As follow up to the Association of International Graduate Admissions Counselors (AIGAC) conference last month in New York City, Yale School of Management (SOM) Director of Admissions Bruce Delmonico sent an email to participating admissions counselors outlining several recent updates at the school.
Among them were the addition of short answer micro-essays to this year’s application, the newly added “Faculty Insights” website and a resource page launched last fall detailing SOM faculty’s response to the financial crisis. Delmonico also called attention to the SOM “raw case” approach to management education, in which students approach “raw” cases that require them to sift through and synthesize primary source materials and real-world data.
According to Delmonico, the addition of short answer micro-essays – calling for responses of no more than 150 words each – to the Yale SOM application is designed to encourage applicants to get to the point quickly. “We’re hoping that these essays, despite (or, rather, because of) their short word limits will free people to respond to the specific question being asked with heightened clarity and focus,” he wrote. For a full list of this year’s SOM application essay questions as well as application deadlines, click here.
A recent Clear Admit blog entry called attention to the new “Faculty Insights” website, which features a collection of the latest working papers, commentaries, interviews and news produced by Yale SOM professors. To visit the site, which launched late last month, click here.
Somewhat related, Delmonico also called attention to the Yale SOM Financial Crisis Resource page, which the school developed last fall to help track the ways in which SOM faculty are responding to the financial crisis. To visit this page, click here.
Finally, Delmonico wanted to hightlight the SOM “raw case” approach to graduate management education. “I think [it] really sets SOM apart from other business schools in an important way,” he wrote.
Unlike at other schools, where students study “cooked” cases – that is, hard-copy cases in which the facts have already been summarized and distilled – Yale SOM has developed a library of its own multimedia “raw” cases, which require students to tackle primary source materials and real-world data as part of synthesizing and analyzing the case. “It’s just one way – albeit an important one – in which SOM is trying to prepare our students as fully as possible for their post-MBA careers,” Delmonico wrote.
In a subsequent update issued on July 1st, Yale SOM Dean Sharon Oster announced the addition of four new members to the school’s faculty. At the senior level, Olav Sorenson, previously a professor of strategy and chair in technical innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, joins as professor of organizational behavior. Also joining the faculty are three new assistant professors, Arthur Campbell in economics, Kalin Kolev in accounting and Constança Esteves-Sorenson in management. For full details of these new appointments, effective immediately, click here.
