Excerpt about Yale:
YALE MAKES STRONGEST GAINS AMONG THE TOP 25 BUSINESS SCHOOLS
Besides the switch at the very top, the most consequential moves among the elite schools involved both Yale University’s School of Management and Cornell University’s Johnson School. Fueled by significant gains in the most recent rankings by the Financial Times and Businessweek, Yale climbed five places this year to finish 12th, its best ever showing. The school is in the fourth year of substantial change under new Dean Edward “Ted” Snyder. This is Snyder’s third deanship, having been at the helm of both the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School, and that experience has clearly paid off at Yale.
His strategy rests on three guiding aspirations: to make Yale the most distinctively global U.S. business school, to leverage the world-class university that Yale is by making the business school the most integrated with its home university, and to be recognized as the best source of elevated leaders for all sectors and regions. These days, you’ll hear similar things from many deans but few have delivered in truly creative and innovative ways as Yale has done under Snyder and his two key deputies, Senior Associate Deans Anjani Jain and David Bach, particularly in making the school far more global than rivals with truly unique programs and approaches.
Cornell, on the other hand, slipped four positions to a rank of 15th from 11th in 2013 after declining in four of the five most watched rankings this year. It’s not always easy to discern why a program might lose ground in any of the rankings because each list is based on multiple metrics, some that overlap and some that are unique to the ranking organization.
However, it is generally rare for a school of Cornell’s prominence to fall in every new ranking of the year. In both U.S. News and the FT, the school slipped by just one place. But in the newly constituted Businessweek ranking it lost six positions, moving from seventh to 13th, while it lost similar ground in The Economist, dropping from 11th to 17th among U.S. schools. Forbes, which ranks schools every other year, did not produce a new list this year. Cornell’s Johnson School also had a relatively new dean in Soumitra Dutta, a former INSEAD professor, who is in his first deanship and is leading a major expansion of the school in New York City.
