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  • The Top Ten AI Competitors

    The mammoth investments pouring into artificial intelligence companies are remaking the high-tech industry. Former SOM Dean Ted Snyder and investor Logan Bender ’19 assess which leading companies are likely to keep their advantage and which could be crushed by the rolling wave of innovation.

    A person using a smartphone showing apps from many AI companies
  • Connecting with the Consumer in a Distracted Age

    Todd Kaplan ’06, CMO of Kraft Heinz, has redesigned the company’s creative process to deliver “marketing that happens.”

    An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile speeding down a racetrack
  • Trump Boasts of Peace Through Strength in the Middle East. Can He Achieve the Same in Ukraine?

    Trump emphasized U.S. military and economic strength in his Knesset speech, write Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques. Can he also confront Russia from a position of power?

    Donald Trump posing with a "Peace 2025" sign
  • This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts

    Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that the tangle of AI deals among tech giants could be signs of dangerous overinvestment in the developing technology. They outline three ways the bubble could pop.

    Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shaking hands
  • Do the New Obesity Drugs Pay for Themselves?

    Could expensive drugs like Ozempic save healthcare systems money by reducing the risk of obesity-associated diseases? A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Jason Abaluck suggests that other health expenses may actually increase over the first couple years of treatment.

    Wegovy autoinjectors in a case
  • How Nations Use Economic Power to Shape the World Order

    Yale SOM’s Christopher Clayton is helping to pioneer the field of geoeconomics, which explains how countries wield economic weapons to reshape global power dynamics—and what happens when they go too far.

    An illustration of two figures playing poker on a table with a world map
  • We Don’t Know If Tylenol Can Cause Autism—and That Didn’t Change Last Monday

    Dr. Howard Forman responds to the White House press conference drawing a link between the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women and cases of autism.

    Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a press conference
  • When Private Practices Merge with Hospital Systems, Costs Go Up‌‌

    Private practices are vanishing as more doctors join large hospital systems. This increasing consolidation is reducing competition and raising prices, according to a study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Fiona Scott Morton. ‌‌

    A drawing of doctors filing into a hospital
  • Behind Closed Doors, CEOs Say Trump Is Bad for Business

    Yale SOM’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute recently gathered dozens of top CEOs for an off-the-record discussion. The consensus, write Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques, was that Trump administration policies are undermining an economic system that took decades to build.

    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld with participants in the CEO Caucus
  • Supply Chains Need to Become More Agile in an Age of Tariffs‌‌

    The ground rules for global trade have changed dramatically in the last year—and sometimes changed back and changed again—as the U.S. has levied tariffs on rivals and allies alike. Prof. Sang Kim, an expert in supply chains, explains how the shifts in global politics and trade could disrupt the complex systems that get products to your door.‌‌‌

    A wide view of stacked shipping containers in a port