Yale Goes Global

The Yale School of Management is, quite literally, thinking globally with their new MBA program. This exciting new program for graduate students is intended to replace some of the “traditional” courses with more relevant ones. A major aspect of this new program is the requirement of studying abroad for a few weeks. But Yale is even approaching this differently, sending students to one of a variety of locations in faculty-led groups where they will, amongst other things, meet with business and or political leaders, and complete trip projects. The Dean of the Yale School of Management, Joel M. Podolny, sums up the need for such changes to management programs:

"Most business school curricula are based on a model that made sense in the past. But today, a successful manager must be able to identify and frame business problems and move across a variety of organizational, political, and geographic boundaries to solve those problems. Our new curriculum teaches the integrated skills contemporary managers need."

The idea is that such international awareness will bolster the traditional and revisited classroom learning under this new program.

Source: Yale's New MBA Curriculum