In a time when MBA programs are a dime a dozen, when applicants and schools are struggling to find the right match, and when some schools are slapping together MBA programs just to get a piece of the action, there stands the Yales and Stanfords breaking new ground in the world of MBA programs. 

You’ve surely read our earlier post on Stanford’s cutting edge program.  Add Yale to the list of schools that are redefining what an MBA program could and should be.  You can read a full story here on the changes that take effect starting this January 2007.  Here are some highlights from the Business Wire story.

• All MBA students will be required to Study Abroad in one of eight programs in Argentina, China, Costa Rica, India, Japan, Singapore, England/Poland, or South Africa/Tanzania.

• “The heart of the new curriculum is a series of eight courses, called Organizational Perspectives, that are structured around the organizational roles a manager must engage to solve problems or make progress. These roles are both internal to the organization—the Innovator, the Operations Engine, the Employee, and Sourcing and Managing Funds (or CFO)—and external to the organization—the Investor, the Customer, the Competitor, and State and Society.”

• Students have started a campaign to purchase Certified Emissions Reductions to balance out the carbon emissions that their travel will create.

Yale’s School of Management was founded in 1976, it is the youngest of Yale University’s professional schools. The SOM offers a two-year full-time MBA degree, an MBA for Executives focus for health care professionals, a Ph.D. program, and also an executive education program.
You can check out the SOM’s new curriculum here.