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  • Can the American Civil Religion Bridge the Partisan Divide?

    Yale sociologist Philip Gorski on our competing national narratives and what they mean for contemporary politics.

  • Can We Change the Climate Conversation?

    Yale's Brad Gentry on the state of the climate change talks and what a recent Global Network survey of MBA students tells us about the change in the discourse.

  • Don’t Assume a Fed Action Will Move the Market

    Robert Shiller writes that our responses to a rate hike are unpredictable, even when we know in advance that it will happen.

  • How Should We Decide?

    HEC Paris's Itzhak Gilboa on decision science, which draws on both mathematical models and human intuition to create formal frameworks for making effective decisions.

  • Is Your Organization Like Mrs. Winchester’s House?

    Sarah Winchester's sprawling mansion, built over decades with no master plan, is an great analogy for how many organizations have been constructed.

  • Can Technology Help Transform Healthcare?

    Christopher Ross ’88, chief information officer for Mayo Clinic, discusses trends in the industry and how Mayo is revamping its own technology.

  • Where Does Gender Bias Remain?

    Cathy Ashton, the former high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs, on the structural and implicit biases that keep women from getting equal access to many opportunities.

  • To Thrive, Green Bonds Need Standards for Environmental Impact

    With sales of green bonds slowing, Yale SOM’s Todd Cort and co-author Cary Krosinsky write that the industry needs standardized methods for assessing the environmental impact of a project.

  • Time to End Confrontations Over Federal Borrowing Limits

    In a Foreign Policy op-ed, Yale SOM Dean Emeritus Jeffrey Garten writes that the recurrent threats to force a U.S. debt default could end in catastrophe, and it’s time for Congress to end them permanently.

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  • The Nobel Prize in Economics and the Dangers of Foreign Aid

    Professor A. Mushfiq Mobarak argues that claims about the impact of foreign aid should be tested with careful empirical study.