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Faculty Viewpoints

  • When State Neglect Turns Weather into Revolution

    In a new study, Professor Mushfiq Mobarak and co-author Sultan Mehmood analyze newly uncovered satellite imagery of the 1970 Bhola cyclone, and show that the storm affected voting patterns and induced more citizens to take up arms in a guerrilla war that led to the founding of Bangladesh.

    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman surrounded by a crowd
  • How Millions of Simulated Maps Can Help Us Make Electoral Districts That Feel Fair

    Part of resolving the political redistricting stalemate, writes Professor Jamie Tucker-Foltz, is creating congressional maps that align with human intuition about fairness.

    Voters behind privacy screens in a polling place
  • The China Summit Revealed the Limits of Trump’s Tariff War

    Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that a successful campaign to reduce China’s market manipulation would require the kind of collective action that Trump has systematically undermined through his indiscriminate use of tariffs.

    Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in a summit meeting
  • Facing an Uproar, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Showed Why He’s an Effective Leader

    Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sparked controversy when he seemed to be inviting President Donald Trump to send National Guard troops to San Francisco during the company’s Dreamforce conference. Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that Benioff demonstrated his usual deftness in defusing the issue and overseeing a successful event.

    Marc Benioff speaking from the audience at a conference
  • The Top Ten AI Competitors

    The mammoth investments pouring into artificial intelligence companies are remaking the high-tech industry. Former SOM Dean Ted Snyder and investor Logan Bender ’19 assess which leading companies are likely to keep their advantage and which could be crushed by the rolling wave of innovation.

    A person using a smartphone showing apps from many AI companies
  • Trump Boasts of Peace Through Strength in the Middle East. Can He Achieve the Same in Ukraine?

    Trump emphasized U.S. military and economic strength in his Knesset speech, write Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques. Can he also confront Russia from a position of power?

    Donald Trump posing with a "Peace 2025" sign
  • This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts

    Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that the tangle of AI deals among tech giants could be signs of dangerous overinvestment in the developing technology. They outline three ways the bubble could pop.

    Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shaking hands
  • 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
  • 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