yale University's business school.

February 17, 2004 
New Haven, Conn., February 17, 2004 - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 20 nonprofit organizations to proceed to the final round of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

January 30, 2004 
New Haven, Conn.—January 30, 2004—The Yale School of Management has appointed a roster of prominent executives to serve as its new Board of Advisors. Linda A. Mason (SOM '80), Chairman and Founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, and Fellow of the Yale Corporation, is Chair of the 40-member Board, which includes 21 Yale SOM and 14 Yale College alumni.

2003

December 18, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.—December 18, 2003—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Associate Dean for Executive Programs at the Yale School of Management and Founder, President and CEO of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute, presided over the market open of The NASDAQ Stock Market this morning at NASDAQ's Times Square MarketSite in New York City.

December 16, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.—December 16, 2003—With the resurgent stock market, cheerful economic indicators, rising corporate profits, and geopolitical calm, 140 business and top policy leaders gather at the 48th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management to determine if these conditions will continue past this holiday season. The invitation-only conference, "Happy Days: Are They Here Again?" takes place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, December 18-19, 2003.

October 15, 2003 
New Haven, CT-October 15, 2003 - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 80 nonprofit organizations to proceed to Round II of the Second National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

October 8, 2003 
New Haven, Conn. – October 8, 2003 – In a new report released today by The Aspen Institute and the World Resources Institute, the Yale School of Management is recognized as one of six elite business schools arming graduate students with skills critical for effective leadership in a changing world.

September 30, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.—September 30, 2003—The latest survey results of The Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indexes™ report an improvement in investor confidence since the stock market bottomed nearly a year ago in October 2002, but not a consistent or strong improvement by most indicators. The market reached its lowest point since the 2000 peak on October 9, 2002, and is now up by about a third as measured by the S&P500.

September 24, 2003 
New Haven, Conn., September 24, 2003 -- Since New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation into fraudulent practices in the mutual fund industry, more and more attention is being paid to the subject of fair value pricing as a means of combating arbitrage. A Yale School of Management study cited in Spizter's formal complaint was the first to propose fair valuation method that fund companies and regulators can employ to substantially reduce opportunity the market timing and enable mutual funds to calculate more consistent and accurate daily NAVs.

September 15, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.-September 15, 2003 -- The Yale School of Management is pleased to announce that it has received a grant of $1.5 million dollars from The Goldman Sachs Foundation. The grant will help fund "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures," an initiative established in 2002 to educate nonprofits about nonprofit enterprise. This is the second such grant bestowed by The Goldman Sachs Foundation. The first, a $1.5 million contribution in 2002, helped launch The Partnership, which also receives support from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

July 23, 2003 
New Haven, Conn., July 23, 2003 – Dick R. Wittink, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing at the Yale School of Management, is the new editor of the Journal of Marketing Research (JMR). His three-year editorial appointment began on July 1, 2003 and will run through June 30, 2006.

June 25, 2003 
New Haven, CT, June 25, 2003 - As geopolitical crises stabilize and the world economy sputters back to health, 100 world-renowned chief executives, policy makers, and academics gather at the 47th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management. The meeting takes place at the Yale Law School, June 26-27, 2003. The conference, "The Giddiness is Gone: Resetting Paradigms for Growth," addresses the challenges of discovering hidden business opportunities within sectors that are currently not as readily identified as they were during the bubble economy.

May 6, 2003 
New Haven, CT, May 5, 2003 - The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures announced its selection of four grand-prize winners and four runners-up at the final round of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, in downtown New York City on Friday, May 2.

April 21, 2003 
New Haven, CT, April 21, 2003 – In the midst of the worst mutual fund performance in a decade, a Yale School of Management research team proposes a new financial model to identify mutual funds that will substantially outperform the market benchmark.

April 9, 2003 
New Haven, CT, April 9, 2003 – The Yale School of Management hosted a lively discussion of Professor Robert Shiller's new book, The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century, at the Yale Club of New York City last night. In The New Financial Order, Professor Shiller unveils his plan for our financial security by describing new ways to hedge against the ever-increasing risks that society faces.

April 1, 2003 
New Haven, CT, April 1, 2003 – A new Yale School of Management study finds evidence of significant change in health care leadership in the United States. The number of MBA-trained physicians is increasing dramatically and mirrors the rise in the number of MD/MBA programs in the last decade.

March 13, 2003 
New Haven, CT, March 17, 2003 – On the eve of war in Iraq, Yale School of Management expert Edward H. Kaplan, along with colleagues Lawrence M. Wein, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and David L. Craft, M.I.T Operations Research Center, predict the number of casualties from an aerosolized anthrax weapon dispersed into a crowded city could be reduced by half if antibiotics were distributed either pre-attack or within several hours post-attack.

March 3, 2003 
February 19, 2003 – New Haven, CT - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" today announced its selection of 20 nonprofit organizations to proceed to the final round of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

February 11, 2003 
February 10, 2003 – New Haven, CT – The Yale School of Management honors Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, with The Yale School of Management Award for Distinguished Leadership in Global Capital Markets. The event, held in New York City, gathers 50 of the world's leading financiers, finance ministers, and central bank governors for a meeting that includes a discussion on the future of global markets.

January 10, 2003 
New Haven, Conn.— January 14, 2003 – In the aftermath of the Bush Administration's newly announced economic policy package and the Conference Board's recent final recommendations on needed corporate governance reforms, more than 100 CEOs of the nation's largest firms will gather to discuss how new governance requirements, changing public scrutiny, and global geopolitics have changed their job definitions. This conference, "Building and Restoring Trust," is the 46th CEO Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management (SOM) – the nation's original CEO College – held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, January 14-15, 2003.

2002

December 18, 2002 
New Haven, CT, December 18, 2002 – The global eradication of smallpox stands among the most critical public health achievements of the last century. Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, continues to argue that in the event of a smallpox bioterror attack, rapid mass vaccination of the population in the area of the attack is preferable to ring vaccination, where only the contacts of smallpox cases would be vaccinated.

November 11, 2002 
New Haven, CT, November 11, 2002 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) announced today that Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, is the 2002 recipient of the INFORMS® President's Award. The award will be presented to Professor Kaplan during a ceremony held at the San Jose Conference Center, as part of the INFORMS® annual meeting, on November 18, 2002.

November 7, 2002 
New Haven, CT, November 7, 2002 - "The Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" announces its selection of 80 nonprofit organizations to proceed to Round II of the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations.

September 18, 2002 
New Haven, CT, September 18, 2002 – An egg sizzling in a frying pan as the viewer is told: "This is your brain on drugs." That vivid image was used during a successful anti-drug television campaign created by The Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) to change societal attitudes about drugs and reduce drug consumption among teens.

September 3, 2002 
New Haven, September 3, 2002 – The stock market is down 20% since the beginning of the year (as measured by the Standard & Poors 500), and The Yale School of Management Stock Market Confidence Indexes™ directed by Robert Shiller, author of the bestseller Irrational Exuberance, show that individual and institutional investor confidence is steadily sliding.

July 19, 2002 
New Haven, July 14 to 23, 2002 – International experts who teach, design, or implement corporate governance training programs worldwide are in an intensive, eight-day Corporate Governance Director Education Program, which is being sponsored by The Global Corporate Governance Forum and the International Institute of Corporate Governance (IICG) at the Yale School of Management (SOM). Leaders from the director training institutes in nine East Asian economies (China, Taipei, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia) are attending to develop a core curriculum that will promote corporate governance reform at a corporate level.

July 8, 2002 
New Haven, CT, July 3, 2002 – In the event of a smallpox attack, a mass vaccination policy would result in fewer deaths and faster disease eradication than alternative vaccination strategies, reports a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (article 2827). Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, the best response to a smallpox attack has been a topic of hot debate.

June 24, 2002 
New York, June 24, 2002 – Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a New York-based non-profit organization, and the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) announced today a partnership to launch a new MBA Preparation Program to increase success rates for minority applicants and expand minority representation at leading graduate business schools throughout the world.

May 28, 2002 
New Haven, CT, May 28, 2002 - In response to the nation's current leadership crises over trust, accountability, and security, 100 of the nation's top corporate leaders will meet at the Yale School of Management (SOM) this week with top policy makers and leading educators. The 45th CEO Leadership Summit is sponsored by United Parcel Service, Bloomberg News, The Gallup Organization, and PRG-Shultz International.

April 3, 2002 
New Haven, CT, April 3, 2002 -- The Yale School of Management is opening a new research and teaching center to study Corporate Governance worldwide and the relationship between legal regulatory frameworks and the global economy. The Yale School of Management International Institute for Corporate Governance (IICG) was inaugurated by World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn in a ceremony today on the business school campus. Mr. Wolfensohn also was awarded the annual Yale School of Management International Center for Finance award for his contributions to business and society.

March 12, 2002 
New Haven, CT, March 12, 2002 – Fifteen Yale MBA students are enroute to Japan for a weeklong study trip to an array of Japanese firms and multinational corporations as part of their business studies of current strategy, operations, financial institutions, and general management in what is arguably the world's second largest economy.

March 11, 2002 
New Haven, CT, March 12, 2002 -- How confident are individual and institutional investors following the September 11th terrorist attacks and amid heightened doubts about the integrity of financial reporting sparked by Enron Corp.? A study from the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance announces four new indexes devised by Robert J. Shiller, a Faculty Fellow there. It shows that both individual and institutional investors' confidence remain "unshaken." Such resilient confidence, says Shiller, "Is a powerful support for the market."

February 7, 2002 
New Haven, CT, February 7, 2002 - "The Yale SOM - Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures" is a new initiative at the Yale School of Management (SOM) to be funded through combined grants totaling $4.5 million made by The Goldman Sachs Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Partnership, which will launch a pioneering business plan competition for nonprofits, grew out of the three partners' growing concern that nonprofits increasingly find the need to enter the marketplace to generate new revenues beyond their philanthropic activities.

2001

December 6, 2001 
New Haven, CT, December 6, 2001 -- "YES." A recent study by researchers at Berkeley and Yale found that the Internet is disproportionately beneficial to those whose demographics put them at a disadvantage in negotiating -- primarily African-Americans, Hispanics, and women.

October 31, 2001 
New Haven, CT - October 31, 2001 - The Yale School of Management is being honored today by The Aspen Institute in New York City and The World Resource Institute in Washington, D.C. with an award for its outstanding leadership in training MBA students in environmental management skills.

June 12, 2001 
New Haven, CT, June 12, 2001 -- Where do the world's most prominent chief executives go when they want to learn from each other? CEOs from Michael Dell to Sumner Redstone to Quincy Jones would likely say, The Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI), a combination think-tank and corporate management education center. Starting this summer, CELI joins forces with the Yale School of Management to offer the first University-based peer driven leadership education program for America's top executives.

May 22, 2001 
New Haven, CT, May 22, 2001 -- Amidst the current turbulence in our financial markets, a group of leaders from business, banking and academia, established at the suggestion of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in April 2000, released its findings today on ways to improve the system of financial reporting for companies. It concluded that investors do not have all the information they need to make the most reasoned judgments on how to value companies.

March 9, 2001 
New Haven, CT, March 9, 2001 -- The Yale School of Management recently received two gifts totaling $1.2 million dollars for its International Center for Finance (ICF) to help fund collecting research and publication in financial market history.

February 7, 2001 
New Haven, CT, February 7, 2001 -- Today, the Yale School of Management celebrated the launch of a new MBA-managed venture capital fund called Sachem Ventures, LLC, a $1.5 million venture capital investment fund that is unique to the business school arena. It is the only fund of its kind run by Yale MBA students who can invest in local startups. Ten percent of the school's studentbody help manage the Fund.

 

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