Yale School of Management

Renowned Faculty

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  James Baron

  William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Yale School of Management

  Professor Baron’s research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies.

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  James Baron

  William S. Beinecke Professor of Management, Yale School of Management

  Professor Baron’s research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies.

  Before coming to SOM, Baron taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business from 1982-2006. At Stanford, he was co-director of the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), a large-scale longitudinal study of the organizational design, human resource management practices, and financial and non-financial performance measures of entrepreneurial firms in Silicon Valley. Papers based on the project have appeared in leading disciplinary journals, and an overview of the project in California Management Review won the Accenture Award for making “the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.”

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  Paul Bracken

  Professor of Management & Professor of Political Science, Yale School of Management

  Paul Bracken is a professor of management and political science at Yale University. Bracken is a respected thought leader in global competition and the strategic application of technology in business and defense.

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  Paul Bracken

  Professor of Management & Professor of Political Science, Yale School of Management

  Paul Bracken is a professor of management and political science at Yale University. Bracken is a respected thought leader in global competition and the strategic application of technology in business and defense.

  Bracken's research and teaching focus on solutions for senior management as it deals with a changing strategic environment and conditions of intense uncertainty. He is a leading teacher in executive education and has run many programs for companies in finance, technology, retail, and health care. He is also a frequent teacher at One Day University on topics such as Problem Framing in Business, the Future of the Corporation, Big Business and Democracy, and the Second Nuclear Age.

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  Heidi Brooks

  Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management

  Heidi Brooks teaches and advises on the subject of everyday leadership: the everyday micro-moments of impact that shape our lived experiences. Creating more courageous communities—especially within organizations—is a particular passion of hers.

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  Heidi Brooks

  Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management

  Heidi Brooks teaches and advises on the subject of everyday leadership: the everyday micro-moments of impact that shape our lived experiences. Creating more courageous communities—especially within organizations—is a particular passion of hers.

  Dr. Brooks specializes in large-scale culture change projects focused on individual and collective leadership effectiveness in organizations. Interpersonal Dynamics, the MBA elective she has taught for 15 years, is one of the courses most in demand at Yale School of Management.

  Recently, Dr. Brooks pioneered the Everyday Leadership course at SOM, where she first taught the Principles of Everyday Leadership. She has also taught Emotional Intelligence, Power & Politics, Managing Teams and Groups, and Coaching Skills for Managers.

  Dr. Brooks received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University. A life-long experiential learner, you can find her as a student in classrooms as far-ranging as improvisational theater and immersion language lessons.

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  Daylian Cain

  Senior Lecturer in Negotiations & Leadership, Yale School of Management

  Daylian M. Cain, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of Negotiations & Leadership at the Yale School of Management. Prior to joining Yale in 2007, Cain was the Russell Sage Fellow of Behavioral Economics at Harvard.

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  Daylian Cain

  Senior Lecturer in Negotiations & Leadership, Yale School of Management

  Daylian M. Cain, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of Negotiations & Leadership at the Yale School of Management. Prior to joining Yale in 2007, Cain was the Russell Sage Fellow of Behavioral Economics at Harvard.

  Originally hailing from Nova Scotia, Cain is a former Canada science scholar. He has three master’s degrees and —from Carnegie Mellon— a PhD in Business. He likes to say that he focuses on “why smart people do dumb things.”

  Fun Facts: Cain has appeared as a special guest on National Geographic’s TV show Brain Games, and his poker avatar (“Raising Cain”) is one of the opponents you may face at AdvancedPokerTraining.com.

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  Todd Cort

  Senior lecturer in sustainability; faculty director of sustainability program, MBA for Executives; faculty co-director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment

  Dr. Cort works at the intersection of sustainability and investor value. Over the course of 20 years, in consulting and academia, he has applied a scientific and economic lens to corporate social and environmental responsibility (or sustainability) in order to identify the tools, mechanisms, metrics...

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  Todd Cort

  Senior lecturer in sustainability; faculty director of sustainability program, MBA for Executives; faculty co-director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment

  Dr. Cort works at the intersection of sustainability and investor value. Over the course of 20 years, in consulting and academia, he has applied a scientific and economic lens to corporate social and environmental responsibility (or sustainability) in order to identify the tools, mechanisms, metrics and indicators that create the greatest value for investors, businesses, and society.

  Todd has worked extensively with companies and investors across industrial sectors. His experience ranges from ‘on the ground’ implementation of sustainability programs to corporate-level communication and investor strategy development. He has also worked extensively on integrated programs to meet regulatory requirements while promoting awareness and understanding of sustainability priorities through communications and engagement with communities, regulators, policy makers, and internal stakeholders.

  Todd has a courtesy appointment at the Yale School of the Environment. He serves as Faculty Co-Director for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF). He serves on a variety of advisory boards, including the JUST Capital Scientific Advisory Board, the PRIME Coalition Academic Advisory Committee, and Merck Sustainability Advisory Committee. He is also currently Board Chair for Save the Sound, a regional environmental non-profit serving communities around Long Island Sound.

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  Nathan Novemsky

  Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management

  Nathan Novemsky is Professor of Marketing in the Yale School of Management and has an appointment as Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Yale University.

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  Nathan Novemsky

  Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management

  Nathan Novemsky is Professor of Marketing in the Yale School of Management and has an appointment as Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Yale University.

  Novemsky joined the Yale faculty in 2000 after receiving his PhD in Psychology from Princeton University. He is an expert in the psychology of judgment and decision-making, an area that overlaps heavily with behavioral economics and consumer behavior. He examines whether and how people know what they like, how the framing of decisions affects the choices people make, how individuals’ goals influence their behavior as well as other topics in judgment and decision-making.

  He is an active member of the Yale Center for Customer Insights. As part of the Center, he actively partners with practitioners (including Snapchat, Mastercard, E*Trade, Pepsico, TIAA, American Express, SC Johnson, Kelloggs, Aetna, Volvo, and many others) to develop new insights into customer behavior that are both relevant to practitioners and new to the academic literature.

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  Amy Wrzesniewski

  William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Professor of Management, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

  Amy Wrzesniewski's research interests focus on how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts (e.g., stigmatized occupations, virtual work, absence of work), and the experience of work as a job, career, or calling.

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  Amy Wrzesniewski

  William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Professor of Management, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

  Amy Wrzesniewski's research interests focus on how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts (e.g., stigmatized occupations, virtual work, absence of work), and the experience of work as a job, career, or calling.

  Wrzesniewski's current research involves studying how employees shape their interactions and relationships with others in the workplace to change both their work identity and the meaning of the job.