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  • Why the ‘Dump Trump’ Strategy is Doomed

    In a Fortune magazine article, Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld suggests that political rivals who underestimate Donald Trump—and the myth surrounding him—do so at their own peril.

  • Does It Matter Where a Global Company Is Headquartered?

    More important, says BG Srinivas of the information and communications technology company PCCW, is finding the right balance between global and local in each market.

    Does It Matter Where a Global Company Is Headquartered?
  • Does the Fed Need a Foreign Policy?

    As the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates—a move that will be felt globally—Professor Jeffrey E. Garten outlines a foreign policy agenda for the Fed.

  • Can the National Defense Be a Global Business?

    Vivek Lall, the head of global strategy for General Atomics, says that the industry, responding to many of the same pressures as other businesses, is becoming increasingly globalized.

    Can the National Defense Be a Global Business?
  • How Can Companies Take Responsibility for Major Accidents?

    Naomi Hirose ’83, president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, discusses his company’s efforts since the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

  • How Do You Market to Millennials?

    If millennials haven’t yet reshaped your products and marketing, says Christine Barton of BCG, they will soon.

    How Do You Market to Millennials?
  • The Housing Market Still Isn’t Rational

    In a New York Times op-ed, Robert J. Shiller explains why the housing market “is far less rational than even the often irrational stock market.”

  • Putting the Iran Nuclear Deal in Context

    Professor Paul Bracken, a leading security strategist and author of The Second Nuclear Age, discusses the Iran nuclear deal.

  • Who Needs National Champions?

    Yale history professor Jenifer Van Vleck on the rise and fall of Pan Am and how it exemplifies the tricky relationship between government and the private sector.

    Who Needs National Champions?
  • The Mirage of the Financial Singularity

    The financial singularity, a hypothetical state in which powerful computers direct all investment decisions and financial markets become perfect, will never become reality, according to Robert Shiller.