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  • 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
  • The Corporation Is Centuries Older than We Thought‌‌

    The genesis of the joint-stock company is usually traced to the founding of the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company around 1600. New research co-authored by Prof. William Goetzmann says this origin story may be off by centuries.‌

    A drawing of a mill along a river in the 17th-century
  • How Trump Is Making the Fed’s Job Harder‌‌

    Prof. William English, a former Fed official, says that the Federal Reserve’s mission of balancing inflation and employment has been complicated by a series of wild cards delivered by the administration, including tariffs and an attempt to fire a member of the Board of Governors.‌‌

    President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell touring a Federal Reserve renovation project in July.
  • Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package Is Just Bad Corporate Governance

    Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that the gargantuan package proposed by Tesla—based on a series of implausible performance targets—suggests a board in thrall to its charismatic, erratic CEO.

    Elon Musk wearing a cowboy hat on stage in front of cars
  • Economic Data Helps Explain a Pattern of Violence Against Myanmar’s Rohingya Minority‌

    New research from Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak shows that the violence and looting in rice-growing areas is tied to rice prices, suggesting an economic motivation for the attacks, and finds that the government response to conflicts involving the Rohingya is far harsher than in conflicts with other ethnic groups.‌

    Rohingya refugees at a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district in May 2024.
  • How Corporate Jargon Obscures the Truth and Fuels Disaster

    When executives spew business buzzwords, writes Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, their colleagues are often just as confused as the rest of us.

    A drawing of a man with a tangle of letters coming out of his mouth