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Unanticipated changes at Yale University's School of Organization and Management (SOM) have spurred protests from students and alumni who fear a dramatic shift in the school's teaching philosophy...
...days of student demonstrations and letters from alumni threatening to cease support of the school have followed Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Jr.'s announcement last week that he would reduce the SOM's faculty in organizational behavior and eliminate its doctoral program in the field...
...same October 26 announcement, Schmidt named a new SOM dean and shifted the school's operations research faculty to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...sounds corny to say it but most people really love SOM," said second-year student Thomas Amenta. "[The change] is an insult to our vision of management." Nationally, Yale's 12-year-old equivalent to business school is known as much for its experimental emphasis on behavior as its private business curriculum...
...They're trying to make SOM more like conventional business schools," said first-year student Amena Ali. "We have an open, innovative approach to management. I don't know what kind of signals we're sending out by changing...