Management in Practice

HEC Paris's Alberto Alemanno on what the EU's commitment to openness means in practice.

To succeed as a global company, CEO Ajay Banga says, MasterCard strives for uniformity in some respects and diversity in others.

Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer discusses the challenges of international expansion.

Internet entrepreneur Kevin Ryan discusses the profound effect that new ventures are having on some of the world’s largest companies.

The rise of the millennial generation and the explosion of mobile technology have permanently changed the landscape for marketers.

Choosing a mate is a calculation that the benefits of further search are outweighed by the costs, says Paul Oyer ’89.

The forces that global companies have to deal with—from social networking to social unrest—have developed rapidly over the last decade. Virgin Group chair Peter Norris describes the trajectory of globalization today and how his company is structured to ride through the turbulence.

The end of defined-benefit pensions and a volatile stock market have made many Americans skeptical that they can retire comfortably. Is a new model emerging for how we plan for retirement? A panel of experts and practitioners talks about policies to help us bolster our retirement savings.

The past four decades of globalization have been a “golden era of global trade,” according to Rajesh Subramaniam, head of marketing and communications at FedEx, and have seen enormous growth for shipping companies. But the growth of online commerce poses new and complex questions for the industry.

Income and wealth inequality in the U.S. has become a topic of widespread concern and discussion. A recent panel of Yale SOM alumnae posited that action from the federal government is unlikely. But the panelists found reason for hope in examples of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors collaborating to address the nation’s wealth gap.