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Venture capital investments in more racially integrated cities are more effective, producing more innovation and economic growth. Yale SOM’s Olav Sorenson explains why that might be.

What does the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal say about the risks of trusting Facebook and other tech companies with our data? We talked with Yale Law School's Jack Balkin.

What kind of leader can step in and effectively run an organization that delivers healthcare to millions of veterans? We asked Dr. Howard Forman, an expert in healthcare leadership and policy.

The tools of business can help the public sector be more efficient and effective. But it’s not always an easy sell. Jesse Samberg ’87, discusses navigating challenges and opportunities.

Ebele Ifedigbo ’16, co-founder of The Hood Incubator, discusses how the legal cannabis industry can be a tool for repairing damage done to communities of color by the war on drugs.

The Peter Principle says that hierarchical organizations suffer because effective workers are promoted until they reach their “level of incompetence.” Yale SOM's Kelly Shue and her collaborators set out to test the oft-cited theory.

Impact investor Nancy Pfund ’82 discusses the tradeoffs that inevitably occur when you try to put values into practice.

A group of Yale SOM researchers examined what kinds of sales incentives lead to profits, and whether longstanding relationships between salespeople and customers are always a good thing.

It’s nearly Tax Day, which means we're scrambling to find receipts and puzzling through tax forms. Is all this misery really the best way to pay for public goods?

We asked Prof. William B. English, who spent more than two decades as an economist at the Fed, to interpret new Fed chair Jerome Powell's first Open Market Committee meeting.