The Yale Center for Customer Insights wishes to build relationships with Individuals and Foundations. The Center sees these relationships as critical to its success. By creating links between the Center and the larger community, we strengthen the exchange of knowledge and facilitate the advancement of education and research.

In order to create the first truly inter-disciplinary center to study customer insights and innovations, we require greater understanding that comes from integrating different disciplines. Yale University and the School of Management has excellent human capital in psychology, economics, marketing, medicine, and sociology where the Center will serve as the conduit to bring together and provide the impetus for collaboration.

• Participate in research initiatives, guest lectureships, and case competitions
• Increase visibility with students through student organizations, and faculty through class presentations
• Create partnerships with faculty through research projects, course development and case writing
• Interact with faculty and students through sponsoring on-campus events and programs
• Support student fellowships and grants
• Establish named funds for faculty research, teaching, and special initiatives

• Enhance its behavioral electronic laboratory by creating new online experiments with a research fellow to monitor and evaluate.
• Purchase new data and latest data sets for research in varying industries.
• Organize a University-wide interdisciplinary seminar series.
• Support faculty research to work on projects across various disciplines such as Marketing, Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Medicine, and Law.
• Attract the best doctoral students by providing enhanced grants.

For more information on ways to become involved, contact Eugenia T. Hayes at eugenia.hayes@yale.edu or call 203-432-6069. To discuss funding opportunities, contact Elizabeth Costa, Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations at elizabeth.costa@yale.edu or call 203-432-5468.