Visualizing Financial Crises at Yale SOM: MBA News

By Tim Dhoul Updated Dec 09, 2019

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Videos explore roots of financial crises

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The final of a video challenge involving MBA students from across the world is to take place at Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) today, April 30.

The Yale-Geithner Challenge: Visualizing Financial Crises in the Modern World was designed to get students thinking about how the causes and management of worldwide financial crises can be explained in a succinct video format.

With entry open to student teams from any of the 27 graduate school members of the Global Network for Advanced Management, 14 entries from eight countries have now been whittled down to three finalists. Because of the medium of choice, teams with diverse backgrounds were actively encouraged, but all teams had to include at least one at least one MBA or economics student, in view of the focus on conveying a digestible understanding of financial crises.

Videos explore roots of financial crises

The finalists – who will present their videos at the today’s event - comprise of two teams from Yale SOM and one from Fudan University’s School of Management. The topics these teams tackle, meanwhile, cover the US housing bubble, the wholesale funding system’s contribution to the Global Financial Crisis and a look at what might cause an economic crisis in China.

The Yale-Geithner Challenge forms part of Yale SOM’s partnership with former US treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, who gave a three-part lecture series and co-taught a course on financial crises and stability at the school last year. Geithner, now serving as president for the private equity firm, Warburg Pincus, will open the event.

Yale SOM is keen on the use of videos, having introduced the format into its MBA admissions process in the 2013/14 academic year as a way to hear directly from all applicants, rather than merely those invited for interview. Similar initiatives have also been used at the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School.

You can watch the video entry of one of the finalists - from Yale SOM - below, with the other contenders available here:

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Tim Dhoul

Tim is a writer with a background in consumer journalism and charity communications. He trained as a journalist in the UK and holds degrees in history (BA) and Latin American studies (MA).