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Current stories
Can Markets Respond to Climate Risk Without Government?
We asked Professor Todd Cort, an expert on sustainability finance, how the revocation of the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding would affect decisions about climate risk from investors, lenders, and companies.
Smart Choices for a Smoother Year: Research-Backed Tips for a Better 2026
Yale SOM faculty shared suggestions on creating space for what’s important, cultivating community, and making AI work for you in the new year.
Podcasts
Inside the Research: The Effect of Dispersion on the Informativeness of Consensus Analyst Target Prices
Innovating for Profit and Purpose
To confront pressing societal challenges, we need businesses focused on new ideas and new solutions—and old ideas executed in new ways. We talked with Yale SOM faculty and alumni about pushing limits, taking disciplined risks, and developing resilient ventures while sustaining a dual commitment to profit and purpose.
The Business Behind the Arts
Every cultural institution has a mission that goes beyond the bottom line—enriching a community, preserving human achievement, delivering joy. But that mission also depends on business considerations—assembling financial and human capital, connecting with customers, considering long-term sustainability. We talked with leaders in the arts about the large and small strategic choices that their institutions must make to survive and succeed.
Can We Do Business in Space?
Two decades into the era of private space flight, companies are establishing ventures in low-earth orbit, sending private citizens into space, and pursuing exploration and development on the moon and beyond. We talked to Yale alumni and other leaders about how finance, law, and other day-to-day details of business get translated into space.
