Competition
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.
Does Performance-Based Pay Improve Teaching?
Yale SOM economist Barbara Biasi studied what actually happened when some school districts in Wisconsin started paying partly based on effectiveness.
Can Trusted Brands Beat ‘Fake News’?
Time Inc.’s chief content officer sees “fake news” as an opportunity for trusted brands in journalism to re-emerge—if they can find a business model.
How Can Philanthropy Do More Good?
Aaron Dorfman of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy argues that foundations need to re-think their strategies and tactics.
Is Antitrust Enforcement Out of Date?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.
Do Companies Buy Competitors in Order to Shut Them Down?
A study co-authored by Yale SOM researchers Florian Ederer and Song Ma suggests that “killer acquisitions” by pharmaceutical companies are potentially limiting the number of new treatments available.
Is Your Sales Team Courting the Wrong Customers?
A group of Yale SOM researchers examined what kinds of sales incentives lead to profits, and whether longstanding relationships between salespeople and customers are always a good thing.
Are We In a New Nuclear Arms Race?
Yale SOM’s Paul Bracken, an expert on defense strategy, discusses the consequences of a return to a "great power rivalry."
Who Will Pay for the Free Press?
Print isn’t dead yet, but the old model for how to deliver the news might be. Yale Insights talked with New York Times columnist David Leonhardt.
When Should Organizations Change Their Mix of Products?
To formulate an optimal product mix, managers need to understand how departmental budgets and information sharing within a company can affect decision making, according to a new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Rick Antle.
Where Is the Auto Industry Headed?
How will self-driving cars and other new technology reshape the industry? Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld talks with former Ford CEO Mark Fields.
