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The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school
Business school

A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative methods....
 of Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 and is located on Hillhouse Avenue
Hillhouse Avenue

Hillhouse Avenue, described, according to tradition, by both Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as "the most beautiful street in America," , is in New Haven, Connecticut and is home to many nineteenth century mansions including the president's house at Yale University....
 in New Haven
New Haven, Connecticut

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, Connecticut
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, United States
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Yale School of Management
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Motto
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 Novus Ordo Seclorum
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 (Latin
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Mission
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 Educating leaders for business and society
Established 1976
Type Private
Private school

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Endowment
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 U.S.
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 $575 million
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 (2007)
Dean
Dean (education)

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 Sharon Oster
Sharon Oster

Sharon Oster is Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management. She is widely known as an economist focusing on business strategy and non-profit organization management....
Faculty
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 81 (including joint faculty)
Students 468 (MBA)
Location New Haven
New Haven, Connecticut

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, Connecticut
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, U.S.
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The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school
Business school

A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative methods....
 of Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
 and is located on Hillhouse Avenue
Hillhouse Avenue

Hillhouse Avenue, described, according to tradition, by both Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as "the most beautiful street in America," , is in New Haven, Connecticut and is home to many nineteenth century mansions including the president's house at Yale University....
 in New Haven
New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is the third largest municipality in Connecticut, after Bridgeport, Connecticut and Hartford, with a core population of about 124,000 people....
, Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
, United States
United States

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. The School offers M.B.A. and Ph.D.
Ph.D.

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 degree programs. As of spring 2006, 468 students were enrolled in its Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines....
 program. The School has 81 faculty members (including joint faculty) and the dean is Sharon Oster
Sharon Oster

Sharon Oster is Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management. She is widely known as an economist focusing on business strategy and non-profit organization management....
.

About the School

The School conducts education and research in leadership
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, economics
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, operations management
Operations management

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, marketing
Marketing

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, entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

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, organizational behavior, and other areas; its most acclaimed programs are finance
Finance

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 and strategic management
Strategic management

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. The School offers a wide range of graduate
Graduate school

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-level academic programs and concentrations. The School is known for its finance faculty, emphasis on ethics, and International Center for Finance. The School has also recently added an degree designed for professionals in the health care industry.

The campus includes 19th-century mansions and contemporary buildings. Donaldson Commons, the school's main dining facility, is named after the founding dean of the School
William H. Donaldson

William Henry Donaldson was the 27th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , serving from February 2003 to June 2005. He served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs in the Richard Nixon, as a special adviser to Nelson Rockefeller, Chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, an...
. A planned new campus and main building, at an estimated cost of US $150 million, is scheduled for completion by 2011. On September 17, 2007, Yale University President Richard Levin
Rick Levin

Richard Charles Levin is a professor and United States economics, who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest serving Ivy League president still in office....
 announced that renowned architectural firm Foster + Partners
Foster and Partners

Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
 was selected to build the new campus. Preliminary renderings were released in December 2008.

History

The School was founded in 1976 by William H. Donaldson
William H. Donaldson

William Henry Donaldson was the 27th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , serving from February 2003 to June 2005. He served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs in the Richard Nixon, as a special adviser to Nelson Rockefeller, Chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, an...
, founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette or DLJ was a U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette and Dan Lufkin in 1959. Its businesses included securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; financial advisory services; investment research; venture capital; correspondent brokerage services; onlin...
 and former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the Yale School of Organization and Management. The funds to establish the School materialized when Frederick William Beinecke, a Yale College alumnus, left US $15 million to Yale in 1971. The School awarded its first graduate business degrees in 1978 and was renamed the Yale School of Management in 1994.

Deans


Integrated Curriculum

For the 2006-2007 academic year, the School introduced its an effort to move away from the typical "siloed" teaching approach to a more functional and integrated perspective. As part of the Integrated Curriculum, first year students examine various roles that people and organizations play and how they affect a business: internal roles include employee, operations engine, finance manager, and innovator; external roles include investor, customer, competitor, the State and society. Also, first-year students take at least one elective and are required to spend , meeting with business leaders and government officials in Brazil, China, India, or elsewhere. The second-year curriculum comprises . The new curriculum is unique among those offered by leading business schools.

Admissions and rankings

Admission to the School is very competitive; for the class of 2009, 14.7% of applicants were admitted, making it the most selective year ever for SOM. Yale is consistently ranked among the top MBA programs in the world. As of January 2009, it is ranked #8 by Forbes
Forbes

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, #13 by US News, #8 by the Wall Street Journal, #24 by BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time....
, #15 in the United States by The Economist
The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
 and #9 in the United States by Financial Times
Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
. In addition, it is ranked #10 in Financial Times' latest "Ranking of Rankings", #7 in The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review

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's admissions selectivity ranking, and #1 in US News' Nonprofit specialty ranking.

Student life

Students at the School, like all Yale University students and alumni, are called "Yalies" or "Elis" after Elihu Yale
Elihu Yale

Elihu Yale , was the first benefactor and namesake of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States....
. They operate more than 50 MBA student clubs. There are career-oriented clubs such as Finance, Private Equity, Biotechnology, Investment Management, Technology, Marketing and Consulting. There are also athletic clubs including soccer, crew, skiing, and squash. SOM participates in the coed MBA ice hockey tournaments during winter months. The Yale SOM Cup soccer tournament is held in October and attracts clubs from numerous top business schools. Each November, many students attend the Harvard-Yale football game (known as "The Game"), the location of which alternates each year between New Haven and Cambridge. The weekend's activities include the Harvard-Yale Leadership & Ethics Debate, an annual contest between the two schools' MBA students.

Research and endowment


The School is home to the following research centers:


The School's endowment
Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested, and the :wikt:principal remain intact in perpetuity or for a defined time period....
 fund, valued at US $575 million in 2007, is part of the larger Yale University endowment. The endowment is primarily used according to the donors' wishes, which include the support of teaching and research. Yale University endowment fund manager David Swensen
David Swensen

David F. Swensen has been the Chief Investment Officer at Yale University since 1985. He is responsible for managing and investing the University's Financial endowment and collective investment scheme, which total about $17 billion.Realizing an average Return on investment of 17.8 percent on his investments over the last ten years, Swensen h...
 has generated exceptional investment returns over the past two decades.

Joint-degree and scholarship programs

The School's joint-degree programs include the MBA/JD with Yale Law School
Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
, MBA/MD with Yale School of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

The Yale School of Medicine at Yale University is a private school medical school located in New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States It was founded in 1810 as The Medical Institution of Yale College, and formally opened its doors in 1813....
, MBA/PhD with Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1847, is one of the oldest graduate school in the United States. It conferred the first Ph.D....
, MBA/MEM with Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, MBA/MArch with Yale School of Architecture
Yale School of Architecture

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, MBA/MFA with Yale School of Drama
Yale School of Drama

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, MBA/MDiv or MBA/MAR with Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School

Yale Divinity School is a professional school at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States preparing students for ordained or lay ministry....
, MBA/MPH with Yale School of Public Health
Yale School of Public Health

The Yale School of Public Health was founded in 1915 by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow.The School of Public Health awards Master of Science and Master of Public Health degrees as well as Ph.D degrees through the Yale Graduate School....
, MBA/MA in International Relations with Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1847, is one of the oldest graduate school in the United States. It conferred the first Ph.D....
, and MBA/MA in Russian and East European Studies with Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1847, is one of the oldest graduate school in the United States. It conferred the first Ph.D....
.

The School also offers the for exceptional college seniors.

Prominent faculty

  • Nicholas Barberis - behavioral finance expert
  • Zhiwu Chen - Director of Research, Partner, and co-founder of Zebra Capital Management, LLC, an equity hedge fund management firm; authority on securities valuation, emerging markets, and China's economy and capital markets
  • David M. Cromwell - former president and CEO of JPMorgan Capital Corporation
  • Ravi Dhar - Director, Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management; expert in marketing strategy, branding and marketing management
  • Frank J. Fabozzi
    Frank J. Fabozzi

    Frank J. Fabozzi is the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management. He has taught at Yale University since 1994. Fabozzi, an investment management expert, is a Wall Street authority and editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management He is a consultant to several financial institutions....
     - Editor, Journal of Portfolio Management; prolific investment book author
  • William Goetzmann - behavioral finance authority; Director, International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management; co-author, Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis
  • Gary Gorton - expert in stock and futures markets, banking, and asset pricing; Editor, Review of Economic Studies
    Review of Economic Studies

    The Review of Economic Studies is a leading general-interest journal in economics. Founded in 1933 with the goal of publishing research by younger economists, it is edited at the London School of Economics and published by Blackwell....
  • Roger G. Ibbotson
    Roger G. Ibbotson

    Roger G. Ibbotson is professor of finance at Yale School of Management and is an expert on capital market returns, cost of capital, and international investment....
     - Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and co-founder of Zebra Capital Management, LLC, an equity hedge fund management firm; founder of Ibbotson Associates (a division of Morningstar, Inc.
    Morningstar, Inc.

    Morningstar, Inc. is an independent investment research company based in Chicago, Illinois, USA....
    ); financial markets expert and co-author of Global Investing
  • Jonathan E Ingersoll Jr. - co-developer of the Cox, Ingersoll, Ross Model for equilibrium asset pricing; recipient of the IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year award (2002)
  • Owen Lamont - Portfolio Manager, DKR Fusion Management, LP, a market-neutral equity hedge fund established by DKR Capital; behavioral finance and stock market expert
  • Andrew Metrick - specialist in venture capital, private equity, and decision-making under uncertainty; author of Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation
  • Barry Nalebuff
    Barry Nalebuff

    Barry Nalebuff is Milton Steinbach Professor of Management at Yale School of Management. He is an expert in business strategy and game theory, as well as many other topics....
     - game theory specialist; co-founder of Honest Tea, Inc.
    Honest Tea

    Honest Tea is a bottled organic tea company based in Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 1998 by Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff. On February 5, 2008, the Coca-Cola Company announced its purchase of a 40% stake of the company at $43 million....
    , a fast-growing beverage company
  • Sharon Oster
    Sharon Oster

    Sharon Oster is Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management. She is widely known as an economist focusing on business strategy and non-profit organization management....
     - competitive strategy authority; author of Modern Competitive Analysis
  • Matthew Spiegel - Executive Editor, The Review of Financial Studies
    Review of Financial Studies

    The Review of Financial Studies is an academic journal published by the Society for Financial Studies since 1988. Editorial operations are housed at its executive editor's university: currently the Yale School of Management....
    , a prestigious academic journal published by Yale SOM
  • Robert Shiller
    Robert Shiller

    Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an United States economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management....
     - behavioral finance expert; Chief Economist and co-founder of MacroMarkets, LLC, a financial markets firm; author of Irrational Exuberance
    Irrational Exuberance (book)

    Irrational Exuberance is a March 2000 book written by Yale University professor Robert Shiller, named after Alan Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" quote....
    , Market Volatility, The New Financial Order: Risk In The 21st Century, and Macro Markets
    Macro Markets

    Macro Markets is a book by Robert Shiller. It suggests that humans cannot fully diversify away their risk as portfolio theory would like us to....
  • Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management where he has taught since 1999....
     - President and founder,
  • Shyam Sunder - a world-renowned experimental economist and accounting theorist
  • David Swensen
    David Swensen

    David F. Swensen has been the Chief Investment Officer at Yale University since 1985. He is responsible for managing and investing the University's Financial endowment and collective investment scheme, which total about $17 billion.Realizing an average Return on investment of 17.8 percent on his investments over the last ten years, Swensen h...
     (adjunct) - Yale University Chief Investment Officer; manager of US $18 billion university endowment portfolio; developer of the Yale Model of investing; author of Pioneering Portfolio Management
  • Arthur Swersey
    Arthur Swersey

    Arthur J. Swersey is a professor of Operations Management, Probability Modeling & Statistical Estimation at the Yale School of Management. Professor Swersey has 20 years' experience consulting to firms in statistical process control and quality management and is the co-author of a forthcoming book on experimental design with applications in...
     - specialist in production and inventory management, quality management, and mathematical modeling
  • Martin J. Whitman
    Martin J. Whitman

    Martin J. Whitman is an United States investment advisor and a strong critic of the direction of recent changes in US generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S....
     (adjunct) - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Third Avenue Funds; author of The Aggressive Conservative Investor and Value Investing


Prominent alumni

Yale Harkness Tower
Also see: List of Yale University people
List of Yale University people

Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies....
  • Tom Ascheim - CEO, Newsweek, Inc.
    Newsweek

    Newsweek is an United States weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally....
  • Joaquin Avila
    Joaquin Avila

    Joaquin Avila is Managing Director of the global private equity firm, Carlyle Group, where he is responsible for researching and discovering opportunities in the field of buyout investments....
     - Managing Director, Carlyle Group
    Carlyle Group

    The Carlyle Group is a global private equity investment firm, based in Washington, D.C., with more than $91.5 billion of equity capital under management....
  • Tim Collins (financier)
    Tim Collins (financier)

    Timothy C. Collins, born 1956, is the founder, senior managing director, and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC.Collins was born in Frankfort, Kentucky....
     - CEO and founder, Ripplewood Holdings LLC
  • David S. Daniel
    David S. Daniel

    David S. Daniel is the CEO of Spencer Stuart and has been with the company since 1994. Previously, he served as president and CEO of Simint USA, a division of Armani Jeans....
     - CEO, Spencer Stuart & Co.
  • Wendi (Deng) Murdoch
    Wendi Deng

    Wendi Murdoch is a People's Republic of China born United States businesswoman, and wife of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch....
     - Director, MySpace
    MySpace

    MySpace is a social network service website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally....
     China; former VP, News Corporation
    News Corporation

    News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
    ; wife of Rupert Murdoch
    Rupert Murdoch

    Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
  • Michael R. Eisenson
    Michael R. Eisenson

    Michael R. Eisenson is Co-Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm....
     - CEO, Managing Director, and co-founder, Charlesbank Capital Partners
    Charlesbank Capital Partners

    Charlesbank Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm focusing on leveraged buyout and venture capital transactions. Advent operates globally with more than 15 offices in North America, Western and Central Europe, Latin America and Asia....
  • James Firestone - President, Corporate Operations, Xerox
    Xerox

    Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
  • Anne Glover
    Anne Glover

    Anne Glover is Chief executive officer and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies....
     - CEO and co-founder, Amadeus Capital Partners
  • Andrew K. Golden
    Andrew K. Golden

    Andrew K. Golden is President of the Princeton University Investment Company which manages the university's financial endowment. According to a report in the Daily Princetonian, the endowment earned a 5.6 percent return for the 12 months ended in June 2008, growing to $16.4 billion from $15.8 billion....
     - President, Princeton University Investment Company
    Princeton University

    Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
  • John D. Howard
    John D. Howard

    John D. Howard is CEO of Irving Place Capital and was Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns. He is the manager of the $3 billion Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Fund III....
     - CEO, Bear Stearns Merchant Banking
  • Curtis Jensen - Co-Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager, Third Avenue Management, LLC
  • Ellis Jones
    Ellis Jones

    Ellis B. Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of Wasserstein & Co.Jones graduated from the Yale School of Management and the University of California, Berkeley....
     - CEO,
  • Neal Keny-Guyer - CEO, Mercy Corps
    Mercy Corps

    Mercy Corps is a non-profit organization engaged in humanitarian aid and development activities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than US$1.5 billion in assistance to people in 106 nations....
  • James P. Kelley
    James P. Kelley

    James P. Kelley is President and partner of Vestar Capital Partners, along with Robert Rosner and Daniel O'?onnell. Vestar today is a $7 billion private equity firm concentrating its investments in management buyouts, growth capital, and recapitalisations....
     - President, Vestar Capital Partners
    Vestar Capital Partners

    Vestar Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout transactions in the United States, Japan and Europe.The firm, which was founded in 1988 is headquartered in New York City with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado in the US as well as Paris, Milan, Munich and Tokyo....
  • Randy Kim - Chief Investment Officer, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
  • Georgios Kintis
    Georgios Kintis

    Georgios Kintis earns approximately ?70 million a year and is a Greeks businessman and billionaire who was named in the top five richest men in Greece and the top 100 richest men in Europe and was ranked 41st....
     - Owner of AEK Athens, National Bank of Greece
    National Bank of Greece

    The National Bank of Greece is the oldest and largest commercial bank in Greece and heads the strongest financial group in the country. It boasts a dynamic profile internationally, particularly in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean....
    , Motor Oil Hellas
    Motor Oil Hellas

    Motor Oil , Corinth Refineries S.A. is a company in Greece focusing on petroleum refining. It is situated at Corinth Refinery, Corinth, Greece....
    , ATEbank
    ATEbank

    The Agricultural Bank of Greece is a commercial bank based in Athens, Greece. The bank was founded in 1929. The bank proclaimed that it would focus on the Balkan bank market, with the business activities of supporting of the agricultural sector....
    , Intralot
    Intralot

    Intralot is a Greece company that supplies integrated gambling and transaction processing systems, game content and sports betting management, to state-licensed gaming organizations worldwide....
    , Metka
    Metka

    METKA is a major Greece engineering company founded in 1962, involved in the design and construction of power plants, complex metal structures, defence equipment etc....
     and has a Net Worth of $ 1.8 Billion
  • Dale A. Kunkel - Director of Hedge Fund Strategies, Moore Foundation; former Director of Investments, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania

    The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States....
  • Ned Lamont
    Ned Lamont

    Edward Miner "Ned" Lamont, Jr. was the unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee for the United States Senate in the Connecticut United States Senate election, 2006 held on on November 7 2006....
     - Chairman of Lamont Digital Systems, political challenger to Joe Lieberman
    Joe Lieberman

    Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman is the Junior senator United States Senate from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was United States Senate elections, 2006 on November 7, 2006....
  • Constance McKee
    Constance McKee

    Constance McKee is the founder, President and CEO of Asilomar Pharmaceuticals. She is the co-inventor of one of the technologies upon which Asilomar's products are based....
     - CEO, President, and founder, Asilomar Pharmaceuticals
  • Jane Mendillo
    Jane Mendillo

    Jane Mendillo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Harvard Management Company....
     - CEO and President, Harvard Management Company
    Harvard Management Company

    Harvard Management Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University, charged with managing the university's endowment, pension assets, working capital, and non-cash gifts....
  • Ranji H. Nagaswami
    Ranji H. Nagaswami

    Ranji H. Nagaswami is the Chief Investment Officer for AllianceBernstein Fund Investors. She has held this position since 2004. Nagaswami has responsibility for growth, value, and core stock as well as fixed income investments....
     - Chief Investment Officer, AllianceBernstein Fund Investors
  • Indra Nooyi
    Indra Nooyi

    Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is the chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. On August 14, 2006, Nooyi was named the successor to Steven Reinemund as chief executive officer of the company....
     - CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.
  • Daniel S. O'Connell - CEO and founder, Vestar Capital Partners
    Vestar Capital Partners

    Vestar Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout transactions in the United States, Japan and Europe.The firm, which was founded in 1988 is headquartered in New York City with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado in the US as well as Paris, Milan, Munich and Tokyo....
  • Nanpeng (Neil) Shen - Co-founder of Ctrip.com, founding managing partner of Sequoia Capital
    Sequoia Capital

    Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Randy L. Ditzler, Greg McAdoo, Michael Moritz, Douglas Leone, Gaurav Garg, Michael Goguen, Mark Stevens , Jim Goetz, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme....
     China
  • D. Ellen Shuman - Chief Investment Officer, Carnegie Corporation
  • Dean Takahashi - Senior Director of Investments, Yale Investments Office
  • John L. Thornton
    John L. Thornton

    John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs....
     - Professor and Director of Global Leadership, Tsinghua University
    Tsinghua University

    Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name ?Tsinghua Xuetang?....
    ; Senior Advisor and Former President and Co-COO, Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs

    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs , is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, Security services, and investment management....
  • Chad Troutwine
    Chad Troutwine

    Chad Troutwine is an American Independent film producer and successful entrepreneur....
     - Co-founder, Veritas Prep
  • Sandra Urie - CEO and President,
  • David P. Warren - CFO, NASDAQ
    NASDAQ

    The NASDAQ is an United States stock exchange. It is the largest Electronic trading screen-based Stock trading market in the United States....


See also

  • List of United States business school rankings
  • Business school
    Business school

    A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and quantitative methods....
  • Ivy League
    Ivy League

    The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of university in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group....
  • List of business schools in the United States
    List of business schools in the United States

    This is a partial list of business schools in the United States. Business schools are listed in alphabetical order by state, then name. Schools named after people are alphabetized by last name....
  • MBA
  • Yale Club of New York City
    Yale Club of New York City

    The Yale Club of New York City, commonly called the Yale Club, is a gentlemen's club in Midtown Manhattan Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Its membership is restricted almost entirely to alumni and faculty of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut....
  • Yale Corporation
    Yale Corporation

    The Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut....


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