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Faculty Viewpoints

  • In Defense Of Dual-Class Shares

    The two-tiered structures, which offer more voting power to some shareholders, are frequently maligned. But Yale SOM leadership and corporate governance expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that they endow companies with a host of advantages, including a better return to investors.‌

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  • Small Changes, Big Results: Research-Backed Tips for Living a Good Life in 2025‌‌

    We asked Yale SOM faculty for their best tips on living happily, healthily, and productively in the new year.‌

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  • How Jimmy Carter Lost His Job and Found His Mission: A Personal Remembrance

    Drawing on a decades-long relationship with Carter, Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld reflects on the vast achievements and sometimes bewildering contradictions in his post-presidency.

    Jimmy Carter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • A Cheap Way to Change Lives‌‌

    Yale SOM’s Dr. Howard Forman explains how the state of Connecticut is buying back the medical debt of thousands of low-income residents at cents on the dollar.

    A hospital bill
  • Making Impact Investing Work for System Resilience—and Investor Profits‌

    To confront interconnected environmental and social crises, impact investors will need to factor resilience-building into their expected returns, especially in the most vulnerable parts of the world.

    Kisenyi Bus Terminal in Kampala, Uganda
  • What Will the Return of Trump Mean for Connecticut’s Economy?

    Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian write that the president-elect’s policies could have disruptive effects on some of the state’s most important industries, for better and for worse.

    The General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. 
  • A Very Un-American Response to the Murder of Brian Thompson

    Disturbingly, a vocal fringe has cheered the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, write Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian, but most Americans admire business leaders and see them as a stabilizing force.

    Police at the site of the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December 04, 2024.
  • Is the Affordable Care Act on Life Support? ‌

    We talked to Yale SOM’s Dr. Howard Forman about what the ACA has achieved and what aspects of the law could be weakened under a Republican administration.‌

    President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Health Care for America Act in the East Room of the White House on March 23, 2010. 
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Unpredictable in Trump’s Cabinet

    Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephan Henriques write that some of the picks are reassuring, some seem designed to sow chaos, and some are wild cards, with the potential to tip the balance in either direction.

    The cabinet room at the White House, from behind the president's chair
  • Anti-Business Sentiment Is Uniting Political Opposites

    Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that populist voices on the left and right have found common ground in attacking big business.

    Red and blue fists in front of skyscrapers