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  • A New American Revolution: CEOs Fire Back on Guns

    Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that business leaders are speaking for the nation in standing up for action against gun violence.

    Guns for sale at Dick's Sporting Goods in 2012. Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
  • Got a Great Idea? Tell Your Rivals

    A new study from Yale’s Jiwoong Shin finds that companies with truly innovative products may actually benefit from giving away some of their secrets.

    Illustration of lightbulbs being released from a cage
  • How Evidence Can Make International Development More Effective

    Research by Yale SOM’s Rodrigo Canales and Tony Sheldon points toward a new model that brings together academics, policy makers, and NGOs from the beginning of the process in order to better integrate evidence generation into policy and practice.

    An NGO representative meeting with women in a village in Burkina Faso
  • Energy Companies Have the Power to Act with Purpose

    Rich Lesser, CEO of the Boston Consulting Group, and Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld write that when government fails to address the threat of climate change, businesses must lead.

    Factory smokestacks at sunset
  • Equalizing School Spending Boosts Lifelong Income 

    School finance reforms that equalize spending across rich and poor neighborhoods improve the long-term economic outcomes of disadvantaged children.

    Third-grade students with their teacher in a Washington, D.C., classroom. Photo: Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images.
  • Three Questions: Prof. James Baron on Why Performance Reviews Aren’t Working 

    We asked Yale SOM’s James Baron about the research on the effectiveness of annual reviews and what a better method might look like.

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  • Why We Need Finance to Fight Climate Change

    There won’t be a transition to clean energy without a way to finance what could be the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken. Yale Insights talked with Jeffrey Schub ’13 of the Coalition for Green Capital about what a National Climate Bank could achieve.

    A solar generation project outside Linyi, China. Photo: VCG/VCG via Getty Images.
  • Three Questions: Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld on Looking Beyond Shareholder Value

    This week, the Business Roundtable declared a commitment to the interests of customers, employees, and local communities—not just shareholders. Yale SOM's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says the change in position reflects an understanding among many business leaders that doing good is not antithetical to doing well.

    Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, the chair of the Business Roundtable,  with Randall Stephenson of AT&T and Dennis Muilenburg of Boeing at a 2018 event hosted by the group. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images.
  • When Prompting People to Make a Choice, the Consequence of Not Choosing Matters

    In a new study, Yale SOM’s James Choi and his colleagues found that the implicit default—what happens if people don't make a choice—affects whether they make a choice at all.

    A computer showing a check box next to one of three choices.
  • Why Leaders Need to Care about Diversity

    Eileen Murray, the co-CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, says that top leaders at financial firms need to do more to foster diversity—or risk falling behind in the race to innovate.

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