Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
If you find yourself agonizing over how to select a new laptop computer or devouring a chocolate bar right after dinner, do not despair. Ravi Dhar can assure you that you are neither abnormal nor alone. Dhar, the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management, recently studied...
To cope with the University-mandated 7.5 percent cut in total staff salary costs, the School of Management will lay off “a number” of staff while reducing work hours for others, SOM Dean Sharon Oster announced this month. Staff to be laid off will be notified “shortly,” she said, although University Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael...
To cope with the University-mandated 7.5 percent cut in total staff salary costs, the School of Management will lay off “a number” of staff while reducing work hours for others, SOM Dean Sharon Oster announced Tuesday. Staff to be laid off will be notified “shortly,” she said, although University Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael...
During the week, Jeffrey Garten, a professor and former dean of the Yale School of Management, eats like many college students. He frequents diners and Chinese restaurants near his house in Southport, Conn. But on the weekends, when Garten is home in East Hampton, N.Y., he can savor the delicate flavors of his wife’s perfect roast chicken. Garten’s wife doesn’t...
With the economy officially in recession, applications to Yale’s School of Management have increased with those looking to take shelter from the economic downturn. SOM reported a 4 percent increase in applications for the first round of its 2008-’09 admissions cycle, Director of Admissions Bruce DelMonico said Wednesday. The school, which has three rounds of...
Of all the schools that make up Yale, the one that appears to be first to respond to the economic downturn seems to be — fittingly — the business school. The School of Management’s deputy dean, Stanley Garstka, said he is now combing through a spreadsheet model of all the school’s programs and expenses to cut back on some expenditures, such as food at events. The...
At the second annual School of Management Student-Faculty MBA Challenge on Thursday evening, youth was crushed by age and experience. Before an audience of about 150, a team of five SOM students were narrowly defeated by four well-known SOM faculty members, including former SOM Dean Joel Podolny, despite faculty predictions before the event that the students would come...
For many Yale students, the choice between spending the summer relaxing in an exotic locale and enhancing their resumes with a fast paced internship is not an easy one. But Drew Skelton SOM ’09 will get the best of both worlds. He simply does not have to choose. Skelton was selected to be part of this year’s International Business Program, a competitive work-study...
When Stan Garstka visited the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business recently, he was sure to check out its locker rooms, showers and all. Garstka is not a coach, though. He is deputy dean of the Yale School of Management. And his visit to Chicago is nothing if not an indicator of the distinctive approach SOM officials are taking as they plan for a new...
When the Yale School of Management announced in November that it would organize a summit of business heavyweights in Beijing during the 2008 summer Olympic Games, it hoped to take advantage of the University’s connections in China to host an attention-grabbing executive-education program. But less than five months before the games open, administrators have been forced...
Yale placed first in three sets of rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released Friday. The survey includes rankings of both professional schools and graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Yale Law School topped the list of law schools — a feat it has accomplished every year since the rankings began in...
Two weeks in Colombia filled with broken English, fresh coffee and social change — this spring break was a considerable change of pace for School of Management students accustomed to analyzing revenue streams and organizational structures in a Yale classroom. Twenty-four students from the Yale School of Management’s Global Social Enterprise Club spent their break...
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