Leadership

Restoring Faith in Capitalism Starts with How Companies Create Value

Ravi Dhar Jon Iwata

Confidence in the economic system is declining amid a growing view of corporate success as a zero-sum game. Yale SOM’s Ravi Dhar and Jon Iwata argue that investments in employees, customer experience, and community trust strengthen a company’s ability to deliver long-term returns to shareholders.

Employees in a Starbucks store

  • Putting a Price on Climate Risk

    Todd Cort

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

    A fire-damaged home reduced to charred walls, twisted beams, and rubble

  • Who Trains Junior Employees in the Age of AI?

    K. Sudhir

    AI is best at exactly the entry-level work that used to turn novices into experts. Professor K. Sudhir writes that organizations will need to find new ways to build the skills and judgment that junior employees once developed by doing those tasks themselves.

    An illustration of someone climbing a ladder with a bunch of missing rungs

  • What Critics Get Wrong About Dual-Class Shares

    Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld Steven Tian

    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.

    Screens in Times Square during the SpaceX IPO
  • Collection No. 12

    The Leadership Mission

    Since its founding, Yale SOM has trained students to make a difference in any professional setting. For the school’s 50th anniversary, we spoke to faculty and alumni about how they articulate meaningful missions, apply business principles creatively across sectors, and make the hard decisions that can define the course of an organization.

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  • You Probably Need a Mission Statement

    James N. Baron

    Professor James Baron says a genuine mission statement can help organizations of all kinds cultivate thriving internal cultures and credibility in the outside world.

    A soccer team arm in arm made up of various corporate roles, with "Mission" on their jerseys

  • Leadership Lessons from a Lifetime Investing in Tech

    Anne Glover

    Anne Glover ’78 traces her journey from shop-floor foreman to deep-tech investor and discusses the challenges facing the UK and Europe in building homegrown tech giants.

    Anne Glover speaking on stage

  • Inside the 25-Year Mission to Give India’s City Dwellers a Voice in Government

    Ramesh Ramanathan

    Drawing on his experience at Yale SOM, his career in finance, and his first encounter with a New England town meeting, Ramesh Ramanathan ’91 returned to India with his wife, Swati, to help citizens shape the future of their communities.

    An aerial view of Bangalore, India.

  • Mobilizing a System to Treat People with Sickle Cell Disease

    Cece Calhoun

    Cece Calhoun ’21, medical director of Yale’s Sickle Cell Program, reflects on the challenges of building teams and structures to support patients facing both chronic illness and systemic inequities.

    Cece Calhoun with members of her team

  • How Dr. Bronner’s Turned a Soap Company into a Blueprint for Regenerative Business

    Darcy Shiber-Knowles

    Darcy Shiber-Knowles ’13 has helped grow Dr. Bronner’s from a cult favorite to a force reshaping how industries think about sustainability.

    Workers loading and transporting fresh fruit bunches

  • A Guide to Getting Agentic AI Right

    Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld Stephen Henriques Yevheniia Podurets Jasmine Garry

    Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and coauthors present a framework for determining when and how to effectively deploy agentic AI.

    Digital workers