Yale School of Management will require an AI course for all incoming MBA students beginning this fall, moving a version of its “Generative AI and Social Media” elective into the core. The school tied the curriculum change to a push for practical AI build skills—not only tool fluency—arguing that MBA graduates should be able to turn ideas into working prototypes. Tauhid Zaman, associate professor of operations management and a special advisor for SOM’s AI initiative, will lead the required course. Yale said the decision advanced with unanimous faculty approval and that other core courses will be updated to build on the AI foundations. The change places Yale among the most aggressive business-school adopters of AI instruction as core curriculum, reflecting how quickly generative AI expectations are reshaping what “prepared for work” means for professional graduate programs.