Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld

The activist investment firm Starboard Value has launched a proxy fight again Pfizer, questioning the company’s management under CEO Albert Bourla. Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian write that the critics are demonstrating the same impatience that has led investors to underestimate Pfizer in the past.

Blaming corporate greed for rising prices is not a winning argument, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, economist and former presidential advisor Laura Tyson, and co-author Stephen Henriques.

At Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Yale CEO Caucus last week, the vast majority of the business leaders in attendance said they expect a soft landing. Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian write that the economic indicators back up the CEOs.

The International Monetary Fund’s decision to send a delegation to Russia is only the latest pro-authoritarian move from the organization under the leadership of Kristalina Georgieva, according to Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, co-author Steven Tian, and Tymofiy Mylovanov and Nataliia Shapoval of the Kyiv School of Economics.

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that in the upcoming debate, the Democratic nominee can and should argue that the economy has boomed under the Biden-Harris administration.

Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques analyze the policies proposed by the Democratic ticket.

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques argue that there are good reasons why a disproportionate number of major businesses are headquartered in Minnesota.

For more than two decades, the coffee empire has tried and failed to find a lasting successor to longtime CEO Howard Schultz. Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, with co-authors Steven Tian and Stephen Henriques, provides an insider’s view of the drama and explains why Chipotle’s Brian Nicoll might be the right person for the job.

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are demonstrating a genuine chemistry, while Donald Trump is already distancing himself from J. D. Vance.

Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, co-author Steven Tian, and investor and analyst Whitney Tilson write that the pattern is familiar from Trump’s term in office, when his remarks frequently swayed markets—usually for the worse.