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| Yale University Yale School of Management |
OVERALL 1998 RANK: 20 BW corporate rank: 27 BW graduate rank: 11 BW 1996 rank: 22 |
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1999 Profile Update School Profile School Statistics Graduates' Comments: The speakers who come to SOM are the best. The Career Development Office does a great job in getting top firms to come recruit. They also give us great resources with which to find the right job. The grading system and non-competitive atmosphere truly encourage students to take classes where they may be weak. SOM is NOT a non-profit/public school -- 90% of graduates enter the private sector --Consulting The improvements that I have witnessed at SOM during my two years have been dramatic. Dean Garten has done an excellent job of improving SOM's Career Development Office, Information Technology, and Alumni Networking. The number and quality of firms recruiting on campus showed tremendous improvements, particularly in consulting and information techonology. --Consulting Yale SOM's small class size and the small building significantly enhance the interaction between faculty members and students. Most of the students and faculty members get to know each other during their two years. Out of 18 credits required for the degree, a maximum of eight credits can be taken from any other schools in Yale. The academic opportunity is wide open for Yale SOM students. --Finance Yale is not just an MBA program. As a whole, it offers theatrical performances, orchestra, outstanding speakers and other top quality amenities (i.e. a golf course, tennis courts, and Ivy League football games). However, the professors at Yale SOM are also outstanding. All of them have both practical work experience as well as scholastic achievements, and they combine academic textbook learning with real-life problems in their lectures. Lastly, working and socializing with brilliant classmates was an added bonus to coming to Yale. I have tremendous respect for the school's ethics and camaraderie. --Operations The curriculum was coordinated like a good jigsaw puzzle, linking together many individual pieces to cover a broad-based skillset of powerful analytical tools. Each core course built on the next, week by week, to construct a clear understanding of the financial, accounting, management, and operational aspects of how organizations function, and how they are lead. Throughout, the quality of teaching was extraordinary, supported by countless opportunities to work together with fascinating and talented classmates. I cannot imagine better management training outside the workplace. I must also comment on the unique character of SOM. While planting itself firmly among the top tier of business schools and attentively covering the full business school curriculum, SOM succeeds in nurturing a deeper understanding of the many contexts in which management education supports leaders. Whether through alumni in multi-sectored work, professors with broad research interests, or simply fellow students who maintain a keen interest in not-for-profit management, students at SOM see a wide scope for using business school tools. --Finance Dean Garten has put more effort into improving the recruiting, coursework, and overall environment at the School of Management than imaginable. A few key factors that I feel contribute to Yale's program include the non-competitive atmosphere, the diverse pool of students, the involved faculty, and the focused Dean. --Finance The leadership of SOM's dean, Dean Jeff Garten, is really taking the school into the 21st century. --Consulting The program has achieved considerable acclaim under the helmsmanship of Dean Jeffrey Garten. Mark Case has done a remarkable job in re-energizing the once flagging career placement office. Once admitted to the program, the school encourages a super-cooperative attitude through non-competitive grading policies. For those interested, the school provides every opportunity to explore the less lucrative (but possibly more satisfying) arenas of socially responsible businesses and not-for-profit management. One of the best messages that the Yale MPPM provides to even the die-hard Wall Streeter/management consultant after their two year stint at SOM is that success is measured in terms of relationships and not bonuses. --Finance Two aspects of Dean Garten's leadership ability impress me the most. First, he is incredibly responsive to student feedback. After just two and a half years, he has upgraded the career development facilities, hired a number of highly capable career professionals, and been a tireless salesman of Yale students to the corporate world. Second, he knows an unbelievable number of important people, many of whom have come to campus over the past 2 years. --Consulting I learned a great deal of useful knowledge in the courses; the teachers are excellent. The students are not only sharp, but consistently nice and cooperative as well. I got my dream job during my first job interview. The career development office was extremely helpful in interview preparation. You can take courses with leading experts in nearly any field, for example, I took a theater marketing class with a Broadway producer at the Yale School of Drama. New Haven has the best pizza in the world! --Marketing Yale SOM is a place for deep learning and deep friendships. The SOM student body and faculty are its greatest assets. --Finance The CDO (Career Development Office) worked incredibly hard to develop programs, bring in outside speakers, and help us find the career that fit our skills and interests. --Finance I had high expectations coming to Graduate school. Yale SOM shattered the ceiling on those expectations. I worked longer hours, and accomplished more great work than I could possibly have imagined. I have found opportunities to apply my new education every time I leave campus - whether on internships, volunteer consulting, or interviews. --Operations The administration is highly responsive and commited to continual improvement and engagement with the student body. The Career Development Office has made extraordinary leaps forward. Recruiting is great, and their assistance with independent job searches is both aggressive and very helpful. --Entrepreneurship I chose and enjoyed Yale SOM for several reasons: it's older, more mature student body with more diverse work experience than other schools; its strong international representation and integration into all areas of the school; and its extremely accessible and enthusiastic faculty. In addition, the fact that Yale SOM has no part-time program, night school, or executive programs means that the faculty are here just for us. Also, students here are way above the petty grade/class rank obsessions that plague other top B-schools. The entire school is a close community, not just a circle of friends or a study group like other places. I've made great professional/faculty contacts plus close friends for life. -- Consulting As an International student, the diversity at Yale SOM was really interesting. Students here know how to cope with other members in a team. Finance courses are outstanding, and strategy and marketing are improving dramatically. --Non-Profit The Pass-Fail grading system fostered assistance rather than competition among classmates. The small student body promotes personal attention, and close-knit atmosphere. However, there is a poor level of ethnic diversity in the student body and faculty. Only 6 out of 450 students are of African/African-American descent. Only 1 Professor is of African/African-American descent, and there are no professors of Latino/Hispanic descent. --Consulting Yale furnishes an outstanding management education. It offers small classes, expert and accessible professors, and courses that provide hard-edged business skills with insight into how the private and public sectors interact. In addition, the school's small size creates a distinct sense of community and friendship among students. --Marketing The Yale School of Management offers an excellent education, superb recruiting connections, particularly in consulting and finance, and visionary leadership from Dean Garten. -- Marketing The Yale School of Management (SOM) greatly exceeded my expectations of a business education. In entering a class of only about 200 students and a school of only about 400 students, I got to know most of my classmates and faculty members. My favorite professor, David Cromwell, recently retired as President and CEO of JP Morgan Capital Corp. to teach a course on venture capital and another on entrepreneurship. His dedication to his teaching and students is unprecedented. --Finance Yale SOM is a tremendous school for strategy and finance. Professors like Roger Ibbostson, Jonathan Ingersoll, David DeRosa, David Cromwell, and Frank Fabozzi are not only leading Wall Street players, but also SOM professors. Additionally, Yale SOM's strategy department is full of leading strategists like Barry Nalebuff, Ira Millstein, Paul MacAvoy, and David Collis. Dean Jeffrey Garten has done an excellent job making Yale SOM a veritable TOP 5 business school. He has brought superb faculty to New Haven and created an advisory board of leading industrialists. --Entrepreneurship SOM has added some punch to the program through new IT courses, more "international" courses, and the expansion of very popular classes such as Venture Capital. These moves signify the school's commitment to a broad management education with emphasis on the skills needed by todays markets. --Finance Back to Top 1999 Profile Update School Profile School Statistics |
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