Finance

A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Cameron LaPoint finds that remediating contaminated “brownfields” creates jobs, encourages entrepreneurship, and increases home values in the surrounding community.

Yale SOM’s Stefano Giglio explains how the two environmental threats can amplify each other—and why understanding those interactions matters for the economy.

We asked Professor William English, a former Federal Reserve economist, what’s driving the increase and what it means for the Fed, the federal budget, and the broader economy.

Adam Blumenthal ’89, the founder of Blue Wolf Capital, has worked productively with unions to grow the value companies provide to shareholders and employees alike.

Selling creative work requires leaders to align art and economics. Yale Insights brought together the CFOs of a video game publisher and a studio that brings graphic novels to Hollywood to explain how they build sustainable businesses while enabling creative people to do their best work.

Yale SOM’s Todd Cort, an expert on corporate sustainability and sustainable finance, explains how AI is giving companies new ways to price environmental and social risks.

In a new working paper, Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue and Samuel Hartzmark of Boston College show that the use of reflective aerosols to cool the plane would fundamentally shift the economics of climate change, altering incentives for renewable energy, fossil fuels, and carbon removal.

Restoring biodiversity around the globe will require financing from private investors. A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Anya Nakhmurina, focusing on the restoration of bat populations, proposes a strategy that could allow investors to support conservation while also turning a profit.

The SpaceX IPO has renewed debate over dual-class share structures, which give founders outsized voting power. Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian argue that these structures can create long-term shareholder value under the right conditions.