Rethinking the MBA

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Yale School of Management

Integration and Large-Scale Change

THE YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (SOM) undertook a major review of its MBA core curriculum in 2005 and 2006. The review led to a new curriculum—unanimously approved by the senior faculty in March 2006, developed that summer, and then launched in the fall of the same year—that eliminated traditional discipline-based courses such as finance and marketing and replaced them with courses that sought to integrate teaching and learning across functions by presenting information from the perspective of the constituents with whom leaders typically interacted, such as customers, competitors, and investors.

The new curriculum did more than just integrate across functions. It also strengthened ...