Yale School of Management is requiring an AI course for all incoming MBA students beginning this fall, marking a major change to its MBA core curriculum. The update centers on an AI course led by operations management associate professor Tauhid Zaman and builds into other core classes. School leaders say the goal is not only tool familiarity but practical creation—students are expected to build with AI as part of the curriculum. The shift moved from elective to required core with unanimous faculty approval, described as an unusually fast change for academia. The move reinforces how elite business schools are treating AI fluency as foundational management capability, with implications for course design, faculty training, and how graduate programs define competency in an AI-saturated labor market.