Fostering Student Innovation

Yale Entrepreneurial Faculty

Below is a list of Yale Faculty members who teach courses that focus on entrepreneurship. Please review course catalogs for their current course lists.
For a list of Faculty Entrepreneurs click here.  

Yale School of Management

Constance E. Bagley, J.D.
Professor in the Practice of Law and Management

Maureen Burke, MBA
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Business

Rodrigo Canales, MBA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

David M. Cromwell, MBA
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship & Becton Fellow

Jonathan S. Feinstein, Ph.D.
John G Searle Professor of Economics and Management

William N. Goetzmann, Ph.D.
Edwin J Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies & Director of the International Center for Finance

Bruce Judson, MBA
Senior Faculty Fellow

Andrew Metrick, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance

Barry Nalebuff, Ph.D.
Milton Steinback Professor of Management

Sharon M. Oster, Ph.D.
Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship

Michael Schmertzler, MBA
Adjunct Professor of Finance

Stephen Taylor
Lecturer in Media

Yale School of Engineering

Henry Bolanos, BSME
Engineering and Applied Science

Julie Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Environmental Engineering & Forestry & Environmental Studies

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Bradford S. Gentry, J.D.
Co-Director of the Center for Business & the Environment at Yale

Note: If you are interested in taking a course that is offered by a professor in a different Yale department than the one in which you are enrolled, you may be eligible to audit or take the course for credit.

Faculty Entrepreneurs

Yale School of Medicine

Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D., Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Founder of Marinus Pharmaceuticals

Ron Breaker, Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Founder of BioRelix

Craig Crews, Ph.D., Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Founder of Proteolix

Gary V. Desir, M.D., Internal Medicine
Founder of Ren Pharmaceuticals

John A. Elefteriades, M.D. and F.A.C.S., Surgery
Founder of CoolSpine, LLC

Richard Flavell, Ph.D., FRS, Immunobiology
Founder of VaxInnate

Sankar Ghosh, Ph.D., Immunobiology
Founder of Theralogics

Peter Glazer, M.D. and Ph.D., Therapeutic Radiology
Founder of Helix Therapeutics

Jeffrey R. Gruen, M.D., F.A.A.P., Pediatrics
Founder of JS Genetics

Paul M. Lizardi, Ph.D., Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Founder of Agilix Corporation and Molecular Staging

Ruslan Medzhitov , Ph.D., Immunobiology
Founder of VaxInnate

Vincent A. Pieribone, Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Founder of Marinus Pharmaceuticals

David L. Rimm, M.D. and Ph.D., Pathology
Founder of HistoRx

John S. Reach, Jr., M.Sc. and M.D.,Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Co-Founder of Applied Orthopedic Technologies

Scott A. Rivkees, Ph.D., Pediatrics
Founder of JS Genetics

Joseph Schlesinger, Ph.D., Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Founder of Kolltan Pharmaceuticals

Kirk Shelley, M.D. and Ph.D., Anesthesiology
Founder of CardioPhotonics

M. Bruce Shields, M.D., Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Founder of Vidus Ocular

Michael Tal, M.D., Diagnostic Radiology
Founder of Vascular Insights

Joanne B. Weidhaas, M.D. and Ph.D., Therapeutic Radiology
3PrimiR

Sherman Weissman, M.D., Genetics
Founder of Affomix

Yale School of Engineering

Menachem Elimelich, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
Oasys Water

Tarek Fahmy, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering & Chemical Engineering
Founder of Carigent

Robert D. Grober, Ph.D., Applied Physics
Founder of Sonic Golf

Laura E. Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Founder of Humacyte

Manohar Panjabi, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
Founder of HistoRx

W. Mark Saltzman, Ph.D., Biomedical and Chemical Engineering
Founder of Carigent

Yale School of Management

Bruce Judson, MBA and J.D., School of Management
Founder of SearchFreeApps.com

Barry Nalebuff, Ph.D., School of Management
Founder of Honest Tea

Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

William L. Jorgensen, Ph.D., Chemistry
Founder of Rib-X Pharmaceuticals

Peter Moore, Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Founder of Rib-X Pharmaceuticals

Alanna Schepartz, Ph.D., Chemistry
Founder of Experimed

Frank Slack, Ph.D., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Founder of 3PrimiR

Michael Snyder, Ph.D., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Founder of Affomix
Founder of Protometrix

Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Founder of Rib-X Pharmaceuticals

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