The leaders of business & society

Yale's full-time MBA program transforms the leaders of tomorrow with the knowledge, the resources, and the networks to pursue positive and ambitious change. Our graduates go on to succeed in top positions across countless industries.

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Find your success

The Competitor: Learn to use tools from economics, marketing, organizational behavior, accounting, and politics to achieve success in competitive environments. This course emphasizes anticipating the actions of the marketplace participants, including governments, nonprofit organizations, and corporations, that function as competitors and cooperators.
The Customer: Learn to develop a deep understanding of customer behavior, integrate that understanding across an organization, and align the organizational structure to satisfy current customer needs and adapt to changes in customer needs, using tools from economics, psychology, and sociology.
The Investor: This course is about investors: what they do, how they think, and what they care about. Course topics include returns, risk, and prices; asset allocation; efficient markets; valuation and fundamentals-based investing; the capital asset pricing model (CAPM); quantitative equity investing; bond markets; evaluating money manager performance; futures and options; and investment errors and human psychology.
Power and Politics: Organizations are fundamentally political entities, and power and influence are keys to getting things done. After taking this course, you will be able to diagnose the true distribution of power in organizations, implement skills that build cooperative networks, influence others, and expand your sources of power, understand your unique leadership strengths and points of improvement, and contend with the fundamental ethical challenges of leadership.
Sourcing and Managing Funds: This course considers groups within the firm tasked to raise money from different sources as well as manage different aspects of those funds within the organization. Topics include measuring corporate value creation, company valuation, capital structure decisions, and capital budgeting.
State and Society: This course helps students understand how organizations interact with the societies that surround them, examining the role of nonmarket constituencies such as public officials and NGOs; legal and regulatory environments around the world; and the impact of societal trends on the opportunities and risks faced by businesses.
The Workforce: The purpose of this course is to enhance the student’s capability as a manager and leader to take actions that align employees’ actions with organizational goals and objectives, using levers such as recruitment and selection; employee evaluation and development; extrinsic rewards, compensation systems, and job design; and the connection between the employee’s identity and organizational objectives.
The Innovator: This class studies issues of idea generation, idea evaluation and development, creative projects, and fostering and sustaining innovation in organizations. Students generate ideas in a number of contexts, and evaluate ideas that they and others have generated in terms of customer adoption and feasibility.
Operations Engine: The course broadens the traditional operations management course by including and emphasizing linkages to organizational behavior and workforce management, strategy, accounting, finance, and marketing. At its heart, this course is about using quantitative models to provide managerial insights into the improvement of work processes, the design and improvement of the supply chain, and the competitive strategy.
The Global Macroeconomy: This course develops a framework for understanding the causes and consequences of macroeconomic events in real time, a useful input to the management of any enterprise, local or global, profit or nonprofit. We compare countries’ economic structure and performance over time and consider models in which the choices of private and public agents interact to produce aggregate outcomes in response to policy or economic shocks.
The Executive: This course consists of series of interdisciplinary cases structured to describe challenges faced by leaders of organizations of differing size, scope, and sector, asking students to bring together skills learned throughout the core curriculum. All of the cases involve current situations, and much of the class material is “raw,” consisting of financial filings, data sets, news reports, company material, and other primary source data.

Learn to transform the world

In just two years, the Yale full-time MBA program accelerates careers with:

Rigor of the Yale MBA integrated core curriculum
Core engagement in the intellectual life of Yale University
Student clubs providing forums for discussion and opportunities for action
International experience through the Global Network for Advanced Management

Expand your knowledge across disciplines

Leverage the expertise of the world’s best thinkers in our focused centers or at any other school at our home university.

Aligning stakeholders to activate purpose, values and principles

Students interested in consulting will develop top-flight analytical skills and broad perspective that will help them bring wisdom to their decision-making.

Decision-making at the speed of light

Our faculty are at the forefront of data sciences, including big data, machine learning, and network science, and they collaborate broadly across Yale University. They bring their expertise and passion for data-informed decision-making into the classroom.

Build your analytical tools to solve complex problems

Across programs, the Yale SOM approach to finance emphasizes both the development of rigorous analytical tools, including cutting-edge data science, and an understanding of how the application of those tools can contribute to society.

Connect to Yale, connect to the world

Our global reach gives you the platform to launch a career that spans boundaries. You’ll be able to study businesses operating in diverse cultural contexts, travel to new continents, and connect with peers from dozens of countries.

Solving practical, real-world problems

Future healthcare leaders from SOM develop a solid understanding of strategy, operations, management, as well as an acute recognition of the human needs of patients.

Motivate customers and keep them coming back

Gain a deep understanding of the customer to influence decision making across many different functions, from demand planning and supply chain management to pricing and analytics.

At Yale SOM, we’ve been thinking about “social impact” since before most people had heard the term. We approach every question as a chance to think about both immediate needs and big issues, the metrics of organizational success and impact on people’s lives.

The new strategic imperative

From climate change to income inequality, the success of business in the future will depend on how companies address these challenges and align themselves with the needs of society and the environment.

Creating entrepreneurs for business and society

Understand the whole of the enterprise and develop a deep understanding of how to start and sustain a new venture.

Meet your classmates

I chose SOM for its exceptional blend of classroom and extracurricular learning opportunities. We are encouraged to take advantage of a wide range of elective courses offered across the university. As someone who comes from a nontraditional background, I greatly value the opportunity to learn from a diverse group of classmates with varied experiences and expertise. Since being here, I have met students who have worked everywhere from a theme park to an oil rig.

Liv Ouyang ’24

I chose Yale SOM because of its unique community. I reached out to alumni and current students and was struck by their generosity and advice. They were genuinely trying to help me make the best decision. An alumnus from Uruguay put it best: "At SOM, we rise by lifting others."

Mateo Prudencio Csapek ’24

I was initially drawn to the school's mission to educate leaders for business & society. I wanted to be part of a student body that valued corporate social responsiblity and recognized the importance of responsible business practices.

Niagara Pal ’24

The COMMUNITY! I love being surrounded by incredible, yet humble people that care about making a positive societal impact. The people here are uniquely collaborative and kind, instead of competitive and cutthroat.

Cinthya Garibay-Collard ’24

I have enjoyed a wide array of the classes I have taken at SOM but my favorite so far is "Modeling Managerial Decisions"(MGT 405). This class, which is an MBA core class, gave me a different and unique perspective into allocation of resources and decision-making that leaders are tasked with at various levels in organizations.

Frank Ogbuagu ’24

My favorite class in the Core was Operations Engine with Professor Lesley Meng. As someone who is constantly considering how to improve efficiencies in any process, I thoroughly enjoyed how simple Professor Meng made the various concepts around the scientific principles of operations management.

Steph Kim ’24

There were several reasons that made me choose Yale SOM (without particular order): SOM's mission of positively impacting society (SOM has several courses and initiatives to have a holistic approach to stakeholder management); All that Yale University has to offer (courses, events, theater, sports, etc.); Strength in the healthcare sector (at school, university, and New Haven as a hub); Academic experience (Core Curriculum has been very useful as I do not have a business background and we have great professors!); Great location in New Haven, midway between NYC and Boston. New Haven is a very manageable city that facilitates building a community with other classmates.

Julian Fuentes-Loza ’24

Yale SOM's strong and flexible integration with other graduate programs was one of the biggest reasons I chose to attend. As a former energy and environmental policy professional planning to pivot to the private sector, I was particularly focused on how the Yale School of the Environment's course offerings could supplement SOM's core curriculum.

Kevin Moss ’24

The world is your classroom in our Global Network

You'll pursue intensive study at another of our 30 school network. This experience is like none other and will position you to thrive in roles requiring a broad understanding of the differences between markets and diverse stakeholders.