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How Balancing Creativity and Rigor Helped Disney Build a Star Wars Vacation Experience
Architect Ann Morrow Johnson ’14 is the executive producer and executive creative director for Walt Disney Imagineering’s immersive vacation experience Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. We talked with her about balancing innovative creativity and strategic rigor.
We share when we believe the gains from sharing exceeds any loss. We share more with people who we trust and have relationships with because we expect them not to abuse our trust.
Prof. K. Sudhir
on how strict privacy rights paired with strong data security mandates under the EU's GDPR create an atmosphere of trust that makes data sharing more beneficial for both firms and their customers.
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Can the Occasional ‘Nudge’ Make You Better at Your Job?
At Google, Laszlo Bock ’99 applied data analytics to human resources questions that have long been answered with hunches. His company Humu is now extending that approach for other organizations by providing AI-generated prompts to their employees.
What Will It Take to Fix Public Education?
What’s the Future of Television?
Is Government the Key to Prosperity?
Yale’s Jacob Hacker argues that society needs both healthy markets and effective government.
Where Did Madoff's Money Go?
Yale SOM’s Rick Antle on the complexities of making restitution in the wake of a Ponzi scheme.
Leading through COVID
COVID-19 has created leadership challenges for every kind of organization. Some are working to help the sick or the hungry, or to maintain vital services. All are scrambling to stay connected with their employees and remain economically viable. We've been talking with Yale SOM alumni about the challenges that they are facing, and hearing about their professional and personal lives during the global pandemic.
Values Propositions
All leaders encounter complex situations without easy answers, where they must navigate conflicting priorities, cultural differences, and human emotion. We talked with Yale SOM alumni about how they draw on their core values in critical moments.
Building Hope in Appalachian Ohio
In southeastern Ohio, diverse efforts to build vibrant communities and a new economy show real promise. Can they create the momentum to overcome a legacy of poverty and underinvestment?
