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Why Do Moderate Voters Support Extreme Candidates?
A new study from Yale SOM’s Minjae Kim addresses why politicians benefit from projecting views that are more extreme than those of their own voters—even though voters say they want representatives who reflect their own beliefs.
A Guide to Getting Agentic AI Right
Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and coauthors present a framework for determining when and how to effectively deploy agentic AI.
The Colorado River Is Overdrawn, and a Corporate Reckoning Is Imminent
For decades, the Colorado River has delivered less water than allocated, with shrinking reservoirs making up the difference. Yale SOM’s Todd Cort argues that companies across the West have yet to account for this imbalance.
The Real Job Destruction from AI Is Hitting Before Careers Can Start
Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his co-authors say that the impact of AI can be seen among recent college graduates, who are finding it harder and harder to get that first job. With no entry to the workforce, how will younger people develop the skills and wisdom to lead in the future?
Do Search Fund CEOs Improve Performance?
An analysis by search fund expert A.J. Wasserstein and accounting scholar Jacob Thomas finds that most gains come from selling companies at higher prices relative to their earnings, not from improving margins or efficiency.
Sharing Your Data Comes at a Cost—and Not Just to You
A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Jidong Zhou models the interaction between individual privacy choices and firms’ strategic responses and finds that data sharing can impose costs on other consumers—including those who opt out.
Apple’s CEO Transition Signals Strength, Not Uncertainty
Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian argue that Apple is executing a model succession, with the transition from Tim Cook to John Ternus positioning the company to embed AI at scale across its global hardware ecosystem.
This Google Doc Helps Determine How Much to Invest in Stocks
Economists say standard investment strategies aren’t aggressive enough, but their complex allocation models aren’t practical for individual investors. A new paper co-authored by Yale SOM’s James Choi offers a simpler alternative.
Why Trump Puts His Name on Everything
The president’s relentless self-branding is intended to signal success and sustain authority, Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian argue, but beneath the gold-plated surface lies a deeper fragility.
How Public Health Transformed Human Life
For National Public Health Week, Dr. Howard Forman surveys two centuries of interventions that together doubled human life expectancy, a triumph of science, policy, and collective action.
