With competition increasing in newly legal markets like California, which now allows marijuana sales to adults over 21, businesses around the country are looking for highly-trained employees to guide them on science and agriculture as well as a host of arcane and ever-changing financial, legal, and regulatory issues — all of which affect business strategy.
That’s why two students at the Yale School of Management (SOM) envision big opportunities for MBA’s in the rapidly developing space. On February 16th, classmates Connie Lee and Billy Marks will inaugurate the first business conference on legal cannabis ever held on a university campus.