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Faculty Viewpoints

  • Is There Reason for Optimism on Climate Change?

    Yale’s Dan Esty points to hopeful signs of progress on a bottom-up response to climate change in the wake of the Paris Agreement.

    Demonstrators in Washington, D.C., during the People's Climate Movement March on April 29, 2017. Photo: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
  • Departing PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi Did It Her Way

    Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that Nooyi brought a rare combination of intelligence, toughness, and vision to the job.

    Indra Nooyi
  • The Real Problem for Mark Zuckerberg Is Mark Zuckerberg

    Since Facebook's stock structure guarantees CEO Mark Zuckerberg control, Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes, its only hope is some brutally honest feedback from his star-studded board.

    Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's 2008 F8 conference
  • Five Lessons From A Rash Of Untimely CEO Departures

    More than a dozen prominent CEOs have ushered out of the executive suite in recent weeks. Yale SOM's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that their sudden departures offer lessons on how to survive—or at least make a graceful exit.

    An empty office
  • Women Leaders Ascend in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

    When Kathy Warden was named CEO of Northrop Grumman this week, she became the third woman CEO among the top five aerospace and defense contractors. Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that this welcome trend has an echo in the early history of the industry.

    Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
  • Is Antitrust Enforcement Out of Date? 

    U.S. antitrust laws, Yale SOM’s Fiona Scott Morton says, were written when new technology meant “typewriters and buggy whips and bicycles.” She assembled a group of economists and legal scholars to examine areas in which enforcement is out of sync with a changing economy.

    The buggy whips page from the 1910 Sears, Roebuck & Co. "Harness, Saddles, and Saddlery Goods" catalog
  • What Germany’s Spectacular World Cup Failure Can Teach Us about Management

    Four years after lofting the World Cup trophy, Germany was eliminated in the initial round of the tournament. What are the lessons to be learned from the defeat?

    World Cup 2018
  • Disney CEO Bob Iger Again Shows Moral Leadership With Roseanne Fiasco

    Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that CEO Bob Iger did the right thing by swiftly cancelling the highly rated show.

  • AT&T, Novartis CEOs Wise To Take Responsibility

    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says the CEOs of AT&T and Novartis were right to respond swiftly and directly to their companies’ connection to the scandal around Michael Cohen.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s Sorry. Where Is the Genuine Contrition? 

    The CEO of Facebook is apologizing to Congress for the company’s misuse of user data. But real contrition, Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes, means explaining what you did wrong and making sure it doesn’t happen again.