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How Do You Change a Successful Company?
Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox, talks with Yale Insights about how a company can build its legacy by transforming its identity.
The Real Problem for Mark Zuckerberg Is Mark Zuckerberg
Since Facebook's stock structure guarantees CEO Mark Zuckerberg control, Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes, its only hope is some brutally honest feedback from his star-studded board.
How Can Philanthropy Do More Good?
Aaron Dorfman of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy argues that foundations need to re-think their strategies and tactics.
Five Lessons From A Rash Of Untimely CEO Departures
More than a dozen prominent CEOs have ushered out of the executive suite in recent weeks. Yale SOM's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that their sudden departures offer lessons on how to survive—or at least make a graceful exit.
Is Videoconferencing Still the Future?
The age of the video call has arrived, just as science fiction predicted. Scott Wharton ’95, who leads video collaboration at Logitech, talks about the potential of videoconferencing and the steps needed to make it ubiquitous.
Women Leaders Ascend in the Aerospace and Defense Industry
When Kathy Warden was named CEO of Northrop Grumman this week, she became the third woman CEO among the top five aerospace and defense contractors. Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that this welcome trend has an echo in the early history of the industry.
How A Sequence of Decisions Affects Later Shopping Choices
When you’re picking out a jacket or a sofa, does it matter in what order you decide on its color, style, and material? New research suggests that the sequence may change how you categorize the object and how you decide to replace it.
Is Antitrust Enforcement Out of Date?
U.S. antitrust laws, Yale SOM’s Fiona Scott Morton says, were written when new technology meant “typewriters and buggy whips and bicycles.” She assembled a group of economists and legal scholars to examine areas in which enforcement is out of sync with a changing economy.
What Germany’s Spectacular World Cup Failure Can Teach Us about Management
Four years after lofting the World Cup trophy, Germany was eliminated in the initial round of the tournament. What are the lessons to be learned from the defeat?
Three Questions: Prof. Peter K. Schott on Tariffs and Trade Wars
President Trump has imposed a series of tariffs, raising tensions with allies and prompting other countries to respond in kind. We asked Yale SOM’s Peter K. Schott, who studies how firms and workers respond to globalization, to assess the current climate.
