Yale School of Management is making a significant AI curriculum shift by requiring an AI course in its MBA core beginning this fall for all incoming first-years. The change is led by operations management professor Tauhid Zaman, whose elective—Generative AI and Social Media—becomes a required foundation for the class of 2027. According to the school, the required course will be followed by updates to other core subjects to build on the AI foundations students learn. The approach emphasizes AI as a tool for building prototypes and producing real outputs, not just answering questions. The initiative underscores how elite business schools are treating generative AI competence as a baseline expectation for graduates—an instructional governance decision that will likely influence assessment design and faculty planning across the core. The school’s internal approval timeline is described as unusually fast, signaling that academic governance is prioritizing AI skills integration despite the usual friction around core redesign.